Category Archives: Movies
An Artist’s Life on Canvas
Frida – DVD Oscar Award winning movie
Starring: Salma Hayek as Frida, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Mía Maestro, Antonio Banderas, and Ashley Judd. Add this to the Art Lover’s Art Movie Library: Frida
This is one of my personal favorites. Frida is a very good film that visually celebrates the life and art of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. This movie is jam packed with adventure, drama, music, and even creative animation, “The torrid tango danced by (Salma) Hayek and Ashley Judd … is reason enough to see the movie.”
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Dramatic Art Competition
Modigliani- DVD
Starring: Andy Garcia as Modigliani
Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris’ annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves – until now. Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of Read more…
Abstract Expressionism
Pollock – DVD
Starring: Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock (Radio, National Treasure), and Marcia Gay Harden (Space Cowboys, Mystic River). This is an excellent movie depicting the life of abstract artist, Jackson Pollock. Harris, who directed himself, deserves praise for effectively recreating Pollock’s last years and for learning to actually paint like Pollock. Harris isn’t faking it when he hunches over a blank canvas and splashes paint everywhere. The combination of the energized studio work, the music, and the dramatic acting make for excellent entertainment. A good addition to the art movie library.
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The Irresistible Lure of Fine Art
The Maiden Heist – DVD
Starring: Christopher Walken, Marcia Gay Harden, Morgan Freeman, William H. Macy, and Wynn Everett. Three museum security guards who, over the years, have become attached to the artwork they protect, concoct a plan to “steal” them back when they learn the pieces are being transferred to another museum. Lots of laughs!
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When Two Artists Collide
Matisse – Picasso DVD by Philippe Faure
An intriguing exploration of the two men’s lives (Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso) and the ways in which they continually intersected in their art careers. This film is an encounter with the two pioneers, two adventurers in painting, who opened new frontiers. In spite of their initial rivalry and their very different temperaments, each came to acknowledge the other as his only true equal.
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An Adventure in Art
The Thomas Crown Affair DVD
Starring Pierce Brosnan and Renne Ruso. This is a clever, steamy, hot, sexy, movie involving a stolen Priceless Monet painting, a brilliant female investigator, and a bored self-made billionaire who can buy anything. Very entertaining – Fun Ending!
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