Of the many different puzzle types in Simogo’s Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, the central one is a maze, and the way in which you interact with it speaks to the game’s all-encompassing brilliance. You keep getting sucked into the maze in different ways from the game’s traditional third-person view, dead ends visible from afar, and from a tighter angle that claustrophobically limits your view to hallways, their floral wallpaper rippling with menace.
Then, the maze’s pattern bleeds into an optional (and more complex) knock-off of a Pac-Man stage. Your path becomes the solution to other puzzles. You’re pursued by phantasms who recall the central figure of René Magritte’s The Son of Man but with mazes for faces instead of apples. Impressively, the more the game foregrounds the maze-like elements, the more it reveals Lorelei and the Laser Eyes to be more like a labyrinth,...
Then, the maze’s pattern bleeds into an optional (and more complex) knock-off of a Pac-Man stage. Your path becomes the solution to other puzzles. You’re pursued by phantasms who recall the central figure of René Magritte’s The Son of Man but with mazes for faces instead of apples. Impressively, the more the game foregrounds the maze-like elements, the more it reveals Lorelei and the Laser Eyes to be more like a labyrinth,...
- 5/20/2024
- by Aaron Riccio
- Slant Magazine
In the upcoming episode of “Mastermind,” set to air on BBC Two at 8:30 Pm on Monday, December 4, 2023, Clive Myrie presides over another thrilling heat of the classic quiz show, where contenders face the challenge of the famous black chair. The episode promises a diverse range of specialist subjects, adding an extra layer of excitement to the quiz.
Viewers can anticipate a showcase of intellectual prowess as the contenders delve into their chosen topics, which include the poetry of Dame Carol Ann Duffy, The League of Gentlemen, Nigel Mansell, and René Magritte. The blend of literary, comedic, sporting, and artistic subjects ensures a captivating and varied episode that appeals to a wide audience.
Tune in at 8:30 Pm for an engaging and intellectually stimulating episode of “Mastermind” on BBC Two, where contenders test their knowledge and expertise in their chosen fields under the watchful eye of the black chair.
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Viewers can anticipate a showcase of intellectual prowess as the contenders delve into their chosen topics, which include the poetry of Dame Carol Ann Duffy, The League of Gentlemen, Nigel Mansell, and René Magritte. The blend of literary, comedic, sporting, and artistic subjects ensures a captivating and varied episode that appeals to a wide audience.
Tune in at 8:30 Pm for an engaging and intellectually stimulating episode of “Mastermind” on BBC Two, where contenders test their knowledge and expertise in their chosen fields under the watchful eye of the black chair.
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- 11/28/2023
- by Posts UK
- TV Everyday
For years, Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net has been about two things only – awesome art and the artists that create it. With that in mind, we thought why not take the first week of the month to showcase these awesome artists even more? Welcome to “Awesome Artist We’ve Found Around The Net.” In this column, we are focusing on one artist and the awesome art that they create, whether they be amateur, up and coming, or well established. The goal is to uncover these artists so even more people become familiar with them. We ask these artists a few questions to see their origins, influences, and more. If you are an awesome artist or know someone that should be featured, feel free to contact me at any time at theodorebond@joblo.com.This month we are very pleased to bring you the awesome art of…
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- 3/4/2023
- by Theodore Bond
- JoBlo.com
Looks like summer is starting early again with franchises galore this March. Studios are trying to hit the ground running as Oscar season finally comes to a close and theaters desperately look for safe, brand-name IP to get patrons through their doors to purchase the rapidly growing trend of alcoholic beverages. Seems to be working so far with Regal still keeping most of its announced closures open for business well past their shutter dates.
All the more reason to try and wow audiences with a good campaign that sets you apart from the rest like Brian Hung’s Walk Up—once again releasing his new poster with only a couple weeks to spare and thus well after I already set my picks for this feature. Especially in small-to-medium markets like my own here in Buffalo, I’ve never seen so many independent films filling the marquees here. Theaters seem to...
All the more reason to try and wow audiences with a good campaign that sets you apart from the rest like Brian Hung’s Walk Up—once again releasing his new poster with only a couple weeks to spare and thus well after I already set my picks for this feature. Especially in small-to-medium markets like my own here in Buffalo, I’ve never seen so many independent films filling the marquees here. Theaters seem to...
- 3/3/2023
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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The existential drift of Japan’s post-bubble “lost generation” gets the mystery thriller treatment in Kei Ishikawa’s Venice Horizons entry, A Man.
