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Gerrit Rietveld, the lost designer

There are many names associated with the early 20th-century boom in design. Rockstars like Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright immediately come to mind, but for every major player you can bet there are dozens of equally talented designers, artists and architects whose names don’t flow as quickly from our 21st-century tongues. One of those whose legacy remains known amongst industry professionals only is Gerrit Rietveld, but they’re trying to fix that.

Where Do All the Women Directors Go?

So what’s with the continued disparity between the proportion of women directors represented at the Sundance Film Festival (27 of the 117 features screening at the festival this year were directed by women) and the number of women making big films in Hollywood (only three of 2010’s 100 top-grossing were made by women)? Brooks Barnes [...]

Interview: Robert Redford

“O.K., what’s up?” This is how Robert Redford, i.e. The Most Important Person on The Planet, as far as the Sundance Film Festival is concerned, starts a conversation. It’s Friday afternoon, and he’s just finished an interview for Sundance Channel, is about to dash off to do God knows what (judging by the number of [...]

Tweet Roundup: Joe Zee

@mrjoezee: Snow white, snow bright, will my flight take off tonight? #Goodmorning @mrjoezee: More info! RT @Styleite Introducing the designers on @MrJoeZee‘s new show, “All on the Line.” http://styleite.com/ojncv @mrjoezee: IT’S OFFICIAL: All On The Line will premiere @Sundancechannel on Tues March 29 at 10pm. LIKE this page for updates. http://on.fb.me/gUMgl1 Joe’s packing up his [...]

Sundance Film Festival: A Reinvention Destination

The Sundance Film Festival is many things to many people. And for some actors and filmmakers, the Los Angeles Times notes, it’s the place they go to reinvent themselves. Because so many show business eyes are focused on so few films, Sundance also can facilitate résumé rewrites. As the received wisdom goes, an appearance in [...]

All the style at Sundance Film Festival

Maria Menounos at the soft opening of the Bing Bar Photo by: Michael Buckner/GettyImages FULL FRONTAL FASHION gives you the scoop on the all the stylish happenings of day one at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. From Snoop Dogg to Stanley Tucci, there was much to take notice of. View photos here. After receiving the Jury [...]

Art: Street lamp forest

I love this enlightened “Street Lamp Forest” installation by Sonja Vordermaier of “a collection of 30 european streetlamps from different origins and times.” It reminds me of a disorderly and smaller version of Chris Burden’s “Urban Light” installation at LACMA (which of course I had to jump in front of). [Via]

Belafonte and Bobby Fischer at Sundance

Harry Belafonte at the Sundance Channel HQ with his daughter, Gina Belafonte Still not much deal news, but the cinema-going aspect of Sundance is in full swing. A 9:30 a.m. screening of the Harry Belafonte documentary SING YOUR SONG was filled with early-rising fest go-ers and volunteers who were inordinately friendly (“Hello!” “Welcome!”) considering the [...]

THE SON OF NO ONE: Tracy Morgan Gets Serious

At the very beginning, a hint of the end. As the Sundance Film Festival gets rolling, a trailer for the festival’s closing night film, Dito Montiel’s THE SON OF NO ONE, has just been released. The picture stars Channing Tatum and Tracy Morgan as two men who got away with murder as young boys and [...]

Chimp caught in tragic human love triangle

Who knew that a chimp could get in the middle of a human love triangle? And enjoy the pleasures of marijuana? 2008 Sundance Grand Jury (and 2009 Oscar) winner Director James Marsh, evidently, whose new documentary, PROJECT NIM, is about the chimpanzee (Nim), who in the 1970’s was taken from his mother and sent to [...]

An interview with Born This Way’s Paul V.

A submission on Born This Way

I had the chance to ask the man behind my new favorite blog, Born This Way, some questions.

Who the heck are you?
My name is Paul V. (aka DJ Paul V.), from Los Angeles. I’m a longtime club and radio DJ, music reviews writer, and general music biz “Promosexual.” You could also say I’m a bit of a Facebook activist and outspoken mouthpiece for gay rights and equality. Also, “Born This Way” is my first ever official blog.

Sundance Film Festival: Brisk Business, Bargain Prices

If the flurry of pre-Sundance Film Festival acquisition deals has made you wonder if Hollywood was back in an indie-film shopping mood after the recession, the New York Times’ Brooks Barnes reports that, yes, wallets are open, but they’re a little less fat. Among other factors, the strong box-office performance of specialty films over the [...]

The 20 most disturbing sex-themed movies

We were going to do a top ten list but there are so many disturbing movies made about sex, we had to bump it up to 20. Let us know if there are any others you think should have made the cut.

