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Gordon Matta-Clark Films screening @ Whitney, 4/5/07
Apr 3rd
More NYC fun:
From Flavorpill: "When Gordon Matta-Clark wasn’t cutting buildings in half, cooking bone-marrow dinners, or buying up worthless slivers of New York real estate, he pursued his exploration of urban spaces on film. Matta-Clark made New York’s distinctive metropolis his artistic playground at a moment in the city’s history when he could get away with it. Launching a month of daily screenings of the artist’s films, tonight’s program includes a sample of his quixotic ventures. In Day’s End (1975), he documents the large shapes he cut into the roof, doors, and floor of a derelict Pier 52 building. Clockshower (1973) features him primping for the day in front of the large clock hands atop the landmark NY Life Insurance Company Building. (HGM)
Note: The screening is followed by a brief discussion with the artist’s widow, Jane Crawford, cinematographer Bob Fiore, and curator Elisabeth Sussman. Advance tickets are highly recommended.
Incubus: Esperanto, Satanic Ritual, William Shatner and Conrad Hall
Mar 28th
Another cult classic to add to the must-see list:
Incubus, the 1965 black and white horror film starring William Shatner, was the second movie ever released in the artificial language Esperanto (The first, Angoroj, appeared a year earlier). Though Incubus is considered something of a joke today — at most a a curious piece of film trivia — it’s actually quite striking in several respects. The cinematographer, Conrad Hall, went on to win three Academy Awards.
For many years, the original print of Incubus was thought to have been lost and all copies destroyed, but the film turned up in Paris 1996 and was re-released on DVD in 2001. According to Salon Magazine, the movie may be cursed.
The Incubus re-release trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Spyt7bjFk
Saul Bass; The Hollywood Connection @ The Skirball, LA, through April 1!
Mar 22nd
Headed to LA for Fashion Week? Be sure to check out the Saul Bass show at the Skirball. Particularly amazing are his storyboards for the shower scene from Psycho. Before you go, check them out HERE, then compare them to the final edited scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdrDpELNbks
SAUL BASS
The Hollywood Connection
Through April 1
Ruby and Hurd Galleries
Free
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90049
Telephone: (310) 440-4500
Nausea, Cinema, and Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator”
Mar 22nd
I’m feeling a little meloncholoy this evening and this struck a chord. Not to put too fine a point on it, but few moments in cinema have proved more poignant, or more nauseating than these from Chaplin’s "The Great Dictator":
Crazy-creepy Dan Glassman: I Will Make You Love Me
Mar 20th
Check out this new work by the multi-talented writer and artist Dan Glassman. We are particularly enjoying these crazy-creepy illustrations.
Get a whole lot more at http://danglassman.com
Stay tuned for more info…
Pulp Fiction Typography: Motion Graphic Drama!
Mar 13th
I’m on a YouTube bender…here is a great infographic of the Mrs. Wallace scene from Pulp Fiction:
Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Baby Got Back” feat. Sir Mix-A-Lot
Mar 7th
"Creator Michael Hightower sums up this spirited work up tidily on his Web site: "The advent of time warp technology offered to Knights of the British Empire has allowed this uniquely satisfying look at Sirs Gilbert and Sullivan’s re-envisioning of fellow Sir Mix-A-Lot’s Baby Got Back. O! What a joy it is for us to hear these three titans working in concert for the first time, and hopefully not the last." Indeed!"
via SALON
Jacque Rivette’s l’Amour Fou @ NWFF March 2, 07
Feb 27th
This is a big weekend for film up in Seattle. NWFF will be screening Rivette l’Amour Fou, a film that has not (ever?) and most likely will not be seen again on the west coast any time soon. From the press release:
"Next Friday we open our 12 film series Lighter Than Air: The Films of Jacque Rivette with L’AMOUR FOU, a work of pure genius – undistributed in N. America and shown here in a 35mm print from France. It is a largely improvised, masterpiece that chronicles a married couple’s break-up during rehearsals for a production of Racine’s passion-filled tragedy Andromaque…
"Sprawling across nearly 13 hours, in eight episodes involving dozens of speaking roles and what seems like most of Paris’ arondissements, Jacques Rivette’s OUT 1 emerged earlier this year from the mists of film history and legend to confirm its status as a monumental culmination of the French New Wave. And although we’re screening the much shorter but just as rare OUT 1 SPECTRE (a mere 4 hours long), it’s still a momentous occasion in the history of Seattle film exhibition. We’re one of the only venues this side of the Rockies screening it! Save those extra eight hours for a round trip drive if need be, cause you’ll probably never see this film again, anywhere!
Did I happen to mention that most Rivette films are not available on DVD from any source! So if you were to come out to Northwest Film Forum just once this year, pretty much any film from this man who seems more in tune with cinema, theatre and magic than any other in history, is the worth the price of admission."
-Adam Sekuler
Don’t miss it!
schedule is HERE
The Melancholy Fit Shall Fall
Feb 23rd
I’ve been in a cello mood lately. Perhaps it’s the weather forcast. Perhaps the cold that’s going around. Or maybe the fact that I’ve come to terms with not going to NYC for the Armory party [sorry Stac]. Poor me…
"“But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, / And hides the green hill in an April shroud; / Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose." — John Keats
Regardless, here is the lovely and talented Jacqueline Du Pré performing the 1st movement of the Elgar Cello Concerto. Enjoy…
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