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Bluntly edited, with no hand - holding transitional scenes, the film is an intimate portrait of an idealistic, understaffed, sometimes wrongheaded team battling youth prostitution, thievery rings and adult predators from every class of society.
It is as intimate and honest a portrait of a rock artist's creative roots as any film has attempted.
Covering a transformative year in Hendrix's life from 1966 - 67, in which he went from a New York City backing musician to making his mark in London's music scene up until his Monterey Pop triumph, the film presents an intimate portrait of the sensitive young musician on the verge of becoming a rock legend.
Greg Berlanti's charmingly heartfelt film is a remarkably successful attempt to give shape to the experience of the closet by drawing an incredibly intimate portrait of a teenage boy about to leave it behind.
Corsicato compiles footage taken from around Schnabel's home, recent interviews conducted with family and friends, and an assortment of photographs and film clips spanning the artist / director's life in an effort to, if one trusts this documentary's title, provide an intimate portrait of Schnabel's psychology as it was generated from the unusual circumstances of his youth.
Lucien Castaing - Taylor & Verena Paravel discuss their latest film, Caniba (2017), an intimate portrait of infamous Japanese cannibal and subsequent media personality, Issei Sagawa, and his brother, Jun..
The carefully structured film eschews traditional interviews that might have provided context, although Jones fans should appreciate this intimate if overlong portrait that, like Jones, is fiercely independent.
Set backstage at three iconic product launches, beginning with the Mac in 1984, moving through the NeXT in 1997 and ending in 1997 with the unveiling of the iPod, the film aims to take audiences behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter, Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender).
Likewise Disorder, my first film, was a sort of matrix, an intimate self - portrait of that time in my life: it represented everything I knew about the world up to that point.»
Mike Leigh's 1990 comedy Life Is Sweet, showing at the Trylon microcinema as part of a monthlong retrospective of the director's early films, presents an intimate portrait of working - class life in Thatcher - era north London.
«Becoming Mike Nichols» / U.S.A. (Director: Douglas McGrath)-- This intimate portrait of director, producer, and improvisational comedy icon Mike Nichols shows his final and historic interviews filmed just months before his death.
The film is an intimate portrait of a community leader striving to maintain her traditional heritage.
A veteran of the tight - knit Austin film scene, Bob Byington specializes in intimate, often tricky portraits of irredeemable pariahs and slackers.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 30, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Iron Lady (PG - 13 for violent images and brief nudity) Meryl Streep impersonates imperious Margaret Thatcher in this intimate portrait recounting the private life and political career of the former Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Bill Nye: Science Guy: With intimate and exclusive access, as well as plenty of wonder and whimsy, the film is a behind - the - scenes portrait of the «Science Guy,» who continues to inspire millennials to participate in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
Terry Zwigoff's landmark 1995 film is an intimate documentary portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art.
This intimate portrait of a broken, yet lovable family gives viewers a quirky story, fascinating characters and compelling performances, but the hands - on camera work and the almost claustrophobic framing upends most of the film's emotional appeal.
One film that premiered in the later half of the Sundance Film Festival that has still left a lasting impact on myself and Ethan is a intimate portrait of a father and son from writer / director / actor Mark Webber.
Sam Klemke's Time Machine / Australia (Director: Matthew Bate)-- Sam Klemke has filmed and narrated 50 years of his life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human.
Lucien Castaing - Taylor & Verena Paravel discuss their latest film, Caniba (2017), an intimate portrait of infamous Japanese cannibal and subsequent...
Not a horror film or thriller, nor exactly a ghost story, it is a deeply uncanny portrait of a home, most effective in its close attention to domestic spaces and its moments of intimate chamber drama.
But this AM, a combat film presents itself, an intimate portrait of an isolated, man - to - man, sharp - shooter to sniper fight to the death.
It may not be as all - encompassing as some of the usual presidential biopics that we're used to getting, but as a small, intimate portrait of the young Obamas, it's a surprisingly delightful film that does exactly what it sets out to do by showing us the prelude to a blossoming romance.
Natalie Portman is being recognized for her role as Jacqueline Kennedy in the film «Jackie,» a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman).
Director Milos Forman was shaped by European sensibilities but his films were shrewd and intimate portraits of the yearnings, transgressions, politics, sexual fascinations, rebelliousness and complicated conformities that soothed, rattled and challenged...
From intergalactic journeys to save the world to intimate portraits of a child growing up (often in the same film), 2014 has been a hell of a year for movies.
The film Although Sweden has produced more than its fair share of internationally exportable smut, this intimate documentary portrait of two long - haired, free - spirited teens, Stoffe and Kenta, mostly intercuts revealing interview material with footage of their frequently dull existence.
