Despite a recent spate of documentaries professing to unearth the hidden photographers in our midst — Vivian Maier, Francesca Woodman, Bill Cunningham — photography is still underreprese…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:31PMIt sounds like a dream. Nalinee Darmrong was 17 years old when friends bought tickets for her to a few shows the Smiths were performing in the United States as part of the tour for their alb…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:31PMBill Cunningham belonged to New York, and New York belonged to him. The relationship was mutually beneficial. The city provided a canvas for the photographer, who rode his bike across it, in…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:32AMIn the work of Todd Solondz, nonconformity isn’t a choice. The outcasts who populate his films want nothing more than to be normal, desirable human beings. But they are shunned in both per…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:30PMIs “The Neon Demon” a vapid film or a strange joke about vapidity? Maybe it’s both. The latest work from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, opens in theaters on June 24 following it…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:34PMOn her first night in Seattle on assignment for Life magazine, the photographer Mary Ellen Mark was in the parking lot of a club called the Monastery when a taxicab pulled up. Out stepped Er…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:03PMIf you think you know what tickling is about, you’re probably wrong. The harmless act, meant to provoke the sensation of laughter in another person through light touching of the skin, beco…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:57AMIn February 1964, Muhammad Ali was in a period of transition. The magnificently brash boxer, then known as Cassius Clay, all of 22 years old, swept through the sport like a windstorm, beatin…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:28PMIn 2012 two events just shy of five months apart illuminated the seemingly random and reasonless violence endemic in America. On July 20, James Eagan Holmes walked into a Century 16 movie th…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:23PMThe first two times the artist Ida Applebroog saw the documentary about her life and work, she couldn’t remember anything she had just seen. “Watching yourself for 70 minutes on screen a…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:47PM“OJ: Made in America,” despite a running time of just under eight hours, is actually the more minimalist of recent OJ Simpson portrayals. The series — the latest entry in ESPN’s “3…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:12PM“Kamikaze ’89” (1982), directed by Wolf Gremm, Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens on June 3Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder performed his last screen role in this adaptation, released t…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:15AMAhead of a retrospective of his work at Anthology Film Archives in 2005, the artist and musician Tony Conrad, in conversation with Whitney Museum curator Jay Sanders for Bomb Magazine, spoke…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:47PM“Chevalier” (2015), directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, Film Society of Lincoln Center, IFC Center, opens May 27Fans of Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “Attenberg” (2010) h…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:07AMIn either July of 1965 or January of 1966, depending of the source, Bob Dylan walked into The Factory, Andy Warhol’s studio, accompanied by a film crew. The contentious meeting that follow…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:52PMThe 26-year-old writer and director Bi Gan’s debut feature, “Kaili Blues,” which opens at Metrograph in New York City on May 20, is an imprecise, sui generis mystery filmed in China’…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:21PM“The Nice Guys,” written and directed by Shane Black, has been touted as the “superhero antidote we all need.” A Los Angeles detective movie set in the 1970s, it stars Ryan Gosling a…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 09:53AMThe most interesting thing about “Weiner,” a new documentary about former New York congressman Anthony Weiner that opens on May 20 at the IFC Center and Lincoln Plaza in New York, is on …
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