"A telescope is a time machine" IMAX has revealed an official trailer for a space documentary experience called Deep Sky, from the same director behind My Architect, The Price of Everything, and The Hunt for Planet B. "Admire the stars tonight, then make plans to journey through the cosmos and travel through time with the NASA James Webb Space Telescope in IMAX." Coming to the big, Big screen this fall. Directed by filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn, and narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams (hear her in this trailer), Deep Sky is an immersive experience sharing some of the astonishing images taken by this device. This inspiring film explores the $10 billion Jwst's engineering and construction process, historic Dec. 25, 2021 launch, and the release of its first full-color, galaxy-sprinkled images on July 12, 2022 witnessed by the entire planet. This isn't the only film about the new telescope - there's also Netflix's doc Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine,...
- 10/3/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
IMAX Corporation and Crazy Boat Pictures Ltd., together with Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn, today announced that they’ve completed production on “Deep Sky”, a new documentary on NASA’s Webb Telescope (Jwst). The 40-minute short film is narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams, and is currently slated for release across IMAX’s institutional theater network in October 2023.
This announcement was made today at the National Academy of Science in Washington, D.C., as part of the one-year anniversary of the release of the first images from Jwst.
“‘Deep Sky’ represents an exciting return to form for IMAX Documentaries and our long tradition of immersive space films,” said John Turner, Head of Documentaries for IMAX. “Nathaniel Kahn’s Oscar-nominated documentary ‘My Architect’ is iconic and his Emmy-winning ‘The Hunt for Planet B’ served as the fascinating first step in telling the story of the people who built this telescope. Now...
This announcement was made today at the National Academy of Science in Washington, D.C., as part of the one-year anniversary of the release of the first images from Jwst.
“‘Deep Sky’ represents an exciting return to form for IMAX Documentaries and our long tradition of immersive space films,” said John Turner, Head of Documentaries for IMAX. “Nathaniel Kahn’s Oscar-nominated documentary ‘My Architect’ is iconic and his Emmy-winning ‘The Hunt for Planet B’ served as the fascinating first step in telling the story of the people who built this telescope. Now...
- 7/14/2023
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
Nathaniel Kahn’s documentary asks why some artists’ airy work is priced so highly while other marvels go unsung
Nathaniel Kahn created a stir in the documentary world in 2003 with My Architect, a very personal film about his father, Louis Kahn, an influential but deeply troubled architect from whom Kahn the younger was estranged when Louis died, broke and nearly forgotten. A work that foregrounded the film-maker’s relationship to the subject when such memoir-like strategies weren’t yet common in film practice, My Architect was both a formally fascinating work as well as being one about a compelling, neglected figure from architectural history.
Kahn’s latest doc, The Price of Everything, is a more conventional, drier work that examines how the work of some artists draws huge multimillion-dollar bids at auction houses while the work of others, for no easily graspable reason, goes barely noticed. Jeff Koons, for example,...
Nathaniel Kahn created a stir in the documentary world in 2003 with My Architect, a very personal film about his father, Louis Kahn, an influential but deeply troubled architect from whom Kahn the younger was estranged when Louis died, broke and nearly forgotten. A work that foregrounded the film-maker’s relationship to the subject when such memoir-like strategies weren’t yet common in film practice, My Architect was both a formally fascinating work as well as being one about a compelling, neglected figure from architectural history.
Kahn’s latest doc, The Price of Everything, is a more conventional, drier work that examines how the work of some artists draws huge multimillion-dollar bids at auction houses while the work of others, for no easily graspable reason, goes barely noticed. Jeff Koons, for example,...
- 11/16/2018
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
newportFILM on Wednesday unveiled its lineup of documentaries for its annual summer series newportFILM Outdoors.
The sunset screenings in the resort Rhode Island city kick off Thursday with Morgan Neville’s crowd-pleaser Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and run through Sept. 6, with weekly Thursday night screenings, accompanied by pre-film live music and post-screening filmmaker conversations, moderated by high-profile film and arts journalists from around the country.
