Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
《法蘭西諸事週報》故事以權威雜誌《紐約客》作藍本,講述上個世紀於一個虛構的法國小鎮,標梅利飾演的美國傳媒人,創立的〈法蘭西諸事週刊〉將推出停刊前的最後一期,並選擇刊印三位撰稿人的文章,當中包括由蒂達史雲頓(Tilda Swinton)飾演的貝蕾森(J.K.L. Berensen)撰寫關於藝術家和其畫作引發的利益與紛爭文章《堅系傑作The Concrete Masterpiece》;法蘭絲麥杜文(Frances McDormand)飾演的記者桂文詩(Lucinda Krementz),則把添麥菲查洛美(Timothee Chalamet)這些學生與擁護革命的社運份子故事,寫成《重新發聲Revisions To A Manifesto》;而由謝菲韋特(Jeffrey Wright)所飾演食評家魯巴維則以亞洲廚師解構料理為主線,寫成《警察局長私房菜The Private Dining Room ── of the Police Commissioner》——三篇故事,交織成一封寫給文字工作者的華麗情書。
令人敬畏的藝評,冷若冰霜的藝廊老闆,野心勃勃的助理,三人爭相奪取一名剛過世藝術家的一批畫作,以為搶到便宜,卻招致可怕的後果。
A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
奔放的華倫(伊凡彼德斯 飾)、文青史賓沙(巴利崎昂 飾)、學霸艾力(乍德亞伯咸臣 飾)、健身狂查爾斯(碧基贊拿 飾),四位平凡的美國青年,因為不滿自己庸庸碌碌、乏善可陳的平凡人生,竟然異想天開,打算偷竊學校圖書館中價值連城的古董書籍--奧杜邦的《美國鳥類》。他們模仿犯罪電影的情節,精心策畫偷竊與贓物的交易計畫。不過計畫永遠趕不上變化,他們在偷竊過程中犯下天大錯誤,也讓他們開始質疑這場竊案,根本是個不切實際的美國夢…
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Francesca, an Italian-American writer who lives in New York, must return to Rome to retrieve her aging mother. There, the ghosts of her childhood will come to her through her mother's art.
An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.
A precocious young girl and her younger brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Madrid, Spain. A mysterious serial killer murders art collectors and uses their bodies to reproduce scenes from Los Caprichos, a famous series of drawings by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya.
Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim’s life was as swirling as the design of her uncle’s museum, and reads more like fiction than any reality imaginable. Peggy Guggenheim – Art Addict offers a rare look into Guggenheim’s world: blending the abstract, the colorful, the surreal and the salacious, to portray a life that was as complex and unpredictable as the artwork Peggy revered and the artists she pushed forward.
Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, including market darlings George Condo, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, this documentary examines the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society.
An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.
Four old college friends in their forties come together in a time of trouble and despair. Old joy relives, but the harsh reality of their problems can't satisfy them and eventually endangers their friendships.
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Meet Herb and Dorothy Vogel, whose shared passion and disciplines and defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector.
July, 1925. Thurber Phillips, an art collector, is invited by his favorite painter, the elusive and mysterious Richard Upton Pickman, to visit his home, a sinister place where his friend's macabre paintings seem to threaten him from the walls in shadows.
This film portrait of a new kind is a deep dive into the heart of the art scene of Los Angeles. From a ride on Sunset Boulevard in a convertible car at the sunrise, going through a lunch with the art dealer Patrick Painter and a visit to Peter Shire's studio... Having a beer and a deep talk with Paul McCarthy, calling Raymond Pettibon stuck in New-York or searching for Ed Ruscha in bars.... From Ariana Papademetropoulos opening exhibition to the visit of a car wreck with Umar Raschid... From the old house of Cary Grant to the dodgy underground of Downtown passing through Eugenio Lopez's private art collection on the Hollywood hills... Through intimate conversation, 24 Hour Sunset gives us access to the thoughts, inspirations and practice of legendary artists, world famous art dealers, appraised curators and collectors, as well as the young up coming scene of artists living in Los Angeles.
An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth through insurance fraud with the added consequence of potentially killing hundreds of people. His scheme is to place his art collection aboard a ship, insure the collection far beyond its value, and place a barrel of dynamite with a clock-piece timed to go off when the ship is at sea.