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Year: 2006
Director: Douglas Gordon, Phillipe Parreno
Plot: Acclaimed visual artists Douglas Gordon and Phillipe Parreno turn their attentions to filmmaking -- and one of Europe's leading soccer stars -- in this offbeat documentary. Zinedine Zidane is among the most celebrated athletes in European football; playing for Real Madrid, the Frenchman has earned a reputation for graceful yet aggressive play and a confrontational style. Gordon and Parreno have made a film about Zidane, but viewers of Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait will learn nothing about his life off the field, and only so much about his work on it. Instead of telling Zidane's life story, the filmmakers set up 17 cameras around the field (with the help of cinematographer Darius Khondji) for a April 23, 2005, game against Villarreal and carefully followed Zidane throughout the game, even when he wasn't in play. The subsequent footage was used to create a portrait in motion of the athlete, much in the manner of a painter or photographer, accompanied by excerpts from recorded interviews in which the footballer discusses his attitude toward the game and his feelings on the field. Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (aka Zidane: Un Portrait du XXIe Siecle) was screened at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival as part of the Visions series, devoted to maverick filmmaking from around the world. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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]]>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:00:51 GMTZidane: A 21st Century Portrait2006Douglas Gordon, Phillipe ParrenoAcclaimed visual artists Douglas Gordon and Phillipe Parreno turn their attentions to filmmaking -- and one of Europe's leading soccer stars -- in this offbeat documentary. Zinedine Zidane is among the most celebrated athletes in European football; playing for Real Madrid, the Frenchman has earned a reputation for graceful yet aggressive play and a confrontational style. Gordon and Parreno have made a film about Zidane, but viewers of Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait will learn nothing about his life off the field, and only so much about his work on it. Instead of telling Zidane's life story, the filmmakers set up 17 cameras around the field (with the help of cinematographer <a href="/players/P____97321/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Darius Khondji</a>) for a April 23, 2005, game against Villarreal and carefully followed Zidane throughout the game, even when he wasn't in play. The subsequent footage was used to create a portrait in motion of the athlete, much in the manner of a painter or photographer, accompanied by excerpts from recorded interviews in which the footballer discusses his attitude toward the game and his feelings on the field. Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (aka Zidane: Un Portrait du XXIe Siecle) was screened at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival as part of the Visions series, devoted to maverick filmmaking from around the world. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide124http://www.spout.com/images/no_image.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Zidane_A_21st_Century_Portrait/282163/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/6/19/31442.aspxPost By: Karina
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Post Date: 6/19/2008 11:00:51 PM
Body: Spike Lee physically showed up to accept the Guggenheim Honor from the SilverDocs film festival tonight, but mentally, for much of the evening, he seemed to be elsewhere. Maybe his recent squabbles with Clint Eastwood have taken a toll, but when asked to talk about his non-fiction films by Denver Post film critic Lisa Kennedy, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker was virtually unresponsive. Only two subjects seemed to draw out Lee’s fierce, super-quotable Frankenstein. One was Tyler Perry, who Lee didn’t quite slam, but definitely dissed by implication. “I’d love to see a great film anout Martin Luther King,” Lee said. “But I can’t do everything.” He paused as a smile creept across his face. “I gotta leave something for Tyler Perry.” This got the desired affect from the audience––laughs, claps, a few stray “ooooh!”s––and then Lee offered cryptic clarification. “I made the movie Bamboozled,” he said, as if that’s facetious evidence enouh that the master of the modern minstrel show would be the appropriate director for a serious film about Dr. King. The only other subject that could jolt Lee out of his slumping stupor on stage was Barack Obama, to which all conversational roads seemed to lead. Discussing his Hurricane Katrina epic When the Levees Broke, Lee referenced the current flooding in the midwest and said, “The infrastructure of this country is crumbling, and money’s going elsewhere.” He paused, then at quadruple the volume: “That’s gonna change, though…gonna be a real Chocolate City!” He went on to drop the news that his longtime editor Sam Pollard has been filming Obama throughout the primary season and has already captured 1,000 hours of footage for a documentary being produced by Edward Norton. When Kennedy began a question with the phrase, “If Obama’s gonna become president…”, Lee inturrupted. “There is no if! It changes everything…it’s gonna be Before Obama, and After Obama. And I’m gonna be at that innaguration, too.” As if often the case with Lee, where his off-hours personality rankles, his work is impossible to dismiss. Towards the end of the festivities, Lee presented the Cannes show reel for his next release, The Miracle at St. Anna, about an all-black brigade fighting Fascists in Northern Italy during WWII. Though you can rarely tell what a finished film will actually be like from those