I'm a sucker for a good documentary and if it involves Marilyn Monroe or an underappreciated musician I'm there. I was lucky enough to find two documentaries on Watch Instant that really caught my attention for just flying into them blindly.
The first one is for anyone who is interested in innovators of music and likes to impress their friends by throwing out random music knowledge. "Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth" was directed by Philip Di Fiore and contained tons of interviews on this extraordinary musician who started the electronic music movement. Interviews include George Clinton, David Byrne, Mos Def, and a voyueristic look into Bernie's life as we see it now.
The second one combined not only my love for Marilyn Monroe, but a look into the art world, and followed the dreams of a man trying to breakthrough in a business that is nearly impenetrable.Waiting for Hockney follows a young artist who spends almost 9 years of his life creating one painting based on Richard Avedon's famous photograph of Marilyn, beautiful and world weary, resting on a break from the studio. Billy Pappas had a technique that by working within a space of a period (.) he would create the most life-like portrait of Marilyn, he wanted it to seem as if she actually sat for him. The close-ups and detail of the painting (once it's finally revealed) is quite breath-taking. The film is called Waiting for Hockney because once the paiting was finished, Billy Pappas set out to show one of his heroes, David Hockney the portrait he painstakingly worked on for almost a third of his life.
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