A transmission from the deep south.
Beautiful poster by Martin Ansin for “Taming Light”, a group exhibition featuring painting, photography and illustration inspired by the films of Stanley Kubrick. I watched British documentarian Jon Ronson’s film Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes on my return flight from New York — it’s an obvious labour of love almost a decade in the making, and contains fascinating archival footage of the director at work. (via John Gruber)
Trailer for Art & Copy, a documentary about advertising from director Doug Pray. “How big do you want the logo, sir?” (via Scott Judson)
Michael C. Place and his team at Build have created this promotional poster for Gary Hustwit’s industrial design documentary, Objectified. And I believe that’s Akzidenz Grotesk rather than the star of his previous film, Helvetica. (via Jason Santa Maria)
A young Peter Jackson interviewed in Tony Hiles’ 1988 documentary Good Taste Made Bad Taste, which chronicled the making of the director’s first feature, Bad Taste. Peter talks about camera equipment used (including a $20 homemade steadicam), special effects, models and makeup. This is total gold, and can be viewed in its entirety at the NZ On Screen site (embedding is not permitted due to rights issues).
The top rated doco for 2008 (and 4th overall) on IMDb is not awards darling Man On Wire, but Dear Zachary.
The film’s poster is illustrated by Oregon-based artist Evan B. Harris. Glowing reviews aplenty on the official promotional site.
Jack White photographed by Davis Guggenheim during the filming of his new documentary on the electric guitar, It Might Get Loud. The film features White, Jimmy Page and The Edge, and culminates with the three of them on a sound stage sharing influences, swapping stories, and teaching each other songs. (via Mike Harding)
“The Archive”, a documentary about Paul Mawhinney and his collection of 2.5 million records. Directed by Sean Dunne and beautifully photographed by Ed David.
Objectified is the new documentary by Gary Hustwit (of Helvetica fame) about industrial design. It contains interviews with Jonathan Ive, Dieter Rams and Mark Newson, among others, and will definitely be on my “must see” list when it rolls around to cinemas.
Clever logo too, particularly the Panton chair on the end.
Charlie Rose interview from 2001 with Martin Scorsese, Christiane Kubrick and producer Jan Harlan, for the release of Harlan’s documentary Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures.
I was looking forward to the film festival doco on Hunter S.Thompson but the Washington Post review says “you’d learn more factually about Thompson in two minutes on the internet than in the two hours of Gonzo”.
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