Final Cut

Charles Vandenhove, architecte de l'art

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The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci

2018 · ★ 9

Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona Lisa and even how he acquired his anatomical knowledge.

Pop Goes the Easel

1962 · ★ 6.3

Pop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor. It focused on 4 British Pop Artists - Peter Blake, Peter Philips, Pauline Boty and Derek Boshier.

Giscard et l'Europe : chronique d'un rêve inachevé

2025

Over half a century of public service, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing embodied the dream of a united and strong Europe. From the youthful enthusiasm of the 1950s to the disillusionment of the 2005 referendum, his career chronicles an ideal confronted with the realities of power, national resistance, and populist winds. He tirelessly attempted to realize his youthful dream: a United States of Europe.

Struggle

2012

Struggle is the story of how Ohio's 2004 presidential election was rigged through high tech and old fashioned ballot stuffing methods to deliver the election to George W. Bush.

Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter

1998 · ★ 6.5

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.

L'Affaire Caravage

2020 · ★ 8.5

In 2014 a large painting representing Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in an attic in Toulouse, France. A controversy ensued immediately about the attribution of the painting's authorship to Caravaggio. The documentary follows a famed art expert in charge of organizing the sale of the painting on behalf of the owners, while specialists debate on its authenticity.

Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments

2007

Cameras record artist Ellsworth Kelly as he creates sculptures for the US Embassy in Beijing. With all his equipment around him, Ellsworth undertakes a big task as his creates he next masterpieces.

Print It Black

2024 · ★ 6

After the Robb Elementary school shooting in Texas, local Uvalde Leader-News journalists are left to report on the fallout – and on one of their staff members. Reporter Kimberly Rubio rises to national prominence as an advocate for gun reform after her ten-year-old daughter, Lexi, is killed in the shooting. Through the journalists’ reporting, we witness the social fabric of this small Texas town unravel as Kimberly and other victims’ families search for accountability from law enforcement and local leaders. The documentary also shines a light on the critical role of community journalism, at a time when local newspapers are folding rapidly across the country.

Nadar, le premier des photographes

2018 · ★ 7.5

A documentary about the French photographer Nadar aka Gaspard-Félix Tournachon

The Lost Supper

1998

This rare film tells the strange, disquieting and protracted story of the restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous masterpiece, The Last Supper. Some say the results of the restoration are glorious. Others have called them tragic. Da Vinci’s famously fragile fresco was always going to be a challenge for its secretive Italian restorers. No one, however, could have foreseen how problematic and strange their task would become. Marked by a series of extraordinary mishaps, mistakes, and miscalculations, the incredible restoration is hilarious to watch but may have resulted in the loss of a masterpiece.

James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre

2020

A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist