Lust for Life
by George Cukor, Vincente Minnelli
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Actor: Anthony Quinn, Everett Sloane, James Donald, Kirk Douglas, Pamela BrownDirector: George Cukor, Vincente Minnelli
Brand: QUINN,ANTHONY
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
Cinematographer: Russell Harlan
Producer: John Houseman
Producer: Jud Kinberg
Writer: Irving Stone
Writer: Norman Corwin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Vibrant orange sunflowers. Rippling yelow grain. Trees bursting with white bloom. "The pictures come to me as in a dream," Vincent Van Gogh said. A dream that too often turned to life-shattering nightmare.Winner of Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Best Actor Awards, Kirk Douglas gives a fierce portrayal as the artist torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation
DVD Reviews of Lust for Life
DVD Review: One Of Kirk's Best - Good Art Lessons
Summary: 5 Stars
Kirk and Anthony Quinn are excellent! Some think Quinn stole the film.
Well worth the viewing. Also a good art lesson for teens in the family.
Buy new or used.
DVD Review: while he was alive he sold one painting for 400 franks
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is the 4th movie about a 20th century great artist that
I have seen.
In all of them there was some claim for their insanity:
Picasso, Pollack, Klee, and van Gogh.
The film makers and biographers have no mercy on the dead.
Three of these were relatively successful while they were alive
and the last wasn't.
What is clear in all these cases is that these artists
were not restricted by convention in the way they painted or saw the world.
The best most believable part of this movie was the love
of van Gogh's brother for him, the paintings showed and his efforts to try to find a
place in the world.
I've read in a news article that the pathology of van Gogh's brain disorder
caused his strange and wonderful use of color...
This movie was probably good for the selling price of the canvas
in investors hands, but I really think that van Gogh
deserved more while he was alive.
DVD Review: A Must !
Summary: 5 Stars
If one is a fan of the arts, and or Van Gogh, this is a must CD. I believe that Kirk Douglas does a great portrayal of the tormented artist. The store line is fairly accurate, a rarity in film.
I would highly recommend this movie.
DVD Review: Brilliant Colors, Solemn Reverence, and Brotherly Devotion
Summary: 5 Stars
In one of his finest performances, Kirk Douglas gives a dead-on and very intense portrayal of Vincent Van Gogh, capturing both the brilliance and the madness of the doomed artist to perfection.
We first encounter Van Gogh as an idealistic young man, refusing to accept that a society of Belgian missionaries have rejected his application. He begs to be used by the society in any way possible, and the board concedes. From his time among the lowly miners and potato gatherers, he produces the first of his paintings, "Dutch Peasant Woman", and "The Potato Eaters". The colors are dark and muted earth tones, and the figures are careworn. But in due time, Missionary Society representatives denounce his missionary work as demeaning to the clergy because he insists on living at the same level as the people and giving them his possessions. He, in turn,denounces them as hyprocites.
After some time on his own, his brother, Theo(James Donald)finds him, and brings him home, making an effort to sell his paintings. At home, we see his tempestuous relationship with his father (Henry Daniell), and his attraction to his newly widowed cousin, Kay( Jeanette Starke), and her young son, Jan(Mickey Maza), who fuel his artistic creativity for a while. But when the lonely painter becomes too instant on marriage, he loses them both. A confrontational scene at her parents' home reveals signs of madness.
He later encounters a lonely laundress named Christine(Pamela Brown)in a bar. They quickly take up residence together, and he looks after her infant son as though he were his own. But due to Vincent's inability to support them, that relationship also falls apart.
After the death of their father, Theo invites Vincent to live in Paris to see what other artists are doing. Among the prominent artists that he meets are Camille Pissarro (David Leonard), Georges Seurat (David Bond), and Paul Gaugin( Anthony Quinn), the last of whom later stays with Van Gogh at his house in Arles for a time.
Van Gogh also finds friendship with the postman, Roulin (Niall MacGuinnis), and the action in the story is moved along via the recital of Vincent's letters to the unflinchingly dedicated Theo.
Directors Vincent Minnelli, and George Cukor successfully capture Van Gogh's world, and give light to what inspired the contents of the Impressionist's canvases. We see this in the gold light of Arles, as created by the sun on the wheat fields, the blossoms of the trees, and the lights of the city at night time, which figure in the painting, "Starry Night".
The main self-inflicted crisis of Vincent's life takes place after a feud with Gaugin. The two appear as an Impressionist Era Oscar Madison and Felix Unger until Gaugin walks away from a feud, and Van Gogh pursues him with a razor blade for a time before returning to his apartment and severing his own ear. The tortured scream resulting from this calamity is the scream of all agonized humanity.
Checking himself into a mental hospital at Saint-Remy, he finds new inspiration for his work, but continues to suffer from seizures and paranoia. Marion Ross has a few brief scenes as Sister Clotilde at this juncture.
Although still suffering from seizures, Van Gogh decides to create his final painting, "Crows Over the Wheat Field" which has both brilliant and dark symbolism.
The film accurately recreates Van Gogh's acquaintances, such as Dr. Gachet(Everett Sloane) who were immortalized on canvas, and gives a considerable portrayal of those closest to Van Gogh, such as his sister, Willhelmien (Jill Bennett).
All in all, skillful direction and fine performances move the troubled life of Vincent Van Gogh past its dark ending and give it new illumination, and we see how Theo Van Gogh's belief in his brother's artistic ability has ultimately paid off.
DVD Review: Van Gogh --A Portrait
Summary: 5 Stars
Lust for Life is a superior production of the life of Vincent Van Gogh. Thoughout school I had the impression that Van Gogh was a mad man and this production presents the trials and tribulations of a passionate brillant man who had health issues. Our world today allows people to be "more human" than the world of yesteryear. I highly recommend this film for anyone who has compassion for art and or anyone who appreciates the difficulty of dealing with daily life.
Description of Lust for Life
A dramatization of the life of the tormented, nineteenth century Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 31-JAN-2006
Media Type: DVD
Lust for Life is appropriately titled, for mere passion seems inadequate when describing this superb fictionalized biography (based on Irving Stone's popular novel) of Vincent Van Gogh. In a deservedly Oscar?- nominated performance, Kirk Douglas is physically and emotionally perfect as the tormented Dutch painter, whose life is chronicled from his ill-fated stint as a preacher to Belgian miners in 1878, to his Impressionist-inspired artistic awakening and psychological descent to suicide in 1890. Having triumphed with 1952's The Bad and the Beautiful, Douglas, producer John Houseman, and director Vincente Minnelli brought vigor and vitality to this blessed project, which centers on Van Gogh's stormy friendship with fellow artist Gaugin (Oscar-winner Anthony Quinn). Minnelli used an outmoded color film process and innovative camera techniques to vividly recreate Van Gogh's paintings, and he filmed on the actual Dutch and French locations where Van Gogh's mastery flourished. The artist's lust for life also fed his madness, and this film deeply understands the fine line in between. --Jeff Shannon
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