In Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things,” 19th-century scientist Baxter (Willem Dafoe) restores Bella (Emma Stone) to life with the brain of her unborn child — and the surreal visual design reflects her wild imagination as she progresses from infant to liberated woman.
To achieve that, the director instructed production designers James Price (“Paddington 2” art director) and Shona Heath (a collaborator of fashion photographer Tim Walker making her film debut) to create a fantastical world that was a throwback to the old-school style of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s “Black Narcissus,” with miniatures, painted backdrops, and rear screen projection (high-tech LED screens created the oceans and skies).
“My experience in film is zero,” Heath said in an on-set interview in the video above, “so this wouldn’t be standing if it wasn’t for James.”
What they conjured — to Arts Director Guild- and Academy Award-nominated success — was a retro-futuristic fantasy influenced by...
To achieve that, the director instructed production designers James Price (“Paddington 2” art director) and Shona Heath (a collaborator of fashion photographer Tim Walker making her film debut) to create a fantastical world that was a throwback to the old-school style of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s “Black Narcissus,” with miniatures, painted backdrops, and rear screen projection (high-tech LED screens created the oceans and skies).
“My experience in film is zero,” Heath said in an on-set interview in the video above, “so this wouldn’t be standing if it wasn’t for James.”
What they conjured — to Arts Director Guild- and Academy Award-nominated success — was a retro-futuristic fantasy influenced by...
- 2/5/2024
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Wheel Of Time execs Ted Field and Rick Selvage are among producers of feature biopic Les Indépendants about American impressionist Mary Cassatt and her relationship with French painter Edgar Degas.
French filmmaker Anaïs Tellenne (From the Big Fire Only the Embers Remain) has been attached to direct. Diah Wymont (costumer on Dick Tracy), inspired by the story of Cassatt forging her own path in the 19th century art world, makes her screenwriting debut after a long career as a costume designer.
The film will chart the story of Cassatt as a young woman with talent and an adventurous spirit striving to make it in Paris where she confronts chauvinism, elitism, art world misogyny, and the ravages of war. She falls in love with renowned artist Edgar Degas [in real life the artistic collaborators were not lovers] and their love and talent challenge the establishment as their fame grows. Ultimately, Cassatt must choose between Degas’ love and her own artistic path.
French filmmaker Anaïs Tellenne (From the Big Fire Only the Embers Remain) has been attached to direct. Diah Wymont (costumer on Dick Tracy), inspired by the story of Cassatt forging her own path in the 19th century art world, makes her screenwriting debut after a long career as a costume designer.
The film will chart the story of Cassatt as a young woman with talent and an adventurous spirit striving to make it in Paris where she confronts chauvinism, elitism, art world misogyny, and the ravages of war. She falls in love with renowned artist Edgar Degas [in real life the artistic collaborators were not lovers] and their love and talent challenge the establishment as their fame grows. Ultimately, Cassatt must choose between Degas’ love and her own artistic path.
- 3/9/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
A study of a female painter who exhibited with the first impressionists in 19th-century Paris but saw little of their renown is fascinating and moving
Here is an interesting and, towards the end, actually quite moving study of American émigré painter Mary Cassatt, one of three female artists who took part in the celebrated impressionist exhibitions in late 19th-century Paris, and whose biographers here do an excellent job of reclaiming from relative obscurity. In fact, they do considerably more: Cassatt is built up to be a pioneering feminist voice in an art world that at the time was largely hostile to female painters.
Unlike most of films in the Exhibition on Screen series, this is not related to a blockbuster exhibition, or even a specific collection: it’s instead a general overview of Cassatt’s life and work, starting with her privileged upbringing in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, before her near-permanent...
Here is an interesting and, towards the end, actually quite moving study of American émigré painter Mary Cassatt, one of three female artists who took part in the celebrated impressionist exhibitions in late 19th-century Paris, and whose biographers here do an excellent job of reclaiming from relative obscurity. In fact, they do considerably more: Cassatt is built up to be a pioneering feminist voice in an art world that at the time was largely hostile to female painters.
