Portrait Of An Artist Movies

His unforgettable scores are an essential part of some of the most beloved movies of our time, over a career that spans decades. See and hear maestro...

On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much...

Vivian Maier's photos were seemingly destined for obscurity, lost among the clutter of the countless objects she'd collected throughout her life. Inst...

Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend,...

A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972),according to his own words, taken from his diary, his correspondence and the texts...

The story of the Black queer origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator...

Tina Turner overcame impossible odds to become one of the first female Black artists to reach a mainstream international audience. Her road to superst...

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97),the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.

From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary...

Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid s...

The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography,...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982),a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems relat...

The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980),from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge suc...

An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010),who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable...

Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39),writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the...

In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover....

A look at the life and work of the iconic US actor Charlton Heston (1923-2008); the embodiment of many mythic heroes who was both a staunch defender o...

The biography of former Beatle, John Lennon—narrated by Lennon himself—with extensive material from Yoko Ono's personal collection, previously unseen...

Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last w...