Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy With Time (2001), Modigliani (2004), The Price of Everything (2018), Blind Beast (1969), The Titan: The Story of Michelangelo (1950), Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy (2017), When the Season Is Good: Artists of Arctic Alaska (2005) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Sculpture movies.
Storyline: Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.
Plot Keywords: documentary, art, nature, time, landscape, creative process, photography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: artist, biography, painter, paris, italy, artistic career, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and our times -- where everything can be bought and sold.—lisa remington
Plot Keywords: art, auction, money, documentary, artists, culture, creation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A blind sculpter kidnaps a beautiful young model and takes her back to his home. He and his mother live in a warehouse that he has turned into a surreal tribute to the senses. It is filled with huge sculptures of body parts and the female form. He is obsessed with exploring the senses to the fullest. At first, the model only wants to escape from this bizarre scene, but eventually she succumbs to his strange vision and even surpasses his obsession.—Fred Cabral <ftcabral@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: japanese, horror, erotic, thriller, avant-garde, psychological, exploitation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The life and works of the great artist Michelangelo Buonarroti are shown against the historical background of his time. It begins with his earliest artworks, and follows his life and career as he achieves lasting fame. The documentary includes detailed looks at some of the artist's most renowned creations.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: documentary, art, biography, renaissance, italy, painting, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In London, sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner Worth from burning his wax museum...and his 'children.' Years later, Igor starts a new museum in New York, but his maimed hands confine him to directing lesser artists. People begin disappearing (including a corpse from the morgue); Igor takes a sinister interest in Charlotte Duncan, fiancée of his assistant Ralph, but arouses the suspicions of Charlotte's roommate, wisecracking reporter Florence.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, thriller, crime, murder, detective, dark ...
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: 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: Walter Paisley, nerdy busboy at a Bohemian café, is jealous of the talent (and popularity) of its various artistic regulars. But after accidentally killing his landlady's cat and covering the body in plaster to hide the evidence, he is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor - but his new-found friends want to see more of his work. Lacking any artistic talent whatsoever, Walter has to resort to similar methods to produce new work, and soon people start mysteriously disappearing...—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, black comedy, b-movie, cult film, low budget, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rags-to-riches Hennessey meets newlyweds Jessie and Eddie from his old neighborhood. Eddie plots to have Jessie divorce him, marry Hennessey, divorce Hennessey, then bring Hennessey's money into remarriage with Eddie. His plan goes awry at several points.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, love, fantasy, fashion, magic, revival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest, the film unearths the history of land art during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. Troublemakers is ultimately a story of renegades and firebrands all willing to risk their future careers on radical change and experimentation-a marked contrast to the hyper-speculative contemporary art world of today. Featuring rare interviews with a veritable who's who of American Art of the twentieth century.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, art, artists, usa, 20th century, nature, environment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John Locke is a Brit in Marrakech exploring Delacroix's seminal visit there. He's in an isolated villa with Belkis, his enigmatic servant and concubine. He receives slides of erotic drawings that could be by Delacroix; an antique dealer, who's a doctor and may be a white slave trader, says there are two such sketchbooks. By now, Locke's dreams have become intense: they include sado-masochism with compliant young women and visions of a woman in white, who may be a nineteenth century woman executed for an affair with a Frenchman. She looks like a local actress. Against Belkis's advice, Locke accepts various invitations. Aside from dreams and tableaux, will anything real happen?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: psychoanalysis, dream, archaeology, love, illusion, memory, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two Americans living sumptuously abroad find their relationship challenged by an unexpected lack of finances. When Jake, a commodities broker, is unable to pay the bills (due to a dock strike that holds up a cocoa shipment), he suggests that Tina (sensuous, beautiful and still married to another man) file an insurance claim on her 'little Henry Moore' in order to help pay their bills. Tina balks. The statue is her only source of security, all that she owns in the whole world. Does he realize what he's asking of her? Then, the statue simply disappears. Circumstances become more dire and questions emerge. Can Tina trust Jake? Can Jake trust Tina? When things spin out of their control, each is forced to reckon with doubt-doubt of themselves, doubt of each other and doubt of the strength of their bond. As it is with love, "to some people, cocoa is very scary." The story that unfolds is sensuous, understated, witty and elegant-a true 'Object of Beauty.'—JCrickett
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, crime, drama, mystery, black comedy, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), man of the people, autodidact and revolutionary sculptor - the most brilliant of his era. At 42, Rodin meets Camille Claudel, a young woman desperate to become his assistant. He quickly acknowledges her as his most able pupil, and treats her as an equal in matters of creation.—AnonymousB
Plot Keywords: biography, history, art, france, 19th century, romanticism, artist ...
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