20 movies like Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography, ordered by similarity : Cameraman: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff(2010), Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible(2020), Obey Giant(2017), Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier(1997), Exit Through the Gift Shop(2010), Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny(2016), Maudie(2016), The Price of Everything(2018), Two Weeks in Another Town(1962), Wyeth(2018), The Bad and the Beautiful(1952), Lautrec(1998) ...
Documentary, Drama, History
Japan|USA
1993
90 Minutes
Ernest Dickerson Stuart Samuels Michael Chapman Allen Daviau Caleb Deschanel Conrad L. Hall William A. Fraker
camera operator director engaging hollywood, calif. movie camera filmmaking art hollywood discovery underdog 20th century
Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography, illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing.
Documentary
UK
2010
86 Minutes
Jack Cardiff Martin Scorsese Kirk Douglas Lauren Bacall John Mills Thelma Schoonmaker Kim Hunter Kathleen Byron Christopher Challis Raffaella De Laurentiis Richard Fleischer
martin scorsese editor charlton heston lauren bacall cinematographer director engaging inspiring spirited striking london hollywood, calif. studio art gallery film set cinematography filmmaking innovation jack cardiff art
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA|Germany
2020
86 Minutes
artist speaker interviewee interviewer painter sculptor intense profound brooding inspiring creative engaging art gallery interview room france informing documentary filmmaking art modernity artistic integrity
The film explores the life, philosophy and impact of one of the most influential early 20th century modernists, Marcel Duchamp. The film breaks down Duchamp's ideas and applies them to both... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
2017
92 Minutes
artist art expert graffiti artist politician critic skateboarder engaging fascinating creative playful profound inspiring united states skate park art gallery art hope success unexpected success criticism
The life and career of street artist, illustrator, graphic designer, activist, and founder of OBEY Clothing, Shepard Fairey.
Documentary
Sweden|Denmark
1997
52 Minutes
director actor actress camera operator screenwriter engaging striking gripping denmark house film set filmmaking creative process phobias artistic controversy artistic struggle lars von trier discovery rise pursuit
A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman ... See full summary »
Documentary
UK
2010
87 Minutes
graffiti artist camera operator con artist art dealer amusing brash outlandish suspenseful los angeles united kingdom art museum street absurdism celebrity art imitating life video camera banksy thierry guetta discovery transformation
Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.
Documentary
USA
2016
90 Minutes
Karen Bernstein Julie Delpy
filmmaker director crafty creative engaging fascinating inspiring quirky united states austin texas hollywood biography life life lessons life story life's work filmmaking film independent filmmaking
A feature documentary on the life and work of filmmaker, Richard Linklater. Produced and Directed by Louis Black (founder of SXSW Festivals and the Austin Chronicle) and Karen Bernstein (... See full summary »
Romance, Biography, Drama, History
Canada|Ireland
2016
115 Minutes
Sally Hawkins Ethan Hawke Kari Matchett Gabrielle Rose Zachary Bennett Billy MacLellan Marthe Bernard David Feehan
artist housekeeper painter fisherman family love interest emotional endearing heartwarming gripping engaging nova scotia farmhouse room rural community illness violence against women independence art abusive relationship
An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.
Documentary
USA
2018
105 Minutes
Jeff Koons Larry Poons Simon de Pury Amy Cappellazzo Jerry Saltz George Condo
artist art collector art critic art dealer intellectual critic creative fascinating hedonistic spectacular art gallery auction house london united states art art world auction consumerism money prestige
With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and times.
Drama
1962
106 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Edward G. Robinson Cyd Charisse George Hamilton Claire Trevor Daliah Lavi Rosanna Schiaffino
director wife actor woman leading man doctor emotional frenetic inspiring amusing mental institution hollywood, calif. new england rome movie set apartment alcoholism mental breakdown failing career hollywood
An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to make a comeback in Rome.
Documentary
USA
2018
87 Minutes
artist painter son curator interviewee neighbor inspiring creative engaging fascinating moving powerful america artistic purity criticism artistic controversy artistic integrity documentaries discovery rise
WYETH tells the story of one of America's most popular, but least understood, artists. While his exhibitions routinely broke attendance records, art world critics continually assaulted his work.
