The Main Art Documents of the Year
Environment from the Zombie panel. It had been an eventful year for craft writing, with lots of shifts inside the scenery, as new journals popped (including this 1), or sprang up. or reinvented themselves. But beneath all the institutional shuffles, what were the tips that got people excited? I interviewed peers to attempt to answer that problem, but the remaining choice below is obviously a personal one. It displays the entire world and it is weighted towards parts that echo my own personal location and my own feeling of this yr’s struggling qualities. Regardless, listed here are a number of the pieces of publishing that I think are touchstones of 2014: Holland Cotter – Complex, New York Times. Jan 17, 2014 It;s somewhat crazy if you ask me that #039 Cotter&; s fretful, sweeping express -of-the-picture item is already per year old. But it stands here...
Environment from the Zombie panel. It had been an eventful year for craft writing, with lots of shifts inside the scenery, as new journals popped (including this 1), or sprang up. or reinvented themselves. But beneath all the institutional shuffles, what were the tips that got people excited? I interviewed peers to attempt to answer that problem, but the remaining choice below is obviously a personal one. It displays the entire world and it is weighted towards parts that echo my own personal location and my own feeling of this yr’s struggling qualities. Regardless, listed here are a number of the pieces of publishing that I think are touchstones of 2014: Holland Cotter – Complex, New York Times. Jan 17, 2014 It;s somewhat crazy if you ask me that #039 Cotter&; s fretful, sweeping express -of-the-picture item is already per year old. But it stands here...
- 3/31/2016
- by toga
- Scott Feinberg
Coming to theater on April 3rd is the film Effie Gray.
The film explores the fascinating, true story of the relationship between Victorian England’s greatest mind, John Ruskin, and his teenage bride, Euphemia “Effie” Gray, who leaves him for the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais.
Effie Gray is the first original screenplay written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Emma Thompson. In this impeccably crafted period drama, Thompson delicately and incisively probes the marital politics of the Victorian Era, and beyond.
Dakota Fanning stars as Effie Gray Ruskin. The cast includes Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Tom Sturridge, David Suchet, Greg Wise, Claudia Cardinale, James Fox, Sir Derek Jacobi and Robbie Coltrane.
The film is produced by Andreas Roald (Terrence Malick’s Voyage Of Time) and Donald Rosenfeld (Malick’s Tree Of Life and Voyage Of Time).
Producer Donald Rosenfeld spent 1987 to 1998 as President of Merchant Ivory Productions, in charge of the financing...
The film explores the fascinating, true story of the relationship between Victorian England’s greatest mind, John Ruskin, and his teenage bride, Euphemia “Effie” Gray, who leaves him for the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais.
Effie Gray is the first original screenplay written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Emma Thompson. In this impeccably crafted period drama, Thompson delicately and incisively probes the marital politics of the Victorian Era, and beyond.
Dakota Fanning stars as Effie Gray Ruskin. The cast includes Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Tom Sturridge, David Suchet, Greg Wise, Claudia Cardinale, James Fox, Sir Derek Jacobi and Robbie Coltrane.
The film is produced by Andreas Roald (Terrence Malick’s Voyage Of Time) and Donald Rosenfeld (Malick’s Tree Of Life and Voyage Of Time).
Producer Donald Rosenfeld spent 1987 to 1998 as President of Merchant Ivory Productions, in charge of the financing...
- 4/2/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Take the Charles Whitman inspired murders in Peter Bogdanovich's Targets, the satanic cult conception of Rosemary's Baby and toss in conspiracies from The Chariots of the Gods, a crazy Andy Kaufman cameo and sexual body horror that would make David Cronenberg blush and you'll get a rough idea of what you're in for with Larry Cohen's 1976 unconventional exploitation insanity known as God Told Me To.
The police procedural structure and gritty New York City atmosphere that permeates most of Cohen's work is punctuated with chaotic immediacy due to the Guerilla filmmaking and handheld cinematography that doesn't care about logical consistency and is concerned with creating panic and paranoia for the audience, not unlike the occurring calamity between characters and these bizarre events. Often due to budget and editing there is often no sense of time or reason to events as they unfold, which actually works in the film's...
The police procedural structure and gritty New York City atmosphere that permeates most of Cohen's work is punctuated with chaotic immediacy due to the Guerilla filmmaking and handheld cinematography that doesn't care about logical consistency and is concerned with creating panic and paranoia for the audience, not unlike the occurring calamity between characters and these bizarre events. Often due to budget and editing there is often no sense of time or reason to events as they unfold, which actually works in the film's...
