By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, Finding Vivian Maier documents Maloof’s journey to discover more about Vivian Maier after purchasing a box of her negatives in 2007. He began the search a few years later, after he realized the negatives consisted of some of the best undeveloped street photography of the 20th century. After some searching, it was revealed that Maier was a career-nanny who had died in 2009.
Since the documentary is in serious contention for a best documentary feature Oscar, we thought we’d check to see how many other photography-related films have managed to resonate with the Academy’s documentary branch and land a nomination in the same category. We found six.
The Naked Eye (1956)
Directed by two-time Oscar winner Louis Clyde Stoumen, this documentary celebrates photography through history by looking at pioneers in the field, such as Margaret Bourke-White. Though he covers works by multiple photographers,...
Managing Editor
Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, Finding Vivian Maier documents Maloof’s journey to discover more about Vivian Maier after purchasing a box of her negatives in 2007. He began the search a few years later, after he realized the negatives consisted of some of the best undeveloped street photography of the 20th century. After some searching, it was revealed that Maier was a career-nanny who had died in 2009.
Since the documentary is in serious contention for a best documentary feature Oscar, we thought we’d check to see how many other photography-related films have managed to resonate with the Academy’s documentary branch and land a nomination in the same category. We found six.
The Naked Eye (1956)
Directed by two-time Oscar winner Louis Clyde Stoumen, this documentary celebrates photography through history by looking at pioneers in the field, such as Margaret Bourke-White. Though he covers works by multiple photographers,...
- 11/7/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
Behind the camera of Bert Stern lies a heated family feud. The photographer died in 2013 at the age of 83 and left behind some iconic images of Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, and some of the most famous ones of Marilyn Monroe. His work has been featured in the Museum of Modern Art, and as a contemporary of such masters as Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, Stern's life and work were profiled in the documentary, Bert Stern: Original Madman, which is now at the center of a great legal controversy. The filmmaker behind that film is Shannah Laumeister, who
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- 10/31/2014
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Photographer and film-maker who took some of the last shots of Marilyn Monroe
In the summer of 1962 Bert Stern, who has died aged 83, took more than 2,500 photographs of Marilyn Monroe over three sessions held in a Los Angeles hotel. The images captured Monroe in a sometimes pensive but mostly playful mood as she posed nude, variously covered by bedsheets, a chinchilla coat, a stripy Vera Neumann scarf and a pair of chiffon roses. Despite their air of carefree humour, the portraits are inescapably wistful because – along with George Barris's subsequent pictures of Monroe at Santa Monica beach – they are among the last photographs taken of the star. She was found dead at her home several weeks later.
The shoot was for Vogue, which had Stern on a contract that required him to fill 100 fashion pages a year and afforded him an additional 10 pages for personal projects. Stern proposed Monroe as a subject,...
In the summer of 1962 Bert Stern, who has died aged 83, took more than 2,500 photographs of Marilyn Monroe over three sessions held in a Los Angeles hotel. The images captured Monroe in a sometimes pensive but mostly playful mood as she posed nude, variously covered by bedsheets, a chinchilla coat, a stripy Vera Neumann scarf and a pair of chiffon roses. Despite their air of carefree humour, the portraits are inescapably wistful because – along with George Barris's subsequent pictures of Monroe at Santa Monica beach – they are among the last photographs taken of the star. She was found dead at her home several weeks later.
The shoot was for Vogue, which had Stern on a contract that required him to fill 100 fashion pages a year and afforded him an additional 10 pages for personal projects. Stern proposed Monroe as a subject,...
- 7/1/2013
- by Chris Wiegand
- The Guardian - Film News
New York — Bert Stern, a commercial photographer best known for his images of Marilyn Monroe in what became known as "The Last Sitting," has died in New York City. He was 83.
Stern died Wednesday at his Manhattan home, said Shannah Laumeister, 43, a filmmaker who said the two were secretly married in 2009. She said the reason for keeping it secret was private.
Stern shot thousands of pictures of Monroe at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles in 1962 for Vogue magazine just weeks before her drug overdose death. They included nude and semi-nude images.
"He was an enormously innovative photographer, both as a commercial photographer and a photographer of celebrities and fashion models. And one of the great people in his field," said Bruce Barnes, director of the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., which this summer is presenting Stern's only documentary film, "Jazz on a Summer's Day," made in...
Stern died Wednesday at his Manhattan home, said Shannah Laumeister, 43, a filmmaker who said the two were secretly married in 2009. She said the reason for keeping it secret was private.
