There's a new documentary about the important 20th century German-born architect called Mies van der Rohe: Regular or Super. It's a straightforward 60-minute biographic film that would be right at home on A&E or the History Channel, except for its annoying postmodern framing device.

For a film about a man who built some of the most important tall office buildings and apartments in North America, the filmmakers decided to use one of Mies's last and least important projects--a tiny Esso gas station he built near Montreal to book-end their documentary, and provide it its title.

I have a review of it online over at Blogcritics.org.