Camille Claudel42 reviews
Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu

MGM (Video & DVD), 2001

a fascinating woman and artist ... broken under a world which did respectively she could not open up

+ A tragic fall for a talented young artist
+ Camille Claudel - a must see

A life in-between mania and raging passion This touching movie - shot in following the biography written by Reine-Marie Paris - respects Camille Claudel and her tragic life most powerfully. Isabell Adjani who pictures an amazingly striking similarity of the original gets herself as actress ...
  
  











  



  
Surviving Picasso10 reviews
Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone

Warner Home Video, 1997

Why no DVD after all these years?

+ Excellent movie needs a DVD version!
+ Under-appreciated Merchant/Ivory Masterpiece!
+ Eleonore Austerer
+ Enduring Picasso
  
  











  



  
Modigliani26 reviews
Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein

UMVD/Visual Entertainment, 2005

How does a blind man paint?

+ Wow
+ Modigliani: A Passionate Cinematic Ode to One Madly Passionate Artist
+ "When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes."
  
  











  



  
Caravaggio [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Italy ]

E-Mik

Italy released, PAL/Region 2 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ),Italian ( Mono ),Italian ( Subtitles ),WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s),SYNOPSIS: n iconoclastic biopic about the adventurous 17th century late-Renaissance ...
  
  











  



  
Basquiat89 reviews
Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott

Miramax, 2002

I appreciate it more each time I watch it

+ Ok, so I saw this because of David Bowie/Andy Warhol...
+ Excellent
+ The end of a great career, the start of another
+ Suprise!
  
  











  



  
Jackson Pollock - Love & Death on Long Island2 reviews
Jackson Pollock, Ed Harris

BBC, 2002

Finally a Pollock movie that keeps us awake!

WOW! Though this is not actually the movie Pollock, and actually a 40 minute biography/precursor to the movie, it was wonderful! It had several interviews with freinds, fellow artists and other misc. aquaintences of Jackson's in it from Ruth Klingman to Kirk Varnedoe. They were short to the ...
  
  











  



  
Girl With a Pearl Earring216 reviews
Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson

Lions Gate, 2004

If Vermeer Was Brit

This beautifully made film is worth seeing for the heavily meditated transmission of 17th century Dutch art to the screen, a stunning achievement. Delft is wonderfully recreated based on the works of Vermeer and many other painters. The basic story line about a Calvinist girl warily going into a ...
  
  











  



  
Artemisia38 reviews
Valentina Cervi, Michel Serrault

Miramax, 2001

"More Earth, Less Sky" ~ Lessons In Perspective

The '98 French film `Artemisia' fluctuates back and forth between artsy, romantic, decadent, eloquent and profound. According to a large number of reviews preceding mine the film is greatly lacking in historical content and since I know nothing about this real life figure from the 17th century ...
  
  











  



  
Frida192 reviews
Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina

Miramax Home Entertainment, 2003

A Wonderful Tribute to Frida Kahlo

+ Outstanding quality
+ "Frida" hits all the bases
+ Great Movie
+ An Exotic Flower
  
  











  



  
Lust for Life44 reviews
Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn

Warner Home Video, 2006

I can't take this anymore!

+ Lust for Life (Movie)
+ Kirk Douglas' Performance Of A Lifetime
+ You look too fast!
+ Lust for Life
  
  











  



  
Norman Rockwell - Painting America (American Masters)
Edward Herrmann, Norman Rockwell

Winstar, 1999

A presentation of the award-winning PBS series American Masters , Norman Rockwell: Painting America etches a warm and indelible portrait of one of America's most beloved artists. Insightful commentary by art experts and historians enhances one's appreciation of Rockwell's deceptively simple work. To look at Rockwell's paintings, one observer notes, is to enter "a mythical land of childhood ...
  
  











  



  
Vincent & Theo20 reviews
Tim Roth, Paul Rhys

MGM (Video & DVD), 2005

Vincent and Theo: Brotherly Love of the Intense Kind

+ Van Gogh

I have one favorite scene in the film VINCENT AND THEO, the late Robert Altman's highly acclaimed masterwork on the life of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. It is a short brutal scene in the first half of the movie when Van Gogh's model and mistress is leaving him: she slaps him witless, and then ...
  
  











  



  
Frida192 reviews
Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina

Miramax Home Entertainment, 2003

A Wonderful Tribute to Frida Kahlo

+ Outstanding quality
+ "Frida" hits all the bases
+ Great Movie
+ An Exotic Flower
  
  











  



  
Girl With a Pearl Earring216 reviews
Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson

Lions Gate, 2004

If Vermeer Was Brit

This beautifully made film is worth seeing for the heavily meditated transmission of 17th century Dutch art to the screen, a stunning achievement. Delft is wonderfully recreated based on the works of Vermeer and many other painters. The basic story line about a Calvinist girl warily going into a ...
  
  











  



  
Surviving Picasso10 reviews
Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone

Warner Home Video, 1997

Why no DVD after all these years?

+ Excellent movie needs a DVD version!
+ Under-appreciated Merchant/Ivory Masterpiece!
+ Eleonore Austerer
+ Enduring Picasso
  
  











  



  
Modigliani26 reviews
Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein

UMVD/Visual Entertainment, 2005

How does a blind man paint?

+ Wow
+ Modigliani: A Passionate Cinematic Ode to One Madly Passionate Artist
+ "When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes."
  
  











  



  
Jackson Pollock - Love & Death on Long Island2 reviews
Jackson Pollock, Ed Harris

BBC, 2002

Finally a Pollock movie that keeps us awake!

WOW! Though this is not actually the movie Pollock, and actually a 40 minute biography/precursor to the movie, it was wonderful! It had several interviews with freinds, fellow artists and other misc. aquaintences of Jackson's in it from Ruth Klingman to Kirk Varnedoe. They were short to the ...
  
  











  



  
Vincent & Theo20 reviews
Tim Roth, Paul Rhys

MGM (Video & DVD), 2005

Vincent and Theo: Brotherly Love of the Intense Kind

+ Van Gogh

I have one favorite scene in the film VINCENT AND THEO, the late Robert Altman's highly acclaimed masterwork on the life of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. It is a short brutal scene in the first half of the movie when Van Gogh's model and mistress is leaving him: she slaps him witless, and then ...
  
  











  



  
Norman Rockwell - Painting America (American Masters)
Edward Herrmann, Norman Rockwell

Winstar, 1999

A presentation of the award-winning PBS series American Masters , Norman Rockwell: Painting America etches a warm and indelible portrait of one of America's most beloved artists. Insightful commentary by art experts and historians enhances one's appreciation of Rockwell's deceptively simple work. To look at Rockwell's paintings, one observer notes, is to enter "a mythical land of childhood ...
  
  











  



  
Lust for Life44 reviews
Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn

Warner Home Video, 2006

I can't take this anymore!

+ Lust for Life (Movie)
+ Kirk Douglas' Performance Of A Lifetime
+ You look too fast!
+ Lust for Life