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Subgenre Sampler
Islands in the Stream (1977)- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland… - Solid, well–constructed adaptation of one of the more thoughtful Hemingway novels, with Scott as the sculptor who chooses to live in exile on a…
We Won't Grow Old Together (Nous Ne Vieillirons Pas Ensemble) (1972)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Marlène Jobert, Jean Yanne, Christine Fabréga… - A uniquely disquieting film covering the dissolution of an affair between an aged filmmaker and a much younger secretary, based on French director…
Hour Of The Wolf (Vargtimmen) (1968)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann - One of dir. Bergman's most troubled visions, this concerns the descent of an unstable artist (von Sydow) and his sensitive wife (Ullmann) into a…
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.
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…
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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