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Subgenre Sampler
Brush With Fate (2003)- Dir. Brent Shields
Feat. Glenn Close, Ellen Burstyn, Thomas Gibson… - A cloistered prep school teacher (Close) reveals to a colleague (Gibson) that she is in possession of a lost painting – 'Girl in Hyancinth…
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
- Dir. Peter Webber
Feat. Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson… - A superior dramatic conceit that speculates on the background to Johannes Vermeer's enigmatic 17th century portrait of the title. Johannson plays…
Leonardo (TV Mini-series) (+ The Divine Michelangelo) (2003)- Feat. Mark Rylance
- Three–part BBC docu–drama exploring the life of Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci, from early childhood to his death in 1519. Dramatic…
Sylvia (2003)- Dir. Christine Jeffs
Feat. Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Blythe Danner… - A simply formed, yet resonant portrait of the brilliant, doomed poet Sylvia Plath (Paltrow), recounting her years of marriage to (also poet) Ted…
Chihwaseon (Painted Fire) (2002)- Dir. Kwon-taek Im
Feat. Min-sik Choi, Sung-kee Ahn - A mainstay of Korean cinema, Im Kwon–taek helms this impassioned portrait of one of the country's most celebrated painters, Jang…
Frida (2002)- Dir. Julie Taymor
Feat. Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Ashley Judd… - Long awaited biopic of the celebrated 20th–century Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, whose troubled marriage to Diego Riviera and crippling injuries…
Hours, The (2002)- Dir. Stephen Daldry
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore… - Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer–prize winning novel is brought to the screen with excellent performances, and though simplified and not for all…
Max (2002)- Dir. Menno Meyjes
Feat. John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski - Recommendable though flawed drama, concerns a fictional friendship in 1918 Munich between budding–artist Adolf Hitler and a Jewish…
Possession (2002)- Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam… - Faithful, though simplified adaptation of A.S. Byatt’s Booker–winning novel where two academics slowly explore a 19th century literary…
Guinevere (2001)- Dir. Audrey Wells
Feat. Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea - Sarah Polley (GO) headlines in this Sundance–winning indie, as a directionless Harvard graduate who falls under the spell of…
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