Showing posts with label Nowness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nowness. Show all posts
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Lara Stone in 'American Fairytale'.
Director Alex Prager short film, 'American Fairytale' blends the worlds of luxury auto and fashion in this magical Wizard
of Oz-inspired film,
starring supermodel Lara Stone and the
Mercedes-Benz SL Roadster.
All that's missing is Toto.
Behind-the-scenes ...
5/4/11
@NOWNESS Behind the Scenes @ Alexander McQueen Exhibit
NOWNESS.com presents a film profiling a collaborative labor of love between late designer Lee Alexander McQueen and milliner Philip Treacy. The piece, Bird’s Nest Headdress, appears in the Costume Institute’s McQueen retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art opening this week.
3/8/11
Norwegian Wood: Young Love
Norwegian Wood: Young Love on Nowness.com.
An Exclusive Peek At the Screen Adaptation of Murakami’s Coming of Age Tale
An intricate story of love and loss set against a 1960s backdrop of student rebellion, Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood is something of a Japanese Catcher in the Rye, translated into 36 languages with an ardent international fan base. Following a four-year campaign by director Tran Anh Hung, the famously reticent Murakami finally conceded to a film version. The plot turns on a complex love triangle between sensitive college student Watanabe, charmingly idiosyncratic Midori and the darkly troubled Naoko. In today’s exclusive clip, Midori (Kiko Mizuhara) details her theory of love to an entranced Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama). Says Anh Hung: "When I read Norwegian Wood I felt this intimacy, as though the book discovered me somehow, recognized who I am. I think many people have felt that way, and that's the key to its success." The Vietnamese director (The Scent of Green Papayas, Cyclo) recruited Karl Lagerfeld's latest muse, actress Rinko Kikuchi, to play the fragile Naoko. Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood provides a lush score that melts into Anh Hung’s expansive shots of the spectacular waterfalls, windswept meadows and mountainous regions of Japan’s Tonomine and Mineyama highlands. (via Nowness)
10/25/10
Sofia Coppola On Set of 'Somewhere' @Nowness.
These on-set images were shot by [Sofia] Coppola's friend, the photographer and Californian dreamer Paul Jasmin, at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. Read the interview @ Nowness...
10/20/10
James Franco Gives Good Face: Watch This Video @Nowness
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Most of us know 32-year-old actor James Franco as that adorable kid from the TV show Freaks and Geeks, who went on to leading roles in Spider-Man, Milk, and the soon-to-be-released mountain climbing adventure 127 Hours, from director Danny Boyle. What many perhaps don’t know is that Franco now identifies himself as a visual artist. He's enrolled at the respected Rhode Island School of Design, and, through the end of October, his short films, drawings, photographs and sculptures are on view at New York's Clocktower Gallery. Recently there's been something of a convergence between Franco's artistic interests and his acting choices. While at work on a book of short stories, he starred as poet Allen Ginsberg in the recently released Howl, and, in a self-referential move, appeared in a number of episodes of General Hospital as the artist "Franco," turning a soap opera into performance art. Considering such extra-curricular activities, and capitalizing on the concept of celebrity itself as a ready-made artwork, Alison Chernick cast the Renaissance man in today’s film, James Franco as Bruce Nauman, a contemporary update of Nauman's Art Make-Up video piece from 1967, shot on location at the Standard Hotel, New York. The themes the artist was exploring seem perfectly in sync with Franco's own hall-of-mirrors aesthetic: "make-up," the stuff an actor smears on his face, assumes a double entendre as a verb—to make up, the very essence of any creative act. The video is the first in a new series by Chernick in which contemporary artists are enlisted to star in remakes of seminal video artworks, prompting a dialogue between the original artwork and the artist reinterpreting it. -> Watch the video here.
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