A Film by JEFFREY PERKINS
DVD, NTSC, 85 minutes, color, 2008
-- as exciting and revelatory of a master abstractionist's process as Hans Namuth's 1951 documentary on Jackson Pollock.....
Robert Koehler in VARIETY Magazine, 10 June, 2010
-- ...'The Painter Sam Francis' cannot reveal much more than the paintings do themselves, and that limit is not a dead end, but a revelation.
L-Magazine New York
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For 40 years, Jeffrey Perkins shot and collected footage of his
friend in a bid to better understand him.
(...) the filmmaker’s curiosity transcends chronology.
TIMEOUT New York