It's All True (1993), Khachaturian (2003), Manifesto (2015), Death in Venice (1971), The Cream Will Rise (1998), A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt (2011), Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018), Savage Messiah (1972) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Artistic Struggle movies.
Storyline: In 1942, fresh off the success of "Citizen Kane," director Orson Welles journeys to Brazil to make a documentary. The unscripted look at bullfighting, the samba and three fisherman making a voyage of protest on the open sea stuns the studio with its daring storytelling and politics. The unfinished film is scuttled, and so is the director's career. The story of the debacle is told through interviews with Welles and others involved in the project, plus rarely viewed scenes from the documentary.
Plot Keywords: filmmaker, director, visionary, performer, townsperson, crew member, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A documentary about the life of Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturyan. Among other events, the film covers Khachaturyan's difficulties working as a creative artist during the Stalin era.
Plot Keywords: composer, joseph stalin, russian, musician, communist, calm, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: From an anchorwoman to a homeless man, actress Cate Blanchett portrays 13 distinct characters in vignettes that incorporate timeless manifestos.
Plot Keywords: homeless person, news anchor, construction worker, scientist, teacher, solemn, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde Composer Gustav von Aschenbach (Sir Dirk Bogarde) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy, Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), on vacation with his family. The boy embodies an ideal of beauty that Aschenbach has long sought and he becomes infatuated. However, the onset of a deadly pestilence threatens them both physically and represents the corruption that compromises and threatens all ideals.
Plot Keywords: composer, teen boy, family member, governess, mother, brooding, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Cream Will Rise is a documentary that exposes the turbulent and troubling side of singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins' early years when a confrontation with her mother forces her to come to terms with some of the demons and darker moments of her childhood. This moving portrait combines Hawkins' performance footage with intimate moments of revelation.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: singer, mother, musician, songwriter, dark, emotional, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paul Liebrandt is one of the most talented and controversial chefs in the food world and the youngest chef to have received 3 stars from the New York Times. He was 24. NY Times food critic, William Grimes, likened Paul to 'a pianist who seems to have found a couple of dozen extra keys.' Through Paul, the film reveals the creative process, the extreme hard work, long hours, and dedication it takes to be a culinary artist and have success in the cutthroat world of haute cuisine. Exploring the complicated relationships between food critics, chefs, and owners the film delves into the life of a dedicated young chef ahead of his time.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: chef, artist, restaurant employee, food critic, girlfriend, restaurant owner, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After Portland slacker John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) nearly loses his life in a car accident, the last thing he intends to do is give up drinking. But when he reluctantly enters treatment - with encouragement from his girlfriend (Rooney Mara) and a charismatic sponsor (Jonah Hill) - Callahan discovers a gift for drawing edgy, irreverent newspaper cartoons that develop a national following and grant him a new lease on life. Based on a true story, this poignant, insightful and often funny drama about the healing power of art is adapted from Callahan's autobiography and directed by two-time Oscar® nominee Gus Van Sant. Jack Black, Carrie Brownstein, Beth Ditto and Kim Gordon also star.
Plot Keywords: handicapped person, alcoholic, artist, friend, girlfriend, family member, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Biographical movie of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Scott Antony).
Plot Keywords: sculptor, governess, writer, suffragette, muse, creative, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Keitel plays the lead in this schizophrenic movie in which he is continually pulled by the two conflicting sides of his personality, on the one hand that of a quiet piano virtuoso and on the other a ruthless debt collector for his mobster father.—<gilesw@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: pianist, loan shark, debt collector, mobster, father, mob boss, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman follow von Trier during a period of more than two years, meet him at work, at home and at leisure.—Fredrik Klasson <fredrik.klasson@telia.com>
Plot Keywords: director, actor, actress, camera operator, screenwriter, engaging, striking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sixteen years after the release of the ground-breaking film Rivers and Tides - Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time director Thomas Riedelsheimer has returned to work with the artist. Leaning into the Wind - Andy Goldsworthy follows Andy on his exploration of the layers of his world and the impact of the years on himself and his art. As Goldsworthy introduces his own body into the work it becomes at the same time even more fragile and personal and also sterner and tougher, incorporating massive machinery and crews on his bigger projects. Riedelsheimer's exquisite film illuminates Goldsworthy's mind as it reveals his art.—Leslie Hills
Plot Keywords: artist, creative, moving, profound, scotland, united kingdom, art world ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: If a dance is not danced, it vanishes. If the Dancer Dances follows a group of New York City's top modern dancers as they reconstruct an iconic and mysterious work by the legendary Merce Cunningham, revealing what it takes to keep a dance alive. Timed to coincide with Cunningham's centennial, the film confronts one of the most urgent issues facing the dance world today: how do we prevent the loss of masterworks to time?
Plot Keywords: dancer, performer, choreographer, business owner, director, intense, incredible ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tender romantic comedy about an aspiring musician who arrives in New York in search of fame & fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: clerk, british man, artist, frenchman, love interest, engaging, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Life, passion, love...all these were part of Toulouse-Lautrec's art. His artistic development among the masters of the postimpressionism.
Plot Keywords: toulouse-lautrec, artist, wealthy man, aristocrat, frenchman, woman, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, the American writer and art-lover James Lord (Armie Hammer) is asked by his friend, the world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush), to sit for a portrait. The process, Giacometti assures Lord, will take only a few days. Flattered and intrigued, Lord agrees. So begins not only the story of an offbeat friendship, but, seen through the eyes of Lord, an insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and, at times, downright chaos of the artistic process. FINAL PORTRAIT is a portrait of a genius, and of a friendship between two men who are utterly different, yet increasingly bonded through a single, ever-evolving act of creativity. It is a film which shines a light on the artistic process itself, by turns exhilarating, exasperating and bewildering, questioning whether the gift of a great artist is a blessing or a curse.
Plot Keywords: artist, writer, amusing, brooding, charming, cheeky, confident ...
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