Exclusive: Altimeter Films is in production on Don’t Mess With Roy Cohn, a documentary that explores the long-range impact of Roy Cohn and makes the case that Cohn’s polarizing strategies set the stage for the rise of President Donald Trump. Pic covers Cohn’s early days as right-hand man to Senator Joseph McCarthy to his growth into the quintessential New York City power broker and attorney for myriad clients that included the future U.S. president. The film contextualizes Cohn’s influence on American politics, since the 1950s. As a recent Vanity Fair story by docu producer Marie Brenner posits: “Donald Trump and Roy Cohn’s ruthless symbiosis changed America.”
The film’s directed by Matt Tyrnauer and produced by Tyrnauer and Corey Reeser’s Altimeter Films, and Brenner, in association with Wavelength Productions. Lyn Lear, Jenifer Westphal, Lynn Pincus, Ernest Pomerantz, and Elliott Sernel are exec producers...
The film’s directed by Matt Tyrnauer and produced by Tyrnauer and Corey Reeser’s Altimeter Films, and Brenner, in association with Wavelength Productions. Lyn Lear, Jenifer Westphal, Lynn Pincus, Ernest Pomerantz, and Elliott Sernel are exec producers...
- 6/29/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The Film Society of Lincoln Center today announced the lineup for Explorations, a new section featuring bold selections from the vanguard of contemporary cinema, and Main Slate shorts for the 54th New York Film Festival.
Read More: Nyff Reveals Main Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Manchester By the Sea,’ ‘Paterson’ and ‘Personal Shopper’
Explorations is devoted to work from around the world, from filmmakers across the spectrum of experience and artistic sensibility. It kicks off with six features, including Albert Serra’s latest, “The Death of Louis Xiv,” featuring a tour de force performance by French cinema legend Jean-Pierre Léaud; Douglas Gordon’s portrait of avant-garde icon Jonas Mekas, “I Had Nowhere to Go”; João Pedro Rodrigues’s “The Ornithologist”, which won him the Best Director prize at Locarno; as well as Natalia Almada’s “Everything Else”, Gastón Solnicki’s “Kékszakállú,” and Oliver Laxe’s “Mimosas.”
New York Film Festival Director...
Read More: Nyff Reveals Main Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Manchester By the Sea,’ ‘Paterson’ and ‘Personal Shopper’
Explorations is devoted to work from around the world, from filmmakers across the spectrum of experience and artistic sensibility. It kicks off with six features, including Albert Serra’s latest, “The Death of Louis Xiv,” featuring a tour de force performance by French cinema legend Jean-Pierre Léaud; Douglas Gordon’s portrait of avant-garde icon Jonas Mekas, “I Had Nowhere to Go”; João Pedro Rodrigues’s “The Ornithologist”, which won him the Best Director prize at Locarno; as well as Natalia Almada’s “Everything Else”, Gastón Solnicki’s “Kékszakállú,” and Oliver Laxe’s “Mimosas.”
New York Film Festival Director...
- 8/29/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
With only six feature films to his name, four of which featured his iconic onscreen alter ego, the cinema of Jacques Tati remains an island of unique delight despite his influence on decades of filmmakers since and comparative efforts of peers from his own period (considering Marguerite Duras’ critique, now widely accepted, concerning the taken-for-granted stylistic likeness between Tati and Robert Bresson, a director whose subject matters were a bit less pleasant or comical). Without Tati and his bumbling character Monsieur Hulot, sputtering about memorably in a series of some of the most well-crafted moments of ingenious, highly organized chaos ever put to celluloid, we’d be without latter day influences, like Roy Andersson, Otar Iosseliani, several Peter Sellers characters, and even Rowan Atkinson’s similarly crafted Mr. Bean.
At the time, Tati’s obvious influences date back to the silent era, where Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin crafted the...
At the time, Tati’s obvious influences date back to the silent era, where Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin crafted the...
