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Costume Designer Gitti Fuchs Tricks Out “Toni Erdmann”
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By Laura Blum More than most films, the costumes in Toni Erdmann tell the story. Director Maren Ade’s new tragicomedy of manners makes its points as much through what its characters are and aren’t wearing as through anything they say. Set largely in Bucharest, it follows buttoned-u ...
- 8.42 years ago - By Laura Blum
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The Wild Adventures of “Seasons” Filmmaker Jacques Perrin
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By Laura Blum There’s a moment in Seasons when a bear covers its eyes in distress as two ursine cousins go at one another with a vengeance. It’s one of many heart tugging scenes in Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud’s new wildlife drama that captures empathy and tenderness, anger ...
- 8.47 years ago - By Laura Blum
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GRAFF CAPZZ: New York’s First Graffiti Hat Competition
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By Laura Blum Harlem artist Marivel Mejia was making a painting, but she wasn’t using a brush. Nor were any of the other creatives gathered this past Saturday at Manhattan’s Bond Street branch of Blick Art Materials. That’s because they were vying in the GRAFF CAPZZ graffiti hat c ...
- 8.59 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Spotlight on the 54th New York Film Festival - Cinematographer Sean Porter Looks Back on “20th Century Women”
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By Laura Blum “It was just a subconscious vibe: We’re going to get along and we’re going to augment each other,” recalled cinematographer Sean Porter of his first Skype chat with director Mike Mills. “Its kind of like love at first sight.” The feeling was clearly ...
- 8.6 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Jim Jarmusch’s Poetic “Paterson” - Spotlight on the 54th New York Film Festival
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By Laura Blum Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson is set in the eponymous New Jersey town, and although its brick mill vibe seems an anachronism in our time-lapse, media blitzed world, it invites us to enter a time warp and ponder eternal themes like love. Poetry is of essence in Paterson, beginning wit ...
- 8.6 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Spotlight on the 54th New York Film Festival - Director Albert Serra Brings to Life “The Death of Louis XIV”
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By Laura Blum It’s August 1715, and the French monarch Louis XIV is perched upon his wheelchair, not his throne. The sun has yet to rise over the Gardens of Versailles, yet the crepuscular mood isn’t about the elements. Not even the revelries within his Château can brighten the Ki ...
- 8.6 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Spotlight on the 54th New York Film Festival - Pedro Almodóvar’s “Julieta”: Interview with Production Designer Antxón Gómez
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By Laura Blum There’s nothing pretty about heartbreak and guilt or abandonment and loss. But Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar has a knack for gussying up even the darkest themes, and Julieta brings his latest example. The film is constructed from three Alice Munro short stories &m ...
- 8.62 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Spotlight on the 54th New York Film Festival - Photographer Elsa Dorfman in Focus
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By: Laura Blum Using large Polaroid film can get pricey. That’s why photographer Elsa Dorfman always made a point of snapping two photos of her sitters with her large-format Polaroid 20-inch-by-24-inch camera. They got to choose one, and she took the remaining “B-Side.” Dorfman&rs ...
- 8.64 years ago - By Laura Blum
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54th New York Film Festival Spotlight - Production Designer Hannah Beachler Reflects on “Moonlight”
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By: Laura BlumMoonlight, the new film by Barry Jenkins, follows a gay African-American’s quest for identity in a disadvantaged section of Miami. Just as the moon projects no light of its own, but bounces reflected sunlight off its surface, so too the cypher at the core of Jenkins’ drama ...
- 8.64 years ago - By Laura Blum
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