Venice: Le Gallerie dell’Accademia – The Painter Can’t Sleep – Symposium

  The Painter Can’t Sleep - Symposium

Philip Guston

 In the week preceding the closing of the exhibition Philip Guston and The Poets, Le Gallerie dell’Accademia organized a symposium entitled The Painter Can’t Sleep. The phrase is derived from a series of drawings that are the result of the artistic and poetic relationship between Philip Guston and Clark Coolidge, one of the most important American living poets, which appears in several quotes also in the works exhibited on display.

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Kosme de Baranano curator of the exhibition and poet Clark Coolidge

Coolidge was interviewed by de Baranano during the symposium and told of his friendship and collaboration that tied him to Guston. And, Musa Mayer and Pia Capelli read from Mayer’s book Night Studio, A Memoir of Philip Guston by his daughter Musa Mayer.

 

Philip Guston – Clark Coolidge

Drawing – ink on paper – c. 1972-1975

The Painter Can’t Sleep – Symposium

Anders Bergstrom, Clark Coolidge, Pia Capelli, Musa Mayer, Paola Marini, Peter Benson Miller, Federica Olivares and Kosme de Baranano

 

Musa Mayer

After the symposium, the book signing of the only available volume in Italian dedicated to the figure of Philip Guston, published by Johan and Levi and written by Musa Mayer, the daughter of the painter entitled Night Studio. Un Ritratto Intimo di Philip Guston.

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Margherita Alvera and Giovanna Forlanelli

Ketty Alvera and Daniela Ferretti

 

 

Night Studio. Un Ritratto Intimo di Philip Guston

Photograph of the artist by Edward Weston - 1930

 

 

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#Venezia74 – Film Festival 2017 - Lean on Pete – Andrew Haigh

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Lean on Pete

Andrew Haigh

Based on the story by Willy Vlautin, Andrew Haigh’s Lean On Pete, with Charlie Plummer, Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny, follows fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson. He wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of the year. As the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, stability is hard to find. Hoping for a new start they move to Portland, Oregon, where Charley takes a summer job, with a washed-up horse trainer, and befriends a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete.

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“Lean On Pete by Willy Vlautin is a wonderfully humane novel. It is a story of a kid that refuses to lose hope or heart despite the harsh realities of his world. I found it immensely moving, tender and yet never sentimental. I wanted the film to have the same sense of purity.”

Andrew Haigh

Director

Contessanally – The moving story of a good kid, a horse and his grief 7/10

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Paolo Baratta

President La Biennale di Venezia 

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#Venezia74 – Film Festival 2017 – The Shape of the Water -Guillermo del Toro

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The Shape of Water

Guillermo del Toro

The Shape of Water, directed by Guillermo del Toro with Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer is an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.

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“…Love is real—absolutely real—and, like water, it is the most gentle and most powerful force in the Universe. It is free and formless until it pours into its recipient, until we let it in. Our eyes are blind. But our soul is not. It recognizes love in whatever shape it comes to us.”

Guillermo del Toro

Director

Contessanally – The Shape of the Water enjoyable love story between a mute girl and a monster 8/10

Ellen Italian Police Dog

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Ellen is an Italian Police dog, explosive is written on her collar. She was very frisky when I met her; she was ready to go to work, keeping us save. Thank-you beautiful Labrador.

 
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#Venezia74 – Film Festival 2017 - Downsizing - Alexander Payne

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Downsizing

Alexander Payne

The world premiere screening of Downsizing, directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants, Nebraska) starring Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau and Kristen Wiig was the opening film, In Competition, of the 74th Venice International Film Festival directed by Alberto Barbera and organized by the Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta.

Downsizing follows the adventures of Paul Safranek (Matt Damon), an everyman from Omaha who, along with his wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig), dreams of a better life. As the world faces an overpopulation crisis, scientists develop a radical solution that can shrink humans to five inches tall. People soon discover how much further money goes in a smaller world, and with the promise of a lavish lifestyle beyond their wildest imaginations, Paul and Audrey decide to risk the controversial procedure and embark upon an adventure that will change their lives forever.

Matt Damon, Kristin Wiig, Hong Chau and Alexander Payne

 

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“I’m excited. Not only is it wonderful that Downsizing was asked to open Venice, but I’ve never been to the festival in my life.”

 Alexander Payne

Director

 

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Waiting hours for Matt Damon

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Contessanally – Downsizing surreal prospect and senseless  - 6/10

 

 

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#Venezia74 – Film Festival 2017 – Orizzonti – Susanna Nicchiarelli – Nico, 1988

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Nico, 1988

Susanna Nicchiarelli

Orizzonti Competition

Nico, 1988, is written and directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli staring Trine Dyrholm as Nico and with John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca, Sandor Funtek, Thomas Trabacchi, Karina Fernandez, Calvin Demba. Set between Paris, Prague, Nuremberg, Manchester, the Polish countryside and the Roman seaside, Nico, 1988 is a road-movie dedicated to the last years of Christa Paffgen, known by her stage name Nico. One of Warhol’s muses, the singer of the Velvet Underground and a woman of legendary beauty, Nico lived a second life after the story known to all, when she began her career as a solo artist.  Her music is among the most original of the Seventies and Eighties, and has influenced much of the musical production that followed. The "priestess of darkness", as she was called, found her true calling after age forty, when she shook off the weight of her beauty and rebuilt her relationship with her only forgotten son. Nico, 1988 is the story of Nico's last tour with the band that accompanied her around Europe in the Eighties. It is the story of a rebirth, an artist, a mother, the woman beyond the icon.

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“This is the story of Nico after Nico.”

Susanna Nicchiarelli

director

Contessanally – Dramatic beautiful Nico played brilliantly by

Trine Dryholm – 7/10

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