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Unconditional LoveUnconditional Love (The Art of Passion) (1995)
Dir. Arthur Bjorn Egeli
Feat. Pablo Bryant, Isabelle Dahlin, David Ellsworth
Art and love conflict in this semi–autobiographical portrait of a young painter whose work and respect suffers after a whirlwind affair with a…
SirensSirens (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…
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…
ShadowlandsShadowlands (1993) Recommended
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…
ZeldaZelda (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.
KafkaKafka (1991) Recommended
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 NoiseuseLa Belle Noiseuse (1991) Recommended
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,…
Meeting VenusMeeting 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.

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