It seems that the great masterminds behind some of the old classics should lead an example for today's
modern film makers.
Not exact matches
Not sure why you would think a
modern film -
maker would have that much to do with a writer from the 1st - 3rd century CE... almost 2000 years apart.
The latter remains a special
film not just for a lot of viewers, but its
maker too; speaking with Collider, Proyas gave his thoughts on the idea of remaking it for
modern audiences when questioned on the current efforts.
In addition,
modern film -
makers are constrained by balancing the needs of love with the graphic sex jokes they assume the box office demands.
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.
Tacita Dean, in the book accompanying her recent Turbine Hall installation at London's Tate
Modern [1], essentially campaigns for the preservation of celluloid
film by rallying
film makers, writers and artists to speak out against the immediate threat of obliteration of her (and their) medium.
The Observer's deputy picture editor roundsup reviews of Tate
Modern's retrospectives of photographer and
film -
maker William Klein and Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama
Other notable junk artists included the Indiana - born sculptor John Chamberlain (b. 1927), whose works included Untitled (1964, painted steel with chrome, Nice Museum of
Modern Art), Untitled (1968, sheet metal, National Gallery of
Modern Art, Rome) and Koko - Nor II (1967, Tate Collection London); the English photographer and sculptor Joseph Goto (1916 - 94); the American Richard Stankiewicz (1923 - 83), noted for his witty Middle Aged Couple (1954, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago); and the sculptor and
film -
maker Bruce Conner (1933 - 2008), noted for his spooky constructions made from broken dolls and old stockings.
Artist and
film -
maker Ken McMullen's powerful study of Greek culture and politics, both ancient and
modern, fuses acute dramatisations of Antigone with portraits of contemporary resilience.
15 Jul 2011 Thai filmmaker and 2010 Cannes Palme d'Or prize winner showing at IMMA The Irish Museum of
Modern Art is presenting the first Irish exhibition by the internationally acclaimed Thai artist and
film -
maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
The
Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s is one of the most ambitious exhibitions ever undertaken by the Musuem, comprising some 250 works by more than 180 artists, writers,
film -
makers, architects, designers and composers.