Category:Film

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If you have a skill that allows you to make things, I think it's really important to not let those muscles atrophy.

—Khoi Vinh

Khoi Vinh - on the grid from The Color Machine on Vimeo.

A new documentary on Charles and Ray Eames is already making it's way around the States.

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Neven Mrgan has a great idea for a movie:

So, fun-lovin', irresponsible manchild, still searching for his true character, blah blah blah, inexplicably hot girlfriend, she gets fed up and dumps him, he now has to clean his stuff out of their shared storage unit. Ok, I'll give you one scene for free. (The rest are $90,000 per day, haha haha ha.) Gosling - yeah, I'm thinking Ryan Gosling; he's like the new John Cusack, or will be when we're done with him. Oh it's an 80s movie, I'll get back to that - so Gosling, looking like crap after the breakup, pulls up to this storage unit in his crappy old Hyundai, super-sunny day, storage-unit door opens, dust, cobwebs, maybe a random cat meow in the back Big exaggerated sigh, a box tumbles down. That's how the trailer opens right there, there you go.

Read the whole thing. I love it.

Great review of a great film over at A Bright Wall In A Dark Room:

Which is why a film like Blue Valentine is so tough to watch. Hollywood, long complicit in the fueling of many millions of happily-ever-after dreams, here slaps us in our collective face: it gives us the whole story. The beginning and the end (and all the highs and lows in between). It's draining. It's painful. It's one of the finest relationship movies I've ever seen. Not because relationships are awful - some are, some aren't - but rather because they are such hard work. And so rarely do we get to see all that hard work - the truly messy and complicated rollercoaster of a living, breathing relationship - onscreen.

via On Display

One of the best scenes from one of Scorsese's best, Mean Streets:

My wife took me to a prescreening of Beginners last week. What a good film.

Bill Cunningham New York, a film by Richard Press:

The "Bill" in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours." Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller--who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham's enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.

I love documentaries, I love photography, I love New York, and this looks great.