Remembering DuArt (1922 - 2021)
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Thank you to everyone who came to Metrograph for the film series honoring Bob & Irwin Young! ♥️
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"Completing the Picture: How DuArt Film & TV Opened Up the Frame for American Independent Film" thank you Moveable Fest for this wonderful read:
A Metrograph series highlights how the lab run by Irwin Young exposed the world to groundbreaking filmmakers, including his brother Robert.
"Nothing But a Man and Children of Fate are screening as part of a tribute to the film lab DuArt at Metrograph. Roemer made Nothing But a Man and Cortile Cascino with Robert Young, the filmmaker (The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez) and brother of DuArt head Irwin Young (as well as father of Andrew Young). But I first spoke with Roemer around ten years ago for an unpublished interview focused on the making of Nothing But a Man and The Plot Against Harry. The diversity of Roemer’s filmmaking in the ’60s was breathtaking, and perhaps not everyone was ready for a roving brand of realism (I include the middle-class Bronx of The Plot Against Harry) that recalls Jonathan Rosenbaum’s apt diagnosis: “Roemer is ultimately more interested in life than in movies—a classic commercial liability.” https://filmmakermagazine.com/115986-interview-michael-roemer-nothing-but-a-man-the-plot-against-harry/
Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.
"Sometimes unlikely forces shape whole artistic movements. There’s an argument made that New Hollywood was driven just as much by changes in entertainment business contract norms as it was by the cultural and political tides of the era. Similarly, discussion of the boom in US independent cinema in the 1980s and ’90s doesn’t often pay attention to a single company that helped facilitate the whole thing, merely by offering an affordable option by which productions could process their film stock. A new screening series at Metrograph, The Process, seeks to bring fresh attention to this overlooked element of film history, paying tribute to brothers Robert and Irwin Young." https://hyperallergic.com/753378/the-process-robert-irwin-young-metrograph/
Metrograph’s series The Process features films that were either directed by Robert M. Young or made with the help of Irving Young’s postproduction facility.
Directed by Robert M. Young: The true story of the Jewish Greek boxer Salamo Arouch, an undefeated middleweight champion interned at Auschwitz where he kept himself and his family alive only by fighting fellow internees for the pleasure of his SS guards, is the basis for Young’s fourth teaming with Olmos, who gives an understated performance as the camp’s slippery black marketeer and fixer. The first film shot on location in Auschwitz, anchored by Willem Dafoe’s gripping, disciplined, and utterly committed performance as Arouch. Tickets from Metrograph https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999002865 Screens at 2:00 PM.
Thanks Hyperallergic for the wonderful article about Irwin and Robert Young's impact on cinema.
Metrograph’s series The Process features films that were either directed by Robert M. Young or made with the help of Irving Young’s postproduction facility.
Tonight at 9:10 PM! Directed by Susan Seidelman, Smithereens, the first American independent film invited to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Get your tickets at Metrograph and watch the trailer, here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECLU5Sqfd7g
Today screening at 5:15PM! Directed by Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu the classic film, "Union Maids" which the NY TIMES called, "Characters whose hearts and minds leap off the screen with… grace and nobility."
TICKETS: https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999002867
Tonight at 9:45 PM! Directed by Robert Young: One of the great, rarely screened New York City movies of the 1970s, the Robert Altman-produced Rich Kids is the story of two precocious Upper West Side pre-teens, Franny and Jamie (Trini Alvarado and Jeremy Levy), who’ve largely been left to fend for themselves in the aftermath of the sexual revolution that’s turned their preoccupied, divorced parents’ lives upside down. A wistful comedy of upper-crust Manhattan mores, adult childishness, and children’s wisdom, and a time capsule from a disappeared NYC. Tickets: https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999002869
Today at 4:45 screening at Metrograph, Children of Fate! Andrew Young, son of Robert M., returns to the subject of Cortile Cascino, a fabled but little-seen 1961 documentary by his father and his Nothing But a Man collaborator, Michael Roemer—the infamous slum in Palermo, Sicily. Tickets: https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999002868
12:00 PM kicks off the THE PROCESS: A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT AND IRWIN YOUNG screenings with the classic film, Roger & Me!
