Subgenre Sampler
Arts & Artists: 427 Films to Buy & Rent
Dennis Potter - The Last Interview (1994)
- Dir. Tom Poole
- The maverick writer's final interview (on the Southbank Show), made just weeks before his death, is a gripping and highly personal summing–up…
Sirens (1994)
- Dir. John Duigan
Feat. Hugh Grant, Sam Neill, Elle MacPherson…
- Catholic minister Hugh Grant and wife are sent to rural Australia to dissuade renegade artist Sam Neill from painting 'pornography'. As an 'Elle…
Tom and Viv (1994)
- Dir. Brian Gilbert
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson
- A moving exploration of the intense yet painful relationship between Nobel prize–winning poet T.S. Eliot (Willem Dafoe) and his lovably…
Annie Leibovitz (1993)
- Dir. Rebecca Frayn
- South Bank Show biography of American photo–journalist Annie Leibovitz, whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Melvyn Bragg…
Paris, France (1993)
- Dir. Georgio Ciccoretti
Feat. Leslie Hope, Peter Outerbridge
- While her husband descends into madness, a novelist attempts to cure her writer's block by engaging in kinky sex with a drifter. Preposterous 'art'…
Pornographer, The (1993)
- Dir. Patrick S. Duncan
Feat. Nicholas Cascone, Melora Hardin
- An ambitious attempt to draw a co–relate the legitimate art world and the pornographic one – both, it asserts, as being founded on…
Shadowlands (1993)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger
- Anthony Hopkins is terrific as academic and children's author C.S. Lewis, who discovers a well of unfathomable emotion when his American divorcee…
Wild Swans (The Daughters of China) (1993)
- Dir. Mischa Scorer
- Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans recollects the experiences that inspired her award–winning book.
Zelda (1993)
- Dir. Pat O'Connor
Feat. Natasha Richardson, Timothy Hutton
- A polished biography about the decadent, obsessive lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda.
Daddy and the Muscle Academy (The Art, Life and Times of Tom of Finland) (1992)
- Dir. Ilppa Pohjola
- A fascinating delve into the mind of cult gay artist 'Tom of Finland', whose iconic hyper–masculine images of muscled, uniformed men and women,…