My Architect (2003) ( My Architect: A Son's Journey )

My Architect (2003) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: My Architect: A Son's Journey
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )
English ( Dolby Surround )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
116 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Deleted Scenes
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Nathaniel Kahn

Written By:
Nathaniel Kahn

Actors:
Edmund Bacon ..... Himself
Edwina Pattison Daniels ..... Aunt Eddie
Balkrishna Doshi ..... Himself (as B.V. Doshi)
Frank O. Gehry ..... Himself
Philip Johnson ..... Himself
Louis Kahn ..... Himself (archive footage)
Nathaniel Kahn ..... Himself
Sue Ann Kahn ..... Herself
Haym Richard Katz ..... Richard Katz
Teddy Kollek ..... Himself
Harriet Pattison ..... Herself
Priscilla Pattison ..... Aunt Posie
I.M. Pei ..... Himself
Moshe Safdie ..... Himself
Robert A.M. Stern ..... Himself
Alexandra Tyng ..... Herself
Anne Tyng ..... Herself
Shamsul Wares ..... Himself

Synopsis:

The secret life of architectural genius Louis Kahn. Director Nathaniel Kahn searches to understand his father, noted architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 1974. Nathaniel Kahn's compelling Oscar-nominated documentary is both a tribute to a visionary and a personal journey to discover the 'architect' of his own life, his father. Through interviews with his father's colleagues, architects, and his own mother, Nathaniel also visits his lasting memory: the buildings themselves. These include Yale Art Gallery, the Kimbell Art Museum and the awesome pinnacle of his career, the National Capital of Bagladesh. 'My Architect' is a moving but exhilarating film which will rebuild your faith in life-enhancing cinema.

World-famous architect Louis Kahn (Exeter Library, Salk Institute, Bangladeshi Capitol Building) had two illegitimate children with two different women outside of his marriage. Son Nathaniel always hoped that someday his father would come and live with him and his mother, but Kahn never left his wife. Instead, Kahn was found dead in a men's room in Penn Station when Nathaniel was only 11. Nathaniel travels the world visitng his father's buildings and haunts in this film, meeting his father's contemporaries, colleagues, students, wives, and children.

Personal documentary by his son, about Louis Khan, one of the most influential US architects of the twentieth century, although he died in poverty in 1974.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 22 February, 2012.

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