Fascinating documentary about Vincent Van Gogh

My favorite movie about Van Gogh is titled Loving Vincent. It's an animated film, and each one of it's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas done by 125 different artists using the same techniques as Van Gogh. It's based on Vincent's letters to his brother, mainly his last letter.

Really awesome film.

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Murrmurr said:
My favorite movie about Van Gogh is titled Loving Vincent. It's an animated film, and each one of it's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas done by 125 different artists using the same techniques as Van Gogh. It's based on Vincent's letters to his brother, mainly his last letter.

Really awesome film.

@SeniorBen - I saved your recommendation to my Watch list. đź‘Ť
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I saw that on a movie theater big screen. It was pretty good.

I guess I'm on a Van Gogh kick. This evening, I watched Vincent: Lust for Life, starring Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn. It was good, a bit hokey to the point of inducing laughter in some places, but it was made in the 50s so that's to be expected.

There was another movie made about Van Gogh called Vincent and Theo starring Tim Roth, which was pretty good, too, but I think Lust for Life was quite a bit better. I think Kirk Douglas's depiction of Van Gogh was probably more realistic. He was a great actor. Tim Roth? Meh. Not so much.

There has yet to be a great movie made about Van Gogh. Perhaps there won't be in my lifetime.
 
Murrmurr said:
My favorite movie about Van Gogh is titled Loving Vincent. It's an animated film, and each one of it's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas done by 125 different artists using the same techniques as Van Gogh. It's based on Vincent's letters to his brother, mainly his last letter.

Really awesome film.

@SeniorBen - I saved your recommendation to my Watch list. đź‘Ť
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I saw the Trailer for that and intended to watch it but forgot! I usually love animation.

Many years ago, I read "Lust for Life" about Vincent's life and letters to Theo.

Wasn't it a descendant of Theo's who was murdered on the street by some Islamist terrorist? I think a few years ago.

I was lucky to see an original of Vincent's at the Modern in NYC. His bedroom.
 
RadishRose said:
I saw the Trailer for that and intended to watch it but forgot! I usually love animation.

Many years ago, I read "Lust for Life" about Vincent's life and letters to Theo.

Wasn't it a descendant of Theo's who was murdered on the street by some Islamist terrorist? I think a few years ago.

I was lucky to see an original of Vincent's at the Modern in NYC. His bedroom.
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The painting of his bedroom is my son's favorite. He bought a diorama of it when he and his wife went to this van Gogh exhibit called the "immersion experience" ...in Brussels, I think. Or might have been Prague. Anyway, a few years ago.

I don't know about the terrorist story. I'm gonna look it up, for sure. Sounds interesting.
 
SeniorBen said:
I saw that on a movie theater big screen. It was pretty good.

I guess I'm on a Van Gogh kick. This evening, I watched Vincent: Lust for Life, starring Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn. It was good, a bit hokey to the point of inducing laughter in some places, but it was made in the 50s so that's to be expected.

There was another movie made about Van Gogh called Vincent and Theo starring Tim Roth, which was pretty good, too, but I think Lust for Life was quite a bit better. I think Kirk Douglas's depiction of Van Gogh was probably more realistic. He was a great actor. Tim Roth? Meh. Not so much.

There has yet to be a great movie made about Van Gogh. Perhaps there won't be in my lifetime.
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Well, I think Loving Vincent is the best so far, but that's probably because I used to paint. Kirk Douglas did an excellent portrayal, and I think he actually looked quite a bit like van Gogh, too. If I remember right, they have almost identical ancestry.

I like Tim Roth except when he overacts. And he does about 50% of the time.
 
Murrmurr said:
Well, I think Loving Vincent is the best so far, but that's probably because I used to paint. Kirk Douglas did an excellent portrayal, and I think he actually looked quite a bit like van Gogh, too. If I remember right, they have almost identical ancestry.

I like Tim Roth except when he overacts. And he does about 50% of the time.
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I'd like to know how. Kirk was Ashkenazi.
 
Pepper said:
Douglas was born in Amsterdam, New York as Issur Herschelovich Danielovitch, to Bryna “Bertha” and Herschel “Harry” Demsky, a businessman. Douglas's parents, originally surnamed Danielovitch, were Russian Jewish immigrants from Gomel, now in independent Belarus.

Kirk Douglas - Hollywood Walk of Fame​

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Ah. I always heard he was Danish...from my mom. She used to read these Hollywood movie star magazines when I was little. That's probably where she got it.
 
Pepper said:
My dad would always proudly tell me who the Jews were. He told me the names above, I already knew them.
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That's true in most Jewish families, I think. Making those connections seems really important. And especially after 6 million of "you" disappear, it makes sense. I think my mom didn't talk about Jewish ancestry and all that because we lived in a Catholic home for so long...she was being respectful.
 
Pepper said:
If that's what you call it.
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No, seriously. I know my mom; it was out of respect. Dad's folks let us move in with them when I was 5. They had a big 2-story house and their kids were all grown and gone, and they had a dairy to run. So, dad worked on the dairy and mom did most the cooking and housekeeping, and everyone avoided talking about religion. That was mainly out of respect and love. And gratitude. After 10 years of living with my dad's parents, my parents were able to pay cash for a house and all our furniture and stuff, and me and my brothers had a close relationship with my grandparents.
(my sister was still a toddler when we moved off the dairy)
 

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