n the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages, readings and interviews, this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great talents like Jack Kirby and hitting its first artistic zenith with Will Eisner's "Spirit". It then shifts to the post war comics world with the rising popularity of crime and horror comics, especially those published by EC Comics under the editorshiop of William B. Gaines until it came crashing down the rise of censorship with the imposition of the Comics Code. In its wake of the devastation of the medium's creative freedom, we also explore EC's defiant survival with the creation of the singular "Mad Magazine" by Harvey Kurtzman. We then move to the resurgence of the superheroes in the late 1950's and 1960's typified with the rise of the dramatically innovative Marvel Comics edited by Stan Lee. Still more important is the rise of the the gleefully uninhibited underground comics created by eccentric talents like Robert Crumb and Dan O'Neill. These leads to profiles of creaters like Harvey Pekar who take the medium into new directions of expression. In the late 1970s and '80s we see the rise of alternative comics with such bold talents like Jaime Hernández for "Love and Rockets, Sue Coe for How to Commit Suicide in South Africa and especially for Art Spiegelman for his searing Pulitizer Prize winning Holocaust account, Maus. Finally, we learn of the medium's superhero mythos' revitalizing moment with the creation of Frank Miller's ferocious min-series "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns". Taken together, the film makes its arguement that the medium is far more than the stereotype of juvenile trash but rather it is an artform with a wild history and an exciting future.

影片是关于牙买加民族英雄——“雷鬼教父”Bob Marley（鲍勃·马利）的音乐纪录片。最早在2009年，马丁·斯科塞斯原定为美国制片公司韦恩斯坦执导这部影片，定于2010年2月6日上映，那是正好是马利的65岁诞辰纪念日。斯科塞斯曾经执导过Bob Dylan的纪录片《No Direction Home》以及滚石纪录片《Shine A Light》，不啻为最理想的导演人选，但他因为档期冲突而离开了这部电影。《沉默的羔羊》的乔纳森·戴米被委任为第二任导演，他曾经执导过吉米·卡特、尼尔.杨、Bruce Springsteen以及the Pretenders等人的音乐纪录片，但由于同制片人Steve Bing创作理念的不合，他最终也在2009年5月离开了这部电影。第三任导演是英国人凯文·麦克唐纳，他的作品表除了《最后的苏格兰王》之外还包括《冰峰168小时》同最近的《浮生一日》两部经典的纪录片，对音乐也是丝毫不陌生，拍摄过米克·贾格的音乐纪录片，由于他来接手这部电影也个令人放心的选择。《马利》最终预定在2012年5月上映，这个日期也恰巧是马利去世的30周年纪念日。
在此前，已经有过多部关于鲍勃·马利的传记片，包括Declan Lowney执导的《时间将会证明》、Jeremy Marre执导的《Bob Marley: Rebel Music》等等，但本片是第一部得到鲍勃·马利家人认可的传记片。鲍勃的儿子Ziggy Marley出任了影片制作人之一。“我们一开始找到凯文，是因为他是一位名声在外的纪录片电影人。但是对于我们家人来说，最重要的是他的热情同关心，无论是对于我父亲作为一名音乐家还是作为个人”，Ziggy Marley这样解释选择麦克唐纳作为导演的原因。《马利》为了展现这位伟大的天才音乐家留下的遗产至今仍在世界范围内有着巨大的影响力，在牙买加、加纳、日本、英国以及美国等多国采访拍摄。马利的妻子和亲朋好友、过去乐队的队友以及珍贵的图片和演唱会资料都被收录在了电影当中，使得影片能够深入地从多个侧面来展示鲍勃·马利的生平和思想。2012年2月，《马利》在德国柏林电影节举行了首映，获得了各方的好评。

Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor, and grounded in the illuminating presence and words of Didion herself. This is most certainly a film about loss—the loss of a solid American center, the personal losses of a husband and a child—but Didion describes everything she sees and experiences so attentively, so fully, and so bravely that she transforms the very worst of life into occasions for understanding. A Netflix release.

Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sargent’s power to express distinctive personalities, power dynamics and gender identities during this fascinating period of cultural reinvention. Alongside 50 paintings by Sargent sit stunning items of clothing and accessories worn by his subjects, drawing the audience into the artist’s studio. Sargent’s sitters were often wealthy, their clothes costly, but what happens when you turn yourself over to the hands of a great artist? The manufacture of public identity is as controversial and contested today as it was at the turn of the 20th century, but somehow Sargent’s work transcends the social noise and captures an alluring truth with each brush stroke.

讲述爱书之人的故事。从做书、开书店、淘书、贩书人等角度呈现四集内容：《一本书的诞生》，追踪一本书的诞生过程，讲述书籍设计师、作者、编辑如何合作做出一本本精彩的书；《书店风景》，寻找并记录处于快餐文化的当下仍致力于推广阅读的书店故事；《淘书迷的地图》，追随淘书人的足迹，绘制出书迷们的秘密寻宝图；《贩书记》，记录那些贩书人如何为书迷找到好的旧书，为好的旧书找到好的归宿。

读万卷书，还是行万里路？《但是还有书籍》第三季！走进田野、深入生活，用眼睛观察，用心去理解，读者在对现实的观察中，叩问写作者书写的理由，作者也在与生命和自然的相处中，激发新的创作灵感。

With unique access inside the battle for Hong Kong, FRONTLINE follows five protesters through the most intense clashes over several months of pro-democracy protests. The film examines their struggle against what they say is growing influence from the communist government of mainland China.

在中国海南省某小学校长和海南省某官员携带六名小学女开房的事件被新闻曝光后，被网友称为“流氓燕”的叶海燕带领一群人发起抗议，虽然这一抗议或许大概率会以失败而告终。在纪录片制片人王男栿跟随叶海燕这群人拍摄她们抗议经历的过程中，王男栿和她的朋友与家人也无可避免地卷入到了整个事件当中

《唐人街永存》讲述了一位年过八旬、不为人所知、自学成才的艺术家Frank Wong有关唐人街记忆的故事。他在四十余年的时间里，打造了拥有丰富场景、造型浪漫、细致入微、栩栩如生的微缩唐人街景观，重塑了旧金山华埠逐渐褪色的美好回忆。

加州打字机是一个其生活与打字机息息相关的人们的故事，电影是对创造力与技术的沉思，由Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough等人出演（California Typewriter is a story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. The film is a meditation on creativity and tech nology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and others.）

《但是还有书籍》以书为题材，力图在阅读多样化、碎片化的当下，记录这个时代形形色色的爱书之人，捕捉和书有关的那些精彩故事。希望以新鲜有趣的视角和故事，点燃观众对于书的热爱，为人们提供一份在快时代里的阅读指南。

Netflix最新制作了一系列关于文化创意时尚工业领域的艺术纪录片《抽象: 设计的艺术（Abstract: The Art of Design）》，探访全球创意艺术名家，分享这些活跃于世界顶级设计领域舞台的设计师所持的创意艺术理念。

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Lynda.com 出品的时长38分钟的 商标设计创意灵感 视频教程。由有八十年高龄的印刷专家，标识设计师，作家和教师 Doyald Young 讲述了选择牛津英语词典里优雅的文字字体工艺标准，跟随他到帕萨迪纳艺术中心学院共享他的未来设计才华，还必须谨慎的重复多次审查所制作的图形，学习用铅笔在薄纸上一页页的手工描绘美工曲线字体。
From humble beginnings in a small Texas town eight decades ago comes legendary typographer, logotype designer, author, and teacher Doyald Young. As elegant as his script fonts and as wise as his set of Oxford English dictionaries, Young sets the standard for his craft. Friend and designer Stefan Bucher describes Young as "someone who could easily have done what he does in the Renaissance, and could easily do it 300 years from now." In this installment of Creative Inspirations, we enjoy a window into the life of this accomplished artisan as he works with joyous focus in his favorite spot, his drawing table. We follow Young to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where he shares his talents with tomorrow's designers. He recalls the hundreds of iterations he went through in creating the logo for Prudential, and he puts pencil to tissue creating the pages for his next book about script lettering... Written by David Niles White

The Genius of Design是BBC2台近期开始播出的关于产品设计的一系列纪录片，每集时长60分钟，通过采访各知名设计师及相关的设计评论者，一起去探究产品设计的历史和未来.
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