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Summary: Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria and the first time in 23 years that France...
Runtime: 2 h 45 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 55,038
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Summary: A documentary on the German artist that includes glimpses at his studio, which has not been seen in decades.
Release Date: September 08, 2011
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: Germany
Language: English
Domestic: $ 242,646
International: $ 474,899
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Summary: Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic of British artist David Hockney. After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends. Titled after Hockney's pop-art painting 'A Bigger Splash'.
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 20,000
Domestic: $ 95,826
International: $ 34,501
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Summary: On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
MPAA: PG

Distributor: Arthouse Films
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,500,000
Domestic: $ 187,716
International: $ 103,591
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Summary: This documentary follows the lives and careers of a collective group of Do-it-yourself artists and designers who inadvertently affected the art world.
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 56,386
International: $ 7,678
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Summary: The story of a family that suffers a tragedy, but perseveres and finds redemption through each other and their work - making art.
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Runtime: 1 h 22 min
MPAA: Unrated

Language: English
Domestic: $ 46,623
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Summary: The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry and myth. The central figure of the film is biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, wh...
Runtime: 1 h 37 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,246
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Summary: Artist Yayoi Kusama and experts discuss her life and work, from her modest beginnings in Japan to becoming an internationally renowned artist.
Runtime: 1 h 16 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 360,931
International: $ 392,589
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Summary: A portrait of a patron of the arts extraordinaire who transformed a modest fortune and impeccable taste into one of the premiere collections of twentieth century art.
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,100,000
Domestic: $ 498,428
International: $ 298,372
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Summary: A documentary on provocative artist Bahman Mohassess, the so-called "Persian Picasso," whose acclaimed paintings and sculptures dominated pre-revolutionary Iran.
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: Unrated

Language: Farsi
Domestic: $ 13,614
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Summary: A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 86,637
International: $ 70,058
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Summary: Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography, illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from The Birth of a Nation (1915) to Do the Right Thing (1989).
Runtime: 1 h 32 min

Countries: Japan, United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 799,856
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Summary: An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.
Release Date: April 28, 1995
Runtime: 1 h 59 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 3,041,083
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Summary: An examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind f...
Runtime: 1 h 31 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,000,000
Domestic: $ 200,010
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Summary: A documentary about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture.
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Runtime: 1 h 20 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Veer, Swiss Dots
Language: English
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Summary: A look at the work and surprising success of a four-year-old girl whose paintings have been compared to the likes of Picasso and has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Runtime: 1 h 22 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Domestic: $ 231,574
International: $ 26,742
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Summary: Documentary that follows the struggle for control of Dr. Albert C. Barnes' 25 billion dollar collection of modern and post-impressionist art.
Release Date: September 12, 2009
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 544,890
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Summary: Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Runtime: 1 h 27 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Domestic: $ 3,291,250
International: $ 2,117,928
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Summary: Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity.
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: G

Domestic: $ 5,304,920
International: $ 2,878,427
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Summary: A documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government.
Runtime: 1 h 31 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 534,100
International: $ 347,561