Andrew Rossi (with Anne-Katrin Titze) on Okwui Okpokwasili in Bronx Gothic: "One of the things that I really responded to was the complexity of desire ..." Photo: Aimee Morris
Andrew Rossi, who in his recent documentaries expertly juggled large numbers of people interviewed on screen - The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition China: Through The Looking Glass (curated by Andrew Bolton with Wong Kar Wai and Anna Wintour's Costume Institute Gala) in The First Monday in May, restaurant and university madness respectively in Le Cirque and Ivory Tower, and Page One: Inside The New York Times - in Bronx Gothic sticks mostly to his friend, writer and performance artist Okwui Okpokwasili, her family and frequent collaborator Ralph Lemon and films the final tour of her one-woman show.
Okwui Okpokwasili in Bronx Gothic
Okpokwasili, who has also worked with Julie Taymor (A Midsummer Night's Dream), is intent on challenging unreflected notions of "the brown body.
Andrew Rossi, who in his recent documentaries expertly juggled large numbers of people interviewed on screen - The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition China: Through The Looking Glass (curated by Andrew Bolton with Wong Kar Wai and Anna Wintour's Costume Institute Gala) in The First Monday in May, restaurant and university madness respectively in Le Cirque and Ivory Tower, and Page One: Inside The New York Times - in Bronx Gothic sticks mostly to his friend, writer and performance artist Okwui Okpokwasili, her family and frequent collaborator Ralph Lemon and films the final tour of her one-woman show.
Okwui Okpokwasili in Bronx Gothic
Okpokwasili, who has also worked with Julie Taymor (A Midsummer Night's Dream), is intent on challenging unreflected notions of "the brown body.
- 7/11/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
First Time Fest John Huston Award winner Julie Taymor will join Jodie Foster in a Tribeca Talk Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Red Road's Andrea Arnold with Love Is Strange's Ira Sachs; Gravity's Alfonso Cuarón with The Revenant Oscar winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki; Avengers: Age Of Ultron's Joss Whedon with Tom McCarthy's Spotlight star Mark Ruffalo; The Great Gatsby's Baz Luhrmann on style with Nelson George; Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens' J.J. Abrams with Chris Rock, and Money Monster's Jodie Foster with A Midsummer Night's Dream's Julie Taymor will speak on their careers in Tribeca Talks: Directors.
The centerpiece film is Liza Johnson's Elvis & Nixon, starring Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon. The First Monday In May, Andrew Rossi's documentary about Andrew Bolton and Wong Kar Wai's China: Through the Looking Glass exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,...
Red Road's Andrea Arnold with Love Is Strange's Ira Sachs; Gravity's Alfonso Cuarón with The Revenant Oscar winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki; Avengers: Age Of Ultron's Joss Whedon with Tom McCarthy's Spotlight star Mark Ruffalo; The Great Gatsby's Baz Luhrmann on style with Nelson George; Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens' J.J. Abrams with Chris Rock, and Money Monster's Jodie Foster with A Midsummer Night's Dream's Julie Taymor will speak on their careers in Tribeca Talks: Directors.
The centerpiece film is Liza Johnson's Elvis & Nixon, starring Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon. The First Monday In May, Andrew Rossi's documentary about Andrew Bolton and Wong Kar Wai's China: Through the Looking Glass exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,...
- 3/22/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Read More: Julie Taymor's Visual Extravaganza 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Hits Theaters (Video) With the epic, lawsuit-riddled catastrophe of the Broadway show "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" behind her, Julie Taymor thought small — sort of. Her version of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was staged in a Brooklyn theater with fewer than 300 seats, although it still cost north of $4 million and employed projections, puppetry, and more than a dozen children who act as both fairy hordes and onstage crew. Taymor's film of that production is, by contrast, a relatively modest affair, without the grand cinematic flourishes of her film adaptations of "Titus" or "The Tempest," but the simplicity of her approach is deceptive. Like Robert Altman, she brings the cameras onto the stage rather than shooting from afar. If the theatrical audience already enveloped the production's thrust stage, the movie audience is practically sitting on it,...
- 6/23/2015
- by Sam Adams
- Indiewire
The 2014 Toronto Film Festival lineup got a lot stronger this morning by adding several new titles to the Special Presentations, Masters, Documentaries, Vanguard and Contemporary World Cinema selection as well as announcing the Mavericks and Discovery Programme picks. Most notable selections begin with Special Presentations additions of The Weinstein's St. Vincent starring Bill Murray and Melissa McCarty and James Franco's The Sound and the Fury. The St. Vincent screening will be a world premiere and suggest Murray will be walking the Tiff red carpet... now that's a get for the fest I'm sure brings a smile to their face. In the Masters selection we have Studio Ghibli's The Tale of Princess Kaguya as well as the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep. The Vanguard selection has added The Voice, the lastest film from Persepolis helmer Marjane Satrapi and in the Mavericks selection...
- 8/19/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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