Keyword: portrait of an artist

Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos

8.4

2024

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Firsthand accounts and revelations from the people who brought the groundbreaking series to life.

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

7.7

2023

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An intimate portrait of one of Norways greatest screen talents, Liv Ullmann.

LARRY (they/them)

1.5

2024

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Non-binary photographer Laurence Philomène documents their transition through self-portraits while creating their book \Puberty.\ The film LARRY explores their artistic journey, family life, and broader themes of gender identity.

Burden of Dreams

7.9

1982

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A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

7.5

2022

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Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemics unfathomable death toll.

The Only Girl in the Orchestra

7.4

2023

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This unsung hero story celebrates trailblazing musician, Orin OBrien, and the double bass she plays.

Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature

7.2

2024

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A documentary exploring the life and influential works of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, known for films like My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away, focusing on his passion for animation and advocacy for the natural world.

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

7.2

2020

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The work, lives and personal journeys of two iconic American artists coalesce with creative combustion in this innovative dual-portrait documentary.

Stephen King: A Necessary Evil

7

2020

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Stephen King has been one of the worlds most successful bestselling authors for decades. How can the success of his horror novels be explained? Undoubtedly with the inventiveness and effectiveness of his literature. But what else is behind the longevity of its success? On the basis of rarely shown interviews with the author, the documentary explores why his horror stories touch the reader so deeply and how the author succeeded in creating such a gigantic work over the years, the intensity and sensitivity of which makes it part of world literature.

100 Years of Ulysses

7.5

2022

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Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), is published by US poet Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), owner of the small bookstore Shakespeare and Co. The book, whose writing consumed seven years of Joyces life, years in which his family was in financial need, would have a profound and unprecedented impact on 20th century literature and culture.

Loving Highsmith

6.5

2022

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Based on Patricia Highsmiths personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writers life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity.

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel

6.7

2023

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Kim Novak will forever be remembered for her dual role in Hitchcocks \Vertigo\, in which she plays a woman forced to transform into someone else to fulfill a mans obsession. Novak was a rebel inside a star system that broke womens spirits in order to manufacture screen goddesses, a toxic system she never ceased to speak out against. In the 1950s at the age of 20, Novak finds herself thrown into the limelight. With no acting experience, the young woman who dreamed of becoming a painter undergoes a makeover which will transform her into a glamorous bombshell. Her anxiety on set is compounded by an intimidating studio head, demanding directors, and a misogynist press. This first documentary about Kim Novak, her career and her emancipation from the Hollywood system, tells the story of how this box office sensation who worked with some of the greatest directors of the era takes on the Hollywood studio system and reclaims her life - with the exclusive participation of the actress herself.

Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer

7.4

2019

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The documentary recounts Tarkovskys life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his memories, his view of art and his reflections on the destiny of the artist and the meaning of human existence.

M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity

7.2

2018

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Feature documentary about the life and work of MC Escher.