Updated: Friday, July 4, 2008 at 8:35am
For Executive Producer Donald Glascoff ’67, the Oscar he received Sunday night for best documentary is more than just a pretty statuette — it is also a vindication of his decision to abandon, mid-life, his career as a lawyer and take up public-service filmmaking on a whim. “Taxi to the Dark Side,” which was written and directed by fellow Eli Alex Gibney ’77...
The European Studies Council will continue its annual film festival about a specific year in history this week: “1989: Film Culture and the Fall of the Wall” begins Thursday with a screening of “Little Vera” at the Whitney Humanities Center. Fans of late-USSR cinema rejoice. “1989” is the fourth conference of its kind in four years, following conferences...
Kicking off with Thursday’s talk by French film director and screenwriter Olivier Assayas, the Fourth Annual Winter Arts Festival, which took place this weekend, featured 16 artistic events ranging from film screenings to a bookmaking workshop. The Winter Arts Festival, sponsored by the Yale Student Activities Committee, took place from Thursday to Sunday and included...
For Olivier Assayas — the French director of “Paris, Je T’aime” — filmmaking is deeply connected to instinct and intuition. “What you’re looking for in art, you can’t exactly verbalize,” he said at a Saybrook College Master’s Tea on Thursday. “You look for something that is what your instinct draws you to.” Assayas discussed his views on the...
Aaron Gerow’s office door in the Whitney Humanities Center is cluttered with posters from film events he’s organized in his four years at Yale. Gerow, DUS of the Film Studies Department, has put on screening and discussions ranging from the visit of legendary Japanese director Takahiko iimura to a screening of “The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai,” a Japanese...
In honor of the 25th reunion of his Yale College class, Alexander F. Cohen ’82 GRD ’85 LAW ’88 recently donated a copy of London-based Israeli artist Ori Gersht’s 2005 video installation “The Forest” to the Yale Center for British Art. The 13-minute-long video was shot on 16 mm film in southwest Ukraine’s remote Galicia region and depicts a panoramic series...
On Nov. 6, just one day after the Writers Guild of America declared a strike against the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers, writers and directors on picket lines itched for a return to their formerly creative lives. And it was only a matter of time before a cohort of Yale alumni and other writers, producers and actors found one — and launched a...
“Love in the Time of Cholera,” the film adaptation of the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is an uneasy tightrope walk between art-film and sentimental Hollywood love story. For art, we have beautifully manicured mannequins sighing over tropical gardens; for entertainment, raunchy sex. The novel tells the story of Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem), a man who sleeps...
Never read “Beowulf”? That’s okay. Apparently, neither have the scriptwriters of Robert Zemeckis’ version of the Old English epic, and they still managed to squeeze a thoroughly entertaining plot out of it. “Beowulf” might not be the first time Zemeckis (also responsible for the “Back to the Future” trilogy) experiments with the motion-capture animation...
There’s very little music today (or ever) that is completely sui generis, completely new. This is not a bad thing. Originality is hardly what counts in the pursuit of good music. And in our post-post-post-whatever culture, originality (and its geniusy, elitist overtones) has been out of style for a long time, replaced by a comfortably permissive, no-questions-asked...
“Warning: Throbbing light … not for persons afflicted with epilepsy” flashed on the big screen in the Whitney Humanities Center Sunday night. No, this was not a psychology experiment but the film screening of a notable avant-garde filmmaker. “I hope people learn something tonight,” experimental film director Ken Jacobs said. “I’m so disappointed with...
A few years ago, Jerry Seinfeld and Steven Spielberg were having dinner, throwing around movie ideas. Spontaneously, Seinfeld said, “Why don’t we make a movie about bees? Like a ‘bee’ movie, get it?” This moment of inspiration would blossom into a festering pile of animated junk known as “Bee Movie.” “Bee Movie,” a computer-animated picture about the...
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