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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Reviews van de film “M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity” (Engelstalig)<\/h2><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nThe big shock in Robin Lutz\u2019s documentary, M.C. ESCHER: Journey to Infinity<\/em>, comes early. The creator of so many mind-bending woodcuts didn\u2019t consider himself an artist. When rock star Graham Nash told the creator of all those mind-bending images that he was an artist, Escher refused the label and called himself a mathematician. Believe it or not, that actually makes sense. One would have to understand considerable geometry, algebra, and probably trigonometry to create those pictures….<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Lincoln Spector<\/strong>, <\/span>bayflicks.net<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nThe camera tracks down what is unmistakably a young woman\u2019s naked back as the voice of Stephen Fry, throwing himself into an amusing dudgeon, reads from the letters of the puzzle print-maker M.C. Escher<\/strong>, griping about \u201cthe hippies<\/em> in San Francisco\u201d who are \u201cprinting my work clandestinely<\/em>,\u201d turning it into \u201cplace mats\u201d and color-tinting it for posters and what not….<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Roger Moore<\/strong>, <\/span>rogersmovienation.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nAs I recall, one of the first things we learn from the new documentary about fabled artist M.C. Escher<\/a><\/b> (1898-1972) is that the fellow, who knew a few things about movies and animation, as well as about art and mathematics, felt that “There is only one person in the world who could make a really good movie about my prints: myself.” …<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>trustmovies.blogspot.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nDespite Graham Nash\u2019s words at the conclusion of Robin Lutz\u2019s documentary M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity<\/em> stating that the world is destined to reappreciate the artist\u2019s work, the fact that it\u2019s taken three years for the film to become available in the United States seemingly proves the opposite. As the pop culture footage during the end credits reveals, however, it might just be that Nash was underestimating how important Escher\u2019s art already<\/em> was.<\/span>..<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Jared Mobarak<\/strong>, <\/span>thefilmstage.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nM.C. Escher \u2014 he of never-ending stairwells, fish morphing into flowers, hands drawing one another, expert use of glass globes, and math-minded imagineer of infinite nesting universes \u2014 is an iconic image-maker who is almost universally recognized outside the art world, criminally unrepresented in the art world canon, and, it turns out, not at all the sort of person one might suppose him to be.<\/span>…<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Shana Nys Dambrot<\/strong>, <\/span>laweekly.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n…. M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity\u00a0<\/em>takes a largely chronological approach to telling Escher\u2019s life. It traces his upbringing in a wealthy Dutch family at the turn of the century and his time studying at the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts. During his youth, he would revel in the overwhelming quality of the organ music at St. Bartholomew\u2019s church in Haarlem, and the layers of otherworldly sounds he heard there would inform his later interest in creating illimitable tessellations, paradoxical architectures, and other scenes that produce dizzying and dazzling effects….<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Claire Selvin<\/strong>, <\/span>www.artnews.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nR<\/span>obin Lutz\u2019s visually compelling, inventive M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity <\/em>strikes just the right note of whimsy in exploring the graphic art of a talent known for his sense of the whimsical. Just as his compatriots Bosch, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh, created new ways of seeing with, respectively, surrealistic symbolism, chiaroscuro, photorealist style and Post-Impressionism, the Dutch Escher expanded the sense of perception on the flat \u201climited plane\u201d of paper he imprinted with his unique \u201cvisualization of infinity.\u201d …<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Ed Rampell<\/strong>, <\/span>hollywoodprogressive.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nRobin Lutz has created a singular journey into the deep waves of math and art conjured forth by Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher in <\/span>M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. The film looks at Escher\u2019s early life and education. He was born in Leeuwarden as the youngest son, with his family later moving to Arnhem, where he spent most of his youth. He was an uninspired student but managed to get into the School of Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. Once there, he quickly shifted his focus to graphic arts….<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote> Bradley Gibson<\/strong>, <\/span>filmthreat.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\u201cM.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity\u201d succeeds where so many documentaries about artists fail: It provides real insight into the art. It\u2019s a welcome trip for those fascinated by his iconic, mind-bending depictions of illusions, evolutions and eternal cycles…<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Michael Ordo\u00f1a<\/strong>, <\/span>www.latimes.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nProviding some orientation for the disorienting work of the Dutch printmaker M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the documentary \u201cM.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity\u201d takes its cues from Escher\u2019s writings, which it uses as narration. (Stephen Fry\u2019s voice-over applies an unwarranted grandiosity to these self-effacing musings.)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Ben Kenigsberg<\/strong>, <\/span>www.nytimes.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nM.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity,\u201d the exquisite new documentary about one of the most inventive graphic artists of all times, beautifully captures why he has been and continues to be revered. Directed by Robin Lutz, it follows a playbook created by Escher himself when he stated, \u201cI fear that there is only one person in the world who could make a really good movie about my prints: myself.\u201d Using that very framework, Lutz and her co-writer Marijnke de Jong masterfully create this film from Escher\u2019s own journals and letters with Stephen Fry voicing the words of Escher…..<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
