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DVD Vincent and Theo
Robert Altman, the great ironist of American movies, can't resist beginning Vincent & Theo with video of an art auction at Christie's, where Van Gogh's Sunflowers attracts dizzying multi-million-dollar bids. Dissolve to the utterly squalid hovel where Vincent (Tim Roth) lives--reminding us that the artist sold but one painting in his poor, tormented lifetime. Vincent & Theo is an unusual and--fittingly enough--impressionistic look at Vincent and his brother Theo (Paul Rhys), the mad genius and the art broker. These parallel lives unfold, with Vincent's celebrated wallow in the fires of art running alongside Theo's neurotic struggle to fit into the real world. Roth is mesmerizing and frightening as Vincent, while Rhys gives a more mannered performance that fits Theo's tortured ambivalence. The eerie buzz of Gabriel Yared's music helps us get inside Vincent's head. If the true-life circumstances are unavoidably grim and Altman's pace is slow, almost druggy, the film nevertheless casts a spell. (Vincent's eloquent letters to Theo are beautifully used in Paul Cox's Vincent, a good companion piece to this version of the artist's life.) --Robert Horton
The intimacy and intensity between the van Gogh brothers is that of lovers. You don't need to be physical to share the deepest emotions and relationship. My interest with Vincent began only after I read his letters to Theo. The brilliance of his art only caught fire after reading the intimate letters between these two brothers. Van Gogh's true genius and his deep and dark introspect and intelligence is revealed in these letters.
The performances of this well written script are directed toward a more mature and sophisticated audience. You feel the grit, humanness and frustrations both Vincent and Theo shared. Vincent's visits to Hell and the brothels reveal something of both the man and the artist. I can't imagine a more authentic portrayal.
Theo's frustration and love for his brother were electric. I have never seen more sparks between two people on the screen. Having read the letters, having read a couple biographies, and having come to appreciate van Gogh's work, I find this stunning performance and dvd a wonderful documentation on one of Humanity's great artists. Everyone involved deserves much praise.
Altman's documentary is also excellent. I highly recommend this dvd.
One of my favorite Movies.
Yes; this is a must see! If you are an art lover and can feel the energy in Van Gogh's Painting's; this Movie will add to ones feeling's of what drove Van Gogh to create such impressive oils. When I was in high school I remember my Art teacher asking us what we thought about famous oils she had displayed. I stated " I do not like Sun Flowers!" Why, was her response. I told her I did not like the way it makes me feel!! Well I was informed that was what made Van Gogh so famous. He was a great force in Emotionalism. In later years I realized how great his stuff was. He reflected his life and situations in his paintings. They can be felt. Why should I ramble about my own life? Well This movie is a work of emotionalism in itself. I realized this after trying to paint a way that expressed my own emotions. I did not realize this until I myself walked pass a Poster Shop in a mall. Sitting on an easal was a painting by Van Gogh. Yep; He had done what I was fighting to do!! Realizing this I went home and painted my emotions on canvas. My emotions were so much different but he paved the way. This movie let me relive my new found love of Van Gogh's work. It connects you to his life, which in turn is his paintings. No movie I have ever watched can pull you in so fast and hard as this one. It is as if the director pulled you into one of Van Gogh's paintings. Which again, was his life.
VINCENT AND THEO-WONDERFUL!!!
I JUST SAW THIS MOVIE ON A&E CHANNEL, LAST NIGHT.
THIS BIOGRAPHY OF VINCENT VAN GOGH'S LIFE WAS VERY INTERESTING AND EXTREMELY SAD AT THE SAME TIME.
VAN GOGH'S BROTHER, THEO, WAS SUCH A LOVING BROTHER TO VINCENT IN THEIR EXTRA-ORDINARY LIVES, TOGETHER OR APART.
THE STORY OF A 'STARVING ARTIST/PAINTER' WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR VINCENT VAN GOGH. HE TRIED SO HARD AND ONLY SOLD 1 PAINTING WHILE HE WAS ALIVE!!!THIS IS SO TRAGIC TO ME.
IT SEEMS THAT HE SUFFERED FROM BEING BI-POLAR/MANIC DEPRESSIVE.