- 2/21/2015
- by Sean McClannahan
- DailyDead
Symphony Space's annual Spring Festival has become one of the season's most keenly awaited events. This year's installment, Sleeping Around The Cultural Lives of New York's Hotels, may be the most provocative yet. Running from April 26 to May 21, the monthlong festival celebrates New York's landmark hotels, their occupants, and the lengendary boites that nurtured and sustained the evergreen songs and performers of cabaret. Sleeping Around also credits New York's hotels as incubators for film, classical music, and literature, with programs devoted to Andy Warhol, Virgil Thomson, and Dorothy Parker.
- 5/3/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Symphony Space's annual Spring Festival has become one of the season's most keenly awaited events. This year's installment, Sleeping Around The Cultural Lives of New York's Hotels, may be the most provocative yet. Running from April 26 to May 21, the monthlong festival celebrates New York's landmark hotels, their occupants, and the lengendary boites that nurtured and sustained the evergreen songs and performers of cabaret. Sleeping Around also credits New York's hotels as incubators for film, classical music, and literature, with programs devoted to Andy Warhol, Virgil Thomson, and Dorothy Parker.
- 4/3/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Royal Academy of Arts announces details of exhibition called Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album
More than 400 previously unseen photographs from the 1960s, which were discovered in cardboard boxes after the death of the actor Dennis Hopper, are to go on display in Britain for the first time.
The Royal Academy of Arts on Friday announced details of an exhibition called Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album.
Hopper is best known as a hell-raising actor and director with films such as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet. But he was also a respected artist and photographer.
The Ra's director of exhibitions, Kathleen Soriano, said the discovery of the boxes by his family, after his death in 2010, revealed "just how obsessively Hopper took photographs with a 35mm Nikon camera that his wife gave him after their house, with all his paintings in it, was destroyed by fire in 1961".
Hopper took photographs of everything.
More than 400 previously unseen photographs from the 1960s, which were discovered in cardboard boxes after the death of the actor Dennis Hopper, are to go on display in Britain for the first time.
The Royal Academy of Arts on Friday announced details of an exhibition called Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album.
Hopper is best known as a hell-raising actor and director with films such as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet. But he was also a respected artist and photographer.
The Ra's director of exhibitions, Kathleen Soriano, said the discovery of the boxes by his family, after his death in 2010, revealed "just how obsessively Hopper took photographs with a 35mm Nikon camera that his wife gave him after their house, with all his paintings in it, was destroyed by fire in 1961".
Hopper took photographs of everything.
- 11/9/2013
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Each month's Supporting Actress Smackdown inspires us to go back to the year in question for a little context. When the movies of 1968 were playing in theaters, making their case for Oscar glory the following spring, the world was experiencing a time of great unrest. The Vietnam War was raging; The Prague Spring was happening; Martin Luther King Jr was killed; Racial tensions ran high in the Civil Rights fight; student protests in France raged (derailing the usual Cannes process - no Palme D'Or that year); the Zodiac killer began his murder spree; Andy Warhol was almost killed. (All of these events have received cinematic treatments over the years in films like The Dreamers, Zodiac, I Shot Andy Warhol and countless historical epics and war films.)
1968 introduced Goldie Hawn, The Big Mac, "Hey Jude" and TV's first interracial kiss
But our focus is on the movies, so let's investigate the cinematic crop.
1968 introduced Goldie Hawn, The Big Mac, "Hey Jude" and TV's first interracial kiss
But our focus is on the movies, so let's investigate the cinematic crop.
- 10/29/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Beautifully illustrated and nicely produced, this guide from the Canadian film scholar will be essential reading for Sf fans
In this addition to the British Film Institute's Screen Guides series, Canadian film scholar Barry Keith Grant chooses his top 100 science-fiction movies, from the Soviet Aelita (1924), with its "deliriously Constructivist spaces", to the "wildly imaginative" Zardoz (1974). Unfortunately the criteria used in choosing the films are not made clear, but the chronological and geographical range is impressive. After a useful introductory piece on the genre, follow brief essays on each film, summarising plot, critical reception and production details, as well as placing the work within a thematic context. There are plenty of classics: Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) "comes as close as any film to eliciting the 'sense of wonder' often associated with science fiction". But there are also duds, such as Dune (1984) (Grant observes drily that Lynch "is better at exploring...
In this addition to the British Film Institute's Screen Guides series, Canadian film scholar Barry Keith Grant chooses his top 100 science-fiction movies, from the Soviet Aelita (1924), with its "deliriously Constructivist spaces", to the "wildly imaginative" Zardoz (1974). Unfortunately the criteria used in choosing the films are not made clear, but the chronological and geographical range is impressive. After a useful introductory piece on the genre, follow brief essays on each film, summarising plot, critical reception and production details, as well as placing the work within a thematic context. There are plenty of classics: Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) "comes as close as any film to eliciting the 'sense of wonder' often associated with science fiction". But there are also duds, such as Dune (1984) (Grant observes drily that Lynch "is better at exploring...
