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Lives of Artists: Great Films

	Frida [DVD] [2003] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.95 Beautiful film about the life of artist Frida Kahlo: her crippling accident, her marriage to artist Diego Rivera and her brave and deeply personal art.
	The Hours [DVD] [2003] Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £2.58 Wonderful, heart-rending story of author Virginia Woolf. Spans three eras and three women's struggles with depression and life.
	Carrington [DVD] [1995] Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.49 Story of unfulfilled love between tomboy painter Dora Carrington and gay writer Lytton Strachey. Based around the Bloomsbury group.
	Iris [DVD] [2002] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.50 Novelist Iris Murdoch as a young academic and later as she suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Based on the memoirs of her husband John Bayley. Very moving and beautiful acting from Judi Dench.
	Sylvia [DVD] [2004] The unhappy and passionate life of poet Sylvia Plath, centred around her stormy relationship with Ted Hughes.
	Wilde [DVD] [1997] Buy used from: £14.95 Oscar Wilde's life, his gay relationship with arrogant, selfish young Bosie, and his later imprisonment. Beautiful acting from Stephen Fry.
	Quills [DVD] [2001] Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £15.00 The insatiable Marquis de Sade and his erotic writing, which he refused to stop doing even when incarcerated in an asylum as a result.
	Becoming Jane [DVD] [2006] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.39 Great film about the life of Jane Austen, showing how her experiences inspired her writing.
	Miss Potter [DVD] [2006] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.60 Beatrix Potter's high society upbringing and her determination to publish her books in spite of her mother's disapproval. Great acting from Rene Zellweger.
	Finding Neverland [DVD] [2004] Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £2.60 Heartwarming, sad and magical story of J.M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan.
	Girl With A Pearl Earring [2004] [DVD] Buy new: £4.58 / Used from: £1.59 Slow paced film about Dutch artist Vermeer, who paints his maid Griet; their intimacy causes jealousy in his family. The film is focussed on Griet more than on Vermeer's art in general.
	Hilary And Jackie [DVD] [1998] Buy new: £7.58 / Used from: £5.89 Moving film about the life of cellist Jaqueline Du Pre and her sister Hilary.
	The Pianist [DVD] [2003] Buy used from: £3.97 Set during the Holocaust. Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and concert pianist eludes the Nazis, but suffers the loss of family members. One of the best films I have ever seen.
	Amadeus -- Director's Cut 2-Disc Special Edition [DVD] [1985] Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £2.53 The life and music of child-genius Mozart.
	Immortal Beloved [DVD] [1995] Beethoven the deaf composer: his beautiful music, his many passionate romances and his struggles with depression.
	Surviving Picasso (DVD) (1996) The life and loves of Picasso.
	Goya's Ghosts [DVD] [2006] Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £2.23 More about the Spanish Inquisition than about Goya and his art.
	Klimt [2007] [DVD] Buy new: £8.58
	Shine [DVD] [1997] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £3.22 Touching story of pianist David Helfgott, who rose to fame at a young age and later suffered from schizophrenia.