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| Lust for Life | 
 enlarge | Directors: George Cukor, Vincente Minnelli
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (45 reviews)
Sales Rank: 9826
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 122 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD66988D
ISBN: 0790795728
UPC: 012569698826
EAN: 9780790795720
ASIN: B000BYA4HY
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: 1956
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 The Tortured Man As Artist March 23, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The movie stands out ever since I seen it as a kid on tv. Would be something to see in an actual theater. The photography is like his paintings- like them or not, they are vivid and memorable. Saw one of his paintings in a San Francisco gallery 40 years ago. I was very young and very bored. Took a half hour just to get to the Van Gogh, a small painting of an orchard. But it was luminous... I still remeber the glow, and not being able to view it as long as I would have liked. Probably what Van Gogh wanted. My only other familiarity is pictures of his paintings and the movie. The movie is impassioned, and Kirk Douglas LOOKS insane in the cafe while a big celebration is going on in the streets. Nice musical score. A little too dramatic musically on self-infliction scenes, but that is how they made movies then. A modern quality remake might let a scene speak for itself. Good movie for artistic temperaments. Some books on his life might be interesting
 Spartacus meets that dot-painter guy... November 23, 1999
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
OK, so it's a little goofy in a few scenes, but Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh! Come on! What more do you need? He takes the idea of a "passionate artist" to an entirely new level. He attacks his easels the same way he charges out of that trench in Kubrick's Paths of Glory. I mean, he just paints the HECK out his canvases. I think the gaudy Technicolor is an interesting juxtoposition with Van Gogh's own emphasis on bright colors.
Erratum... November 7, 1999
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great movie, even though the book is far better...Just a little correction : the Oklahoma reviewer said Vincent and Theo were Belgian...Are there really some people who still don't know that Van gogh was Dutch ? Anyway, see his paintings first, read the book, and then watch the movie, Douglas and Quinn are awesome in it...
Compelling visuals in a film about an artist. August 21, 1999
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
(1) The most amazing aspect of this movie is that Director Minnelli makes it look like a Van Gogh painting. (2) The musical score depicts the anguish of Van Gogh's mental state. (3) Anthony Quinn deserved the Academy Award he won for his supporting role. (4) Kirk Douglas is appropriately tortured as Van Gogh; this acting is among his best work. (5) Despite the earlier reviewer's criticism of Douglas's American accent, the mix of accents was not a problem as 19th Century France invited a melting pot of artists. I admit Vincent van Gogh did not speak with an American accent; however, his brother Theo, did not speak with a British accent, either. They were Belgian and spoke French.
 A flawed classic April 1, 1999
14 out of 20 found this review helpful
Many people consider this to be the standard when it comes to retelling the tragic story of Vincent van Gogh's life.The film is very good and there's no question that director Vincente Minnelli put a tremendous amount of work into bringing Van Gogh to the screen. The sets and costumes are wonderful. I suppose that my main criticism of the film is that its "heart" seems to be more firmly set in 1950's Hollywood than in 1880's Europe. In other words, the film has a very constructed, American flavour to it. This is most glaring when many of the scenes shift from Kirk Douglas on the screen (clearly American) to a narrative reading of his letters to his brother, Theo (read by a British narrator)--very jarring. Kirk's performance, though very good, never quite "clinches" the role--he remains a very good actor on a very pretty set. But certainly I would recommend this film to anyone with an interest in Van Gogh--not a perfect movie by any means, but there are moments that are quite remarkable.
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