“My Architect” is an excellent new documentary (opening today at Film Forum) that comes perilously close to a narcissistic flame-out from time to time, yet always manages to right itself at the last ...
"The role of architecture is to find connections between all the elements." An official trailer has debuted for a biopic documentary film titled ADA: My Mother the Architect, profiling the fractured ...
On paper, My Architect looks like a film not to miss, a documentary about a son’s search for meaning in his famous father’s life, a father, Louis Kahn, whose creative bravado and revolutionary impact ...
When the architect Louis I. Kahn collapsed and died in the men’s room of Penn Station in 1974, he left behind many things. There were buildings of monumental importance and vision, like the Salk ...
On the surface, New York-based filmmaker Yael Melamede’s latest documentary is an intimate story about her mother, award-winning Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melamede. Ada, 88, who was born Mandatory ...
In The Ballad of Ramblin’ Jack, a documentary released in 2000, Aiyana Elliott tells the life story of her folk-singing father, Jack Elliott. When she wishes aloud that her father had done more ...
The normal route for a film about architecture is maybe a showing or two on public television and, if it happens to be particularly insightful, a long afterlife in university architecture departments.
Topic: Personal journey toward an understanding of the enigmatic life and work of Louis I. Kahn; filmmaker is son of the influential architect, who maintained three committed relationships and three ...
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