Stern shot thousands of pictures of Monroe at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles in 1962 for Vogue magazine just weeks before her drug overdose death. They included nude and semi-nude images.
"He was an enormously innovative photographer, both as a commercial photographer and a photographer of celebrities and fashion models. And one of the great people in his field," said Bruce Barnes, director of the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., which this summer is presenting Stern's only documentary film, "Jazz on a Summer's Day," made in...
- 6/27/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Jean-Luc Godard is credited with calling the history of cinema "boys photographing girls," and Shannah Laumeister's documentary Bert Stern: Original Madman considers the life of one boy who photographed many, many girls in his decades-long career. The most famous was Marilyn Monroe, toward the end of her life, and Stern's description of himself as "just a kid who wanted to make out with her" is a recurring theme in his weary recollections of his own, much longer life: so many pretty girls that he wants to snog but settles for photographing instead. Granted, there was plenty of sex to be had while the girl-crazy Stern was a big shot in the mid-20th-century publishing world—advertising legend Jerry Della Femina declares Stern "the original mad man," providing the film with a ...
- 4/3/2013
- Village Voice
Poster for Shannah Laumeister's Bert Stern: Original Madman documentary. The film is the untold and intimate life story of “bad boy” photographer and cultural icon "Bert Stern" who has made the world's most gorgeous and sensual women his subject for 50 years, reveals himself becomes the subject. Shannah Laumeister directs with cast names like Marilyn Monroe, Louis Armstrong, George Avakian, Brigitte Bardot, Drew Barrymore, Madonna, Scarlett Johansson, Audrey Hepburn, Chuck Berry, Twiggy and Kylie Minogue, among others. Pic was seen at last year's Telluride Film Festival and is produced by Phyllis Stuart, Gregory McClatchy and Shannah Laumeister. Check out the film's official site here which is made very well...
- 3/5/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Poster for Shannah Laumeister's Bert Stern: Original Madman documentary. The film is the untold and intimate life story of “bad boy” photographer and cultural icon "Bert Stern" who has made the world's most gorgeous and sensual women his subject for 50 years, reveals himself becomes the subject. Shannah Laumeister directs with cast names like Marilyn Monroe, Louis Armstrong, George Avakian, Brigitte Bardot, Drew Barrymore, Madonna, Scarlett Johansson, Audrey Hepburn, Chuck Berry, Twiggy and Kylie Minogue, among others. Pic was seen at last year's Telluride Film Festival and is produced by Phyllis Stuart, Gregory McClatchy and Shannah Laumeister. Check out the film's official site here which is made very well...
- 3/5/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Poster for Shannah Laumeister's Bert Stern: Original Madman documentary. The film is the untold and intimate life story of “bad boy” photographer and cultural icon "Bert Stern" who has made the world's most gorgeous and sensual women his subject for 50 years, reveals himself becomes the subject. Shannah Laumeister directs with cast names like Marilyn Monroe, Louis Armstrong, George Avakian, Brigitte Bardot, Drew Barrymore, Madonna, Scarlett Johansson, Audrey Hepburn, Chuck Berry, Twiggy and Kylie Minogue, among others. Pic was seen at last year's Telluride Film Festival and is produced by Phyllis Stuart, Gregory McClatchy and Shannah Laumeister. Check out the film's official site here which is made very well...
- 3/5/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
If the pass for 3-4 days worth of films weren't so pricey, Ioncinema.com would be among the very few journalists who venture to the Colorado movie-love in setting to discounted trip to Venice --- but surprise this year this is just as much other primo items from Berlin, Locarno than Cannes. George Clooney, Pierre Étaix and Tilda Swinton to receive Silver Medallion Awards Over twenty-five new features plus revival programs and unique programming from Guest Director Caetano Veloso will be presented as part of the 2011 exhibition Telluride, Co (September 1, 2011) – Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by the National Film Preserve, announces its program for the 38th Telluride Film Festival. Featuring diverse programming from around the globe, Tff once again sets the stage for some of the year’s most highly anticipated films. Tff opens its 38th year with over twenty-five new feature films plus special artist tributes, Guest Director programs selected by Caetano Veloso,...
- 9/4/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
George Clooney, Pierre Étaix and Tilda Swinton
to receive Silver Medallion Awards Over twenty-five new features plus revival programs
and unique programming from Guest Director Caetano Veloso will be presented as part of the 2011 exhibition
Telluride, Co (September 1, 2011) . Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by the National Film Preserve, announces its program for the 38th Telluride Film Festival. Featuring diverse programming from around the globe, Tff once again sets the stage for some of the year.s most highly anticipated films.
