'Love and the Devil' is an interesting example. An account of the stormy relationship between Francis Bacon and his muse/lover George Dyer, director John Maybury was refused permission by Bacon's estate to use any of his paintings in the film, but got round it by showing a number of paintings in their early stages, and transforming scenes into living examples of Bacon's work. [log in to unmask] --- ruth perlmutter <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Would love names of films that feature paintings as > part of their > fiction, especially when the painting is being > enacted, like A ZED AND > TWO NOUGHTS, PASSION (Godard), and a short film by > Susan Seidelman where > a character enters a Dutch painting. > Thanks in advance. Ruth Perlmutter > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at > ScreenSite > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html