Synopsis
The personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of all time and the stories behind their campaigns.
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Cast
- Lee ClowHimself
- Jim DurfeeHimself
- Cliff FreemanHimself
- Jeff GoodbyHimself
- George LoisHimself
- David KennedyHimself
Recommendations
- 83
Portland Oregonian
It's jaunty and bright, but Pray never gets under the skin of things or ever truly questions the essence of advertising as an art or trade. - 80
Los Angeles Times
One of the main treats of Art & Copy is that it allows us to revisit those classic ads, all of which are just as exciting now as they were when they first ran. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
An entertaining but also oddly naive documentary about American advertising. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
There so much entertaining information in Art & Copy, a documentary about modern advertising, that it takes a while to realize we are being sold something - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Like a good ad, Art & Copy bounds along and never bores. That's a big credit to Pray's savvy compilation and of editor Phillip Owens' crisp cuts. - 70
The New York Times
The world may be going “Mad Men,” but Doug Pray’s documentary Art & Copy,”which is being released just five days after the season premiere of that acclaimed television series, presents a very different picture of the advertising industry. - 67
The A.V. Club
The film is essentially a skillful advertising-industry infomercial that speaks its subject’s slick aesthetic language. - 60
Village Voice
Yet however stirring these vintage campaigns and their graying creators may be for ad junkies and nostalgists, Pray fails at analysis: His film is simply a tribute.
