Arakimentari
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 1, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Palisades Tartan
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Guest: | Takeshi Kitano & Richard Kern |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
If Araki is a genius, you get the sense that somewhat might ought to explain why.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 2/5 --
More of a sketch than a fully developed portrait, Arakimentari is an up-close and generally impersonal introduction to the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.
New York Times
Offers a fast, efficient and richly satisfying look at an iconoclastic artist and his groundbreaking work.
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Variety
Rating: 2/4 --
Illuminating, if not exactly edifying.
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Christian Science Monitor
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Klose brilliantly captures Araki's spirit, both through his personality and his work.
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Shadows on the Wall
Rating: 3/4 --
Araki's pictures can be stunningly beautiful, sensuously arousing, frighteningly shocking or downright weird. Arakimentari is like that too.
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Internet Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
Viewers are left to draw their own conclusions, which inevitably will be colored by individual reactions to unabashed frontal nudity.
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TV Guide
Product Description:
The documentary feature ARAKIMENTARI explores the work of popular and controversial Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki in a style designed to match Araki's own. Araki's fame and the debate around his photography derive mostly from his work with nudes, which blur the lines normally established between art, erotica, and pornography. The photographs have often been credited with reversing the Japanese ban on the visual representation of pubic hair, and Araki has been seen by his supporters as one of the artistic champions of free speech and social criticism in Japan. Some of Araki's celebrity fans--Bjork, Takeshi Kitano, Richard Kern and others--are interviewed to explain the appeal and importance of his photography. Liberally peppered with images of the photography and presented in a manner designed to imitate the combination of titillation and estrangement Araki's work engenders, ARAKIMENTARI goes beyond the biographical documentary to the realm of artistic portrait.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 107,349
- UPC: 842498020142
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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