We just found this video of an installation at LIFT Atelier in Tokyo called O-PROJECT by Label Under Construction designer Luca Laurini. Leave it to LIFT to make a video documenting the installation that reminds us more of a Matthew Barney short than documentation of an installation. The visuals and the music are awesome. Enjoy.
Oops. We missed the screening of the new Halston documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival last night and there’s no chance we’ll be in LA for the 05.12.10 LACMA benefit — not that we could afford the $1,000 – 5,000 tickets anyway.
Hopefully, the film was a success at the festival last night and more screenings will be planned soon; or at the very least it will come out on DVD. After seeing the Valentino: The Last Emporer last year, we’re curious about this one.
A glowing, prismatic portrait of the rise and fall of America’s first celebrity designer — Halston — the man who was synonymous with fashion in the 1970s, and became the emperor of NYC nightlife. Interviews with friends and witnesses (including Liza Minnelli, Diane Von Furstenberg, André Leon Talley, Anjelica Huston, Bob Colacello, and Billy Joel, among others) round out this glittering evocation of the man who defined the most beautiful and decadent era of recent memory. (Billy Joel?!?)
Check out the official website for more info.
If you haven’t seen The Squid and the Whale and/or didn’t like it, you’re not welcome here any more!
Now that we got rid of them, Noah Baumbach has a new movie out and we’re waiting with bated breath. We saw the trailer and thought it looked awesome, but after seeing the director and Ben Stiller on Charlie Rose, we’re even more anxious to see Greenberg; unfortunately, we’re in a place where such movies don’t play and won’t be back for a few weeks. Please see it for us in our absence, won’t you?
Florence Marr (Greta Gerwig), an aspiring singer, is struggling to find her place in the world. She works as a personal assistant to the Greenberg family, beginning and ending each day tending to other people’s needs. In sharp contrast to the Greenbergs’ bustling life in their elegant Hollywood Hills home, Florence lives alone in a tiny studio apartment and sings at open-mike nights.
When Phillip Greenberg (Chris Messina) takes his wife and children on an extended trip abroad, Florence is suddenly left more to her own devices. She makes the occasional visit to their home to check up on the family’s dog Mahler, and look in on Phillip’s brother Roger (Ben Stiller), who has come to L.A. to housesit.
Read more and watch the trailer on the studios site. Most importantly, though, go see it. We’ve seen the trailer, it’s going to be amazing. How could it not be??
You know we love menswear designer Martyn Bal’s collection. We covered his Spring/Summer 2010 collection and his Fall/Winter 2010 collection. For Spring/Summer 2010, in addition to photos, Bal teamed up with Swedish singer/songwriter Erik Hassle as model and Markus Lehtonen as videographer for a video look book that we think is really hot.
film was shot over the two day shoot at the historic Knebworth House which has played host to icons such as The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin over the years. Click here to watch the video and check out Bal’s site for images and more info from this and other collections.
So we’re watching Charlie Rose on hulu and director Noah Baumbach name drops a genre of movies we’ve never heard of: mumblecore. WTF? So we had to press pause and see what mumblecore is all about. This is what we found.
The only title in the list of mumblecore films that we recognize is Napoleon Dynamite. Maybe we heard of Baghead, but we’re not sure. Out of our admiration for all things Baumbach and our insatiable curiosity, we figured out that one of the more talked-about films of the genre The Puffy Chair is available on Netflix Watch Instantly and proceeded to watch it after Charlie Rose was over. What’d we think? WOW. How could we not have heard about this???
The film concerns the relationships between men, women, brothers, mothers, fathers and friends. The central idea of the film is that one brother discovers on eBay a replica of a lounge chair that was used by his father long ago. The resulting road trip to pick up and deliver the chair as a birthday present for the father takes interesting twists as it goes on.
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We’re really feeling video today. Check out Jose Duran’s Fall/Winter 2010 collection presented in the form of a video.
Our friend — stylist Rene Garza — partnered with the New York designer to create a visually arresting fashion film for Duran’s latest collection. The two minute video features twelve looks on two female models, choreographed and in-constant motion. We think you’ll like it as much as we do.
Watch the video on YouTube. Also, make sure to check out Garza’s site and Duran’s site for more information on each.
We finally got around to watching Michael Moore’s latest movie Capitalism: A Love Story. We think it’s a must-see for everyone everywhere. What the world needs is more Michael Moores!
Michael Moore’s didactic documentary style is actually a source of inspiration in Capitalism: A Love Story. This film, which explores the history of incongruence between American capitalism and democracy, is evidently a culmination of Moore’s lifetime of research into this topic: he begins the movie by admitting his longstanding interest, rooted in childhood experiences in Flint, Michigan. As a result, the film displays an expertise that is less irritating than in Moore’s earlier works, in which various loopholes can be found in one-sided presentations (see Bowling for Columbine).
Here Moore employs his trademark tactics to make a satirical documentary that functions as a film-based, grassroots political strategy meant to provoke revolt. Read the full review on Amazon’s site, where you can also purchase the film. We rented it from Netflix. Don’t forget to check out the Wiki for the film and to check out the film’s official site.
Creative Time’s outdoor art video project At 44 1/2 is one of our favorite things ever. Next up: Serbian performance artist Marina Marina Abramović.
At 44 1/2, Creative Time’s presentation of video art on MTV’s outdoor, gilded screen located in the heart of New York City’s Times Square, will showcase the work of groundbreaking performance artist Marina Abramović from March 14–April 14, 2010. Opening concurrently with her retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, Creative Time’s presentation includes Light/Dark (1977), Rest Energy (1980), and Dissolution (1997). Ambramović is a performance artist whose groundbreaking work has influenced other artists for more than three decades.
The larger than life, high definition 44 1/2 screen is located on Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets, directly across the street from MTV’s offices and studio. At 44 1/2 is part of Creative Time’s long history of presenting public art in Times Square.
Read more on Creative Time’s site. This is a New York must-see for those of us who live here and everyone who’s visiting.
We saw a piece on filmmaker/documentarian Frederick Wiseman on Charlie Rose last month and he’s been on our mind ever since. As we were looking through the current film listings at MoMA, we noticed Wiseman’s films that have just been acquired by the museum are being shown 3-4 per month over the next year. Score!
For more than four decades, Wiseman has used a lightweight 16mm camera and portable sound equipment to study human behavior in all its contradictory and unpredictable manifestations, particularly in institutional or regimented situations where authority creates an imbalance of power, or where democracy is at work. Like the great novelists of the nineteenth century, Wiseman combines epic narrative with intimate portraiture. His films comprise a grand panorama of American life (and more recently, the cultural life of Paris)—a kind of modern-day comédie humaine that, quite astonishingly, never loses its vitality or its currency.
Read more and get the full list of films being shown. We’re excited for: Model, Basic Training, Highschool, and Juvenile Court. If you’ve never seen Wiseman’s style of documentary, you’ve gotta check these out.
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