Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Colin McCahon - Victory Over Death (1988)- Dir. Judy Rymer
- An award–winning documentary on New Zealand's most controversial and profound contemporary artist, and the social environment that influenced…
La Lectrice (1988)- Dir. Michel Deville
Feat. Miou-Miou, Christian Ruche, Maria Casares - Miou–Miou plays a hired 'reader' who leads us through a series of exchanges with various disabled personalities. A sensual treat for those…
Moderns, The (1988)
- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone… - A witty and exquisite recreation of Paris in the 1920s, complete with the ‘lost generation’ of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and F Scott…
Rowing with the Wind (1988)- Dir. Gonzalo Suárez
Feat. Hugh Grant, Elizabeth Hurley, Lizzy McInnerny… - Earnest dramatisation of Mary Shelley's relationship with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley while in the midst of conceiving her famed novel…
Ebony Tower, The (1987)- Dir. Robert Knights
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Roger Rees, Greta Scacchi… - Self–conscious but watchable satire has a young art critic finding himself attracted to the unusual lifestyle of a reclusive painter. Based on…
Len Lye - Doodlings (1987)- Dir. Keith Griffiths
- A refreshing paean to New Zealand's best known avant–garde filmmaker (who is equally famous for his kinetic sculptures). Features clips from…
Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh (1987)
- Dir. Paul Cox
- Engrossing and expressive documentary of the famous artist, using his own written letters and paintings as clues to his tortured personality. John…
Wolf at the Door, The (1987)- Dir. Henning Carlsen
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow - Thoughtful biopic of painter Paul Gauguin’s middle–years, with Donald Sutherland contending with the philistines of Paris upon his return…
Caravaggio (1986)- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Noam Almaz, Dawn Archibald, Sean Bean - A stylised, impressionistic biopic of the controversial bisexual artist from the Italian renaissance. The film is similarly cryptic, bold and…
Picasso: Man and His Work (1986)- Dir. Edward Quinn
- A two cassette anthology of perhaps the greatest painter of all time. This unique film reveals many unknown aspects of his work and personality, and…
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