- 11/11/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
From stage-door duties for the RSC, to the village famous for Straw Dogs, Observer writers reveal their idea of a perfect summer, past and present
● What are your tips for summer culture? Join the discussion
Kitty Empire
Pop critic
Let's be honest – the notion of summer as an extended golden period of rest and re-stimulation really now only applies to the young, the retired, or those in the teaching professions. The rest of us slog on, hoping to catch the odd festival (or maybe just gig in a park), marking time until camping in Cornwall or fly-drive to France, where finally luxuriating in the latest Alan Hollinghurst will come a distant second to stopping the youngest weeing in the hotel pool.
Once, though, I was artfully feckless too, making the rent by working as an usher for the Royal Shakespeare Company. "Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the...
● What are your tips for summer culture? Join the discussion
Kitty Empire
Pop critic
Let's be honest – the notion of summer as an extended golden period of rest and re-stimulation really now only applies to the young, the retired, or those in the teaching professions. The rest of us slog on, hoping to catch the odd festival (or maybe just gig in a park), marking time until camping in Cornwall or fly-drive to France, where finally luxuriating in the latest Alan Hollinghurst will come a distant second to stopping the youngest weeing in the hotel pool.
Once, though, I was artfully feckless too, making the rent by working as an usher for the Royal Shakespeare Company. "Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the...
- 8/1/2011
- by Kitty Empire, Mark Kermode, Rowan Moore, Philip French, Susannah Clapp, Laura Cumming, Luke Jennings, Fiona Maddocks, Rachel Cooke, Robert McCrum
- The Guardian - Film News
French writer Agnès Poirier guides you to Paris's lesser-known cultural highlights, from a puppet theatre to la Cinémathèque
• As featured in our Paris city guide
There are good reasons why the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower are respectively the most visited museum and monument in the world. However, we thought we'd go slightly off the beaten tracks and reveal some of Parisians' favourite cultural hotspots. From louche Pigalle to up-and-becoming-groovy rue de Bagnolet, from gritty rue d'Aubervilliers to the leafy Jardin du Luxembourg, we have selected theatres, cinemas, galleries, museums and a médiathèque worth le détour.
Galerie Gagosian
It was only a question of time before 65-year-old American art dealer Larry Gagosian added a Paris branch – his ninth – to what has become the world's biggest commercial gallery network. When la galerie opened last October with paintings and sculptures by Cy Twombly, everything was sold in a few hours, netting the gallery more than $20 million.
• As featured in our Paris city guide
There are good reasons why the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower are respectively the most visited museum and monument in the world. However, we thought we'd go slightly off the beaten tracks and reveal some of Parisians' favourite cultural hotspots. From louche Pigalle to up-and-becoming-groovy rue de Bagnolet, from gritty rue d'Aubervilliers to the leafy Jardin du Luxembourg, we have selected theatres, cinemas, galleries, museums and a médiathèque worth le détour.
Galerie Gagosian
It was only a question of time before 65-year-old American art dealer Larry Gagosian added a Paris branch – his ninth – to what has become the world's biggest commercial gallery network. When la galerie opened last October with paintings and sculptures by Cy Twombly, everything was sold in a few hours, netting the gallery more than $20 million.
- 5/6/2011
- by Agnès Poirier
- The Guardian - Film News
School's out, so let our guest experts help you make the most of the British summer. Here's what to watch, what to listen to, what to read, how to picnic to perfection, and how to find the best beaches
How to spot a good beach by Hugh Graham
The editor of Time Out's Seaside Guide suggests 10 ways to know you've found the perfect beach:
1) Crashing waves
The appropriately named Hell's Mouth in north Wales puts on quite a show, as do Freshwater West (Pembrokeshire) and Sennen Cove (Cornwall).
2) Great views
The views above Rhossili Bay, a sublime Welsh strand on the Gower, rival the world's great coastal vistas.
3) Caribbean feel
In the sunshine, the turquoise seas and talcum-powder sand at Luskentyre, on the Hebridean island of Harris, are almost Bahamian.
