Atom Egoyan has created a world within a world, shifting between the contemporary and, through the making of a film about the events, the tragic genocidal slaughter of the Armenians in turn of the 20th Century Turkey. Ararat is a thoughtful and thought provoking drama of the highest order. find out more...

Vincent Minelli directs this biopic that, unusually for Hollywood, doesn't subsume the subject's achievements in a fictionalised life-story, explaining one not in terms of the other, but fully celebrating both. Douglas is superb as the artist living on the edge. Not just for art aficionados.

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On the eve of WW1 famed German art critic Wilhelm Uhde retreated from the pressures of urban life to stay in a small village just outside Paris. Here he noticed some stunningly vibrant artwork only to discover that it was done by his somewhat cuckoo cleaning lady. Thus began an association that propelled the peasant Seraphine de Senlis to fame as an artist, but not before she'd blown her lid and been permanently incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital.
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This stunningly photographed and skilfully acted film uses an accretion of naturalistic detail to present an emotionally restrained, but utterly compelling, account of the last three months of Van Gogh's life. Living in Auvers-sur-Oise with his sensitive and knowledgeable patron Gachet, Van Gogh works, quietly and steadily, and flirts with Gachet's precocious daughter Marguerite. But his ill health, a brief return to the debauchery of brothels and drink, and his irrational resentment of his brot find out more...

Master director Robert Altman tackles the life of Van Gogh from taking up art full time to the death of his financier brother, and without shirking from the portrayal of his less endearing qualities. Particularly good as Altman has given Van Gogh's talents the space to speak for themselves. find out more...