'Paris: The Luminous Years'' on PBS tonight

As if to answer the question in my last post, a documentary on Paris and its artists (between the years 1905 and 1930) makes its nationwide premiere tonight at 9pm on PBS. The 2-hour documentary, 'Paris: The Luminous Years- Toward the Making of the Modern' by Perry Miller Adato (who has won awards for her documentaries and includes the likes of  Dyland Thomas, Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe to mention a few) includes archival footage as well as interviews and never-before-seen photos of the artists and writers of the time. It explores the artists and their relationships as well as how these relationships affected their lives and work.

The film includes words from a stellar line-up of modern art celebrities such as Jean Cocteau, Aaron Copland, Marcel Duchamp, Sylvia Beach, Marc Chagall, Stravinsky and others.

"It's the period from 1905 to 1930 when everybody, almost nearly everyone -- it's just amazing -- who did anything that was important in the arts, in nearly all the arts, was in Paris," explains filmmaker Perry Miller Adato. "Sometimes only for a couple of weeks, sometimes for a couple of months, others for their whole lifetime, but it didn't matter because no matter how short or long it was, it changed their work, and it changed their life."

Tune in tonight for a look at how our favorite city became the inspirational meeting point for the creative minds and souls who inspired each other and then nearly a century of future artists.




(Quote from Monique Marcil's article more of which you can read here.)

The Buddha~ on PBS

Don't miss the PBS film this Wednesday

April 7th, 2010 at 8pm on

The Buddha!

Directed by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin

and narrated by Richard Gere, the 2-hour

documentary explores the stages

of Siddhartha's life and journey

through ancient art...

... and the words of contemporary Buddhists

and experts on the subject such as, among others,

His Holiness The Dalai Lama and poets

W.S. Merwin and Jane Hirshfield.

The film is in conjunction with

the Asia Society Museum in New York City,

Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art Exhibition

March 16-June 20, 2010.

For more information on the film,

the director, story or teachings,

click here.

For further information on the

exhibit in New York,

click here.

(Photo copyright: Kirsten Steen)