skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. Ayn Rand
Posts
A new film about Vincent van Gogh
I would like to alert everyone to an incredible film I saw called The Eyes of Van Gogh directed by Alexander Barnett.
You can find details at http://www.theeyesofvangogh.com/ or look for the title at www. IMDb.com, which is a film database.
Please let me know what you think of the scene where the people of Arles surround the Yellow House to terrorize him.
4 comments:
Further on th efilm The Eyes of Van Gogh. This is from Alexander Barnett's NOTES www.theeyesofvangogh.com\notes.
He is the screenwriter and director of the film.
"Many people today who adulate Vincent make him into a Christ-like martyr. He was neither and would have detested the notion. He is depicted as the ultimate "communal" artist. This is nonsense. He was in fact the ultimate "individualist" who was never able to work well with others, or to be bound by any sort of cooperative rules. His desire to work with others came from loneliness more than anything else. Another myth is that he sacrificed his life (again, the martyr syndrome) for humanity. No. He gave his life to his work. He did indeed have an obsessive desire to educate and inspire people. But he strove to do so through his work, which superseded everything else.
The most significant and revelatory things about van Gogh are not that he cut off his earlobe or that he suffered attacks of madness or that he committed suicide, but rather that he lived life to the fullest, realized his artistic potential as much as humanly possible, fought magnificently against the attacks and all forms of adversity, never willingly giving in to them.
Most important, he created a superb body of work that will live as long as the human race survives. The theme of his life, and the theme of my film The Eyes of Van Gogh, is Vincent's quest to achieve immortality through his work."
THere is a new review for this film: www.theeyesofvangogh.com at
FlickFilosopher.com: The Eyes of Van Gogh (review)
FlickFilosopher.com: The Eyes of Van Gogh (review)
The Eyes of Van Gogh (review). Countless filmmakers are making a go of it without the involvement in any way of the corporate studios: not for financing, ...
http://www.flickfilosopher.com
The Eyes of Van Gogh (review)
Countless filmmakers are making a go of it without the involvement in any way of the corporate studios: not for financing, not for production, not for distribution. Here’s one of those superindie films.
Few ultra-low-budget films take on such an ambitious story, or tell it in such an ambitious way: writer-director-star Alexander Barnett dares to try to get into the head of painter Vincent Van Gogh during the year he voluntary spent in an insane asylum... dares to get inside his head and stay there. The artist’s madness -- if it is madness, and not merely a revolt against narrow societal norms -- expresses itself through dreams and hallucinations that expose his deepest fears and insecurities, the results of maltreatment as a child and failures as a lover and as a man unable even to support himself, and the result is so surrealistic that it challenges the conventions of filmic storytelling we’ve been trained to accept as inescapable givens by Hollywood movies. This isn’t an easy film to watch -- a little bit of tightening in the pacing and editing probably wouldn’t go amiss -- but it’s wonderful to see independent filmmakers taking tough risks and mostly succeeding. [buy from the official site/buy at Amazon/download from Amazon Unbox]
(Technorati tags: Eyes of Van Gogh)
Post a Comment