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- DirectorTerry ZwigoffStarsRobert CrumbAline Kominsky-CrumbCharles CrumbAn intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.This is one of the first artist I ever admired, I saw this on T.V. once when i was about 10.
- DirectorChris MaybachStarsEmma AmosAshley BickertonLouise BourgeoisUnlike any art movie you've ever seen, Making it in Manhattan is informed 'entertainment' about the people who make contemporary art. Artists, collectors, and dealers bring to life the art capital of the world, New York, as it plunges into the 21st Century. Presenting a cross-section of artists, the film discusses inspiration, aesthetics, and the meaning of success. With Louise Bourgeois, Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Neil Jenney, Elizabeth Murray, Ashley Bickerton, Gary Simmons, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Rirkrit Tiravanija, St. Clair Cemin, Ivan Karp, Jay Gorney, Matthew Marks, Jerry Saltz, Herb & Dorothy Vogel, and others. From abstraction to figuration, from installation to conceptual art, from the privacy of the doctor's office to the posh gallery opening, Making it in Manhattan captures the reality of a special world. Music by Tom Waits, Don Braden Ryuichi Sakamoto, George van Eps, Piero Umiliani with Chet Baker."If you cannot describe your artwork, than you don't know where you are at"
- DirectorChris MaybachStarsAmy AdlerJohn BaldessariMat GleasonTravelling around the country, Art City: Simplicity takes viewers on a revealing trip into the studios and lives of a group of singular artists. On a desert mesa outside Santa Fe, Richard Tuttle invents his mysterious and marvellously humble forms, made of wire, cardboard, wood. In Taos, Agnes Martin rhythmically repeats extremely simplified images. Near the Santa Monica surf, John Baldessari, aims for successful juxtapositions of photographs and text. In his North Hollywood living room, Robert Williams revels in surreal cartoon imagery. At a cabin in Woodstock, Joan Snyder refines her sensuous art amid a lush forest. Mike Bidlo salutes Duchamp in a SoHo Gallery, while on Sunset Boulevard, Amy Adler reclaims personal history through self-portraits. Through this group of memorable iconoclasts, the creative "act" is there to see and study. Along with writer Dave Hickey, and others, Simplicity addresses artists' relations with the press, feelings about showing one's work, distilling concepts into an essence, and what it means to succeed in the art world. Music by Beck, Tom Waits, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Ted Greene, Antonio Carlos Jobim.3/10***
Likes:
1. Range: There is a good range of different types of art.
2. Art: Shows cool art, like Juxtapoz Magazine, Robert Crumb,
3. Insight:
"Everyone is good at something, and they should use that talent for the best".
"Art today has no critics"
"Being social and knowing the right people is the only way to get famous and get money, simply being a good artist does not matter anymore"
4. Length: This is 1 hour long.
Dislikes:
1. Boring: This is very slow and boring. - StarsRobert ArmstrongRobert CrumbSophie CrumbIn 1987, Robert Crumb presents himself: raised by a Marine father, educated in Catholic schools, married at 21 in Cleveland where he worked for a greeting card company, dropping acid in 1965, heading to San Francisco and getting in on the formation of Zap Comix, gaining celebrity, loving old time jazz, starting a band, living in a commune, meeting Aline Kominsky who became his second wife and his partner in art, having a daughter, and developing a more realistic drawing style. The confessions include his loneliness, his obsessions with women, his bewilderment by fame, his sense of the disintegration of Sixties' subculture, his nervous breakdown in 1973, and his peace now.
- StarsPaul ButcherPat CarrollA behind the scenes look at the Producer's creation of Ghibli.
- DirectorYves MontmayeurStarsHayao MiyazakiGiannalberto BendazziJean 'Moebius' GiraudDocumentary created for television on the animation Studio Ghibli and focused especially in the visible head of the study, Hayao Miyazaki.8/10 ********
Shows Ghibli Museum and interviews different ghibli artist like Miyazki.
Very inspiring, highly recommend.