Helmut Newton - Frames from the Edge

Helmut Newton - Frames from the Edge

Helmut Newton - Frames from the Edge
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Actor: Candice Bergen, Catherine Deneuve, Faye Dunaway, Robert Evans, Tina Brown (III)
Brand: Public Media/Home Vision
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 95 minutes
Release Date: 2000-06-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Homevision
Studio: Homevision

VHS Movie Reviews of Helmut Newton - Frames from the Edge

Movie Review: good
Summary: 3 Stars

I have never been a fan of Newton but I got the DVD to learn more about him. Interesting but not great. I have seen other DVD on other famous photographers much more interesting and done better

Movie Review: Good taste?
Summary: 4 Stars

This is a fun documentary on Helmut Newton. I was at his lecture at the New School and the film gives you the same feel for him and his work. Most of the photos are sexy, he has a wonderful photographic identity, you can always spot his work. The DVD and video (they are not exactly the same) are worth watching for any serious fashion or commercial photographer. This is not a how to do a photo DVD. However, if you pay attention he tells you a lot about how he likes to work. Straight ahead, almost no camera hardware or crew and lots of vision. You know he saw the shot before he took it.

Movie Review: If you like fashion photography it is a good DVD to have
Summary: 4 Stars

The DVD dose not realy show you any tips on how to shoot better photo's but it does give a good behind the seens look on fashion photography and Helmut Newton in it.

Movie Review: Interesting documentary, interesting photographer
Summary: 4 Stars

Well my local video stores didn't carry the film so... I ordered it online. It's very interesting to see how the man worked, both with his Hasselblad and behind the scenes. He obviously didn't have the internet to find his fetish models so he had agencies and associates recruit talent for him. Let me tell you-it was a LOT harder to find willing nude fetish models 30 years ago. (The term "fetish" I don't believe was used during the entire movie which was completed in 1988).

Very much a perfectionist, Helmut was quite the control freak as well. Everything from posing the models to ordering his printers to make enlargements to his stringent specifications. None of his images were left to chance. They were extremely calculated and technically expert. He took very few actual photographs during the shoots from what I can tell, but the ones he did take were absolutely spot on.

He and his wife lived quite a lavish lifestyle-staying in exquisite chateaus and hotels in some rather upscale cities of the world. Truly a voyeur, he peered through his telescope at the topless sunbathing women at his hotel's swimming pool. He wasn't actively 'nice' to his models it seems. He complained that they couldn't stand still enough or give him the look he was going for. Nevertheless, he found stunning models to work with and did absolutely incredible large-scale art so you have got to hand it to him. The video is worth owning if you're a fan of Newton or the history of fetish art.

Timothy M. Hughes

Movie Review: Terrible, Terrible documentary/biography
Summary: 2 Stars

I was very dissapointed when i saw this DVD. I had just seen the fantastic Richard Avedon DVD the night before.
I didnt know anything about Helmut Newton, and i wish i did... because it would of saved me the time and money i spent on this dvd. Newton's work is quite flat, uninspired and for the most part sexist (...).

If you are interested in photography, see the Avedon video instead.

Summary of Helmut Newton - Frames from the Edge

Audacious and controversial, Helmut Newton raised the nude photograph to an art form and is highly sought after for fashion photography and portraits of celebrities. This film portrays Newton, at the age of 68: mischievous, provocative, funny, sarcastic. Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Rampling, Sigourney Weaver, and Karl Lagerfeld comment on their portraits by Newton and give their views of Helmut Newton the man, explaining why they consider him to be one of the greatest living photographers.

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