"occasionally. At the start and ending of the film, the creators list and thank a number of galleries, collectors and historians who allowed the works of Van Gogh to be photographed for the film. Lust for Life (film) Lust for Life is a 1956 American biographical film about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Irving Stone which was adapted for the screen by Norman Corwin. It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by John Houseman. The film stars Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh, James Donald as"
"image, and as his career progressed, he selected roles that would not compromise his off-screen image. At a party in 1957, Wayne confronted actor Kirk Douglas about the latter's decision to play the role of Vincent van Gogh in the film ""Lust for Life"", saying: ""Christ, Kirk, how can you play a part like that? There's so goddamn few of us left. We got to play strong, tough characters. Not these weak queers."" Wayne's rise to being the quintessential movie war hero began to take shape four years after World War II, when ""Sands of Iwo Jima"" (1949) was released."
"Gogh, this biographical tribute never rises above the level of the popular novel on which it is based ... Despite a remarkable physical resemblance, Kirk Douglas' performance remains essentially an American study in neuroticism; also, the presentation of the aesthetic controversy between Van Gogh (humane and intuitive) and Gaugin (intellectual and brusquely cynical) is both over simplified and somewhat misleading."" The world premiere was held on September 17, 1956 at the Plaza Theatre on East 58th Street in New York City as a benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's student program. According to MGM records, the film earned $1,595,000"
"to Eugène Boch on October 2, 1888, writing he had painted ""a view of the café on place du Forum, where we used to go, ""painted at night"""" (emphasis van Gogh's). The painting and the café were both featured in the 1956 film ""Lust for Life"" starring Kirk Douglas and later in ""Vincent and the Doctor"" (2010), the tenth episode in the fifth series of British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", and in the fully painted film ""Loving Vincent"" (2017). ""This is a night painting without black, with nothing but beautiful blue and violet and green and in this"
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"very good as Paul Gaugin, his friend."" John McCarten of ""The New Yorker"" wrote, ""Even if the movie doesn't delve as deeply as it might into the mental processes that made van Gogh behave the way he did, it nevertheless, in the person of Kirk Douglas, confronts us with a character well worth our absorbed attention. Mr. Douglas, who, wearing red whiskers, bears a striking resemblance to van Gogh's self-portraits, succeeds most skillfully in arousing a conviction that he is, in truth, a painter beside himself to capture light and hold it forever on canvas."" Richard L. Coe of ""The"
"14th Golden Globe Awards The 14th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1956 films, were held on February 28, 1957, at the Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles). Kirk Douglas - ""Lust for Life"" Ingrid Bergman - ""Anastasia"" Elia Kazan - ""Baby Doll"" Cantinflas - ""Around the World in 80 Days"" Deborah Kerr - ""The King and I"" ""Around the World in 80 Days"" directed by Michael Anderson ""The King and I"" directed by Walter Lang Earl Holliman - ""The Rainmaker"" Eileen Heckart - ""The Bad Seed"" Three way tie Three way tie Jacques Bergerac Taina Elg"
"Washington Post"" called the film ""a remarkable achievement, combining a rich adventure in the art of color with a perceptive study of a creative personality. In this biography of Vincent Van Gogh, Kirk Douglas adds to his advantage of striking resemblance a performance of powerful sensitivity."" Edwin Schallert of the ""Los Angeles Times"" called the film a ""remarkable and poignant study,"" and forecast that the artist's 'stellar portrayal' by Kirk Douglas ""will be recognized for Academy honors."" ""The Monthly Film Bulletin"" printed a somewhat negative review, writing: ""Although one feels that those responsible were determined to 'do right' by Van"
"Kirk Douglas filmography The following is the filmography of American film and stage actor, film producer and author Kirk Douglas. His popular films include ""Out of the Past"" (1947), ""Champion"" (1949), ""Ace in the Hole"" (1951), ""The Bad and the Beautiful"" (1952), ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1954), ""Lust for Life"" (1956), ""Paths of Glory"" (1957), ""Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"" (1957), ""The Vikings"" (1958), ""Spartacus"" (1960), ""Lonely Are the Brave"" (1962), ""Seven Days in May"" (1964), ""The Heroes of Telemark"" (1965), ""Saturn 3"" (1980) and ""Tough Guys"" (1986). He is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of"
