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Robert Morris – obit from Artforum –

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Industrial felt is. arranged by chance. for each installation. The artist’s supervision. is not necessary.

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(See more drawing by Morris here)

Tate interview

Simon Grant
In the text ‘Indiana Street’, the wonderful essay on some recollections of your childhood growing up in Kansas, that appears in your most recent collected writings Have I Reasons, you wrote about a moment in the winter of 1935, when you were four years old, putting your fist through a window, and described your reaction as the ‘cardinal moment in my life’. Could you tell us more about this?

Robert Morris
It was a moment of fury and anger relieved by an act of bodily violence. No doubt I have lived a life of art-making by transposing and sublimating a fury that has never abated and rises ever anew: an unending source of energy.

RIP Bernardo Bertolucci

[on Marlon Brando] An angel as a man, a monster as an actor. – Bernardo Bertolucci

Luca Guadagnino and Bernardo B. Two non-conformist Italian directors

Why Bertolucci’s The Conformist deserves a place in cinema history(the Guardian)

The Italian director’s 1970 expressionist masterpiece offered a blueprint for a new kind of Hollywood film, which is why Coppola, Spielberg, Scorsese and co owe him a huge debt

(Dominique Sanda was directed byBertolucci twice, The Conformist and 1900 )

(1900)

(Julian on Bernardo – talking about 1900)

See Julian Schnabel’s painting dedicated to Malik Joyeux and Bernardo Bertolucci

via Bruce Weber
(Malkovich moved to Europe after working with Bertolucci in Sheltering Aky).

Frequently references classic movies
Frequently has nude scenes in his films
Long, complex camera movements.
Often references famous painters or art movements.
Nonlinear timeline.

The young Bertolucci took after his father, a Roman poet and film critic, and became a celebrated published poet by the age of 20. He gave up poetry for the cinema after working as an assistant to Pier Paolo Pasolini on the movie Accattone (1961).

He’s a big fan of Breaking Bad (2008).
[on the end of Breaking Bad (2008)] I’m sad about it. I want more.

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Nicolas Roeg passed away – (Tributes from Donald Sutherland, Duncan Jones etc)

BBC obit

Nicolas Roeg was one of the most original film-makers the UK has ever produced.
His early experience as a cinematographer brought a stunning visual quality to his work.

(Best obit – read here)

The Alchemy of Nicolas Roeg (Dan Fox) (Frieze II)

His work sits closer to that of Derek Jarman, Peter Greenaway, Andrea Arnold, Sally Potter, Steve McQueen and other British art house directors, than the storytelling of Lean, Lester, Schlesinger, and other directors he cut his teeth with.

Nicolas Roeg in conversation (Frieze I)

Film director Nicolas Roeg talks to his friend, the artist John Stezaker, about collage, editing and memory, and film’s ability to ‘trap shadows’

BAD TIMING, Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, director Nicolas Roeg on set, 1980, (c) World Northal

Obit from his close friend and a producer Jeremy Thomas

(see Theresa Russell playing Marilyn here )- Look Now, the significance of Nicolas Roeg (previous post)

Thanks to “Walkabout”, David Gulpilil became an actor/activist, and the kid who is not in this photo was Nicolas Roeg’s son).

(Filming The Man Who Fell to Earth)
The documentary of the Man Who Fell to Earth – 2017 here.

(Julie Christie in Don’t Look Now, and Roeg was a cinematographer for Far From the Madding Crowd, Farenheidt 451 and Petulia (Richard Lester)

Don’t Look Now – a review + interviews here.

In all of his films Nicolas Roeg shows what happens when characters from different cultures intersect. From Performance (gangster meets rock star) to Walkabout (abandoned white children saved by Aborigine on his walkabout) to The Man Who Fell to Earth (alien crashing on Earth needs to return to his home planet) this intersection forms the core dramatic element of his films.

(via Art of the Title – see title sequences by Pablo Ferro here)

Title Designer for Dr. Strangelove, Pablo Ferro dies.

“The titles for ‘Strangelove’ were last-minute; I didn’t have much time to produce it. It came up because of a conversation between Stanley and I,” he said. “Two weeks after I finished with everything, he and I were talking. He asked me what I thought about human beings. I said one thing about human beings is that everything that is mechanical, that is invented, is very sexual. We looked at each other and realized — the B-52, refueling in mid-air, of course, how much more sexual can you get?! He loved the idea. He wanted to shoot it with models we had, but I said let me take a look at the stock footage, I am sure that [the makers of those planes] are very proud of what they did and, sure enough, they had shot the plane from every possible angle.”

He was also known for creating the first color NBC Peacock in the late 1950s while at Elektra. He worked on nine films directed by Jonathan Demme, including “Stop Making Sense,” “Philadelphia,” and “Married to the Mob.”

He continued to design through the ’90s, making title sequences for Gus van Sant’s “Good Will Hunting,” “L.A. Confidential,” and the first “Men In Black.” He was close friends with
Hal Ashby

Tea Ceremony At Eames house

Drinking Tea Tom Sachs (see many photos, including Isamu Noguchi, Charlie Chaplin tea ceremony photo).

Noguchi went to the Camp to help (New Yorker)

Noguchi Garden
Isamu Noguchi previous post (See his Rose Garden in Jerusalem)

Yoshiko Yamaguchi
and Isamu Noguchi

Happy birthday Adam Rippon! and the birthday boy responded.

USAToday nominates Adam Rippon for political office

On Adam Rippon – by Cher (Time Magazine)

All figure skaters are beautiful, but Adam Rippon is different. He isn’t just a beautiful skater. He has humility, grace and an incredible sense of humor.
You could see in the leather-harness suit he wore to the Academy Awards that he isn’t afraid to take chances. It wasn’t about the suit, really. It was about the fact that he dares to be different in a world where being different always comes with a cost. I thought it was fabulous, of course.

Adam Rippon made a speech at Boston Rally with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Boston Rally protest against Kavanaugh)

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Rippon looks like Gore Vidal.

(Eraserhead)

Frederick Elmes was born on November 4, 1946 in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, USA.

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Elms often works with David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch and Ang Lee. Eraserhead, Wild at Heart Night on Earth, Blue Velvet, The Ice Storm Ride with the Devil , The Object of My Affection, Synecdoche, Coffee and Cigarettes, Kinsey, Paterson etc.
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Coffee and Cigarettes – Cate Blanchet in two roles.

Frederick Elmes (homepage)

Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet

Nagase and Adam Driver (“Nagase from Mystery Train reuninted with Jarmusch in Paterson)

Elmes says he held back on bold colouring, preferring to keep the look naturalistic. “Slightly desaturating the image and lowering the contrast presented a subtle visual support to the repetition of Paterson’s life. A life that’s worth living,” he concludes.

(Tilda Swinton in Broken Flowers)
Happy birthday Tilda Swinton!