James Crump’s new film Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco is a fascinating portrait of fashion illustrator Lopez, his partner Juan Ramos, and their creative milieu in late 1960s and early ‘70s New York and Paris. Lopez is credited with discovering many of the women whom he surrounded himself with as muses and friends such as Grace Jones, Pat Cleveland, Jessica Lange, Jerry Hall and Warhol Superstars Donna Jordan and Jane Forth, regarded as unconventional beauties by the style arbiters of the time.
The film explores the blurred lines between Lopez’s personal and creative lives, his process of working and his relationships with prominent fashion and art figures such as Andy Warhol and Karl Lagerfeld. There are compelling and often intimate insights from those who knew Lopez well including American Vogue’s Grace Coddington and Oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange, with a poignant final interview from the late iconic...
The film explores the blurred lines between Lopez’s personal and creative lives, his process of working and his relationships with prominent fashion and art figures such as Andy Warhol and Karl Lagerfeld. There are compelling and often intimate insights from those who knew Lopez well including American Vogue’s Grace Coddington and Oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange, with a poignant final interview from the late iconic...
- 9/14/2018
- by James Kleinmann
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Doc NYC Artistic Director Thom Powers Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
James Crump's Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco is the Grand Jury Prize Metropolis Competition winner and The Stranger, directed by Nicole N Horanyi, tops the Viewfinders Competition in the 2017 Doc NYC juried feature programs.
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco poster
Statement from Metropolis jurors Andrew Rossi (The First Monday In May, Bronx Gothic), Art Basel film programmer Marian Masone and Nantucket Film Festival executive director Mystelle Brabbée: "For rescuing a vital figure in the fashion industry from the background of New York in the 1970s, when the joy and diversity of a new creative vision helped the city emerge from darkness, the Metropolis jury awards Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco by filmmaker James Crump."
Statement from Viewfinders jurors Doug Block (The Kids Grow Up, 51 Birch Street), Vox film critic Alissa Wilkinson and Women Make Movies executive...
James Crump's Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco is the Grand Jury Prize Metropolis Competition winner and The Stranger, directed by Nicole N Horanyi, tops the Viewfinders Competition in the 2017 Doc NYC juried feature programs.
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco poster
Statement from Metropolis jurors Andrew Rossi (The First Monday In May, Bronx Gothic), Art Basel film programmer Marian Masone and Nantucket Film Festival executive director Mystelle Brabbée: "For rescuing a vital figure in the fashion industry from the background of New York in the 1970s, when the joy and diversity of a new creative vision helped the city emerge from darkness, the Metropolis jury awards Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco by filmmaker James Crump."
Statement from Viewfinders jurors Doug Block (The Kids Grow Up, 51 Birch Street), Vox film critic Alissa Wilkinson and Women Make Movies executive...
- 11/17/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Bill Cunningham's last interview is in Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Greg Barker's The Final Year (documenting members of Barack Obama's administration, including Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, Secretary of State John Kerry and speechwriter Ben Rhodes in 2016) opened Doc NYC last night. Tiffany Bartok's Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story (with Paulina Porizkova, Kate Moss, Brooke Shields, Cher, Isabella Rossellini, Naomi Campbell, Isaac Mizrahi, Tori Amos, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Linda Wells); James Crump's Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco (Jessica Lange, Grace Jones, Jerry Hall, Juan Ramos, Yves Saint Laurent, Donna Jordan, Karl Lagerfeld, Grace Coddington, Bob Colacello, Bill Cunningham); Bobbi Jo Hart's Rebels on Pointe, and Samuel D Pollard's Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me are four more of this year's Doc NYC highlights.
Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story
Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story...
