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	My Architect: A Son's Journey starring Edmund Bacon, Edwina Pattison Daniels, B.V. Doshi, Frank O. Gehry, Philip Johnson
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Product Details Aspect Ratio 1.33:1 Audience Rating NR (Not Rated) EAN 9781567303728 Format Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN 1567303722 Manufacturer New Yorker Video Number Of Items 1 Release Date February 15, 2005 Running Time 116 minutes Studio New Yorker Video Theatrical Release Date November 12, 2003 UPC 717119901547 Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description A riveting tale of love, art, betrayal and forgiveness -- in which the illegitimate son of a legendary architect undertakes a worldwide exploration to discover and understand his father's and the personal choices he made. Louis I. Kahn is considered by many historians to have been the most important architect of the second half of the twentieth century. While Kahn's artistic legacy was a search for truth and clarity, his personal life was secretive and chaotic. His mysterious death in a train station men's room left behind three families -- one with his wife and two with women with whom he had long-term affairs. The child of one of these extra-marital relationships, Kahn's only son Nathaniel, sets out on a journey to reconcile the life and work of this mysterious man. Revealing the haunting beauty of his father's monumental creations and taking us to the rarified heights of the world's celebrated architects and deep within his own divided family, Nathaniel's personal journey becomes a universal investigation of identity, a celebration of art and ultimately, of life itself. One nonfiction film that truly creates a narrative journey, My Architect is filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn's engrossing search for his father. Louis Kahn, one of the most celebrated architects of the 20th century, died in 1974 and left behind a highly compartmentalized life, including two children born out of wedlock to two mistresses. Nathaniel interviews the members of this somewhat puzzled family, but his deepest experiences are visits to the buildings that his father made (such as the grand Salk Institute in La Jolla, California), culminating in an emotional trip to Bangladesh. Here, Louis Kahn designed a massive government complex, a soaring achievement (and fascinating paradox--a Muslim capital designed by a Jewish man). This film asks: where does an artist truly live? In his life, or in the work he leaves behind? Nathaniel Kahn takes an amazingly even-tempered approach to this, given his personal stake in the story, and the result is a uniquely stirring movie. --Robert Horton A traditional quest, superbly told. Nathaniel Kahn seeks to understand the life of his father, the architect Louis I. Kahn, a task made even more difficult by the fact that Kahn had three separate and coexisting families: a wife and two mistresses with one child apiece. For his part, Nathaniel was an illegitimate son and only eleven when his father died; his interviews are laced with raw, uncut feeling for a man he never really knew. Throughout the documentary, he uses Kahn's buildings (beautifully photographed) as a kind of wedge into his father's motivations and personality. He discovers that Kahn's more famous contemporaries, like I. M. Pei, appear haunted by his career: is it better to have designed three or four unexampled buildings, as Kahn did, or to have had a successful, high-profile architectural practice? Perhaps more surprisingly, the women in Kahn's life don't regret the way he treated them. Anne Tyng, Kahn's co-worker and mistress, explains her affection this way: 'The ideas that you work on together connect you always somehow.' In the end, Nathaniel's homage to his father demonstrates what it was like to be caught in his creative whirlwind. -Michael Agger Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker Customers who bought this item also bought Sketches of Frank Gehry by Sydney Pollack I.M. Pei - First Person Singular/The Museum on the Mountain Philip Johnson: Diary of An Eccentric Architect Maya Lin - A Strong Clear Vision Architectures, Vol. 1 Customer Reviews for: My Architect: A Son's Journey Rating - Wonderful Story of a Bastard Son This is a documentary by a son of a man with 3 families. Nathaniel was the son from the youngest of the women. The father died when he was 11 and he never really knew him because the father lived with the wife he was married to. The man did visit at times and his mother always believed that he died while coming to visit them and move in forever. The man was a famous architect named Louis Kahn. He was highly revered in the architect world and it was a bit shocking that he had been hiding 3 families for many years from ... Read More Rating - THIS IS A TOUCHING FILM--AND MAKES YOU THINK, TOO! This film starts off slowly but it "grows on you". It's a son's discovery of his mostly absent father who died 30 years ago when he was 11! You would think it would be a little too late to revivify one's father after 30 years. But, no, the film maker-son DOES revivify his father! And, after 30 years, what is left? The son, yes. And the architectural influence and works by his father which continue to influence the lives of people still here. It's quite a noble tribute to the father by the son. Well, done! Recommended. ... Read More Rating - A moving account of a great artist's life and impact Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) was one of the 20th century's most influential and well-regarded architects. He designed such important structures as the Exeter Library at Philips Exeter Academy, and the Capital Complex in Dhaka (Dacca), Bangladesh, and his work was revered by high-flying architects such as I. M. Pei, Philip Johnson, and Frank Gehry. But his habits of overwork and overextension, bidding for too many projects and becoming obsessive about his all-consuming passion for architecture, led him to die of a heart attack, bankrupt ... Read More Rating - My Architect: A Son's Journey An engrossing and unexpectedly moving film, about a son's search for insight into the enigmatic, remote man who fathered him, using the elder Kahn's enduring professional legacy as a starting point. Ultimately a very human story, which viewers should find edifying and uplifting, regardless of their interest in architecture. Rating - MY ARCHITECT: My Review The video is a very well done documentation of a son's journey to get to know his father (Luis Kahn/famous architect). This is not a documentation on solely the work of Luis Kahn but on his personal life as well. I really enjoyed the personal discoveries the son made of his father through the interviews and visits (to the buildings). It was a good balance of showing off the two sides of Luis Kahn as an Architect and as an absent father. see more reviews See all movies starring Edmund Bacon, Edwina Pattison Daniels, B.V. Doshi, Frank O. Gehry, Philip Johnson

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