Think of Salvador Dali and it’s likely that some weird images come to mind, maybe of melting clocks, long-legged elephants and perhaps a moustache curled to the point of preposterousness. That’s all well and iconic, but what do you actually know about the man? Artists occupy a peculiar space in […]
art history
The Laureate (2021) A Frustrating, Misguided and Melodramatic Biopic of a Fascinating True Story (Review)
This World Is Not My Own (SXSW 2023) (Review)
The Silence Before Bach (2007) and Mudanza (2008) (Review)
There’s a running bit in Steve Jobs, Danny Boyle’s most irritating film, where the title character repeatedly explains the importance of making phones that are slightly smaller and more functional than other phones by comparing them to major flashpoints in art history – Dylan going electric, say, or the premiere […]
F for Fake (1973) Orson Welles’s beguiling, adventurous art documentary swansong (Review)
Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013) A Beautiful, Off-Kilter recreation of Edward Hopper’s Painting (Review)
Andrei Rublev (1966) One of the greatest historical epics ever made (Review)
Following on from Ivan’s Childhood, Curzon Artificial Eye continues their retrospective on Russian Grandmaster Andrei Tarkovsky with Andrei Rublev. The second feature from Russia’s most celebrated film export follows the titular fifteenth-century iconographer as he walks the lands – starting when he is young and idealistic and ending 3 hours […]