Greg Barker's The Final Year (documenting members of Barack Obama's administration, including Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, Secretary of State John Kerry and speechwriter Ben Rhodes in 2016) opened Doc NYC last night. Tiffany Bartok's Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story (with Paulina Porizkova, Kate Moss, Brooke Shields, Cher, Isabella Rossellini, Naomi Campbell, Isaac Mizrahi, Tori Amos, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Linda Wells); James Crump's Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco (Jessica Lange, Grace Jones, Jerry Hall, Juan Ramos, Yves Saint Laurent, Donna Jordan, Karl Lagerfeld, Grace Coddington, Bob Colacello, Bill Cunningham); Bobbi Jo Hart's Rebels on Pointe, and Samuel D Pollard's Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me are four more of this year's Doc NYC highlights.
Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story
Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story...
- 11/10/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
James Crump on Antonio Lopez: "Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, Chris von Wangenheim, you know, Avedon, Penn - he's working at the same level, yet he is an illustrator." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Another highlight of this year's Doc NYC is James Crump's Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco screening in the Metropolis competition. The film on the famed fashion illustrator features Jessica Lange, Grace Jones, Jerry Hall, Bill Cunningham, Yves Saint Laurent, Donna Jordan, Pat Cleveland, Jane Forth, Corey Tippin, Grace Coddington, Patti D’Arbanville, Karl Lagerfeld, Joan Juliet Buck, Bob Colacello, Paul Caranicas, Juan Ramos, Tina and Michael Chow with film clips including Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, Pierre Thoretton's L'Amour Fou, and Andy Warhol's L'Amour.
Antonio Lopez: "He was embracing this idea of diversity and inclusivity in the mid-Sixties when today people are taking credit for the diversity of the runway."
James Crump (director...
Another highlight of this year's Doc NYC is James Crump's Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco screening in the Metropolis competition. The film on the famed fashion illustrator features Jessica Lange, Grace Jones, Jerry Hall, Bill Cunningham, Yves Saint Laurent, Donna Jordan, Pat Cleveland, Jane Forth, Corey Tippin, Grace Coddington, Patti D’Arbanville, Karl Lagerfeld, Joan Juliet Buck, Bob Colacello, Paul Caranicas, Juan Ramos, Tina and Michael Chow with film clips including Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, Pierre Thoretton's L'Amour Fou, and Andy Warhol's L'Amour.
Antonio Lopez: "He was embracing this idea of diversity and inclusivity in the mid-Sixties when today people are taking credit for the diversity of the runway."
James Crump (director...
- 11/6/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Title: Troublemakers The Story of Land Art First Run Features Director: James Crump Writer: James Crump Cast: Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, Robert Smithson, Dennis Oppenheim, Nancy Holt, Willoughby Sharp, Carl Andre, Vito Acconci Running Time: 72 min Rated: Unrated (Language) Special Features: Discussion with director James Crump and Philipp Vergne (45mn); The Artist Bios; Director Bio Available On DVD & VOD 05/17 The life of artists in the late 1960s and early 1970s was apparently quite difficult. This documentary features a handful of New York artists that were tired of being boxed into a gallery, and sought out larger venues to showcase their creativity and came up with “land [ Read More ]
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- 6/12/2016
- by juliana
- ShockYa
From the Spiral Jetty to creations on the scale of Stonehenge, James Crumb’s fascinating documentary pays tribute to the real outsider art
Related: Deserts and dynamite: my journey to the cosmic heart of land art
James Crump’s engrossing documentary concerns the American pioneers of “land art” or “earth art” who in their 1960s heyday sought to escape the fiddly little world of art galleries with their fancy-price-tag objects and instead create gigantic site specific monoliths in desert or wilderness spaces using the natural materials thereabouts: huge creations to be compared to Stonehenge or the pyramids. Among them was Robert Smithson, who created Spiral Jetty, a massive sculpture in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, fashioned out of crystals and rock.
