Director Boaz Yakin explores through dance the male and female aspects of his central characters, each played by both a man and a woman
Watch the first 60 seconds of this experimental feature from Israeli-American director Boaz Yakin – it’s a love story with plenty of sex and expressionist dancing – and you’ll get a taste of the bizarreness to come. A naked woman sits on a bed and explains to camera that she’s acting in the film. Her name is Bobbi Jene Smith and she’s a dancer and choreographer by trade, not an actor. But given the dancing required by the script, she says, the film-makers have hired dancers to do the acting. Oh, and she’s playing a man.
This is not the last time director Yakin takes a sledgehammer to the fourth wall, and his deeply personal film is deeply exasperating at times, a bit indulgent...
Watch the first 60 seconds of this experimental feature from Israeli-American director Boaz Yakin – it’s a love story with plenty of sex and expressionist dancing – and you’ll get a taste of the bizarreness to come. A naked woman sits on a bed and explains to camera that she’s acting in the film. Her name is Bobbi Jene Smith and she’s a dancer and choreographer by trade, not an actor. But given the dancing required by the script, she says, the film-makers have hired dancers to do the acting. Oh, and she’s playing a man.
This is not the last time director Yakin takes a sledgehammer to the fourth wall, and his deeply personal film is deeply exasperating at times, a bit indulgent...
- 4/27/2021
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Ed Phillips, who co-founded Burbank-based Matthews Studio Equipment in 1969 and was president for nearly 50 years, has died. He was 72.
Phillips, who pioneered the mass production of film and TV set tools worldwide, died "unexpectedly" on June 22, according to a statement from Mse. His son, company president Tyler Phillips, paid tribute to the industry legend.
"Ed, my dad, dearly loved three things in life: his family, the grip industry and the ocean. It's going to be a quiet building without his laugh. I'll pick up his mantle and tell his stories ...
Phillips, who pioneered the mass production of film and TV set tools worldwide, died "unexpectedly" on June 22, according to a statement from Mse. His son, company president Tyler Phillips, paid tribute to the industry legend.
"Ed, my dad, dearly loved three things in life: his family, the grip industry and the ocean. It's going to be a quiet building without his laugh. I'll pick up his mantle and tell his stories ...
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