Word: soho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...awards is entirely inexplicable. Easily the most original film of the year (with the possible exception of Terry Gilliam's Brazil or The Kiss of the Spiderwoman), this black comedy chronicling the adventures of Yuppie Everyman Griffin Dunne as he tries to extract himself from a darkened SoHo should have been a shoe-in for nominations in the Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress category. What happened? Were all the members of the Academy sick the night that this film was screened...
...dreams in '30s movies, the old apogee of swank--has become a figment of Woody Allen's imagination. Thank heavens. Reclamation of the borough's tattered image could be in no better hands. In Annie Hall, Manhattan and this beguiling new comedy, the penthouses have been replaced by SoHo lofts West Side labyrinths, but the preoccupations are pretty much the same as those faced by romantic New Yorkers from Fred and Ginger to Kate and Cary. Smart people with sin-deep problems walk through a muggerless Central Park. Money worries are for comic relief. Cocktail-party chat is about something...
...much more worldly atmosphere of the 1980s. She is (rightly) seen as both serious and popular, no easy feat. That a colleague of such fiercely reductive artists as Brice Marden, Barry Le Va and Richard Serra, formed in the hot arguments and unheated lofts of a pre-yuppie SoHo, would emerge by the mid-'80s as a corporate muralist, decorating the Volvo headquarters in Goteborg, Sweden, and the dining room of the AT&T Building in Manhattan with her fluent, electric and inexorably charming images of landscape and sea--could any development be less predictable...
Glass and Wilson began as cultural rebels, "downtown" artists in New York City's bohemian SoHo district who shared a radical aesthetic. Linked not only by ideals but by the cultural establishment's chilly rejection of their efforts, they and several like-minded colleagues forged a style that prized content over form, emotion over intellectuality; gradually, they won over wider audiences with the uncompromising excellence of their visions. Today Glass's relentless, repetitious music has become gentler, smoother, subtler and more flexible. Wilson's stream-of-consciousness stage pictures, which are intended to evoke emotional states rather than further conventional...
...some startling stage pictures, including an earthquake that sunders the stage and a dazzling meteor shower. Just as the West German city of Darmstadt nurtured the post-Webern twelve-tone composers after World War II, so has the Brooklyn Academy offered a safe haven for the minimalists from SoHo...