Subgenre Sampler
Arts & Artists: 427 Films to Buy & Rent
Masterpieces of the Hermitage (TV Series) (1992)
- A breathtaking tour through the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersberg, home to some three million works of art. Begining with the 14th century…
Sister Wendy - The Complete Collection (TV Series) (1992)
- Strangely intriguing series hosted by Sister Wendy Beckett – an endearingly impish nun with a passion for paintings who takes her viewers on a…
Cage/Cunningham (1991)
- Dir. Elliot Caplan
- A document of the extraordinary 50–year collaboration between avant–garde composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham, who…
Kafka (1991)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Ian Holm, Theresa Russell…
- This unsuspecting follow–up film for the director of the independent smash hit, SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE went largely unreleased, though it has…
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Beart
- Rivette's four–hour portrait of an artist as an old man explores the process and politics of a retired artist painting a nude model. Subtle,…
Liebestraum (1991)
- Dir. Mike Figgis
Feat. Kevin Anderson, Pamela Gidley, Kim Novak
- The dir.'s followup to INTERNAL AFFAIRS is an art–thriller about an architect drawn into a noir–ish puzzle of murder, fate and…
Meeting Venus (1991)
- Dir. Istvan Szabo
Feat. Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup
- Glenn Close plays a Swedish diva (miming to our Dame Kiri) entangled in personal and political problems whilst leading in Wagner's Tannhauser.
Not Mozart (M is for Man, Music and Mozart; Letter, Riddles and Writs) (1991)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway, Pat Gavin, Jeremy Newson
- Two experimental television dramas commissioned to celebrate the Mozart Bicentennial.
Pleasures and Dangers (1991)
- A glance at the work and lives of six women artists in New Zealand; Alexis Hunter (painter), Alison MacLean (film–maker), Julia Morison…
Quince Tree Sun, The (1991)
- Dir. Victor Erice
Feat. Antonio Garcia
- Quietly–paced, fascinating semi–documentary about Spanish painter Antonio Garcia and his attempts to capture the effects of light falling…