Get your tickets from Metrograph: https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999002861
Don't miss it! 9:45PM. Sidewalk Stories By Charles Lane: A film about homelessness in NYC that’s serious without being condescending, and a work of social advocacy and touching humor that speaks eloquently to the present housing crisis. Tickets: https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999000852
Happy Friday! Check out the incredible films screening TODAY as part of "The Process: A Tribute to Robert and Irwin Young" I Like It Like That, GIRLFRIENDS, American Me, Sidewalk Stories Short Eyes and more! Tickets: https://metrograph.com/category/the-process-a-tribute-to-robert-and-irwin-young/
Today at 7:00 PM! Metrograph screens the landmark film, "Nothing But A Man"directed by Michael Roemer as Part of The Process: A Tribute to Robert and Irwin Young.
Tickets: https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999000429
Today at 2:15 PM as part of Metrograph's tribute to Irwin Young, screens Harlan County, U.S.A. directed by Barbara Kopple! https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999000307
Tonight! 9:30 PM as Part of The Process: A Tribute to Robert and Irwin Young - Metrograph screens Sleepwalk directed by Sara Driver! Tickets:
Nicole (Suzanne Fletcher), the central character of Driver’s beguiling Manhattan fairy tale, supports herself and her son by working as a computer…
Tonight 9:45 PM as part of the Irwin and Bob Young retrospective: Miller's Crossing! Tickets from Metrograph https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999002860
Tonight at Metrograph, 7:00 PM! The first film by an African American female filmmaker to be produced by a major studio, I Like It Like That, as part of the tribute to the Young brother's impact on cinema!
Q&A with Darnell Martin Saturday, August 13
Today starting at 12:00 PM don't miss Metrograph's tribute to Robert and Irwin Young starting with SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE at 12:00 PM and ending with STRANGER THAN PARADISE at 9:30 PM! Series starts today until August 24th. https://metrograph.com/category/the-process-a-tribute-to-robert-and-irwin-young/
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, Harlan County, U.S.A.
Ruby in Paradise, Working Girls, Caught Miller's Crossing,
American Me , Stranger Than Paradise, Roger & Me. These films screen tomorrow at Metrograph 's Tribute to Bob and Irwin Young. Don't miss it! Details: https://metrograph.com/category/the-process-a-tribute-to-robert-and-irwin-young/
Honored that Metrograph is screening films by Irwin and Bob Young starting on August 12th. For more details, visit: https://metrograph.com/category/the-process-a-tribute-to-robert-and-irwin-young/
DuArt Media Services updated their info in the about section.
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Love this photo of Irwin in front of the Chuck Close print that's hanging in the DuArt offices!
Fall back Friday! 1974 news clipping from when Irwin becomes fellow SMPTE.
Kino Lorber is distributing a 4K restoration of the 1979 documentary The Wobblies. The restoration was done by the Museum of Modern Art at the DuArt Digitization Center. Screenings start April 29th at Metrograph in NYC! http://www.greenroomnewyork.com/article.aspx?ID=13034
Love this photo of Irwin Young and Arnie Sawyer from Sawyer Studios at Telluride Film Festival from back in the day!
Learn more about our history!
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In the last century, Academy Award Winning DuArt Media Services has evolved from a premier film lab to the high technology full service media provider it is today.
"Irwin not only simplified and streamlined postproduction, he stepped to the plate to help “impecunious” (his word) indie filmmakers too many times to count, cutting deals, OK’ing delayed payments, sometimes even investing in the films themselves. As a consequence, iconic filmmakers working today—too many to list here—got a leg up when they needed it most, at critical early career-defining, make-or-break moments. Simply put, he cared about their prospects and success. The role he came to play in the world of independent filmmaking, if not quite Medici—he was, after all, a businessman—was his own invention. In this regard, there simply was no one else like him in the industry." https://filmmakermagazine.com/113269-irwin-young/
Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.
