Owen Wilson is an American in Paris who get transported back in time to the company of the Lost Generation artists of the twenties in the romantic comedy from Woody Allen.
Category: movies about art
Frank Langella is ‘Starting Out in the Evening’ free on Kanopy
In Starting Out in the Evening (2007), Frank Langella is heartbreakingly good as author Leonard Schiller, a once-celebrated author forgotten in the years since his last novel and flattered by the attention of an appreciative graduate student (Lauren Ambrose) intent on reintroducing his work to the world with her thesis. His discreet performance, all politeness […]
‘The Rape of Europa’ – Saving the treasures of Europe on Amazon Prime
“What is more important, a work of art or a human life?” The Rape of Europa (2007) does not attempt to answer the question, posed rhetorically by one of the men who was charged with securing and repatriating recovered artworks looted by the Nazis or damaged in combat. But it shows that the question has […]
Jean Renoir’s ‘The Golden Coach’ on Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel
Anna Magnani stars as the earthy, vivacious diva of The Golden Coach (France/Italy, 1952), an adaptation of a Prosper Merimee play about a traveling troupe of Italian commedia dell’arte players in a Peruvian backwater where three men (a viceroy, a bullfighter, and a fellow performer) vie for the affections of the company’s leading lady. An […]