Culture Monster (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bonnie and Clyde, those iconic, felonious sweethearts, whose Depression-era crime spree tantalized the dark side of America’s imagination, have returned from the great tabloid beyond to prove their mythical appeal still has juice. And the occasion provides an opportunity to...
Phawker (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
ALICE’S RESTAURANT (1969, directed by Arthur Penn, 111 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Curiously, there is a a dearth of songs to sing around the Thanksgiving dinner table, despite being based on ideas of gratitude and family — I blame those uptight Pilgrims. Well, there is Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” the eighteen-minute talking [...]...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Yes, it's still happening.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Award Central: Indutry icon to receive Cinematic Imagery Award -- The Art Directors Guild has selected Warren Beatty as the recipient of its Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award.
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine") will make her Broadway debut next March in the first rialto revival of 1960 best play winner "The Miracle Worker." Breslin will play Helen Keller while Tony nominee Alison Pill ("The Lieutenant of Inishmore") takes on the role of her inspirational teacher Annie Sullivan. Besides that win for playwright William Gibson,...
ArchitectureChicago PLUS (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
About a week ago, Cecil Adams The Straight Dope Chicago tackled why so few movies were filmed in Chicago during the reign of Richard J. Daley in the 60's and 70's. Adams cited the then Chicago mayor's antipathy to how productions such as the popular The Untouchables television series reinforced Al Capone gangster stereotypes. Still a few films slipped by, most prominently Haskell Wexler's extraordinary...
Film Intuition: Review Database (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Now Playing the International Film Festival Circuit Photo Slideshow Getting my name on the blackboard once in the second grade (for ironically talking about movies) is the only time I’ve ever ventured into the realm of rebelliousness. Still, like most American kids who grew up playing cops and robbers as well as a majority of film buffs who have a special place in their heart for Film Noir, the...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Obituary: Irving Penn by William Leece, IrvingPennIN MANY aspects of visual art, the dictum that, when in doubt, keep things simple, is a wise one.Certainly it did Irving Penn proud over a photographic career that lasted several decades.There is a simplicity in his style from the 1930s onwards, be it fashion photography for Vogue magazine, portraits of the great, the good and the humble, or studies...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
He's almost the last of his generation of great filmmakers still working. Altman, Peckinpah, Pollack,all gone. Arthur Penn, retired. Woody Allen and the great Sidney Lumet may be the only true peers Mike Nichols has left, great filmmakers from the...
ArchitectureChicago PLUS (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
To me, much of best architectural photography is almost incidental - not the prettified, often impossibly abstracted images that have come to define the discipline- but shots where a city and its architecture are backdrops, stage sets for a narrative. The advantages are that this brings us much closer to how a building is actually inhabited and experienced by people in day-to-day-life. Along these...
My Fashion Life (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Legendary fashion photographer Irving Penn died yesterday at the age of 92. His brother, film director Arthur Penn, delivered the news that the master of fashion photography died in his New York apartment, although the cause of his death has not yet been revealed. Beginning his career in 1943 by contributing to Vogue magazine, Penn was one [...]
Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world, died Wednesday at his Manhattan home. He was 92. The death was announced by his photo assistant, Roger Krueger. … Penn married fashion model Lisa Fonssagrives in 1950, and for decades afterward she [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Irving Penn, a grand master of American fashion photography whose "less is more" aesthetic, combined with a startling sensuality, defined a visual style that he applied to such varied subjects as designer dresses, cigarette butts and cosmetics jars, many of them now-famous photographs owned by leading art museums, has died. He was 92...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
New York - US photographer Irving Penn, whose pioneering work blurred the line between fashion and art photography, has died at his Manhattan home at the age of 92, the New York Times reported Wednesday. Penn was a known for his blend of elegance and...
The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/6189162/The-Godfather-Nobody-enjoyed-one-day-of-it.html The Godfather: 'Nobody enjoyed one day of it’ Just like the film, the making of 'The Godfather’ was an ugly story of fear and dysfunction. Philip Horne 22 Sep 2009 What was the formula that made The Godfather one of the most successful films of all time? Surely it would take an...
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