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Old 13-05-2008, 06:01 PM
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Default Mystery/Fantasy dramas that revolve around paintings?
I'm currently reading Susan Hill's The Man in The Picture and It got me thinking about what films and TV dramas throughout the years have revolved around paintings?

The only two I can think of are The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Night Gallery series but I'm sure there must be many more. Can you recommend anything? language & year are irrelevant, I'm really not prejudiced.

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The Illustrated Man with Rod Steiger, from Ray Bradbury's story, features stories based on the tattoos on Rod's bod. Does that count?


ps .... there was a revolving painting in a 'Zorro' serial (sorry)
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These three all feature paintings in the plot .... what about films about painters?
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Red Dragon, one of the Hannibal Lecter films involves a painting by William Blake in the storyline.

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Bedelia starring Margaret Lockwood starts with a painting and it's a main feature of the plot.
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The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (France 1979, Dir. Raoul Ruiz)
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La Belle Noiseuese (1991) - another French film. This one has a running time of 236m and for much of that time it features the artist painting a naked Emmanuelle Beart. Well someone's got to do it!
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La Belle Noiseuese (1991) - another French film. This one has a running time of 236m and for much of that time it features the artist painting a naked Emmanuelle Beart. Well someone's got to do it!
That's a great film - although not much happens beyond the painting. Anything with Emmanuelle Beart and Jane Birkin
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Thanks for those, they sound great.
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Profondo rosso (Deep Red),
quite good italian horror film by Dario Argento, it revolves around a mystery concerning a painting (I still have chills when I remember that creepy picture).
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What about "The picture of Dorian Gray".
... how on Earth did we all forget that one!
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Three Cases of Murder has paintings coming to life
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... how on Earth did we all forget that one!
Er...isn't it in the first post of the thread?
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