Eames: The Architect and the Painter

As this engaging, if rote, doc points out, the name Eames, much like Victorian, now defines the style of an era. Yet how many of us knew that the industrial designers behind those midcentury molded mod chairs were an eccentric married team? James Franco provides perfunctory voiceover while protégés enthuse and reminisce, but it’s the archival footage that wows here.