Edward Ruscha
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Biography: Edward Joseph Ruscha IV is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. He is also noted for creating several artist's books. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska
Adult: No
Birthday: December 16, 1937
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Male
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Choose Me
Overview: Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talk radio relationship counselor, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-29
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I Knew Andy Warhol
Overview: A series of interviews with artists, photographers and Factory superstars who worked and socialized with Andy Warhol.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-18
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Sketches of Frank Gehry
Overview: First and foremost, Frank Gehry is an artist. Described as a young child as having golden hands, Frank begins his creation through sketch. Forming thought into substantive sculpture, the marriage of art and architechure is brought to life. Join director Sydney Pollack on a journey into the world and work of the most important architect of our Age.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-12
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Kappa
Overview: Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and desire. Quoting from Bunuel, Freud, pop media and art, they place the symbology of Western psychosexual analytical theory into a cross-cultural context, juxtaposing the Oedipal and Kappa myths in a delirious collusion of form and content. The Kappa, a malevolent Japanese water imp, is played with eerie intensity by artist Mike Kelley; actress Mary Woronov plays Jocasta as a vamp from a Hollywood exploitation film. Steeped in perversions and violent longings, both the Kappa and Oedipus legends are presented in highly stylized, purposefully "degraded" forms, reflecting their media-exploitative cultural contexts. In this ironic yet oddly poignant essay of psychosexual compulsion and catharsis, the Yonemotos demonstrate that even in debased forms, cultural archetypes hold the power to move and manipulate.
Genres: Documentary Animation Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-17
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aka Mr. Chow
Overview: With his signature circular glasses and mustache, Michael Chow is an exuberant force at the crossroads between eccentricity and sophistication. The famed restaurateur defined “The Moment” with the openings of Mr. Chow, the bustling upscale Chinese eateries that attracted the glitterati of Swingin’ London, 70s Hollywood, and post Studio 54 New York.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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Paradox Bullets
Overview: A short film which debuted in a secret location in London to coincide with the release of the NikeCraft x Tom Sachs Mars Yard Overshoe
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-07
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Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words
Overview: Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles on the occasion of their 2016 Gala event, 'Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words' traces two recurring themes in the artist's 60-year oeuvre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-01
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Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades
Overview: Ed Ruscha made his very first art in his native Oklahoma, but soon became attracted to Los Angeles . Curator Margit Rowell has examined his extensive body of work and created a brilliant exhibition of his seldom seen drawings. Rowell visits Ruscha in his studio, looking at new paintings with the artist, discussing his progress over the decades and asking him to comment on the many milestones in his large retrospective exhibition at MoCA in Los Angeles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Ed Ruscha - Motorized Photographs of Sunset Blvd. and Other L.A. Streets
Overview: Commissioned by The Getty Museum on the occasion of their 2019 Getty Medal to the painter, draftsman, photographer, and bookmaker, Ed Ruscha. Utilizing The Getty Research Institute's preservation and digitization of over a million images from Ed's Streets of Los Angeles photo series, and excerpts from Jack Kerouac's "On The Road," this film puts together two of Ed's major inspirations: Kerouac's text and the city of Los Angeles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-19
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Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Overview: The inevitable fat cigar between his fingers, the American actor, director and fine artist Dennis Hopper (1936) self-mockingly looks back on his chequered life and career, at the request of Dutch director, photographer and fine artist Thom Hoffman. The latter sifted through the turbulent life story of Hopper, who is primarily known from the cult film Easy Rider (1969). Hopper went through as many high as low points. In conveniently arranged chapters, Hoffman shows the decisive moments in Hopper's life and asks colleagues like Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Sean Penn and Julian Schnabel to comment on them. The documentary is richly illustrated with film excerpts, photos, newspaper articles and anecdotes. The main reason for this film was the retrospective of Dennis Hopper's art work in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum in 2001.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-01
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Along for the Ride
Overview: A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
Overview: In this 1972 BBC Films production, architectural historian Reyner Banham takes the viewer on a tour of what he describes as the “four ecologies” of the city of Los Angeles: Surfurbia, Foothills, The Plains of Id, and Autopia (beach, basin, foothills, freeways). Noted for his seminal book of essays, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, published the year before, Banham had a love affair with the City of Angels and its bold typologies. (Open Source Cities)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-01
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Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
Overview: A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century, revolutionary of arts, aesthetics and pop culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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Where is Rocky II?
Overview: Pierre Bismuth hires a private detective and a duo of screenwriters to investigate on an enigmatic artwork.
Genres: Comedy Documentary Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-01
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