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- Dixon, S. "Picture perfect: artist stereotypes in film." Art Papers v. 22 no. 6 (November/December 1998) p. 32-3
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- Felleman, Susan. Art in the cinematic imagination Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006. (MAIN: PN1995.9.A73 F46 2006)
- Fulford, R. "Portrait of the artist as explosive device." [artists in some recent and not-so-recent films]. Canadian Art v. 14 (Spring 1997) p. 54-9
- McFarlane, Brian. "Portraits in celluloid."
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- Artist A fast-paced journey through Hollywood's depiction of the artist. Using a wealth of clips from classic cinema bio pics and popular television sitcoms, the voyage spans centuries of art and art-making to reveal how five decades of mainstream media have perceived the creative process and creators themselves. A video collaboration between Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg. 1999. 10 min.
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- Age of Consent (Australia, 1969)
- Directed by Michael Powell. Cast: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran. Based on the life of controversial Australian artist Norman Lindsay. Lindsay is a jaded painter who heads Down Under looking for a way to revitalize his creative soul. His self-imposed exile is interrupted by Cora, an uninhibited young woman on her own journey of self-discovery. Based on the novel by Norman Lindsay. Special features: Director Martin Scorsese on Age of consent; commentary with historian Kent Jones; making Age of consent; Helen Mirren: a conversation with Cora; Down Under with Ron and Valerie Taylor. 106 min. DVD X1382
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- The Agony and the Ecstasy(1965)
- Directed by Carol Reed. Cast: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo, Adolfo Celi. In this historical drama, when Pope Julius II commissions Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees Rome. Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by the artistic and temperamental differences between the two men. 139 min. 999:3578
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- American Splendor(2003)
- Directed by Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman. Cast: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Judah Friedlander, James Urbaniak, Earl Billings, James McCaffrey, Maggie Moore, Vivienne Benesch. Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller. 101 min. DVD 2333
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- Andrei Rublev (Andrey Rublyov) (Soviet Union, 1966)
- Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Cast: Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko. Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia to create works of art. DVD 336; VHS 999:865:1&2
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- Art School Confidential(2006)
- Directed by Terry Zwigoff. Cast: Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel David Moore, Anjelica Huston, Adam Scott, Marshall Bell, Jack Ong.
Jerome goes to art school in the hopes of having his genuine ability recognized. Instead he finds that his teachers are self-obsessed has-beens and his peers are jaded and floundering. To make matters worse, Jerome finds himself being investigated for a series of gruesome stranglings. He becomes obsessed with a lovely student named Audrey, but she is more interested in the hunky Jonah, whose crude yet acclaimed paintings of cars and tanks disgust Jerome. 102 min. DVD 6468
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- Artemisia (France / Germany / Italy, 1997)
- Directed by Agnes Merlet. Cast: Michel Serrault, Valentina Cervi, Miki Manojlovic, Brigitte Catillon, Maurice Garrel, Emmanuelle Devos. Tells the provocative true story of the beautiful and talented daughter of one of Italy's greatest painters. When Artemisia Gentileschi is forbidden to fully pursue her own passion of painting, she convinces a renowned artist to tutor her. He not only liberates her into the world of art but initiates her into the world of sex and love. 96 min. DVD 6109
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- Charbonnier, J. M. "Identifications d'une femme: Artemisia Gentileschi." [profile of the 17th century artist and film by Agnes Merlet]. Beaux Arts Magazine no. 160 (September 1997) p. 82-7
- Felleman, Susan. "Dirty Pictures, Mud Lust, and Abject Desire: Myths of Origin and the Cinematic Object." Film Quarterly 55:1 (Fall 2001) p. 27-40 UC users only
- Garrard, M. D. "Artemisia's trial by cinema." [film about A. Gentileschi]. Art in America v. 86 no. 10 (October 1998) p. 65+
- Lent, Tina Olsin. "'My heart belongs to daddy': the fictionalization of Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi in contemporary film and novels." Literature-Film Quarterly 34.3 (July 2006): 212(7).UC users only
- Vidal, B. "Feminist Historiographies and the Woman Artist's Biopic: The Case of Artemisia."
