Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Space � for instance, the relationship between negative and positive space � has long presented compositional challenges to artists. […]
Tag: film
On Film: Life in five seasons, plus Edvard Munch
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / French director Sebastien Betbeder�s 2 Autumns, 3 Winters is a deceptive movie. In its easy urbanity and charm, it seems […]
FILM: Sol Lewitt, humble utopian
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / There is something undeniably beautiful about the consuming harmonic elegance of a Sol LeWitt wall painting. But for some viewers, […]
ON FILM: Wes Anderson’s big picture
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Art — especially painting — is an honored cinematic metaphor for culture, particularly as a symbol of civilization under siege. […]
ON FILM: Blonde on blondes
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / In the watching, video artist Shannon Plumb’s debut feature Towheads, which MoMA screened last week and has wisely purchased […]
ON FILM: Tornatore�s creepy art auctioneer in The Best Offer
Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) admiring his secret collection of ladies in Giuseppe Tornatore�s The Best Offer. Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / In Giuseppe Tornatore�s The […]
On film and painting: Repetitive stress
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Wall Street hustler Jordan Belfort and sculptor Camille Claudel had little in common, and the recent movies about the lives […]
Painters as storytellers: The Mill and The Cross
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The Way to Cavalry,” 1564. Located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna When I was an art history undergrad at Tufts […]
Portraying a painter on film: SEPTIEN at the IFC
Onur Tukel’s paintings created for Septien, a Michael Tully film that will be at the IFC this week. Septien, a darkly comic narrative film, features […]
Two Coats’ movie pick: Adventureland
Director Greg Mottola (Daytrippers and Superbad) has been called the new John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink, etc.), but Mottola’s […]
Chuck Connelly’s close up
Chuck Connelly, a rancorous Neo-Expressionist whose paintings were popular in the 80’s, is the subject of a new HBO documentary, “The Art of Failure: Chuck […]
Ellsworth Kelly film arrives in Boston
“Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments,” produced by Edgar B. Howard and Jo Carole Lauder, directed by Edgar B. Howard and Tom Piper. Distributed by Checkerboard Film Foundation. […]
Rave reviews for Schnabel’s new film in which a paralysed man dictates a memoir with his eyeball
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” directed by painter-filmmaker Julian Schnabel. I’m a big fan of Julian Schnabel’s films, especially Basquiat–what painter doesn’t appreciate the […]
Klimt the movie
Klimt According to the press kit, director Raul Ruiz “transports us to 1918 where Gustav Klimt (John Malkovich) lies on his deathbed. We follow Klimt’s […]
“My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures” premieres at the NY International Independent Film Festival
“After nearly six years of production, director/producer Johnny Boston has completed his feature length documentary titled, ‘My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures,’ a […]