- 8/9/2013
- by PD Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
There was plenty of discussion across the movie blogosphere following last week's announcement that Vertigo had dethroned Citizen Kane as the greatest film of all time according to Sight & Sound's decennial poll. In addition to revealing the top 50 as determined by critics, they also provided a top 10 based on a separate poll for directors only. In the print version of the magazine, they have taken it a step further by reprinting some of the individual top 10 lists from the filmmakers who participated, and we now have some of them here for your perusal. Among them, we have lists from legends like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Quentin Tarantino, but there are also some unexpected newcomers who took part including Richard Ayoade (Submarine), Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know) and Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene). Some of these lists aren't all that surprising (both Quentin Tarantino...
- 8/6/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Terry Winters: Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures, & Notebook Matthew Marks Gallery Through April 24, 2012
Abstraction, particularly in painting, is difficult to write about. You are often stuck with banalities like "that white area should be a little bit more to the left," or "that blue reminds me of this one day when I was surfing Zuma." Andy Warhol, whenever he wanted to avoid a subject of discussion -- such as death -- would fob off the topic by saying, "Gee, that's so...abstract." The bane of writing about art, this abstraction is.
Terry Winters, one of the few artists in the New Abstraction movement in the Eighties (along with Ross Bleckner, certain Gerhard Richters, Christopher Wool) made it somewhat easier; he dealt in abstraction of things: plants, pigment structures seen under a microscope, flora and fauna -- something we could get a handle on. In the last decade he has broadened his range,...
Abstraction, particularly in painting, is difficult to write about. You are often stuck with banalities like "that white area should be a little bit more to the left," or "that blue reminds me of this one day when I was surfing Zuma." Andy Warhol, whenever he wanted to avoid a subject of discussion -- such as death -- would fob off the topic by saying, "Gee, that's so...abstract." The bane of writing about art, this abstraction is.
Terry Winters, one of the few artists in the New Abstraction movement in the Eighties (along with Ross Bleckner, certain Gerhard Richters, Christopher Wool) made it somewhat easier; he dealt in abstraction of things: plants, pigment structures seen under a microscope, flora and fauna -- something we could get a handle on. In the last decade he has broadened his range,...
- 3/3/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
The B-Movie Underground and Trash Film Festival brings their unique collection of international sleaze on Sept. 7-11 in the city of Breda in the Netherlands. Violence, gore, general grossness and perversion are, once again, near and dear to the heart of this fun fest.
From the U.S., the But Fest is screening a few modern underground classics while also celebrating a few of the old masters. Included in the lineup are Usama Alshaibi‘s mind-blowing Muslim sex worker flick Profane, Zach Clark‘s wild weekend of debauchery Vacation! and Dan Nelson & Drew Bolduc‘s over-the-top The Taint.
Plus, But is honoring Cinema of Transgression mastermind Nick Zedd with several screenings of his classic works, such as Thrust in Me, Police State and Whoregasm, as well as his recent public access TV series Electra Elf.
Other films from around world include horror hits like César Ducasse & Mathieu Peteul’s Dark Souls,...
From the U.S., the But Fest is screening a few modern underground classics while also celebrating a few of the old masters. Included in the lineup are Usama Alshaibi‘s mind-blowing Muslim sex worker flick Profane, Zach Clark‘s wild weekend of debauchery Vacation! and Dan Nelson & Drew Bolduc‘s over-the-top The Taint.
Plus, But is honoring Cinema of Transgression mastermind Nick Zedd with several screenings of his classic works, such as Thrust in Me, Police State and Whoregasm, as well as his recent public access TV series Electra Elf.
Other films from around world include horror hits like César Ducasse & Mathieu Peteul’s Dark Souls,...
- 9/7/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 3D revolution is coming to dance. Pioneering film-makers, among them Wim Wenders, tell us why the two were made for each other
Wayne Eagling is not sure what to expect. The choreographer is sitting in front of a large monitor, clunky glasses balanced on his nose. He's about to view the first footage of his ballet Men Y Men, a celebration of the poetry and virtuosity of male dancing, which is being filmed in 3D for TV. "When I think of 3D," he says, "it's always that moment in the Andy Warhol movie Frankenstein, where the stake goes through the body, and the liver seems to be dangling right out of the screen." He jokes nervously: "That's not the kind of effect I'm hoping for here."
