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, ...

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 ...

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.

Matthew Barney delivers his masterpiece in "Cremaster 3," unquestionably the 35-year-old sculptor-performance artist-filmmaker's most linear, most narratively inclined work to date. Matthew Barney ...

Matthew Barney gets lots of art-blog play for his screen-star good looks, his marriage to Bjork and many critics' proclamations that he's the most important artist of his generation. His major ...

Matthew Barney, CREMASTER 1, 1995, production still © Matthew Barney. Photo: Michael James O’Brien. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery The Cremaster ...

Cinema 21 is going to show the entirety of Matthew Barney's "The Cremaster Cycle," from Sept. 24-30. The series of five films were made from 1995-2002 by the acclaimed Barney and last showed in ...

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, ...

A visual tour de force. Running time: 182 minutes. Not rated (nudity, disturbing images). At Film Forum, Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue. PSHAW to those who would deride Matthew Barney’s baroque, ...

Marti Domination (that's what she calls herself) as a stowaway in Matthew Barney "Cremaster 1." There are at least two reasons to visit the IFC Center for artist Matthew Barney’s five-part “Cremas ter ...