<\/span><\/div>Reviews van de film “M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity” (Engelstalig)<\/h2><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nThe big shock in Robin Lutz\u2019s documentary, M.C. ESCHER: Journey to Infinity<\/em>, comes early. The creator of so many mind-bending woodcuts didn\u2019t consider himself an artist. When rock star Graham Nash told the creator of all those mind-bending images that he was an artist, Escher refused the label and called himself a mathematician. Believe it or not, that actually makes sense. One would have to understand considerable geometry, algebra, and probably trigonometry to create those pictures….<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Lincoln Spector<\/strong>, <\/span>bayflicks.net<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nThe camera tracks down what is unmistakably a young woman\u2019s naked back as the voice of Stephen Fry, throwing himself into an amusing dudgeon, reads from the letters of the puzzle print-maker M.C. Escher<\/strong>, griping about \u201cthe hippies<\/em> in San Francisco\u201d who are \u201cprinting my work clandestinely<\/em>,\u201d turning it into \u201cplace mats\u201d and color-tinting it for posters and what not….<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Roger Moore<\/strong>, <\/span>rogersmovienation.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nAs I recall, one of the first things we learn from the new documentary about fabled artist M.C. Escher<\/a><\/b> (1898-1972) is that the fellow, who knew a few things about movies and animation, as well as about art and mathematics, felt that “There is only one person in the world who could make a really good movie about my prints: myself.” …<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>trustmovies.blogspot.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nDespite Graham Nash\u2019s words at the conclusion of Robin Lutz\u2019s documentary M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity<\/em> stating that the world is destined to reappreciate the artist\u2019s work, the fact that it\u2019s taken three years for the film to become available in the United States seemingly proves the opposite. As the pop culture footage during the end credits reveals, however, it might just be that Nash was underestimating how important Escher\u2019s art already<\/em> was.<\/span>..<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Jared Mobarak<\/strong>, <\/span>thefilmstage.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nM.C. Escher \u2014 he of never-ending stairwells, fish morphing into flowers, hands drawing one another, expert use of glass globes, and math-minded imagineer of infinite nesting universes \u2014 is an iconic image-maker who is almost universally recognized outside the art world, criminally unrepresented in the art world canon, and, it turns out, not at all the sort of person one might suppose him to be.<\/span>…<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Shana Nys Dambrot<\/strong>, <\/span>laweekly.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n…. M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity\u00a0<\/em>takes a largely chronological approach to telling Escher\u2019s life. It traces his upbringing in a wealthy Dutch family at the turn of the century and his time studying at the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts. During his youth, he would revel in the overwhelming quality of the organ music at St. Bartholomew\u2019s church in Haarlem, and the layers of otherworldly sounds he heard there would inform his later interest in creating illimitable tessellations, paradoxical architectures, and other scenes that produce dizzying and dazzling effects….<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Claire Selvin<\/strong>, <\/span>www.artnews.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nR<\/span>obin Lutz\u2019s visually compelling, inventive M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity <\/em>strikes just the right note of whimsy in exploring the graphic art of a talent known for his sense of the whimsical. Just as his compatriots Bosch, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh, created new ways of seeing with, respectively, surrealistic symbolism, chiaroscuro, photorealist style and Post-Impressionism, the Dutch Escher expanded the sense of perception on the flat \u201climited plane\u201d of paper he imprinted with his unique \u201cvisualization of infinity.\u201d …<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Ed Rampell<\/strong>, <\/span>hollywoodprogressive.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nRobin Lutz has created a singular journey into the deep waves of math and art conjured forth by Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher in <\/span>M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. The film looks at Escher\u2019s early life and education. He was born in Leeuwarden as the youngest son, with his family later moving to Arnhem, where he spent most of his youth. He was an uninspired student but managed to get into the School of Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. Once there, he quickly shifted his focus to graphic arts….<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote> Bradley Gibson<\/strong>, <\/span>filmthreat.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\u201cM.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity\u201d succeeds where so many documentaries about artists fail: It provides real insight into the art. It\u2019s a welcome trip for those fascinated by his iconic, mind-bending depictions of illusions, evolutions and eternal cycles…<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Michael Ordo\u00f1a<\/strong>, <\/span>www.latimes.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nProviding some orientation for the disorienting work of the Dutch printmaker M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the documentary \u201cM.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity\u201d takes its cues from Escher\u2019s writings, which it uses as narration. (Stephen Fry\u2019s voice-over applies an unwarranted grandiosity to these self-effacing musings.)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>Ben Kenigsberg<\/strong>, <\/span>www.nytimes.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nM.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity,\u201d the exquisite new documentary about one of the most inventive graphic artists of all times, beautifully captures why he has been and continues to be revered. Directed by Robin Lutz, it follows a playbook created by Escher himself when he stated, \u201cI fear that there is only one person in the world who could make a really good movie about my prints: myself.\u201d Using that very framework, Lutz and her co-writer Marijnke de Jong masterfully create this film from Escher\u2019s own journals and letters with Stephen Fry voicing the words of Escher…..<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