Screen, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 69-90, Spring 2007
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- Basquiat. (1996)
- Directed by Julian Schnabel. Cast: Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Michael Wincott, Benico Del Toro, Claire Forlani, Courtney Love, Parker Posey. Based on the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a young American unknown graffiti artist who lived on the streets of New York City in a cardboard box. Jean-Michel was "discovered" by Andy Warhol's art world and became a star. But his success came at a high price, and Basquiat paid with friendship, love, drugs and, eventually, his life. c1997. 106 min. DVD 5506; vhs 999:2138
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- Rimanelli, David. "The moon and six million." Artforum International 35.n1 (Sept 1996): 19(2).
- The Beautiful Troublemaker (La Belle Noiseuse) (France, 1990)
- Directed by Jacques Rivette. Cast: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Beart. Piccoli stars as a famous artist who has suffered painter's block since abandoning his masterpiece, a painting of his wife Liz, entitled `La Belle Noiseuse'. Disturbing tensions develop when a young artist and his girlfriend, visiting him in his South of France retreat, inspire him to return to the canvas, using the girl as his new model. 229 min. DVD 5522; DVD 4585 (PAL, without subtitles)
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- Camille Claudel (France, 1989)
- Directed by Bruno Nuytten. Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grevill, Philippe Clevenot. A historically accurate depiction of one of the most important collaborations in the history of art, that of legendary sculptor Rodin, and the creative prodigy Camille Claudel. 149 min. DVD 518; VHS 999:1154
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- Bucket of Blood (1959)
- Directed by Roger Corman. Cast: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Anthony Carbone, Julian Burton. Walter Paisley, a strange little busboy at a beatnik coffeehouse, seeks love and acceptance from the poets and artists he serves by becoming a "sculptor". When his more than life-like creations are declared masterpieces, fame and fortune follow until the horrible truth behind his work is revealed. 66 min. DVD 317
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- Caravaggio. (UK, 1986)
- Directed by Derek Jarman. Cast: Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Garry Cooper, Dexter Fletcher, Spencer Leigh, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Davenport, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gough. A film based on the life and art of Caravaggio, the greatest Italian post-Renaissance painter. Caravaggio was the 'enfant terrible' of Italian Art and his short life, marked with extremes of passion and moral and artistic radicalism, ended violently. 97 min. DVD X59; 999:2139
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- Dirty Pictures.(2000)
- Directed by Frank Pierson. Cast: James Woods, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid, Leon Pownall, Judah Katz. Commentary: William F. Buckley, Barney Frank, Salman Rushdie, Fran Lebowitz, Susan Sarandon. Based on true events, tells the story of Cincinnati museum director Dennis Barrie, who went on trial in 1990 to protect the right of freedom of expression. Interspersed within the film's narrative, are interviews with cultural figures who address the censorship issue. A number of the actual Robert Mapplethorpe photographs that were at the heart of the controversy were used in the production. 104 min. DVD 2292
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- Double Wedding (1937)
- Directed by Richard Thorpe. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice, John Beal, Jessie Ralph, Edgar Kennedy.
