Steve McQueen Erases Al Jolson’s Blackface in New Film at L.A.’s Newly Opened Marian Goodman Gallery
Long-time New York and Paris gallery Marian Goodman has opened in Los Angeles with a show of director and artist Steve McQueen’s short film, Sunshine State. Shown on two back-to-back screens in a capacious room, the work finds McQueen training his artistic vision on the history of blackface in Hollywood. The 30-minute piece includes footage of the late actor Al Jolson in blackface in the 1927 film The Jazz Singer, considered the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue and the winner of an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.
McQueen included the scenes from The Jazz Singer in Sunshine State after the movie’s copyright expired on Jan. 1, 2023. “It’s been about 20 years that I’ve wanted to work with this material,” McQueen told AnOther Magazine at International Film Festival Rotterdam where Sunshine State premiered in January. “I wanted to work with it because I wanted to erase Al Jolson.
McQueen included the scenes from The Jazz Singer in Sunshine State after the movie’s copyright expired on Jan. 1, 2023. “It’s been about 20 years that I’ve wanted to work with this material,” McQueen told AnOther Magazine at International Film Festival Rotterdam where Sunshine State premiered in January. “I wanted to work with it because I wanted to erase Al Jolson.
- 10/28/2023
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Christian Petzold, the director of the well-timed summer movie Afire with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I’m really sure that we don’t have summer movies. The Americans have summer movies, the French have summer movies.”
Christian Petzold’s slow-burning Afire, shot by Hans Fromm, stars Paula Beer, Thomas Schubert, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs, and Matthias Brandt.
Nadja (Paula Beer) with Devid (Enno Trebs), Felix (Langston Uibel), and Leon (Thomas Schubert) in Afire
A scene in Leo McCarey’s An Affair To Remember (with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr); Sophie Calle’s Voir La Mer and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s photographs; Astrid Lindgren; a Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre touch; Uwe Johnson’s Mutmassungen über Jakob and Margarethe von Trotta’s Jahrestage series; Johan Wolfgang von Goethe; a Nanni Moretti quote; meeting Paul Dano’s Wildlife cinematographer Diego García (Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery Of Splendor) in Tel Aviv; Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak,...
Christian Petzold’s slow-burning Afire, shot by Hans Fromm, stars Paula Beer, Thomas Schubert, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs, and Matthias Brandt.
Nadja (Paula Beer) with Devid (Enno Trebs), Felix (Langston Uibel), and Leon (Thomas Schubert) in Afire
A scene in Leo McCarey’s An Affair To Remember (with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr); Sophie Calle’s Voir La Mer and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s photographs; Astrid Lindgren; a Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre touch; Uwe Johnson’s Mutmassungen über Jakob and Margarethe von Trotta’s Jahrestage series; Johan Wolfgang von Goethe; a Nanni Moretti quote; meeting Paul Dano’s Wildlife cinematographer Diego García (Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery Of Splendor) in Tel Aviv; Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak,...
- 7/2/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
When production designer Stefan Dechant (Disney’s upcoming hybrid “Pinocchio”) got a surprise call to meet with Joel Coen on the spur of the moment to discuss “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” his noir-like Shakespeare adaptation of murder, madness, and mayhem, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, Dechant was immediately hooked.
The look and design were explicitly laid out in a photo album that Coen shared with Dechant, after the director spent a year refining his black-and-white vision with cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel. It cried out German Expressionism, with images from movies, architecture, photography, and theater (modernist stage designer Edward Gordon Craig’s use of large geometric blocks). Inspired by the blueprint, the production designer went to work on the very spare Shakespearean world building, shot on sound stages in L.A.
“When we sat down, Joel had a very strong vision [for the look and choreography]: black-and-white, Academy ratio [1.37:1], German Expressionism, and it was abstracted...
The look and design were explicitly laid out in a photo album that Coen shared with Dechant, after the director spent a year refining his black-and-white vision with cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel. It cried out German Expressionism, with images from movies, architecture, photography, and theater (modernist stage designer Edward Gordon Craig’s use of large geometric blocks). Inspired by the blueprint, the production designer went to work on the very spare Shakespearean world building, shot on sound stages in L.A.
“When we sat down, Joel had a very strong vision [for the look and choreography]: black-and-white, Academy ratio [1.37:1], German Expressionism, and it was abstracted...
- 1/4/2022
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Julie Walters, Millennium Series: International Emmys 2011 Nominations Arts programming: All My Life: Adoniran Barbosa (TV Globo/Brazil). Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne (Twenty Twenty Television/U.K.). In der Werkstatt Beethovens — Die Neunte, Thielemann und die Wiener Philharmoniker (Unitel GmbH & Co. Kg/Zdf/3sat/Germany). Memories of Origin — Hiroshi Sugimoto the Contemporary Artist(Wowow Inc./TV Man Union, Inc./Japan). Best performance by an actor: Fábio Assunção, Songs of Betrayal, (TV Globo/Brazil). Christopher Eccleston, Accused (Rsj Films for BBC One/U.K.). Jang Hyuk, The Slave Hunters (Korean Broadcasting System/South Korea). Michael Nyqvist, Millenium (Yellow Bird/Svt/Zdf/Nordisk Film /Sweden). Best performance by an actress: Athena Chu Yan, A Wall-less World (Radio Television Hong Kong/Social Welfare Department/Hong Kong, China). Adriana Esteves, Songs of Betrayal (TV Globo/Brazil). Noomi Rapace, Millenium (Yellow Bird/Svt/Zdf/Nordisk Film/Sweden). Julie Walters, Mo (ITV Studios...