sorts of things, the Miracle reel certainly had one or two moments worth writing home about. In one scene, a lipsticked German vamp records a propaganda message to be broadcast to African-American soldiers. “The American white man is raping your wives and daughters,” she warns, almost in a sing-song. “There’s something wrong here,” one of these soldiers later confides to another. “I’m not a nigger here, I’m just me.” It looks like epic Oscar bait. It’s set for release in late September, so imagine we’ll see it at Toronto. Lee also let slip details on two sports documentaries he currently has in the works. The first, inspired by Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, is a single game portrait of Kobe Bryant, shot before, during and after a game with 30 cameras; that one will air “on ESPN or ABC” at the start of next year’s basketball season. The other film would seem to be an even bigger deal for basketball fans: a documentary about Michael Jordan’s last year in Chicago, which Lee says he hopes to premiere next year at Cannes. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:00:51 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog6/19/2008 11:00:51 PM Spike Lee physically showed up to accept the Guggenheim Honor from the SilverDocs film festival tonight, but mentally, for much of the evening, he seemed to be elsewhere. Maybe his recent squabbles with Clint Eastwood have taken a toll, but when asked to talk about his non-fiction films by Denver Post film critic Lisa Kennedy, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker was virtually unresponsive. Only two subjects seemed to draw out Lee’s fierce, super-quotable Frankenstein. One was Tyler Perry, who Lee didn’t quite slam, but definitely dissed by implication. “I’d love to see a great film anout Martin Luther King,” Lee said. “But I can’t do everything.” He paused as a smile creept across his face. “I gotta leave something for Tyler Perry.” This got the desired affect from the audience––laughs, claps, a few stray “ooooh!”s––and then Lee offered cryptic clarification. “I made the movie Bamboozled,” he said, as if that’s facetious evidence enouh that the master of the modern minstrel show would be the appropriate director for a serious film about Dr. King. The only other subject that could jolt Lee out of his slumping stupor on stage was Barack Obama, to which all conversational roads seemed to lead. Discussing his Hurricane Katrina epic When the Levees Broke, Lee referenced the current flooding in the midwest and said, “The infrastructure of this country is crumbling, and money’s going elsewhere.” He paused, then at quadruple the volume: “That’s gonna change, though…gonna be a real Chocolate City!” He went on to drop the news that his longtime editor Sam Pollard has been filming Obama throughout the primary season and has already captured 1,000 hours of footage for a documentary being produced by Edward Norton. When Kennedy began a question with the phrase, “If Obama’s gonna become president…”, Lee inturrupted. “There is no if! It changes everything…it’s gonna be Before Obama, and After Obama. And I’m gonna be at that innaguration, too.” As if often the case with Lee, where his off-hours personality rankles, his work is impossible to dismiss. Towards the end of the festivities, Lee presented the Cannes show reel for his next release, The Miracle at St. Anna, about an all-black brigade fighting Fascists in Northern Italy during WWII. Though you can rarely tell what a finished film will actually be like from those sorts of things, the Miracle reel certainly had one or two moments worth writing home about. In one scene, a lipsticked German vamp records a propaganda message to be broadcast to African-American soldiers. “The American white man is raping your wives and daughters,” she warns, almost in a sing-song. “There’s something wrong here,” one of these soldiers later confides to another. “I’m not a nigger here, I’m just me.” It looks like epic Oscar bait. It’s set for release in late September, so imagine we’ll see it at Toronto. Lee also let slip details on two sports documentaries he currently has in the works. The first, inspired by Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, is a single game portrait of Kobe Bryant, shot before, during and after a game with 30 cameras; that one will air “on ESPN or ABC” at the start of next year’s basketball season. The other film would seem to be an even bigger deal for basketball fans: a documentary about Michael Jordan’s last year in Chicago, which Lee says he hopes to premiere next year at Cannes. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/6/19/31441.aspxPost By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 6/19/2008 11:00:42 PM
Body: Spike Lee physically showed up to accept the Guggenheim Honor from the SilverDocs film festival tonight, but mentally, for much of the evening, he seemed to be elsewhere. Maybe his recent squabbles with Clint Eastwood have taken a toll, but when asked to talk about his non-fiction films by Denver Post film critic Lisa Kennedy, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker was virtually unresponsive. Only two subjects seemed to draw out Lee’s fierce, super-quotable Frankenstein. One was Tyler Perry, who Lee didn’t quite slam, but definitely dissed by implication. “I’d love to see a great film anout Martin Luther King,” Lee said. “But I can’t do everything.” He paused as a smile creept across his face. “I gotta leave something for Tyler Perry.” This got the desired affect from the audience––laughs, claps, a few stray “ooooh!”s––and then Lee offered cryptic clarification. “I made the movie Bamboozled,” he said, as if that’s facetious evidence enouh that the master of the modern minstrel show would be the appropriate director for a serious film about Dr. King. The only other subject that could jolt Lee out