Cleopatra reclaims the Egyptian Theater
August 31, 2010 · Posted by arts•meme ·
What better place to celebrate the art (and commerce!) of Cecil B. DeMille than the Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard?
A director who operates where the lofty and the lusty intersect, DeMille fits well with the Egyptian’s ornate aesthetic. His influence on American culture was already significant when Sid Grauman built cinema’s house-of-hieroglyphics in 1922.
This coming September 22, following a screening of DeMille’s naughty Claudette Colbert vehicle, “Cleopatra,” (1934), Leonard Maltin will interview author Scott Eyman, author of the new biography, “Emperor of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille.”
Film information here.
Read more about “Cleopatra,” esp. that knock-out costume:
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Charlie Chaplin to reappear at Cinecon
August 29, 2010 · Posted by arts•meme ·
I’m looking forward to attending the 46th annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood California over Labor Day weekend, September 2-6, 2010.
The big event at this year’s festival is the screening of a previously lost Charlie Chaplin film, “A Thief Catcher” from Keystone Studios, 1914.
Film collector Paul Gierucki found a 16mm film print in a trunk at a Taylor, Michigan, antique store last year.
“I could tell it was a Keystone comedy, so I haggled and got it for $100.”
When he put it on a projector, he was astonished when Chaplin appeared as a cop about ...
Pocket cinema: Paradjanov – A Requiem by Ron Holloway
August 27, 2010 · Posted by Body Pixel ·
Documentary film ‘Paradjanov – A Requiem’ (1994) by film historian and critic Ron Holloway is a real gem. Armenian Sergei Paradjanov is one of my favorite film directors and Sayat Nova, a piece of art that always leaves me speechless… pure beauty… Synopsis: An in-depth examination of the art and life of the late Ukrainian [...]
Her dreams deferred
August 27, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
Third World Newsreel and NewFilmmakers present
Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project
This documentary tells the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. This film depicts the homophobia that caused this murder and questions the lack of media coverage of a Black Gay teenager.
Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project (2008, 58 min.)
(Director: Charles B. Brack)
Wednesday, September 29th, 6PM
Anthology Film Archives (Deren Theater)
32 Second Avenue, at 2nd Street, Manhattan
Admission: $9
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Her dreams deferred
August 27, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
Third World Newsreel and NewFilmmakers present
Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project
This documentary tells the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. This film depicts the homophobia that caused this murder and questions the lack of media coverage of a Black Gay teenager.
Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project (2008, 58 min.)
(Director: Charles B. Brack)
Wednesday, September 29th, 6PM
Anthology Film Archives (Deren Theater)
32 Second Avenue, at 2nd Street, Manhattan
Admission: $9
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Antonioni’s sophisticated chick flick
August 26, 2010 · Posted by arts•meme ·
How pleasant to stroll onto the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and travel in time and space to Italy of the 1950s — while totally avoiding LAX.
Settling into our Bing Theater seats, we enter the world of Clelia, a Rome-based fashionista tasked with opening a branch of her employer’s couture house in Turin. Upon arrival in the northern city, Clelia falls in with an arty group of architects, artists, models, and one determined suicide candidate.
This yummy scenario — for me a midsummer night’s dream — is the stuff of Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Le Amiche” (”The Girlfriends,” 1955), the ...
Ken Russell & Dr. Kildare tackle Tchaikovsky
August 23, 2010 · Posted by arts•meme ·
There was something tremendously touching about Richard Chamberlain joining his wild man director Ken Russell following a screening of the octogenarian’s exuberant Tchaikovsky biopic, “The Music Lovers” (1970), Sunday night.
And the reversal of the habitual post-screening Q&A set-up also seemed fitting. The actor and the white-haired cinema maestro sat not before their audience on a stage, but among them, in the seats at the top of the Aero Theater house. This forced an arrangement in which cinefiles, dazzled by the exuberant color film that had just splashed the Aero’s football-field-sized screen, paid homage to Russell from below, like beseeching courtiers. Words like “radical,” “influential,” and “groundbreaking” ...
Animated Charm
August 23, 2010 · Posted by BELLYBLOG ·
New film from the guy responsible for the charming Belleville Rendez-vous.
Announcing ‘Arduino – The documentary’
August 20, 2010 · Posted by Body Pixel ·
The first documentary about open source micro-controller Arduino and synonymous software, the main suspect for lots of great DIY inventions in wearable technology and performance, will be on view during summer 2010 according to the website Arduino: The Documentary… Photo above: Arduino Duemilanove taken from www.smartprj.com Photo bellow: Lilypad Arduino taken from clemenswinkler.com See what guyz from [...]
Body cinema: William Forsythe – One Flat Thing
August 20, 2010 · Posted by Body Pixel ·
Ivana Jozic‘s interview came just in time to start my covering of William Forsythe‘s web project and data vizualization concept titled Synchronous Objects… Let’s check his piece One Flat Thing – Reproduced (2000) as a first post regarding this topic. One Flat Thing by William Forsythe Photo bellow: Michel Cavalca (c) William Forsythe is an American [...]
