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...their soaring online popularity, the two artists have been sought out by a number of prominent curators in the art world - most recently by those at the Museum of Modern Art in New York - who see in their digital etchings a convergence of street art, graffiti art and urban cinema...
...replayed, more for laughs than for suspense, in Topkapi. The gang comprises not the standard tough guys but con artistes on a lark, to steal a jewel-encrusted scimitar from a hall in the Topkapi museum. Maximilian Schell leads a troupe of some of the major muggers of international cinema: Mercouri, Akim Tamiroff, Peter Ustinov (who won an Oscar), Titos Vandis and Robert Morley. But the more valuable member is the muscular Gilles Segal, as the acrobat whose job is to be lowered by rope into the hall from a high window, then remove the case, nick the scimitar...
...Charlton Heston is an axiom," the French film critic Michel Mourlet famously wrote in a 1960 Cahiers du Cinema essay so acute and fervid that we have to quote a bit more of it. "He constitutes a tragedy in himself, his presence in any film being enough to instill beauty. The pent-up violence expressed by the somber phosphorescence of his eyes, his eagle's profile, the imperious arch of his eyebrows, the hard, bitter curve of his lips, the stupendous strength of his torso - this is what he has been given, and what not even the worst of directors...
...Street Scenes, about antiwar protests), a loving portrait of his parents (Italianamerican, in 1974), a study of a very colorful friend (American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, 1978), a doc on couturier Giorgio Armani (Made in Milan, 1990) and epic valentines to old American and Italian cinema. His curiosity is insatiable. What he loves, he films...
...world and the spiritual world. In my version it’s someone who’s trapped in between the world of reality and the world of virtual reality. It’s also negotiating disability and non-disability. And the piece itself is dealing in theater and cinema.”“It’s incredibly original and adventurous in every respect,” Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) professor Alfred Guzetti, Miller’s thesis advisor, says. “It’s trying out so many things at the same...