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In New York Stories (1989), a Martin Scorsese film which has 3 separate stories, one is called Life Lessons starring Nick Nolte. He plays a fictional painter, (but based on real artist Chuck Connelly) and it has really stuck in my mind all these years.
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You know I'd suggest Simon Schama's 'The Power of Art'. They are technically not movies as such on the artists but show short vignettes of famous painters, Turner and David for example. Very engaging in my estimation. The presnetation of Turner is absolutely fascinating.
Deja vu. I was just looking at Carol Reed movies on netflix after watching Our Man From Havana and saw this title. Did not realize it was about Michelangelo. Added to my text file queue as my netflix queue is full.
I will recommend Rembrandt (1936) starring Charles Laughton as Rembrandt von Rijn.
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You know I'd suggest Simon Schama's 'The Power of Art'. They are technically not movies as such on the artists but show short vignettes of famous painters, Turner and David for example. Very engaging in my estimation. The presnetation of Turner is absolutely fascinating.
i've been watching many of renoir's son's movies - jean renoir. they're very good!
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Are they? I would not even know where to get old movies like that...
They are available for sale, amazon, etc., and netflix has a bunch of them. Here are a few that I've seen:
A Day in the Country 1936 this one is outstanding!
The Lower Debts 1936
Grand Illusion 1937
The Rules of the Game 1939
The Diary of a Chambermaid 1946
The River 1951, excellent! a must see.
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If you want more movies, I have just dug up an old thread from the wetcanvas forum, where they name more movies about painters. It is a bit dated, from 2005.: The best movies about art.... - WetCanvas
Max is a good movie that's entirely fictional, but could be accurate if a few things had changed.
It's the story of Max Rothman, played by John Cusack, who's an art dealer in post- World War I Vienna and his relationship with Adolph Hitler.
Hitler was a failed artist in Vienna before the war, and tried the profession again after the war was over, with no more success than before. Rothman is also a veteran, from a wealthy Austrian Jewish family, who lost an arm in the war, and is trying to establish himself as an avant-garde art dealer.
The pair have a lot in common, but Max sees the post-war world much differently than Hitler, who is just beginning to understand his speaking powers and is just forming his beliefs. Hitler is torn by his growing anti-semitism, but sees Max as his only way out of total poverty.
Max sees potential in Hitler if he can just convince him to quit his painting style that failed him earlier. Both are swept up in the drastically changing times.
It's one of the very few movies of it's type that was both unpredictable and gripped me as a drama. EVerything was extremely accurate to the times and the tensions.
Vienna was THE center of the European art world at the turn of the 20th century; it's major painters attracted much more attention and much higher prices for their work than anywhere else, and it's avant-garde artists were much more controversial than the Impressionists and the others who followed them. The war killed several, from Austria, Great Britain and France, and the flue epidemic in 1918 killed more.
Just some more in my collection....If you like 'artistes' you may like these..pardon if mentioned already..
"Goya's Ghosts" ...directed by Milos Forman
"England, My England"...a film on the English composer Henry Purcell....a Tony Palmer film
"Time Regained"..well if you like Proust....
"Mephisto"....an actor trying to survive for his art in Nazi Germany
"Rothko's Rooms"...really a doc on Rothko...an excellent work to get to understand Rothko and his work...
I am really surprised no one mentioned two exceptional films of the "Golden Age" of Hollywood ... both highly regarded by the critics:
Lust For Life (1956) starring Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn. Directed by the great Vincente Minelli. Doughlas plays Vincent Van Gogh, and doesn't sugar coat the great painter's mental illness. A bio-pic of the of the obsessive and tortured Dutch Post Impressionist. It's a little hard to be sympathetic to Vincent because he is just so intense and self absorbed. Beautiful photography and outdoor scenes.
Rembrandt (1936) starring Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester. Directed by the great Alexander Korda, this is a biopic of the great Dutch Old Master himself. Laughton portrays Rembrandt as a wise, philosophical, but impractical man. When the movie was made it conformed to the "facts" about the great artist's life as commonly believed at that time ... that he was born of a modest peasant miller's family, and the high society of Amsterdam rejected his "Night Watch" which hastened his decline in popularity as a portrait painter. Research since then has debunked those myths: Rembrandt was the privileged son of a miller, but a successful affluent one ... and he was enrolled in Latin School and also the University in his home town of Leiden. The Night Watch was not rejected, but the aging Rembrandt gradually lost important commissions to younger and more fashionable painters - some of whom were his students!
Care to comment on the 'Night Watch?' Is that his most famous painting and how is it looked at in ref to all his other works? Thx.
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