For the longest time, cinematographers have referenced paintings and still photography, whether recreating those images or riffing on them to create the moving images in films. It was no different for Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” which captured the beauty of America, and Regina King’s “One Night in Miami,” which was influenced by historical events. Even more impressive is the fact that some of the lensers behind this year’s top films are somewhat new to the circuit.
For his fourth feature film, “Nomadland” cinematographer Joshua James Richards traveled across the Badlands of South Dakota; Empire, Nev.; and western Nebraska, venturing into real-life nomad territory to tell the story of Fern (Frances McDormand), who lives on the road in her van.
The main visual reference, he says, was Andrew Wyeth’s Miss Olson. That painting served as the “texture and palette of the interior of Fern’s van.”
It wasn...
For his fourth feature film, “Nomadland” cinematographer Joshua James Richards traveled across the Badlands of South Dakota; Empire, Nev.; and western Nebraska, venturing into real-life nomad territory to tell the story of Fern (Frances McDormand), who lives on the road in her van.
The main visual reference, he says, was Andrew Wyeth’s Miss Olson. That painting served as the “texture and palette of the interior of Fern’s van.”
It wasn...
- 12/24/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
By Kate Phillips
They grocery shop, the clean up after dinner, they shave. Us Weekly did not invent the desire to see famous people doing everyday things. For decades great photographers have been capturing the way “stars are just like us!” with far more interesting results than what we see on the pages of tabloids. Magnum’s archive teems with images of iconic celebrities doing endearingly everyday things. Below, you’ll find eight of the best.
Jane Fonda cooking in her kitchen in France in 1967.
David Hurn/Magnum Photos.
Marilyn Monroe cleans up after dinner during the filming of The Misfits in Hollywood in 1960.
Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos.
Andy Warhol shops at Gristedes supermarket near his 47th street Silver Factory in New York City in 1965.
Bob Adelman/Magnum Photos.
Actress Julie Christie arranges flowers in her London flat in 1965.
David Hurn/Magnum Photos.
American actress Joan Crawford cleans her house...
They grocery shop, the clean up after dinner, they shave. Us Weekly did not invent the desire to see famous people doing everyday things. For decades great photographers have been capturing the way “stars are just like us!” with far more interesting results than what we see on the pages of tabloids. Magnum’s archive teems with images of iconic celebrities doing endearingly everyday things. Below, you’ll find eight of the best.
Jane Fonda cooking in her kitchen in France in 1967.
David Hurn/Magnum Photos.
Marilyn Monroe cleans up after dinner during the filming of The Misfits in Hollywood in 1960.
Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos.
Andy Warhol shops at Gristedes supermarket near his 47th street Silver Factory in New York City in 1965.
Bob Adelman/Magnum Photos.
Actress Julie Christie arranges flowers in her London flat in 1965.
David Hurn/Magnum Photos.
American actress Joan Crawford cleans her house...
- 10/12/2012
- by Mallika Rao
- Huffington Post
Marilyn Monroe, who died 50 years ago, created a wholly other version of herself, meant not to convince but to seduce. John Banville, who fell in love with her when he was 10, considers a new biography of this enduringly compelling icon
I first fell in love with her in River of No Return, in which she starred with Robert Mitchum and Rory Calhoun. The movie was released in 1954, and probably did not get to Ireland until the following year, so I was 10 when I saw it, at the Capitol Cinema in Wexford. The Capitol was a rather gaunt, barn-like picture palace, with a wooden floor and seats covered with balding plush that gave off a curiously doggy smell. But the glory of the place, at least in my memory of it, was the great scarlet curtain, fluted and fringed, that would open with a deeply suggestive swish as the house lights...
I first fell in love with her in River of No Return, in which she starred with Robert Mitchum and Rory Calhoun. The movie was released in 1954, and probably did not get to Ireland until the following year, so I was 10 when I saw it, at the Capitol Cinema in Wexford. The Capitol was a rather gaunt, barn-like picture palace, with a wooden floor and seats covered with balding plush that gave off a curiously doggy smell. But the glory of the place, at least in my memory of it, was the great scarlet curtain, fluted and fringed, that would open with a deeply suggestive swish as the house lights...
