Very intelligent and revelatory. I have been a painter all my life, and in my 50's when it came time to decorate my new bedroom, I found that I had grown sick of looking at my own work, and ordered canvas prints of three paintings from movies: Portrait of Carlotta from VERTIGO, Mary Meredith standing in the wind from THE UNINVITED ( 1944), and Captain Greg's (Rex Harrison) portrait from THE GHOST AND MRS MUIR. ( I almost chose the painting of Scarlett in a blue dress from GONE WITH THE WIND.) I have always been obsessed with movie paintings, so I love your channel. Please don't stop. The few deep thinking artists who come to RUclips need you.
Not only was this an interesting and thoughtful meditation on painting within film I thought it was beautifully edited, seamlessly echoing the narrative.
"style as substance" made me yell, that's the best way I've heard so far to describe my taste in art and how I feel about abstract, modern, impressionist etc art in general. You've got a talent for words my friend
This is an excellent video essay. I love the insights. You should consider a part 2 and part 3 because there are many great movies with paintings and about paintings. A few definitely worth seeing are La Belle Noiseuse [long film by Jacques Rivette about inspiration and sacrifice], Life Lessons [short film by Scorsese], Museum Hours [Jem Cohen] and even the short section on Van Gogh in Dreams by Akira Kurosawa. The list goes on….
I'm only 40 seconds in and this video is incredible!! 🌟 Finished watching and all i have to add is "bravo!!" You a hundred percent captured something I feel and can't say, watching paintings in movies and frankly, in actual life... I am a frequent visitor to the galleries at the Palace of the Legion of Honor depicted here in Vertigo and there's still the whisper of Jimmy Stewart's ardor within them.
I remember seeing a picture of the Dorian Gray portrait in a book about horror movies in my grade school library. It scared me so bad I've never watched the movie, even though I'm now old enough to appreciate its overarching existential dread.
This immediately made me think of a Sci-Fi short story by Brian W Aldiss called; Report on Probability A'. Some sort of scanner looks into different 'probabilities' and life seems to go slower in each one. The final probability (Probability A), is just a painting, where all the action is implied, but of course, nothing actually happens, because it is a painting,. It's not mentioned by name, but the book cover and descriptions make it plain they are referring to 'The Hireling Shepherd', by William Holman Hunt.
A stunning essay. How can this Painting Nerds have less than a thousand subscribers?! I predict great things for this channel. Thank you so much for uploading this.
I really enjoyed this. The painting I would really love to own is the painting of a young Fanny Trellis that sits above the mantlepiece in the movie ‘Mr Skeffington’ ( my favourite Bette Davis movie ) The painting shows a Glamorous society figure (maybe in the style of or influenced by Sargent ) As Fanny ages the painting becomes a painful reminder of her lost youth and beauty.
How did I not realise the painting in Frozen with the woman on the swing, disney doesn't highlight anything but how Anna copys her in the swing but a woman with two lovers swinging between them, while Anna does a similar thing, so subtle I hope it was intentional 😊
I have a painting from the 1939 movie "Another Thin Man" starting William Powell & Myra Loy..2 guys use run the props back in the day brought their wares up north from Hollywood to Sebastopol had the picture looked at the provenance in the movie its shown 3 different times I wish I could post it here...cheers mates 😀
I'm thinking of ending things is one of the best movies I have ever seen. Its an actual artistic rendition not just mere entertainment. I wish we could get more movies like that, movies where the content matches the form.
I am told by the artist who painted the General and his horse in Ken Russell's Savage Messiah that he completed within a week and it was still wet when it was being filmed. I think Paul Dufficey should get an honourable mention for that feat of mastery!
Bloody loved this! I also find entertaining the figure of Gene Kelly as An Amrican in Paris trying to make it as a painter- the works they used in that leave more to be desired......!!!
Congratulations.: a profoundly engaging and insightful essay, that will assist people, especially students of film for the few generations we have left on this planet as a civilized species. Its really that good, and you get a strong sense of how much work you both have put into the essay. I hope _______ people will understand how valuable all these things we have access to are and not to take them too easily for granted, like a portrait on a wall.
