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Subgenre Sampler
Trip, The (1967)- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Susan Strasberg… - One of several collaborations between director Roger Corman and Jack Nicholson, who wrote the screenplay. A director of TV commercials gradually…
Andrei Rublev (1966)
- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko - Enthralling historical drama vividly portrays the 15th Century Russian painter who was encumbered by the political turbulence of the time.
Agony and the Ecstasy, The (1965)- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento - Hollywood portrait of Michelangelo's struggle to paint the Sistine Chapel under the patronage of belligerent Pope Julius II. Rex Harrison fares…
Empty Canvas, The (La Noia) (1963)- Dir. Damiano Damiani
Feat. Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak - Unsuccessful painter Buccholz falls for a young model who spurns his love and drives him to both ruin and his overbearing mother. Based on the novel…
Ken Russell at the BBC (Elgar; Debussy; Always on Sunday; Isadora; Dante's Inferno; Song of Summer) (1962-1968)- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Oliver Reed, Vladek Sheybal, Vernon Dobtcheff… - The engrossing early works of the controversial director comprises six of his famed artist portraits
Testament of Orpheus (Testament D'orphee) (1960)- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Cocteau, Yul Brynner, Jean-Pierre Leaud… - Cocteau's swansong is an intensely personal odyssey, with the director himself immersed in a world of his cumulative creation. Like a moving…
Horse's Mouth, The (1958)- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston - This impressively subtle portrait of a tortured artist stars Alec Guinness as a deteriorating painter whose pursuit of creative perfection has him on…
James Dean Story (1957)- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Martin Gabel - Martin Gabel narrates this portrait of James Dean created shortly after his death, which assembles the material available at this time, including…
Mystery of Picasso, The (1956)- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Famed director Henri–Georges Clouzot gains exclusive entry into Pablo Picasso's inner creative sanctum, observing the master painter at work on…
Lust for Life (1955)- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn - Kirk Douglas makes a stirring, enthusiastic Van Gogh in this biopic, choosing to echo the empassioned melancholia of his work rather than drawing…
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