Billy Al Bengston, Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper

In the late 1950s, when Pollock and de Kooning were being hailed as revolutionary artists in New York, Los Angeles was still dealing with a blacklist that gutted creativity in all media. This is the s...( read more  read more... )tory of the two men who changed all that. Recording a pledge on a hot dog wrapper to open a cutting-edge gallery, Walter Hopps and Ed Kienholz took the West Coast art world by storm, embracing artists from Marcel Duchamp to Andy Warhol.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 26 min.

Directed by: Morgan Neville

Release Date: March 7, 2008

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DVD Release Date: July 29, 2008

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  • January 10, 2009
    great art history lesson
  • October 9, 2008
    A lot of information, very well done, and made me wish I was not a sparkle in my mother's eye at that time. I think I would have gotten into it more if I was a part of that generation.

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March 25, 2008
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

Largely avoids sharply delineated portraits, with its focus on the scene at the expense of individuals, ultimately resulting in a documentary that doesn't rise above the functional. full review

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