<\/span><\/div><\/div>\nThe big shock in Robin Lutz\u2019s documentary, M.C. ESCHER: Journey to Infinity<\/em>, comes early. The creator of so many mind-bending woodcuts didn\u2019t consider himself an artist. When rock star Graham Nash told the creator of all those mind-bending images that he was an artist, Escher refused the label and called himself a mathematician. Believe it or not, that actually makes sense. One would have to understand considerable geometry, algebra, and probably trigonometry to create those pictures….<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
Lincoln Spector<\/strong>, <\/span>bayflicks.net<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nThe camera tracks down what is unmistakably a young woman\u2019s naked back as the voice of Stephen Fry, throwing himself into an amusing dudgeon, reads from the letters of the puzzle print-maker M.C. Escher<\/strong>, griping about \u201cthe hippies<\/em> in San Francisco\u201d who are \u201cprinting my work clandestinely<\/em>,\u201d turning it into \u201cplace mats\u201d and color-tinting it for posters and what not….<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
Roger Moore<\/strong>, <\/span>rogersmovienation.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nAs I recall, one of the first things we learn from the new documentary about fabled artist M.C. Escher<\/a><\/b> (1898-1972) is that the fellow, who knew a few things about movies and animation, as well as about art and mathematics, felt that “There is only one person in the world who could make a really good movie about my prints: myself.” …<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
trustmovies.blogspot.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nDespite Graham Nash\u2019s words at the conclusion of Robin Lutz\u2019s documentary M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity<\/em> stating that the world is destined to reappreciate the artist\u2019s work, the fact that it\u2019s taken three years for the film to become available in the United States seemingly proves the opposite. As the pop culture footage during the end credits reveals, however, it might just be that Nash was underestimating how important Escher\u2019s art already<\/em> was.<\/span>..<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
Jared Mobarak<\/strong>, <\/span>thefilmstage.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nM.C. Escher \u2014 he of never-ending stairwells, fish morphing into flowers, hands drawing one another, expert use of glass globes, and math-minded imagineer of infinite nesting universes \u2014 is an iconic image-maker who is almost universally recognized outside the art world, criminally unrepresented in the art world canon, and, it turns out, not at all the sort of person one might suppose him to be.<\/span>…<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
Shana Nys Dambrot<\/strong>, <\/span>laweekly.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n…. M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity\u00a0<\/em>takes a largely chronological approach to telling Escher\u2019s life. It traces his upbringing in a wealthy Dutch family at the turn of the century and his time studying at the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts. During his youth, he would revel in the overwhelming quality of the organ music at St. Bartholomew\u2019s church in Haarlem, and the layers of otherworldly sounds he heard there would inform his later interest in creating illimitable tessellations, paradoxical architectures, and other scenes that produce dizzying and dazzling effects….<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
Claire Selvin<\/strong>, <\/span>www.artnews.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nR<\/span>obin Lutz\u2019s visually compelling, inventive M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity <\/em>strikes just the right note of whimsy in exploring the graphic art of a talent known for his sense of the whimsical. Just as his compatriots Bosch, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh, created new ways of seeing with, respectively, surrealistic symbolism, chiaroscuro, photorealist style and Post-Impressionism, the Dutch Escher expanded the sense of perception on the flat \u201climited plane\u201d of paper he imprinted with his unique \u201cvisualization of infinity.\u201d …<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
Ed Rampell<\/strong>, <\/span>hollywoodprogressive.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nRobin Lutz has created a singular journey into the deep waves of math and art conjured forth by Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher in <\/span>M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. The film looks at Escher\u2019s early life and education. He was born in Leeuwarden as the youngest son, with his family later moving to Arnhem, where he spent most of his youth. He was an uninspired student but managed to get into the School of Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. Once there, he quickly shifted his focus to graphic arts….<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
Bradley Gibson<\/strong>, <\/span>filmthreat.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\u201cM.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity\u201d succeeds where so many documentaries about artists fail: It provides real insight into the art. It\u2019s a welcome trip for those fascinated by his iconic, mind-bending depictions of illusions, evolutions and eternal cycles…<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
Michael Ordo\u00f1a<\/strong>, <\/span>www.latimes.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nProviding some orientation for the disorienting work of the Dutch printmaker M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the documentary \u201cM.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity\u201d takes its cues from Escher\u2019s writings, which it uses as narration. (Stephen Fry\u2019s voice-over applies an unwarranted grandiosity to these self-effacing musings.)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
Ben Kenigsberg<\/strong>, <\/span>www.nytimes.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\nM.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity,\u201d the exquisite new documentary about one of the most inventive graphic artists of all times, beautifully captures why he has been and continues to be revered. Directed by Robin Lutz, it follows a playbook created by Escher himself when he stated, \u201cI fear that there is only one person in the world who could make a really good movie about my prints: myself.\u201d Using that very framework, Lutz and her co-writer Marijnke de Jong masterfully create this film from Escher\u2019s own journals and letters with Stephen Fry voicing the words of Escher…..<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>