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This year is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972). With the world’s largest museum collection of work by Esc

In Robin Lutz’s intriguing (yet in the end incomplete) documentary, “M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity,” the iconic Dutch graphic artist (1898-1972), emerges as a complex and entertaining amalgam. He is an intellectual, a curmudgeon, and a tormented artist twisted this way and that over what he perceives to be his own inadequacies. Lutz evokes Escher’s psyche and the larger world he inhabits through his diaries, letters, lectures and other written musings. “I fear that there is only one person in the world who could make a really good movie about my prints: myself,” Escher wrote to...

Day and Night. Copyright M.C. Escher Company. Photo courtesy of Kino Lorber. M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity,” the exquisite new documentary about one of the most inventive graphic artists of all times, beautifully captures why he has been and continues to be revered. Directed by Robin Lutz, it follows a playbook created by Escher himself when he stated, “I fear that there is only one person in the world who could make a really good movie about my prints: myself.” Using that very framework, Lutz and her co-writer Marijnke de Jong masterfully create this film from Escher’s own journal...

Doc Talk: Escher aesthetics, extremist extrication, homelessness in Hungary By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated January 27, 2021, 7:24 p.m. Email to a Friend M.C. Escher, "Day and Night."©M.C.EscherCompany B.V.-Baarn/Kino Lorber “I fear that there is only one person in the world who could make a really good movie about my prints: Me,” wrote M.C. Escher, the engraver of impossible objects, in 1969, as quoted in Robin Lutz’s inventive, wry, and enlightening “ M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity.” Since Escher died in 1972, at 73, Lutz’s film will have to do...