THEN, AFTER ALL HIS STRUGGLES HE COMMITTED SUICIDE AT 37 YEARS YOUNG!
THE STAR OF THIS FILM WHO PLAYED VINCENT WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!
I WISH IT WOULD BE RELEASED IN DVD FORMAT.
THIS FILM IS A MUST SEE AND WILL STAY WITH YOU FOR A LONG TIME, IF YOU HAVE EMPATHY FOR THE CHARACTERS BEING PORTRAYED. WOW!
The best film about Vincent Van Gogh is not one of the many biopics of the painter, but this stirring, ardent documentary. Forgoing a conventional biography's and-then-he-cut-his-ear-off approach, the gifted Dutch-Australian director Paul Cox opts for pure evocation: he trails his camera through the places where Van Gogh walked, as though trying to dream his way into the artist's mindset. Meanwhile, the beautiful voice of John Hurt reads from Vincent's amazingly searching letters to his brother, Theo. (Hurt's voice probably deserved an Oscar for this vocal-cord performance alone.) Van Gogh's journey as struggling artist and tormented man of soul is thus made strangely direct--it will not only send you to see Vincent's paintings but to locate a copy of his collected letters as well. Many... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Paul Cox DVD Release Date: Released the 30 August 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This silky smooth film noir pits gruff police detective Dana Andrews, stiff and blunt in his street-bred manners, against a cultured columnist and acidic wit (Clifton Webb at his prissiest) in a battle of wits during a murder investigation. The cop is a romantic hiding under a hard-boiled exterior who falls in love with the beautiful victim through the portrait that hangs in her apartment. Gene Tierney, whose heart-shaped face mixes the exotic with the girl next door, brings the poise and calm of a model to her role as the object of every man's gaze and the target of a killer. Laura, handsomely shot in dreamy black and white, is the first and best of Otto Preminger's cool, controlled murder mysteries. In the gritty world of film noir it remains the most refined and elegant example... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Gene Tierney - Dana Andrews Director(s): Rouben Mamoulian - Otto Preminger DVD Release Date: Released the 15 March 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This vastly underrated Arthur Penn film from the mid-1970s ranks as one of the era's nastiest and most fascinating pieces of business, a detective story that shuttles back and forth between Hollywood and the Florida Keys, with a plot nearly as complex as Chinatown. Gene Hackman stars as a tired, aging private eye who, as a favor to a friend, agrees to track down a runaway teen. But the case turns out to be something much larger: a smuggling ring of Mayan antiquities. The human impulses get darker and darker and Hackman's character gets pulled in deeper and deeper, even as his own life is falling apart. Ultimately, in one of his best and most unsung performances, Hackman winds up hurting the people he is trying to help. A great cast includes Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren, a young... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Gene Hackman - Jennifer Warren Director(s): Arthur Penn DVD Release Date: Released the 12 July 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Walker (Lee Marvin) strides through Los Angeles with the steel-eyed stare of a stone-cold killer, or perhaps a ghost. Betrayed by his wife and best friend, who gun him down point-blank and leave him for dead after a successful heist, Walker blasts his way up the criminal food chain in a quest for revenge. Did he survive the shooting or return from the grave, or is it all a dying dream? The question is left in the air in John Boorman's modern film noir, a brutal revenge thriller based on Richard Stark's novel The Hunter (remade by Brian Helgeland as Payback), set in the impersonal concrete and steel canyons of Los Angeles and eerily empty cells of Alcatraz. Walker kills without remorse, guided by shadowy "informant" Keenan Wynn, whose own agenda is carefully concealed, and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Lee Marvin - Angie Dickinson Director(s): John Boorman DVD Release Date: Released the 05 July 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Part mystery, part wartime polemic, Lifeboat finds director Alfred Hitchcock tackling a cinematic challenge that foreshadows the self-imposed handicaps of Rope and Rear Window. As with those subsequent features, Hitchcock confines his action and characters to a single set, in this instance the lone surviving lifeboat from an Allied freighter sunk by a German U-boat in the North Atlantic. A less confident, ingenious filmmaker might have opened up John Steinbeck's dialogue-driven character study beyond the battered boat and its cargo of survivors, but Hitchcock instead revels in his predicament to exploit the enforced intimacy between his characters.
