Lost Bohemia

Name: Lost Bohemia
Genre: Documentary
Released: May 20, 2011
Duration: 77 min
Rating: 71

2011

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Impact Partners | Release Date: May 20, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: For over 100 years, the most significant 20th century artists and performers have lived and worked in the 165 landmark Studios atop Carnegie Hall, including Marilyn Monroe, Isadora Duncan, Barnett Newman, Norman Mailer, Marlon Brando and George Balanchine. In 2001, the Carnegie Hall Corporation began to systematically evict the artistsFor over 100 years, the most significant 20th century artists and performers have lived and worked in the 165 landmark Studios atop Carnegie Hall, including Marilyn Monroe, Isadora Duncan, Barnett Newman, Norman Mailer, Marlon Brando and George Balanchine. In 2001, the Carnegie Hall Corporation began to systematically evict the artists (some in residence for over forty years), destroy the Studios and convert the spaces into offices. Alarmed by the situation, photographer Josef Astor, a resident of the Carnegie Hall Studios for over twenty years, began to film his neighboring artists, the ballet school, drama classes, dancers, singing teachers, sculptors, painters and writers. Over a period of eight years, first-time director Astor filmed several hundred hours of the remaining artist tenants as they fought to preserve the Studios for future generations. LOST BOHEMIA is Astor’s intimate, affectionate portrait of these extraordinary people and chronicles the pleasures and struggles of working artists in New York City. (Impact Partners)… Expand

Director: Josef Astor

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 77 min

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Eric Hynes

May 17, 2011

What Lost Bohemia lacks in aesthetic presentation - first-time filmmaker Astor seems to have gathered footage without much forethought - is made up for by an intimacy familiar from home movies, revealing eccentric neighbors at their most frank and endearing. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

May 20, 2011

Call it the rape of Carnegie Hall. Read full review

Mark Holcomb

May 17, 2011

Lost Bohemia's real power, though, is in the impromptu interviews Astor conducted with his neighbors. Read full review

A.O. Scott

May 19, 2011

A sad and spirited elegy for the Carnegie Hall Studios, which for more than a century provided working, living and teaching space for all kinds of artists on the floors above the famous concert hall. Read full review

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