Bruce Conner, 74, beat artist and filmmaker Jul 13, 2008
Under the influence of his friend and fellow filmmaker Stan Brakhage, he created collages of found and new footage. Conner's first and best-known film, "A Movie" (1958), is a 12-minute sequence of clips from old movies, newsreels and other sources set to lushly romantic music. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
In Cannes, an embarrassment of riches May 25, 2007
Schnabel, who leans heavily on techniques borrowed from the American avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage for the striking opening when Bauby awoke from his coma, creates a very pretty if not particularly involving world in "The Diving Bell." The gross bodily insults inflected on Bauby, much less the profundity of his grief, are forever being washed away in a tide of carefully aestheticized imagery, all gauzy light, roses and radiant female faces, which reveals more about the aesthete behind the... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Film reviewer's role is to provide context Apr 15, 2007
So, yes, a working critic needs to have the tools and the invested hours of movie watching -- needs to, in Bergan's words, "have seen Jean-Luc Godard's 'Histoire du Cin ma,' and every film by Carl Dreyer, Robert Bresson, Jean Renoir, Luis Bunuel, and Ingmar Bergman, as well as those of Jean-Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet, and at least one by Germaine Dulac, Marcel L'Herbier, Mrinal Sen, Marguerite Duras, Mikio Naruse, Jean Eustache, and Stan Brakhage. They should be well versed in Russian... (Boston Globe)
Eight artists prized for their work Mar 21, 2007
To see how others did it, Elder took a summer course in New England and one night saw a film by Stan Brakhage, considered among the most influential experimental filmmakers in America. "I saw his film and said, 'That's what I want to do with the rest of my life.' ". (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