4) Crag action
I love a bit of cragginess. Bedruthan Steps in north Cornwall takes rugged good looks to extremes.
5) Sand...
How to spot a good beach by Hugh Graham
The editor of Time Out's Seaside Guide suggests 10 ways to know you've found the perfect beach:
1) Crashing waves
The appropriately named Hell's Mouth in north Wales puts on quite a show, as do Freshwater West (Pembrokeshire) and Sennen Cove (Cornwall).
2) Great views
The views above Rhossili Bay, a sublime Welsh strand on the Gower, rival the world's great coastal vistas.
3) Caribbean feel
In the sunshine, the turquoise seas and talcum-powder sand at Luskentyre, on the Hebridean island of Harris, are almost Bahamian.
4) Crag action
I love a bit of cragginess. Bedruthan Steps in north Cornwall takes rugged good looks to extremes.
5) Sand...
- 7/24/2010
- by Mariella Frostrup, David Nicholls
- The Guardian - Film News
Nicky Haslam and Caroline Sieber. Photograph by Wwd.A piercing sun bore down on architect Jean Nouvel’s vivid red pop-up pavilion as the cream of London society showed up for yesterday’s Serpentine Summer Party, which for about a decade has been known as the party of the season—if only because it gives everyone an excuse to show off pretty summer frocks. The party got started earlier than usual. “This is the first year we’ve had to think about sunglasses,” remarked Serpentine Gallery trustee Julia Peyton-Jones, who co-hosted the party with her colleagues Lord Palumbo and Tim Jefferies. Man-about-town Nicky Haslam (subject of a profile in this magazine not so very long ago) brought a bright yellow pair of sunglasses to match his squint-inducing blue suit. Jared Leto sported another blinding accessory—a bleach-blond Mohican—while Grace Jones arrived wearing a crazy black headpiece even late heroine-of-the-hat Isabella Blow would’ve envied.
- 7/9/2010
- Vanity Fair
Stevie Wonder hits the UK, Toy Story goes 3D, and it's the last ever Big Brother – our critics pick the unmissable events of the season
Pop
Stevie Wonder
Anyone who can't face braving Glastonbury to see the Motown legend's Sunday-night set can head to London's Hyde Park for this headlining show. It's likely to be heavy on the hits, but a little too heavy on the audience participation, if complaints from disgruntled punters at Wonder's recent shows are anything to go by. And be warned: Jamiroquai seems to have been enticed out of retirement to provide support. Hyde Park, London W2, 26 June. Box office: 020-7009 3484.
T in the Park
This beloved Scottish festival is prized as much for its atmosphere as its lineup. And they're certainly wheeling out the big hitters this year: Eminem, Muse, Kasabian, Jay-z, Black Eyed Peas, Florence and the Machine, La Roux, Dizzee Rascal and Paolo Nutini,...
Pop
Stevie Wonder
Anyone who can't face braving Glastonbury to see the Motown legend's Sunday-night set can head to London's Hyde Park for this headlining show. It's likely to be heavy on the hits, but a little too heavy on the audience participation, if complaints from disgruntled punters at Wonder's recent shows are anything to go by. And be warned: Jamiroquai seems to have been enticed out of retirement to provide support. Hyde Park, London W2, 26 June. Box office: 020-7009 3484.
T in the Park
This beloved Scottish festival is prized as much for its atmosphere as its lineup. And they're certainly wheeling out the big hitters this year: Eminem, Muse, Kasabian, Jay-z, Black Eyed Peas, Florence and the Machine, La Roux, Dizzee Rascal and Paolo Nutini,...
- 5/24/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Jean Nouvel, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2008, is to design this year's Serpentine Pavilion in London. For the past decade, the gallery, situated in Hyde Park, has been home to some of the most innovative pop-up structures designed by a whole raft of architectural luminaries, including Zaha Hadid, Olafur Eliasson, and Frank Gehry, whose 2008 structure of timber and glass was absolutely breathtaking.