- 8/3/2012
- by John Banville
- The Guardian - Film News
As the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death approaches, Lois Banner argues in this extract from her new book that the star – complex and powerful – had many qualities associated with the women's movement
In one of the most famous photos of the 20th century, Marilyn Monroe stands on a subway grate, trying to hold her skirt down as a gust of wind blows it up, exposing her underpants. The photo was taken in New York on 15 September, 1954, in a photoshoot during the filming of The Seven Year Itch.
Marilyn is a vision in white, suggesting innocence and purity. Yet she exudes sexuality and transcends it; poses for the male gaze and confronts it. The photoshoot was a publicity stunt, one of the greatest in the history of film. Its time and location were published in New York newspapers; it attracted a crowd of 100 male photographers and 1,500 male spectators, even...
In one of the most famous photos of the 20th century, Marilyn Monroe stands on a subway grate, trying to hold her skirt down as a gust of wind blows it up, exposing her underpants. The photo was taken in New York on 15 September, 1954, in a photoshoot during the filming of The Seven Year Itch.
Marilyn is a vision in white, suggesting innocence and purity. Yet she exudes sexuality and transcends it; poses for the male gaze and confronts it. The photoshoot was a publicity stunt, one of the greatest in the history of film. Its time and location were published in New York newspapers; it attracted a crowd of 100 male photographers and 1,500 male spectators, even...
- 7/21/2012
- by Lois Banner
- The Guardian - Film News
Sundance London
You won't bump into Robert Redford in a ski-lift queue, but you're at least promised the cream of Us indie cinema in the top festival's first event outside of Utah – plus some music. Redford will be at the opening night gig with T Bone Burnett, and introducing a documentary on that indie-est of subjects, Prince Charles. You also get 14 highlights from Sundance proper, including time-travel romcom Safety Not Guaranteed and college drama Liberal Arts, plus prize-winning documentaries The House I Live In and The Queen Of Versailles.
The O2, SE10, Thu to 29 Apr
Sensoria, Sheffield
Film and music come together in mysterious and moving ways here, in a rare festival that's equal parts both. So you get some "straight" live music (if the experimentalism of Laurie Anderson can be described as such), and a variety of music-related movies, whether it's those with great scores (such as Zbigniew Preisner...
You won't bump into Robert Redford in a ski-lift queue, but you're at least promised the cream of Us indie cinema in the top festival's first event outside of Utah – plus some music. Redford will be at the opening night gig with T Bone Burnett, and introducing a documentary on that indie-est of subjects, Prince Charles. You also get 14 highlights from Sundance proper, including time-travel romcom Safety Not Guaranteed and college drama Liberal Arts, plus prize-winning documentaries The House I Live In and The Queen Of Versailles.
The O2, SE10, Thu to 29 Apr
Sensoria, Sheffield
Film and music come together in mysterious and moving ways here, in a rare festival that's equal parts both. So you get some "straight" live music (if the experimentalism of Laurie Anderson can be described as such), and a variety of music-related movies, whether it's those with great scores (such as Zbigniew Preisner...
- 4/20/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this week
Theatre
Red Light Winter
The UK premiere of Adam Rapp's Obie Award-winning play about two successful New Yorkers, once college room mates, whose trip to the Red Light district of Amsterdam comes back to haunt them. Part of an ambitious season of contemporary American work.
Ustinov, Bath (01225 448844), to 31 March.
Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs
In 2003, Francesca Millican Slater bought an old postcard of Lincoln Cathedral that had been posted to a Miss Gibbs at a London address in 1910. The message said: Be careful tomorrow. What did Miss Gibbs have to fear? Brilliant solo show about identity and obsession.
Drill Hall, Lincoln (01522 873894), Thursday to 9 March.
Sprint
Brilliant festival of emerging and experimental work. Highlights...
