Art Films
The work of photographer Gregory Crewdson is full of cinematic allusions and references, from 1940’s film noir to the suburban nightmares of David Lynch. So it makes sense that, eventually, the camera would be turned around, making the artist the subject. “...
The Gold Coast Film Festival (GFCC), Australia’s preeminent pop culture film festival, has launched in Queensland with an impressive program of exciting new pop culture films, gritty crime thrillers, hilarious horror movie spoofs, and world-renowned anime...
“The influence of anxiety” is one way of describing many of the 31 films in the Museum of Modern Art’s impressive “The Weimar Touch” exhibition, which starts next Wednesday, April 3, and runs through May 6. As opposed to a conventional...
Digging up relics from the dustbin of history, Los Angeles-based experimental filmmaker Lewis Klahr makes films that breathe life into the dead images of our past. Comic books, advertisements, mail-order catalogs, and discarded pop songs are repurposed into...
SHANGHAI — When we reach Christopher Doyle over Skype he’s working at his Kowloon Bay studio. “I don’t know if it’s a studio or a closet or a brothel or a repository of dreams – I’m not sure exactly what it is,” he cackles. “I think it’s a possibility, that’s...
A serious movie-goer and longtime partisan of what used to be called the New American Cinema, Richard Foreman has cited the influence of Robert Bresson on his approach to non-acting and the example of avant-garde film practice on his unique...
The great Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, who died in August 2011, has left as his swan song a chimerically cryptic meditation on approaching death. Playfully elegiac, “Night Across the Street” – the title a simple metaphor for the big sleep –...
With Sundance just passed, Oscars on the horizon, and a cold New York winter keeping us indoors, ARTINFO HQ has been abuzz with movie talk lately. As is to be expected, there have been more than a few conversations about our favorite art films and...
In May 1951, James Duthie set out on a 3,000-mile solo cycling trip from his corner of northeast Scotland to northern Norway, and back again. On his return, Duthie, who was affectionately known as “Dummy Jim” because he was profoundly deaf, wrote...
Interesting weekend for fans of films by Andy Warhol — or is Paul Morrissey? Or should we say “Andy Warhol” and “Paul Morrissey”?“San Diego Surf,” the posthumous Warhol film premiered last year by the Warhol Museum, is showing once daily at the...