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Previous pavilions have--with the exception, perhaps, of Oscar Niemeyer and Rem Koolhaas' designs--blended in with the Serpentine's bucolic surroundings, particularly Japanese duo Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, aka Sanaa, with their delicate open-sided glass and chrome structure.
Not Nouvel's. The architect, who famously wears only black in winter, and white in summer, has gone for the brightest shade of red imaginable with his design, which incorporates a 12 meter-high freestanding wall which juts out of the ground at a hairy angle. It will be fascinating to find...
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Previous pavilions have--with the exception, perhaps, of Oscar Niemeyer and Rem Koolhaas' designs--blended in with the Serpentine's bucolic surroundings, particularly Japanese duo Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, aka Sanaa, with their delicate open-sided glass and chrome structure.
Not Nouvel's. The architect, who famously wears only black in winter, and white in summer, has gone for the brightest shade of red imaginable with his design, which incorporates a 12 meter-high freestanding wall which juts out of the ground at a hairy angle. It will be fascinating to find...
- 3/23/2010
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
The best way to describe Architizer might be to call it a Facebook for architects. That's probably simplifying things a bit, but for an undertaking like this, simple is the linchpin.
At Architizer's West Coast launch last week, the turnout was as diverse as the thousands of projects represented on the site. Hundreds of firms--from the big names to the no-names--have created profiles and uploaded information about their work, including photos, credits, materials, even some renderings or sketches. Each project has its own dedicated page. And--perhaps most critically--every location is mapped in Google Maps so you can actually go see the building in real life.
I put the site to the test when I was looking for a recent project I needed to reference in a story (as I often do). Locating the project on the Architizer site took two clicks, compared to two minutes and four clicks to find...
At Architizer's West Coast launch last week, the turnout was as diverse as the thousands of projects represented on the site. Hundreds of firms--from the big names to the no-names--have created profiles and uploaded information about their work, including photos, credits, materials, even some renderings or sketches. Each project has its own dedicated page. And--perhaps most critically--every location is mapped in Google Maps so you can actually go see the building in real life.
I put the site to the test when I was looking for a recent project I needed to reference in a story (as I often do). Locating the project on the Architizer site took two clicks, compared to two minutes and four clicks to find...
- 3/23/2010
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
The notoriously metallic starchitect goes back to his roots with a cheap, plywood design for the Signature Theater Company. Don't worry--it still looks wild.
I don't know what it is with architects and theater design these days (please, God, don't tell me something about "building-as-performance"), but I like it. Add to the pile (Herzog and de Meuron at the Met, Rex/Oma in Dallas, Jean Nouvel in Copenhagen) Frank Gehry's home for the Signature Theatre Company.
The Signature was supposed to get a $700 million arts center all its own--also designed by Gehry--at ground zero, but the plan was scaled back to this: a $60 million trio of theaters, plus a lobby, in a Midtown residential high-rise designed by Miami-based Arquitectonica. The spaces are built with plywood (just like in high-school drama class). The smallest, the 190-seat "Jewel Box," is covered in Gehry's trademark, folded-paper motif. The largest, the 299-seat "End Stage,...
I don't know what it is with architects and theater design these days (please, God, don't tell me something about "building-as-performance"), but I like it. Add to the pile (Herzog and de Meuron at the Met, Rex/Oma in Dallas, Jean Nouvel in Copenhagen) Frank Gehry's home for the Signature Theatre Company.
The Signature was supposed to get a $700 million arts center all its own--also designed by Gehry--at ground zero, but the plan was scaled back to this: a $60 million trio of theaters, plus a lobby, in a Midtown residential high-rise designed by Miami-based Arquitectonica. The spaces are built with plywood (just like in high-school drama class). The smallest, the 190-seat "Jewel Box," is covered in Gehry's trademark, folded-paper motif. The largest, the 299-seat "End Stage,...
