Sketches of Frank Gehry is a 2005 American documentary film directed by Sydney Pollack and produced by Ultan Guilfoyle, about the life and work of the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. The film was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[1] Pollack and Gehry had been friends and mutual admirers for years. The film features footage of various Gehry-designed buildings, including a hockey arena for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The film includes interviews with other noted figures, including the following:
- Charles Arnoldi
- Barry Diller
- Michael Eisner
- Hal Foster
- Bob Geldof
- Dennis Hopper
- Charles Jencks
- Philip Johnson
- Thomas Krens (former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
- Herbert Muschamp
- Michael Ovitz
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Edward Ruscha
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Julian Schnabel
- Dr Milton Wexler (Gehry's therapist)
The film also discusses work on Gehry's own residence, which was one of the first works that brought him to notoriety.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketches_of_Frank_Gehry