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this week
Theatre
Red Light Winter
The UK premiere of Adam Rapp's Obie Award-winning play about two successful New Yorkers, once college room mates, whose trip to the Red Light district of Amsterdam comes back to haunt them. Part of an ambitious season of contemporary American work.
Ustinov, Bath (01225 448844), to 31 March.
Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs
In 2003, Francesca Millican Slater bought an old postcard of Lincoln Cathedral that had been posted to a Miss Gibbs at a London address in 1910. The message said: Be careful tomorrow. What did Miss Gibbs have to fear? Brilliant solo show about identity and obsession.
Drill Hall, Lincoln (01522 873894), Thursday to 9 March.
Sprint
Brilliant festival of emerging and experimental work. Highlights...
- 3/4/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Art Sensus, London
"What drove and kept me going over the decades? What was the motive force? If I had to use a single word, it would be curiosity." This quote from the pioneering photojournalist Eve Arnold, who died in January, aged 99, is among the various first-person wall texts that punctuate All About Eve, a retrospective of her work. Just how curious she was is evident in the timeline of the projects she undertook in her long career. It takes up one whole wall and makes for an illuminating read, not just because of the longevity of her career – from the late 1940s to the 90s – but for the range of subjects she tackled.
In 1978 alone, for instance, she shot several portraits, including Dirk Bogarde, Francis Bacon and Irene Papas, alongside advertisements for Optrex, the English Tourist Board, Pentax and Rolex as well as assignments on the White Jews of Cochin,...
"What drove and kept me going over the decades? What was the motive force? If I had to use a single word, it would be curiosity." This quote from the pioneering photojournalist Eve Arnold, who died in January, aged 99, is among the various first-person wall texts that punctuate All About Eve, a retrospective of her work. Just how curious she was is evident in the timeline of the projects she undertook in her long career. It takes up one whole wall and makes for an illuminating read, not just because of the longevity of her career – from the late 1940s to the 90s – but for the range of subjects she tackled.
In 1978 alone, for instance, she shot several portraits, including Dirk Bogarde, Francis Bacon and Irene Papas, alongside advertisements for Optrex, the English Tourist Board, Pentax and Rolex as well as assignments on the White Jews of Cochin,...
- 3/4/2012
- by Sean O'Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
Peter Whitehead, via Occupy Cinema
"One of last year's best films, Ken Jacobs's Seeking the Monkey King is showing Saturday at Anthology as part of a program presented in support of Occupy Wall Street," writes J Hoberman in one of the last pieces he'll turn in at the Voice. "Covering 500 years of American history, this furious beatnik analysis makes a people's historian like Howard Zinn seem like a Chamber of Commerce booster, particularly as delivered amid [Jg] Thirlwell's industrial-strength rhapsodic noise drone, against the seething apocalypse of melting glaciers and crystallized lava that soon becomes an ongoing Rorschach test." See, too, David Phelps's essay. Seeking the Monkey King is "showing with several of Jacobs's short works (19th-century stereopticon slides treated as material for a cyclotron) and excerpts from his 3D footage of Zuccotti Park. Other films showing in the series are An Injury to One (2002), Travis Wilkerson's lucid,...
"One of last year's best films, Ken Jacobs's Seeking the Monkey King is showing Saturday at Anthology as part of a program presented in support of Occupy Wall Street," writes J Hoberman in one of the last pieces he'll turn in at the Voice. "Covering 500 years of American history, this furious beatnik analysis makes a people's historian like Howard Zinn seem like a Chamber of Commerce booster, particularly as delivered amid [Jg] Thirlwell's industrial-strength rhapsodic noise drone, against the seething apocalypse of melting glaciers and crystallized lava that soon becomes an ongoing Rorschach test." See, too, David Phelps's essay. Seeking the Monkey King is "showing with several of Jacobs's short works (19th-century stereopticon slides treated as material for a cyclotron) and excerpts from his 3D footage of Zuccotti Park. Other films showing in the series are An Injury to One (2002), Travis Wilkerson's lucid,...
- 1/7/2012
- MUBI
Beeban Kidron became the great photographer's apprentice at 16 and learned the tricks, trials and triumphs of the business
At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise – though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.
