While it may be hard to put personal feelings about (Director) Roman Polanski aside (i.e. I'll never see another Mel Gibson movie), the Ghost Writer is an incredible film. Starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan, Ghost Writer is a period piece about a former British Prime Minister whose questionable allegiances to the United States during the Iraq war surface when a writer pen's the PM's memoirs.
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January 22, 2010
Moleskin Takes a Detour
My Moleskin notebook is as important to my daily life as my Mac. Owning one is an experience in an of itself. So, it's great to see that the brand is creating a tour out of the notebook experience, called Detour. The international program is dedicated to culture, creativity, worldwide featuring artists, architects, film directors and writers among others. Great idea!
November 02, 2009
An Education
I'm convinced that Peter Sarsgaard is the new Philip Seymour Hoffman. An actor that is so talented and dimensional, that he can play any role and absolutely crush. Sarsgaard does it again in 'An Education' but it's Carey Mulligan, a relative newcomer, who steals the show.
The film centers on Jenny (Carey Mulligan), a sharp 16 year old in the England of 1961. She longs for excitement, and is swept up by the glamorous world shown to her by David (Peter Sarsgaard), and older man whose intentions are less than pure. I'm going to leave it at that and encourage you to go see it.
October 04, 2009
Kirsten Dunst is Turning Japanese
After walking through an exhibit at the Tate Modern yesterday, I can't get Kirsten Dunst out of my head!
Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami has joined forces with Kirsten Dunst for “Pop Life: Art in a Material World,” his latest exhibition at London’s Tate Museum. He collaborated with director McG
to create a short film starring Dunst crooning a cover of The Vapors’
“Turning Japanese.” The video, titled “Akihabara Majokko Princess,” is
the exhibit’s final piece. Dunst romped through the streets of Tokyo,
turning many heads with every wave of her plastic wand.
March 02, 2009
Living in Andreas Gursky's World
I am very careful about whose photography I would give up an organ for: Thomas Struth, Richard Misrach. Maybe Jenny Holzer and Marilyn Minter. Giving up a limb, however, is a consideration on a whole other level. There is only one artist that would get an arm or a leg from me: Andreas Gursky.
Whenever I travel, I think about the scene in front of me as an Andreas Gursky. Filmmaker Ben Lewis does the same. He takes a bizarre journey where the adventure documents how it's Gursky's World and we're all living in it. His adventure takes him from Reading to Dusseldorf. When he meets finally his hero, he gains a fuller understanding of what it means to live in a 'Gursky World'.
January 29, 2009
Our City Dreams
'Our City Dreams' is a love letter to New York City which strings together the self-told narratives of five women artists whose passion for their art is only matched by their devotion to the City. The documentary tells the story of Swoon (thank to Will and Shelley @BrooklynMuseum for sending me one of her prints!), Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith and Marina Abramovic. Showing at the Film Forum Feb 4-17 at 209 W. Houston, NYC.
December 09, 2008
Better than the Rockefeller's!
How did a postal clerk and a librarian become among the most significant collectors of contemporary art in the world? A film by Megumi Sasaki explores how a couple with ordinary means did the extraordinary in "Herb and Dorothy." Over the years, the Vogel's have acquired some of the most significant art with only two rules: the piece had to be affordable, and small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment.
Over 30 years, the Vogel's collected nearly 4,000 pieces including works by Sol LeWitt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert and Sylvia Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi and Lawrence Weiner.
