Watching the rebels...
January 20, 2011 8:05 AM Subscribe
Movies about artistic rebels (preferably with their circles of friends)...
Looking for movies about artistic rebels of all kinds:
- Groups especially preferred: The Bloomsbury Circle, the Harlem Renaissance, American expats in Paris, Colette in France, etc.
- Individuals/couples okay: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera; Georgia O'Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz; Anais Nin and the Millers; Charles Bukowski
Other things:
- Non-English-language films okay
- Artists, poets, writers, thinkers, intellectuals of all kinds, etc.
- Sexual rebels (LGBT, polyamorous, divorced if unusual for that time, etc.) are preferred (Oscar Wilde, Anais Nin)
Are there any movies about Neruda, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Baudelaire, Borges, Jackson Pollack, Warhol?
Thanks!
Looking for movies about artistic rebels of all kinds:
- Groups especially preferred: The Bloomsbury Circle, the Harlem Renaissance, American expats in Paris, Colette in France, etc.
- Individuals/couples okay: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera; Georgia O'Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz; Anais Nin and the Millers; Charles Bukowski
Other things:
- Non-English-language films okay
- Artists, poets, writers, thinkers, intellectuals of all kinds, etc.
- Sexual rebels (LGBT, polyamorous, divorced if unusual for that time, etc.) are preferred (Oscar Wilde, Anais Nin)
Are there any movies about Neruda, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Baudelaire, Borges, Jackson Pollack, Warhol?
Thanks!
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Surviving Picasso, F for Fake (sort of)
posted by ifjuly at 8:20 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by ifjuly at 8:20 AM on January 20, 2011
I Shot Andy Warhol, Henry and June, 24 Hour Party People
If you can stomach it, The Doors movie (hilariously craptacular and inaccurate), Factory Girl maybe.
posted by ifjuly at 8:21 AM on January 20, 2011
If you can stomach it, The Doors movie (hilariously craptacular and inaccurate), Factory Girl maybe.
posted by ifjuly at 8:21 AM on January 20, 2011
Wilde (I need to get better at thinking of everythingallatonce)
posted by ifjuly at 8:23 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by ifjuly at 8:23 AM on January 20, 2011
A movie making the circuit right now, A Man Within, about William S. Burroughs. Gonna go see it tonight.
posted by edgeways at 8:30 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by edgeways at 8:30 AM on January 20, 2011
Seconding Mrs. Parker and the Viscious Circle
Carrington
posted by libraryhead at 8:46 AM on January 20, 2011
Carrington
posted by libraryhead at 8:46 AM on January 20, 2011
Impromptu - about the friendship of Frederic Chopin and George Sand, with Franz Liszt showing up as well.
posted by Joe Beese at 8:56 AM on January 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Joe Beese at 8:56 AM on January 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
It's supposed to be pretty awful, but Total Eclipse - about Rimbaud and Verlaine.
posted by Joe Beese at 8:58 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by Joe Beese at 8:58 AM on January 20, 2011
And of course, Henry & June - about Anais Nin and Henry Miller.
posted by Joe Beese at 9:00 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by Joe Beese at 9:00 AM on January 20, 2011
Oh yeah... and Love Is The Devil - about painter and sexual rebel Francis Bacon.
posted by Joe Beese at 9:01 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by Joe Beese at 9:01 AM on January 20, 2011
Quills - about the Marquis de Sade, who scores as a writer, an intellectual, and a sexual rebel.
He's a presence - and presiding spirit of sorts - in Marat/Sade too.
posted by Joe Beese at 9:04 AM on January 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
He's a presence - and presiding spirit of sorts - in Marat/Sade too.
posted by Joe Beese at 9:04 AM on January 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
Howl -- Allen Ginsberg and the obsenity trial regarding is work "Howl"
posted by wg at 9:07 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by wg at 9:07 AM on January 20, 2011
Haunted Summer about the Shelleys and Lord Byron.
posted by Knowyournuts at 9:08 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by Knowyournuts at 9:08 AM on January 20, 2011
Marquis is a unique take on the Marquis de Sade.
posted by Sticherbeast at 9:14 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by Sticherbeast at 9:14 AM on January 20, 2011
Uh... Short Bus? The Agony and the Ecstasy?
posted by alex_skazat at 10:14 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by alex_skazat at 10:14 AM on January 20, 2011
Might be a slight stretch, but The Barbarian Invasions (along with its prequel, The Decline of the American Empire).
posted by timetoevolve at 10:16 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by timetoevolve at 10:16 AM on January 20, 2011
Exit Through the Gift Shop is a film by/about Banksy and his experiment Mr. Brainwash.
posted by workerant at 10:27 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by workerant at 10:27 AM on January 20, 2011
The Cool School
Herb and Dorothy
Beautiful Losers
In a Dream - Moving Documentary about an artist and his family, filmed by his son.
you might also enjoy Alice Neel
posted by ljesse at 10:51 AM on January 20, 2011
Herb and Dorothy
Beautiful Losers
In a Dream - Moving Documentary about an artist and his family, filmed by his son.
you might also enjoy Alice Neel
posted by ljesse at 10:51 AM on January 20, 2011
The Universe of Keith Haring is now streaming on Netflix. It's pretty great.
posted by ColdChef at 10:55 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by ColdChef at 10:55 AM on January 20, 2011
A documentary about one of Andy Warhol's cohorts, Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (I watched it on Hulu) is a really interesting peek into that art scene.
posted by backwords at 11:12 AM on January 20, 2011
posted by backwords at 11:12 AM on January 20, 2011
Il Postino (The Postman) is not exactly about Pablo Neruda, but he is a major character in the (fictional) story, which takes place during his exile from Chile.
posted by malapropist at 2:36 PM on January 20, 2011
posted by malapropist at 2:36 PM on January 20, 2011
I'm sure you already know about Henry and June. I'd suggest Reds, too, though that might be more political than you're looking for.
posted by Mael Oui at 7:53 PM on January 20, 2011
posted by Mael Oui at 7:53 PM on January 20, 2011
Savage Messiah, a biopic about the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 9:59 PM on January 20, 2011
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 9:59 PM on January 20, 2011
They certainly aren't rebels, but Topsy-Turvy is a very good film about the creative process Gilbert and Sullivan go through in putting together their first production of The Mikado.
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 10:35 PM on January 20, 2011
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 10:35 PM on January 20, 2011
The Anniversary Party
Peter's Friends
Both these movies are fictional, but draw from the lives of the real-life actors/friends in the films.
posted by Ellemeno at 3:52 AM on January 21, 2011
Peter's Friends
Both these movies are fictional, but draw from the lives of the real-life actors/friends in the films.
posted by Ellemeno at 3:52 AM on January 21, 2011
Trumbo
Also, if you count journalism as artistic (and i definitely think it can be), then:
Tell the Truth and Run, George Seldes
posted by kristi at 10:43 AM on January 21, 2011
Also, if you count journalism as artistic (and i definitely think it can be), then:
Tell the Truth and Run, George Seldes
posted by kristi at 10:43 AM on January 21, 2011
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If not, Jesus of Montreal is a great film about a theater troupe that puts on a powerful Passion Play which ends up pitting them against the church. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097635/
posted by fuzzygerdes at 8:11 AM on January 20, 2011