When the monitor flickers on, Eagling relaxes. "Its good, very lifelike, almost as if you're watching from the front of stage." The dancers – members of English National Ballet,...
Wayne Eagling is not sure what to expect. The choreographer is sitting in front of a large monitor, clunky glasses balanced on his nose. He's about to view the first footage of his ballet Men Y Men, a celebration of the poetry and virtuosity of male dancing, which is being filmed in 3D for TV. "When I think of 3D," he says, "it's always that moment in the Andy Warhol movie Frankenstein, where the stake goes through the body, and the liver seems to be dangling right out of the screen." He jokes nervously: "That's not the kind of effect I'm hoping for here."
When the monitor flickers on, Eagling relaxes. "Its good, very lifelike, almost as if you're watching from the front of stage." The dancers – members of English National Ballet,...
- 9/28/2010
- by Judith Mackrell
- The Guardian - Film News
Filed under: TV Previews
Monday, June 21
'Saving Grace' (9 and 10Pm, TNT) series finale
Star Holly Hunter was nominated for both Emmys and a Golden Globe award for her role as tortured, drunken, one-night-stand-havin' Oklahoma City cop Grace Hanadarko, but in three seasons, the intense drama failed to really spark with TV or DVD audiences. The network gives the cast and crew, and the fans, the chance to sign off on a high note tonight, though, as Grace, still reeling from recent events, but more determined than ever to make things better for herself and those around her, heads back to Oklahoma City. Despite her plans, however, her family doesn't quite know what to make of the new Grace ... or her new motivations.
'Behind the Music: Courtney Love' - We're guessing this one could have spanned a whole week's worth of 'BtM' installments, as the Hole singer's life is examined,...
Monday, June 21
'Saving Grace' (9 and 10Pm, TNT) series finale
Star Holly Hunter was nominated for both Emmys and a Golden Globe award for her role as tortured, drunken, one-night-stand-havin' Oklahoma City cop Grace Hanadarko, but in three seasons, the intense drama failed to really spark with TV or DVD audiences. The network gives the cast and crew, and the fans, the chance to sign off on a high note tonight, though, as Grace, still reeling from recent events, but more determined than ever to make things better for herself and those around her, heads back to Oklahoma City. Despite her plans, however, her family doesn't quite know what to make of the new Grace ... or her new motivations.
'Behind the Music: Courtney Love' - We're guessing this one could have spanned a whole week's worth of 'BtM' installments, as the Hole singer's life is examined,...
- 6/20/2010
- by Kim Potts
- Aol TV.
The first half of Exit Through the Gift Shop had so effectively built up the mystique of Banksy—the cunning Bristol-born street artist who has gone on to inherit Andy Warhol’s pop-art mantle while jealously guarding his anonymity—that I began to smell a rat. (The rodent is, after all, Banksy’s trademark, both a symbol of urban proliferation and an anagram of “art.”) I was certain the documentary, in theaters this week, was Banksy’s latest prank. Here’s the story we’re told: Too sly to participate in a traditional, aggrandizing documentary about himself, Banksy instead turns the camera on his would-be chronicler, a ridiculous, possibly insane Frenchman named Thierry Guetta, who for years was tethered to a camcorder, filming nearly every waking moment. Through his cousin, a street artist responsible for the proliferation of Space-Invader mosaics across Paris and other cities, Guetta is introduced to...
- 4/16/2010
- Vanity Fair
For the first time in Pittsburgh, the people whose job is to present the artwork of others at area museums and galleries will have their own works on display at Space, a gallery operated by The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust at 812 Liberty Avenue in the Cultural District
Pittsburgh's thriving art scene is a uniting, creative force. Its museums and galleries have been successful in bringing local, national, and international artworks to the public. By looking deeper, one will find that many of the people working "behind the scenes" form their own artistic community-working artists who spend much of their time and energy promoting the artwork of others. The goal for Behind Our Scenes is to give the artists working "backstage" the opportunity to showcase their work and to celebrate and further unite Pittsburgh's arts community.
The 34 individuals showcased in Behind Our Scenes are artists whose work ranges from museum customer service representative to curator,...
Pittsburgh's thriving art scene is a uniting, creative force. Its museums and galleries have been successful in bringing local, national, and international artworks to the public. By looking deeper, one will find that many of the people working "behind the scenes" form their own artistic community-working artists who spend much of their time and energy promoting the artwork of others. The goal for Behind Our Scenes is to give the artists working "backstage" the opportunity to showcase their work and to celebrate and further unite Pittsburgh's arts community.
The 34 individuals showcased in Behind Our Scenes are artists whose work ranges from museum customer service representative to curator,...
- 12/3/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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