A bohemian painter butts heads with his girlfriend's sister, before they admit their feelings for each other. Special features: Musical short "Dancing on the ceiling"; classic cartoon "The hound and the rabbit"; theatrical trailer. 72 min. DVD 1367
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- Downtown 81 (2000)
- Directed by Edo Bertoglio. Cast: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Deborah Harry, Kid Creole, Tuxedomoon, James White, Saul Williams, Walter Steding, Anna Schroeder, John Lurie, DNA, The Plastics. A portrait of the explosive early-80's Manhattan art and music scene with the main focus on the provocative 19-year-old artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, already known for his excursions into street graffiti art and pioneering electro-beat. The film focuses on a day in the life of Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, who are on the cutting edge of new wave music, new painting, hip hop and graffiti. 72 min. DVD 1367
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- The Draughtsman's Contract (1983)
- Director, Peter Greenaway. Cast: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne Louise Lambert, Neil Cunningham, Hugh Fraser. An English noblewoman hires a young draughtsman to create twelve drawings of her estate in return for twelve sexual favors. This simple arrangement soon spirals out of control and the draughtsman finds himself as the prime suspect in a bizarre murder mystery. 104 min. DVD 5927; vhs 999:2381
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- Dreams (Kon-na yume o mita) (1990)
- Director: Akira Kurosawa. Eight episodes shimmering with rich imagery and insight which explore the costs of war, the perils of nuclear power and especially mankind's need to harmonize with nature. Includes a segment with Martin Scorsese as Vincent van Gogh. 120 min. DVD 1696; vhs 999:1138
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- Edvard Munch (Sweden / Norway, 1976)
- Directed by Peter Watkins. Cast: Geir Westby, Gros Fraas, Eric Allum, Amund Berge. A dramatic presentation of the life of Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch and the effect his upbringing in Norway had on his work and whose raw, modern work The Scream shocked the bourgeois world. Mixing fact and fiction, all of the dialogue attributed to Munch in the film is taken from his diaries. 174 min. DVD X1197; also DVD 5155
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- Brooke, Michael. "Edvard Munch." Sight and Sound 17:11 (November 2007) p. 85
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- Cook, John R. "The Past is Myself: Peter Watkins' Edvard Munch (1973)" Critical Studies in Television, May2007, Vol. 2 Issue 1, p2-18, 17p UC users only
- Rapfogel, Jared. "Cautionary Tales and Alternate Histories: The Films of Peter Watkins
Cineaste 32:2 (Spring 2007) p. 20-25 UC users only
- Factory Girl. (2006)
- Directed by George Hickenlooper. Cast: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Jack Huston, Armin Amiri, Tara Summers, Mena Suvari, Shawn Hatosy, Beth Grant, James Naughton, Edward Herrmann, Illeana Douglas, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Don Novello.
Edie Sedgwick, a beautiful, wealthy young party girl, drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly losing her grip on reality.
83 min. DVD 8075
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- Frida (USA / Canada / Mexico, 2002)
- Directed by Julie Taymor. Cast: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Valeria Golino, Mia Maestro, Roger Rees, Diego Luna, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas. A dramatization of the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to the worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera. Special features: Disc 1: Feature film with commentary by director Julie Taymor; selected scenes commentary with composer Elliot Goldenthal; a conversation with Salma Hayek -- Disc 2: American Film Institute Q&A with director Julie Taymor; Bill Moyers interview with Julie Taymor; Chavela Vargas interview; the voice of Lila Downs; the vision of Frida: with Rodrigo Prieto and Julie Taymor; the design of "Frida": with Felipe Fernandez; the music of "Frida": with Elliot Goldenthal and Salma Hayek; Salma Hayek's recording session; bringing Frida Kahlo's life and art to film: a walk through real locations; portrait of an artist; "Amobea Proteus" visual FX; "The Brothers Quay" visual FX; Frida Kahlo facts. 122 min. DVD 1712
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- Bartra, Eli, and John Mraz. "Las Dos Fridas: History and transcultural identities." Rethinking History 9.4 (Dec 2005): 449-457.
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- Clifford, Katie. "Featuring Frida: a long-anticipated film about Frida Kahlo vividly portrays the tumultuous life of the posthumously acclaimed Mexican painter. (Film)." Art in America 90.12 (Dec 2002): 61(1).
- Fein, Seth. "Fridi/Frida, naturaleza viva." American Historical Review; Oct2003, Vol. 108 Issue 4, p1261-1263, 3p UC users only
- Guzman, Isabel Molina. "Mediating Frida: Negotiating discourses of Latino/o authenticity in global media representations of ethnic identity." Critical Studies in Media Communication 23.3 (August 2006): 232(20).
- Lent, Tina Olsin.
"Life as Art/Art as Life: Dramatizing the Life and Work of Frida Kahlo."
