THIS JANUARY, JOIN FILM MOVEMENT FOR A "COMPELLING" DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE ENIGMATIC ARTIST WHO LAUNCHED THE STREET ART MOVEMENT SHADOWMAN Street Date: January 2, 2018
SYNOPSIS
Before Banksy, there was Hambleton. In the 1980s, Richard Hambleton was the Shadowman, a specter in the night who painted hundreds of startling silhouettes on the walls of lower Manhattan and, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, sparked the street art movement. After drug addiction and homelessness sent him spinning out of the art scene for 20 years, Hambleton gets a second chance...but will he take it? Following its acclaimed theatrical release, SHADOWMAN, a New York Times Critic's Pick from Oscar®-nominated director Oren Jacoby (Sister Rose's Passion, Constantine's Sword), arrives on DVD on January 2, 2018.
SHADOWMAN plunges the viewer into the chaotic life of a forgotten artist, from early fame as a painter and denizen of the Lower East Side, through his struggles with heroin, to his surprising comeback as street art exploded to become one of the most popular and lucrative art movements in the world. Featuring rare footage of 1980s music and art, which bring to the screen an indelible portrait of New York City from a lost, transformative time, SHADOWMAN is a trip down a rabbit hole into the mystifying, agonizing, exhilarating, and sometimes frightening, world of a brilliant artist in the thrall of creation and addiction.
Earl Douglas of The Interrobang calls SHADOWMAN "a fitting epitaph for an art world giant," Peter Goldberg of Slant Magazine says the doc is [an] art-world fairy tale unafraid to face the bitter details of its hero's tumultuous life," and Culture Sonar calls it "A fascinating (and frankly, heart-wrenching) documentary about this remarkable artist".
BONUS FEATURES
Over 30 minutes of additional footage and deleted scenes
FILM FESTIVALS
Official Selection -- Tribeca Film Festival
Official Selection -- Nantucket Film Festival
Official Selection -- Stockholm Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection -- Nantucket Film Festival
Official Selection - Virginia Film Festival
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Type: DVD
Running Time: 83 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: 5.1 Surround Sound/2.0 Stereo
About Film Movement
Celebrating its 15th year, Film Movement is a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. Film Movement has released more than 250 feature films and shorts culled from prestigious film festivals worldwide, and last year it had its first Academy Award-nominated film, Naji Abu Nowar's THEEB. Film Movement's theatrical distribution strategy has evolved to include promising American independent films, documentaries, and an even stronger slate of foreign art house titles. Its catalog includes titles by directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maren Ade, Jessica Hausner, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrzej Wajda, Diane Kurys, Ciro Guerra and Melanie Laurent. In 2015, Film Movement launched its reissue label Film Movement Classics, featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on Blu-ray and DVD, including films by such noted directors as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway, Bille August, Marleen Gorris, Takeshi Kitano, Arturo Ripstein, and Ettore Scola. For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com.
Before Banksy, there was Hambleton. In the 1980s, Richard Hambleton was the Shadowman, a specter in the night who painted hundreds of startling silhouettes on the walls of lower Manhattan and, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, sparked the street art movement. After drug addiction and homelessness sent him spinning out of the art scene for 20 years, Hambleton gets a second chance...but will he take it? Following its acclaimed theatrical release, SHADOWMAN, a New York Times Critic's Pick from Oscar®-nominated director Oren Jacoby (Sister Rose's Passion, Constantine's Sword), arrives on DVD on January 2, 2018.
SHADOWMAN plunges the viewer into the chaotic life of a forgotten artist, from early fame as a painter and denizen of the Lower East Side, through his struggles with heroin, to his surprising comeback as street art exploded to become one of the most popular and lucrative art movements in the world. Featuring rare footage of 1980s music and art, which bring to the screen an indelible portrait of New York City from a lost, transformative time, SHADOWMAN is a trip down a rabbit hole into the mystifying, agonizing, exhilarating, and sometimes frightening, world of a brilliant artist in the thrall of creation and addiction.
Earl Douglas of The Interrobang calls SHADOWMAN "a fitting epitaph for an art world giant," Peter Goldberg of Slant Magazine says the doc is [an] art-world fairy tale unafraid to face the bitter details of its hero's tumultuous life," and Culture Sonar calls it "A fascinating (and frankly, heart-wrenching) documentary about this remarkable artist".
BONUS FEATURES
Over 30 minutes of additional footage and deleted scenes
FILM FESTIVALS
Official Selection -- Tribeca Film Festival
Official Selection -- Nantucket Film Festival
Official Selection -- Stockholm Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection -- Nantucket Film Festival
Official Selection - Virginia Film Festival
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Type: DVD
Running Time: 83 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: 5.1 Surround Sound/2.0 Stereo
About Film Movement
Celebrating its 15th year, Film Movement is a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. Film Movement has released more than 250 feature films and shorts culled from prestigious film festivals worldwide, and last year it had its first Academy Award-nominated film, Naji Abu Nowar's THEEB. Film Movement's theatrical distribution strategy has evolved to include promising American independent films, documentaries, and an even stronger slate of foreign art house titles. Its catalog includes titles by directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maren Ade, Jessica Hausner, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrzej Wajda, Diane Kurys, Ciro Guerra and Melanie Laurent. In 2015, Film Movement launched its reissue label Film Movement Classics, featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on Blu-ray and DVD, including films by such noted directors as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway, Bille August, Marleen Gorris, Takeshi Kitano, Arturo Ripstein, and Ettore Scola. For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com.
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