- 3/17/2010
- by William Bostwick
- Fast Company
The Swiss architects bring their rough-edged, aggressive style to the Met as set designers for Attila.
Herzog and de Meuron might be rock stars abroad--their just-opened VitraHaus museum for the furniture company's Weil am Rhein, Germany campus is astonishing (thanks, in part, to Iwan Baan's insanely good photographs). But here in the States, they've had a rough few years. After their success with 40 Bond, their follow-up, 56 Leonard, stalled and their plan for the Parrish Art Museum had to be scaled back. Hear the fat lady singing? Their show's not over yet; in fact, it just got started.
Verdi's opera Attila debuted Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera with a set design by Herzog and de Meuron with Miuccia Prada. The set starts out as rubble and transforms to verdant marshland to show the collapse of the Roman Empire at the hands of Attila the Hun and the eventual settling of Venice.
Herzog and de Meuron might be rock stars abroad--their just-opened VitraHaus museum for the furniture company's Weil am Rhein, Germany campus is astonishing (thanks, in part, to Iwan Baan's insanely good photographs). But here in the States, they've had a rough few years. After their success with 40 Bond, their follow-up, 56 Leonard, stalled and their plan for the Parrish Art Museum had to be scaled back. Hear the fat lady singing? Their show's not over yet; in fact, it just got started.
Verdi's opera Attila debuted Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera with a set design by Herzog and de Meuron with Miuccia Prada. The set starts out as rubble and transforms to verdant marshland to show the collapse of the Roman Empire at the hands of Attila the Hun and the eventual settling of Venice.
- 2/25/2010
- by William Bostwick
- Fast Company
If some of architecture and design's biggest names seemed conspicuously absent from this month's Art Basel Miami Beach--that annual, must-attend conclave for the glitzy-arty set--it was because they were halfway around the world in the adjacent Chinese cities of Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
Why, you ask? Technically speaking, the occasion was Hong Kong's Business of Design Week and the dual openings of the Shenzhen and Hong Kong (or Hong Kong and Shenzhen, depending who you ask) Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. But the short answer is, duh--if you haven't heard, China is where the money is. (Well, not always, but more on that later.)
Indeed, at various points in the festivities, an all-star roster--from Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, and Patrick Jouin to Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, and Ben van Berkel--swung by in a further sign that nowadays, opportunity means going East.
Shenzhen opened its biennale with an over-the-top ceremony booming...
Why, you ask? Technically speaking, the occasion was Hong Kong's Business of Design Week and the dual openings of the Shenzhen and Hong Kong (or Hong Kong and Shenzhen, depending who you ask) Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. But the short answer is, duh--if you haven't heard, China is where the money is. (Well, not always, but more on that later.)
Indeed, at various points in the festivities, an all-star roster--from Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, and Patrick Jouin to Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, and Ben van Berkel--swung by in a further sign that nowadays, opportunity means going East.
Shenzhen opened its biennale with an over-the-top ceremony booming...
- 12/15/2009
- by Aric Chen
- Fast Company
The main strips of Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and Times Square are on the cutting-edge of illuminated media façades--emblazoned with hyper-animated, neon advertising. But there's a parallel movement to harness the technology for stylistic use, that is, for visionary design on the facades of museums or other pubic buildings.
As Susanne Fritz describes on Architonic, the façade itself disappears, turning into one huge advertising medium for sending messages, whether artistic or commercial: "At the onset of dusk the building moves into the background and serves only as a backdrop for the light show which then becomes the main attraction. Media facades can evoke the most diverse emotions, from a big city feeling to annoyance at light pollution. They are also seen as tourist attractions, Pop Art or as eye sores."
The "Crystal Mesh" facade of the Iluma Shopping Center in Singapore was designed by Berlin firm realities:united. The tessellated plastic,...
