Oscar Nominated Film: Cutie and the Boxer

When

Tuesday September 1, 2015: 7:00pm to 8:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting Room

Description

The Oscar nominated documentary Cutie and the Boxer is a love story, an art story, a family story and a New York City story, all of them weird, funny and a little heartbreaking.

The acclaimed 2013 documentary is a candid New York love story about life and art that explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife and artist Noriko. In addition to its Oscar nomination, Cutie and the Boxer won the 2014 Grierson Award for Best Cinema Documentary and the U.S. Documentary Directing Award for director Zachary Heinzerling at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival

Cutie and the Boxer provides a lively account of the their 40 years together, full of financial struggle, inebriation, parties, exhibitions, and Ushio's single-minded dedication to his work. But the essence of the film takes place in the present as Noriko finds her artistic voice in a storytelling series of black-and-white drawings depicting the relationship of "Cutie and Bullie," a thinly veiled, equally funny and painful recounting of her life with Ushio.

This event is collaboration with POV, PBS' award-winning nonfiction film series. The 82-minute documentary is rated R for art images