The Windmill Movie

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04/29/2016 Even when it feels like it is just a meandering, self-indulgent mess -- there is something interesting that refuses to allow you to walk away. By the time Alexander Olch begins to form all of Dick P. Rogers' footage into a meaningful meditation on his life I was completely captivated. It is a slight of two hands -- one belonging to the artist who shot the footage and the second belonging to the artist who was once a student of the first. There is a sadness that looms over it all, but there is also a constant feeling of hope that never dies. See more 11/22/2014 Absolutely terrible. See more 08/18/2011 Fascinating movie about a man incapable of making a movie. Very cool how they tried to piece all the footage together and how compelling yet melancholy as well. See more 08/23/2009 Voyeuristic and individually reflective, The Windmill Movie allows us to observe a prominent experimental filmmaker's life and the burdens he [Richard Rogers] confronted with his art and future. Alexander Olch does an excellent job of piecing together The Windmill Movie, allowing us to question our own ideologies while observing Rogers' fragmented world set in the lush Hamptons. The finished documentary is strikingly compelling and unique. See more 07/01/2009 I don’t know if you can get more “meta” than this film – a movie about a guy making a movie who spent his entire life making a movie that was never finished and is “finished” here ... yeah, read it again slowly. If anything, this film just made me realize that envy isn’t always a vice, sometimes it can actually be a virtue. I feel like this movie has been done before better but no examples are jumping to mind. Self-indulgent on both Olch's and Rogers' part. See more 06/24/2009 This may well be the best film I have ever seen. At times during the showing I was close to panicking. It was that powerful and inspiring and mind blowing. I cannot recommend this film highly enough. See more Read all reviews

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