A towering figure of American journalism, Tom Wolfe is profiled in a documentary that dutifully touches on the greatest hits, including 'The Right Stuff.'
been a painter, it’s arguable even murals wouldn’t have been large enough a medium for him. The white-suited gadfly of Virginian stock, Manhattan-sized prose and rocket-fueled renown died in 2018, but his literary legacy as the Big Bang of New Journalism lives on, even as a new documentary about him, “Radical Wolfe,” implies there will never be another.
Nevertheless, Richard Dewey’s revved-up biodoc, at its least haphazard, is a sprightly look at what made the reporter-trained Wolfe into the insider’s outsider, how he made the leap to explicating — in supercharged, acrobatic sentences — our fast-changing, roving world of cliques, castes and subgroups. He found subjects that expained us as a whole: a NASCAR champion ignored by elites , freewheeling drug experimentation , an exclusive Leonard Bernstein fundraiser for jailed Black Panthers .
If “Radical Chic,” his rollicking satire of social-status liberalism, hasn’t aged as well as, say, his astronaut epic “The Right Stuff,” Carter positions it thoughtfully for the current moment: You’ll want to read it , but with former Panther Jamal Joseph’s perspective ringing in your head.
As tributes go, the documentary is always lively. Archival clips zip by and nobody ever gets more than a sentence or two before the film cuts away, which means it never burrows in as often as you might want it to, considering the colorful, thick life on display. One imagines the subject himself — the'Radical Wolfe'
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