‘Eva Hesse’ and ‘Fassbinder’ Redefine the Artist Biography, with Mixed Success

As David Hockney once said, “new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling.” Life inflects art, art inflects life, and biographical documentaries often strive to capture these inflections as they go both ways. That’s why Randall Wright’s Hockney combines the genre’s near-obligatory interviews and still images of Hockney’s paintings with simple reenactment…