Behind the Scenes: The Art and Craft of Cinema<br> Patricia Woodbridge on Art Direction

3/31/11 to 4/3/11

We are pleased to welcome art director Patricia Woodbridge to our ongoing series Behind the Scenes: The Art and Craft of Cinema. Woodbridge will give a lecture on her craft, discussing the role of the art director in bringing the overarching filmic vision to fruition, and will introduce two films on which she has worked, I Am Legend and Shutter Island. We will see how art direction can help communicate a story, define characters, and render a precise mood.

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I Am Legend
Thursday, March 31 7:00 PM
Francis Lawrence (U.S., 2007). The screening will follow a lecture by art director Patricia Woodbridge, who will discuss her work on I Am Legend and other films. This science fiction film features Will Smith as the lone survivor of a plague that has decimated Manhattan. “The streetscapes he wanders through will be familiar to any visitor or resident, but the way Mr. Lawrence and his team . . . have distressed and depopulated New York is downright uncanny” (N.Y. Times). (101 mins)
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Shutter Island
Sunday, April 3 5:30 PM
Martin Scorsese (U.S., 2010). Introduced by Patricia Woodbridge. Martin Scorsese's most recent film, a psychological thriller based on a Dennis Lehane novel, is crafted “to instill not only menace but also unease and anxiety” (Variety). (138 mins)
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Behind the Scenes: The Art and Craft of Cinema<br> Patricia Woodbridge on Art Direction

3/31/11 to 4/3/11

According to one notion of cinema, the director is a flamboyant conductor, orchestrating the talents of his (or her) assembled crew. We leave it at that, rarely acknowledging the specialized practitioners––the cinematographers, editors, sound designers, and others––who collectively bring the “directorial vision” to the screen. Through first-hand, anecdotal, and critical presentations by some of these under-recognized artists, our ongoing Behind the Scenes series makes clear the vast cooperative effort that is cinema. - Steve Seid, Video Curator

In conjunction with Behind the Scenes, the San Francisco Film Society will present a Master Class with Patricia Woodbridge on Saturday, April 2, from 1 to 3 p.m. For more information and to enroll, go to sffs.org.

Behind the Scenes is a collaboration between BAM/PFA and the San Francisco Film Society. Major support for Behind the Scenes has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support has been provided by the San Francisco Foundation and the BAM/PFA Trustees.