Sketches of Frank Gehry

A thrilling journey into the creative process which made Gehry one of the most visionary architects, who produced some of the world’s most iconic buildings. Although he and Pollack (Out of Africa) have been friends for years, the director thankfully eschews a fawning tribute to present a well-balanced portrait. Accompanied by seductive photography of the architecture itself, Pollack embraces Gehry’s 'everyman' exploration of architecture and offers reflections on the challenge of making art in a commercial context from Gehry and others, including clients Michael Eisner and Dennis Hopper.

Peter Bradshaw, Friday June 29, 2007, The Guardian

Sydney Pollack's gentle and rapt documentary about his friend Frank Gehry, the superstar architect who designed the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, is an intelligent piece of partisan adoration - although he gives some space to Gehry's detractors, too. Interviewees include architecture mandarin Philip Johnston and big capitalist honchos like Disney's Michael Eisner and super-agent Michael Ovitz, all of whom have commissioned status-symbol buildings from Gehry.

It is rare to see so many rich businessmen interviewed in a movie which isn't a Michael Moore-style exposé. Gehry is shown cutting bits off a cardboard model to design a building, and the Blue Peter-y origin of some of his buildings is hilariously detectable. But the majesty of his Bilbao masterpiece is obvious.