Category Archives: Documentary
Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times / 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
Yves Saint Laurent, (August 1, 1936 – June 1, 2008), was one of the greatest names in fashion history. In 1985, Caroline Rennolds Milbank wrote, “The most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years, Yves Saint Laurent can be credited with both spurring the couture’s rise from its sixties ashes and with finally rendering ready-to-wear reputable.” He is ……
Jazz on a summer’s day. Bert Stern’s historic jazz movie!
In 1958, Bert Stern, one of the most important photographers of all times, set out to produce a movie about the annual Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island.
Thinking that music didn’t just have to be recorded, he approached the subject as a way of making the images be part of an experience that transcended the ……
Documentary – Valentino: The Last Emperor
(May 1932), commonly referred to as Valentino, is an italian designer founder of the fashion brand “Valentino”.
Valentino had a prolific carrier. After being interested in fashion in Italy he moved to Paris to pursue his design studies and looking for work at atteliers such and ended working for Jean Desses. After 5 years in Paris, ……
Documentary on the life of Basquiat “Jean Michel Basquiat, The Radiant Child”
Jean Michel Basquiat was an American artist who started doing graffiti in New York in the 1970′s, and evolved into a Neo-Expressionist in the 1980′s.
Born to multiethnic parents in Brooklyn, his family moved to Puerto Rico when his parents divorced, his father raised him and his two sisters, and his mother was put into a ……
Documentary on the life of Vladimir Horowitz, The Last Romantic
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz is commonly referred to as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th Century. Born in Kiev in 1903, he received early musical instruction from his mother, a pianist herself, before joining the Kiev Conservatory. He would soon start touring an impoverished Soviet Union, where he would often be paid with bread, ……
Mark Zuckerberg: Inside Facebook
When Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO, used to stay up in his Harvard dorm to code away the night and effectively build the embryo of Facebook, little did he know he would become one of the cultural icons of the beginning of the XXIst century.
Facebook’s story has fueled popular imagination, from the richness its ……
Salman Rushdie and the Satanic Verses Affair
When writer Salman Rushdie, winner of the Booker price, published his fourth book, The Satanic Verses, he could in no way foresee the consequences that part of his writing, apparently inspired by certain parts of the Quram and the prophet Mohammad, would have in the muslim community, and specifically in those muslims living in India ……
Documentary – Jorge Luis Borges, The Mirror!
Jorge Luis Borges (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. His work embraces the “character of unreality in all literature”. His most famous books, Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph(1949), are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes such as dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, animals, fictional writers, religion and God. ……