Last Friday at the Angelika Film Center Severe Clear, Kristian Fraga’s incisive on-the-ground documentary of a U.S. Marine battalion during early phases of the Iraq War opened. Working exclusively with First Lieutenant Mike Scotti’s first-person video footage and diary-style voiceovers, Fraga crafts a distinctly nonpartisan portrait of contemporary military life during wartime.
Scotti and his fellow Marines [...]
Category Archives: Film
Severe Clear
March 15, 2010 – 10:27 am
Full: A Film by Karen Sharkey
March 10, 2010 – 2:36 pm
Karen Sharkey is Irish and lives in Ridgewood, Queens. Short film after the jump.
It’s About Time…
March 8, 2010 – 12:05 am
Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow for being the first woman ever to win an Oscar for Best Director and to The Hurt Locker, which won eight other awards, including Best Picture. Bravo.
Chantal Akerman’s “Maniac Summer”
February 24, 2010 – 11:22 am
The point at which a filmmaker becomes a fine artist is based on cultural and institutional definitions of those two art forms, and on where there work is displayed in the first place. Chantal Akerman has shown the ability to tightrope between a black box and a white cube with her earlier films that challenged [...]
The Edge of Never
February 14, 2010 – 5:09 pm
When Kye Petersen was six years old, his father- the legendary extreme skier Trevor Petersen died in an avalanche while skiing in Chamonix, France- often called the world’s most dangerous mountains. In the just released documentary The Edge of Never, a 15 year old Kye travels to Chamonix to ski the run his father died [...]
The Music of Bruce Weber
February 1, 2010 – 10:44 pm
Legendary fashion photographer Bruce Weber is full of music. Witness the jazzy, balletic expressionism of his pictures, the soulful fabric of his films—including the Chet Baker bio Let’s Get Lost—and you see it. Listen to his cherubic, Zen giggling and you can hear it. Talk to him for five minutes and you get a concert [...]
Waiting for Godot a la Paul Chan
February 1, 2010 – 12:26 pm
Innovative artist and activist Paul Chan will give an “illustrated lecture,” recounting his sensation-spawning performances of Beckett’s masterpiece in a beleaguered New Orleans during 2007, at Redcat Theatre at The Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles tonight.
The Future Is Now… and It’s Dark
January 25, 2010 – 3:50 pm
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Discuss amongst yourselves and comment…