of his slumping stupor on stage was Barack Obama, to which all conversational roads seemed to lead. Discussing his Hurricane Katrina epic When the Levees Broke, Lee referenced the current flooding in the midwest and said, “The infrastructure of this country is crumbling, and money’s going elsewhere.” He paused, then at quadruple the volume: “That’s gonna change, though…gonna be a real Chocolate City!” He went on to drop the news that his longtime editor Sam Pollard has been filming Obama throughout the primary season and has already captured 1,000 hours of footage for a documentary being produced by Edward Norton. When Kennedy began a question with the phrase, “If Obama’s gonna become president…”, Lee inturrupted. “There is no if! It changes everything…it’s gonna be Before Obama, and After Obama. And I’m gonna be at that innaguration, too.” As if often the case with Lee, where his off-hours personality rankles, his work is impossible to dismiss. Towards the end of the festivities, Lee presented the Cannes show reel for his next release, The Miracle at St. Anna, about an all-black brigade fighting Fascists in Northern Italy during WWII. Though you can rarely tell what a finished film will actually be like from those sorts of things, the Miracle reel certainly had one or two moments worth writing home about. In one scene, a lipsticked German vamp records a propaganda message to be broadcast to African-American soldiers. “The American white man is raping your wives and daughters,” she warns, almost in a sing-song. “There’s something wrong here,” one of these soldiers later confides to another. “I’m not a nigger here, I’m just me.” It looks like epic Oscar bait. It’s set for release in late September, so imagine we’ll see it at Toronto. Lee also let slip details on two sports documentaries he currently has in the works. The first, inspired by Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, is a single game portrait of Kobe Bryant, shot before, during and after a game with 30 cameras; that one will air “on ESPN or ABC” at the start of next year’s basketball season. The other film would seem to be an even bigger deal for basketball fans: a documentary about Michael Jordan’s last year in Chicago, which Lee says he hopes to premiere next year at Cannes. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:00:42 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com6/19/2008 11:00:42 PM Spike Lee physically showed up to accept the Guggenheim Honor from the SilverDocs film festival tonight, but mentally, for much of the evening, he seemed to be elsewhere. Maybe his recent squabbles with Clint Eastwood have taken a toll, but when asked to talk about his non-fiction films by Denver Post film critic Lisa Kennedy, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker was virtually unresponsive. Only two subjects seemed to draw out Lee’s fierce, super-quotable Frankenstein. One was Tyler Perry, who Lee didn’t quite slam, but definitely dissed by implication. “I’d love to see a great film anout Martin Luther King,” Lee said. “But I can’t do everything.” He paused as a smile creept across his face. “I gotta leave something for Tyler Perry.” This got the desired affect from the audience––laughs, claps, a few stray “ooooh!”s––and then Lee offered cryptic clarification. “I made the movie Bamboozled,” he said, as if that’s facetious evidence enouh that the master of the modern minstrel show would be the appropriate director for a serious film about Dr. King. The only other subject that could jolt Lee out of his slumping stupor on stage was Barack Obama, to which all conversational roads seemed to lead. Discussing his Hurricane Katrina epic When the Levees Broke, Lee referenced the current flooding in the midwest and said, “The infrastructure of this country is crumbling, and money’s going elsewhere.” He paused, then at quadruple the volume: “That’s gonna change, though…gonna be a real Chocolate City!” He went on to drop the news that his longtime editor Sam Pollard has been filming Obama throughout the primary season and has already captured 1,000 hours of footage for a documentary being produced by Edward Norton. When Kennedy began a question with the phrase, “If Obama’s gonna become president…”, Lee inturrupted. “There is no if! It changes everything…it’s gonna be Before Obama, and After Obama. And I’m gonna be at that innaguration, too.” As if often the case with Lee, where his off-hours personality rankles, his work is impossible to dismiss. Towards the end of the festivities, Lee presented the Cannes show reel for his next release, The Miracle at St. Anna, about an all-black brigade fighting Fascists in Northern Italy during WWII. Though you can rarely tell what a finished film will actually be like from those sorts of things, the Miracle reel certainly had one or two moments worth writing home about. In one scene, a lipsticked German vamp records a propaganda message to be broadcast to African-American soldiers. “The American white man is raping your wives and daughters,” she warns, almost in a sing-song. “There’s something wrong here,” one of these soldiers later confides to another. “I’m not a nigger here, I’m just me.” It looks like epic Oscar bait. It’s set for release in late September, so imagine we’ll see it at Toronto. Lee also let slip details on two sports documentaries he currently has in the works. The first, inspired by Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, is a single game portrait of Kobe Bryant, shot before, during and after a game with 30 cameras; that one will air “on ESPN or ABC” at the start of next year’s basketball season. The other film would seem to be an even bigger deal for basketball fans: a documentary about Michael Jordan’s last year in Chicago, which Lee says he hopes to premiere next year at Cannes. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog