Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

A fascinating and suitably maverick snapshot of a richly creative moment in music history, told through a couple of disreputable hippies who designed some of the most iconic album covers of all time.

Corbijn, originally a band photographer himself, gets high-quality anecdotes out of the interviewees and there are enough scandals and spilled beans to distract from the fact that this is a pretty conventional talking-heads-and-archive-footage affair...

Hipgnosis played a huge part in persuading us that albums were what an educated consumer prefers, and not silly jangly singles.

An enjoyable survey of Hipgnosis’s revolutionary work.

Squaring the Circle is catnip for a music lover of a certain age with a treasured cache.

Before the heartbreak, there are outlandish and often funny stories about iconic album covers.

Overall, the film certainly succeeds as a portrait of two under-sung but significant late twentieth century artists.

Absorbing and occasionally poignant, Squaring the Circle has much to offer a general audience, but rock palaeontologists will be especially enamoured.

It should not be a surprise that as a subject for his first documentary film, the Dutch director chose a legendary design studio known for iconic sleeve art. What may be surprising is how enjoyable and generally light-hearted the end result is.

Squaring The Circle is a funny, access all areas time capsule to remind us that art doesn’t have to be hanging in the Louvre to be considered a masterpiece