Wonderful! I greatly enjoyed this presentation. I recognized many of the paintings and scenes from some of my favorite films and learned about knew ones I had never seen. Well done! :)
Amazing video! We definitely need a part 2! May I recommend some Takeshi Kitano (featuring his own child-like paintings in movies like Battle Royale, Kikujiro's Summer but most prominently in Hana-Bi), Peter Greenaway (where The Draughtman's Contract mirrors the murder mystery by painting from Trouble with Harry, and Nightwatching is a whole conspiracy theory about the intersection of art and reality) and maybe more Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums is full of paintings real and imagined, while The Grand Budapest Hotel has a very rare "painting McGuffin") and maybe also The Accountant (with its Dogs Playing Poker vs. Jackson Pollock theme) or The 1999 version of the Thomas Crowne Affair (with its clever Monet/Magritte games) or Amelie (where famous paintings come to life to comment on the plot but also a famous Renoir painting stands in for interpretations of real life).
Great video! Apparently one of the pastiches in Kubrick’s 2001 was previously used in Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (sorry if you touched on this and I missed it)
This video is a work of art about works of art that are represented in video representing works of art. One I may have referenced is a segment in rod sterling’s anthology , Night Gallery,. The main character played by Richard Kiely , finds escape in art only to be imprisoned in agony at the end .
This went straight to my favorites playlist. As someone else commented you should do part 2, part 3 and so on. One suggestion: The bird with crystal plumage by Dario Argento.
FANTASTIC LOVED IT GREAT DOCUMENTARY I WILL BE LOOKING FOR THIS IN FUTURE WHILE WATCHING MOVIES ..AND I WILL WATCH ANY OF THE MOVIES FEATURED IN THIS THAT I HAVE NOT ALREADY SEEN... GREAT STUFF, KEEP IT UP !!!
28:42“They’re the most overtly horrific movie paintings since Ivan Albright’s ‘Portrait of Dorian Gray.’” That is, if you don’t count the portrait painted by Mrs Anthony, Bruno Anthony’s mother (in reality painted by Ted Haworth, the film’s art director), revealing her to be somewhat off her rocker, in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 _Strangers on a Train._
That painting does feature briefly in the video. We see it being more darkly comical than horrifying, but would certainly think twice about hanging it in the living room...
@@paintingnerds Now that you mention it that painting _does_ seem darkly comic-and I have to say I often appreciate the perverse sense of humor in Hitchcock’s films even more than I like the suspense, I think-but the music accompanying the “reveal” seems (to me, at least) to indicate that Hitchcock wants us to read it as horrifying. (Even Hitchcock would not have used music like that ironically. If that were the case, that reveal becomes hilarious.) I wouldn’t have wanted to hang it in my living room, either, but if we reframe it (no pun intended, really) as “darkly comic,” maybe I would. (And it’s a piece of cinematic history, after all.)
Also, your jump cut from David Bowman's room to the Roger Moore film at 30:48 was shocking! I really felt the disconnect of this anachronistic affectation. Did Bowman's hosts recognized this art as the idyllic representation of human aspiration? This is really fascinating!
this is a great video :) One of my favorite films is The Thomas Crown Affair. a film obsessed with the way in which someone's entire identity can be summed up in one painting.
This is a highly intelligent and well produced video film. It reminds me of long ago watching a BBC art series called Arena. I say that as the highest form of compliment.
