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7 episodes in this season

Waltz with Bashir

60 min

We Are Together

60 min

An Independent Mind

60 min

Chosen

60 min

The Hunger Season

60 min

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Waiting for Hockney

60 min

Black Star: An African Football Odyssey

60 min

True Stories

TV Series

1h8.0

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Waiting for Hockney

Season 2008 · Episode 6 · Dec 24, 2008

WAITING FOR HOCKNEY is a comic and poignant tale of a man and the people who believe in him as they collude and collide for an entire decade in the service of a grand idea. The film explores the sometimes precarious line between dreams and delusion as it looks at the risks, payoffs and consequences when one man single-mindedly pursues his vision. Billy Pappas is a true American original. An art school graduate from a working class background living in rural Maryland, Billy has decided that his mission in life is to reinvent realism. He spends eight years on a single drawing, working to show a microscopic level of detail he hopes will reveal something deeper than photography. Literally, he hopes to create a new art form. Aided, one might even say enabled, by an eccentric cast of characters including a clergyman, a professor and an architect calling himself Dr. Lifestyle, Billy finally completes the portrait and then begins a quest to show it to renowned contemporary artist David Hockney, the one person he thinks can validate everything for which Billy has been striving.

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True Stories

TV Series

1h8.0

Documentary

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Waiting for Hockney

Season 2008 · Episode 6 · Dec 24, 2008

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