To be frank, art and architecture, especially art and architecture schools, don't feature very prominently in the film business, which explains my excitement upon finding any reference to architecture as a course or profession in a movie. I have complied this list with a great amount of difficulty, and if you are lucky enough to know a few more names, please leave it them in the comments section.
1. In Which Annie Gives it To Those Ones
A lot of people don't know that writer, Man Booker Prize winner and activist Arundhati Roy actually made graduated from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. She served as scriptwrited for this movie and even acted in it. The movie is about Annie, a student who has been failing his final year thesis for the past five years. He spends most of his time fantasizing about innovative solutions that may or may not be practical, but can't graduate. The film has a variety of interesting characters, each of which you can identify with in case you are an architecture student. Also, this movie feature Shah Rukh Khan's first credited role and it's fun to spot him sitting bored and possibly high in a smoke-filled room, surrounded by guitar strumming classmates. Unfortunately, no good prints are available and the movie can only be caught once in a while on Doordarshan.
2. Art School Confidential
This is not a very famous movie, and I caught it on TV once. It stars Max Minghella, whom you may recognize as Diya Bharati from The Social Network. All I can say is deserves to be more famous. It has a quiet, dark sense of humour that is missing in the age of Hangover sequels. Then there's a mystery brewing underneath all the humor, and you can't guess the ending until it's too late. Mostly, it's about an art student who just wants to make beautiful paintings. But upon entering art school, he discovers that the art works may be a little bit more pretentious that he ever imagined. My favourite lines from the film are as follows:
Student: (eyeing framed paintings of simple triangles on teacher's office walls) So...how long have you been making triangles?
Teacher: (wearing an it-takes-time-and-hard-work-kid expression) Twenty years.
3. (500) Days of Summer
This was not a movie about architecture per se, but Joseph Gordon Levitt's character's foray back into architecture is key to the storyline. He's a naive guy who's qualified to be an architect but designs greeting cards instead, and following a break-up with Summer (with whom he's more infatuated with than in love with), he's faced with growing up and getting his priorities back in order. There are scenes with him putting together his architectural portfolio, drawing his favorite building on Sumeer's arm and going for an interview at an architectural firm. The fact that being an architect is put up on a pedastal in this movie made me feel great about myself, of course, and you must watch this movie for some great simplistic visual effects.
1. In Which Annie Gives it To Those Ones
A lot of people don't know that writer, Man Booker Prize winner and activist Arundhati Roy actually made graduated from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. She served as scriptwrited for this movie and even acted in it. The movie is about Annie, a student who has been failing his final year thesis for the past five years. He spends most of his time fantasizing about innovative solutions that may or may not be practical, but can't graduate. The film has a variety of interesting characters, each of which you can identify with in case you are an architecture student. Also, this movie feature Shah Rukh Khan's first credited role and it's fun to spot him sitting bored and possibly high in a smoke-filled room, surrounded by guitar strumming classmates. Unfortunately, no good prints are available and the movie can only be caught once in a while on Doordarshan.
2. Art School Confidential
This is not a very famous movie, and I caught it on TV once. It stars Max Minghella, whom you may recognize as Diya Bharati from The Social Network. All I can say is deserves to be more famous. It has a quiet, dark sense of humour that is missing in the age of Hangover sequels. Then there's a mystery brewing underneath all the humor, and you can't guess the ending until it's too late. Mostly, it's about an art student who just wants to make beautiful paintings. But upon entering art school, he discovers that the art works may be a little bit more pretentious that he ever imagined. My favourite lines from the film are as follows:
Student: (eyeing framed paintings of simple triangles on teacher's office walls) So...how long have you been making triangles?
Teacher: (wearing an it-takes-time-and-hard-work-kid expression) Twenty years.
3. (500) Days of Summer
This was not a movie about architecture per se, but Joseph Gordon Levitt's character's foray back into architecture is key to the storyline. He's a naive guy who's qualified to be an architect but designs greeting cards instead, and following a break-up with Summer (with whom he's more infatuated with than in love with), he's faced with growing up and getting his priorities back in order. There are scenes with him putting together his architectural portfolio, drawing his favorite building on Sumeer's arm and going for an interview at an architectural firm. The fact that being an architect is put up on a pedastal in this movie made me feel great about myself, of course, and you must watch this movie for some great simplistic visual effects.
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