BRAVO! This moved me mightily. You use of music is superbly evocative. THIS ASTONISHING VIDEO made me feel drunk on the hypnotic of PAINTINGS used in Movies. PAINTINGS IN MOVIES Detailed Summary for [Paintings In Movies: From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Portrait of a Lady on Fire] Referencing paintings in films can be a visual aid or an integral element of the story. - Paintings can create a sense of period or be used as shorthand. - Film noir of the 1940s had a fascination with portraits. Movie paintings have a unique aura - Films use paintings to explore the gap between world and image - Paintings in movies can upturn the normal relationship of painting and sitter Paintings as storytelling devices in movies - Examples include surrealism in film, such as Paul Delvaux's influence - Portrayal of paintings in supernatural films like Portrait of Jennie - Use of paintings in gothic melodrama like Hitchcock's Rebecca - Abstract paintings used in movies for more than cheap laughs in The Trouble with Harry Exploring the role of art in Hitchcock's films - The abstract artist as the only one capable of drawing the threads of Harry's life and death together in 'The Trouble with Harry' - The dangers of following an image or idea at the expense of reality in 'Vertigo' - The portrait of Carlotta Valdes as the ultimate movie painting in 'Vertigo' Paintings in movies explore themes of love, loss, and ambiguity. - Movies use paintings to convey intimacy and emotion. - Paintings can symbolize fidelity, but also ambiguity and uncertainty. Films use landscapes to convey hidden emotions and meanings - Landscape paintings in 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' reveal the true nature of characters - 'The French Dispatch' uses elaborate staging and real-world references to create a fictional artist's biography Two films, 'The French Dispatch' and 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire', subvert traditional movie paintings with unique approaches to still life and feminist history. - The French Dispatch features hundreds of paintings by artist Sandro Kopp, who developed a new style for the film, while 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' intentionally uses anachronistic brushwork and cinematography to create a contemporary feminist history. - The authoritarian muse in 'The French Dispatch' subverts expectations, while 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' tells the story of a young painter who secretly paints a countess who has refused to have her portrait done, resulting in a Beauty and the Beast-like tale. Movie paintings are becoming more prevalent in modern cinema. - Movies like 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' and 'The Candyman' use paintings to explore identity and representation. - Paintings in movies can be disturbing, comforting, or meaningless, but they always add to the story. ___________________________ Outline and time stamp A conversation about adding a light to a painting leads to a discussion on the use of paintings in film. [00:01] Referencing paintings in films can be a visual aid or an integral element of the story. [04:37] Movie paintings have a unique aura [08:42] Paintings as storytelling devices in movies [12:40] Exploring the role of art in Hitchcock's films [16:25] Paintings in movies explore themes of love, loss, and ambiguity. [19:57] Films use landscapes to convey hidden emotions and meanings [23:33] Two films, 'The French Dispatch' and 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire', subvert traditional movie paintings with unique approaches to still life and feminist history. [27:17} Movie paintings are becoming more prevalent in modern cinema. ---------------------------------
Very intelligent and revelatory. I have been a painter all my life, and in my 50's when it came time to decorate my new bedroom, I found that I had grown sick of looking at my own work, and ordered canvas prints of three paintings from movies: Portrait of Carlotta from VERTIGO, Mary Meredith standing in the wind from THE UNINVITED ( 1944), and Captain Greg's (Rex Harrison) portrait from THE GHOST AND MRS MUIR. ( I almost chose the painting of Scarlett in a blue dress from GONE WITH THE WIND.) I have always been obsessed with movie paintings, so I love your channel. Please don't stop. The few deep thinking artists who come to RUclips need you.
It must be a beautiful room
Not only was this an interesting and thoughtful meditation on painting within film I thought it was beautifully edited, seamlessly echoing the narrative.
Really? I think it was aimless
"style as substance" made me yell, that's the best way I've heard so far to describe my taste in art and how I feel about abstract, modern, impressionist etc art in general. You've got a talent for words my friend
This video was absolutely incredible. I feel it has come to me in the best possible moment, it was really inspiring!
Thanks! Really glad you found it interesting!
This is an excellent video essay. I love the insights. You should consider a part 2 and part 3 because there are many great movies with paintings and about paintings. A few definitely worth seeing are La Belle Noiseuse [long film by Jacques Rivette about inspiration and sacrifice], Life Lessons [short film by Scorsese], Museum Hours [Jem Cohen] and even the short section on Van Gogh in Dreams by Akira Kurosawa. The list goes on….
While watching this immediately, I thought about the picture of Dorian Gray, and then my mind popped to Laura🎨
I'm only 40 seconds in and this video is incredible!! 🌟
Finished watching and all i have to add is "bravo!!" You a hundred percent captured something I feel and can't say, watching paintings in movies and frankly, in actual life...
I am a frequent visitor to the galleries at the Palace of the Legion of Honor depicted here in Vertigo and there's still the whisper of Jimmy Stewart's ardor within them.
Thank you!
Nicely said re Vertigo.
Rebecca, the ultimate role a painting ever played in a couples Life.
amazing essay on visual art in cinematography! 👏
I remember seeing a picture of the Dorian Gray portrait in a book about horror movies in my grade school library. It scared me so bad I've never watched the movie, even though I'm now old enough to appreciate its overarching existential dread.
I've had a stressful day. This was perfect to bring my thoughts to a better place.
That's lovely to hear :)
Genius
This immediately made me think of a Sci-Fi short story by Brian W Aldiss called; Report on Probability A'. Some sort of scanner looks into different 'probabilities' and life seems to go slower in each one. The final probability (Probability A), is just a painting, where all the action is implied, but of course, nothing actually happens, because it is a painting,.
