tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1290494898387695478.post2833562454929095451..comments2023-09-15T05:15:49.748-07:00Comments on Pocket Intellectual: Basquiat 81POCKET INTELLECTUALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776503736081093212noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1290494898387695478.post-79563970404354580852007-01-24T08:27:00.000-08:002007-01-24T08:27:00.000-08:00Henry Fool is among my favorites! It resonates at...Henry Fool is among my favorites! It resonates at many levels of process and persona. I hear Hartley is coming out with a sequal based on Simon Grim's sister (played by Parker Posey). Anyone hear word on its eta?<br /><br />Horse's Mouth is a hoot, and the book is even hootier. One of the great opening paragraphs full of visual info, as if looking at a painting.<br /><br />another movie missed, and in the line of Scorcese's shorts (Nick Nolte made a great AbEx man)was Dreams, by Kurasawa, which feature a japanese painter who had a passion for Van Gogh and actually walked into his landscapes. Scorcese played a torqued soul of Vincent in a cameo.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08487194851704304911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1290494898387695478.post-55526764477170996172007-01-23T15:02:00.000-08:002007-01-23T15:02:00.000-08:00gb,
Thanks for the excellent suggestions. I shall...gb,<br /><br />Thanks for the excellent suggestions. I shall check out those films. One I forgot was High Art which lampoons NY gallerists magnificantly. The other thing about Art School Confidential: Why all the British actors? I counted three!<br /><br />JRPOCKET INTELLECTUALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17776503736081093212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1290494898387695478.post-9094042204248320972007-01-19T12:41:00.000-08:002007-01-19T12:41:00.000-08:00The artist movie list could go on forever, and the...The artist movie list could go on forever, and there are a few people who've given it some serious thought elsewhere. I just wanted to remind you of a classic, point out a newer film too often over looked because its subject is a photographer - not a painter - and put in a good word for my favorite example of the genre.<br /><br />The overlooked film is Martin Scorsese’s segment in <b>New York Stories</b> where Nick Nolte does his best lion-in-winter, chewing up the scenery as a lecherous, aging Ab-Ex painter. One of my professors in undergraduate school actually took time out of a drawing class to show this on video - presumably because he thought it was inspiring (this was before irony had been invented...). Yipes.<br /><br />The overlooked film is John Waters’ 1998 movie, <b>Pecker</b>. Not so recent after all, but a film that is much more watchable than Zwigoff’s awful, muddled <b> Art School Confidential</b> (when I think of all the therapy Daniel Clowes could have gotten for his animosity toward art schools with the money spent making this film, I cry). Pecker’s meteoric rise and subsequent fall from art world grace is all the funnier because we know that he has no talent – unlike the Jerome Platz character (catatonically played by Max Minghella) in <b>Art School</b>, who’s supposed to be brilliant but whose <i>faux</i> academic chops are entirely unconvincing.<br /><br />The personal fave is Hal Hartley’s 1997 <b>Henry Fool</b>. This is really a movie about art in general, not only about poetry. It’s shot in Hartley’s stiff, almost kabuki style, which at first just feels weird, but then seems like the most natural way to address the artifice of art itself. When trash-collector-turned poet Simon Grim (masterfully played by James Urbaniak) lectures Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan) on how <i>working</i> - not leading a romantic lifestyle that <i>looked</i> like a poet’s - had turned him into a poet, it breaks your heart and sends you running to the studio for some honest labor.<br /><br />I thought I’d put this in there so your Netflicks list would stay long. Keep up the good work, James. And – one little favor? Remember to use paragraphs writing your blog. They make it easier to read for those of us with attention deficit disorder…Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09340633994481845256noreply@blogger.com