Pialat has purified his style in film after film, culminating in La Gueule Overte, which is totally stark. He systematically rejects the techniques and devices of what is called “cinema”; he will have no camera movements– no pans, no dollies, no zooms–preferring the camera to be motionless, glued to one spot. Neither will Pialat overedit, so his shots often last as long as the scene itself.
In this preference, Pialat is reminiscent of Bresson, but Pialat’s films are in every other way the antithesis of Bresson’s. As a director Bresson is hieratic in his stylization, while Pialat is only satisfied with complete naturalness.” (Page 119)
Ray Johnson has been called a mystery artist, outsider and visionary. He’s one of the earliest progenitors of pop art, performance, installation and happenings, and was the founder of correspondence art, phone art, Moticos and nothings. Ray’s body of work has had a growing interest and fascination since his untimely timed suicide, on January, Friday the 13th, 1995.
The artist Julie Mehretu has been flying awfully close to the sun.
Soaring midair on a mobile platform inside an unused Harlem church, she has been working and reworking two towering paintings taking shape on opposite walls, a monumental commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Sam was half jackrabbit, and I could rely on that sense of Sam the writer. It seems to me that his plays all sprang fully out of Sam’s character. He wasn’t writing about something he didn’t know much about. The tale was always some ghost that he was searching for. That ghost was always hovering, so he was very productive.
It is with great sadness today that we learned of the passing of the great American playwright, Sam Shepard. Sam did much of his early work at La MaMa.
1. Name the film in which he co-stars with Penelope Cruz.
2. In what film is he killed in a car bombing?
3. What TV film earned him an Emmy nomination?
4. Which of his films featured the music suite “The Carnival of the Animals” by French composer Saint-Saens?
5. In what film is he bitten by a badger?
6. Name the film in which he says – “Anybody that goes up in the damn thing is gonna be Spam in a can”.
7. In what film does he visit the Louvre?
8. Which film did he star in that was previously a Shepard play?
9. In what film does he play Dad to seven sons?
10. Name the film in which he plays a veterinarian.
11. In what film does he ride a motorcycle?
12. In “Brothers” he plays a Vietnam vet. Name the film in which he plays a very disturbing and dangerous Vietnam vet.
13. Spud is his character’s name. Can you name the film?
14. Name the film based on a Beth Henley play.
15. In real life we know he’s a playwright, but in what film does he play a writer of hard-boiled detective stories?
16. Name the film that was based on a biography called “Shadowlands” by William Arnold.
17. Name in the film in which Eva Marie Saint plays his mother.
18. In what film is his character a train robber?
19. He directed Sean Penn in one of his plays but can you name the film in which Sean Penn directed him?
20. Name the film that tells a true 1993 war story in Somalia.
