Glenn here. Each Tuesday we bring you reviews and features on documentaries from theatres, festivals, and on demand. This week we look at the final work of Albert Maysles, In Transit.
Last week we looked at Chantal Akerman's final film, and this week completely by accident I am reviewing another final film by another towering name in documentary filmmaking. In a career that includes Grey Gardens, Salesman, Gimme Shelter, and Monterey Pop, Albert Maysles has made many films that are considered among the greatest non-fiction titles ever made. And while last year’s glimpse into the life of aging fashion icon Iris Apfel, Iris, was billed as his last work, it is in fact this deeply searching piece of cinema verite made in collaboration with Lynn True, David Usui, Nelson Walker III, and Benjamin Wu that is his last work and an incredibly fitting one, too. It’s the...
Last week we looked at Chantal Akerman's final film, and this week completely by accident I am reviewing another final film by another towering name in documentary filmmaking. In a career that includes Grey Gardens, Salesman, Gimme Shelter, and Monterey Pop, Albert Maysles has made many films that are considered among the greatest non-fiction titles ever made. And while last year’s glimpse into the life of aging fashion icon Iris Apfel, Iris, was billed as his last work, it is in fact this deeply searching piece of cinema verite made in collaboration with Lynn True, David Usui, Nelson Walker III, and Benjamin Wu that is his last work and an incredibly fitting one, too. It’s the...
- 6/7/2016
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Aferim!This year, Tribeca moved back home, swapping out the East Village’s AMC Loew’s 7 for the venue they once used, the nearly invisible Regal Battery Park Stadium 11 as one of the festival’s main theater locations. Whether it is coincidence or just one of the festival’s grand themes, the finest films I saw were about movement. Characters search high and low for someone or something. While carrying strange cargo, they journey to the West, to the East, wherever, going from point A to point B. If not travelling, then characters are stuck, stranded, or even trapped in a spot, but desiring to move, move, move. There’s a whole lotta riding and talking going on in Radu Jude’s Aferim! Shot on black-and-white film (Kodak Double-x), the film is set in 1855 Wallachia, a time in which the Romani people had subhuman status, being slaves to landowning Boyars,...
- 5/4/2015
- by Tanner Tafelski
- MUBI
Summer Hours: In Life’s Twilight, Maysles Looks at a Late Life Fashion Icon and Finds Love in Work, Marriage & Stuff
Watching Iris, a light-hearted profile of the self professed ‘geriatric starlet’ of New York City costume couture, Iris Apfel, one could not help but think of two things – the singular oddness of the Beales of Grey Gardens bleeding through a port hole of performative cinema history into the life an oddball worthy of comparison, and the massive gaping hole left by the loss of the man who managed to immortalize them all as silver screen legends – the incomparable Albert Maysles who tragically died just last month at age 88.
It’s impossible not to concentrate on the many moments in acknowledgement of his presence behind the camera – the casually tender moments when Iris, then 92, introduces Albert to her friends and colleagues, lovingly acknowledging his own legacy and public persona,...
Watching Iris, a light-hearted profile of the self professed ‘geriatric starlet’ of New York City costume couture, Iris Apfel, one could not help but think of two things – the singular oddness of the Beales of Grey Gardens bleeding through a port hole of performative cinema history into the life an oddball worthy of comparison, and the massive gaping hole left by the loss of the man who managed to immortalize them all as silver screen legends – the incomparable Albert Maysles who tragically died just last month at age 88.
It’s impossible not to concentrate on the many moments in acknowledgement of his presence behind the camera – the casually tender moments when Iris, then 92, introduces Albert to her friends and colleagues, lovingly acknowledging his own legacy and public persona,...
- 4/27/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
- Ioncinema.com presents: Best of FestsFULL Frame FESTIVALWhere: April 12 to 15, 2007 Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('April 12, 2007'); Location: Durham, North Carolina - United States Official Website: fullframefest.org/What: Founded in 1998 by Nancy Buirski, and now recognized as the premier documentary film festival in the United States by both The New York Times and indieWIRE, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival celebrates the power and artistry of documentary film. The festival is an important arena for documentary filmmakers — a place where they can showcase their work theatrically in an environment that stimulates conversation and community between other filmmakers, industry executives and the general public. Sections: (Click for more info!) Full Schedule: Power of Ten: Special Programming: Panel & Workshops8 Bit - Marcin Ramocki, Justin Strawhand Alice Sees The Light - Ariana GersteinAngels in the Dust - Louise HogarthThe Ants - Kaoru IkeyaBanished - Marco WilliamsBeyond Selinunte - Salvo CucciaBlockade - Sergei Loznitsa
- 4/11/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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