i thought the guy on the music boat was a bit strange.

i thought the skating scene was fun

PLAYA 4 LIFE

strange family scene with the sisters...you could feel the awkwardness of such a seemingly normal situation

i thought over all it was a beautifully shot film

there were some really amazing shots. but there was a lot of filler crap too. how many times did we need to see kahn's office? i really enjoyed the interviews with p.j. and pei...
i could have done without all the "i will always wonder what my father though about us"
nathanial was on the verge of being a whiner. he didnt quite go there, but he was pretty damn close.
i really enjoyed this movie for what it told/showed of the architecture and the man's professional life (i was astounded by the number of projects he never completed)
but i found myself really bored/annoyed with the stuff about his families...but i totally understand that was the filmmaker's goal...to discover something about his father, and his other siblings, so i am not really saying i was disappointed, but those parts just didn't do much for me.

Really? I thought the segments with his family were the most interesting parts. I am so used to seeing Kahn and his work as it has been (rightly) celebrated, but I've never before seen the personal toll it took on the lives of the people around him to create such work. Those scenes were the most touching to me. And then to see the emotional impact of his project in Dhaka on the lives of the people there...it really threw into focus for me just what can be at stake in the creative process, and what potential rewards there can be.

it suprised me as to how much footage was shot of Kahn in the 70's (walking to work, etc). I dont have video of me going to work (I am not a great architect yet, either).

nathanial looked too much like a cross between John Travolta and Michael Eisener for my personal taste.

I had not heard of the boat before the movie.

Lets hope that in 30 years, our projects will be full of plastic beach chairs

Khan, what a nut... the father and the son.

if you like that film, you might also get a kick out of "my father, the genius". i'll let you google that if interested. :D

'Adventures of Sebastain Cole' - is a somewhat autobiographical story by Tod Williams, son of architect Tod Williams

tman,

do you think they would let you or I rollerblade in the courtyard of the Salk???

i dont think people would say anything if you didnt grind over everything.

mdler

hmm...ive been there and it seemed like a relaxed environment. You know what mdler? If i ever go there again, u know what im bringing besides the camera and sketchbook.

and to answer your question, we can all skate there...i mean whose's gonna catch us? We're on fucking ROLLARBLADES!

I wonder if Kahn ever spent any time on the nude beach at the foot of the Salk; I know I have

stephanie,

im sorry, but it looks like you slightly missed the point of the movie - the movie was meant to be (or so i think) an attempt to understand the tension between kahn's professional life and his family life, and the method he does it is to try and search for his father - it was not a documentary or kahn's architecture.

but what i like about the movie is exactly whats happening here - its so open-ended that people conjure up their own conclusions about the movie

i guess what i was saying is that nathaniel was all that successful in reaching me with that tension then...maybe my feminist kicked in and i got really irritated with kahn, wishing i could have the ability to birth multiple children and carry on to be a fairly well respected professional.

i think i stated that i understood the movie was to be about nathaniel's search for his father...and all i was really saying is that for whatever reasons, i was not touched...maybe i am just really insensitive...which is a shame.

and i agree that i like the discussion, i went with two friends who haven't been educated in architecture, and they loved it, and we had some great discussions about the film.

it was an ok documentary about a son's search for his father, though i found it manipulative at times: as a documentary about a family it is good, but as an oblique portrait of an architect, it is way old-school.

i hope everybody hasnt suffered mental damage at the thought of mdler at a nude beach.. try not to imagine it..its a scary thought...