Tff opens its 38th year with over twenty-five new feature films plus special artist tributes, Guest Director programs selected by Caetano Veloso, Backlot programs, classics and restorations, shorts, student films, seminars and conversations, each introduced or proceeded with a Q&A by its filmmaker, actors, writer or producer. Telluride Film Festival opens Friday, September 2 and runs through Labor Day, Monday, September 5.
The .Show.
38th Telluride Film Festival is proud...
to receive Silver Medallion Awards Over twenty-five new features plus revival programs
and unique programming from Guest Director Caetano Veloso will be presented as part of the 2011 exhibition
Telluride, Co (September 1, 2011) . Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by the National Film Preserve, announces its program for the 38th Telluride Film Festival. Featuring diverse programming from around the globe, Tff once again sets the stage for some of the year.s most highly anticipated films.
Tff opens its 38th year with over twenty-five new feature films plus special artist tributes, Guest Director programs selected by Caetano Veloso, Backlot programs, classics and restorations, shorts, student films, seminars and conversations, each introduced or proceeded with a Q&A by its filmmaker, actors, writer or producer. Telluride Film Festival opens Friday, September 2 and runs through Labor Day, Monday, September 5.
The .Show.
38th Telluride Film Festival is proud...
- 9/1/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Telluride Film Festival announced their program today - minus the high profile sneak peaks that they always spring on audiences last minute - and it's a good one. Here's the complete list:· Albert Nobbs (d. Rodrigo Garcia, U.S., 2011)· The Artist (d. Michel Hazanavicius, France, 2011)· Becoming Bert Stern (d. Shannah Laumeister, U.S., 2011)· Bitter Seeds (d. Micha X. Peled, U.S., 2011)· BONSÁI (d. Cristián Jiménez, Chile, 2011)· A Dangerous Method (d. David Cronenberg, U.K.-Switzerland-u.S.-Canada, 2011)· The Descendants (d. Alexander Payne, U.S., 2011)· Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (d. Lisa Immordino-Vreeland, U.S., 2011)· Footnote (d. Joseph Cedar, Israel, 2011)· The Forgiveness Of Blood (d. Joshua Marston, U.S.-Albania-Denmark-Italy, 2011)· Goodbye First Love (d. Mia Hansen-Løve, France, 2011)· Le Havre (d. Aki Kaurismäki,...
- 9/1/2011
- Screen Anarchy
For almost forty years, Colorado.s Telluride has been one of the premier film festivals in the country. It has garnered a great deal of praise for being a place that caters to pure, uncorrupted cinephilia. Today, Deadline reported that Telluride has released the lineup for its 2011 festival. Here.s the list of what will be playing their main program, alias .The Show.. Albert Nobbs, directed by Rodrigo Garcia, U.S. The Artist, directed by Michael Hazanavicius, France Becoming Bert Stern, directed by Shannah Laumeister, U.S. Bitter Seeds, directed by Micha X. Peled, U.S. Bonsai, directed Cristián Jiménez, Chile A Dangerous Method, directed by David Cronenberg, U.K.-Switzerland-u.S.-Canada The Descendants, directed Alexander Payne, U.S. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel, directed by Lisa Immordino-Vreeland Footnoote, directed by Joseph Cedar, Israel The Forgiveness of Blood, directed by Joshua Marston, U.S.-Albania-Denmark-Italy ...
- 9/1/2011
- cinemablend.com
"Take a close look at the lineup the Telluride Film Festival," advises Eugene Hernandez at indieWIRE. "These are films you’ll be hearing a lot about over the next few weeks during a fall festival swing that begins in Venice, travels to Telluride and continues through to big-city fests in Toronto and then New York. For many movies on the roster, the journey even dates back to Cannes in May."
The festival opens tomorrow and runs through Labor Day; meantime, here's the Show:
Viviana García Besné's Perdida, a look at the Calderon family, a cinema dynasty in Mexico.
Dr. Biju's The Way Home. See the description from the London Indian Film Festival.
Joseph Cedar's Footnote. See the Cannes roundup.
Mark Cousins's The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Trailer (scroll down about halfway).
David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method. Premieres tomorrow (Friday) in Venice.
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike.
The festival opens tomorrow and runs through Labor Day; meantime, here's the Show:
Viviana García Besné's Perdida, a look at the Calderon family, a cinema dynasty in Mexico.
Dr. Biju's The Way Home. See the description from the London Indian Film Festival.
Joseph Cedar's Footnote. See the Cannes roundup.
Mark Cousins's The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Trailer (scroll down about halfway).
David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method. Premieres tomorrow (Friday) in Venice.
