Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha

Born: December 16, 1937
in Omaha, Nebraska
Edward Joseph Ruscha IV is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. He is also noted for creating several artist's books. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California.

Movies for Edward Ruscha...

aka Mr. Chow
Title: aka Mr. Chow
Character: Self
Released: October 20, 2023
Type: Movie
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 eateries that attracted the glitterati of Swingin’ London, 70s Hollywood, and post Studio 54 New York.
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Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
Title: Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
Character: Self - Artist
Released: October 23, 2020
Type: Movie
A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century, revolutionary of arts, aesthetics and pop culture.
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Ed Ruscha - Motorized Photographs of Sunset Blvd. and Other L.A. Streets
Title: Ed Ruscha - Motorized Photographs of Sunset Blvd. and Other L.A. Streets
Character: Narrator
Released: December 19, 2019
Type: Movie
Commissioned by The Getty Museum on the occasion of their 2019 Getty Medal to the painter, draftsman, photographer, and bookmaker, Ed Ruscha. Utilizing The Getty Research Institute's preservation and digitization of over a million images from Ed's Streets of Los Angeles photo series, and excerpts from Jack Kerouac's "On The Road," this film puts together two of Ed's major inspirations: Kerouac's text and the city of Los Angeles.
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Paradox Bullets
Title: Paradox Bullets
Character: Self
Released: October 7, 2018
Type: Movie
A short film which debuted in a secret location in London to coincide with the release of the NikeCraft x Tom Sachs Mars Yard Overshoe
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I Knew Andy Warhol
Title: I Knew Andy Warhol
Character: Self
Released: September 18, 2018
Type: Movie
A series of interviews with artists, photographers and Factory superstars who worked and socialized with Andy Warhol.
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Along for the Ride
Title: Along for the Ride
Character: Self
Released: November 3, 2016
Type: Movie
A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.
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Where is Rocky II?
Title: Where is Rocky II?
Character: Himself
Released: May 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Pierre Bismuth hires a private detective and a duo of screenwriters to investigate on an enigmatic artwork.
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Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words
Title: Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles on the occasion of their 2016 Gala event, 'Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words' traces two recurring themes in the artist's 60-year oeuvre.
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Sketches of Frank Gehry
Title: Sketches of Frank Gehry
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 2006
Type: Movie
First and foremost, Frank Gehry is an artist. Described as a young child as having golden hands, Frank begins his creation through sketch. Forming thought into substantive sculpture, the marriage of art and architechure is brought to life. Join director Sydney Pollack on a journey into the world and work of the most important architect of our Age.
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Title: Iconoclasts
Character: Self
Released: November 17, 2005
Type: TV
Iconoclasts is a Sundance Channel show. Each episode pairs two "creative visionaries" who discuss their lives, influences, and art, most of whom are longtime friends with the other person featured in the episode. The series premiered on November 17, 2005, and has had six six-episode seasons.
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Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades
Title: Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Ed Ruscha made his very first art in his native Oklahoma, but soon became attracted to Los Angeles . Curator Margit Rowell has examined his extensive body of work and created a brilliant exhibition of his seldom seen drawings. Rowell visits Ruscha in his studio, looking at new paintings with the artist, discussing his progress over the decades and asking him to comment on the many milestones in his large retrospective exhibition at MoCA in Los Angeles.
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Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Title: Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2004
Type: Movie
The inevitable fat cigar between his fingers, the American actor, director and fine artist Dennis Hopper (1936) self-mockingly looks back on his chequered life and career, at the request of Dutch director, photographer and fine artist Thom Hoffman. The latter sifted through the turbulent life story of Hopper, who is primarily known from the cult film Easy Rider (1969). Hopper went through as many high as low points. In conveniently arranged chapters, Hoffman shows the decisive moments in Hopper's life and asks colleagues like Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Sean Penn and Julian Schnabel to comment on them. The documentary is richly illustrated with film excerpts, photos, newspaper articles and anecdotes. The main reason for this film was the retrospective of Dennis Hopper's art work in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum in 2001.
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Kappa
Title: Kappa
Released: June 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and desire. Quoting from Bunuel, Freud, pop media and art, they place the symbology of Western psychosexual analytical theory into a cross-cultural context, juxtaposing the Oedipal and Kappa myths in a delirious collusion of form and content. The Kappa, a malevolent Japanese water imp, is played with eerie intensity by artist Mike Kelley; actress Mary Woronov plays Jocasta as a vamp from a Hollywood exploitation film. Steeped in perversions and violent longings, both the Kappa and Oedipus legends are presented in highly stylized, purposefully "degraded" forms, reflecting their media-exploitative cultural contexts. In this ironic yet oddly poignant essay of psychosexual compulsion and catharsis, the Yonemotos demonstrate that even in debased forms, cultural archetypes hold the power to move and manipulate.
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Choose Me
Title: Choose Me
Character: Ralph Chomsky
Released: August 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.
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Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
Title: Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
Character: Himself
Released: July 1, 1972
Type: Movie
In this 1972 BBC Films production, architectural historian Reyner Banham takes the viewer on a tour of what he describes as the “four ecologies” of the city of Los Angeles: Surfurbia, Foothills, The Plains of Id, and Autopia (beach, basin, foothills, freeways). Noted for his seminal book of essays, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, published the year before, Banham had a love affair with the City of Angels and its bold typologies. (Open Source Cities)