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- West, Joan M "Frida." Cineaste, 28:2 (Spring 2003) p. 39-41
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- Frida, naturaleza viva. (Mexico, 1984)
- Directed by Paul Leduc. Cast: Ofelia Medina, Juan Jose Gurrola, Salvador Sanchez, Max Kerlow, Claudio Brook. On her deathbed, the artist Frida Kahlo recalls her life as a painter and reflects on the effects of her illnesses and injuries and on her relationships with Leon Trotsky, husband Diego Rivera, and others. 1989. 108 min. Video/C 2944
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- Fein, Seth. "Fridi/Frida, naturaleza viva." American Historical Review; Oct2003, Vol. 108 Issue 4, p1261-1263, 3p UC users only
- Lynd, Juliet. Art and Politics in Paul Leduc's Frida: Naturaleza viva. RLA: Romance Languages Annual. 10 (2): 696-702. 1998.
- Fur, An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
- Directed by Steven Shainberg. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey, Jr., Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander, Emmy Clarke, Geneiveve McCarthy, Boris McGiver, Marceline Hugot, Mary Duffy. An imaginary portrait of famed photographer Diane Arbus. Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in with Lionel Sweeney. Sweeney is an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century. Diane's strange, new world unlocks her deepest secrets, awakens her remarkable artistic genius, and launches her path to becoming the artist she is meant to be. Based on the book "Diane Arbus" by Patricia Bosworth [MAIN: TR140.A73 B671 1984; ENVI: TR140.A73 B67 1985]. 120 min. DVD 7848
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- Girl with a Pearl Earring (UK / Luxembourg, 2003)
- Directed by Peter Webber. Cast: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy, Essie Davis, Joanna Scanlan, Alakina Mann. In Delft, Holland in 1665 seventeen-year-old Griet becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she gradually attracts the master painter's attention. Johannes and Griet must hide their inspiration of each other from his volatile wife, Catharina. The wealthy and trouble-making Master van Ruijven senses the intimacy between the artist and his maid, and contrives a commission for Vermeer to paint Griet alone. The result will be one of the greatest paintings ever created, but at what cost? Based on the novel: Girl with a pearl earring by Tracy Chevalier [MAIN: PS3553.H4367 G57 1999]. 100 min. DVD X52
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- Goya in Bordeaux (Spain / Italy, 1999)
- Directed by Carlos Saura. Cast: Francisco Rabal, Jose Coronado, Maribel Verdu, Eulalia Ramon. In Bordeaux, France, in the early 1800's, Goya suffers from strange visions and nightmares. Goya reflects on his tumultuous career, a love affair with the beautiful Duchess of Alba and the evil crusade of Napoleon's French army. 121 min. DVD 563
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- Goya's Ghost (USA / Spain, 1999)
- Directed by Milos Forman. Cast: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgard, Randy Quaid, Jose Luis Gomez, Michael Lonsdale.
Told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th century Spain. When Goya's beautiful muse is accused of being a heretic, the renowned painter must convince his old friend Lorenzo, a power-hungry monk and leader of the Spanish Inquisition, to spare her life. 114 min. DVD 9478
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- The Horses's Mouth (UK, 1958)
- Directed by Ronald Neame. Cast: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston, Mike Morgan, Robert Coote. In this perceptive examination of the struggle for artistic creation, an eccentric artist will stop at nothing to get money. His comic odyssey takes him from prison to the Tate Museum and finally off to parts unknown. 95 min. DVD 3608
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- Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen)(Sweden, 1968)
- Directed by Ingmar Bergman. Cast: Max Von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg, Erland Josephson. The nature of artistic creation and the relationship of artist and society is explored through the theme of the Hour of the wolf. The ancient Romans believed that during this hour, just before dawn and the coming of light, nightmare came to life. 88 min. DVD 2590; vhs 999:726
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- House of Pleasure (Le Plaisir) (France, 1951)
- Director, Max Ophuls. Cast: Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Danielle Darrieux, Ginette Leclerc, Jean Gabin, Pierre Brasseur, Simone Simon, Daniel Gelin, Jean Servais, Jean Galland. Three stories by Guy de Maupassant are adapted to the screen: "The Mask", the story of a man at a masked ball who pursues his youth; "The Model", a story of a painter and the model that he pursues to tragedy; and "The House of Madame Tellier", in which a madame and her five ladies attend her niece's first communion. Non-US (PAL) format DVD. 93 min. DVD 6372