Based on the novel of the same name by Japanese author Keiichiro Hirano, A Man follows a troubled lawyer (Satoshi Tsumabuki) who is drawn into a web of mystery when a former client (played by a soulful Sakura Ando, star of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters) asks him to investigate the mysterious past of her deceased husband (a beguiling Masataka Kubota). The attorney encounters an array of colorful characters in his pursuit of the identify of this man who lived his life as a different person — but as he comes closer to the shocking truth, mixed feelings about the nature of his own place in the world steadily creep up on him.
“Shochiku came to me with...
The existential drift of Japan’s post-bubble “lost generation” gets the mystery thriller treatment in Kei Ishikawa’s Venice Horizons entry, A Man.
Based on the novel of the same name by Japanese author Keiichiro Hirano, A Man follows a troubled lawyer (Satoshi Tsumabuki) who is drawn into a web of mystery when a former client (played by a soulful Sakura Ando, star of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters) asks him to investigate the mysterious past of her deceased husband (a beguiling Masataka Kubota). The attorney encounters an array of colorful characters in his pursuit of the identify of this man who lived his life as a different person — but as he comes closer to the shocking truth, mixed feelings about the nature of his own place in the world steadily creep up on him.
“Shochiku came to me with...
- 9/4/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
From its opening shot — a close-up of the nautilus-like curl of a human ear — Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s “Earwig” sets out to unsettle, slowly burrowing its way into our brains by any orifice it can. Not quite a horror film, this sometimes freaky, often frustrating third feature from the French art-house director of twisted socialization tales “Innocence” and “Evolution” (better known in some quarters as the producer and partner of Gaspar Noé) is light on dialogue and therefore, largely lacking in explanations for the haunting ideas in store.
Hadzihalilovic is a master of atmosphere and tone, but someone not terribly interested in good, old-fashioned narrative. This project, which she liberally adapted from a short surrealist novel by retired English art professor B. Catling, trades in the imagery of dreams. “Earwig” subscribes to their logic as well, all but daring audiences not to fall asleep in their seats as it lulls them...
Hadzihalilovic is a master of atmosphere and tone, but someone not terribly interested in good, old-fashioned narrative. This project, which she liberally adapted from a short surrealist novel by retired English art professor B. Catling, trades in the imagery of dreams. “Earwig” subscribes to their logic as well, all but daring audiences not to fall asleep in their seats as it lulls them...
- 7/19/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Belgium’s Panenka, producers of recent Vrt breakout hit “Two Summers” – which premiered last week to a jaw-dropping 51% market share in its prime-time slot and which will soon be released worldwide by Netflix – will virtually pitch one of their upcoming projects, “This is Not a Murder Mystery,” at Berlin Co-Pro Series.
One of 10 such projects set for this event, Co-Pro Series marks the first public pitch for “Tinamm,” with the creative team looking to the right co-production and distribution partner to help realize their murder mystery series. Panenka producer Kristoffel Mertens hosts the virtual Co-Pro pitch with co-creators Paul Baeten and Christophe Dirickx.
Baeten is a novelist, essayist and TV screenwriter, whose credits include two seasons of the acclaimed drama series “Over Water” and the aforementioned “Two Summers.” Dirickx has written and produced several feature films, including Cannes players “The Misfortunates” from director Felix van Groeningen and Frank Van Passel’s “Manneken Pis.
One of 10 such projects set for this event, Co-Pro Series marks the first public pitch for “Tinamm,” with the creative team looking to the right co-production and distribution partner to help realize their murder mystery series. Panenka producer Kristoffel Mertens hosts the virtual Co-Pro pitch with co-creators Paul Baeten and Christophe Dirickx.
Baeten is a novelist, essayist and TV screenwriter, whose credits include two seasons of the acclaimed drama series “Over Water” and the aforementioned “Two Summers.” Dirickx has written and produced several feature films, including Cannes players “The Misfortunates” from director Felix van Groeningen and Frank Van Passel’s “Manneken Pis.
- 2/15/2022
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
One of the highlights of the Berlinale Series Market is the pitch event Co-Pro Series, which looks to match projects with suitable co-producers and financiers.
Ten international series projects from Europe, Canada and Latin America have been selected to pitch at this year’s Co-Pro Series, where they will also have the opportunity of meeting one-on-one with potential partners.
Taking place over two days (Feb. 15-16), and held online once again due to the pandemic, Co-Pro Series has a track record of showcasing drama projects that have not only gone on to be produced, but that have also achieved success.
