Tuesday, October 25 2011
A Style Icon’s Legacy is Dissected by the Man Who Loved Him in ‘L’amour fou’
"Summer Hours" meets "Russian Ark" in this melancholy look at Yves Saint Laurent's artistic legacy.
Thursday, April 28 2011
Full Frame Film Festival 2011: ‘Project Nim’
This film is about the notorious experiment in the ‘70s to raise a chimpanzee in a human environment and teach it sign language.
Wednesday, March 16 2011
The Top 5 Most Anticipated Music Documentaries
Music geeks are salivating at the prospect of these five upcoming music documentaries.
Thursday, February 10 2011
‘Freakonomics’: Dismal Is as Dismal Does
In each of its major segments, the documentary is walked right up to the point of tackling thorny questions of equality, social justice, and freedom -- only to be pulled back.
Tuesday, September 21 2010
Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect
The opening argument in the film is that the “Rem Koolhaas” the viewer knows, the singular genius of media accounts, especially in America, is a convenient signifier that masks another “Rem Koolhaas”, one who is not singular, but plural, a walking composition of influences, ideas, theories and collaborations.
Thursday, May 20 2010
Buckminster Fuller’s World: Emancipation by Design
The World of Buckminster Fuller shows its subject as inspired by both nature and humanity, and as having a public interested in ideas, unvarnished.
Friday, February 26 2010
Examined Life
This punctures the image of philosophy as a rarefied field, where philosophers live in some kind of Cartesian bubble, their brains effectively separated from their bodies.
Wednesday, January 20 2010
Election Day
On Election Day 2004, cameras follow 11 individuals as they participate in the process. This is a sobering reminder of the power -- and the privilege -- of the 'right to vote'.
Wednesday, October 28 2009
Private Century
Not a single shot in Private Century is original to Sikl or his collaborators. This is a profound illustration of the significance of editing to the nature of film as an art and craft.
