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Subgenre Sampler

 
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…
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…
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…
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.
Vincent and TheoVincent and Theo (1990)
Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Tim Roth
This biopic charts the relationship between the tortured artist and his patron brother, with sympathetic direction and Tim Roth's performance as…
A TV DanteA TV Dante (The Inferno Cantos I - VIII) (1989)
Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. John Gielgud, Bob Peck, Joanne Whalley
Striking recitation by Gielgud and company of the first eight cantos. Greenaway superimposes some truly potent images over a series of talking heads.…
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…

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