It's not mentioned by name, but the book cover and descriptions make it plain they are referring to 'The Hireling Shepherd', by William Holman Hunt.
Cool!
That rarest of creatures - a beautiful, articulate and intelligent examination of a fascinating subject. Thank you.
Thank you for mentioning John Decker. That artist's life is worth a movie in it's self!
A stunning essay. How can this Painting Nerds have less than a thousand subscribers?! I predict great things for this channel. Thank you so much for uploading this.
Thanks - we hope so!
Wow just wow, amazing 👏👏👏
This video was fantastic ! I was entirely focused on it the whole way through. Wow
Thanks such kind feedback!
I really enjoyed this. The painting I would really love to own is the painting of a young Fanny Trellis that sits above the mantlepiece in the movie ‘Mr Skeffington’ ( my favourite Bette Davis movie ) The painting shows a Glamorous society figure (maybe in the style of or influenced by Sargent ) As Fanny ages the painting becomes a painful reminder of her lost youth and beauty.
Thank you so much!!! Please continue!
How did I not realise the painting in Frozen with the woman on the swing, disney doesn't highlight anything but how Anna copys her in the swing but a woman with two lovers swinging between them, while Anna does a similar thing, so subtle I hope it was intentional 😊
Me personally, j was always so captivated and OBSESSED with the paintings in Fellini's films
Thank you for this video on behalf of artists, art lovers and cinema fans. 👌
i would die to go see an art gallery filled with only paintings that were painted to be in films. I want to see the Dirk Diggler painting.
Wonderful, wonderful! Thank you! 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️🇦🇺🦘❤️❤️❤️
Great job! Liked and subbed!
Excellent video
Fantastic video, so glad to have found your channel.
Nice work, gentlemen. A fascinating and beautiful video essay. Thoroughly enjoyed.
The coolest thing ever to pop up on my youtube feed.
I loved it, I'm going to look all those movies
Oh my God. This was an amazing video. Thank you!
Excellent work! I love your mise en place of the cards on the velvet cloth; very creative
I have a painting from the 1939 movie "Another Thin Man" starting William Powell & Myra Loy..2 guys use run the props back in the day brought their wares up north from Hollywood to Sebastopol had the picture looked at the provenance in the movie its shown 3 different times I wish I could post it here...cheers mates 😀
Excellent work. Love the soundtrack.
One of my favorites: *_The Good Thief._*
Fascinating video! And I remember the opening scene where two people 'enter' a painting -- with dire results for the innocent one....
Please tell me the name of that film. Thank you.
Fascinating. Sincerely fascinating.
I'm thinking of ending things is one of the best movies I have ever seen. Its an actual artistic rendition not just mere entertainment. I wish we could get more movies like that, movies where the content matches the form.
Now having to correct myself... The hotel's motto is "A Day or a Lifetime". Makes quite a difference... ;-))
I am told by the artist who painted the General and his horse in Ken Russell's Savage Messiah that he completed within a week and it was still wet when it was being filmed. I think Paul Dufficey should get an honourable mention for that feat of mastery!
my personal favorite is boy with apple from the grand budapest hotel :)
Excellent documentary. So well done. A lot of work went into this.
Blessed by the algo today with this video essay. Now I get to say I was here from the start :) Excellent work.
Golly! You're too kind :) Thanks so much for watching.
Outstanding!
Very interesting view of masterpieces and a great job 🎉🤟🏻😍Thanks a lot!
Thank you!
Simply marvellous - thank you.
Wonderful video, great job
Bloody loved this! I also find entertaining the figure of Gene Kelly as An Amrican in Paris trying to make it as a painter- the works they used in that leave more to be desired......!!!
Thank you! And Gene might just pop up in an upcoming video, just not where you might expect him...
To have comprised a direct correlation along with research and good editing; is this art imitating art? Dam right! Brilliant.
Thank younI enjoyed this a lot really well put together. Look forward to your next video
So good, loved this! Insightfully and intelligently narrated and beautifully edited. Excellent work!
Congratulations.: a profoundly engaging and insightful essay, that will assist people, especially students of film for the few generations we have left on this planet as a civilized species. Its really that good, and you get a strong sense of how much work you both have put into the essay. I hope _______ people will understand how valuable all these things we have access to are and not to take them too easily for granted, like a portrait on a wall.
