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SHEILA AND NICHOLAS PYE: SLEEPLESS NIGHTS AND THEN SOME
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
A REAL DEAL THAT NO ONE SEEMS TO WANT : KIM NGUYEN’S WAR WITCH
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
Posted in Current Events, Performance Art
Tagged contemporary film, Kim Nguyen, Surrealist cinema
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YANG FUDONG’S NEW WOMEN: COMMUNING WITH NEW FILMMAKING
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
LOLA, AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL IN A NEW-FASHIONED FILM
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
JACKIE BROWN—TAKE ANOTHER LOOK!
Generally regarded as Quentin Tarantino’s gift to the ladies, Jackie Brown has been pegged as his lightest film.
Posted in Current Events, Performance Art
Tagged contemporary film, Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino, Wong Kar Wai
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HOME ON THE FREEWAY: ABBAS KIAROSTAMI’S LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
Shown here is one aspect of Tokyo today, the one, as it happens, which exiled Iranian filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami, takes a remarkably close look at in his recent film, Like Someone in Love (2012). The Bar Rizzo is headquarters for … Continue reading
JEAN COCTEAU: AN ARTIST NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN
During the German Occupation of Paris, Jean Cocteau, assisted by his friend, Jean Marais, shook off a decade-long oblivion due to opium addiction, and wrote the script for Robert Bresson’s film, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1944/1945).
A RANGE OF VIOLENCE
The recent catastrophe in Connecticut has driven all thoughtful people to reconsider the issue of violence.
Posted in Current Events, Fine Art, Performance Art
Tagged contemporary film, contemporary issues, Quentin Tarantino, violence
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A NOTABLE FILM FROM 2012
We’re going to look at several of the movies produced in the past year, with a view to what they tell us about where we are and where we’re going. Not long ago we touched upon Holy Motors, divulging very … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Performance Art
Tagged contemporary film, democracy in america, Jacques Demy, Tocqueville
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PARIS, OF COURSE (First of a series on Paris, and other great cities)
Rue de l,arbre sec (Street of the Dry Tree), the site of the gallows in medieval Paris, and also the site of the once-glorious Art Nouveau department store, La Samaritaine, now shut down (just off the right foreground of the … Continue reading