Awake + Polis.

"In the opening frames of the documentary Fully Awake: The Black Mountain College Experience, one is enticed by a heady list of artists who were part of the phenomenon known as Black Mountain College," writes Amy White in the Independent Weekly. "Josef Albers, Anni Albers, Arthur Penn, David Tudor, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, MC Richards, Charles Olsen, Robert Creeley, Franz Kline.... It is amazing to think that all of these art world luminaries once constellated and immersed themselves in creative experimentation in a remote, isolated college in the mountains of North Carolina. This weekend, the film will have a one-time screening at the NC Museum of Art."

As it happens, William Corbett has a related recommendation in the Boston Phoenix: "From director Henry Ferrini and writer Ken Riaf, Polis Is This is the best film about an American poet ever made.... Ferrini and Riaf present the complex American literary figure Charles Olson (1910 - 1970) in a clear way by focusing not on the facts of his life but on the facts of his work."

Posted by dwhudson at September 13, 2007 4:07 PM