Tag Archives: art movies

4 facets of Edvard Munch (film: Munch – Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken, 2023)

Posted on July 22, 2024 by admin

Edvard Munch is an artist that the cinematography did not pay much attention to. This might seem a paradox, considering that he is probably Norway’s greatest painter and an internationally famous artist, and that he had a rather long life … Continue reading →

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a baroque mystery (film: The Draughtsman’s Contract – Peter Greenaway, 1982)

Posted on January 18, 2024 by admin

In 1982, when he made ‘The Draughtsman’s Contract‘, Peter Greenaway was 40 years old. You could say it was a debut in a way, as it was his first feature length fiction film. And yet Greenaway was already a mature … Continue reading →

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between sacred and sin (film: Il peccato – Andrey Konchalovskiy, 2019)

Posted on April 22, 2023 by admin

More than half a century before he wrote (in collaboration) and directed ‘Il peccato‘, Andrey Konchalovskiy co-wrote another memorable film about another great Renaissance artist – Tarkovsky’s ‘Andrei Rubliov’ (1966). A year before ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy’, the adaptation … Continue reading →

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a Van Gogh like no other (film: Van Gogh – Maurice Pialat, 1991)

Posted on August 15, 2020 by admin

I had the joy of living another one of those events that give beauty to the life of a cinephile. My first encounter with Jacques Dutronc dates about half a century ago when I was listening to the shows on … Continue reading →

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the painter and the writer (Film: Cézanne et moi – Danièle Thompson, 2016)

Posted on August 14, 2020 by admin

Films about the painters of the artistic revolution in France of the last decades of the 19th century have long become a stand-alone cinematic genre. Impressionists and post-impressionists changed the course of art and reinvented the process of artistic creation. … Continue reading →

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Coppola dreams Eliade (Film: Youth Without Youth – Francis Ford Coppola, 2007)

Posted on September 23, 2019 by admin

‘Youth Without Youth‘ was a complete surprise to me. It is probably the least understood film of Francis Ford Coppola. Made in 2007 and filmed largely in Romania, it faithfully screens a late novella by Mircea Eliade, written in 1976. … Continue reading →

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