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The General. 1926. USA. Directed by Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
This two-year screening cycle is intended to serve as both an exploration of the richness of the Museum’s film collection and a basic introduction to the emergence of cinema as the predominant art form of the twentieth century. The auteurist approach to film—articulated by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s and brought to America by Andrew Sarris—contends that, despite the collaborative nature of the medium, the director is the primary force behind the creation of a film. This exhibition takes this theory as its point of departure, charting the careers of several key figures not in order to establish a formal canon, but to develop one picture of cinematic history.
Read curator Charles Silver’s weekly An Auteurist History of Film posts at INSIDE/OUT, a MoMA/P.S.1 blog.
Tags: Classic Cinema, Film, MOMA
Tags: Film, Jim Jarmusch, New York
A single man looks to a very impressive debut film from the man that made Gucci what it has been in recent years. Tom Ford is an Austin native and one of the most celebrated fashion designers in recent years. His debut movie centers around a university professor who has recently lost his partner and goes about everyday life after the tragedy.
A SINGLE MAN (2009)
DIRECTED BY TOM FORD
SCREENPLAY BY TOM FORD
NOVEL BY CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
STARRING COLIN FIRTH, JULIANNE MOORE, MATTHEW GOODE, NICHOLAS HOULT, GINNIFER GOODWIN & PAULETTE LAMORI
Tags: Colin Firth, Film, Julianne Moore, Tom Ford
Zimtstern “Leaves” from Zimtstern Snowboarding on Vimeo.
I like this short clip by Zimtstern, since it captures a little bit of that fall feeling before ski season starts. I probably won’t get to go this year, but we’ll see what happens.
Tags: Film, Skiing, Snowboarding, Videos, Zimtstern
Since we featured images utilizing tilt shift technology yesterday I thought it would be interesting to see what more can be done with this technology. Here is a video by photographer Albrecht Gerlach from coutequecoute
Toy Soldiers from Alta Media Productions on Vimeo.
Tags: Art, Film, Photography
Tags: Art, Film, Neil Kruger, Photography
I watched this movie the other day after having seen a television show where some people critiqued it, especially for having won a lot of prices. It is based on a novel by Roberto Saviano, who now has to live underground because he infiltrated the Napoli mob and depicted them “too realistically”.
It was a bunch of intellectuals from the inner circles of movie production companies and newspapers.
They said it was boring, and it was not telling a story.
To read my opinion of the film
Tags: Film, Gomorra, Italian Film, Roberto Saviona
I watched this, almost three hour long, thing last Friday, and I can only say that I was not pleased. As an iconic filmmaker that Baz Luhrmann without a doubt is, he comes short here. The attempt at postmodernism fails because it adds very little of it’s own. The story is cheezy and even the parallel development with the mixed children seems out of place. A lot of the movie is shot in beautiful panoramic scenarios, but the many special effects and computer generated images seem alienating (not in the good Brecht-style). Nicole Kidman seems out of place and portrays her character unintentionally cold. Hugh Jackman fits the mold much better as “the Drover”.
Check out the imdb site here , I think the 7.6 rating fits the movie well. It is not that it is a bad movie, because it does not try a lot, considering how long it is, and I am sure Mr. Luhrmann intended it to be so, and hopefully he will return to making films that are less at subdued to 3d animation.
Tags: Australia, Baz Luhrmann, Baz Luhrmann's Australia, Film, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman