Munch (2023)

The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that scandalized patrons and institutions, raising the altars the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.

Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.

When a hardened businesswoman who goes by the initials A.B. overhears someone calling her an “Amazon” because of her butch ways, she agrees to a more “feminine” makeover. In the end she learns that no matter how she looks she’s still the smartest person in any room. 

The theme of death is heavily interwoven in Smolder’s surreal salute to Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz, a Hieronymus Bosch-type artist whose work centered on humans in various stages in torment, as depicted in expansive canvases with gore galore. Smolders has basically taken a standard documentary and chopped it up, using quotes from the long-dead artist, and periodic statements by a historian (Smolders) filling in a few bits of Wiertz’ life.

Country girl Margit sits for the artist Sándor, from Budapest. She is fascinated and charmed by him, and agrees to accompany him to the capital, so he can complete the painting there. Disillusionment sets in, however, when Sándor wins a prize with the finished portrait and loses interest in her. Margit recognizes that her true happiness lies at home, with Pista, her faithful lover.

A journey into the hearts, minds and eyes of Georgia O’Keeffe, Emily Carr and Frida Kahlo - three of the 20th century’s most remarkable artists.

한 때 문단을 떠들썩하게 만든 천재 작가이자 시인 ‘잭 마커스’는 술에 취해 저지른 실수 하나로 교직을 잃을 위기에 처한다. 한편, 뉴욕에서 성공한 화가 ‘디나 델산토’가 이 학교의 미술교사로 부임하고 서로의 분야만을 고집하는 잭과 디나는 첫 날부터 사사건건 부딪힌다. 이들의 대결은 ‘시 vs 그림’을 넘어 ‘문학 vs 미술’로 확대되고, 절대 서로 가까워지지 않을 것 같던 이들 사이에도 미묘한 감정이 생기기 시작 하는데…

젊고 아름다운 여인 ‘소피아’ (알리시아 비칸데르) 그녀의 남편 거상 ‘코르넬리스’ (크리스토프 왈츠) 그리고, 이들의 초상화를 그리는 매력적인 화가 ‘얀’ (데인 드한) 17세기 암스테르담 튤립 열풍보다 더 뜨겁고 치명적인 사랑과 위험한 거짓을 그린 클래식 로맨스

Never before has the extraordinary life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo been framed in relation to the full spectrum of the historical and cultural influences that shaped her. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FRIDA KAHLO explores the 20th century icon who became an international sensation in the worlds of modern art and radical politics.

주로 여성들의 돈을 훔치거나 카사노바처럼 마음을 빼앗던 비독(조지 샌더스)과 동료 에밀(아킴 타미로프)은 생일 케이크에 숨겨진 줄을 이용해 감옥에서 탈출한다. 성당 벽화로 ‘용과 싸우는 성 조지’를 그리고 있던 화가를 위해 포즈를 취해준 다음, 다시 범죄의 세계로 되돌아간다. 그들은 첫 번째로 부유층들이 드나드는 한 클럽에 왕족 행세를 하며 들어간 비독은 그곳에서 노래를 부르는 로레타의 루비 가터를 훔칠 계획을 세운다. 실존 인물 프랑소아 외젠 비독이 1775년 프랑스 감옥에서 태어나는 순간부터 파리의 경찰서장이 되기까지의 자전적인 일대기를 다룬 영화로 정체성의 혼란, 현재의 삶을 짓누르는 과거의 그림자 등 서크적인 주제가 농후한 영화. (2006년 서울 시네마테크 상영회 - 더글라스 서크 특별전)

When an artist discovers his wife is having an affair with their jungle guide, he lures them into posing for him in a radioactive jungle river.

채색의 정도에 따라 계급이 나뉘는 캔버스의 세계에서 미완성된 캐릭터가 그림을 완성하기 위해 화가를 찾아 떠난다. 사랑하는 연인 클레어에게 아름다운 얼굴색을 찾아주기 위해 캔버스의 경계를 넘나드는 라모와 친구들의 흥미진진한 모험. (2012년 13회 전주국제영화제)

The scene opens in an artist's studio, the artist asleep in his chair. A large old fashioned clock opens and a young lady comes out and awaking the artist, requests him to paint her picture. While the artist is executing the work a clown comes from the clock, takes in the situation and begins to make love to the lady. The artist detects him and compels him to desist his love making. He continues to paint. The clown becomes interested and asks the artist to allow him to paint the picture, and begins smearing a whitewash brush over the canvas, when lo, a most perfect image of the young lady appears. The image then steps down from the frame, joins the young lady in the studio, and the figures, each a perfect counterpart of the other begin to dance to the great astonishment of the artist. The clown the by waving his hand causes the figures of the two girls to merge into one. The artist then assumes his seat and awakens from his dream with a great shock.

This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

Painter Peter Hartman is arrested at the scene of a murder. He soon turns out to have ties to the victim's young widow. As Inspector Stroomer begins to unravel the mystery, two very different sides of the story are presented to him. Now it is up to Stroomer to find enough photographic evidence to make out which version is the truth.

변호사의 아내 소노코는 미술학교에서 만난 묘령의 여인 미츠코와 사랑에 빠진다. 소노코가 미츠코에게 누드모델이 되어줄 것을 부탁하고, 둘은 서로의 육체를 탐미한다. 여기에 미츠코의 애인과 소노코의 남편이 가세해 묘한 사랑의 이야기가 이어진다. 다니자키 준이치로의 원작을 바탕으로 당시 일본영화계에서 금기시 되었던 여성간의 동성애를 요염하지만 깔끔하게 묘사한 마스무라 야스조의 대표작이다.

In Spain a young artist has gone missing, and a hardened detective takes on the case. Six friends become the focus of the investigation, being pressured for their knowledge of the artist's whereabouts. They all deny involvement, and soon they have reason to fear for their lives as it appears a serial killer is hunting them all down. The one friend closest to the artist watches helplessly as his once quiet life is shattered by incrimination, suspicion and ultimately -- horrific violence

The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghetti's quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.