1. Irreversible: If you can get through the first ten minutes of hard-core sex and violence at the gay club (subtly called “Rectum”) in this brutal movie about rape and revenge, then you’ve got a stronger constitution than we do.
   
   
   
   
2. Breaking the Waves: The simple-minded wife of a newly disabled man misinterprets his desire for her to find the pleasure he can no longer deliver elsewhere and engages in riskier and riskier behavior until she (spoiler alert) ends up killed via gang bang. The feel good movie of 1996!
   
   
   
   
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Video art: Palin’s Breath

Palin’s Breath from wreckandsalvage on Vimeo. In the immediate aftermath of Sarah Palin’s speech commenting on the Tucson shooting, The Cajun Boy tweeted “Sarah Palin’s use of the term “blood libel” doesn’t shock me. However, her use of Vimeo instead of Youtube to say it does shock me,” which is pretty much the same reaction [...]

Sundance Film Festival Deals: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD

Morgan Spurlock’s THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD has sold. On Thursday, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions announced that it had snapped up the U.S. and Canadian rights to the documentary, which is set to have its world premiere Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, the Hollywood Reporter reports. The film, in which the SUPER SIZE ME [...]

Sundance Sales Force Is Out

First reaction upon landing in this snow-covered oasis, where we couldn’t help but think of the back-drop of that Mormon reality TV show Sister Wives (not that we watch): It’s cold! Like, really, cold. Quite a shocker for our L.A. blood, and I imagine everyone else who was on the plane ride over feels the [...]

Redford: No Plans to Retire

It honestly hadn’t occurred to us to be concerned that Robert Redford might retire and hand over the Sundance Film Festival reins anytime soon, but now we really don’t have to worry about it. In response to a reporter’s inquiry about retirement plans at the opening press conference for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on [...]

Music video: Sunlight

Bag Raiders – ‘Sunlight’ from Modular People on Vimeo. Start the first year of the second decade of the 21st century off on an upbeat musical note with “Sunlight,” an awesome new song and cool music video (starring a Scarlett Johansson lookalike?) by Bag Raiders from their debut, self-titled album. This song, girl, video is [...]

5 Ideas for Sundance Film Festival Wannabes

For those of us who are stuck at home during the Sundance Film Festival once again this year, gazing longingly at the films and the fun from afar, Flavorwire has come up with a list of five ways to enjoy the festival from the comfort of our own couches. Ideas include watching this year’s movies [...]

Green tech finds (1/20/11)

Green tech spanning the globe, from Ohio to New York City to Algeria… your finds for the week.

• What’s up with switchgrass: Remember all the discussion about biofuels produced from switchgrass? The talk’s died down, but the experimentation hasn’t… but there are still some arguments out there about the efficiency of this feedstock.
  
  
• Ohio’s green economy: Ohio? Really? While it’s still small and growing, this Rust Belt state made the most of the manufacturing infrastructure already in place to create green jobs. (via Calfinder’s Residential Solar blog)
  
  

Director of Sundance Film Fest picks 10 best new filmmakers

Algenis Perez in SUGAR (2008), directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden Trevor Groth started working for Sundance as an intern in 1991. Now, twenty years later, he’s the director of programming for the annual film festival. It’s safe to say that in his time here he’s seen his fair share of films. Last year [...]

Pop’Africana

Think of Africa and a lot of images come to mind, but I’ll go out on a limb and bet that none of them include a glossy art and fashion magazine. That’s just the point editor Oroma Elewa wants to make with Pop’Africana, his fledgling magazine now in its second issue. The self-proclaimed “semiannual fashion/art magazine serving as the African book of style” is “dedicated to delivering a rejuvenated image of Africans.”

Sundance 2011: Previewing the Park City party scene

Which Park City music venue will feature cuisine from Mr. Chow’s Michael Chow and “Iron Chef” winner Jared Young and welcome stars like Kate Bosworth, Parker Posey, Vera Farmiga and Ben Foster during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday, Jan. 20? Which will host events for films including Ewan McGregor’s PERFECT SENSE [...]

Sundance Deals: BECOMING CHAZ

Oprah Winfrey’s new OWN cable network has snapped up Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s BECOMING CHAZ, which will screen in the Documentary Premieres category at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, Deadline reports. The film, by the veteran Sundance directors behind THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE, PARTY MONSTER and INSIDE DEEP THROAT, chronicles the [...]

Sundance Watch List: Gregg Araki’s KABOOM

It’s been called a “hyper-stylized TWIN PEAKS for the Coachella Generation,” “a sexier, more colorful, and more comedic DONNIE DARKO,” and even a zany, radical version of DUDE, WHERE’s MY CAR? Gregg Araki’s KABOOM, which premiered last year at the Cannes Film Festival, will have its U.S. premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and be [...]