TIFF (the Toronto International Film Festival) is my very favorite of all film festivals. The studios use TIFF as a launch-pad for fall awards-season movies, so the festival has glamour and stars. At the same time, you get the opportunity to look through global windows of films you will not see anywhere else. Along with …
The craftsmanship is evident in the construction of the tight and touching tale, The Second Mother, from Brazilian writer-director Anna Muylaert. The story concerns the relationship between a nanny to a wealthy family, Val, and the biological daughter she has abandoned years prior, to pay their keep in the world. When daughter Jéssica arrives on …
So, your film proposal is strong enough to have convinced a distributor to make a commitment. Now you need to find money to produce it. Funding can be an Achilles heel for both new and established filmmakers. But just as with distribution, many avenues for funding exist. The traditional sources of funding for documentarians and …
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Earlier this month I visited the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University. Founded in 1931 in Widener Library, the room is named in honor of Harvard alumnus, poet and scholar George Edward Woodberry (1855-1930). At present the room is housed in the Lamont Library and was re-designed by the renowned Finnish architect Alvar Aalto in …
When I worked with Dance Camera West, we often had discussions about what constituted the difference between a dance film and a music video that featured dance. These discussions were compelling and often difficult to resolve, especially when a popular recording artist employed a well-known stage choreographer of great artistic integrity. Some felt that a …
Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles through November 1, 2015 and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. from December 6, 2015 to March 20, 2016. This is an exhibition the calibre of which is seldom seen in Los Angeles. As Dodge Thompson, Chief of Exhibitions at …
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Los Angeles melts in summer, the dense heat liquifying the landscape. Firetrucks morph into rainbows, overhead mirrors mimic lawyers, office workers, traffic cops and mothers, everyone rushing to somewhere. People and street blend into one another. In summer, Los Angeles becomes a kaleidoscope of colors and shapes, its peculiar, arid beauty reflected in car windshields, …
The theatre experience changes when you visit a town where the stage is the main industry. There is a sense of community and celebration absent when patronizing most commercial productions. Instead of consuming a mass Broadway product you’re sharing the artisanal offering of passionate local practitioners. (Even Off-Broadway companies’ seasons tend to be seen as …
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James Cushing is the author of You and the Night and the Music (1991), The Length of an Afternoon (1999), Undercurrent Blues (2004), Pinocchio’s Revolution (2010), and The Magicians’ Union (2014). Cushing currently hosts weekly jazz and rock programs on the college’s radio station, KCPR-FM (www.kcpr.org). His daughter is the New York-based poet Iris Cushing. ***** The Solitary Rider That’s Dad behind the camera, with headphones …
General considerations. In my last two posts I examined the relationship between cityscape and landscape in terms of limits, linkages and memory figures, whereby the land and the history of its urban settlement contributed to the qualification of those figures. I have become interested, since then, in the question of the physical articulation of entry …
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