The most unpredictable Oscars season in years finally came into focus Tuesday as the 90th Academy Awards nominations were announced, with nine films representing a wide range of genres earning best picture nods, from a sweeping World War II epic to a hot - button, racially charged horror film to an intimate portrait of a feisty teenage girl growing up in Sacramento.
JH: The film becomes an intimate portrait — not only of Salvador Dalí and the people close to him, but it could also be seen as a love story with the municipality of Cadaqués on the Cap de Creus, where Dalí spent many holidays with his family and which later became his home.
Silverstein's short film, winner of the Cinéfondation Award in 2014, is an intimate portrait of Leila, a fourteen - year - old girl who is intimidated by the advances of a dogfighting boy.
The relationships and events amount to a credible portrait of modern city and family life, but it's the intimate, improvised shooting style (16 mm, natural light, all on location) and Michael Nyman's evocative, memorable score (this often feels like a film made to music) that define the film and give it the sense of immediacy and compassion that make it so enduring.
Jim and Dawn sent fifty film crews, both pro and student, into the twenty - eight schools in Pasadena, California to paint an intimate, and very human, portrait of a day in the life of an American public school district.
Employing a range of techniques, including collage, hand - drawn rotoscoping — a technique that involves tracing from frames of live film footage — interlaced still photographic images, and live 16 mm film footage, Breer composes lively, nimble films that present an intimate, modest, and personal portrait of slices of shared lives and eras.
The most intimate moments in art — portrait painters and their subjects laid bare on film and in exhibition
The work is an intimate portrait by one artist of another, and therefore stands in tradition of earlier works by Anna Gaskell, for example of her SVETA series, which was focused on Svetlana Lunkina, the former prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre, and of her film Echo Morris, which was Gaskell's first portrait of the artist Sarah Morris.
The artist — popular both within and beyond the art world for his darkly subversive, laugh - out - loud drawings and sculptures — takes his place alongside Tino Sehgal, whose Tate Modern Turbine Hall piece last summer saw performers talking to gallery - goers, telling them intimate stories from their own lives; Laure Prouvost, the French - born, London - based maker of warmly mischievous installations and films; and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, whose apparently traditional portraits of ordinary sitters turn out to be fabrications drawn from her own imagination.
The film follows the trajectory of Grannan's previous work (99, Boulevard) depicting an unseen (and in many ways unwanted) America through intimate portraits of strangers she finds in California, particularly in economically ravaged parts of the Central Valley that were photographed by Dorothea Lange during the Great Depression.
The 16 - minute film provides an intimate portrayal of Hockney smoking cigarettes and thinking about painting surrounded by portraits in his Los Angeles studio.
Alternately intimate and epic, Kahlil Joseph's dual - screen film installation m.A.A.d. brings together a range of source materials to create a prismatic portrait of the people and streets of Compton, a working class and largely African - American neighbourhood in Los Angeles.
Beth B's seamlessly realized film is an intimate and complex portrait of her mother, acclaimed New York — based artist Ida Applebroog.
The film is an intimate portrait of the life of the art icon directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel).
This Alex Katz compendium provides an intimate portrait of the artist, from his competitive relationship with Abstract Expressionists, to his desire to rival film and critique historical painters such as Rembrandt («they tell you too much about the person, rather than showing you the person») to his envisioning of himself as a «social fugitive» during his illegal loft living in Manhattan.
Intimate, observational portraits of leading artists: BBC Arts has released selected films available on BBC iPlayer for an extended period
Following Los Angeles, Morris embarked on more intimate portrait films, such as Robert Towne (2005) and 1972 (2008), which shift the viewpoint from the panorama of a city to an individual portrait of one of its protagonists, as a way of examining it from the inside out.Following these works, Morris made Beijing (2008), a film about one of the most intricate and ambiguous international broadcasted events of past years — the 2008 Olympic Games.
Duncan Campbell Artforum International; July 1, 2017; Long, Declan; 700 + words DUBLINDuncan CampbellIRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTDuncan Campbell's breakthrough film, the remarkable mini-documentary Bernadette, 2008, is an inventively intimate portrait of a public figure.
The film Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray is an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking artist Elizabeth Murray.
Focusing primarily on solo presentations of artists, as in one artist per space, the show is well - curated with more than one canny juxtaposition (two personal favorites were Leigh Ledare's 16 mm film Vokzal [2016] of the public around three Moscow train stations with John Divola's elegant «Abandoned Paintings» [2007 — 8] photos, which feature recuperated discarded student paintings in derelict domestic settings, and Henry Taylor's big brushy paintings of black communities next to Deana Lawson's elaborately staged, intimate portraits of black subjects).
They serve as the foundation for me to explore the nostalgia surrounding a formal family portrait or an intimate moment caught on film.
The film is an intimate portrait of Murray's life in art that explores the relationship between the artist's family life and career.