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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Life With Judy Garland: Me And My Shadows (2001)- Dir. Robert Allan Ackerman
Feat. Judy Davis, Victor Garber, Hugh Laurie… - The amazing, slightly tragic life of Hollywood star Judy Garland is retold with Judy Davis (eventually) in the title role, in a compelling telemovie…
Dirty Pictures (2000)- Dir. Frank Pierson
Feat. James Woods, Craig T. Nelson - Based on the true–story of how the Chicago Arts Centre was prosecuted in 1990 for obscenity over an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's…
Farewell - Brecht's Last Summer, The (2000)
- Dir. Jan Schutte
Feat. Josef Bierbichler, Monika Bliebtreu, Elfriede Irrall - Prior knowledge of the life of playwright Bertolt Brecht (played by Josef Bierbichler) will enhance this accomplished chamber–drama, set at an…
Henry Fool (1998)- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Thomas Jay Ryan, Parker Posey, James Urbaniak… - Hal Hartley gathers several unlikely narrative threads concerning a bottled–up trashman composing an epic poem while under the spell of…
Marquise (1998)- Dir. Vera Belmont
Feat. Sophie Marceau - Bawdy, naturalistically–styled period romp about the artistic clashes between playwrights Moliere and Racine at the court of Louis XIV. Sophie…
Limited Edition (1997)- Dir. Bernard Rapp
Feat. Terence Stamp, Maria de Medeiros - Smalltime publisher Terence Stamp delves into a literary mystery which relates to dark events in his own background. Maria de Medeiros (PULP…
Surviving Picasso (1997)- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore… - Anthony Hopkins acts his beret off in this portrait of the insatiable, cantankerous Spanish genius and the trail of emotional devastation he left…
Lust and Revenge (1996)- Dir. Paul Cox
Feat. Nicholas Hope, Claudia Karvan - An unlikely creative partnership between the solemn, prolific Dutch–Aussie director Paul Cox (MAN OF FLOWERS, A WOMAN'S TALE) and John Clarke…
Total Eclipse (1995)- Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis - Voraciously dueling bohemians of late 19th century Paris, Leonardo Di Caprio and David Thewlis impersonate Rimbaud and Verlaine – French poet…
Unconditional 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…
Zelda (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.
Kafka (1991)- 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 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 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 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…
Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters (1985)- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Ken Ogata - Fascinating study of the controversial Japanese author/militarist whose desire to merge life and art led to his ritualistic suicide. A luminous…
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…
Blood of a Poet (1930)- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Lee Miller, Pauline Carton - Cocteau's first film is a surrealist gem that sewed the seeds of his style. The Dali/Bunuel influence is clear, but this goes one step further with…
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