I just had my mind blown at the San Francisco MOMA by an incredibly powerful exhibition ... Here's what they write about her. "In works of classical simplicity and remarkable psychological depth, Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra presents a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Whether adolescents, soldiers, or new mothers, Dijkstra is fascinated by people in states of significant transition. Her sensitive pictures generate a monumental sense of presence, not only in how they record the details of an individual's physical appearance, but also in how they illuminate subtly shifting inner states. The scale and ambition of Dijkstra's photographs connects them to a Dutch tradition of portraiture stretching back to Rembrandt and Frans Hals. Bringing together 70 large-scale color photographs and five video installations, this is the artist's first major retrospective in the United States." Go here to find out more.
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LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME opening April 6th-13th. Showtimes AMC Yonge & Dundas Toronto
My friends May Charters and Mark Hug have finally had their wonderful micro film, "Lovers In A Dangerous Time" picked up for small theatrical release in Toronto. If it's not playing near you, you can see it here on Netflix ... It's a true gem. Made over a couple of years ago it stands testament to the phrase, "never give up." I was looking through The Guardian website today when I came across an old friends obituary. What a shock and how painful to realize how easily you can lose touch with people who mean so much to you. Eric Watson was very much a man of the 80s pop scene and justly deserves to be remembered as a great portrait photographer ...
We lived in the same house in Wood Green for a while before I went to university and stayed in touch through the early eighties, then I moved to the states and we drifted apart. He was amazingly talented, fiercely inspiring and for a while there, a great friend. 56 is way too young to say goodbye. He took this picture of himself after he graduated Art School. I miss this man. Michael Snyder - San Francisco Film Critics Circle - saw Your Good Friend at a private screening and has already started writing about it …
“A remarkable, intimate, poignant conversational pas de deux between a most unlikely pair - a widowed rabbi (Lawrence Kushner) and a scuffling pornographer (Matthew Jacobs). These two troubled souls decide to team up and develop a website that will somehow meld their disparate interests. They end up grappling with life, love, and the meaning of the universe, baring their souls and seeking common ground as they wander from street to cafe to apartment in one of most beautiful cities in the world, San Francisco. Not since ‘My Dinner with Andre’ has there been an emotional and intellectual onscreen meeting of the minds quite as stimulating as ‘Your Good Friend.'" Martin Jameson (or "Smartartz" to those of you who follow this blog) has a radio play he's written for the series Stone entitled "Demons" being broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Monday 5th of March at 2.15pm GMT or if you're in the US it's available to stream anytime that day after it's been broadcast in the UK if you click here. There's nothing quite like a well produced, well-written radio play to stimulate the cinema in your head - and Martin is one of the best. Catch it if you can and post your thoughts here...
Quite simply the best use of 3D I've seen so far ... A few days before Wim Wenders was due to start shooting a film about her she died. Of course the film was cancelled at first. Then her dancers came together with Wenders to make this wonderful tribute to her. It's easily one of my favorite films so far this year. Billy Wilder, one of the best of the best. A very interesting interview with him here in The Paris Review.
Just watched Warhorse here. I have to say that I was really swept away. Amazingly retro, totally unfashionable, ridiculously sentimental, and gloriously unrealistic! But any film that portrays what seems to be Dartmoor as if we're watching Gone With The Wind - even down to the fiery red sky, everything backlit, over-scored, with a horse and a boy and soldiers returning from a long war ... Well screw it! I'm manipulated and loving every minute of it.. I suspect only Spielberg could get away with this. Joy!
It's a long time since I have been so transported, impressed and inspired by a film. There are so many things I love about everyone's work here that I simply don't know where to begin. Except to say that in my humble opinion, it really is a masterpiece. See it as soon as you can!
I was on my way back from working in Granada last week and stopped in Madrid and went to the Prado Museum in Madrid. Ended up standing in front of Bosch's The Garden Of Earthly Delights. This is a simply epic painting, more entertaining than most movies and one of the most inspiring pieces I've looked at in a long time. What was the last painting that did this for you? Finally left the gallery when they chucked us all out and my eyes were opened and I simply couldn't stop taking photos nearby ...
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