Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

2010

Documentary

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Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 309 309

Director

Whitney Smith Photo
Whitney Smith

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Nile Rodgers as Self
Glenn O'Brien Photo
Glenn O'Brien as Self
Patricia Altschul Photo
Patricia Altschul as Self
Anjelica Huston Photo
Anjelica Huston as Self
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mikethejanitor 1 / 10

Fantastic subject that is butchered by a self-serving, novice director!

Was this film about Halston? Or was it about the director's love FOR Halston? Whatever the case, it's terrible no matter how you view it. What a missed opportunity to convey a great story about the life and career of an American fashion icon.Director Whitney Smith is deplorable in this documentary by driving around in a 70's Pontiac Firebird trying to be chic in 70's clothes and wigs.He seems to have no idea how to conduct interviews and doesn't appear to be prepared to meet with the pretty impressive line-up of fashion elite and celebrities that are featured in this documentary.And he does this looking and acting like a total clown/novice.It's cringe worthy and embarrassing. The story of Halston is an amazing one with some great archival footage and story telling from the people that knew Halston. Sadly, the director focuses too much time on himself and not enough time on the subject matter.
Reviewed by Maureenrk 2 / 10

The narcissist stays in the picture - and ruins it

Who is this spoiled narcissist who takes a great and rich subject like Halstom and abuses it, abuses his access to these incredible figures in fashion and Halston's life, and captures it all with terrible camera work and editing? This obviously wealthy grown up trust fund brat of a man had nothing better in his life to do so he took up "filmmaking". He had moments with great subjects to really delve into the life of Halston and destroys them. Who sits down for an interview with Andre and asks terribly unprepared questions, and when Andre  thankfully starts to take charge of the situation and gets into some good history he gets interrupted by this dope of a person who left their cell phone on? Seriously? Only a spoiled brat takes these situations for granted and leaves their cell phone on and an amateur leaves the scene in because they don't know how to properly edit. I really wanted to finish this movie because I adore Halston but I turned it off less than halfway through. I am saddened that this immature filmmaker is trying to ride a trend of fashion docs to somehow magically transport himself in a world he so poorly misunderstands. And with it he completely misses his mark exploring this wonderful American icon's life.
Reviewed by blanche-2 5 / 10

who did this and why

I don't know much about the person who made this Halston documentary, except that his hair color kept changing throughout the interviews.dAfter seeing "Halston" the miniseries, I looked forward to this. The interviewer wasn't well prepared. The interviews were too off the cuff and badly edited. For instance, someone kept answering his cell phone - this should have been edited out. And what a jerk anyway.I did like the Studio 54 section - it brought back a lot of memories for me since I lived in NYC at the time. I wasn't part of that scene but the disco music etc. And the rehash of that era was fun. I also loved the clips of Halston.I did like Liza's interviews throughout the documentary.Mostly it was a waste of film. I guess from reading the reviews the interviewer had money and was able to get this produced somehow. Sloppy.
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