International hit “Babylon Berlin,” Austrian-German crime series “Freud,” Norwegian-German domestic terrorism drama “Furia,” Icelandic thriller “Blackport” and 1920s-set German drama “Eldorado KaDeWe” have all participated in previous Co-Pro Series pitches. In total, 19 projects have been made since the event launched in 2015.
Co-Pro Series is curated and organized by the Berlinale Co-Production Market,...
Ten international series projects from Europe, Canada and Latin America have been selected to pitch at this year’s Co-Pro Series, where they will also have the opportunity of meeting one-on-one with potential partners.
Taking place over two days (Feb. 15-16), and held online once again due to the pandemic, Co-Pro Series has a track record of showcasing drama projects that have not only gone on to be produced, but that have also achieved success.
International hit “Babylon Berlin,” Austrian-German crime series “Freud,” Norwegian-German domestic terrorism drama “Furia,” Icelandic thriller “Blackport” and 1920s-set German drama “Eldorado KaDeWe” have all participated in previous Co-Pro Series pitches. In total, 19 projects have been made since the event launched in 2015.
Co-Pro Series is curated and organized by the Berlinale Co-Production Market,...
- 2/14/2022
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Annual award ceremony held in Brussels every February fetes Francophone Belgian cinema.
Belgium’s annual Les Magritte du Cinéma awards have cancelled their 11th edition, which was due to take place in February 2021, due to the ongoing challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Taking their name from Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte, the awards were created in 2011 to fete French-language Belgian cinema. They are run by the André Delvaux Academy, which in turn was co-founded by Belgium’s Union of Producers of Francophone Films (Upff) and the directors association Pro Sphere.
A raft of national film awards traditionally takes place across...
Belgium’s annual Les Magritte du Cinéma awards have cancelled their 11th edition, which was due to take place in February 2021, due to the ongoing challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Taking their name from Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte, the awards were created in 2011 to fete French-language Belgian cinema. They are run by the André Delvaux Academy, which in turn was co-founded by Belgium’s Union of Producers of Francophone Films (Upff) and the directors association Pro Sphere.
A raft of national film awards traditionally takes place across...
- 10/7/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The cover of Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut, which came out 50 years ago today, has become one of rock’s most iconic and captivating album sleeves. A witchy-looking woman stands alone in the woods in a haunted underworld, staring out at you, clutching something — her cloak? a cat?
When listeners opened the gatefold sleeve, before even dropping the needle on the LP, they saw an inverted cross that contained not only the songs and credits, but also an unnerving poem. Among other nasty visuals, the text describes severed bird wings,...
When listeners opened the gatefold sleeve, before even dropping the needle on the LP, they saw an inverted cross that contained not only the songs and credits, but also an unnerving poem. Among other nasty visuals, the text describes severed bird wings,...
- 2/13/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Jackson Browne’s 1976 was a tumultuous one. In February, his emotive ballad “Late for the Sky” was featured in Taxi Driver, during a scene in which Robert De Niro watches American Bandstand shortly after shooting a man in a bodega. In March, while Browne was in the studio cutting The Pretender, his wife Phyllis Major fatally overdosed on barbiturates. “Here Come Those Tears Again,” a devastating song co-written by Major’s mother, was included on the album.
To promote The Pretender, Browne appeared on the television series Soundstage, performing tracks...
To promote The Pretender, Browne appeared on the television series Soundstage, performing tracks...
- 9/13/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Shengwei Zhou’s impressively crafted feature length stop-motion animation “SHe” centers around mother’s struggle to provide her daughter with a better life by teaching her how to alter the appearance, and with it her behavior.
Zhou’s take on gender and class differences is situated in a world literally made of clothes, and his main protagonists are shoes that get worn out by slaving in a cigarette factory.
Listening to her mother’s advise, the red patent stiletto learns to be a flat black male shoe, squeezing herself into an uncomfortable and unnatural skin, in order to “fit in”.
“SHe” has been successfully touring the international festivals since its premiere in Beijing, where it was nominated in the categories Best Film and Best Director, and after several more festivals in China, it had its North American premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival earlier this summer.
“SHe” is screening at...
Zhou’s take on gender and class differences is situated in a world literally made of clothes, and his main protagonists are shoes that get worn out by slaving in a cigarette factory.
Listening to her mother’s advise, the red patent stiletto learns to be a flat black male shoe, squeezing herself into an uncomfortable and unnatural skin, in order to “fit in”.