"starring Forest Whitaker and Jason Robards, and was also executive producer of the 2009 motion picture ""Whip It"" starring Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page. A contemporary story told within the world of women's Roller Derby. Douglas married Lisa Schroeder in 1991. They have four children. Peter Douglas Peter Vincent Douglas (born November 23, 1955) is an American television and film producer, a son of actor Kirk Douglas and his second wife, the German American producer Anne Buydens. Douglas was born in Los Angeles, California. His middle name was given him in homage to Vincent van Gogh, whom his father was"
"you the quotidian stuff in between. This is the story of an artist being human, carrying canvases out or lugging them back in – their famous images intentionally out of sight."" Van Gogh (1991 film) Van Gogh is a 1991 French film written and directed by Maurice Pialat. It stars Jacques Dutronc in the role of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, a role for which he won the 1992 César Award for Best Actor. Set in 1890, the film follows the last 67 days of Van Gogh's life and explores his relationships with his brother Theo, his physician Paul Gachet"
"Lust for Life (novel) Lust for Life (1934) is a biographical novel written by Irving Stone based on the life of the famous Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh, and his hardships. It was adapted into a film of the same name starring Kirk Douglas, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one. It is Stone's first major publication and is largely based on the collection of letters between Vincent van Gogh and his younger brother, art dealer Theo van Gogh. They lay the foundation for most of what is known about the thoughts and beliefs of the artist. Stone"
"Lust for Life (novel) Lust for Life (1934) is a biographical novel written by Irving Stone based on the life of the famous Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh, and his hardships. It was adapted into a film of the same name starring Kirk Douglas, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one. It is Stone's first major publication and is largely based on the collection of letters between Vincent van Gogh and his younger brother, art dealer Theo van Gogh. They lay the foundation for most of what is known about the thoughts and beliefs of the artist. Stone"
"Van Gogh (1991 film) Van Gogh is a 1991 French film written and directed by Maurice Pialat. It stars Jacques Dutronc in the role of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, a role for which he won the 1992 César Award for Best Actor. Set in 1890, the film follows the last 67 days of Van Gogh's life and explores his relationships with his brother Theo, his physician Paul Gachet (most famous as the subject of Van Gogh's painting ""Portrait of Dr. Gachet""), and the women in his life, including Gachet's daughter, Marguerite. The film was entered into the 1991 Cannes"
"Tcheky Karyo played the role of Vincent van Gogh. The film was shot in the Netherlands, France and Quebec, and her performance won her a nomination for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (1991). The film’s small screen release in the United States by Disney was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Special. Her travels for the European release and film festival circuit of ""Vincent and Me"" introduced her to a sensibility of fashion, architecture and style that she had not yet been exposed to in the woods of Nova Scotia. Visiting her"
"in Europe. Among his productions there was ""Act of Love"" (1953) with Kirk Douglas, and ""The Deep Blue Sea"" (1955) with Vivien Leigh and Kenneth More. He also did the Paris-filmed ""Anastasia"" in 1956, starring Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner and Helen Hayes. The film was Bergman's first U.S. film after a seven-year absence from Hollywood, which she left after her scandalous affair with director Roberto Rossellini became news. The studio, Twentieth Century Fox, conducted a poll and found that the public still had negative feelings toward Bergman. Litvak, however, felt she would be an excellent actress for the part and"
"as a portrayal not only of the ""painter-as-hero,"" but a unique presentation of the ""action painter,"" with Douglas expressing the physicality and emotion of painting, as he uses the canvas to capture a moment in time. Douglas was nominated for an Academy Award for the role, with his costar Anthony Quinn winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar as Paul Gauguin, van Gogh's friend. Douglas won a Golden Globe award, although Minnelli said Douglas should have won an Oscar: ""He achieved a moving and memorable portrait of the artist—a man of massive creative power, triggered by severe emotional stress, the fear"
"the greatest male screen legends in American film history, making him the highest-ranked living person on the list. In 1996, he received the Academy Honorary Award ""for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community"". Kirk Douglas filmography The following is the filmography of American film and stage actor, film producer and author Kirk Douglas. His popular films include ""Out of the Past"" (1947), ""Champion"" (1949), ""Ace in the Hole"" (1951), ""The Bad and the Beautiful"" (1952), ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1954), ""Lust for Life"" (1956), ""Paths of Glory"" (1957), ""Gunfight at the O.K."
