The dominance of
European cinema was in part moderated by Crime
Scene, an especially
creative and popular program, incorporating recent award - winners such as Polisse (Maïwenn, 2011) and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011) with the Brazilian hit Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (José Padilha, 2010) and the Congolese gangster film Viva Riva!
While the curators focus on borrowings of color combinations and compositional motifs, these only raise intriguing, deeper questions about the
creative process — about how Diebenkorn translated
European modernism into an American vernacular, tenaciously negotiating the cross-currents of the American
scene in pursuit of a
European vision of order and sensuality.