This year's attendees include Oscar winner Neville (Twenty Feet From Stardom), Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor), Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect) and best-selling author Andrew Solomon (Far From the Tree: Parents, Children ...
The sunset screenings in the resort Rhode Island city kick off Thursday with Morgan Neville’s crowd-pleaser Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and run through Sept. 6, with weekly Thursday night screenings, accompanied by pre-film live music and post-screening filmmaker conversations, moderated by high-profile film and arts journalists from around the country.
This year's attendees include Oscar winner Neville (Twenty Feet From Stardom), Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor), Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect) and best-selling author Andrew Solomon (Far From the Tree: Parents, Children ...
- 6/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
newportFILM on Wednesday unveiled its lineup of documentaries for its annual summer series newportFILM Outdoors.
The sunset screenings in the resort Rhode Island city kick off Thursday with Morgan Neville’s crowd-pleaser Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and run through Sept. 6, with weekly Thursday night screenings, accompanied by pre-film live music and post-screening filmmaker conversations, moderated by high-profile film and arts journalists from around the country.
This year's attendees include Oscar winner Neville (Twenty Feet From Stardom), Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor), Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect) and best-selling author Andrew Solomon (Far From the Tree: Parents, Children ...
The sunset screenings in the resort Rhode Island city kick off Thursday with Morgan Neville’s crowd-pleaser Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and run through Sept. 6, with weekly Thursday night screenings, accompanied by pre-film live music and post-screening filmmaker conversations, moderated by high-profile film and arts journalists from around the country.
This year's attendees include Oscar winner Neville (Twenty Feet From Stardom), Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor), Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect) and best-selling author Andrew Solomon (Far From the Tree: Parents, Children ...
- 6/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Every so often, when you hear that a painting by Picasso just sold at auction for a record $179 million, or that a Pollock or a Basquiat or a Jeff Koons now routinely fetch prices worthy of a Silicon Valley start-up, it’s easy to wonder what, exactly, is going on. Is this a true expression of the art’s value? Or is it the symptom of some skyrocketing hothouse bubble that has decadently transformed art into gold?
“The Price of Everything,” Nathaniel Kahn’s brilliant and captivating documentary about how the art world got converted into a money market, is shrewd enough to know that the answer is both. The movie gazes, with a good amount of woe (but also with the pleasurable voyeuristic charge that tends to accompany displays of great wealth), at what the art world has become: the staggering auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, where masterpieces,...
“The Price of Everything,” Nathaniel Kahn’s brilliant and captivating documentary about how the art world got converted into a money market, is shrewd enough to know that the answer is both. The movie gazes, with a good amount of woe (but also with the pleasurable voyeuristic charge that tends to accompany displays of great wealth), at what the art world has become: the staggering auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, where masterpieces,...
- 4/1/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Brooklyn-born Dp Bob Richman began his career as a production assistant for Albert and David Maysles. He’s since gone on to shoot some of the most widely seen documentaries of the past 20 years: An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for ‘Superman’, the Paradise Lost trilogy and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, to name a few. His latest feature, The Price of Everything, is a vérité doc on the puzzlingly astronomical price of fine art. Richman spoke with Filmmaker ahead of the film’s Sundance premiere about his preferred camera for vérité filmmaking, reuniting with director Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect) and the essential importance of a good […]...
- 1/18/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In years past, Lgbt cinephiles counted themselves lucky for one decent movie with a queer storyline. Looking at the depth and breadth of Lgbt films to come out in 2017, it’s clear that “Moonlight” was just a harbinger of great things to come for queer cinema. With growing social acceptance comes increased funding for movies with queer themes, support for Lgbt-identified filmmakers, and less stigma around straight actors playing gay. This year brought a breakthrough performance from transgender actress Daniela Vega, saw A-lister Emma Stone play lesbian icon Billie Jean King, and a strong Oscar contender in Luca Guadagnino’s sumptuous “Call Me By Your Name.”
