Today’s movie is a period biography with a scene that happens on October 23. Watch and enjoy this film tonight.
LUST FOR LIFE
After being refused a regular appointment as a minister, Vincent van Gogh goes to a mining area as a pastor. After a rough start he gains the respect of the inhabitants because he lives like they do, but church leaders think he’s insulting the dignity of the church. His brother, Theo takes him home and Vincent starts painting. He fall in love with his cousin Kay, but she refuses him. Vincent goes to Amsterdam and starts living with a prostitute who leaves him because he does not make enough money as a painter. His cousin Anton Mauve teaches him about painting. Vincent goes to Paris and meets the major painters of the day. Vincent moves to Arles, where on October 23, 1888 [1:12:35 to 1:16:55] the artist Paul Gauguin arrives to stay with him. They argue about painting and everything else. Vincent tries to cut his ear off and checks himself into a mental sanitarium. He starts painting again, but later shoots himself.
A very good biopic. Tries to really get inside van Gogh’s head and show his theory of art. A well acted film that for the most part sticks to the real story.
Van Gough: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Random House, New York, 2011) at page 664 gives the date of Gauguin’s arrival
Producer - John Houseman
Director - Vincente Minnelli
Awards - The movie won the Best Supporting Actor(Quinn) Oscar. It was also nominated for the Best Actor(Douglas), Best Art Direction and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 29th Academy Awards.
Screenplay - Norman Corwin
Runtime – 1 hour 22 minutes
Released - September 17, 1956
Starring –
Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh
Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin
James Donald as Theo van Gogh
Pamela Brown as Christine
Everett Sloane as Dr. Gachet
Henry Daniell as Theodorus van Gogh
Madge Kennedy as Anna Cornelia van Gogh
Noel Purcell as Anton Mauve
Niall MacGinnis as Roulin
Jill Bennett as Willemien
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.
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