Drama
USA
1952
118 Minutes
Lana Turner Kirk Douglas Walter Pidgeon Dick Powell Barry Sullivan Gloria Grahame Gilbert Roland Leo G. Carroll Vanessa Brown Paul Stewart Sammy White
movie star writer director producer brooding cool spirited tense engaging hollywood, calif. manipulation cheating hollywood ambition betrayal underdog fall rise wretched excess 1950s
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
Biography, Drama
France|Spain
1998
127 Minutes
Régis Royer Elsa Zylberstein Anémone Claude Rich Jean-Marie Bigard Helene Babu Claire Borotra Alexandra Pandev Amanda Rubenstein Florence Viala Micha Lescot
toulouse-lautrec artist wealthy man aristocrat frenchman woman engaging charming creative emotional lighthearted melodramatic villa france paris artist's studio café nightclub art ambition
Life, passion, love...all these were part of Toulouse-Lautrec's art. His artistic development among the masters of the postimpressionism.
Documentary
USA
2016
78 Minutes
Dave Barry Ed Lover Ron Rice Pauly Shore
student college student party girl partygoer frat boy hedonistic engaging florida united states beach club party spring break college college life party partying growing up discovery wretched excess
The rise and fall of spring break in Daytona Beach
Documentary
UK|Canada
2003
119 Minutes
filmmaker film critic film studio executive film editor actor actress confident cool fascinating engaging hollywood, calif. studio new york city film set hollywood cinema history counterculture youth influence changing times
A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.
Documentary
Canada
2019
113 Minutes
Douglas E. Davidson Sienna Demers
rock star art collector art dealer art gallerist forger chilling disheartening fascinating intricate offbeat shocking canada art art world forgery lawsuit crime quest 2010s
A painting, apparently the work of an iconic Native artist, leads the rockstar who buys it into the tragic, brutal world of an art forgery ring in Canada's far north.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2019
101 Minutes
Martin Donaghy Brian Ferguson Ryan Fletcher Laura Fraser Rachel Jackson Neil Leiper Lorn Macdonald Kevin Mains
scottish person teenager best friend parent partygoer amusing emotional engaging frenetic gutsy unrestrained scotland home city party rave street friendship rave culture drugs
Two teenage boys in Scotland in 1994, best friends with no control over their lives, risk everything to attend an illegal rave, hoping for the best night of their boring lives.
Gay & Lesbian, Documentary
France|UK|Germany|USA
1996
102 Minutes
Jeffrey Friedman Antonio Banderas Susie Bright Quentin Crisp Matt Crowley Tony Curtis Richard Dyer Antonio Fargas Harvey Fierstein Whoopi Goldberg Farley Granger
gay/lesbian hollywood icons engaging profound confident hollywood, calif. hollywood prejudice cinema history homosexuality lesbianism aids love quest transformation underdog 1990s
A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.
Documentary
2015
94 Minutes
storyteller artist researcher wife filmmaker touching inspiring engaging passionate los angeles office studio love aspirations hollywood marriage family art adventure love
Storyboard artist Harold Michelson and his wife, film researcher Lillian Michelson, were once considered the heart of Hollywood.
Biography, Drama
Austria|France|Germany|UK
2006
95 Minutes
John Malkovich Veronica Ferres Stephen Dillane Saffron Burrows Nikolai Kinski Aglaia Szyszkowitz Annemarie Düringer Marion Mitterhammer Sandra Ceccarelli Gunther Gillian Paul Hilton
artist john malkovich man woman painter austrian charming creative melodramatic inspiring lighthearted fascinating austria vienna art studio artist's studio art gallery art art history relationships
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Drama
South Korea
2015
121 Minutes
Jae-yeong Jeong Kim Min-hee Yeo-jeong Yoon Ju-bong Gi Joon-sang Yoo Hwa-Jeong Choi Young-hwa Seo Ah-sung Ko
filmmaker young man artist young woman poet love interest amusing creative engaging fascinating emotional heartwarming south korea movie theater park artist's studio serendipity attraction art creative process
A married film director falls for a young painter - twice.