"I really loved Portrait, even if it didn't satisfy people's expectations about what I should be doing.
And Matthew's other documentaries have included "loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies," which he shot with Steven Cantor, and which The New Yorker called a "loving portrait" of a band that still has a strong hold on its fans, nearly 20 years after their acrimonious breakup.
The author was then a news assistant at The Times, and she wrote a harrowing, loving portrait of her mother, Allene, who suffered from Alzheimer's, a disease that few people knew much about: My mother, a college graduate who used to say television "rots the mind," now spends most of her days watching it — literally watching, for she rarely turns on the sound — and smoking cigarettes.
If this labor-of-love portrait is any indication, forgetting Frank Zappa is not going to happen any time soon.
As seen in: Rembrandt: The Late Works, National Gallery, London I love this portrait of love, and lovers – the radiant generosity in their faces, the tenderness of their mutual gesture, his hand on her breast, hers gently covering his.
Take, for example, the experience of Marissa Mandel, a Los Angeles-based designer who recently saw the 2010 film "I Am Love," a portrait of a Milanese haute bourgeoisie family in decline.
The repertory includes a kaleidoscopic suite showing the many facets of love, a portrait of the blind Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo and a tribute to the women of rural Cuba.
Now she's back to sing the title role in Jenufa, Janacek's powerful study of the trauma of love, a portrait of a naive village girl who is sexually and emotionally torn between two brothers and whose illegitimate baby is murdered by her morally rigid foster-mother.
I love creating portrait commissions because every single one is different - it doesn't get boring!