Read More:‘(Bpm) Beats Per Minute’ Is the Most Authentically Queer Film of the Awards Season
If 2017 is any indication, queer cinema continues to thrive, even if the world isn’t following suit. As awards season progresses, it’s looking more and more likely...
Read More:‘(Bpm) Beats Per Minute’ Is the Most Authentically Queer Film of the Awards Season
If 2017 is any indication, queer cinema continues to thrive, even if the world isn’t following suit. As awards season progresses, it’s looking more and more likely...
- 12/7/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Dhaka Film Festival 16th Edition January 12–20th
The 16th Dhaka International Film Festival (Diff) will be held in Dhaka from 12 to 20 January 2018. The general theme of the festival is “Better Film, Better Audience, Better Society.”The Festival has been organized on a regular basis by Rainbow Film Society, which has been dedicated to the promotion of a healthy cine culture in Bangladesh and in celebrating the global mainstream in film and its social relevance since 1977.
Rainbow Film Society is one of the most active film entities in the film society movement of Bangladesh. Apart from holding regular film shows and film related seminars and workshops, Rainbow also brings out “The Celluloid”, one of the leading cinema periodicals from Bangladesh with an international audience.
The Diff is one of the most prestigious film events in Bangladesh and, to a great extent, has helped shape an increasingly healthy and positive national film culture.
The 16th Dhaka International Film Festival (Diff) will be held in Dhaka from 12 to 20 January 2018. The general theme of the festival is “Better Film, Better Audience, Better Society.”The Festival has been organized on a regular basis by Rainbow Film Society, which has been dedicated to the promotion of a healthy cine culture in Bangladesh and in celebrating the global mainstream in film and its social relevance since 1977.
Rainbow Film Society is one of the most active film entities in the film society movement of Bangladesh. Apart from holding regular film shows and film related seminars and workshops, Rainbow also brings out “The Celluloid”, one of the leading cinema periodicals from Bangladesh with an international audience.
The Diff is one of the most prestigious film events in Bangladesh and, to a great extent, has helped shape an increasingly healthy and positive national film culture.
- 12/7/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
“Being in love is like being high,” says Roberta Haze, a California-based costume designer sporting purple hair and layers of hoop wearings. “That has to transform into love, because that stays. Like snorting coke, it’s not a state that you can live in all the time.” Roberta is neighbors with the filmmaker Tao Ruspoli, who turned a painful divorce from his wife of ten years into a fascinating and stylish new documentary, “Monogamish.”
The title comes from a term coined by beloved sex and relationships columnist Dan Savage, who appears in the film as a talking head, but also as a benevolent guide for Ruspoli’s infectious curiosity.
Through his “Savage Love” column and podcast, which he has been writing since 1991 in Seattle paper The Stranger, Savage has become the most vocal and visible proponent of non-monogamy and non-traditional relationships in the country. Savage, along with other interview subjects Esther Perel,...
The title comes from a term coined by beloved sex and relationships columnist Dan Savage, who appears in the film as a talking head, but also as a benevolent guide for Ruspoli’s infectious curiosity.
Through his “Savage Love” column and podcast, which he has been writing since 1991 in Seattle paper The Stranger, Savage has become the most vocal and visible proponent of non-monogamy and non-traditional relationships in the country. Savage, along with other interview subjects Esther Perel,...
- 10/14/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Film historian B. Ruby Rich credits the 1992 Sundance Film Festival as the cradle of New Queer Cinema, and a quick survey of this year’s festival lineup confirms that Lgbt films stand an excellent chance of attracting audiences. Lesbian filmmaker Dee Rees’ “Mudbound” is one of the most talked about films of the year, trans director Yance Ford’s deeply personal “Strong Island” has been years in the making, and we may have the British “Brokeback Mountain” (but better) with Francis Lee’s “God’s Own Country.”
Perusing the slate of queer films, filmmakers, and performers at Sundance this year, 2017 is set to be the best year queer cinema has seen in a long time. Here’s 10 reasons why:
Read More: 10 Surprises and Hidden Gems from the 2017 Sundance Lineup
Dee Rees is About to Become the Most Successful Black Lesbian Director in Hollywood
Queer audiences have known Dee Rees since...