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike.
- 9/1/2011
- MUBI
Telluride Festival Primary Lineup Announced: New Films From David Cronenberg, Werner Herzog and more
The Telluride Film Festival, a presentation of the National Film Preserve which takes place beginning tomorrow, Friday Sept 2 and runs through Monday Sept 5, has announced the first list of films set to screen during the five day run. One of the reasons that Telluride is so special is because the festival doesn’t announce the lineup until the day before the festival begins, so attendees have to commit to the fest without knowing what they will see. However the festival has a reputation for screening an incredible line up each and every single year, sometimes beating the Toronto International Film Festival to some of the big North American premieres. This year is no exception. The first list of films announced includes David Cronenberg‘s A Dangerous Method, The Turrin horse by Sos face Bela Tarr, The Artist, Into The Abyss, Steve McQueen ‘s Shame and the Dardenne Brothers‘ The Kid With a Bike.
- 9/1/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The Telluride Film Festival [1], a presentation of the National Film Preserve which takes place beginning tomorrow, Friday Sept 2 and runs through Monday Sept 5, is an unusual beast as far as film festivals go. The core film lineup is not announced until the day before the festival begins, so attendees have to commit to the fest without knowing any of the movies that will definitely play. Now the first list of films is out, and it has some expected inclusions such as David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method (trailer [2]) and the Cannes fave The Artist (trailer [3]). In addition there are some good surprises, such as Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender's reunion, Shame (pics [4]), and the Dardenne Brothers' The Kid With a Bike. More films will be announced at the last minute over the next couple days. One addition, for example, according to Kris Tapley, is Butter. Peter is arriving in...
- 9/1/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Kicking off tomorrow for just four days, the Telluride Film Festival is nice precursor to the North American fall film festivals including Toronto and New York. They’ve unveiled their first line-up in press release and it is surprise free. Last year, they had the premiere of Peter Weir’s The Way Back, with no other festival showing the bleak adventure drama.
This year it is mostly titles headed to Toronto the next week including David Cronenberg‘s A Dangerous Method, Steve McQueen‘s Shame, Alexander Payne‘s The Descendants, Martin Scorsese‘s George Harrison doc, as well as Cannes titles like Pina, The Artist, Footnote, Le Havre and We Need To Talk About Kevin. Check out the line-up below.
Telluride, Co (September 1, 2011) – Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by the National Film Preserve, announces its program for the 38th Telluride Film Festival. Featuring diverse programming from around the globe,...
This year it is mostly titles headed to Toronto the next week including David Cronenberg‘s A Dangerous Method, Steve McQueen‘s Shame, Alexander Payne‘s The Descendants, Martin Scorsese‘s George Harrison doc, as well as Cannes titles like Pina, The Artist, Footnote, Le Havre and We Need To Talk About Kevin. Check out the line-up below.
Telluride, Co (September 1, 2011) – Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by the National Film Preserve, announces its program for the 38th Telluride Film Festival. Featuring diverse programming from around the globe,...
- 9/1/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Updated: The full Telluride program has been posted at the bottom of this story!
It has begun. Now that Venice has opened, and with 98% of Hollywood heading to the mountains for the 38th Telluride Film Festival, the 2011 awards season officially is underway.
Telluride begins screenings on Friday, Sept. 2, and runs through Monday, Sept. 5. After that, the focus shifts to Toronto, which launches Thursday, Sept. 8. It’s about the get extremely busy in our Awards Alley … but we start with Telluride titles.
While screenings are kept under wraps until the fest begins, those arrive at the fest today began tweeting the official selections. What will audience members be seeing?
How about Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants,” which will screen in conjunction with a George Clooney tribute (though Clooney’s own “Ides of March” isn’t mentioned, unless it is a surprise screening), according to InContention...
Hollywoodnews.com: Updated: The full Telluride program has been posted at the bottom of this story!
It has begun. Now that Venice has opened, and with 98% of Hollywood heading to the mountains for the 38th Telluride Film Festival, the 2011 awards season officially is underway.
Telluride begins screenings on Friday, Sept. 2, and runs through Monday, Sept. 5. After that, the focus shifts to Toronto, which launches Thursday, Sept. 8. It’s about the get extremely busy in our Awards Alley … but we start with Telluride titles.
While screenings are kept under wraps until the fest begins, those arrive at the fest today began tweeting the official selections. What will audience members be seeing?
How about Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants,” which will screen in conjunction with a George Clooney tribute (though Clooney’s own “Ides of March” isn’t mentioned, unless it is a surprise screening), according to InContention...
- 9/1/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
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