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Related: Deserts and dynamite: my journey to the cosmic heart of land art
James Crump’s engrossing documentary concerns the American pioneers of “land art” or “earth art” who in their 1960s heyday sought to escape the fiddly little world of art galleries with their fancy-price-tag objects and instead create gigantic site specific monoliths in desert or wilderness spaces using the natural materials thereabouts: huge creations to be compared to Stonehenge or the pyramids. Among them was Robert Smithson, who created Spiral Jetty, a massive sculpture in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, fashioned out of crystals and rock.
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- 5/11/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Focusing on Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria and Michael Heizer, this documentary explores the artists who decided to make huge works in the open air – a modern-day equivalent of Stonehenge
Early in James Crump’s Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art one of his talking-head subjects, Charles Ross, reminisces back to the early 1970s to tell how he picked the location for his site-specific earthwork sculpture Star Axis. When the movie ends we learn that 40 years later, Star Axis is still a work in progress. These people are not fooling around.
Beginning in the late 1960s, a group of artists got the itch to find a larger canvas and sling a little mud at the established gallery structure. Heading west, these likeminded pioneers traded paintbrushes for heavy machinery, creating gashes in the ground, erecting structures and manipulating the very landscape toward their own sometimes difficult-to-define goals.
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Early in James Crump’s Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art one of his talking-head subjects, Charles Ross, reminisces back to the early 1970s to tell how he picked the location for his site-specific earthwork sculpture Star Axis. When the movie ends we learn that 40 years later, Star Axis is still a work in progress. These people are not fooling around.
Beginning in the late 1960s, a group of artists got the itch to find a larger canvas and sling a little mud at the established gallery structure. Heading west, these likeminded pioneers traded paintbrushes for heavy machinery, creating gashes in the ground, erecting structures and manipulating the very landscape toward their own sometimes difficult-to-define goals.
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- 1/8/2016
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
The 53rd New York Film Festival’s Spotlight on Documentary launches on September 27 and features new work from Frederick Wiseman, Laura Poitras, Walter Salles and Joaquim Pinto.
Poitras, winner of this year’s best documentary Oscar for Citizenfour, will preview the Julian Assange series Asylum.
Wiseman’s 40th documentary feature In Jackson Heights (pictured) profiles the culturally diverse New York neighbourhood caught in the midst of economic development.
In Fish Tail, Pinto and husband Leonel document the artisanal work of small-scale fishermen in the Azorean island of Rabo de Peixe. Salles’ Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang profiles the Chinese director as he revisits his hometown.
Spotlight on Documentary line-up:
Everything Is Copy (USA), Jacob Bernstein
World Premiere
Field Of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction (USA-Germany), Laura Poitras
World Premiere
Fish Tail (Rabo de Peixe) (Portugal), Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel
North American premiere
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (Iraq-France), Abbas Fahdel,
Part 1: Before...
Poitras, winner of this year’s best documentary Oscar for Citizenfour, will preview the Julian Assange series Asylum.
Wiseman’s 40th documentary feature In Jackson Heights (pictured) profiles the culturally diverse New York neighbourhood caught in the midst of economic development.
In Fish Tail, Pinto and husband Leonel document the artisanal work of small-scale fishermen in the Azorean island of Rabo de Peixe. Salles’ Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang profiles the Chinese director as he revisits his hometown.
Spotlight on Documentary line-up:
Everything Is Copy (USA), Jacob Bernstein
World Premiere
Field Of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction (USA-Germany), Laura Poitras
World Premiere
Fish Tail (Rabo de Peixe) (Portugal), Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel
North American premiere
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (Iraq-France), Abbas Fahdel,
Part 1: Before...
- 8/24/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Pabst Blue Ribbon Sign, Chicago, Illinois, 1946. © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Walker Evans’s early documentary photographs of poverty in the South during the Great Depression captured the public’s attention—even altering the way many Americans saw their country—and helped define his 46-year career. Yet his little–known works produced in the ensuing decades are equally as innovative. Drawn chiefly from a largely unseen private collection, and curated by the ever–inventive James Crump, the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Decade by Decade (on display through September 5), is the first exhibition spanning Evans’s work from every decade, including his years at Fortune magazine in the 1940’s, 50s, and 60s, until his death in 1975. The exhibition also debuts rare photographs from the Victorian House survey series, which Evans began in 1931, as well as prints from a trip to Tahiti the following year. As a coda,...
