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Showing Up (2022)

Showing Up (2022)

There is something inescapably Portlandia about Showing Up. To be fair, it does take place in (unnamed) Portland at the (unnamed) Oregon College of Art and Craft (a real institution...

Linda
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

Before seeing All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, I was unfamiliar with photographer Nan Goldin’s art but I had heard about her group’s activism. In the last few years,...

Linda
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

In a quirky voice-over by cheeky Olivia Colman, we are introduced to Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch). An odd duck of young man in Victorian England, he is the ill-suited...

Linda
Welcome to Marwen (2018)

Welcome to Marwen (2018)

Two things before we get started: 1. I haven’t seen the acclaimed documentary Marwencol, which inspired this film, and purposely didn’t see watch it in the weeks leading up...

Vickie
Woman in Gold (2015)

Woman in Gold (2015)

There are just about no greater villains of modern history, both cinematically and in reality, as the Nazis. Images of the stiff-armed salutes, the crisp uniforms, the shiny boots,...

Linda
Noma: My Perfect Storm (2015)

Noma: My Perfect Storm (2015)

Entertainment has always loved a mad genius. Whether the person portrayed is a brilliant scientist, artist, or musician — these folks almost always makes for at least interesting cinema....

Linda
Big Eyes

Big Eyes

The Keane “Big Eyes” paintings that dominated the late Fifties and early Sixties (and inspired endless knock-offs) have been called everything from kitschy to haunting. What caused this artist...

Jennifer
Finding Vivian Maier

Finding Vivian Maier

Imagine you are a private person, very private. You have a lot of stuff. You are a bit of a loner and don’t have close family. Imagine you had...

Linda
The Monuments Men (2014)

The Monuments Men (2014)

For starters, I couldn’t quite tell whether Clooney’s latest directorial effort – an amiable but somewhat forgettable WWII picture about a rag-tag group of art-loving guys tasked with recovering,...

Vickie
The Agony and the Ecstasy

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Michelangelo Buonarroti (Charlton Heston) was already pretty much a rock star (or shall I say marble star… wah wah!) of his day, as he was kept perfectly busy with...

Linda
Trance

Trance

James McAvoy stars as Simon, an art auctioneer who’s pulled into the high-stakes heist of a multi-million-dollar painting. But when the job goes awry and he’s knocked unconscious, he...

Vickie
Little Ashes

Little Ashes

In the late 1920s in Spain, the paths of some extraordinary young men crossed paths at an art school in Madrid. Federico García Lorca (Javier Beltrán) was already well...

Linda