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- Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967) is one of the best known and most admired of American artists. He found poetry in quiet, private moments set in unexceptional places, such as anonymous hotel rooms, diners (Nighthawks), gas stations, and traditional houses. Within these urban or small-town spaces, Hopper created iconic images of American life that present us with the possibility of narrative, but ultimately remain enigmatic. Rather than depict a specific story, they suggest a universal, shared experience. This film traces Hopper's varied influences, from French impressionism to the gangster films of the 1930s. The documentary uses archival photos and film, specially shot footage of locations painted by Hopper in New York and the New England coast, and interviews with artists Eric Fischl and Red Grooms, scholars, and curators. Narrated by Steve Martin
- An intimate and unsparingly realistic relationship drama about a young couple being torn apart by malaise and infidelity, and the way in which the trauma of their breakup brings them back together again.
- In 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a country house for the Kaufmann family over a small stream in Western Pennsylvania. He named it Fallingwater. It, perhaps more than any other building, exemplifies Wright's concept of 'Organic Architecture,' which seeks to harmonize people and nature by integrating the building, the site, and its inhabitants into a unified whole. And today, the iconic image of the house over the waterfall, remains a testament to a great architect working at the height of his career.
- In ART SAFARI, Art Geek Ben Lewis travels the world in search of Great Contemporary Art - and art that might be great. A playful series of eight films that are both analytical adventures and adventurous analysis. Stopping at nothing to probe the minds of the world's most interesting, imaginative and insane artists, Ben navigates bravely through the art world's phalanxes of dealers, collectors and critics - and in the process discovers extraordinary works of art. Ben Lewis directs, presents and works as sound recordist and occasional artist's assistant. The results are arts home movies - close, informal and laid back encounters with artists unlike anything else you've seen. Ben scaled skyscrapers, brought sculptures to life, burgled houses, and absorbed copious amounts of French art theory in a determined effort to understand contemporary art. Through the series, he carries an exhibition by one artist around in his jacket pocket, is instructed by another to tell her what to do, rows with a third on camera and is finally tattooed alongside a pig in China, as a work of art naturally.
- A documentary about Nero's house.
- In having lawns, are we giving in to societal expectations that have no real rationale, or do lawns have more meaning than we are typically willing to give them? Is the grass really always greener on the other side? For a lot of people, "in lawns we trust" is more than a motto: it's a way of life. Conversely, many folks see their lawn as an enemy. American Lawn explores this fascinating dichotomy, resulting in a lighthearted, insightful, and kaleidoscopic portrait of Americans of all stripes grappling with their relationships to lawn.
- Sam has a fight with his brother Matt over the car they share, and then has a fight with his girlfriend Claire over a party he doesn't want to go to. Later Sam gets a call from his former best friend Josh, who wants to impress the girl having the party by giving her a gift that was left at Sam's old house, which is now inhabited by a mysterious old couple. Sam sees a chance to win back Claire, and agrees to help Josh. Their mission is delayed, however, when they need to save Matt from the dangerously overprotective father of the girl he likes. Meanwhile, Sam's little sister reluctantly agrees to go canoeing with her distant father. All of them end up at the same party, but not the one they were expecting. And through all this, Sam's memories of Claire come to life around him, and hint that he might be trying to save the wrong relationship. Sam finally finds Claire, and his confrontation with her shocks everyone involved.
- Cosmic machinations unleash an epic, apocalyptic battle, against an ubiquitous alien menace of unknown origin.
- Beauty, Wright believed, stands paramount among all aspects of life. He sought it in everything from music, poetry, and sculpture, to his own environments. He conceived organic architecture an innovative philosophy of building appropriate to time, appropriate to place, and appropriate to man as a basis for creating beauty in his life and the lives of his clients. Wright embarked on this approach with the first residence and workplace he designed for himself: the Home and Studio in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago. For two decades, it served not only as his own family residence but an experimental laboratory where he envisioned and tested many of the basic principles that he would develop throughout his career, principles now synonymous with organic architecture. The Home and Studio represents a critical link in fully appreciating Wright s body of work.
- A dense re-telling of the creation of the world and the subsequent restlessness of a species bent on its own destruction.
- A lumber salesman finds buried coins during the current recession. Meanwhile, a sales manager terrorizes people with a gun and a young inventor pursues a sexy college girl he's obsessed with.
- In 1966 ten New York artists and thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater performances, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, held in October at the 69th Regiment Armory, New York City. The artists included were John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor and Robert Whitman. Archival material has been assembled into ten films, each of which reconstructs the artist's original work and uses interviews with the artists, engineers and performers in documentaries that illuminate the artistic, technical and historical aspects of the work. Bandoneon! (a combine) is David Tudor's first full concert work as a composer. Tudor played the bandoneon as the input into a complex sound and visual modification system that moved sound from speaker to speaker and controlled lights and video images, creating a work that animated the entire Armory space.
- The Collector explores the 46-year career of Allan Stone, the famed New York City gallery owner and art collector. Producer and director Olympia Stone reveals her father's compulsive collecting genius while telling the parallel story of his lifelong journey through the art world from the 1950s to 2006. Viewers are taken on an extraordinary path inside one man's obsessive submersion in art and its influence on the artists, art dealers and family members with whom he worked and lived.
- A sound engineer that dreams, sleeps, eats, drinks only around his job. Now he is thinking about closing up shop.