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- House of Wax (1953)
- Directed by Vincent Prince. Cast: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni, Roy Roberts, Angela Clarke, Paul Cavanagh, Dabbs Greer, Charles Buchinsky, Reggie Rymal. Jarrod, an acclaimed wax sculptor goes from slightly wacko to completely deranged when he loses both his art showcase and the use of his hands in an arsonist's inferno. The flame scarred Jarrod rebuilds his house of wax by dipping his victims in wax! Both critics and the public praise his new works. But a lone voice cries murder when heroine Sue Allen discovers a wax figure with an uncanny resemblance to her missing friend. As she sets out to prove his guilt, she hardly knows the horrors that await her. 88 min. DVD 3925; vhs 999:1114
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- I Shot Andy Warhol. (1996)
- Directed by Mary Harron. Cast: Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Stephen Dorff, Lothaire Bluteau, Martha Plimpton, Anna Thompson. A docudrama of the cultural whirlwind of events surrounding Valerie Solanas' shooting of pop-art superstar Andy Warhol. Solanis arrived in mid- 60's New York City with a single-minded mission: to spread the word on female superiority. She became a fringe member of the psychedelic entourage surrounding Andy Warhol but when her feminist zeal grew too bizarre and violent, even for this avant-garde circle, the consequences were explosive. 104 min. DVD 8552; vhs 999:1600
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- Klimt (Austria / France / Germany / UK, 2006)
- Directed by Raoul Ruiz. Cast: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane, Saffron Burrows, Nikolai Kinski, Sandra Ceccarelli.
A biographical fantasy on the life of Gustav Klimt, whose paintings, like his life, were full of intensity, passion, and controversy. On his death bed, Klimt recalls the decadence of his past, traveling back in time to the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, where he is introduced to a mysterious dancer who emerges as his muse and the personification of his own erotic ideals. 97 min. DVD 9489
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- Life Lessons (New York Stories)(1989)
- Directed by Martin Scorsese. Cast: Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette. The bittersweet tale of an aging Abstract Expressionist painter whose young live-in girlfriend and artistic protogé decides to leave him just as he's preparing for an important gallery opening. Tired of living in the shadow of her famous lover and disappointed in her own lack of artistic talent, the girl torments him with tantrums and brazen acts of infidelity as the painter furiously attempts to fill his canvases in time for his show. DVD 2714
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- Love is the Devil: A Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (UK / France / Japan, 1998)
- Directed by John Maybury. Cast: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anne Lambton, Adrian Scarborough. A searing biographical dramatization of the life of painter Francis Bacon, critically acclaimed as the outstanding British painter of the latter half of the 20th century. This is "one of the nastiest and most truthful portraits of the artist-as-monster ever filmed." 88 min. DVD 2432
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- Jones, K. Love is the devil. Film Comment v. 34 no. 5 (September/October 1998) p. 79
- Macnab, G. "Bohemian rhapsody." [Love is the devil: biographical film about painter Francis Bacon]. Sight & Sound v. ns7 (July 1997) p. 18-20
- O'Pray, Michael. "Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon." Sight and Sound 8.n9 (Sept 1998): 47(2).
- Shone, Richard. "It ain't the meat." Artforum International 37.n1 (Sept 1998): 136(3).
- Lust for Life (1956)
- Directed by Vincente Minelli. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane. A film adaptation on the life of the Dutch painter,Vincent Van Gogh. Though financed and encouraged by his brother, Theo, and spurred on by the excitement of late 19th century Paris and a stormy relationship with Paul Gauguin, Vincent's prolific genius was tragically marred by epilepsy and madness.His paintings which went unsold during his lifetime but are now valued at millions, are shown throughout the film, as are the locations which inspired them in Holland, Belgium and France. Based on the novel by Irving Stone [MAIN: PS3537.T669 L8 1934]. 123 min. DVD 5059; vhs 999:3422
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"Artists mythologies and media genius, madness and art history." Screen Vol XXI nr 3 (1980); p 57-96. The emphasis on the artist in art history using Van Gogh as an example. Special section devoted to the film "Lust for life", p. 89-95.
