-- 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

 

-- 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