I was very young when I was summoned to Eve's flat in Mayfair. Under my arm was a pile of photographs taken during the previous year. Unfortunately I had spilt a jar of pickled beetroot over them just before leaving home. Fortunately I had managed to rinse most of the pink stains off but they were still a little damp, and a slight whiff of beetroot emanated from the envelope.
On the intercom her voice was as deep as a man's and as American as the movies – in no way suggesting the elegant and diminutive...
At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise – though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.
I was very young when I was summoned to Eve's flat in Mayfair. Under my arm was a pile of photographs taken during the previous year. Unfortunately I had spilt a jar of pickled beetroot over them just before leaving home. Fortunately I had managed to rinse most of the pink stains off but they were still a little damp, and a slight whiff of beetroot emanated from the envelope.
On the intercom her voice was as deep as a man's and as American as the movies – in no way suggesting the elegant and diminutive...
- 1/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Looks like Russell Brand is moving on, as moving vans appeared at the $6.5-million Hollywood Hills house he shared with Katy Perry. Read more at E! Online.
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- 1/6/2012
- Extra
London -- Eve Arnold, a world-traveling photojournalist whose subjects ranged from the poor and dispossessed to Marilyn Monroe, has died, the Magnum photo agency said Thursday. She was 99. Magnum spokeswoman Fiona Rogers said Arnold died peacefully Wednesday in a London nursing home. Born in Philadelphia in April 1912 to Russian immigrant parents, Arnold lived on Long Island when she became interested in photography while working in a photofinishing lab. Photos: The Lost Marilyn Monroe Photos After taking a six-week photography course at the New School for Social Research in New York, she began her career in the
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- 1/6/2012
- by Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Famed celebrity photographer Eve Arnold has died, aged 99.
She passed away at a London nursing home on Wednesday.
Arnold was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1912 and became a regular contributor to Life magazine.
Some of her most memorable subjects included Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Crawford, Jacqueline Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher, Malcolm X, and Queen Elizabeth II, but she was most recognised for her longtime artistic relationship with Marilyn Monroe - she snapped candid shots of the beauty on the set of The Misfits.
Arnold moved to England during the 1960s with her son Frank and just last year she received the Lifetime Achievement honour at the Sony World Photography Awards in Cannes, France.
She passed away at a London nursing home on Wednesday.
Arnold was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1912 and became a regular contributor to Life magazine.
Some of her most memorable subjects included Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Crawford, Jacqueline Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher, Malcolm X, and Queen Elizabeth II, but she was most recognised for her longtime artistic relationship with Marilyn Monroe - she snapped candid shots of the beauty on the set of The Misfits.
Arnold moved to England during the 1960s with her son Frank and just last year she received the Lifetime Achievement honour at the Sony World Photography Awards in Cannes, France.
- 1/5/2012
- WENN
The novelist picks through the mountain of books about the tragic star to find the ones where she emerges as a person, not 'a sex idol'
Michel Schneider is the author of three novels, including Marilyn's Last Sessions, which was the winner of the Prix Interallié (2006) and has now been translated into English by Will Hobson, published this month by Canongate. He has also written many essays on psychoanalysis, music, literature and the psychopathology of politics.
Buy Marilyn's Last Sessions by Michel Schneider at the Guardian bookshop
"Hundreds of books have been written about Marilyn. My personal reasons for writing a novel about her were probably quite different from those which had previously inspired so many biographers and authors. My interest was: why was she so intensely caught between public and private, words and images, trying to escape from the icon she became and cure herself with her own words?...
Michel Schneider is the author of three novels, including Marilyn's Last Sessions, which was the winner of the Prix Interallié (2006) and has now been translated into English by Will Hobson, published this month by Canongate. He has also written many essays on psychoanalysis, music, literature and the psychopathology of politics.
Buy Marilyn's Last Sessions by Michel Schneider at the Guardian bookshop
"Hundreds of books have been written about Marilyn. My personal reasons for writing a novel about her were probably quite different from those which had previously inspired so many biographers and authors. My interest was: why was she so intensely caught between public and private, words and images, trying to escape from the icon she became and cure herself with her own words?...