“SHe” has been successfully touring the international festivals since its premiere in Beijing, where it was nominated in the categories Best Film and Best Director, and after several more festivals in China, it had its North American premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival earlier this summer.
“SHe” is screening at...
- 8/21/2019
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Ubiquity6, an augmented-reality startup building a platform for people to create and interact in shared Ar spaces connected to the real world, announced $27 million in Series B funding.
The latest round was led by Vc firms Benchmark and Index Ventures. Ubiquity6 previously raised $10.5 million round in March from investors including Jeffrey Katzenberg-led holding company WndrCo, Index Ventures, First Round Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Gradient Ventures.
Ubiquity6 says its secret sauce is providing a way to enable a massively shared Ar experience that persists over time. The startup’s engineering team built the platform using advanced machine-learning techniques to locate a user’s phone and its physical surroundings.
The San Francisco-based company was founded in July 2017 by CEO Anjney Midha and Cto Ankit Kumar.
“Augmented reality could be one of the greatest inventions of our time, but there is no clear path to mass adoption,” Midha said in a statement.
The latest round was led by Vc firms Benchmark and Index Ventures. Ubiquity6 previously raised $10.5 million round in March from investors including Jeffrey Katzenberg-led holding company WndrCo, Index Ventures, First Round Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Gradient Ventures.
Ubiquity6 says its secret sauce is providing a way to enable a massively shared Ar experience that persists over time. The startup’s engineering team built the platform using advanced machine-learning techniques to locate a user’s phone and its physical surroundings.
The San Francisco-based company was founded in July 2017 by CEO Anjney Midha and Cto Ankit Kumar.
“Augmented reality could be one of the greatest inventions of our time, but there is no clear path to mass adoption,” Midha said in a statement.
- 8/14/2018
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
“Portrait Of The Artist As A Young And Old Man”
By Raymond Benson
David Lynch is today’s foremost surrealist. In many ways, he has taken up the mantle begun by those artists of the 1920s who attempted to present in tangible, visual forms the juxtapositions, bizarre logic, and beauty/horror of dreams. Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, Man Ray, Germaine Dulac, René Magritte—to name a few.
Most people know Lynch from his films, but as this thoughtful and insightful documentary reveals, he is and has always been primarily a painter. Lynch began his career in the “art life” studying and practicing fine art… and he sort of fell into filmmaking along the way. Even today, despite his recent foray back into television with Twin Peaks—The Return on Showtime, Lynch spends most of his time in his home studio drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, and painting.
The film is narrated...
By Raymond Benson
David Lynch is today’s foremost surrealist. In many ways, he has taken up the mantle begun by those artists of the 1920s who attempted to present in tangible, visual forms the juxtapositions, bizarre logic, and beauty/horror of dreams. Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, Man Ray, Germaine Dulac, René Magritte—to name a few.
Most people know Lynch from his films, but as this thoughtful and insightful documentary reveals, he is and has always been primarily a painter. Lynch began his career in the “art life” studying and practicing fine art… and he sort of fell into filmmaking along the way. Even today, despite his recent foray back into television with Twin Peaks—The Return on Showtime, Lynch spends most of his time in his home studio drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, and painting.
The film is narrated...
- 9/13/2017
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
No one quite puts together a heist scene like Steven Soderbergh, but he has plenty of company. Soderbergh is back to his heist roots this week with the release of “Logan Lucky,” which injects some “Ocean’s Eleven” style into a homegrown robbery cooked up by the Logan brothers (Channing Tatum and Adam Driver), who set out to drain a local speedway during one of its biggest race days of the entire year. Aided by a predictably motley crew, including the wild-eyed Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) and their talented driver sister (Riley Keough), the Logans’ plan is ambitious and fun, but it also seems like the kind of thing that only Soderbergh could cook up (it involves digging, vacuuming, cake and prosthetic arms, of all things).
Read More:‘Logan Lucky’ Review: Steven Soderbergh Returns From Retirement with a Silly Heist Movie That Has Real Soul
It’s a terrific entry...
Read More:‘Logan Lucky’ Review: Steven Soderbergh Returns From Retirement with a Silly Heist Movie That Has Real Soul
It’s a terrific entry...
- 8/17/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
David Lynch is one of the industry’s most visual filmmakers, which makes his love for painting and art history a no-brainer. While he will often pull inspiration from other great directors — just look at the most recent episode of “Twin Peaks” and the way it evoked Kubrick and Malick — his biggest visual influences are works by iconic painters like surrealist René Magritte, realist Edward Hopper and figurative painter Francis Bacon.
