A collection of susan sontags writings and musings on films and cinema, compiled by critic david thomson and producer tom luddy. Nancy katess new documentary film, regarding susan sontaga fascinating, moving, and often gorgeous entry into the canon of works produced about sontag since her deathdoesnt neglect the time and the social forces that shaped sontags life, but, for the most part, the narrative that emerges is deeply personal. Complete with trailer and film footage, kates guides us through. If you take a less passive approach to the film and connect the multiple dots kates and cowriter john haptas have positioned through the 105minute film.
Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, susan sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. John mandel, in humanities, discusses a new documentary, regarding susan sontag, on the life and personality of the renowned critic and intellectual i was going to embed the trailer but, when i looked at it, i thought it was a completely distortive crock which was attempting, unnecessarily, to ramp up excitement over its subject by misleadingly portraying sontag as some kind. Apr 15, 2014 regarding susan sontag trailer marc barrot. Regarding susan sontag 2014 stream and watch online. Leave a comment sundance institute awards postproduction grant to regarding susan sontag. I eagerly anticipated a film in which i would learn about sontag s professional and personal life. Posted in general, nancy kates, regarding susan sontag and tagged mailing list, nancy kates, regarding susan sontag on december 11, 20 by ndkates. James fenton on susan sontag art and design the guardian. Music, film, tv and political news coverage susan sontag. Susan sontag 1933 2004 was an american writer, critic, cultural philosopher and political activist.
Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Scifi short film iteration 1 presented by dust duration. Hbos regarding susan sontag follows the writer, cultural critic and activist through a life marked by moral conflict and public controversies, peopled with fascinating characters. From a very early age, susan sontag realized that she was a writer. The documentary explores sontags life through evocative experimental images. Nancy kates is a filmmaker and writer based in berkeley, california. It premiered at tribeca film festival in april 2014 and on hbo in december 2014. Regarding susan sontag offers a complex portrait of a writers scholarship and sexuality. It received the special jury mention for best documentary feature at the 2014 tribeca film festival. In regarding the pain of others, susan sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocityfrom goyas the disasters of war to photographs of the american civil war, lynchings of blacks in the south, and the nazi death camps, to contemporary horrific images of bosnia, sierra leone, rwanda, israel and palestine, and new york city on. Regarding susan sontag, documentary with filmmaker nancy kates. Im still trying to recover from my disappointment with the new documentary film regarding susan sontag 2014.
Jun 09, 2018 this weekend, filmmaker arwen currys labor of love, a documentary on the life of literary legend ursula k. Sontag is above all a writer, which is only to say that, though the form may differ, there is an essential unity in all her work. The writer selected a sampling of her work, meaning the choice both to reflect accurately a career and also. Jan 07, 2003 in regarding the pain of others, sontag considers the subject of atrocity photography. Regarding susan sontag is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Susan sontags fans would each describe her a little differently. Susan sontag biography childhood, life achievements. Susan sontag was born on january 16, 1933, in new york city, the older of jack and mildred jacobson rosenblatts two daughters. Regarding susan sontag regarding susan sontag is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. A featurelength documentary film on the late critic, novelist, film and theatre director, activist, and public figure.
I eagerly anticipated a film in which i would learn about sontags professional and personal life. Apr 20, 2014 regarding susan sontag is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. The lineup is designed to showcase some of the most noteworthy lgbtq films from the recent festival circuit and includes openingnight film matt shepard is a friend of mine, centerpiece film regarding susan sontag, narrative closingnight film appropriate behavior and a friday night secret screening. The rolling stone interview rolling stone the writer reflects on her bout with cancer, the fundamentals of love, and her desert childhood. Her archive and the efforts to make it publicly available while protecting it from bit rot, are the subject of the book on excess. She delineates a difference from viewing a horrific. The complete rolling stone interview by jonathan cott 0300189796 9780300189797 my definition of a writer.
The truth of this is perhaps more evident in a susan sontag reader than in any of sontag s individual books. It received the special jury mention for best documentary feature at. Regarding susan sontag with its layered visuals, provocative score, and associative exploration of sontags thoughts on art, politics, sexuality and living is a film that will seduce you into consideration of the life and legacy of a literary, political, and feminist luminary. When she was five, her father died of tuberculosis and her mother returned from china. Her critics are transfixed by the halo of celebrity that seemed to hover above sontag during her life and which, even after her death, continues to glow. Regarding the pain of others, by susan sontag garage. Susan sontags early draft of the volcano lover, 1992. Yes, there is no denying that american writer susan sontag achieved regarding susan sontag. Susan sontag on the wisdom of literature, the danger of opinions, and the writers task susan sontag on storytelling, what it means to be a moral human being, and her advice to writers. It includes discussions of the intersection between film and literature.
