cine-fille

I really love movies. And I know, thus far, that I've only written about documentaries, but I swear I'm not that girl. I've seen every Twilight installment in theaters, and generally, I enjoyed them (in the special way that one enjoys sparkly men and vampire-werewolf-human love triangles). But since I graduated, I've been starved for substance. Without professors and peers in the arts introducing me to the latest and greatest, I've been left to my own devices in search of creative stimulation.

I've had the opportunity to see some really wonderful documentaries in the past year (I blogged about the Bill Cunningham, Diana Vreeland and Charles Eames films in the past months) and now, provided they find distribution, here are a few new docs I'm looking forward to seeing in 2012:

Advanced Style is about the stylish older women of New York. Zelda Kaplan, a 95 year-old socialite featured in the film, recently made headlines when she passed away while sitting front row at Joanna Mastroianni's New York Fashion Week show earlier this month. Her friends said it was a poetic end to a long and happy life. Zelda literally lived and died for fashion.

 

Also about life after mid-life, About Face profiles former supermodels as they come to terms with their changing appearances. The film includes interviews with the eternally-beautiful Jerry Hall, China Machado, Isabella Rossellini, Paulina Porizkova and Carmen dell'Orefice.

The Tents reviews the history of New York Fashion Week, first at Bryant Park and then at Lincoln Center. Both celebratory and cautionary, the film features interviews with fashion greats from Isaac Mizrahi to Donna Karan.

In the current wasteland of reality entertainment, the documentary genre engages with the real without sensationalizing or manipulating the truth. Authenticity. It's an interesting concept in creativity, right? I guess that's a post for another day.

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