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A great new video essay from VoorDeFilm (via No Film School) puts some of Lynch’s most memorable images right next to the paintings that inspired them, and the similarities are uncanny. Each shot finds Lynch twisting the original artist’s style into his own, and the side-by-side comparisons speak greatly to what it is that makes Lynch’s cinematic style so unforgettable.
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A great new video essay from VoorDeFilm (via No Film School) puts some of Lynch’s most memorable images right next to the paintings that inspired them, and the similarities are uncanny. Each shot finds Lynch twisting the original artist’s style into his own, and the side-by-side comparisons speak greatly to what it is that makes Lynch’s cinematic style so unforgettable.
- 7/5/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
When you look at a film like Guardians of the Galaxy, you wouldn't think its sharp, vibrant, futuristic look would actually be inspired by a series of paintings from the early '50s, but that's very much the case. Titled "The Empire of Lights," the series of oil canvas paintings from René Magritte were a major inspiration on Marvel's latest superhero adventure, and especially for its director, James Gunn. "That was one of my big guiding forces," Gunn told us when we visited the film's London set last year, citing this painting as being a major inspiration for him. "The design of the movie was to create these contrasting looks with things." What he's referencing is how the series of...
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- 7/8/2014
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
When you look at a film like Guardians of the Galaxy, you wouldn't think its sharp, vibrant, futuristic look would actually be inspired by a series of paintings from the early '50s, but that's very much the case. Titled "The Empire of Lights", the series of oil canvas paintings from René Magritte were a major inspiration on Marvel's latest superhero adventure, and especially for its director James Gunn. "That was one of my big guiding forces," Gunn told us when we visited the film's London set last year, citing this painting as being a major inspiration for him. "The design of the movie was to create these contrasting looks with things." What he's referencing is how the series of...
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- 7/8/2014
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
Sotheby's to auction off trove of art treasures and memorabilia owned by the renowned playboy. Mark Brown, meets his son Rolf
Picture the scene. A ruggedly handsome, impeccably dressed man is enjoying a snack with his superstar wife, Brigitte Bardot, in St Tropez's Gorilla bar in the late spring of 1967. A pale, odd-looking white-haired man with a large entourage notices him and marches straight over, complaining that the Cannes film festival, of all places, has refused to screen his film because of its nudity. The man agrees to see the film, Chelsea Girls, and everyone bundles into speedboats and heads for the Carlton Hotel on La Croisette.
That chance meeting between the millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs and artist Andy Warhol had a profound effect on both men. For Sachs, a serious collector, it led to a sea change in his art buying; for Warhol it marked a vital first foothold in Europe.
Picture the scene. A ruggedly handsome, impeccably dressed man is enjoying a snack with his superstar wife, Brigitte Bardot, in St Tropez's Gorilla bar in the late spring of 1967. A pale, odd-looking white-haired man with a large entourage notices him and marches straight over, complaining that the Cannes film festival, of all places, has refused to screen his film because of its nudity. The man agrees to see the film, Chelsea Girls, and everyone bundles into speedboats and heads for the Carlton Hotel on La Croisette.
That chance meeting between the millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs and artist Andy Warhol had a profound effect on both men. For Sachs, a serious collector, it led to a sea change in his art buying; for Warhol it marked a vital first foothold in Europe.
- 5/7/2012
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Some of these you are sure to recognize, but to see the pics side by side with the paintings that inspired them click the link back to Cbr below.. Norman Rockwell's "The Tattoo Artist" by Marco D'Alfonso René Magritte's "The Son Of Man" by Theamat Grant Wood's "American Gothic" by Bill Walko Francis Bacon’s “Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X” by Nick Perks Roy Lichtenstein's "Drowning Girl" by John Trumbull Andy Warhol's "Eight Elvises" by Josh Gowdy Roy Lichtenstein's "Sweet Dreams Baby", also by Nick Perks Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' "Grande Odalisque", yet again by Nick Perks One of Sorayama's sexy robot pics by Nancy Nismo And finally, Edvard Munch's "The Scream" by Yukinori Xum Favorites? There are a few more too, head over to Cbr to check em out.
