“Documenting Modern Artists: More Portraits in Film” picks up where the Clark's prior film series left off in June, offering feature length profiles of artists of the 20th century, sweeping from beginning to end, from two heroes of modernism to two antiheroes of postmodernism. Different styles of documentary filmmaking are explored as well as different styles of art. Screenings are Fridays at 4:00, with a repeat at 7:30.
September 28: The Mystery of Picasso. (1956, 75 min.) Unrivaled for immediacy, Henri-Georges Clouzot brings to this portrait of the fabled painter the same drive and dynamism that fueled his classic thrillers. It’s a bullfight! It’s an act of love! It’s a bravura performance! It’s Pablo painting. Nothing else is required to rivet your attention.
October 5: Homage to Chagall. (1977, 88 min.) Harry Rasky brings a more traditional approach to a film portrait of the artist and his work. Both life and work are admirable, demonstrating “The Colours of Love,” as the subtitle has it. The elderly Chagall and his wife make engaging interlocutors as well.
October 19: Crumb. (1994, 119 min.) Terry Zwigoff digs deep into the psyche of Robert Crumb, the underground cartoonist and obsessive draftsman, and elicits startling testimony from his brothers, wives, and other family, along the border between madness and genius, with equal attention to both sides.
October 26: How to Draw a Bunny. (2002, 90 min.) John W. Waters explores that same border in this inquest into the life and death of Ray Johnson, a denizen of the downtown New York scene who retreats to Long Island and obsession, with many major contemporary artists testifying to his importance.
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