Movie Review | 'Chuck Close': Master Portraitist, Writ Large Himself
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âChuck Close,â about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels in its depiction of the physical process of making art.
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A new biography and DVD set reminds viewers why the director's films haven't lost their ability to thrill.
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Twenty-four years after its initial release, Samuel Fuller's World War II film has hit the screen in a messy, muscular form close to what he intended.
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Filmmaker Ric Burns digs beyond the surface of Andy Warhol to bare the derisive artistÂs underside in a four-hour film airing Wednesday and Thursday on the PBS program ÂAmerican Masters.Â
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Andy Warholâs films, in retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image, are records of a world in which an artist worked, played and built his identity.
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For an actor, itâs all about keeping things real. Not in the rapper sense of staying in touch with your roots, mind you, but in the ways that every good thespian seeks to take a fictional
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Closer&quot; presents a fascinating dynamic: Instead of showing us the characters performing their lascivious deeds, director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Patrick Marber explore the effects of their actions through dialogue.
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'Closer' is star-powered Oscar bait but the whole is not equal to the sum of its parts.
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Dozens of Irving Pennâs portraits of artists, writers and musicians are on view in âClose Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writersâ.
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Spikeâss eight-part series borrows so many images and plot points from classic guy films that âThe Kill Pointâ is its own inside job, a greatest-heists collection.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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Independent film has a certain cachet, bringing to mind uncompromising, unkempt artists plumbing their genius to bring cold, hard truths to the corner cinema. Or maybe it brings to mind guys dressed as film canisters panhandling in L.A.
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Oh yes. There was a very wide canvas. There're several smaller characters who have been very nicely   portrayed. I specially love Mohanlal. I love his craft. He's an exceptional artiste. With such simplicity he's able   to display emotions that are so complex. Unfortunately, I didn't have much to do with Sushmita or not too   many scenes with Ajay Devgan either.
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Not what youâd call a shrinking violet, director Martin Scorsese is known for filling his movies with as much detail as possible.
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Only the gorgeous got cast in &#39;&#39;Closer,&quot; Mike Nichols&#39;s new movie: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen, and Natalie Portman costar.
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There comes the moment in the career of many directors when they are compelled to tell the story of a great man in whose life they seem to see a glimmer of their own image.
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Esce il 10 dicembre &quot;Closer&quot;, il film del regista Mike Nichols (Il laureato), con Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman e Clive Owen. Basato su un testo teatrale di Patrick Marber, sceneggiatore della pellicola