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Biographies or alike.
I´ll keep it in the artistic field (painters, writers, singers, photographers, movie directors). Not documentaries.

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Basquiat (1996,  R)
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Sylvia (2003,  R)
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Capote (2005,  R)
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Iris (2001,  R)
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Frida (2002,  R)
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Pollock (2000,  R)
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Surviving Picasso (1996,  R)
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Camille Claudel (1988,  R)
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Modigliani (2004,  R)
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Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003,  PG-13)
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Amadeus (1984,  R)
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Ray (2004,  PG-13)
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Chaplin (1992,  PG-13)
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The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965,  Unrated)
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Les Amants du Flore (2006,  Unrated)
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De-Lovely (2004,  PG-13)
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My Left Foot (1989,  R)
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La Vie en Rose (La Mome) (2007,  PG-13)
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Callas Forever (2004,  PG-13)
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A Song to Remember (1945,  Unrated)
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Goya in Bordeaux (2000,  R)
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Last Days (2005,  R)
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Henry & June (1990,  NC-17)
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Bird (1988,  R)
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Night and Day (1946,  Unrated)
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Rembrandt (1936,  Unrated)
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Moulin Rouge (1952,  Unrated)
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Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára (2001,  Unrated)
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006,  R)
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
"Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" could easily be a modern "Beauty and the Beast" directed by Tim Burton. I have to say that the beast is not that bad; he actually looks like a cute dog, maybe a Cocker Spaniel. But the fact is that, in this case, David Lynch could fit better with the Arbus's work. Don't get me wrong, the movie is directed by Steven Shainberg, the same director of "Secretary". Not having seen Secretary yet, my interest was totally in Diane Arbus.


Even knowing it was "an imaginary portrait", I expected something more biographical and maybe more faithful to the image I have of Arbus. Her photos can lead us to such a portrait, but knowing a bit about her we know she was not "one of us" , but was more to a nice intruder. (Susan Sontag talks about it in "On Photograph"). Also, Nicole Kidman's Diane, and this is not her fault, could be both a model of Allan's ads or Arbus's strange photos, not mentioning that she seems a contemporay version of her previous Viginia Woolf. The film is not bad but it ends up resuming Diane Arbus into a fetishist herself and tries to explain her work by her supposed inner freak. But don't take me that seriously. "Fur" can be a good watch, specially if you like fantasy genre.







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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens (2008,  Unrated)

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