- Miss Potter (UK / USA, 2006)
- Directed by Chris Noonan. Cast: Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson, Matyelok Gibbs, Lloyd Owen, Anton Lesser, David Bamber.
In an effort to give their younger brother, Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As they work together, Norman and Beatrix become close. After the first book is published, Beatrix goes on to a second book and that sells well. One day at lunch, she meets the rest of Norman's family, including his sister, Millie and the two women become fast friends. Norman proposes, but Beatrix's parents object. After much argument, they agree to let Beatrix marry Norman provided they wait until the end of the summer. Special features: Feature commentary with director Chris Noonan; The tale of Peter Rabbit and Beatrix Potter; The making of a real-life fairy tale; "When you taught me how to dance"; Music video performed by Katie Melua; Theatrical trailer. 93 min. DVD 8190
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- Modigliani (USA / France / Germany / Italy / Romania / UK, 2004)
- Directed by Mick Davis. Cast: Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili, Hippolyte Girardot, Eva Herzigova, Udo Kier, Susie Amy, Peter Capaldi, Louis Hilyer.
Brings to life artistic genius Amedeo Modigliani's story of tragic love, rivalry, and excess in the midst of art history's golden age when greats like Picasso, Rivera, Cocteau, and Modigliani held court in the salons of post-WWI Paris. 127 min. DVD X72
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- Moulin Rouge (1952)
- Directed by John Huston. Cast: Jose Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Eric Pohlmann, Colette Marchand, Christopher Lee, Michael Balfour. "Toulouse-Lautrec, 19th century French artist who was a 'dwarf', caused by accident when a child. Played in long shots by a dwarf actor. The rest of the time by Ferrer on his knees. The film shows Lautrec's fall when a boy and the operation which is not a success and led to his restricted growth. When young he uses two sticks and later as a man only one." [from Films Involving Disabilities]. Lautrec also shows up as a minor character in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! (2001) [DVD 976]
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- Moulin Rouge! (Australia / USA, 2001)
- Director, Baz Luhrmann. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Garry McDonald, Jacek Koman, Matthew Whittet, Kerry Walker. Christian, an idealistic and impoverished young writer newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine, queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his villainous rival for her affections. Special features (Disc 1): theatrical trailers: production commentary by Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, and Don McAlpine: writing commentary by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce: 8 behind-the-scenes branches. (Disc 2): The making of Moulin Rouge HBO Special: 5 "Star" featurettes: earlier drafts of screenplay: 6 extended scenes & 4 re-cut dance sequences: interview with John "Cha Cha" O'Connell and Caroline O'Connor: dance pre-shoots: 3 multi-angle dance sequences: 2 music videos: live MTV performance: design and marketing gallery. 128 min. DVD 976
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- My Left Foot (Ireland / UK, 1989)
- Directed by Jim Sheridan. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Cyril Cusack, Fiona Shaw, Hugh O'Conor, Adrian Dunbar, Ruth McCabe, Alison Whelan. Based on Christy Brown's true life story, My Left Foot features Daniel Day-Lewis' Academy Award winning performance as a man who triumphs over impossible odds to achieve greatness. DVD Special features: "The real Christy Brown" featuring biographical details on Brown (5 min.) ; "An inspirational journey : the making of 'My left foot' " with commentaries on the pre-production process (11 min.); stills gallery; "My left foot" reviews from the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, and the LA Weekly. 103 min. DVD 9204; vhs 999:2182
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- Hambleton, Georgina Louise. Christy Brown : the life that inspired My Left Foot Edinburgh : Mainstream, 2007. [MAIN: PR6052.R5894 Z66 2007]
- Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
- Directed by Michael Curtiz. Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allan Vincent, Gavin Gordon, Edwin Maxwell, Holmes Herbert, Claude King, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Thomas E. Jackson, DeWitt Jennings, Matthew Betz, Monica Bannister. This is a long lost color print, unearthed by the American Film Institute, of a horror classic about a deranged wax sculptor who almost loses his life in a fire set by his partner. Instead of dying in the blaze, he returns for revenge, hiding his horribly disfigured face behind a wax mask. He opens a wax museum in which he dips his human victims in wax until one woman becomes suspicious of his activities and begins to work to reveal his guilt. 77 min. DVD 3925; vhs 999:1118
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- Pollock (2000)
- Directed by Ed Harris. Cast: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower, Jennifer Connelly, Bud Cort, John Heard, Val Kilmer, Robert Knott. Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt and before long, Pollock's life threatens to explode. Special features: Ed Harris commentary; "making-of" documentary; Charlie Rose interview with Ed Harris; deleted scenes; filmographies; theatrical trailers; production notes; scene selections. Based on "Jackson Pollock : an American saga" by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith [MAIN: ND237.P73 N34 1991; MOFF: ND237.P73 N34 1989]. 123 min. DVD 787
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- Kalina, Richard. "Pollock: Lights, Action, Camera." Art in America 89.2 (Feb 2001): 57.