- 6/11/2010
- Vanity Fair
Rapper threatens to quit after negative feedback on his philosophical tweets.
By Jayson Rodriguez
Lil Wayne
Photo: James Crump/Getty Images
Less than a week after officially joining Twitter, it looks like Lil Wayne may now give up on the micro-blogging service. He sent word on Thursday (February 25) that he's going to stop using Twitter because the feedback led him to believe his messages weren't wanted.
"Gunna stop with the tweets now that I see they're so unliked," Wayne wrote. "It's a mirror of my thoughts, and obviously my thoughts aren't [welcome]. Sorry."
The rapper has only posted 18 times so far, but the sporadic tweets have been a mix of testing the waters and cryptic dispatches that are as loaded as his rhymes.
"Love is a road without signs, yet we still drive bekuz we kan only imagine what's ahead," he wrote on Wednesday.
While the Cash Money Records superstar's presence...
By Jayson Rodriguez
Lil Wayne
Photo: James Crump/Getty Images
Less than a week after officially joining Twitter, it looks like Lil Wayne may now give up on the micro-blogging service. He sent word on Thursday (February 25) that he's going to stop using Twitter because the feedback led him to believe his messages weren't wanted.
"Gunna stop with the tweets now that I see they're so unliked," Wayne wrote. "It's a mirror of my thoughts, and obviously my thoughts aren't [welcome]. Sorry."
The rapper has only posted 18 times so far, but the sporadic tweets have been a mix of testing the waters and cryptic dispatches that are as loaded as his rhymes.
"Love is a road without signs, yet we still drive bekuz we kan only imagine what's ahead," he wrote on Wednesday.
While the Cash Money Records superstar's presence...
- 2/25/2010
- MTV Music News
Palm Springs International Film FestivalLM Media/Arthouse Films
PALM SPRINGS -- You needn't be an aficionado of photography, erotica, sadomasochism or First Amendment law to know of Robert Mapplethorpe. But Sam Wagstaff, who as Mapplethorpe's patron and lover helped inform his sensibility, is hardly a household name despite his lasting influence as a collector and curator. With his first film, James Crump aims to restore Wagstaff to his place in art history. Black White + Gray -- which takes its title from a groundbreaking 1964 Minimalism exhibition that Wagstaff organized -- gathers a wealth of talking-head reminiscences and photographic exhibits. The brief (72-minute) docu is sometimes cursory, sometimes repetitive, but it's a creditable introduction to a fascinating life.
A key witness is Patti Smith, whose connection to Mapplethorpe is well documented. She relays his excitement upon meeting the hyperintelligent, handsome Wagstaff, scion of a New York society family and 25 years his senior. Smith recalls the thrift-shop outings that netted shopping bags full of postcards, snapshots, medical photos and gay erotica -- the beginnings of Wagstaff's world-class photography collection and the inspiration for Mapplethorpe's often controversial work. Wagstaff's collection also formed the core of the Getty's photo holdings when the museum purchased it in 1984.
Before that decade's end, he and Mapplethorpe would both be dead of AIDS. How their relationship changed over the years isn't clear in the film, but there's no question that Wagstaff introduced his protege to the high-stakes world of glamour and money. Some saw them as perfect complements; some saw a master manipulator in Mapplethorpe. The film tends to overstate the divide between boarding-school breeding and downtown debauchery, especially within the heady art and music scene of 1970s Manhattan. As narrator Joan Juliet Buck intones in the slightly scandalized tones of Upper East Side refinement, the supposed Culture Clash found a meeting place at drug parties in Wagstaff's Greenwich Village high-rise apartment.