"scheme, noting the design team ""consciously made the flow of color and the interplay of compositions and hues the most forceful devices for conveying a motion picture comprehension of van Gogh."" ""Variety"" said, ""This is a slow-moving picture whose only action is in the dialog itself. Basically a faithful portrait of Van Gogh, ""Lust for Life"" is nonetheless unexciting. It misses out in conveying the color and entertainment of the original Irving Stone novel."" ""Harrison's Reports"" wrote that the film had been given ""an excellent production"" and that ""Kirk Douglas does outstanding work as Van Gogh, and Anthony Quinn is"
"excavation group finds the skeletons of Quasimodo and Esmeralda intertwined in an embrace. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956 film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (in French Notre-Dame de Paris) is a 1956 French-Italian film version of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, directed by Jean Delannoy and produced by Raymond Hakim and Robert Hakim. It stars US actor Anthony Quinn and Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida. The film is the first version of the novel to be made in color. In the tradition of many sword and sandal spectacles, Quinn and Lollobrigida are the only two actors in the film who actually"
"Paths of Glory Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. Set during World War I, the film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal attack, after which Dax attempts to defend them against a charge of cowardice in a court-martial. The film begins with a voiceover describing the trench warfare situation of World War I up to 1916. In a château, General Georges Broulard, a member of the French General Staff, asks his"
"mother. To do so, he had to break contracts with Hal B. Wallis and Warner Bros., but began to produce and star in his own films, including ""Paths of Glory"" (1957), ""The Vikings"" (1958), ""Spartacus"" (1960), ""Lonely are the Brave"" (1962) and ""Seven Days in May"" (1964). While ""Paths of Glory"" did not do well at the box office, it has since become one of the great anti-war films, and one of early films by director Stanley Kubrick. Douglas, a fluent French speaker, plays a sympathetic French officer during World War I who tries to save three soldiers from the"
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956 film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (in French Notre-Dame de Paris) is a 1956 French-Italian film version of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, directed by Jean Delannoy and produced by Raymond Hakim and Robert Hakim. It stars US actor Anthony Quinn and Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida. The film is the first version of the novel to be made in color. In the tradition of many sword and sandal spectacles, Quinn and Lollobrigida are the only two actors in the film who actually speak in English; the rest of the cast is made up of French"
"The Criterion Collection with a high-definition digital transfer on October 26, 2010. Paths of Glory Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. Set during World War I, the film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal attack, after which Dax attempts to defend them against a charge of cowardice in a court-martial. The film begins with a voiceover describing the trench warfare situation of World War I up to 1916. In a château,"
"Act of Love (1953 film) Act of Love (French title: Un acte d'amour) is a 1953 American romantic drama film directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Kirk Douglas and Dany Robin. It is based on the novel ""The Girl on the Via Flaminia"" by Alfred Hayes. A Parisian falls in love with an American soldier near the end of World War II. Robert Teller (Kirk Douglas) visits a seaport in the south of France in the early 1950s. He reflects back to his time in the army shortly after Paris has been liberated. Years earlier, to get away from the barracks"
"13th Golden Globe Awards The 13th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1955 films, were held on February 23, 1956. ""' ""East of Eden directed by Elia Kazan"" ""' ""Guys and Dolls directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz"" ""' ""Ernest Borgnine - Marty"" ""' ""Tom Ewell - The Seven Year Itch"" ""' ""Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo"" ""' ""Marisa Pavan - The Rose Tattoo"" ""' ""Jean Simmons - Guys and Dolls"" ""' Arthur Kennedy - ""Trial"" ""' Joshua Logan - ""Picnic"" ""' ""Marlon Brando"" ""' ""Grace Kelly"" ""' ""James Dean"" Award given posthumously for Best Dramatic Actor."