Thank you for the video. I enjoyed it greatly! 😊❤
This video was amazing. Well done . 🙂👍
Thank you for a video essay which is thoughtful and thought-provoking, and beautifully made. It was a pleasure to watch.
Wonderful! I greatly enjoyed this presentation. I recognized many of the paintings and scenes from some of my favorite films and learned about knew ones I had never seen. Well done! :)
Very good and well produced. Thank you.
I really enjoyed this video .! Imaginative art, in it’s own way. Thank you !
Amazing video! We definitely need a part 2! May I recommend some Takeshi Kitano (featuring his own child-like paintings in movies like Battle Royale, Kikujiro's Summer but most prominently in Hana-Bi), Peter Greenaway (where The Draughtman's Contract mirrors the murder mystery by painting from Trouble with Harry, and Nightwatching is a whole conspiracy theory about the intersection of art and reality) and maybe more Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums is full of paintings real and imagined, while The Grand Budapest Hotel has a very rare "painting McGuffin") and maybe also The Accountant (with its Dogs Playing Poker vs. Jackson Pollock theme) or The 1999 version of the Thomas Crowne Affair (with its clever Monet/Magritte games) or Amelie (where famous paintings come to life to comment on the plot but also a famous Renoir painting stands in for interpretations of real life).
This is top 10 RUclips videos all time
High praise indeed! ♥️
I have always wanted a video like this, absolutely spectacular job!! 👏🏻
Great video! Apparently one of the pastiches in Kubrick’s 2001 was previously used in Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (sorry if you touched on this and I missed it)
Great observation! We didn't cover this fact in the video
Amazing video, very cool i love it
Thanks glad you enjoyed!
Great video essay. Outstanding research. Well done, thanks for sharing!
Absolutely incredible video, PN. Thank you for creating and sharing it with us.
I loved this! Was hoping to see Mr Turner and Death of Stalin but I’ll wait for a part 2
Fascinating essay. Thanks.
Impressive. Most impressive.
I saw the debauched Dorian Gray at the Art Institute in Chicago. It’s impressive
Just wonderful.
Thank you. Very interesting and informative.
Absolutely brilliant video
Wonderfully inter-juxtapositioned
I enjoyed this Video very much! Thank you. Please go on.😇🎬🖼️🎨🖌️❤
As an artist myself, as well as a movie buff, I really loved your video, and I'm your new sub 👍
This video is a work of art about works of art that are represented in video representing works of art.
One I may have referenced is a segment in rod sterling’s anthology , Night Gallery,. The main character played by Richard Kiely , finds escape in art only to be imprisoned in agony at the end .
Very underrated channel, great stuff.
Superb subject! Absolutely delicious! ❤
I started watching this on my phone, but it’s definitely worth getting out my iPad!
just adding engagement! this is really good, thank you for the insight and research!
loved it! thank you
Excellent !!!
This went straight to my favorites playlist. As someone else commented you should do part 2, part 3 and so on. One suggestion: The bird with crystal plumage by Dario Argento.
Amazing work, beautifully edited and paced. One of the best film essays I´ve ever seen.
FANTASTIC
LOVED IT
GREAT DOCUMENTARY
I WILL BE LOOKING FOR THIS IN FUTURE WHILE WATCHING MOVIES
..AND I WILL WATCH ANY OF THE MOVIES FEATURED IN THIS THAT I HAVE NOT ALREADY SEEN...
GREAT STUFF, KEEP IT UP !!!
28:42“They’re the most overtly horrific movie paintings since Ivan Albright’s ‘Portrait of Dorian Gray.’”
That is, if you don’t count the portrait painted by Mrs Anthony, Bruno Anthony’s mother (in reality painted by Ted Haworth, the film’s art director), revealing her to be somewhat off her rocker, in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 _Strangers on a Train._
That painting does feature briefly in the video. We see it being more darkly comical than horrifying, but would certainly think twice about hanging it in the living room...
@@paintingnerds Now that you mention it that painting _does_ seem darkly comic-and I have to say I often appreciate the perverse sense of humor in Hitchcock’s films even more than I like the suspense, I think-but the music accompanying the “reveal” seems (to me, at least) to indicate that Hitchcock wants us to read it as horrifying. (Even Hitchcock would not have used music like that ironically. If that were the case, that reveal becomes hilarious.) I wouldn’t have wanted to hang it in my living room, either, but if we reframe it (no pun intended, really) as “darkly comic,” maybe I would. (And it’s a piece of cinematic history, after all.)
