Movies: Peter Blake

  • 2023
    aka Mr. Chow

    aka Mr. Chow (2023)

    aka Mr. Chow

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    With his signature circular glasses and mustache, Michael Chow is an exuberant force at the crossroads between eccentricity and sophistication. The famed restaurateur defined “The Moment” with the openings of Mr. Chow, the bustling upscale Chinese ea...

    aka Mr. Chow
  • 2024
    The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?

    The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas? (2024)

    The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?

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    Forty years on from the release of the hit single by charity supergroup Band Aid, this documentary unearths 75 minutes of rare and previously unseen film footage from the day of recording...

    The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?
  • 2011
    Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis

    Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis (2011)

    Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis

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    This documentary chronicles the long and storied career of Storm Thorgerson, the most famous artist you've never heard of -- the brilliant photographer who created scores of iconic album covers for bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin....

    Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis
  • 2012
    When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies

    When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies (2012)

    When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies

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    Timeshift turns back the clock to a time when villains wore silver capes, grannies swooned at the sight of bulky men in latex and the most masculine man in the country was called Shirley. In its heyday, British professional wrestling attracted huge T...

    When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies
  • 1996
    Louis Kahn: Silence and Light

    Louis Kahn: Silence and Light (1996)

    Louis Kahn: Silence and Light

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    As an architect, educator, and philosopher, Louis Kahn played a prominent role in the history of 20th century architecture. An examination of six of his most significant buildings: The Salk Institute; the Kimbell Art Museum; the Center for British Ar...

    Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
  • 2015
    Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World

    Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World (2015)

    Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World

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    Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the twentieth century, peeling back pop's frothy, ironic surface to reveal an art style full of subversive wit and radical ideas. In charting its story, Alastair brings a fres...

    Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World
  • 1962
    Pop Goes the Easel

    Pop Goes the Easel (1962)

    Pop Goes the Easel

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    Pop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor. It focused on 4 British Pop Artists - Peter Blake, Peter Philips, Pauline Boty and Derek Boshier....

    Pop Goes the Easel
  • 1992
    Masters of the Canvas

    Masters of the Canvas (1992)

    Masters of the Canvas

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    When pop artist Peter Blake confessed that his fantasy was to be the mysterious masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki, who never speaks and never removes his mask, little did he know what the consequences would be. Poet and television producer Paul Yates, a...

    Masters of the Canvas
  • 1962
    Monitor: Pop Goes the Easel

    Monitor: Pop Goes the Easel (1962)

    Monitor: Pop Goes the Easel

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    Peter Blake explores his passion for pop icons, Peter Phillips is featured with his cool companions, Derek Boshier voices his concerns with the American influence on British life and culture, and Pauline Boty, Britain's great female pop art painter w...

    Monitor: Pop Goes the Easel