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TIFF SELLS THE MOVIES—MARKETING DESIGN STRATEGIES

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Jim Clark

Film festivals are remarkable in many ways. The approach I want to explore a bit is the marketing apparatus one can dip into in order to post some semblance of “success” with a varied population. The chess game shown above … Continue reading →

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COMING OF AGE—ON THE SILVER SCREEN AND IN ORIGINAL VINTAGE POSTERS

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Jim Clark

Buy U.S. War Stamps Bonds 1942; Al Parker; 20” x 14 ¼”; A-,L The film, BOYHOOD, is a coming-of-age creation, with a difference. It particularly reminds us that in the golden era of graphic design (and right up to the present) this irresistible … Continue reading →

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SURREALIST GRAPHIC ART—BIGGER THAN YOU THINK!

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Jim Clark

We’ve gotten together before, on this blog site, to mutually marvel at the impact of original vintage poster art with a Surrealist twist, as an ardent exponent of some of the most incisive reflections upon the subject and lifeline of … Continue reading →

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WHAT HAPPENED? BALLET’S BIG SURPRISE!

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Jim Clark

We tend to think of ballet as a field of design effort—not unlike original vintage posters—as a bastion of antiquated ways. We know how inaccurate that supposition is, when it comes to vintage graphic art as whipping up a tornado … Continue reading →

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FRANCIS BACON AND HENRY MOORE ABSORBING TERROR

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Jim Clark

Two British artists, Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, thriving within the mid-century avant-garde, have been linked in an exhibition (2014) organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Ashmolean Museum of London. Bacon’s bona fides as a loyalist of … Continue reading →

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SHEILA AND NICHOLAS PYE: SLEEPLESS NIGHTS AND THEN SOME

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Jim Clark

Sheila and Nicholas Pye are an art partnership like none other. Married to each other, until a few years ago, they continue to produce videos and photographs that depict difficulties of love. But here we should drop all vestiges of … Continue reading →

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A REAL DEAL THAT NO ONE SEEMS TO WANT : KIM NGUYEN’S WAR WITCH

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Jim Clark

In 2011, Montreal filmmaker, Kim Nguyen, traveled to the Democratic Congo Republic to film his scenario/screenplay, War Witch. In 2012, it garnered Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival, an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Picture and Best … Continue reading →

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YANG FUDONG’S NEW WOMEN: COMMUNING WITH NEW FILMMAKING

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Jim Clark

Amidst all the buzz of anticipation about the Toronto Film Festival in September, something very quiet and very engaging has settled into the exhibition space at TIFF. Chinese visual artist and filmmaker, Yang Fudong, was commissioned by TIFF to develop … Continue reading →

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LOLA, AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL IN A NEW-FASHIONED FILM

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Jim Clark

Today we’re looking at a movie more than fifty years old, and as fresh as the day it was introduced in 1961. The fact that it has vanished from view as far as the world at large is concerned, lends … Continue reading →

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JACKIE BROWN—TAKE ANOTHER LOOK!

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Jim Clark

Generally regarded as Quentin Tarantino’s gift to the ladies, Jackie Brown has been pegged as his lightest film.

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