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Posted June 16, 2011 to photo album "Artists Using Film, from Dali to Mills"
Mike Mills, the writer/director of Beginners, started as graphic artists. Many other artists have turned to film to expand and evolve their vision.
Andy Warhol: Film as Concept
Other Warhol films included the short Blow-Job — a study of a man’s face receiving oral sex — and Empire, an eight-hour study of the Empire State Building at night. His classic 1966 film Chelsea Girls gathered many of his superstars for a series of performance-oriented and psychologically charged vignettes, juxtaposed with each other by dual 16mm projection. Later, Warhol would move away from such overtly experimental works and, acting as a producer, handed the camera to Paul Morrissey, who made more narrative tales of the underground (Flesh, Trash, Heat) and, later, arty B-movie riffs on classic horror (Andy Warhol’s Dracula, Flesh for Frankenstein). Summing up Warhol’s film career, critic David Bourdon wrote, “More talked about than seen, more emulated than admired, Andy Warhol's films will probably survive as legends rather than as living classics that people will want to see again and again. Currently, there is a fairly broad consensus that he is among the most important, provocative and influential filmmakers of the sixties…. to art and cinema connoisseurs.”
The World's End
We Steal Secrets
Closed Circuit
The Deep
The Place Beyond The Pines
Greetings from Tim Buckley
Admission
Promised Land
Anna Karenina
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brokeback Mountain
Lost in Translation
Pride & Prejudice
The Pianist
Gosford Park