"Lust for Life" (dir. Vincente Minnelli, 1956)
Date/Time:
02/26/2012 - 2:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Van Pelt Auditorium (26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19130)
Cost:
$8 ($6 members and students with valid ID); after Museum admission.
Directed by Vincente Minnelli and adapted from Irving Stone’s book, Lust for Life erupts with the expressive colors of van Gogh’s own paintings. Kirk Douglas stars as van Gogh, harnessing his own primal reticence and deeply insecure arrogance. Minnelli dials Douglas’s performance further up, as film critic Dave Kehr noted, anchoring “the film in a dazzlingly schizophrenic, first-person point of view.”
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