Posts Tagged ‘Film’
HOLLYWOOD BABYLONIA IN QUEENS.
A Kenneth Anger retrospective has been going for a sweltering minute at PS 1 out in the borough of Queens. We suggest getting there early on a Saturday to pay your respects to the godfather of shock cinema, FOX News, and TMZ and then stick around for fun times in the sun.
888 WMIG 666
http://www.vimeo.com/10037154To spread the word about the We Make It Good Phonebooth we designed, printed, and pasted a thousand posters all over downtown Manhattan. If you listen closely to the audio that is playing over the film you’ll hear the message that callers were greeted with after dialing 888 WMIG 666. This phone number will be in constant use and is always a good way to find out what we are up to. We suggest putting it in your phonebook.
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Pleet TV Screens Tonight.
We are screening the new lookbook that we created for Samantha Pleet’s Holiday Collection tonight at an undisclosed location. Directly after, 8:30pm to be precise, we will have an intimate little afterparty at The Rusty Knot to celebrate all the people who worked so hard to make this all happen. Come join us if you are into things that are fun and if not, check back here tomorrow to see the film! Read on
KIMMEL’S SCREENTESTS.
Adam Kimmel’s lookbook for Fall / Winter 2009 puts Factory alum Gerard Malanga behind the lens to recreate Warhol’s famously awkward screentests from so many decades ago. Stacked from top to bottom with familiar and talented faces, all methods of artistic expression get screentime as Kunle Martins, Matthew Barney, Francesco Clemente, and Glenn O’Brien – to name a few – sit on the hot seat in heavily shadowed awkwardness. Oh yeah, and the clothes are pretty awesome too. Check em out HERE.
Valentino: The Last Emperor
I guess I sorta slept on this past festival season so I might be behind on this one– but it looks like a must see.
“Valentino: The Last Emperor is a feature-length film on the legendary designer Valentino Garavani in the wake of his exit in 2008 from the company he founded in Rome more than 45 years ago. Produced and directed by Matt Tyrnauer, Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine, the film is an intimate, engaging and very funny fly-on-the-wall exploration of the singular world of one of Italy’s richest and most famous men. Read on
Still Run. a film by Shilo.
Shilo recently completed Still Run, a music video for the Australian band BrotherSister from their latest album The Wunder Tales. Read on
Chanel No. 5 by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The NYTimes blog, The Moment, has a great post taking you through the history of the Chanel No. 5 short film series that began back in 1960 with Richard Avendon and Vicky Hilber, progressed through the 70s with Catherine Deneuve and culminated with Baz Luhrmann’s Nicole Kidman epic. Always coupling a fantastic director with an iconic beauty, Jeunet’s take is no different with his muse, Audrey Tautou, featured in the latest film. Read on
The ARAB PARROT
Our favorite blog to live vicariously through, the Parrot really puts it out there while constantly burning through roll after roll of film. Click HERE for more.