Arts & Entertainment
Wash U Gives Sneak Preview of Documentary on Influential St. Louis-Born Architect
St. Louis gets an early look at documentary profiling architect and painter Charles Eames. Filmmaker Jason Cohn screens the film Thursday night at Washington University ahead of Friday's debut in Los Angeles.
Before moving to Michigan and then Los Angeles where he became an icon of American modernist design, Charles Eames was a troublemaking architecture student at Washington University. Documentary filmmaker Jason Cohn brings his film, "Eames: The Architect and the Painter," to the same school that unceremoniously ejected Eames in the 1920s for being "prematurely interested in Frank Lloyd Wright."
"Eames: The Architect and the Painter" narrated by James Franco, is the first film to be made about Charles and his wife, Ray, since their deaths — and the only one that peers deeply inside the link between their artistic collaboration and sometimes tortured love for one another. St. Louis gets its one chance Thursday night for this sneak preview before the film premieres theatrically in New York and Los Angeles on Friday.
7:30 pm Washington University's Steinberg theater... tickets $12