"Runaways"", 1953), ""Omnibus"" (""The Horn Blows at Midnight"", 1953); ""Four Star Theatre"" (""Moorings"", 1953; ""A Study in Panic"", 1954), ""Fireside Theatre"" (""Afraid to Live"", 1954; ""Our Son"", 1954; ""Mr Onion"" 1955), ""Lux Video Theatre"" (""The Hunted"", 1955), ""The Christophers"" (""The World Starts with Jimmy"", 1955), ""General Electric Theatre"" (""The Clown"" with Henry Fonda, 1955) and ""Appointment with Adventure"" (""Mutiny"", 1956). Film roles included ""The Lone Gun"" (1954), a Western with George Montgomery; ""Pushover"" (1954), a thriller with Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak; and ""Private Hell 36"" (1954) from director Don Siegel. Malone was reunited with Sinatra in ""Young at Heart"""
"in the US and Canada and $1,100,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $2,072,000. MGM produced a short film ""Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light"", narrated by Dore Schary and showing the European locations used for the filming, to promote ""Lust for Life"". In the film, a 75-year-old woman from Auvers-sur-Oise (not Jeanne Calment, who lived in Arles several hundred kilometers to the south), who claims to have known Van Gogh when she was a young girl, meets star Kirk Douglas, and comments on how much he looks like the painter. This short promotional film is shown on Turner Classic Movies"
"Vincent & Theo Vincent & Theo is a 1990 biographical drama film about the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) and his brother Theo (1857–1891), who was an art dealer. While Vincent Van Gogh's artworks are now famous, he was essentially unrecognised in his lifetime, and survived on his brother's charity. The film was directed by Robert Altman, and starred Tim Roth and Paul Rhys in the title roles. The film was made as a four-hour mini-series (200-minute length) for television, and a 138-minute version was released to theatres. ""Vincent & Theo"" has a prelude, which is documentary footage of"
"a result, he dies a few days after shooting himself. The film was based on the 1934 novel by Irving Stone and adapted by Norman Corwin. Vincente Minnelli directed the film, while John Houseman produced it. They worked with Douglas on the 1952 melodrama ""The Bad and the Beautiful"", for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Principal photography started in August and ended in December 1955 and it was shot on location in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. George Cukor took Minnelli's place as director for the take of a scene. Two hundred enlarged colour"
"his portrayal of amoral corporate raider Gordon Gekko in the Oliver Stone-directed drama ""Wall Street"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in the sequel """" (2010). Douglas's subsequent film roles included: ""Black Rain"" (1989); ""The War of the Roses"" (1989); ""Basic Instinct"" (1992); ""Falling Down"" (1993); ""The American President"" (1995); ""The Game"" (1997); ""Traffic"" and ""Wonder Boys"" (both 2000); ""Solitary Man"" (2009); ""Ant-Man"" (2015) and ""Ant-Man and the Wasp"" (2018). In 2013, Douglas's performance as Liberace in the HBO biopic ""Behind the Candelabra"", received universal critical acclaim, and the actor won numerous"
"Giant (1956 film) Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film, directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber's 1952 novel. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor, Elsa Cardenas and Earl Holliman. ""Giant "" was the last of James Dean's three films as a leading actor, and earned him his second and last Academy Award nomination – he was killed in a car accident before the film was released. Nick"
"well as Jack Cardiff's ""The Long Ships"". The Vikings (1958 film) The Vikings is a 1958 epic historical fiction swashbuckling film directed by Richard Fleischer and filmed in Technicolor. It was produced by and stars Kirk Douglas. It is based on the 1951 novel ""The Viking"" by Edison Marshall, which in turn is based on material from the sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons. Other starring roles were taken by Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh and Ernest Borgnine. The film made notable use of natural locations in Norway. It was mostly filmed in Maurangerfjorden and Maurangsnes, captured on film by"