- 10/5/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
French writer Agnès Poirier guides you to Paris's lesser-known cultural highlights, from a puppet theatre to la Cinémathèque
• As featured in our Paris city guide
There are good reasons why the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower are respectively the most visited museum and monument in the world. However, we thought we'd go slightly off the beaten tracks and reveal some of Parisians' favourite cultural hotspots. From louche Pigalle to up-and-becoming-groovy rue de Bagnolet, from gritty rue d'Aubervilliers to the leafy Jardin du Luxembourg, we have selected theatres, cinemas, galleries, museums and a médiathèque worth le détour.
Galerie Gagosian
It was only a question of time before 65-year-old American art dealer Larry Gagosian added a Paris branch – his ninth – to what has become the world's biggest commercial gallery network. When la galerie opened last October with paintings and sculptures by Cy Twombly, everything was sold in a few hours, netting the gallery more than $20 million.
• As featured in our Paris city guide
There are good reasons why the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower are respectively the most visited museum and monument in the world. However, we thought we'd go slightly off the beaten tracks and reveal some of Parisians' favourite cultural hotspots. From louche Pigalle to up-and-becoming-groovy rue de Bagnolet, from gritty rue d'Aubervilliers to the leafy Jardin du Luxembourg, we have selected theatres, cinemas, galleries, museums and a médiathèque worth le détour.
Galerie Gagosian
It was only a question of time before 65-year-old American art dealer Larry Gagosian added a Paris branch – his ninth – to what has become the world's biggest commercial gallery network. When la galerie opened last October with paintings and sculptures by Cy Twombly, everything was sold in a few hours, netting the gallery more than $20 million.
- 5/6/2011
- by Agnès Poirier
- The Guardian - Film News
Celebrated British playwright Tom Stoppard has been awarded Japan's top arts prize, taking home a cheque worth $158,000 (£105,335).
The star was named among five recipients of the Praemium Imperiale, alongside Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel and fellow Brits Zaha Hadid, an architect, and sculptor Richard Long.
The prestigious accolade, which is supported by the country's imperial family, is one of the most lucrative honours in the arts world.
Stoppard is known for his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, as well as movie screenplays for films like the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love.
He will be presented with the award by Prince Hitachi, brother of Japan's Emperor Akihito, in a ceremony in Tokyo on 22 October.
The star was named among five recipients of the Praemium Imperiale, alongside Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel and fellow Brits Zaha Hadid, an architect, and sculptor Richard Long.
The prestigious accolade, which is supported by the country's imperial family, is one of the most lucrative honours in the arts world.
Stoppard is known for his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, as well as movie screenplays for films like the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love.
He will be presented with the award by Prince Hitachi, brother of Japan's Emperor Akihito, in a ceremony in Tokyo on 22 October.
- 9/24/2009
- WENN
Bono honored Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson and protest leaders at Giants Stadium.
By Rachel Josue, with additional reporting by Sarah Zilinski
Bono at Giants Stadium on Wednesday
Photo: Eugene Gologursky/WireImage for New York Post
Even the biggest rock star on the planet could be drowned out by the sound of 60,000 people singing, "And I still haven't found what I'm looking for." So, Bono let the crowd do his job for him.
U2 played the first of their New York-area shows Wednesday night at Giants Stadium. Beginning with "Breathe," a tune from their latest album No Line on the Horizon, the show roller-coastered from dance party to history lesson and back in the way that every U2 fan in the arena anticipated.
Three songs in, Bono paused to thank show openers, Muse, shouting out that they were #1 on iTunes in 24 countries (though they were only #3 on the U.S. charts).
Moments later,...
By Rachel Josue, with additional reporting by Sarah Zilinski
Bono at Giants Stadium on Wednesday
Photo: Eugene Gologursky/WireImage for New York Post
Even the biggest rock star on the planet could be drowned out by the sound of 60,000 people singing, "And I still haven't found what I'm looking for." So, Bono let the crowd do his job for him.
U2 played the first of their New York-area shows Wednesday night at Giants Stadium. Beginning with "Breathe," a tune from their latest album No Line on the Horizon, the show roller-coastered from dance party to history lesson and back in the way that every U2 fan in the arena anticipated.
Three songs in, Bono paused to thank show openers, Muse, shouting out that they were #1 on iTunes in 24 countries (though they were only #3 on the U.S. charts).
Moments later,...
- 9/24/2009
- MTV Music News
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