Review of Ric Burns film `Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film`

The aim of this is to provide a critical review of Ric Burn 's movie `Andy Warhol : a documentary film (2006 ) wherein Warhol 's life story is laid bare with the use of interviews , archived collections and artwork . Stylistically the movie is a success and is able to connote the effective in its chronological organization with numerous speakers and a narrator but is a little one sided in parts in its portrayal of Warhol

The movie is of four hours duration and broken into two , two hour parts : Raggedy Andy ' and `Drella ' The

first provides insight into Andy Warhola 's early life born in 1928 the son of a poor , religious Slovakian immigrant family living in the slums of Pittsburgh , Andy was ailing , weak , gay and a poor student . His redeeming virtues were his creativity and artistic flair in drawing and painting with which he was able to graduate from Carnegie Institute and move to New York , whereupon he became known as Andy Warhol an infamous commercial artist . The second part tries to capture the last twenty years of Warhol 's life as a film maker and his unruly , drug induced and frenzied life at the `Factory an apartment in the heart of New York city that he had made into a silver colored loft - his workplace and home

The movie begins with an assortment of people - heads only - who serve as commentary throughout , and alongside the...