- 4/21/2012
- ComicBookMovie.com
Garbage have debuted the music video for 'Blood for Poppies' during a live chat with fans through online service UStream. Speaking to Spinner, singer Shirley Manson revealed that the video draws inspiration from artists such as René Magritte and Luis Buñuel. "[We] hopped around Los Angeles creating a gorgeous surrealist dream," Manson said. "We ate ice cream sandwiches in the sunshine and laughed a lot. I didn't want the shoot to end." 'Blood for Poppies' is the first single from Garbage's (more)...
- 4/3/2012
- by By Tom Miller
- Digital Spy
Smuggled out of Iran inside a cake, Jafar Panahi's latest film is a remarkable addition to the literature of oppression
There is unlikely to be a wittier, braver, more serious film shown in Britain this year than the 51-year-old Iranian director Jafar Panahi's This is Not a Film. Made while under house arrest in Tehran using an iPhone and a digital video camera, it's an act of defiance in the face of the arbitrary, vindictive, capricious, utterly humourless regime of the ayatollahs and President Ahmadinejad. The film was smuggled out of Iran in a cake and it proved to be one of the most widely discussed entries at the 2011 Cannes festival, where it was a last-minute submission.
Following the fall of the Shah in 1979, Iran's film industry virtually collapsed for a variety of religious, economic and political reasons, but from the late 1980s it began to make a remarkable recovery,...
There is unlikely to be a wittier, braver, more serious film shown in Britain this year than the 51-year-old Iranian director Jafar Panahi's This is Not a Film. Made while under house arrest in Tehran using an iPhone and a digital video camera, it's an act of defiance in the face of the arbitrary, vindictive, capricious, utterly humourless regime of the ayatollahs and President Ahmadinejad. The film was smuggled out of Iran in a cake and it proved to be one of the most widely discussed entries at the 2011 Cannes festival, where it was a last-minute submission.
Following the fall of the Shah in 1979, Iran's film industry virtually collapsed for a variety of religious, economic and political reasons, but from the late 1980s it began to make a remarkable recovery,...
- 3/25/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Among 300 works are pieces by Magritte, Dali, Lichtenstein and Warhol screenprint of Sachs' second wife, Brigitte Bardot
Nearly 300 art works belonging to one of the most fun-loving of playboys, the late Gunter Sachs, are to be auctioned in London with a collective asking price of more than £20m.
Sachs was known for his glamorous jet-setting lifestyle but Sotheby's director Cheyenne Westphal, the auction house's chair of contemporary art in Europe, said the works also reveal his "little-known side as one of the most visionary and influential collectors of the 20th century".
It was, she said, "among the most desirable single-owner collections ever to come to market".
The collection includes pop art by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; surrealist pieces by René Magritte, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst; works by Arman and Yves Klein; and furniture by some of the world's most revered cabinet-makers and designers including Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and Louis Majorelle.
Nearly 300 art works belonging to one of the most fun-loving of playboys, the late Gunter Sachs, are to be auctioned in London with a collective asking price of more than £20m.
Sachs was known for his glamorous jet-setting lifestyle but Sotheby's director Cheyenne Westphal, the auction house's chair of contemporary art in Europe, said the works also reveal his "little-known side as one of the most visionary and influential collectors of the 20th century".
It was, she said, "among the most desirable single-owner collections ever to come to market".
The collection includes pop art by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; surrealist pieces by René Magritte, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst; works by Arman and Yves Klein; and furniture by some of the world's most revered cabinet-makers and designers including Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and Louis Majorelle.
- 3/13/2012
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
On the eve of a major Magritte exhibition, artists with an eye for the peculiar reveal why they love the witty Belgian surrealist
Terry Gilliam Film director and former member of Monty Python
It wasn't until I'd seen Magritte's work collected together in an exhibition at the Tate, at the end of the 1960s I think, that I realised just how incredibly funny his stuff was. People walk around these exhibitions in a religious state of awe and I just walked round this one laughing uncontrollably. Until then, I'd always thought of Magritte as having an interesting and intriguing mind – the way he would turn things inside out or make that which was solid suddenly not solid. But suddenly here he was, this wonderfully dry joke teller. The work that really struck me that day was The Man in the Bowler Hat [1964]. He'd spent months painting a guy in a bowler hat and then,...
Terry Gilliam Film director and former member of Monty Python
It wasn't until I'd seen Magritte's work collected together in an exhibition at the Tate, at the end of the 1960s I think, that I realised just how incredibly funny his stuff was. People walk around these exhibitions in a religious state of awe and I just walked round this one laughing uncontrollably. Until then, I'd always thought of Magritte as having an interesting and intriguing mind – the way he would turn things inside out or make that which was solid suddenly not solid. But suddenly here he was, this wonderfully dry joke teller. The work that really struck me that day was The Man in the Bowler Hat [1964]. He'd spent months painting a guy in a bowler hat and then,...
