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A Model for Matisse
MC-584, 2003
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Monique Bourgeois was a 21-year-old nursing student and amateur artist living in Nice when, in 1941, she answered an ad placed by Henri Matisse seeking “a young and pretty night nurse.” From this humble beginning a beautiful friendship developed... more >
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Alex Katz: Five Hours
MC-859, 1996
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When Alex Katz paints one of his large, signature paintings, it is an act of the utmost concentration, a performance in which he draws on years of experience as well as on preliminary sketches, painted studies, finished drawings, and a large... more >
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Art City #1: Making it in Manhattan
MC-461, 2004
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Unlike any art movie you've ever seen, Making it in Manhattan is informed 'entertainment’ about the people who make contemporary art. Artists, collectors, and dealers bring to life the art capital of the world, New York, as it plunges into the 21st... more >
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Art City #2: Simplicity
MC-462, 2004
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Traveling around the country, Art City: Simplicity takes viewers on a revealing trip into the studios and lives of a group of singular artists. On a desert mesa outside Santa Fe, Richard Tuttle invents his mysterious and marvelously humble forms,... more >
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Art City #3: A Ruling Passion
MC-463, 2005
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Many artists use the pain, exhilaration and resolution of private desires to express themselves. Art City: A Ruling Passion focuses on intense personalities who’ve used their art to explore the emotional impact of psychological truths. Everything... more >
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Collector, The: Allan Stone's Life in Art
MC-735, 2007
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The Collector explores the 46-year career of Allan Stone, the famed New York City gallery owner and art collector. Producer and director Olympia Stone reveals her father’s compulsive collecting genius while telling the parallel story of his lifelong... more >
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Impressionists with Tim Marlow, The
MC-971, 1998
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The Impressionists have become the international superstars of Western painting. The works of Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne and the great successors of Impressionism like Gauguin and Van Gogh appear everywhere and are well... more >
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Inhaling the Spore
MC-559, 2004
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Behind a storefront in Los Angeles is one of the most unusual cultural institutions in America - The Museum of Jurassic Technology. It’s a modern-day “cabinet of curiosities,” filled with juxtapositions of the genuine, the strange, and the truly... more >
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Michelangelo: Self Portrait
MC-1107, 1989
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The film opens with Michelangelo, aged 89, carving his last sculpture. His works come alive as he flashes us back to his beginnings and confronts his own life. In the process the viewer experiences close and personal contact not only with the... more >
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Picasso: The Man and His Work, Part 1
MC-669, 2001
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This Cannes Film Festival selection takes a comprehensive and fascinating look at the life and art of the legendary Pablo Picasso. During the last 22 years of Picasso's life, film maker Edward Quinn had complete access to the artist. Through a... more >
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Picasso: The Man and His Work, Part 2
MC-670, 2002
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This Cannes Film Festival selection takes a comprehensive and fascinating look at the life and art of the legendary Pablo Picasso. During the last 22 years of Picasso's life, film maker Edward Quinn had complete access to the artist. Through a... more >
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Rape of Europa, The
MC-909, 2006
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The Rape of Europa tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich and World War II.
In a journey through seven countries, the film takes the audience... more >
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Vincent - the Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh
MC-433, 2004
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Called “the most profound exploration of an artist’s soul ever to
be put on film” (Village Voice), VINCENT: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF VINCENT VAN GOGH is a richly textured study of one of the greatest artists of all time.
One of the Top 10... more >
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Who Gets to Call it Art?
MC-542, 2006
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Featuring never-before-seen footage of legendary artists, exclusive interviews and an elite variety of the ‘Who’s Who’ New York entertainment scene. The film explores one of the most creatively fertile periods of American Art, profiling Andy... more >
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