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Live Poll: The "Best Bio-Pics Ever Made"
According to Richard Brody, a movie critic for the New Yorker magazine, bio-pics "present very particular artistic challenges" so he wrote an article that explores the ones that "transcend them." Those movies are listed below. Some are very well known and widely seen (three are even on IMDb's Top 250), while others are little known and a few even hard to find. Which is your favorite or which one would you most like to see?
List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls528242987/
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/C0-XOf9uFxA/?ref_=po_fp
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ps: The article that this poll is based upon intrigued me because I tend to not like bio-pics: they seem to be very difficult to do well. I didn't think that the article really discussed these "particular challenges" that it mentions early on. So while I think the article is a great resource for the great list of films, several of which I have not seen and some of which I had not even known of, I felt like it somewhat left the question of unique challenges wide open.
I think one reason that I tend to not like many bio-pics is because they tend to cover a large span of time, so the approach has to be breadth, not depth, and I tend to find that boring. Also, how much character development can there be without depth? For example, I did not much like 'Maestro,' which covered so many decades, whereas I thought 'Oppenheimer' succeeded wonderfully because it chose a few rather short, well-defined spaces of time and instead of just being a biography, it focused very intently on Oppenheimer's role in and reaction to the development of the bomb. The borders were drawn more narrowly so I felt like I was watching a character study rather than watching "the life of a character" I didn't feel like I got to know, as in 'Maestro.'
It's interesting: bio-pics, by definition, seem to say, "ok, we're going to focus on this one particular person" but because they so often seem to try to fit too much time in and aren't judicious enough with their choices, we get to know that one particular person less well than many main characters in other genres of movies.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on bio-pics, especially their unique challenges.
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You appear to be missing Shulie (1998).
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Regarding The Last Days of Immanuel Kant, I looked into it and it was apparently shown on French TV in 1993 and released in theatres in 1996.
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Congratulations, @rubyfruit76!
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The "Best Bio-Pics Ever Made"
Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/C0-XOf9uFxA/
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Maxence_G
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Interesting Lists. There a many films that I do not know.
I voted for The Color of the Pomegranates, but The Passion of Joan of Arc was close.
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