Perusing the slate of queer films, filmmakers, and performers at Sundance this year, 2017 is set to be the best year queer cinema has seen in a long time. Here’s 10 reasons why:
Read More: 10 Surprises and Hidden Gems from the 2017 Sundance Lineup
Dee Rees is About to Become the Most Successful Black Lesbian Director in Hollywood
Queer audiences have known Dee Rees since...
- 1/18/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Read More: 14 Films We Cannot Wait to See at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival Cinematographer Bob Richman has shot some of the biggest documentaries of the last 20 years, including "My Architect," "The September Issue," "An Inconvenient Truth" and two installments of the "Paradise Lost" trilogy. His new film, "Suited," captures the world of two Brooklyn tailors that cater to a diverse Lgbtq community and looks beyond the gender binary. What camera and lens did you use? Canon C-300 camera. Canon Hj 11x4.7 B4 zoom lens with HDX35 optical adapter and the Canon 17-120 Cine Zoom. Why was this the right camera kit for the job? This camera a lens combination worked well with my verite style. The C-300 sensor delivers beautiful pictures and works wonderfully in low light. With third party accessories that make it possible to shoulder mount the camera, I was able to use the Canon 17-120. The focal length range.
- 1/25/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Music composer Pritam Chakraborty, who is back to work after a year-long break, wanted to start recording at his renovated studio, but because the place is not ready yet he has resorted to working from an old room in the same premises.
This year, the composer has Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, Rohit Shetty’s Dilwale, and Kabir Khan’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Anurag Basu’s Jagga Jasoos and Kabir’s Phantom.
A source close to him, says, “Pritam had taken a year’s break to get his studio and office renovated. But now that he has several projects lined up, he has started work immediately, leaving him with no time to buy even basic furniture for his renovated studio.”
When asked Pritam about the news, he said, “Getting my studio renovated was one of the most important things on my agenda during my year-long break in 2014. My architect...
This year, the composer has Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, Rohit Shetty’s Dilwale, and Kabir Khan’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Anurag Basu’s Jagga Jasoos and Kabir’s Phantom.
A source close to him, says, “Pritam had taken a year’s break to get his studio and office renovated. But now that he has several projects lined up, he has started work immediately, leaving him with no time to buy even basic furniture for his renovated studio.”
When asked Pritam about the news, he said, “Getting my studio renovated was one of the most important things on my agenda during my year-long break in 2014. My architect...
- 4/4/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
The 20th edition of the festival includes competition titles ’71 and Blind.
The Athens International Film Festival (Sept 17-28) kicks off its 20th edition today with 241 titles selected by artistic director Orestis Andreadakis.
The festival will open with Damian Szifron’s hit Wild Tales, which has proved a critical hit since its world premiere in competition at Cannes, and will close with David Fincher’s Us crime drama Gone Girl, marking its European premiere.
This year’s international competition includes Yann Demange’s Berlinale title, ’71, and Eskil Vogt’s Blind, which has picked up awards in Berlin and Sundance among others.
‘71, Yann Demange (UK)10,000 km, Carlos Marques-Marcet (Spa)Blind, Eskil Vogt (Nor)The Canal, Ivan Kavanagh (Irel)Manos Sucias, Josef Wladyka (Us-Col)The Mend, John Magary (Us)Natural Sciences, Matías Lucchesi (Arg)Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, Josephine Decker (Us)The Way He Looks, Daniel Ribeiro (Bra)When Animals Dream, Jonas Alexander Arnby (De)
A five-member Youth Jury, comprised...
The Athens International Film Festival (Sept 17-28) kicks off its 20th edition today with 241 titles selected by artistic director Orestis Andreadakis.
The festival will open with Damian Szifron’s hit Wild Tales, which has proved a critical hit since its world premiere in competition at Cannes, and will close with David Fincher’s Us crime drama Gone Girl, marking its European premiere.
