Lust for Life

Director: George Cukor

Writer: Norman Corwin,Irving Stone

Countries of origin: United States

Language: English

Release date: November 30, 1956

Aspect ratio: 2.55 : 1

Also known as: Zudnja za zivotom

Lust for Life is a biopic directed by Vincente Minnelli , George Cukor and starring Kirk Douglas , Anthony Quinn , James Donald and released on September 17, 1956.

The film shows from the first perspective the young Van Gogh went to the mining area as a priest and then embarked on the road of art, until he found that he was not allowed to live in the world and chose to cut his own life trajectory .

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By Daniela 2022-08-04 20:33:16

Lust for Life: Please Don't Sympathize with Him Easily

In the evening, I thought there would be a color lecture, but it turned out that we were shown some paintings by Impressionist masters such as Van Gogh, Seurat, and Pissarro. Then they began to show Van Gogh's biography, adapted from the desire to live. This has to remind me of the birthday present Li Xiaoyi gave me on my 19th birthday at the beginning of the year. In the original novel "Longing for Life", Later, she also ordered a copy for herself on Dangdang. But God knows I didn't...
By Derrick 2022-04-11 09:01:07

i see van gogh

I was so calm in my heart that I watched such a movie without turning back, for no other reason, and at this moment, I felt the air around me freeze, the noisy sounds around me, I could not hear, and the sun was dimmed for it Now, Van Gogh, what exactly is the inner distress, I can't see it, but I can't touch it, but I can't comprehend it. I seem to want to go into his inner world again. There is a sentence to sum up his spiritual life, but I can find that it is fundamental. Impossible, this...
By Keven 2022-04-11 09:01:07

The Life and Talents of Vincent van Gogh

After I was a kid, I spent a book on Van Gogh
because Van Gogh is so famous, why is he so famous? Painting is really good, and the circumstances before and after death are so different. In his short life of 37 years, he picked up a brush to paint at the age of 26. In fact, until she died, he only painted for 11 years. In 2008, he painted a large number of works, but only sold one piece, "The Red Vineyard", for 400 francs.

What kind of personality was Van Gogh? Paranoid, stubborn,...
By Mervin 2022-04-11 09:01:07

Giant Van Gogh

I have read about Van when I was still in my college. I could not recall it complicatedly but I remember that Van was a person with great passionate feeling to love and painting. As I grew up I became more and more easier to be moved by movies and stories especially the real thing about great artist. To my some degree analysis, Van was deeply hurt by the marriage of his first lover M and his brother D. It was the time that Van was in the south area of France in which it was full of sunshine...
By Angela 2022-04-11 09:01:07

The painter's version of Ben-Hur

Acting Van Gogh is like painting on canvas, some are upright, some are sincere, some are crazy, some are clumsy. Some are energetic and love to quarrel with people. Douglas' version is unmistakably sincere and missionary.
But still like a painter's version of Ben-Hur. Like all early Hollywood movies, it's like a bottle of Mirinda, sweet and delicate with little aftertaste. It is also a brave expression of Van Gogh's life as a missionary in the Belgian mining area of Bolina, as well...

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By Billie 2022-04-16 09:01:09

Desire to float. Could there be a worse...
By Agustin 2022-04-16 09:01:09

2 hours is really not enough to talk about life. I read this biography many years ago, and it does seem a bit rushed to watch this movie again. After all, it's a 1956 film, and it's still a bit exaggerated and has some stage effects, especially the marriage proposal scene and the rivalry with Gauguin, but overall it's not bad. This biopic is quite the main theme, and you can basically understand Vatican high life....
By Marcus 2022-04-16 09:01:09

Depressed, too depressed lust for a life that can never...
By Paula 2022-04-16 09:01:09

madness for life (madness for...
By Heloise 2022-04-16 09:01:09

The director should be a...

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Vincent Van Gogh: [In letter] Dear Theo, Thank you for the money, and the paints and canvas. With your help I go forward. I feel the force to work growing daily within me. Do you realize Theo that what I'm doing is new. In the paintings of the old masters, did you ever see a single man or woman at work? Did they ever try to paint a laborer or a man digging? They didn't, and for good reason: because work is so hard to draw... To paint these people means to be with them in the fields day after day, and by their firesides at night. Since the rains came I've become absorbed in the weavers. They make such good subjects; the old oak wood darkened by the sweat of hands, and the shadow of the looms on the gray mud walls. All these months I've been trying to find a pattern; trying not so much to draw hands as gestures, not so much faces as the expressions of people - men and women who know the meaning of toil. I want to make clear that these people - sitting round a meal of potatoes in the evening - have turned the soil with the very hands they put in the dish, that they have honestly earned their food. I want to paint something that smells of bacon, smoke, and steam; something that's the good dark color of our Dutch earth.
Durand-Ruel: [outaide the Exhibit of Impressionist Paintings] I am sick and tired of these cheap jokes! Art is a serious business. And in Paris at least, an artist with a new idea should be inside...

Elderly Gentleman: [interrupts] For once I agree with you Durand-Ruel. Impressionism is not a joke: it's a *cancer*, and it must be cut out. Condone anarchism in the arts and you seal the doom of France!

Durand-Ruel: What whould you do? Pad up the galleries and ship the painters off to Devil's Island?

Elderly Gentleman: These men are shameless! They load pistols with tubes of paint and fire them at the canvas, and then have the audacity to sign their names; Cézanne, Signac, Pissaro, Gauguin, Renoir, Monet...

[scene fades out]
Camille Pissarro: It's the problem of translating light into the language of paint.

[points up]

Camille Pissarro: Those leaves there: if they were the only thing in sight, they'd have one color - their own. But the shade and reflection of everything around - the sky, the earth, the water - give them more than their own color. That's why when you paint from nature, don't fix your eye on any one spot.

[looks and motions all around]

Camille Pissarro: Take in everything at once. And above all, don't be timid. Trust your first impression.

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