ARCHITECTURAL DREAMS:
A CINEMATIC CELEBRATION OF BUILDING
Free Films Fridays at 4:00 pm at The Clark.
Sept. 16: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. (1948, 93 minutes.) This classic screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy is intended as a teaser for a group of documentaries about architects and their work. Not just a bait-and-switch, this film offers a keynote to the series by focusing on the messy process of building, more that the finished products celebrated in the rest of the series.
Sept. 23: Frank Lloyd Wright. (1998, 153 minutes.) The preeminent American architect gets the Ken Burns treatment in this Peabody Award-winning film biography that spans his full 90 years, from his prairie boyhood through apprenticeship to Louis Sullivan all the way to his final masterpiece, the Guggenheim Museum in NYC.
Sept. 30: My Architect. (2003, 116 minutes.) Nathaniel Kahn goes on a personal quest in search of the father he hardly knew, the esteemed but eccentric architect Louis Kahn, through exploration of his buildings and interviews with those he worked with, from the Salk Institute to the capital of Bangladesh.
Oct. 7: I.M. Pei. Two films by Peter Rosen, First Person Singular (1997, 85 minutes) and The Museum on the Mountain (1998, 48 minutes), follow the architect from his birth in China to his education in Boston and back again, a 20th century journey with stops at the Louvre Pyramid, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, and the Miho Museum outside of Kyoto.
Oct. 14: Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. (1995, 96 minutes.) Frieda Lee Mock’s Academy Award-winning documentary profiles the creator of the controversial but now much-beloved Vietnam War Memorial, as well as a Civil Rights Memorial and even a house in Williamstown, MA.
Oct. 21: Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center. (1998, 100 minutes.) Master documentarian Albert Maysles and his associates follow the creation of L.A.’s hilltop Getty Museum from conception to fulfillment, as the complex takes form in dialectic between the museum’s directors and architect Richard Meier.
Oct. 28: Making the Modern. (2003, 60 minutes.) Tadao Ando, architect of two buildings destined to transform the Clark campus, is profiled in this film about the creation of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the highly acclaimed building -- a vision of light, stone, and water -- that engages in neighborly dialogue with Louis Kahn’s renowned Kimbell Museum next door.
Free Films Fridays at 4:00 pm at The Clark.
Sept. 16: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. (1948, 93 minutes.) This classic screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy is intended as a teaser for a group of documentaries about architects and their work. Not just a bait-and-switch, this film offers a keynote to the series by focusing on the messy process of building, more that the finished products celebrated in the rest of the series.
Sept. 23: Frank Lloyd Wright. (1998, 153 minutes.) The preeminent American architect gets the Ken Burns treatment in this Peabody Award-winning film biography that spans his full 90 years, from his prairie boyhood through apprenticeship to Louis Sullivan all the way to his final masterpiece, the Guggenheim Museum in NYC.
Sept. 30: My Architect. (2003, 116 minutes.) Nathaniel Kahn goes on a personal quest in search of the father he hardly knew, the esteemed but eccentric architect Louis Kahn, through exploration of his buildings and interviews with those he worked with, from the Salk Institute to the capital of Bangladesh.
Oct. 7: I.M. Pei. Two films by Peter Rosen, First Person Singular (1997, 85 minutes) and The Museum on the Mountain (1998, 48 minutes), follow the architect from his birth in China to his education in Boston and back again, a 20th century journey with stops at the Louvre Pyramid, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, and the Miho Museum outside of Kyoto.
Oct. 14: Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. (1995, 96 minutes.) Frieda Lee Mock’s Academy Award-winning documentary profiles the creator of the controversial but now much-beloved Vietnam War Memorial, as well as a Civil Rights Memorial and even a house in Williamstown, MA.
Oct. 21: Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center. (1998, 100 minutes.) Master documentarian Albert Maysles and his associates follow the creation of L.A.’s hilltop Getty Museum from conception to fulfillment, as the complex takes form in dialectic between the museum’s directors and architect Richard Meier.
Oct. 28: Making the Modern. (2003, 60 minutes.) Tadao Ando, architect of two buildings destined to transform the Clark campus, is profiled in this film about the creation of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the highly acclaimed building -- a vision of light, stone, and water -- that engages in neighborly dialogue with Louis Kahn’s renowned Kimbell Museum next door.
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