At once absurd and weirdly amusing these works created by an AI (named Benjamin) are the baby steps in a new era of machine made films . The first work is, Sunspring, 2016 followed by, It’s No Game, 2017 and ZONE OUT , 2018. Sunspring, stars Thomas Middleditch and Elisabeth GrayContinue Reading
Andree Heuschling was born in 1900, and by her mid teens was the favoured model for the famed French Impressionist painter Jean-August Renoir. It was fellow painter Henri Matisse who discovered her and referred her to Renoir who was by then in the final chapter of his life and increasinglyContinue Reading
The demands of modernity on traditional societyContinue Reading
This may be relevant or not to the ongoing controversy over the push for gender equaliity… THE ATTACK OF THE 50FT WOMAN: the trailer for the l958 original staring Allison Hayes the trailer for the l996 remake starring Daryl Hannah Continue Reading
I want to introduce you to author, journalist and film maker Antony Lowenstein from Australia who I have been following for several years. He is not a “bot” Antony Lowenstein web site. Disaster Capitalism (recent feature length doc) trailer. RT interview with Lowenstein on his research.Continue Reading
After viewing Rebecca Millers recent feature length doc titled, Arthur Miller: Writer, I searched for something related online and found the following: an article by Norman Mailer from 1973 in which he describes Monroe’s short marriage to the legendary New York Yankee baseball player, Joe DiMaggio….. Married to Marilyn Here is an 18Continue Reading
After viewing Rebecca Millers recent feature length doc titled, Arthur Miller: Writer, I searched for something related online and found the following: an article by Norman Mailer from 1973 in which he describes Monroe’s short marriage to the famous New York Yankee baseball player, Joe Dimagio….. MarriedContinue Reading
Zoe Beloff has made a short film titled, Model Family in a Model Home, which illustrates Berthold Brecht’s research notes for a proposed Hollywood film that highlighted the theatrical nature of the roles played by middle class American families as portrayed in Life Magazine. Brecht lived in LA from 1941Continue Reading
It’s as if Mr. Mills were riffling through an encyclopedia, searching for the perfect entry, which he’s creating before your eyes — Manohla Dargis, NYTContinue Reading
You may already know that the Canadian actor Douglas Rains did the voice of the advanced computer named Hal in Stanley Kubricks, 2001 Space Odyssey. The New York Times pulbished an article yesterday with some background info on how the director came to use Rains for this voice part. OfContinue Reading