From the vault! Love this photo of Irwin Young from the 90s at Telluride Film festival with Abby Lincoln and Carol Friedman!
Love this photo of Irwin Young of a SMPTE past presidents reunion!
Throwback Thursday!
Thank you Skylight for the kind tribute to Irwin. https://mailchi.mp/skylight/the-legacy-of-black-women-union-leaders
Did you know that Irwin Young was color blind?
https://categoryfivestudios.com/irwin-young-film-processing-history-color-blindness/
By: Mitch Jacobson, Category Five Studios | NYC The geek in me feels like a groupie today except I’m not backstage at a rock concert. I’m at the historic DuArt Film Lab Building in New…
Read about DuArt's 100 year history in : https://www.duart.com/history
In the last century, Academy Award Winning DuArt Media Services has evolved from a premier film lab to the high technology full service media provider it is today.
Irwin Young with William Smith, 1977.
Excited for weekend? Check out this old photo and document from the archive of when Irwin Young won the Scientific and Technical Academy Award in 2001! Best of luck to all of this year's nominees.
to a young Irwin Young in the 1950s!
Love this photo from 1964 of the Venice Film Festival screening of "Nothing But A Man."
"He is the Les Paul of the movie industry and has a couple Oscars to prove it." https://categoryfivestudios.com/irwin-young-film-processing-history-color-blindness/
By: Mitch Jacobson, Category Five Studios | NYC The geek in me feels like a groupie today except I’m not backstage at a rock concert. I’m at the historic DuArt Film Lab Building in New…
Congrats to all of the recent Gotham/IFP award winners! Here's a pic of Irwin from the awards back in the day.
Some cool closeup shots of one of DuArt's negative developing machines!
"My first job as a teenager was at DuArt, working for the maintenance department where they sent my nimble body down air conditioning ducts to do battle with giant dust bunnies.
By the time I was in college, I had succumbed to the irresistible pull of filmmaking. So began a lifelong dialogue with my uncle about art, technology, business, family, and life. He loved touring me through all the different machines and processes in the lab, reveling in the extreme care that was needed at every stage. When I made my first film, Irwin was all over it. Every step contained a lesson — about timing lights, synchronizers, edge numbers, contact vs optical printing — you name it. Of course, for me, special treatment at the lab was a family privilege, but I soon realized that I was not the only one being nurtured. What really made Irwin light up, I learned, was not the technology, but how it could be used to help artists make art and social commentary. His fascination began with my grandfather (a film editor and DuArt’s founder) and my father but soon spread to a diverse array of filmmakers, many of whom needed a leg-up and would go on to do great things. He didn’t always agree with their viewpoints, but for Irwin, their conviction to express themselves, or shine a light on the dark corners of society, was sacrosanct.
The first year I had a film at Sundance, I was amazed to discover that half of the films in the competition had been through DuArt. I could hear the gratitude of the filmmakers in their speeches and conversations — Irwin was there for them. Of course, he was benefitting too, but mostly on a personal level. Sometimes he would try to justify his altruism with the need to understand his customers, but the most convincing thing I ever heard him say was “it’s about doing what’s right as a human being.”
Years later, Irwin asked me if there was something I would like to contribute to DuArt. More than anything, I wanted to keep his legacy alive. He appointed me VP of Special Projects to help clients navigate new digital technologies — something I had become obsessed with in my own work. For eight years, under Irwin’s guidance, I tested new cameras, helped customers achieve a “film look” on video, and chased the elusive “next super16” that would help give voice to a new generation of filmmakers. His passion was contagious. But market forces and technological change had already undermined Irwin’s film-based business model, and it was no longer possible to help out the way he once had. It was a sad day for all of us when the last roll of film passed from the developing tank to the dryer. The magic years of independent film were over.
Coming from a family of filmmakers, it’s ironic that Irwin, the humble engineer, striving to help out the struggling artist, is the one who brought home the Oscar. But it’s not surprising, as the gift he gave transcended the work of any individual artist, lifting up a generation of new voices that nurtured us all. Thank you, Uncle Butch, for doing what’s right as a human being." - Filmmaker Andy Young
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