“This film may well be the best anyone will ever make about Hockney’s process.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.
Imagine… David Hockney – A Bigger Picture, BBC1
“Bruno Wollheim’s film, the product of four years spent with Hockney and extensive interviews with the famously press-shy artist, did little to explain Hockney’s paintings, but was more illuminating on Hockney the man.”
Matt Warman, The Daily Telegraph
Imagine… David Hockney – A Bigger Picture, BBC1
“The latest instalment, David Hockney: a Bigger Picture, was one of its better profiles, thanks largely to the legendary artist’s engagingly mercurial personality.”
Paul Whitelaw, The Scotsman
Imagine… David Hockney – A Bigger Picture, BBC1
“This film may well be the best anyone will ever make about Hockney’s process.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
The Conspiracy Files: 7/7, BBC2
“The conspiracy camp’s case, in this instance, is so shot through with senselessness that it doesn’t deserve consideration.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
The Conspiracy Files: 7/7, BBC2
“The result was a film that won’t have successfully argued the deluded out of their beliefs and that didn’t even begin on the important task of ridiculing their shameful silliness.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
Dispatches: Terror in Mumbai, C4
“It was a grimly candid film.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
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