This year’s international competition includes Yann Demange’s Berlinale title, ’71, and Eskil Vogt’s Blind, which has picked up awards in Berlin and Sundance among others.
‘71, Yann Demange (UK)10,000 km, Carlos Marques-Marcet (Spa)Blind, Eskil Vogt (Nor)The Canal, Ivan Kavanagh (Irel)Manos Sucias, Josef Wladyka (Us-Col)The Mend, John Magary (Us)Natural Sciences, Matías Lucchesi (Arg)Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, Josephine Decker (Us)The Way He Looks, Daniel Ribeiro (Bra)When Animals Dream, Jonas Alexander Arnby (De)
A five-member Youth Jury, comprised...
- 9/17/2014
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
Do you know who Jacques Bolsey was? Also known as Jacques Bogopolsky, he was the inventor of the Bolex movie camera, the name of which is derived from his own. If you’d like to know more, especially given that his Wikipedia page is really bare, there’s a documentary in the works about him and his importance to cinema history, as well as how he’s now influencing a new product called the Digital Bolex. And if you really, really want to see it, you can help it reach its budget goal of $35,000. The funny thing is, this doc, titled Beyond the Bolex, is seeking crowdfunding through Kickstarter to tell the story of something that was itself a huge Kickstarter success (the Digital Bolex, not the original, obviously). That’s half of the focus, while the other half looks back on Bolsey’s version, a camera that anyone who isn’t a film school reject will...
- 3/23/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Ed Burns, whose debut film The Brothers McMullen premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, was announced today as a jury member for next month’s Sundance in Park City, Utah. Burns joins documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, executive Tom Rothman and 16 others named to five juries that will award prizes at independent film’s most high-profile showcase.
Short Film Awards will be announced at a ceremony on Jan. 22, with feature film awards announced at a separate ceremony on Jan. 26. The festival runs this year from Jan. 17-27.
Click below for the entire Sundance jury list:
U.S. Documentary Jury
Liz Garbus is a prolific documentary filmmaker.
Short Film Awards will be announced at a ceremony on Jan. 22, with feature film awards announced at a separate ceremony on Jan. 26. The festival runs this year from Jan. 17-27.
Click below for the entire Sundance jury list:
U.S. Documentary Jury
Liz Garbus is a prolific documentary filmmaker.
- 12/19/2012
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Latest Additions Include Star-Studded Appearances, Noted Film Historians,
An Opening-Night Poolside Screening of High Society (1956)
And a Vanity Fair Showcase of Architecture in Film
Complete Schedule for 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival
Now Available at http://www.tcm.com/festival
With just over two weeks left before opening day, the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival continues to expand its already-packed slate with new events and live appearances:
On opening night of the festival, the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel will be the site of a poolside screening of the lavish Cole Porter musical High Society (1956), starring Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. Actresses Maud Adams and Eunice Gayson will attend a 50th Anniversary screening of the James Bond classic Dr. No (1962) and participate in a conversation about being “Bond Girls.” Filmmaker Mel Brooks will be on hand to introduce his brilliant parody Young Frankenstein (1974). Filmmaker John Carpenter will introduce his favorite film, the...
An Opening-Night Poolside Screening of High Society (1956)
And a Vanity Fair Showcase of Architecture in Film
Complete Schedule for 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival
Now Available at http://www.tcm.com/festival
With just over two weeks left before opening day, the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival continues to expand its already-packed slate with new events and live appearances:
On opening night of the festival, the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel will be the site of a poolside screening of the lavish Cole Porter musical High Society (1956), starring Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. Actresses Maud Adams and Eunice Gayson will attend a 50th Anniversary screening of the James Bond classic Dr. No (1962) and participate in a conversation about being “Bond Girls.” Filmmaker Mel Brooks will be on hand to introduce his brilliant parody Young Frankenstein (1974). Filmmaker John Carpenter will introduce his favorite film, the...
