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    Art of the Real

    Jim Jarmusch retrospective at Lincoln Center

    A Film Society of Lincoln Center series that interprets documentary in the widest possible sense. I expect to provide screening notes on the following films of the series. I'll also attend one film from the complete retrospective of Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man. General Forum thread for discussion of these topics here.

    ART OF THE REAL
    April 11 - 26, 2014

    The Film Society of Lincoln Center's new annual series Art of the Real is a nonfiction showcase founded on the most expansive possible view of documentary film. The inaugural edition features new work from around the world alongside retrospective selections by both known and unjustly forgotten filmmakers. It is a platform for filmmakers and artists who have given us a wider view of nonfiction cinema and at the same time brought the form full circle, back to its early, boundary-pushing days. Co-programmed by Dennis Lim and Rachael Rakes.

    Focus on the Sensory Ethnography Lab
    In a mere eight years, the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University has gone from an unusually ambitious academic program to one of the most vital incubators of nonfiction and experimental cinema in the United States. The films in this selection, including work produced at the SEL and work that inspired SEL makers, attest to the aspirations of sensory ethnography: to experience the world, and to transmit some of the magnitude and multiplicity of that experience. Presented in collaboration with the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

    Click on the title above for the full program. I'll comment on just a few of the offerings.

    PERMANENT VACATION: THE FILMS OF JIM JARMUSCH
    April 2 - 10. 2014

    Over the course of a single-minded yet constantly surprising career that has now spanned more than three decades, Jim Jarmusch has become a beloved, forever-cool icon of independent American (and world) cinema. His movies combine a romantic wanderlust, a sense of humor both humane and deadpan, and a connoisseur’s appreciation of the highs and lows of art and popular culture (Elvis Presley, Yasujiro Ozu, and William Blake, for starters). This complete retrospective—which includes 11 features and several shorts and music videos—leads up to the upcoming release of Jarmusch’s latest feature, Only Lovers Left Alive (a selection of the 2013 New York Film Festival, opening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center on April 11). Jarmusch’s latest exquisite genre reinvention, the film is a paean to the pleasures of long-term relationships in the guise of a vampire movie. It also strikes a pitch-perfect balance of melancholy and joy, and celebrates art’s enduring power to re-invigorate one’s experience of the world—something that could be said of all the films in this retrospective. Film Society of Lincoln Center page for this retrospective.

    JIM JARMUSCH FILMOGRAPHY
    1980 Permanent Vacation
    1984 Stranger Than Paradise
    1986 Down by Law
    1989 Mystery Train
    1991 Night on Earth
    1995 Dead Man
    1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    2003 Coffee and Cigarettes
    2005 Broken Flowers
    2009 The Limits of Control
    2012 Only Lovers Left Alive

    I will view at Lincoln Center and comment on Jarmusch's Dead Man (1995).

    Links to the reviews:

    Actress (Robert Greene 2014)--AOTR
    Bloody Beans (Narimane Mari 2013)--AOTR
    Change of Life/Mudar de Vida (Paulo Rocha 1966)--AOTR
    Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch 1995)--Jarmusch retrospective
    Red Hollywood (Thom Andersen, Noël Burch 1996; reformatted 2013)--AOTR
    La última pellícula (Ray Martin, Mark Paranson 2013)-AOTR
    Last edited by Chris Knipp; 03-25-2014 at 01:00 PM.

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