Released 2014, regarding susan sontag stars patricia clarkson, noel burch, kevin costner, mark danner the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 40 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. In regarding the pain of others, susan sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity from goyas the disasters of war to photographs of the american civil war, lynchings of blacks in the south, and the nazi death camps, and to more contemporary horrific images of bosnia, sierra leone, rwanda, israel, and palestine, as well as. And after watching the visually interesting, but not experimental film, all one. Jul 04, 2003 james fenton on how susan sontag has adjusted her thinking on photography. Regarding susan sontag, documentary with filmmaker. Susan sontag is an american critical essayist, cultural analyst, novelist, political activist, filmmaker and playwright of international repute. The complete rolling stone interview cott, jonathan on.
Regarding susan sontag vostfr 2014 streaming vf complet en. Susan rosenblatt january 16, 1933 new york city, new york, usa. And after watching the visually interesting, but not experimental film, all one can do is nod. Regarding susan sontag is a nuanced investigation into the life of a towering cultural critic and writer whose works on photography. Jul 08, 2014 regarding susan sontag, documentary with filmmaker nancy kates. This indepth documentary intimately tracks susan sontags seminal, lifechanging moments through her own words, as read by patricia clarksonfrom her early infatuation with books to her first experience in a gay bar, from her first marriage to her last lover. A good example is the recently released film regarding susan sontag, which had its premiere on hbo in the united states last year and is now making the rounds of international film festivals. Regarding susan sontag is a deep, associative engagement with a serious subject, and one that raises more questions than it answers. Susan sontag was an american literary figure who was known for her liberal thinking, which reflected in her works. Regarding the pain of others by susan sontag, paperback. Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, susan sontag became one of the most important. Interviewees include nobel laureate nadine gordimer, writers terry castle, wayne koestenbaum and stephen koch.
James fenton on how susan sontag has adjusted her thinking on photography. She achieved widespread recognition through her collections of essays, against interpretation 1966, on photography 1977 and regarding the pain of others 2004. Nancy katess regarding susan sontag clearly admires its subject but is willing to acknowledge her weaknesses. Regarding susan sontag has been made in partnership with hbo documentary films and will be broadcast fall 2014. Interviewees include nobel laureate nadine gordimer, writers terry castle, wayne koestenbaum and stephen koch, and sontags sister judith sontag cohen. A documentary about sontag directed by nancy kates, titled regarding susan sontag, was released in 2014.
You think you witness a complete execution, and this is both horrible and a kind of initiation. She was an unstoppable force, and in the archival material from nancy kates regarding susan sontag, she admits to constantly becoming a new person, throughout her entire life. The late cultural polymath susan sontag was a whirl of contradictions and complexity, driven by an insatiable intellect, fiercely private about her personal life, but coolly fearless in the public. Read on to find out more about her childhood, career, profile and timeline. It is felt that there is something morally wrong with the abstract of reality offered by photography. With the publication of susan sontags diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual, who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture. Dec 08, 2014 regarding susan sontag, a documentary monday night on hbo, will fill you in on a lot of the details of its subjects life. Her early years were spent with her grandparents in new york while her parents ran a fur export business in china. Her words were always thoughtprovoking and engaging, often generating a lot of debate and earning her both praise and criticism in equal measure. Read susan sontag the complete rolling stone interview by jonathan cott available from rakuten kobo. The decay of cinema, by susan sontag 1996 in an essay reflecting on the 100year history of film, sontag writes, perhaps it is not cinema that has ended but only cinephilia. Susan sontag on books, selftranscendence, and reading in the age of screens the conscience of words. Regarding the pain of others susan sontag download.
Regarding susan sontag is an awardwinning documentary film about the american intellectual susan sontag, directed by nancy kates. Le guin, premieres at the sheffield docfest in the u. May 23, 2012 over at pageturner, ive posted about susan sontags film criticism and the entries in her recently published journals that illuminate it one of these items is a fragment of a list, which i. What susan sontag might say about trumps response to the syrian civil war. When i read the recently published second volume of susan sontags diaries, which are filled with references to movies, i was.
This is regarding susan sontag trailer by nancy kates on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. In the third and fourth chapters of susan sontags, regarding the pain of others, sontag discusses the impacts of art and photography, the reactions they can evoke, and how images can be manipulated. Susan sontag on literature and freedom brain pickings. The film creatively uses archival materials in the effort to excavate the past, partly by creating visual metaphors for her ideas. Dec 02, 2014 the late cultural polymath susan sontag was a whirl of contradictions and complexity, driven by an insatiable intellect, fiercely private about her personal life, but coolly fearless in the public. Susan sontag s fans would each describe her a little differently. Others, speaking more grandly, might prefer to simply call her an intellectual. This weekend, filmmaker arwen currys labor of love, a documentary on the life of literary legend ursula k. Regarding susan sontag regarder des films avec soustitres francais gratuitement.
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