- 3/28/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The next few months of programming on Showtime have been laid out today, as the network has provided a list of premiere dates for new scripted shows, reality shows, adapted web series (Lisa Kudrow's buzzworthy Web Therapy), and old favorites. Notable dates include Weeds and The Big C premiering in late June (they were both running into last fall, since they both started in August) and the final season of Secret Diary of a Call Girl leading into a reality show about male escorts. Check out the press release below for synopses, times/dates, and information about other things happening on Showtime in the near future. What will you be watching?
Via Showtime:
New Original Series
The Borgias
2-hour premiere: Sunday, April 3rd at 9 Pm Et/Pt; following premiere, new episodes will air Sundays at 10 Pm Et/Pt
1 Hour, 9 Episodes
The Borgias stars Oscar®-winning actor Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo Borgia,...
Via Showtime:
New Original Series
The Borgias
2-hour premiere: Sunday, April 3rd at 9 Pm Et/Pt; following premiere, new episodes will air Sundays at 10 Pm Et/Pt
1 Hour, 9 Episodes
The Borgias stars Oscar®-winning actor Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo Borgia,...
- 3/1/2011
- by Shilo Adams
- TVovermind.com
From The Fountainhead to Blade Runner, the way films portray buildings and architects has nothing to do with reality, right? You'd be surprised
Howard Roark is, up to a point, a plausible name for an architect, but I am less convinced by Stourley Kracklite. Roark, played by Gary Cooper in King Vidor's schlockfest The Fountainhead is a picture of toned muscle and angst, handy with a rock drill and brutal in his wooing. In contrast Kracklite, played by Brian Dennehy in Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect, has a waistline that authentically overwhelms his belt in the manner pioneered by the 20-stone James Stirling.
Both films have always fascinated me. In the case of The Fountainhead, it's not so much Roark – a tortured genius somewhere between Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright – who's the special attraction, although it's hard not to warm to an architect who, rather than see his work compromised,...
Howard Roark is, up to a point, a plausible name for an architect, but I am less convinced by Stourley Kracklite. Roark, played by Gary Cooper in King Vidor's schlockfest The Fountainhead is a picture of toned muscle and angst, handy with a rock drill and brutal in his wooing. In contrast Kracklite, played by Brian Dennehy in Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect, has a waistline that authentically overwhelms his belt in the manner pioneered by the 20-stone James Stirling.
Both films have always fascinated me. In the case of The Fountainhead, it's not so much Roark – a tortured genius somewhere between Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright – who's the special attraction, although it's hard not to warm to an architect who, rather than see his work compromised,...
- 1/21/2011
- by Deyan Sudjic
- The Guardian - Film News
My Architect, a documentary film, will be screened at the American Center Auditorium on June 15. Directed by Nathaniel Kahn, son of renowned architect Louis Kahn, the filmmaker reveals the haunting beauty behind his father’s monumental creations and takes us deep within his own divided family, uncovering a world of prejudice, intrigue and the myths that haunts parents and children. The documentary has an emotional impact of a dramatic feature film, as Nathaniel’s personal journey becomes a universal investigation of identity, a celebration of art and ultimately, of life itself. The screening will be followed by panel discussion with heritage ...
- 6/13/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
(Images from The Third and the Seventh. Left is real, right is rendering. See the making of here.)
For an art so endlessly photographed--even boasting its own discipline--architecture is the subject of surprisingly few decent films. There's My Architect, of course, but wasn't that more about a father and his son? And there's Sketches of Frank Gehry, but it fell victim to the weirdness of its subject (more about Frank being silly than Frank being a genius, or even an architect). (Am I missing any good ones?)
The list of films inspired by architecture--or simply in awe of it--is a hundred times as long, from 2001 and Blade Runner to Vertigo and The Passenger, to, my favorite, The Naked City (check out the epic Williamsburg Bridge chase scene at the end). If buildings can be characters in movies like those, why can't they star in films all their own? Where's architecture's Helvetica?...