As Susanne Fritz describes on Architonic, the façade itself disappears, turning into one huge advertising medium for sending messages, whether artistic or commercial: "At the onset of dusk the building moves into the background and serves only as a backdrop for the light show which then becomes the main attraction. Media facades can evoke the most diverse emotions, from a big city feeling to annoyance at light pollution. They are also seen as tourist attractions, Pop Art or as eye sores."
The "Crystal Mesh" facade of the Iluma Shopping Center in Singapore was designed by Berlin firm realities:united. The tessellated plastic,...
- 10/2/2009
- by Kelsey Keith
- Fast Company
Lagos, clocking in at 7 million residents, is no dusty sub-continental village. It's a huge metropolis that acts as the economic and financial capital of Nigeria, and like any urban center looking to develop into the 21st century, Lagos has plenty of environmental issues to address. Which is where London architecture firm Studio Bednarski comes in--their design proposal for the regeneration of the city's waterfront is both pretty (at least from the aerial view) and practical.
Studio Bednarski's plan comprises roughly 147 acres on 59.61 hectares in the lagoon, including 270 houses and some 1800 apartments, with supporting facilities and a marina laid around a central park as its backbone. The plans also takes advantage of Lagos' natural asset, the lagoon: A cooling system will be implemented using reversible heat pumps.
The city plot is heavily reminiscent of the exhibition 49 Cities at Storefront for Art and Architecture earlier this year. It takes a a keen...
Studio Bednarski's plan comprises roughly 147 acres on 59.61 hectares in the lagoon, including 270 houses and some 1800 apartments, with supporting facilities and a marina laid around a central park as its backbone. The plans also takes advantage of Lagos' natural asset, the lagoon: A cooling system will be implemented using reversible heat pumps.
The city plot is heavily reminiscent of the exhibition 49 Cities at Storefront for Art and Architecture earlier this year. It takes a a keen...
- 9/24/2009
- by Kelsey Keith
- Fast Company
With the success of New York City's High Line, planners and developers ask: Are parks the design destination of the moment?
Twelve years ago the term "Bilbao effect" was coined in response to the swarms descending on the Spanish city of Bilbao--previously known as the Pittsburgh of Spain--to see the titanium swirls built by Frank Gehry for the Guggenheim Museum. Until then most of us had never heard of Bilbao; we weren't even sure how to pronounce it. But in its first year the Guggenheim logged 100,000 visitors. Since then it has clocked close to a million a year, and its annual impact on the local economy is worth about $147 million.
Not surprisingly a rash of cities tried to copy the Bilbao Effect for their own economic benefit. The Milwaukee Art Museum opened an addition by Santiago Calatrava with a giant retractable sun shade; Seattle built the Experience Music Project by...
Twelve years ago the term "Bilbao effect" was coined in response to the swarms descending on the Spanish city of Bilbao--previously known as the Pittsburgh of Spain--to see the titanium swirls built by Frank Gehry for the Guggenheim Museum. Until then most of us had never heard of Bilbao; we weren't even sure how to pronounce it. But in its first year the Guggenheim logged 100,000 visitors. Since then it has clocked close to a million a year, and its annual impact on the local economy is worth about $147 million.
Not surprisingly a rash of cities tried to copy the Bilbao Effect for their own economic benefit. The Milwaukee Art Museum opened an addition by Santiago Calatrava with a giant retractable sun shade; Seattle built the Experience Music Project by...
- 9/2/2009
- by Michael Cannell
- Fast Company
Britain's Prince Charles complained about a "modernist" development near London's St Paul's cathedral in 2005. The Prince of Wales wrote a private letter to commercial developer Land Securities recommending Jean Nouvel - who had been commissioned to design the £500 million office and shopping concert next to Christopher Wren's church - be fired in favour of one of his preferred designers. Mike Hussey, then the London director of Land Securities, told Britain's Guardian newspaper: "He wrote to me at the time we selected Nouvel and suggested we should meet his preferred architects. "He hadn't seen the scheme, he just complained about the selection of the architect. He didn't want a modernist." Hussey says Charles was concerned the chosen design wouldn't...
