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- Loving Vincent (2017) Directed by DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman. Starring Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk. Animation, Drama, Mystery (1h 34m)
- The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) Directed by Carol Reed. Starring Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento. Biography, Drama, History (2h 18m) 7.1 on IMDb — 86% on RT.
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Directed by Céline Sciamma. Starring Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luána Bajrami. Drama (2h 2m) 8.1 on IMDb — 97% on RT. In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma shows us that films don't just have to imitate art, but also be art in themselves.
- At Eternity's Gate (2018) Directed by Julian Schnabel. Starring Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac. Biography, Drama, History (1h 51m) 6.9 on IMDb — 79% on RT.
- Andrei Rublev (1966) Director Andrei Tarkovsky has been one of the most celebrated Soviet and Russian filmmakers around the world, and the movie Andrei Rublev is a gem in his filmography.
- Pollock (2000) Jackson Pollock is one of the most famous American artists from the 1950s, and his work hangs in many museums today. In Pollock, which came out in 2000, the beginnings of his life and career are meticulously recreated.
- The Artist (2011) A French movie that came out in 2011, The Artist is one of the rare films nowadays that’s made in the style of a traditional silent movie.
- Loving Vincent (2017) The name Vincent van Gogh has become one of the most well-known of artists all over the world, spurring immersive experiences and merch alike.
- 10 Day For Night
- 9 Adaptation
- 8 The Wind Rises
- 7 Inside Llewyn Davis
- 6 F For Fake
- 5 Whiplash
- 4 Barton Fink
- 3 The French Dispatch
- 2 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- 1 8 1/2
Starting as a film critic before entering the world of filmmaking, François Truffaut has always had a deep love for cinema. While all of his films express some aspect of his adoration, Day for Nightis his most heartfelt love letter to the medium. The film simply shows the production of a movie with all the chaos and anxiety that comes with it. The ...
The most criminally undervalued profession in filmmaking is the screenwriter. No great movie has ever been made without a good script, and these unsung heroes of the art form aren't given enough credit for their contribution. What is probably the greatest depiction of the challenge of screenwriting is Spike Jonze's Adaptation, penned by the great C...
While not about an artist in a traditional sense, Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Risesreveals the artistic spirit that is within all of us. The film tells the story of Jiro Horikoshi, an aviation engineer whose passion for flight is wondrous, with vivid dreams of incredible machines that are bursting with imagination. He devotes his life to his love of ...
Artistic purists are often depicted with so much romance that we forget how difficult the life of an artist can be. The Coen Brothers' masterpiece Inside Llewyn Davis offers a very different perspective with a folk singer who can't catch a break. The titular Llwyen Davis is masterfully performed by the incredible Oscar Isaac, who we follow going fr...
There are few filmmakers with the status of Orson Welles, a true legend of filmmaking whose artistic pursuits have defined the medium. He always sought to push cinema to its creative limits, with each film breaking conventions, becoming more and more experimental as he grew older. The film that best embodies Welles' rule-breaking genius is his mind...
When someone wants something bad enough, they will put up with almost anything to get it, even to the detriment of their own health and safety. This is too common of a problem among creatives, with abuse being a regular occurrence that's unjustly treated as a necessary rite of passage to achieve a lifelong dream. Damien Chazelle was able to depict ...
Just as Kaufman's Adaptation depicted a surreal experience of a struggling screenwriter, the Coen Brothers present another bizarre nightmare of writer's block in their underrated gem Barton Fink. It tells the story of a New York playwright who is invited to LA to write a script for a new B-movie but struggles to produce anything as he is plagued by...
It could be said that all of Wes Anderson's work is a celebration of something close to his heart, but his film The French Dispatchis on another level of adoration. In a love letter to Journalism, Anderson tells a series of beautifully crafted episodes with each covering a different writer's story for the last issue of "The French Dispatch" which w...
Many films have been made about real artists that attempt to impart some understanding of them to the viewer by presenting a cinematic retelling of their lives. Sadly, many of them don't offer much aside from another predictable, cliché biopic that betrays their individuality. That is not the case in Paul Schrader's stunning masterpiece Mishima: A ...
The greatest film ever made about making movies, cinema maestro Federico Fellini's dreamy masterpiece 8 1/2stands tall as a timeless masterpiece of cinematic genius. The film is a hyper-personal melding of fact and fiction that follows a film director who is struggling to rediscover his film as his cast and crew are caught up in the early goings of...
- Artists and Models (1955) WATCH IT ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO. Among the directors from Old Hollywood’s studio system, Frank Tashlin is notable for being a pop-cultural deconstructionist avant la lettre.
- Lust for Life (1956) WATCH IT On Amazon PRIME VIDEO. Several actors, including Tim Roth and Willem Dafoe, have taken on the role of the Dutch Post-Impressionist who mutilated his ear and wound up dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- The Horse’s Mouth (1958) WATCH IT ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO. In this postwar British comedy, Sir Alec Guinness plays painter Gulley Jimson, a seedy reprobate with a lunatic commitment to his process.
- What a Way to Go (1964) WATCH IT ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO. This mid-century romp stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa, a four-time widow whose husbands die after becoming rich and famous with her inadvertent help.
Cast. Reviews. 2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review. What defines a life? How do you decide what matters? Geoff McFetridge 's art is everywhere: from Apple watch faces, to solo shows around the...
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- Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola, Geoff Mcfetridge
- Dan Covert
Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life provides insight into his work as an artist and father. Through a close examination of his career and his family life, we get an unusually intimate view of...
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Reviews 15% Audience Score 500+ Ratings While preparing for his first gallery show, painter Alex (Mark Ruffalo) is abandoned by his girlfriend, Yvette (Anne Marie Johnson), after his exhibition...
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