- 6/20/2011
- by Imogen Carter
- The Guardian - Film News
We are roughly 50 minutes into Songs From the Second Floor (2000), an indefinable comedy of the grotesque, before director Roy Andersson decides to move the camera. Pulling slowly back, the shot moves only enough to accommodate the rather large figure of Kalle (Lars Nordh), who could very loosely be considered our protagonist, as he is slowly followed by a shuffling old friend.
"I thought you’d committed suicide" Kalle declares to the man. "That’s right", the man replies, offering up his gouged arms for the other to inspect. The joke is, of course, that the dead are almost indistinguishable from their living counterparts, such is the joyless manner in which they go about their lives.
Andersson’s film is a comic tone-poem of vignettes, each exploring the loneliness of contemporary living, the absurdity of tradition and the collective guilt over Sweden’s Nazi sympathies, despite its declaration of political neutrality.
"I thought you’d committed suicide" Kalle declares to the man. "That’s right", the man replies, offering up his gouged arms for the other to inspect. The joke is, of course, that the dead are almost indistinguishable from their living counterparts, such is the joyless manner in which they go about their lives.
Andersson’s film is a comic tone-poem of vignettes, each exploring the loneliness of contemporary living, the absurdity of tradition and the collective guilt over Sweden’s Nazi sympathies, despite its declaration of political neutrality.
- 3/28/2011
- by Matt Groizard
- CineVue
Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar may be the funniest Belgian surrealists since René Magritte. Their stop-motion animation invokes a head-in-the-clouds papier-mâché otherworld that keeps shattering into pieces and then cleverly reconstituting itself. It centres upon a hilltop house where plastic figurines Cowboy, Indian and Horse all live in chaotic harmony; their bathroom routine is enough to make you giggle by itself.
- 10/7/2010
- The Independent - Film
Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar may be the funniest Belgian surrealists since René Magritte. Their stop-motion animation invokes a head-in-the-clouds papier-mâché otherworld that keeps shattering into pieces and then cleverly reconstituting itself. It centres upon a hilltop house where plastic figurines Cowboy, Indian and Horse all live in chaotic harmony; their bathroom routine is enough to make you giggle by itself.
- 10/7/2010
- The Independent - Film
Tsuneo Sanda is a renowned Japanese artist who has illustrated many prints, posters, and other illustrations for Lucasfilm over the last ten years.
His early idols include Rembrandt,Belgian surrealism artist René Magritte, and American artists Paul Davis and Robert Peak. When asked what inspires his work today, Sanda-san replies:
"Everything surrounding me is an element of inspiration. I like to give forms to things one cannot see…to attain a higher level of technique by simply making into art what I imagine. When I can achieve a singular unity of heart and technique, I feel I can change languages, visually and instantaneously,through my work."
He lives in a rural, residential town about 20km west of Tokyo with his wife, Sachicko, two sons, Kensaku and Sohei, and Vivian, their American Shorthair cat.
You can view more of Tsuneo Sandra's work on his website: www.sandaworld.com...
His early idols include Rembrandt,Belgian surrealism artist René Magritte, and American artists Paul Davis and Robert Peak. When asked what inspires his work today, Sanda-san replies:
"Everything surrounding me is an element of inspiration. I like to give forms to things one cannot see…to attain a higher level of technique by simply making into art what I imagine. When I can achieve a singular unity of heart and technique, I feel I can change languages, visually and instantaneously,through my work."
He lives in a rural, residential town about 20km west of Tokyo with his wife, Sachicko, two sons, Kensaku and Sohei, and Vivian, their American Shorthair cat.
You can view more of Tsuneo Sandra's work on his website: www.sandaworld.com...
- 7/18/2010
- by Silkychicken
- GeekTyrant
Alberto Cavalcanti's wartime propaganda thriller about fifth columnists in an English village remains a prescient masterpiece, writes Peter Bradshaw
Alberto Cavalcanti's 1942 film, presented as part of a new BFI retrospective, is a wartime conspiracy thriller, a black-comic nightmare and a surrealist masterpiece in which stoutly English-seeming army types reveal themselves to be Nazis, like the reflected figures turning their backs on us in René Magritte's mirror.
