08 Feb 2010
The Black List: Volume Three
Documentary film interviews leading African Americans on race, identity, and achievement.
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He was also one of our great experimental filmmakers and once apparently made Salvador Dali extremely jealous at a screening of his masterpiece, Rose Hobart. In this film we get to hear people like Susan Sontag, Stan Brakhage, and Tony Curtis talk about their friendships with the artist. It turns out that Curtis was quite a collector and he seemed to have a very deep understanding of what Cornell was doing in his work.
Top Billed Cast
Tony Curtis Narrator (voice) / Self
Dore Ashton Self
Leila E.B. Luce Self
Brian O'Doherty Self
James Rosenquist Self
P. Adams Sitney Self
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