The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993), Zatoichi (2003), American Beauty (1999), Crazy Horse (1996), Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (2003), Mishima (1985), The Sword of Doom (1966), Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy With Time (2001) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Aesthetics movies.
Storyline: A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man whose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself.
Plot Keywords: thriller, drama, crime, mystery, dark comedy, psychological, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the young Viren comes to India for the first time, he is captivated by Pallavi. When he learns she is already spoken for, he returns to London a broken man. When he gets the news of Pallavi and her husband dying and leaving their daughter Pooja (Sridevi) behind, Viren ensures that she is taken care of. Now some 20 years on, Viren comes back to India and sees Pooja for the first time - a spitting image of her mother. Viren feels that destiny is playing a cruel game with him when Pooja confesses she is in Love with him.—Official Source
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, bollywood, indian cinema, classic, musical, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dior and I brings the viewer inside the storied world of the Christian Dior fashion house with a privileged, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Raf Simons' first haute couture collection as its new artistic director-a true labor of love created by a dedicated group of collaborators. Melding the everyday, pressure-filled components of fashion with mysterious echoes from the iconic brand's past, the film is also a colorful homage to the seamstresses who serve Simons' vision.—The Orchard
Plot Keywords: fashion, documentary, creativity, france, paris, art, behind the scenes ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jennifer Baichwal's cameras follow Edward Burtynsky (1955- ) as he visits what he calls manufactured landscapes: slag heaps, e-waste dumps, huge factories in the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces of China, and a place in Bangladesh where ships are taken apart for recycling. In China, workers gather outside the factory, exhorted by their team leader to produce more and make fewer errors. A woman assembles a circuit breaker, and women and children are seen picking through debris or playing in it. Burtynsky concludes with a visit to Shanghai, the world's fastest growing city, where wealth and poverty, high-rises and old neighborhoods are side by side.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, environment, industry, globalization, photography, china, human impact ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A story of friendship, a retrospective, and a look at haute couture as business: we watch Valentino Garavani (1932- ) and partner Giancarlo Giammetti from preparation for the 2006 Spring/Summer Collection in Paris to a July 2007 retrospective of Valentino's 45-year career, which included dressing Jacqueline Kennedy. The film documents a year of work, shows, business changes, and decisions. We follow a creation from sketch to runway: he's always in pursuit of beauty. We're in Paris, Rome, and Venice. He receives the French Legion of Honor medal; his acceptance speech brings tears. Reporters ask when he'll retire. Is the Roman retrospective his career's finale? Cue Puccini.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: fashion, biography, documentary, italy, fashion industry, celebrity, creativity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The meaning of art itself comes into question in this documentary about Shelby Lee Adams' controversial photos of families in Appalachia.
Plot Keywords: documentary, photography, american culture, poverty, rural life, social documentary, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A series of dances inspired by composer Isaac Albéniz's "Iberia" suite.
Plot Keywords: documentary, culture, music, dance, art, travel, landscape ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A homage to Bruce Weber's Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies. With portraits of a lesbian jazz singer and a 16 year old wrestler.
Plot Keywords: documentary, photography, fashion, identity, art, portrait, new york ...
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: documentary, art, nature, environment, creative process, artist, landscape ...
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: dance, documentary, modern dance, art, choreography, performance, creative process ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in 1814, Miss Hokusai focuses on O-Ei, the daughter of famed artist Tetsuzo, better known by his pen name Hokusai, as she tries to navigate the various aspects of her life. O-Ei spends the bulk of her time assisting her divorced father who cares about his art and not much else.—Jake Duke
Plot Keywords: animation, historical, biographical, japanese, art, cultural, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Irene is on tour with her one-woman-show "Sale Affaire" in the north of France. When she runs into Dries, who carries giants in fairs, it's the beginning of a love story that bears an uncanny resemblance to the show performed by Irene on stage.—argentronic
Plot Keywords: documentary, alaska, arctic, art, artists, culture, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While visiting an art museum, a nerdy college student named Adam meets an iconoclastic artist named Evelyn and is instantly smitten. As their relationship develops, she gradually encourages Adam to change in various ways that surprise his older friends, Jenny and Philip. However, as events progress, Evelyn's antics become darker and darker as her influence begins to twist Adam and his friends in hurtful ways.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, psychological, art, human nature, deception, relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a "parfait mélange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.
Plot Keywords: erotic, art, literature, japanese culture, sexuality, power, desire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary exploring the birth, death, and resurrection of the illustrated movie poster.
Plot Keywords: documentary, art, film history, nostalgia, creativity, artists, cultural phenomenon ...
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