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Related: About this forum"Art" Films...
I know I left out a lot of good ones. Looking make a gift basket for a friend...
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Crumb | |
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American Splendor | |
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Art School Confidential | |
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Pollack | |
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Sirens | |
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Chasing Amy | |
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Goya's Ghosts | |
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Other (explain/suggest!) | |
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Little_Wing
(417 posts)Though Basquiat is also very good, with the always-excellent Jeffrey Wright in the title role.
(Also a guilty-pleasure shout out to Lust for Life)
mokawanis
(4,460 posts)but I always liked Coppola's 'Rumblefish' and feel it didn't get the recognition it deserves.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 21, 2014, 07:32 PM - Edit history (1)
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Is it a movie that simply didn't get wide release? A movie that hardly anyone ever saw? An "Indie Movie" that only showed in a few theaters specializing in obscure and/or avant garde films? A foreign language film that hardly anyone ever saw? (These last two categories are what I have generally associated with the label "Art Film".)
I've heard of Crumb, Chasing Amy, and Goya's Ghosts - but I've not seen them. The others in your poll I haven't heard of at all.
I guess I can't be of any help.
Little_Wing
(417 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)I guess that's a difference between an "Art" film, and an "Art Film".
Therefore, my contribution to an "Art" film list would be Ken Russell's "Dante's Inferno" starring Oliver Reed as the Neo-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti - brother of the poet Christina Rossetti.
Which I saw many years ago in an "Art House" theater.
valerief
(53,235 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)I think Atman is asking about films that are specifically about artists.
But I think I maybe covered both defintions in my post #7, above.
valerief
(53,235 posts)sweetloukillbot
(12,333 posts)Atman
(31,464 posts)Biopics, fiction, documentary, whatever. Just art-related.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Boogie Woogie
How to Murder Your Wife
Pleasantville
The Trouble with Harry
Age of Consent
on edit: Midnight in Paris
Paladin
(28,630 posts)Finding out that R. Crumb was the most stable member of his family was a genuine revelation. Who-da thunk?
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)It's a movie based on the Offenbach opera based on E.T.A. Hoffman, a German writer, playwright, composer, and painter.
It's one of my all-time favorite movies - the music is sublime, the sets are gorgeous, the technicolor is eye-popping, the performances are breathtaking, and the whole is a trip into a fantastic otherworld of song, dance, and passion.
Maybe not quite what you had in mind, but it's an incredible feast for the eyes, the ears, and the heart.
ETA - Some links for those who might be interested:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044103/?ref_=ttmd_md_nm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._T._A._Hoffmann
JustAnotherGen
(33,074 posts)If you are familiar with his life/work - they changed some things up . . . but they pretty much nailed the poverty, the misogyny of Picasso, the anti Jewish attitudes of early 19th century middle class Parisians -
And all of the colorful artists that surrounded him are in there.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367188/