MORE FILMS ABOUT BUILDINGS
Jonathan Glancey in his article ”Tomorrow’s Worlds in The Guardian uses the occasion of an upcoming show “Future City: Experiment and Utopia 1956-2006” at the Barbican in London to riff on the relation between movies and buildings. He uses two great city movies – Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner — to argue that if you want to see the future of urban space, go to the movies. For Glancey, “cinema remains the best place to experience the architectural imagination at full flight.” A nice companion piece is Adam Pincus’s “L.A. Architecture in Film” in the last issue of FilmMaker [sorry, not online], as well as Thom Andersen’s excellent documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself.
Tags: documentary
