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Oct 23, 2022 · 23rd Oct 2022. We’re all in when it comes to bringing art to life through film. From period dramas exploring the lives of famous painters and exploratory documentaries to romance, comedy, horror and drama films set around artists and artworks–there are plenty of iconic art movies you can watch right now.
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- 'Beau Travail' (1999) Director: Claire Denis. Beau Travail is a film that’s unwilling to spell too many things out, instead feeling intensely emotional and even somewhat mysterious at times, but nevertheless still gives viewers tons to think about both during and after the film.
- 'Stalker' (1979) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky. A definitive and singular science fiction film, Stalker is an eerie and mesmerizing film from Andrei Tarkovsky, and stands as perhaps the greatest one he ever made during his directing career.
- 'Holy Motors' (2012) Director: Leos Carax. You could call Holy Motors a work of fantasy, but you could also call it just about anything else… or forego trying to label it with a genre at all, because it’s incredibly obscure, confronting, and unwaveringly strange.
- 'Days of Heaven' (1978) Director: Terrence Malick. More than three decades before The Tree of Life was released, Terrence Malick reached his arguable peak with the release of Days of Heaven.
- Frida, Amazon Prime and Netflix. This film is a graphic biopic about the controversial and tragic life of Mexican Surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, played by Salma Hayek.
- Pollock, Amazon Prime. This may be the most well known movie for art lovers on the planet. But this 2000 classic earns its keep. Jackson Pollock was the bad boy of the postwar New York art world, a testosterone-fueled society of brash artists.
- Caravaggio, Netflix. Caravaggio was the bad boy of the Baroque period in art history. He lead a life of violence and intrigue. He murdered a man and may have been murdered himself.
- Who Killed Caravaggio? , YouTube. This four part BBC documentary takes a look at whether our troubled Caravaggio may have been murdered. Most historians think he died at age 37 of a physical ailment — complications from constant boozing, lead poisoning from his paints, malaria, etc.
Art film. Carl Theodor Dreyer, pictured here in 1965, directed the 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc. An art film, art cinema, or arthouse film is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. [1] .
- Georgia May
- 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.
Apr 15, 2020 · Culture. 15 Apr 2020. Probably the Only List of Artist Films You’ll Ever Need. As the expanses of quarantine-time stretch out ahead, there’s never been a better time (no really, there hasn’t) to hunker down with a load of films, docs and more that uncover the works and minds of the artists who’ve shaped our contemporary landscape.
Mar 9, 2024 · Arthouse cinema represents a diverse range of artistic expressions. The best arthouse movies reflect the creative visionaries behind the camera: directors who challenge the storytelling norms and depict an array of human experiences through innovative visual styles, themes, and characters.