The movie's influence shows up in Dad's Army, in Village of the Damned, and maybe even, with a twist, in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. In the sleepy English village of Bramley End, dozens of soldiers turn up, needing a billet. They are a fifth-columnist troop of Nazi agents, a revelation made more glitteringly disturbing by the fact that Cavalcanti never reveals how this infiltration has been achieved. The film shows the Germans being capable of violence and beastliness towards civilians – even daringly...
Alberto Cavalcanti's 1942 film, presented as part of a new BFI retrospective, is a wartime conspiracy thriller, a black-comic nightmare and a surrealist masterpiece in which stoutly English-seeming army types reveal themselves to be Nazis, like the reflected figures turning their backs on us in René Magritte's mirror.
The movie's influence shows up in Dad's Army, in Village of the Damned, and maybe even, with a twist, in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. In the sleepy English village of Bramley End, dozens of soldiers turn up, needing a billet. They are a fifth-columnist troop of Nazi agents, a revelation made more glitteringly disturbing by the fact that Cavalcanti never reveals how this infiltration has been achieved. The film shows the Germans being capable of violence and beastliness towards civilians – even daringly...
- 7/8/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicks On Speed, Dundee
Chicks On Speed are less a rock group than a fulfilment of every person's presumption that all art students are cuckoo. Emerging from Munich Academy Of Arts in the mid-90s, Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie have gone on to eradicate the boundaries between fine art and trashy entertainment, punk performance and electroclash pop, historically informed painting and flashy graffiti, spirited commitment and an irreverent disregard for considerations of good taste. Their take on street fashion includes dresses made from plastic bags and gaffa tape. This, their first solo UK show, resembles more the aftermath of an art college end-of-term party than an exhibition, and will include the construction of the world's first wireless guitar stilettos.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, to 8 Aug
Robert Clark
Picasso, London
While Tate Liverpool is currently showing the iconic cubist's anti-war paintings and exploring his commitment to communism, the Gagosian...
Chicks On Speed are less a rock group than a fulfilment of every person's presumption that all art students are cuckoo. Emerging from Munich Academy Of Arts in the mid-90s, Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie have gone on to eradicate the boundaries between fine art and trashy entertainment, punk performance and electroclash pop, historically informed painting and flashy graffiti, spirited commitment and an irreverent disregard for considerations of good taste. Their take on street fashion includes dresses made from plastic bags and gaffa tape. This, their first solo UK show, resembles more the aftermath of an art college end-of-term party than an exhibition, and will include the construction of the world's first wireless guitar stilettos.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, to 8 Aug
Robert Clark
Picasso, London
While Tate Liverpool is currently showing the iconic cubist's anti-war paintings and exploring his commitment to communism, the Gagosian...
- 6/4/2010
- by Robert Clark, Skye Sherwin
- The Guardian - Film News
By Stephen Saito
[For complete coverage of the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, check out Ifc's Tribeca page.]
When Lucas Jansen, Adam Kurland and Spencer Vrooman had to come up with a title for their first documentary, "This is Not a Robbery," they looked to the René Magritte surrealist painting "This is Not a Pipe" for inspiration. While there was very little that was artistic about the robberies attempted by the film's subject, J.L. "Red" Rountree . who merely went into a bank and handed a teller an envelope with the word "robbery" scribbled on it . there was something positively surreal about the fact that Rountree was 86 years old when he decided to first rob a bank. Rountree died in 2004 after starting out with great success in the oil business and ending in prison, though not before a series of incredible twists and turns of fate led the octogenarian to turn to a life of crime. Jansen, Kurland and Vrooman recently sat down to reflect on Rountree's legacy,...
[For complete coverage of the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, check out Ifc's Tribeca page.]
When Lucas Jansen, Adam Kurland and Spencer Vrooman had to come up with a title for their first documentary, "This is Not a Robbery," they looked to the René Magritte surrealist painting "This is Not a Pipe" for inspiration. While there was very little that was artistic about the robberies attempted by the film's subject, J.L. "Red" Rountree . who merely went into a bank and handed a teller an envelope with the word "robbery" scribbled on it . there was something positively surreal about the fact that Rountree was 86 years old when he decided to first rob a bank. Rountree died in 2004 after starting out with great success in the oil business and ending in prison, though not before a series of incredible twists and turns of fate led the octogenarian to turn to a life of crime. Jansen, Kurland and Vrooman recently sat down to reflect on Rountree's legacy,...
- 5/2/2008
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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