Bingebox #68 : Artists
(DVD)

Each bingebox is lent as a single unit. Limit 1 box per patron at a time. Other loan rules: 3-week borrowing period, no holds, no renewals.

EGON SCHIELE: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN: Noah Saavedra, Maresi Riegner, and Valerie Pachner.

PAINT: Owen Wilson, Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ciara Renée, Lucy Freyer, Lusia Strus, and Stephen Root.

BIG EYES :Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Krysten Ritter, and Jason Schwartzman.

FINAL PORTRAIT: Armie Hammer, Geoffrey Rush, Clemence Poesy, and Tony Shalhoub.

THE MONUMENTS MEN: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Bonneville, and Bob Balaban.

MR. TURNER: Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Paul Jesson, Marion Bailey, and Karl Johnson

WOMAN IN GOLD: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Tatiana Maslany, Katie Holmes, Antje Traue, Elizabeth McGovern, Max Irons, and Jonathan Pryce.

EGON SCHIELE: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN: At the beginning of the 20th century, Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna. Beautiful women and an era that is ending drive his life and work. Two women will have a lasting impact on him his sister and first muse Gerti, and seventeen-year-old Wally, arguably Schiele's one true love, immortalized in his famous painting Death and the Maiden. Schiele's radical paintings scandalize Viennese society.

PAINT: Carl Nargle, Vermont's #1 public television painter, is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke...until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves.

BIG EYES: Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.

FINAL PORTRAIT: The story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti, as seen through Lord's eyes and revealing unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity, and sometimes the chaos of the artistic process.

THE MONUMENTS MEN: An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect mankind's greatest achievements.

MR. TURNER: Explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.

WOMAN IN GOLD: Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.

MPAA ratings: Paint, Big Eyes, The Monuments Men, and Woman in Gold are rated PG-13; Mr. Turner and Final Portrait are rated R; Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden is not rated.