- 11/16/2011
- by Michel Schneider
- The Guardian - Film News
Michelle Williams dazzles as Monroe in new film My Week With Marilyn – a film that celebrates the star's timeless off-duty style
There is a scene in the new film My Week With Marilyn in which Michelle Williams, playing Monroe, emerges from the bathroom in nothing but a pale blue towel. And at that moment, Williams does what Marilyn was able to do: she makes that blue towel look as utterly ravishing as Dior haute couture. That's what a real movie star does.
Marilyn Monroe is one of the great pop cultural icons of the 20th century. Marilyn the bombshell is a character we grow up with: singing Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend in that sweetie-wrapper pink sheath dress, or with that flimsy pleated white dress flying up around her thighs in The Seven Year Itch. It is this Marilyn who is referenced everywhere, from Madonna's Material Girl video to...
There is a scene in the new film My Week With Marilyn in which Michelle Williams, playing Monroe, emerges from the bathroom in nothing but a pale blue towel. And at that moment, Williams does what Marilyn was able to do: she makes that blue towel look as utterly ravishing as Dior haute couture. That's what a real movie star does.
Marilyn Monroe is one of the great pop cultural icons of the 20th century. Marilyn the bombshell is a character we grow up with: singing Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend in that sweetie-wrapper pink sheath dress, or with that flimsy pleated white dress flying up around her thighs in The Seven Year Itch. It is this Marilyn who is referenced everywhere, from Madonna's Material Girl video to...
- 11/16/2011
- by Jess Cartner-Morley
- The Guardian - Film News
A series of limited edition prints of iconic star Marilyn Monroe have emerged. In one of the newly-released images, Marilyn was seen quite different from her bombshell title and glamorous life as she showed her relaxed side in a white shirt and twin plaited pigtails. The shot was taken on set of her 1961 film "The Misfits".
Still on the set of "The Misfits", Marilyn posed for a black-and-white image, which is called "Marilyn And Friend", showing her in a nice polka-dot dress while carrying a puppy. Other shots show more beauties of Marilyn when she read a movie script between takes, when she stood gracefully with towel wrapping her upper-body and also when she chatted with her co-star Montgomery Clift at a trailer.
The shots were taken by American photojournalist Eve Arnold at the peak of Monroe's fame in the late 1950s and early 60s. Of the collection, the 98-year-old photojournalist said,...
Still on the set of "The Misfits", Marilyn posed for a black-and-white image, which is called "Marilyn And Friend", showing her in a nice polka-dot dress while carrying a puppy. Other shots show more beauties of Marilyn when she read a movie script between takes, when she stood gracefully with towel wrapping her upper-body and also when she chatted with her co-star Montgomery Clift at a trailer.
The shots were taken by American photojournalist Eve Arnold at the peak of Monroe's fame in the late 1950s and early 60s. Of the collection, the 98-year-old photojournalist said,...
- 8/18/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
London, Aug 17 – A series of previously unseen intimate pictures of Marilyn Monroe, showing a rather relaxed side of the star, has been released almost 50 years after her death.
The images of Monroe, who died in 1961 aged 36, show a more laidback side to the star as she poses in the grass and takes time out while reading a script.
In another candid shot she playfully covers half her face with a makeup mirror on the set of a photoshoot.
The pictures are part of a collection, called “Marilyn”, by the American photojournalist Eve Arnold, who captured Monroe at the peak of her fame in the late 1950s and early 60s.
“She liked my pictures and was canny enough to realise that they were a fresh.
The images of Monroe, who died in 1961 aged 36, show a more laidback side to the star as she poses in the grass and takes time out while reading a script.
In another candid shot she playfully covers half her face with a makeup mirror on the set of a photoshoot.
The pictures are part of a collection, called “Marilyn”, by the American photojournalist Eve Arnold, who captured Monroe at the peak of her fame in the late 1950s and early 60s.
“She liked my pictures and was canny enough to realise that they were a fresh.
- 8/17/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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