Unlike most of films in the Exhibition on Screen series, this is not related to a blockbuster exhibition, or even a specific collection: it’s instead a general overview of Cassatt’s life and work, starting with her privileged upbringing in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, before her near-permanent...
- 3/7/2023
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
"You were radiant tonight." A new short film from the animation school in France called Gobelins that is worth a watch. Louise is made by a team of five female directors, and was completed in 2021 and debuted online last year. We're just catching up with it thanks to Vimeo Staff Picks and highly recommend watching. Louise, ballerina at the Garnier Opera in 1895, rushes home after a show but is stopped by a friend asking for money. She knows what she must do in order to repay her. Voices by Alice Orsat, Clara Quilichini, Victoria Grosbois, Lilly Caruso, and Jean-Christophe Lebert. This has some beautiful animation in it - inspired by the art of Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, & Jean-Louise Forain. Just as a warning - this is Nsfw as it contains some nudity. For English subtitles, click on the [cc] button in the right corner. Thanks to Vimeo Staff Picks for the tip on this short.
- 3/11/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Netflix's This Is a Robbery, a four-part true-crime documentary, follows the largest and most confounding art heist in history: the theft of 13 pieces at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Over St. Patrick's Day weekend in 1990, two men posed as Boston police officers and robbed the museum, taking $500 million worth of artwork. While many leads have come up over the years, none of them ever panned out in the museum's favor. The paintings' status remains a mystery, and recent theories have even tied the puzzling heist to the Boston Mafia. Let's break down the most crucial details of the case to paint a picture of what happened that night.
In the early hours of March 18, 1990, Richard Abath was working the night shift as a guard at the Gardner Museum. He saw two police officers on the security camera and buzzed them in against protocol. The men told him...
In the early hours of March 18, 1990, Richard Abath was working the night shift as a guard at the Gardner Museum. He saw two police officers on the security camera and buzzed them in against protocol. The men told him...
- 4/7/2021
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Little Dancer, the musical by the Tony-nominated Once on This Island duo Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, will get a big-name industry reading next month, directed by five-time Tony-winner Susan Stroman and featuring, among others, New York City Ballet principal dancer and On the Town star Tiler Peck.
The reading marks a reunion for much of the creative team behind the show’s 2014 world premiere in Washington DC.
The private industry, invitation-only reading was announced today by producers Anita Waxman and Rodney Rigby, and is set for Friday, June 8. The musical is scheduled for a West Coast premiere next March in Seattle.
Among the cast taking part in the reading will be Robert Lindsay, Kate Baldwin, Karen Ziemba, Dee Hoty, Christopher Gurr, Kyle Harris, Scarlett Strallen and Sami Bray, among others.
Stroman, whose Broadway credits include The Producers and The Scottsboro Boys, will direct Little Dancer, with book and lyrics...
The reading marks a reunion for much of the creative team behind the show’s 2014 world premiere in Washington DC.
The private industry, invitation-only reading was announced today by producers Anita Waxman and Rodney Rigby, and is set for Friday, June 8. The musical is scheduled for a West Coast premiere next March in Seattle.
Among the cast taking part in the reading will be Robert Lindsay, Kate Baldwin, Karen Ziemba, Dee Hoty, Christopher Gurr, Kyle Harris, Scarlett Strallen and Sami Bray, among others.
Stroman, whose Broadway credits include The Producers and The Scottsboro Boys, will direct Little Dancer, with book and lyrics...
- 5/29/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Next spring, The Seattle's5th Avenue Theatre will bring to life a sumptuous new musical, Little Dancer March 22 - April 14, 2019, based on the famed impressionist masterpiece by Edgar Degas and the unknown dancer who inspired it. This glorious new musical in development features some of the most sophisticated names on Broadway at the creative table with music and lyrics by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics and book by Lynn Ahrens the team behind Ragtime and Once on This Island and direction and choreography by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman The Producers, Crazy for You.
- 3/14/2018
- by Alexa Criscitiello
- BroadwayWorld.com
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