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An Essay on Matisse (1996)
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Directed by Ric Burns
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Andy Warhol, Laurie Anderson, Candy Darling, Bob Dylan, Dennis Hopper, Paul Morrissey
Andy Warhol fut l’un des artistes les plus importants – sinon le plus important – de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle. Ce documentaire captivant et souvent émouvant, brosse un portrait de ce personnage aussi génial que décrié, qui sut capter les turbulences d’une époque marquée par le changement. Ce fi lm est le premier à exploiter les immenses archives du musée Andy Warhol de Pittsburgh.À travers quantité d’images et de séquences inédites complétées d’interviews, il explore la vie et l’œuvre de celui qui deviendra le pape du Pop Art – depuis son enfance solitaire et sa formation à Pittsburgh – jusqu’à l’explosion de sa carrière à New York et sa mort prématurée 1987.
, 1h36Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Ansel Adams (2002)
, 1h40Directed by Ric Burns
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors David Ogden Stiers
Arakimentari (2004)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Takeshi Kitano, Björk, Richard Kern
Dans un kimono rouge, ses bras fermement liés, elle regarde l'objectif avec une expression vide. Derrière l'appareil un curieux petit bonhomme est entrain de marmonner et de prendre des photos avec cinq appareils différents, trempé et excité comme le diable. Il s'agit de Nobuyoshi Araki, le plus controversé et le plus célébré des artistes japonais du monde. Ce documentaire exceptionnel vous fera rentrer dans sa légende...
Art School Confidential (2006)
, 1h42Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Peinture, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentary films about the visual arts, LGBT-related films, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film
Actors Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Anjelica Huston, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, young Jerome pursues his true obsession to art school. Jerome enrolls in Strathmore, an urban college. His roommates are aspiring filmmaker Vince and closeted-gay fashion major Matthew. Jerome looks for love amongst the coeds, but is turned off by them all, before falling in love with the art model, Audrey. In his art classes, he forms a friendship with perennial loser, Bardo, who guides him through the college scene and introduces him to a failed artist, Jimmy, a belligerent drunk.
Arthur Rimbaud: A Biography (1991)
, 2h21Origin France
Genres Biography, Documentary
Themes Films about writers, Poésie, Films about sexuality, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentaire sur la poésie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jacques Bonnaffé, Bernard Bloch, Christiane Cohendy, Madeleine Marie, Albert Delpy, Jean Dautremay
Ernest Delahaye, ami d'enfance d'Arthur Rimbaud, se remémore sa rencontre avec le poète et sa famille à Charleville-Mézières. De sa naissance en 1854 jusqu'à sa mort à Marseille en 1891, on assiste à la destinée d'un être hors-norme :
With André Gide (1952)
, 1h29Directed by Marc Allégret
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Jean Desailly, Gérard Philipe, Jean-Louis Barrault, Roland Alexandre, Roger Vadim, Renée Faure
Portrait intime d'André Gide, illustré d'archives personnelles de Gide, mais qui retrace aussi l'œuvre de Gide, ses rencontres (Jean-Paul Sartre, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, etc.), la NRF...
, 1h12Directed by Damian Pettigrew
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Philippe Noiret
The feature length documentary highlights the painter's complex creative process with rare footage of the artist at work in his studio in the Swiss mountain village of Rossinière. Conversations with Balthus and his wife Setsuko, his daughter Harumi, his sons Stanislaus and Thadée, interviews with art critics Jean Leymarie, Jean Clair, Pierre Rosenberg, and James Lord, and with French painter François Rouan (who often assisted Balthus during his tenure at the Villa Medici), contribute to form a psychological portrait of a secretive and controversial artist.
Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada (1993)
, 55minutesDirected by Tom Neff
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
The documentary details the life and work of the artist Beatrice Wood, particularly her experiences as one of the members of the art movement known as Dada during the 1910s. It also recounts friendships with Marcel Duchamp and Henri-Pierre Roché whose book, and subsequent film Jules and Jim, was no doubt inspired by the relationship between the three of them, but actually based on a later relationship between Roché, Helen Grund and the German writer Franz Hessel.
Beautiful Losers (2008)
, 1h29Directed by Joshua Leonard, Aaron Rose
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about films
Actors Harmony Korine, Mike Mills, Aaron Rose
, 1h39Origin Bresil
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Carlos Saldanha, Alê Abreu, Paulo José
The film makes an overview of animation in Brazil, since the first animation created in 1917, called The Kaiser, until the success of the animation film series Ice age and Rio, directed by Carlos Saldanha. Besides him, other big names were also heard, like Maurício de Souza, Otto Guerra and Chico Liberato, who report their experiences on the market and give a current panorama of Brazilian production.
Bill Cunningham New York (2011)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes La mode, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Carmen Dell'Orefice, Catherine Deneuve
"We all get dressed for Bill", says Vogue editor Anna Wintour. The Bill in question is New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high-society charity soirées for the Times 's Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours".
Black Sun (2006)
, 1h10Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities
Un soir de 1978, Hugues de Montalembert, peintre et réalisateur, est agressé dans son appartement de New York. Alors qu’il se défend, il reçoit du décapant dans les yeux. Quelques heures plus tard, il a perdu la vue pour toujours. Au fil des mois, il se réapproprie son quotidien et commence à voyager, seul, en Indonésie ou en Inde. Un nouveau monde de perceptions s’ouvre alors à lui.