"Art" Films...

[Atman]

I know I left out a lot of good ones. Looking make a gift basket for a friend...

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	Crumb
	0 (0%)
	American Splendor
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	Art School Confidential
	0 (0%)
	Pollack
	0 (0%)
	Sirens
	0 (0%)
	Chasing Amy
	1 (50%)
	Goya's Ghosts
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	Other (explain/suggest!)
	1 (50%)
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[Little_Wing]

1. Vincent & Theo gets my vote

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]

2. Don't know if this one is the type you're looking for

but I always liked Coppola's 'Rumblefish' and feel it didn't get the recognition it deserves.

[valerief]

3. self-delete (I had wrong type films listed)

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[scarletwoman]

4. I don't know what makes something an "Art" film.

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]

5. A film about art/artists. That's how I read it. n/t

[scarletwoman]

7. That makes sense. Thanks.

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]

6. I thought it was an "arthouse" type film. nt

[scarletwoman]

8. That's what I thought, too. But I think Little Wing above has the right of it.

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]

12. You were correct! nt

[sweetloukillbot]

9. Exit Through the Gift Shop (nt)

[Atman]

10. Sorry I wasn't clear...not "Art House," films about artists.

Biopics, fiction, documentary, whatever. Just art-related.

[valerief]

13. Comedies about artists--some films I've seen

Boogie Woogie
How to Murder Your Wife
Pleasantville
The Trouble with Harry
Age of Consent

on edit: Midnight in Paris

[Paladin]

11. "Crumb" for sure.

Finding out that R. Crumb was the most stable member of his family was a genuine revelation. Who-da thunk?

[scarletwoman]

14. Well, here's an "Art" film for sure: Powell & Pressinger's "Tales of Hoffman".

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]

15. Modigliani

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/