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'Art & Copy' Misses its Own Pointnew
Doug Pray attempts to sell advertising to audiences in his latest film.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Edward Adams |
09-22-2009 |
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'Art & Copy': How to Sell Soap and Sex and VWsnew
However stirring these vintage campaigns and their graying creators may be for ad junkies like me, Doug Pray fails at analysis. His film is simply a tribute. And linking the ad biz to cave art -- well, that's just idiotic.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-24-2009 |
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New Documentary 'Art & Copy' Celebrates the Men Behind Ads by Skimming the Surfacenew
Advertising has long been perceived as a mirror reflecting reality back to consumers as a wish-fulfillment exercise. In that sense, Art & Copy is a worthy addition to a time-honored tradition.
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
08-20-2009 |
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'Surfwise': Room and Boardnew
Riding on a wave of the family dynamic.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
David Lee Simmons |
06-05-2008 |
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'Surfwise' Captures what a Family Gained and Lost by Living the Beach-Bum Lifenew
Doug Pray's documentary may be about a brood of 'boarders, but it's less about hanging ten than living off the grid.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-30-2008 |
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'Surfwise' Asks If Blood is Thicker Than Seawaternew
At the film's center is the patriarch, Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, an octogenarian who lived a fairly typical early life -- two unsuccessful marriages, an unsatisfying medical practice fueled by a Stanford education -- and lived only to make his way to the beach to go surfing.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
05-28-2008 |
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Parenting Off the Grid and Off the Reservation in 'Surfwise'new
Halfway through Surfwise, a mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer-dude health nuts, we meet the 84-year-old patriarch, "Doc" Paskowitz showing director Doug Pray a blown-up photo of a Nazi preparing to shoot a Jewish mother and child at close range.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-27-2008 |
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