Van Gogh & Japan
The untold story on Van Gogh's art.
Genres
Overview
"I envy the Japanese" Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo. In the exhibition on which this film is based - VAN GOGH & JAPAN at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam - one can see why. Though Vincent van Gogh never visited Japan it is the country that had the most profound influence on him and his art. One cannot understand Van Gogh without understanding how Japanese art arrived in Paris in the middle of the 19th century and the profound impact it had on artists like Monet, Degas and, above all, Van Gogh. The film travels not only to France and the Netherlands but also to Japan to further explore the remarkable heritage that so affected Van Gogh and made him the artist we know of today.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
85 min
Release Date
2019-06-04
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
6
Vote Average
6.8
Vincent van Gogh
Self (archive footage)
7.3
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2010-04-05 | en
7.2
Lust for Life
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1956-09-15 | en
5.2
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2002-09-07 | en
6.5
Van Gogh, deux mois et une éternité
2023-10-15 | fr
8.0
Loving Vincent
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
2017-06-22 | en
6.4
Van Gogh: Brush with Genius
An artistic view of Van Gogh as if this movie is self narrated by himself.
2009-03-25 | en
0.0
Clive Barker: The Man Behind the Myth
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2009-02-17 | en
6.5
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2022-11-03 | it
0.0
Exergo
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2024-05-04 | eu
0.0
Caravaggio
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1967-10-15 | it
7.9
Close to Vermeer
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2023-05-26 | nl
6.5
All Star Video
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1985-01-21 | ja
0.0
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2014-07-16 | en
2.5
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0.0
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2024-02-09 | bg
9.0
Goldorak Go ! Le Documentaire
2023-08-27 | fr
0.0
A Shape of Time - the composer Jo Kondo
Jo Kondo (*1947) is one of the most interesting composers of contemporary music in Japan. His music is composed intuitively and at the same time it is highly abstract. Without clear directionality and at the same time not without form. For a Japanese audience it sounds “Western” and in the West it is regarded “Japanese”. A music in between categories. Like Kondo’s music the film is shifting between places and directions: a concert in the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, an elaborate sushi bar in Tokyo, a CD-production in a Cologne radio station, the Zuisenji temple in Kondo’s neighborhood in Kamakura. Kondo wants his music to appear “normal”, without spectacular surface or narrative elements. A concept of “normality” you may also find in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, who – like Kondo – spent most of his life in Kamakura.
2016-03-18 | en
10.0
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2023-08-23 | no
8.0
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2024-04-21 | de
0.0
Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh's life was a masterpiece painted with the dueling colors of madness versus genius. However, this inner battle gave birth to some of the greatest works of art known to man. The film traces Van Gogh's journey through the many twists and turns of his tumultuous and exciting life.
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