Lift
By Kirsten Anderson September 15, 2023
Viewers don’t need to know a jeté from a plié to enjoy this moving dance documentary.
Viewers don’t need to know a jeté from a plié to enjoy this moving dance documentary.
For a film about shaking things up, it’s a pretty straitlaced affair.
“What makes a Vermeer a Vermeer?” is the question that opens Suzanne Raes’s meticulously observed and detailed documentary.
A portrait of an artist who likes to stay out of the limelight while sometimes teasing it Banksy–style.
A visually vibrant tribute to the “foremost video artist in the world” and “the father of video art.”
An inspiring documentary on the redeeming and life-affirming qualities inherent in creating art, but infuriating too.
An absorbing documentary about how one of the most popular Broadway musicals was transformed into a hit movie.
A marvelous and moving portrait of an extraordinary master at work and the dancers he influenced so profoundly.
How did a damaged painting appearing on the art market out of nowhere become known—and marketed—as a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci?