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United Kingdom, United States · 2016
1h 31m
Director Barnaby Clay
Starring Mick Rock
Genre Documentary
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Legendary music photographer Mick Rock is best known for his iconic photographs of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Queen, and countless others. In a documentary as rock-n-roll as its subject, Mick Rock guides us through his psychedelic, shambolic first-hand experiences as the visual record-keeper of these myths and legends.
Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
The talking heads (lower case) are fine, but the dream-drama music-video theater piece of Rock on a gurney while nurses and doctors consult around him takes too much time away from the reason people want to see this: what Rock saw.
Rock’s lack of self-importance prevents the doc from fetishizing the past, and Clay — who appears to have met the photographer on the set of a TV on the Radio video — is wise to assume that the world doesn’t need yet another reminder that it used to be full of gods.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
The tale is told entirely through Rock’s perspective, with no friends, colleagues, or talking heads weighing in. But that turns out to be no detriment, since the Cambridge-educated photographer proves a witty and rueful commentator whose observations are infused with self-deprecating humor.
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
The movie’s approach is gratuitously grandiose.
Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh
The maximalist approach isn’t necessary to enhance the wild tales, but the film does reflect its subject in its messy yet invigorating approach.
“Shot!” makes for a light, smart and often funny dance through an era with the man whose images made icons out of many, and burned those icons into our visual memory.
Time Out London by Tom Huddleston
Narrated entirely by its subject – no famous faces popping up to tell us what a ledge he is – the film is intimate and crisply told.
Throughout, the content and tenor of certain stories told by Mick Rock ambitiously inform the film’s style.
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The story of a young aspiring rapper living in difficult conditions in Detroit.
The story of a young French actress and her affair with a Japanese man while on assignment in Hiroshima.
A linguist is recruited by the military to decipher the language of aliens that have landed on Earth.
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A failed stand-up comedian is driven insane, turning to a life of crime in chaos in Gotham City.