Writer/director Matthew Barney’s visually lush and nearly dialogue-free quintet of puzzling art films is more like an art installation than traditional cinema. The five episodes weave dense, ...

THERE WAS A TIME, roughly a decade ago, when the relative merits of a certain five-part film series were among the more hotly debated subjects in the extended artsy-fartsy community. Depending on whom ...

I’ll admit that I was afraid, very afraid, of sitting through The Cremaster Cycle. The fear was simple enough: Would this series of five surreal, sexual but antierotic, promiscuously symbol-strewn, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Contemporary artist Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster Cycle” is part of a “$25,000 Pyramid”-worthy list of things that are classically long. “War and Peace.” Hume ...

All five parts of visual artist Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster” film cycle will appear at SIFF Cinema this week, in a rare opportunity to see this work (which is not available on DVD) in its entirety.

The Cremaster Cycle is an art project consisting of five feature length films, together with related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and artist's books; it is the best-known work of American visual ...

Matthew Barney, 50, is sometimes described as the most important American artist of his generation. His sculptural, cinematic and performance works could be seen as portraying a civilisation in ...

Matthew Barney's "Cremaster Cycle," a five-film cinematic masterpiece, may not have made Barney a household name. But his work has accomplished something less likely still. Barney's work has ...

Matthew Barney’s epic, nonlinear “Cremaster Cycle” exploring gender identity opens a two-week run today at the Nuart, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd., West Los Angeles. “Cremaster 3” screens today through ...

In many respects, The Cremaster Cycle is an art critic's answered prayer. Matthew Barney's five-part meditation on the origins of form, using the muscle that regulates the height of testicles in the ...

This week the Music Box presents all five installments of Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster” cycle of avant-garde features, plus the Chicago premiere of his latest, De Lama Lamina. Tickets are $10, and a ...

Watch out everyone - it's coming! Take cover all those who think that movies are shrink-wrapped 90-minute modules, things you can see after dinner at a restaurant and still be home on time to pay off ...