For an art so endlessly photographed--even boasting its own discipline--architecture is the subject of surprisingly few decent films. There's My Architect, of course, but wasn't that more about a father and his son? And there's Sketches of Frank Gehry, but it fell victim to the weirdness of its subject (more about Frank being silly than Frank being a genius, or even an architect). (Am I missing any good ones?)
The list of films inspired by architecture--or simply in awe of it--is a hundred times as long, from 2001 and Blade Runner to Vertigo and The Passenger, to, my favorite, The Naked City (check out the epic Williamsburg Bridge chase scene at the end). If buildings can be characters in movies like those, why can't they star in films all their own? Where's architecture's Helvetica?...
- 1/11/2010
- by William Bostwick
- Fast Company
No one knows movies like Leonard Maltin. As the decade winds down, we asked him to name his favorite hidden gems from the past 10 years. As he put things:
I've never been a fan of "10 best" lists; they're too arbitrary for my taste. And besides, if there were only 10 outstanding hidden gems over the past decade I wouldn't have nearly enough material to fill my weekly show, Secret's Out. So let's refer to these as "10 Really Good Movies of the PastDecade" or "10 Hidden Gems You Really Ought to See." That way I'll have less guilt about the titles I had to leave out!
Check out Maltin's full list here, and check back every weekday through Jan. 1 for another 10 movies that made the ReelzChannel 100.
Next Showing:
Link | Posted 12/21/2009 by reelz
Leonard Maltin | My Architect | The Dish | Brothers | The Band's Visit | Frozen River | Songcatcher | Dirty Pretty Things | Starting Out in the Evening...
I've never been a fan of "10 best" lists; they're too arbitrary for my taste. And besides, if there were only 10 outstanding hidden gems over the past decade I wouldn't have nearly enough material to fill my weekly show, Secret's Out. So let's refer to these as "10 Really Good Movies of the PastDecade" or "10 Hidden Gems You Really Ought to See." That way I'll have less guilt about the titles I had to leave out!
Check out Maltin's full list here, and check back every weekday through Jan. 1 for another 10 movies that made the ReelzChannel 100.
Next Showing:
Link | Posted 12/21/2009 by reelz
Leonard Maltin | My Architect | The Dish | Brothers | The Band's Visit | Frozen River | Songcatcher | Dirty Pretty Things | Starting Out in the Evening...
- 12/21/2009
- by reelz reelz
- Reelzchannel.com
A wave of design documentaries are unlikely crowd pleasers.
You won't see any chase scenes or canoodling. No scatological jokes, and hardly any women. For the most part it's just wrinkly old white men talking about fenestration and foundation walls. Design documentaries may not be sexy, but they're enjoying a surprising surge on the indie film circuit.
Why design? The documentaries riding a wave of interest in the field, and designers are, almost without exception, charismatic figures who know how to court the camera.
The trend began six years ago with My Architect, an effort by Nathaniel Kahn to uncover the hidden life of his father, the enigmatic Louis Kahn. Nathaniel was born out of wedlock, and he barely knew his father, whom many consider the greatest architect of the 20th century. Kahn, who died badly in debt in a Penn Station men's room in 1974, maintained three families for years in almost total secrecy.
You won't see any chase scenes or canoodling. No scatological jokes, and hardly any women. For the most part it's just wrinkly old white men talking about fenestration and foundation walls. Design documentaries may not be sexy, but they're enjoying a surprising surge on the indie film circuit.
Why design? The documentaries riding a wave of interest in the field, and designers are, almost without exception, charismatic figures who know how to court the camera.
The trend began six years ago with My Architect, an effort by Nathaniel Kahn to uncover the hidden life of his father, the enigmatic Louis Kahn. Nathaniel was born out of wedlock, and he barely knew his father, whom many consider the greatest architect of the 20th century. Kahn, who died badly in debt in a Penn Station men's room in 1974, maintained three families for years in almost total secrecy.
- 7/7/2009
- by Michael Cannell
- Fast Company
400 Screens, 400 Blows is a weekly column that takes an in-depth look at the films playing below the radar, beneath the top ten, and on 400 screens or less.
