Sentences with phrase «scenes footage illustrates»

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Utilizing a cut - and - paste animation style with a photographic edge to recreate scenes from Hicks's life, usually to cheeky effect, American turns some 90 minutes of interview footage into a smooth, illustrated, altogether agreeable narrative that is chock - full of anecdotes and achieves a genuine intimacy without resorting to hero - worship (only the occasionally lame visual, such as the whitewashed depictions of tripping during Bill's mushroom blowouts at Kevin Booth's ranch, weaken the device).

The documentary is lavishly illustrated with stills and archival behind the scenes colour footage, and while briskly paced, it's a bit obvious most of the controversies that dogged the production are largely avoided; the isolated sore spot is the film's hired publicist, who mounted a campaign that managed to irk and offend rather than rally interest and support for a production hyped and hounded by some negative press.