Import Export, Ulrich Seidl, 2007
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Directed by Marcel L’Herbier, collaborated with Robert Mallet-Stevens and Fernand Léger..
Stills from I Love This Dirty Town.
“First transmitted in 1969, this personal plea from Margaret Drabble is a lament for the death of the city, which questions whether ‘civic redevelopment’ is tearing the heart out of our cities. Are tower blocks, giant supermarkets and an ever expanding suburbia the way forward? Margaret Drabble thinks not and argues that a successful city combines areas where residents and office workers share a space and a multiplicity of shops serve their needs. She also challenges the myth that streets are traffic arteries and unsavoury places to be in, especially for children, arguing that it’s traffic that’s the problem, not kids”
Mock-Ups in Close-Up: Architectural Models in Film, 1919-2012, AF Film at the Barbican
Ben Stiller in Zoolander (2001; Ben Stiller) © Ben Stiller/Barry Peterson
Architect Lebbeus Woods, who inspired sci-fi movies, dies - Los Angeles Times
Woods claimed that director Terry Gilliam copied his 1987 design “Neomechanical Tower (Upper) Chamber,” which depicts an elongated chair mounted on a wall. The architect said that the filmmakers used his design for a scene in which actor Bruce Willis was made to sit in a chair attached high on a wall, confronted with a spherical robotic object. The studio eventually settled the lawsuit and paid a fee to Woods.
The Fountainhead was a 1949 film adaptation of a novel written by Ayn Rand. During production, Rand’s screenplay instructed that “It is the style of Frank Lloyd Wright — and only of Frank Lloyd Wright — that must be taken as a model for (the main character is an architect) Roark’s buildings.” Frank Lloyd Wright turned down an offer to work on the film and the “International Style” architecture of German modernism was adopted instead by production designer Edward Carrere. Rand hated the style and described the designs as copied from pictures of “horrible modernistic buildings”, and judged them as “embarrassingly bad”.
Watch the whole film here.
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