- 8/17/2009
- Monsters and Critics
Britain's Prince Charles complained about a "modernist" development near London's St Paul's cathedral in 2005. The Prince of Wales wrote a private letter to commercial developer Land Securities recommending Jean Nouvel - who had been commissioned to design the £500 million [5 million] office and shopping concert next to Christopher Wren's church - be fired in favor of one of his preferred designers.
Mike Hussey, then the London director of Land Securities, told Britain's Guardian newspaper: "He wrote to me at the time we selected Nouvel and suggested we should meet his preferred architects."
"He hadn't seen the scheme, he just complained about the selection of the architect. He didn't want a modernist."
Hussey says Charles was concerned the chosen design wouldn't "allow St Paul's to shine bright". Sunand Prasad, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, has branded Charles' 2005 intervention "brazen" and called for him to "step back" from the architectural sphere.
Mike Hussey, then the London director of Land Securities, told Britain's Guardian newspaper: "He wrote to me at the time we selected Nouvel and suggested we should meet his preferred architects."
"He hadn't seen the scheme, he just complained about the selection of the architect. He didn't want a modernist."
Hussey says Charles was concerned the chosen design wouldn't "allow St Paul's to shine bright". Sunand Prasad, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, has branded Charles' 2005 intervention "brazen" and called for him to "step back" from the architectural sphere.
- 8/17/2009
- icelebz.com
Today, architecture's highest award, the Pritzker Prize, was announced--and you've probably never heard of the the man who won, Peter Zumthor. He prefers it that way. He doesn't have a Web site. He frequently refuses commissions. Unlike recent Prtizker winners such as Zaha Hadid or Jean Nouvel, Zumthor has been a shadowy figure in the profession. Although his work has been eagerly anticipated and poured over by architecture fans for over ten years, he has continued focusing on small buildings with a jeweler's attention to detail. As the Pritzker jury wrote: "He develops buildings of great integrity--untouched by fad or fashion. Declining a majority of the commissions that come his way, he only accepts a project if he feels a deep affinity for its program, and from the moment of commitment, his devotion is complete, overseeing the project’s realization to the very last detail." Zumthor is the 33rd laureate in the competition,...
- 4/13/2009
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
Join us for a tour of Minneapolis' new Guthrie Theater designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel. Guthrie Artistic Director, Joe Dowling, and members of his production team, show co-hosts Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins around this impressive complex on the banks of the Mississippi River, giving Theater Talk a fascinating look at the Guthrie's multiple stages, as well as all the work that goes on behind-the-scenes to maintain it as one of the most thriving and significant theaters in the world.
- 3/18/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Paris -- The big screen, small screen, computer screen and mobile screen will all converge Nov. 14 when the second edition of the "Four Screens European Festival" kicks off in Paris, organizers said Tuesday.
Founded by Herve Chabalier last year, the three-day fest will focus on film, TV, Internet and mobile formats including screenings, competitions and conferences in the French capital.
Seven prizes spanning all platforms will be awarded, with trophies designed by Philippe Starck.
French architect Jean Nouvel will preside the 2008 jury.
All screenings and events will be held at MK2's Bibliotheque movie theater and national French library the BnF's Francois Mitterand location.
Last year's inaugural edition sold 3,700 tickets and attracted a mixed crowd composed of 63% professionals and 37% public.
Founded by Herve Chabalier last year, the three-day fest will focus on film, TV, Internet and mobile formats including screenings, competitions and conferences in the French capital.
Seven prizes spanning all platforms will be awarded, with trophies designed by Philippe Starck.
French architect Jean Nouvel will preside the 2008 jury.
All screenings and events will be held at MK2's Bibliotheque movie theater and national French library the BnF's Francois Mitterand location.
Last year's inaugural edition sold 3,700 tickets and attracted a mixed crowd composed of 63% professionals and 37% public.
- 10/14/2008
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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