Also, your jump cut from David Bowman's room to the Roger Moore film at 30:48 was shocking! I really felt the disconnect of this anachronistic affectation. Did Bowman's hosts recognized this art as the idyllic representation of human aspiration? This is really fascinating!
Amazing job!❤
Second time watching this video. Great work!!
Thanks for coming back!
Nice video. I suggest "The Burnt Orange Heresy" for exploring the meaning of an artist's work for the audience.
Thanks for the recommendation - will check it out!
Yes!!!
Super work; well done. Was hoping there would be a reference to The Rebel. The films you have chosen would make an excellent season.
'A self portrait of who...?' :P Love The Rebel
this is a great video :)
One of my favorite films is The Thomas Crown Affair. a film obsessed with the way in which someone's entire identity can be summed up in one painting.
Hell yeah, absolutely 🤘🏼
Wonderful film! Merci :)
This is a highly intelligent and well produced video film. It reminds me of long ago watching a BBC art series called Arena. I say that as the highest form of compliment.
Thank you! We love Arena :)
fantastic
Fantastic. Well made.
BRAVO!
This moved me mightily.
You use of music is superbly evocative.
THIS ASTONISHING VIDEO
made me feel drunk on the hypnotic
of PAINTINGS used in Movies.
PAINTINGS IN MOVIES
Detailed Summary for [Paintings In Movies: From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Portrait of a Lady on Fire]
Referencing paintings in films can be a visual aid or an integral element of the story.
- Paintings can create a sense of period or be used as shorthand.
- Film noir of the 1940s had a fascination with portraits.
Movie paintings have a unique aura
- Films use paintings to explore the gap between world and image
- Paintings in movies can upturn the normal relationship of painting and sitter
Paintings as storytelling devices in movies
- Examples include surrealism in film, such as Paul Delvaux's influence
- Portrayal of paintings in supernatural films like Portrait of Jennie
- Use of paintings in gothic melodrama like Hitchcock's Rebecca
- Abstract paintings used in movies for more than cheap laughs in The Trouble with Harry
Exploring the role of art in Hitchcock's films
- The abstract artist as the only one capable of drawing the threads of Harry's life and death together in 'The Trouble with Harry'
- The dangers of following an image or idea at the expense of reality in 'Vertigo'
- The portrait of Carlotta Valdes as the ultimate movie painting in 'Vertigo'
Paintings in movies explore themes of love, loss, and ambiguity.
- Movies use paintings to convey intimacy and emotion.
- Paintings can symbolize fidelity, but also ambiguity and uncertainty.
Films use landscapes to convey hidden emotions and meanings
- Landscape paintings in 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' reveal the true nature of characters
- 'The French Dispatch' uses elaborate staging and real-world references to create a fictional artist's biography
Two films, 'The French Dispatch' and 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire', subvert traditional movie paintings with unique approaches to still life and feminist history.
- The French Dispatch features hundreds of paintings by artist Sandro Kopp, who developed a new style for the film, while 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' intentionally uses anachronistic brushwork and cinematography to create a contemporary feminist history.
- The authoritarian muse in 'The French Dispatch' subverts expectations, while 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' tells the story of a young painter who secretly paints a countess who has refused to have her portrait done, resulting in a Beauty and the Beast-like tale.
Movie paintings are becoming more prevalent in modern cinema.
- Movies like 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' and 'The Candyman' use paintings to explore identity and representation.
- Paintings in movies can be disturbing, comforting, or meaningless, but they always add to the story.
___________________________
Outline and time stamp
A conversation about adding a light to a painting leads to a discussion on the use of paintings in film.
[00:01] Referencing paintings in films can be a visual aid or an integral element of the story.
[04:37] Movie paintings have a unique aura
[08:42] Paintings as storytelling devices in movies
[12:40] Exploring the role of art in Hitchcock's films
[16:25] Paintings in movies explore themes of love, loss, and ambiguity.
[19:57] Films use landscapes to convey hidden emotions and meanings
[23:33] Two films, 'The French Dispatch' and 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire', subvert traditional movie paintings with unique approaches to still life and feminist history.
[27:17} Movie paintings are becoming more prevalent in modern cinema.
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Thank you. I enjoyed your presentation.