Every year critics are subjected to who knows how many dozen documentaries; most probably don't bother to see them all, and others will be reluctant to admit that most of them are the same. Oh, the subjects are different. One may be about war in Asia and one will be about war in Europe and another is about politics in the U.S.A., but they're the same in structure and tone and rhythm. We usually get the big three: talking heads, stock footage and photographs, and sometimes some "re-creation footage." Here are some pointers for future documentarians. 1) Don't do that thing where, if the subject starts crying, you discreetly keep the camera rolling, and then use that footage in the final film.
Every year critics are subjected to who knows how many dozen documentaries; most probably don't bother to see them all, and others will be reluctant to admit that most of them are the same. Oh, the subjects are different. One may be about war in Asia and one will be about war in Europe and another is about politics in the U.S.A., but they're the same in structure and tone and rhythm. We usually get the big three: talking heads, stock footage and photographs, and sometimes some "re-creation footage." Here are some pointers for future documentarians. 1) Don't do that thing where, if the subject starts crying, you discreetly keep the camera rolling, and then use that footage in the final film.
- 3/7/2009
- by Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Cinematical
Industry veteran Rebeca Conget has been named vp theatrical distribution of the new created division at distribution company Film Movement.
In her new post, Conget will be responsible for expanding and running the division. She will report to company president Adley Gartenstein.
"We are so pleased that Rebeca has decided to join our team," said Film Movement CEO Stuart Litman. "Her experience will be invaluable to Film Movement during this period of intense growth."
Conget was previously vp of theatrical distribution for New Yorker Films where she was responsible for the national campaigns of Trembling Before God, To Be and to Have, My Architect, Bamako and other titles. Conget also served as a consultant for Cinema Tropical, a non-profit organization that supports Latin American cinema in the U.S.
In her new post, Conget will be responsible for expanding and running the division. She will report to company president Adley Gartenstein.
"We are so pleased that Rebeca has decided to join our team," said Film Movement CEO Stuart Litman. "Her experience will be invaluable to Film Movement during this period of intense growth."
Conget was previously vp of theatrical distribution for New Yorker Films where she was responsible for the national campaigns of Trembling Before God, To Be and to Have, My Architect, Bamako and other titles. Conget also served as a consultant for Cinema Tropical, a non-profit organization that supports Latin American cinema in the U.S.
- 5/31/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The American Cinema Editors announced nominations on Thursday for the 2004 ACE Eddie Awards recognizing outstanding editing in film, television and documentaries. Nominees for best edited dramatic feature film are Miramax Films' The Aviator, Finding Neverland and Kill Bill: Volume 2, DreamWorks' Collateral, Fox Searchlight Pictures' Kinsey and Warner Bros. Pictures' Million Dollar Baby. The five nominees for best edited comedy or musical include Focus Features' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fox Searchlight's Sideways, MGM's De-Lovely, Pixar Animation Studios' The Incredibles, and Universal Pictures' Ray. In the best edited documentary race are IFC Films' Fahrenheit 9/11, New Yorker Films' My Architect, and Sony Pictures Classics' Riding Giants.
- 1/14/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CHICAGO -- The five feature-length documentaries nominated for an Oscar this year grapple with such topics as a terrifying family unease (Capturing the Friedmans, My Architect), a dominating historical personality (The Fog of War) and a profound social disruption (Balseros). But the fifth work, Sam Green and Bill Siegel's The Weather Underground, arguably suggests an interlocking of all those subjects. The film encompasses family discord, engaging personalities and historical tumult. Made over a five-year period, the low-budget film documents the revolutionary anarchist group of the 1970s whose members plotted the violent overthrow of the American government. The Weather Underground premiered in competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the summer by small Maine-based distributor Shadow Distribution. It has played in 150 markets and generated boxoffice receipts of more than $521,000, Shadow executive Ken Eisen said. Its Oscar nomination has revived the movie's theatrical prospects, leading to return engagements in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
- 2/26/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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