Barbie Nation
Still pretty in pink at 64-years-old, and on the verge of appearing in her first ever live action film, Barbie has never been bigger – but did you know that there’s more than one Barbie film out there? First released 25 years ago and now available in an anniversary collectors’ edition, Barbie Nation is the no-holds-barred documentary which goes where other takes on the legendary doll cannot, revealing the sleazy secrets of her hidden past, exploring the various moral panics in which she has participated and looking at her reinvention in both official merchandise and unofficial art, over and over again through the decades. Its director, Susan Stern, remains a fan, and when we got together to discuss it, she told me how the whole thing started.
“I can blame it on my daughter, Nora, who's in Barbie Nation,” she says. “It was when she was playing dolls as a.
Still pretty in pink at 64-years-old, and on the verge of appearing in her first ever live action film, Barbie has never been bigger – but did you know that there’s more than one Barbie film out there? First released 25 years ago and now available in an anniversary collectors’ edition, Barbie Nation is the no-holds-barred documentary which goes where other takes on the legendary doll cannot, revealing the sleazy secrets of her hidden past, exploring the various moral panics in which she has participated and looking at her reinvention in both official merchandise and unofficial art, over and over again through the decades. Its director, Susan Stern, remains a fan, and when we got together to discuss it, she told me how the whole thing started.
“I can blame it on my daughter, Nora, who's in Barbie Nation,” she says. “It was when she was playing dolls as a.
- 6/27/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez is filmmaker Susan Stern’s personal exploration of the man she has called her partner in life and art. It’s a journey driven by her desire to grapple with how she herself felt about her husband’s work, presenting to us an unflinching critique, unafraid of discussing the most controversial aspects of his personality and art. Through contributions from comic luminaries Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Trina Robbins, Aline Kominsky Crumb, and Ed Piskor, Stern tells the broader story of underground comics of the 1960s and comics in America.
Coming in at a short 71 minutes, Stern captures Spain’s creative energy and charisma. If there are limitations as to what can be shown of him in this tight window, it’s a portrait of a life lived that’s intriguing, and in moments uncomfortably so. There was the gay-bashing incident of his youth,...
Coming in at a short 71 minutes, Stern captures Spain’s creative energy and charisma. If there are limitations as to what can be shown of him in this tight window, it’s a portrait of a life lived that’s intriguing, and in moments uncomfortably so. There was the gay-bashing incident of his youth,...
- 2/26/2021
- by Paul Risker
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Title: ‘Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez’ Director: Susan Stern The social commentary that’s driving the conflicts and changes in modern society is largely rooted in history, which once again proves that humanity often doesn’t learn from its past mistakes. The new documentary, ‘Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez,’ is offering a stunning […]
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- 2/18/2021
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Bad Attitude The Art Of Spain Rodriguez. Susan Stern: 'Spain was a pioneer in underground comics and he changed comics in this country forever' Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez is filmmaker Susan Stern’s personal exploration of the man she has called her partner in life and art. It’s a journey driven by her desire to grapple with how she herself felt about her husband’s work. More than a document of the man and the artist, it’s a story of a life of a person intersecting with politics and culture. But through contributions of comic luminaries Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Trina Robbins, Aline Kominsky Crumb, and Ed Piskor, it’s also the story of underground comics of the 1960s and comics in America.
Stern is a news and documentary Emmy-nominated filmmaker for Outstanding Informational Programming, and Bad Attitude is a continuation of her interest...
Stern is a news and documentary Emmy-nominated filmmaker for Outstanding Informational Programming, and Bad Attitude is a continuation of her interest...
- 2/17/2021
- by Paul Risker
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The new documentary feature "Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez" explores the art and life of the late 1960's underground cartoonist, illustrator, directed by his wife Emmy-nominated filmmaker Susan Stern, including interviews with Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman and a whole lot more:
"...'Bad Attitude' is a love letter to my partner in art and life, 'Spain Rodriguez'," said Stern.
"...but it is also a love letter to all activists, especially artist-activists.
"I hope 'Bad Attitude' creates a space for conversation about the art and social justice we are trying to make...
"...the ways we fail, and how we can be forgiven..."
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"...'Bad Attitude' is a love letter to my partner in art and life, 'Spain Rodriguez'," said Stern.
"...but it is also a love letter to all activists, especially artist-activists.
"I hope 'Bad Attitude' creates a space for conversation about the art and social justice we are trying to make...
"...the ways we fail, and how we can be forgiven..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 1/29/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
This article contains spoilers for episode 4 of The Stand.
The fourth episode of CBS All Access’ miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s epic novel The Stand, titled “The House of the Dead,” contains two scenes that are surprising to say the least.
Neither one of them turned up in the 1994 ABC miniseries based on King’s post-apocalyptic tale; one of them is taken from — or at least inspired by — the unexpurgated edition of the book that King published in 1990, from which very little was used in the 1994 TV event, while the other is wholly original to this adaptation.
In the first scene, Frannie Goldsmith (Odessa Young) and Harold Lauder (Owen Teague) are riding their motorcycles on their way to Boulder, Colorado in the wake of the Captain Trips pandemic when they come upon a truck blocking the road and what appears at first to be its dead driver.
But the...
The fourth episode of CBS All Access’ miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s epic novel The Stand, titled “The House of the Dead,” contains two scenes that are surprising to say the least.
Neither one of them turned up in the 1994 ABC miniseries based on King’s post-apocalyptic tale; one of them is taken from — or at least inspired by — the unexpurgated edition of the book that King published in 1990, from which very little was used in the 1994 TV event, while the other is wholly original to this adaptation.
In the first scene, Frannie Goldsmith (Odessa Young) and Harold Lauder (Owen Teague) are riding their motorcycles on their way to Boulder, Colorado in the wake of the Captain Trips pandemic when they come upon a truck blocking the road and what appears at first to be its dead driver.
But the...
- 1/7/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
- Discovering and developing talent is what they do, and judging by the high quality level of docs they are able to support and then showcase at the snowy Park City fest it makes all the sense in the world that the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program would find it advantageous to want split the atom as many times possible and fork over what I imagine is some Ben Franklins that will be well spent. Its folks like me who get to sink their teeth into these films every trip back to Sundance.This year, 25 feature-length docs and their filmmakers will receive financial grants from the fund – many of these filmmakers are familiar names to those who know more than a thing or two about contemporary doc films. Here is the list of recipients provided below. Development GRANTSRob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, $10,000Howl (Us)Using animation to explore Howl , the poetic masterpiece by Allen Ginsberg,
- 6/8/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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