In clips from the indispensable Dick Cavett Show, Wagstaff is debonair, articulate, charming. It's easy to see why Smith's affection and respect for him are undimmed. Undimmed as well is the esoterica he lovingly amassed, which helped to elevate photography's standing as an art and which still delivers a vivifying jolt.
PALM SPRINGS -- You needn't be an aficionado of photography, erotica, sadomasochism or First Amendment law to know of Robert Mapplethorpe. But Sam Wagstaff, who as Mapplethorpe's patron and lover helped inform his sensibility, is hardly a household name despite his lasting influence as a collector and curator. With his first film, James Crump aims to restore Wagstaff to his place in art history. Black White + Gray -- which takes its title from a groundbreaking 1964 Minimalism exhibition that Wagstaff organized -- gathers a wealth of talking-head reminiscences and photographic exhibits. The brief (72-minute) docu is sometimes cursory, sometimes repetitive, but it's a creditable introduction to a fascinating life.
A key witness is Patti Smith, whose connection to Mapplethorpe is well documented. She relays his excitement upon meeting the hyperintelligent, handsome Wagstaff, scion of a New York society family and 25 years his senior. Smith recalls the thrift-shop outings that netted shopping bags full of postcards, snapshots, medical photos and gay erotica -- the beginnings of Wagstaff's world-class photography collection and the inspiration for Mapplethorpe's often controversial work. Wagstaff's collection also formed the core of the Getty's photo holdings when the museum purchased it in 1984.
Before that decade's end, he and Mapplethorpe would both be dead of AIDS. How their relationship changed over the years isn't clear in the film, but there's no question that Wagstaff introduced his protege to the high-stakes world of glamour and money. Some saw them as perfect complements; some saw a master manipulator in Mapplethorpe. The film tends to overstate the divide between boarding-school breeding and downtown debauchery, especially within the heady art and music scene of 1970s Manhattan. As narrator Joan Juliet Buck intones in the slightly scandalized tones of Upper East Side refinement, the supposed Culture Clash found a meeting place at drug parties in Wagstaff's Greenwich Village high-rise apartment.
In clips from the indispensable Dick Cavett Show, Wagstaff is debonair, articulate, charming. It's easy to see why Smith's affection and respect for him are undimmed. Undimmed as well is the esoterica he lovingly amassed, which helped to elevate photography's standing as an art and which still delivers a vivifying jolt.
- 3/31/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- In a weekend that saw some high-profile changes in indie film, Netflix's Red Envelope entertainment head Bahman Naraghi and HDNet Films co-founders Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente are leaving their respective companies.
Naraghi confirmed Sunday evening that he was leaving Netflix on "very good terms" and that would be able to talk about his new job in a few weeks. It is expected that he will be leaving imminently to join another company involved in film downloads.
Naraghi helped found the Netflix division, which partners with theatrical and home video retail distributors to purchase titles for its online rental service.
Red Envelope is involved in deals on multiple titles at the Toronto International Film Festival, including the recently announced partnership with IFC to buy "Love Songs" (Les chansons d'amour). The company also said Sunday that they had partnered with Arthouse Films to distribute James Crump's documentary "Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Maplethorpe," which is scheduled to open in New York and Los Angeles by the end of the year.
Naraghi confirmed Sunday evening that he was leaving Netflix on "very good terms" and that would be able to talk about his new job in a few weeks. It is expected that he will be leaving imminently to join another company involved in film downloads.
Naraghi helped found the Netflix division, which partners with theatrical and home video retail distributors to purchase titles for its online rental service.
Red Envelope is involved in deals on multiple titles at the Toronto International Film Festival, including the recently announced partnership with IFC to buy "Love Songs" (Les chansons d'amour). The company also said Sunday that they had partnered with Arthouse Films to distribute James Crump's documentary "Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Maplethorpe," which is scheduled to open in New York and Los Angeles by the end of the year.
- 9/10/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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