Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

Name: Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Genre: Documentary, Music

Australia, United States · 2007
1h 59m
Director Scott Hicks
Starring Woody Allen, Philip Glass, Errol Morris, Godfrey Reggio
Genre Documentary, Music

Academy Award®-nominated director Scott Hicks ("Shine") documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese.

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Village Voice by

Glass is a stupefyingly dull portrait of a man who doesn't seem to be lying when he says, "I have so few secrets."

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

Much like its subject: affable, quotable and emotionally guarded in the extreme.

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

As fascinating as Glass often is, it's simultaneously too conventional and not conventional enough.

Variety by Robert Koehler

Another superficial film about music from Scott Hicks ("Shine"), picture runs a distant second to the superior new film on John Adams and Peter Sellars, "Wonders Are Many," which really captures how a composer works.