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Loving Vincent
2017 · Film · 95 min
Directed by Hugh Welchman, DK Welchman
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.
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For those that don’t know, “loving Vincent “,it’s a movie done with paintings. It’s kind of spectacular and amazing. I remember and older movie called “Vincent and Theo”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_&_Theo
Theo being Van Gogh brother who would send him money and who corresponded with letters very frequently.
The Rodin museum in Paris had a couple of VanGoghs which I was instantly drawn to. They fly a little under the radar as they’re not sculptures.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_Rodin
I have also liked At Eternity's Gate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Eternity%27s_Gate_(film) so so much. If you can, first watch this, and then "Loving Vincent". I did this coincidentally and was amazed at how these two films enrich each other, in that order.
Thanks for the recommendation. Check out the brilliant "Loving Vincent" animated film and "Vincent & Theo" as well. Also, somewhat relatedly, Jeanne Calment (the oldest person to have ever lived) claimed to have known him in her youth.
If you like Van Gogh's work, do not miss the movie "Loving Vincent": http://lovingvincent.com/
If you are interested in Van Goghs life and his death, I highly recommend watching "Loving Vincent".
It is an animated movie using mostly hand drawn oil paintings, very beautiful and _very_ unique.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3262342/
I read it in English as "Narcissus and Goldmund". The subject at the core of this book is very dear to me and it really moved me and like you, I was affected for a long time. I give away all the good books to friends saying "You must read this, it's excellent!" and thus I no longer have my copy. I must read it again.
By the way, if by some chance, there is a big overlap in our tastes, I recommend the fictional work called "Loving Vincent". It's a "moving painting" rather than a "movie".
They had over 100 artists produce 65,000 frames on 1000 canvases in the style of Van Gogh to animate the movie Loving Vincent. It took them 4 years to develop the technique and 2 years to do it all:
http://lovingvincent.com/
http://lovingvincent.com/technology,48,pl.html
May I recommend the movie "Loving Vincent". Do note that the tale is not a happy one.
I highly recommend the movie "Loving Vincent". It is a paint-animated film about part of Van Gogh's life.
The recent movie "Loving Vincent" goes into the last days of Van Gogh's life and his friendship with Dr. Gachet. It's a little less detailed/academic than this article, but does a good job at conveying the complexity of the situation and Van Gogh's struggles with mental illness. It's also visually incredible: every frame in the movie is a hand-painted oil painting. I would definitely recommend for anyone even a little bit interested in this sort of thing.
I finally got to watch loving Vincent [1] (in the plane safely, but really glad they had it !) what a great movie !! I highly recommand it, stunning work ! Rarely have I had goose bumps this much when watching a movie ^^ and the end credits are really cool.
It discusses quite a bit the relation between Van Gogh and gachet. Very interesting. This article goes in a lot more detail tough.
[1] http://lovingvincent.com
This comes just a bit too late for the movie "Loving Vincent" [1,2], for which artists laboriously translated frames into the style of Van Gogh.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47h6pQ6StCk
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3262342
There's a fascinating animated movie "Loving Vicent" coming up that is made in the style of Vincent van Gogh. Apparently the individual frames are actual oil paintings made by hand.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/02/loving-vincent-trailer/
When I first saw the trailer my first thought was the neural network approach shown here. I wonder how close you could get to "Loving Vincent" style by simply applying this algorithm to individual video camera frames.