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- Miller, Keith. "Dripped over the ege." TLS. Times Literary Supplement 5175 (June 7, 2002): 19(1).
- Siegel, Katy. "Splatter Fest." Artforum International 39.3 (Nov 2000): 23.
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- Portrait of Jennie (1948)
- Directed by William Dieterle. Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Cecil Kellaway, David Wayne. Timeless, unforgettable and haunting Academy Award winning film about a struggling artist and the strange, enchanting girl he meets in the park. 86 min. DVD 3909; vhs 999:675
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- Rembrandt (UK, 1936)
- Directed by Alexander Korda. Cast: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester, Edward Chapman. In Amsterdam of 1642, master painter Rembrandt Van Rijn enjoys a full life until the sudden death of his wife. Bankrupt and bereft, he finds comfort in a pretty servant in his home. Can he summon the courage to overcome his demons or will tragedy continue to haunt 85 min. DVD 2194
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- Street Angel (1928)
- Director, Frank Borzage. Cast: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston, Henry Armetta. A young Italian girl on the run from the police captures the heart of a handsome and passionate artist. When she's caught and sent to prison, he is left only with the portrait he painted of her--and the hope that they will be together again. Adapted by Philip Klein and Henry Roberts Symonds from a play by Monckton Hoffe. 101 19 min. DVD X713
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- Sunday in the Park with George. (1985)
- Cast: Mandy Patinkin (George); Bernadette Peters (Dot/Marie); Charles Kimbrough, Barbara Bryne, Dana Ivey, Mary D'Arcy, Sue Anne Gershenson, Cris Groenendaal, John Jellison, Frank Kopyc, Judith Moore, Nancy Opel, William Parry, Natalie Polizzi, Michele Rigan, Brent Spiner, Melanie Vaughan, Robert Westenberg, supporting soloists. A television production of the Broadway musical loosely based on the life of artist Georges Seurat. In Act 1 Seurat is working on his latest painting with the woman he loves posing for him. As Georges interacts with various people who happen through the park, they become characters in his painting. In Act 2 Seurat's great grandson and his grandmother return to the place where Seurat created his masterpiece to ponder ideas of what is art and what is life. 146 min. DVD 1998
- Van Gogh (France, 1991)
- Directed by Maurice Pialat. Cast: Jacques Dutronc, Bernard Lecoq, Alexandra London, Gerard Sety, Corrine Bourdon, Elsa Zylberstein, Leslie Azoulai.
A portrait of artist Vincent Van Gogh's final days, revealing his mad genius and dark sensuality. The film was shot in the village of Auvers, where Van Gogh actually lived from May to June, 1890. Non-US format DVD. In French without subtitles. 158 min. DVD 3411
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- Vincent & Theo (1990)
- Directed by Robert Altman. Cast: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Adrian Brine, Yves Dangerfield, Hans Kesting, Peter Tuinman.
A drama of the passionate life of Vincent van Gogh, the obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seems unable to live with him or without him. 140 min. DVD X70
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