Picasso And Braque Go To The Movies

Among the first generation of cinemagoers in turn-of-the-century Paris were two young painters, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Soon to revolutionize the history of art, Picasso and Braque were so smitten with early film that they formed a film club. Martin Scorsese narrates filmmaker Arne Glimcher’s fascinating exploration of early cinema’s influence on the birth of Cubism and visual modernism. Fearturing art historian John Richardson and contemporary masters of the canvas such as Chuck Close, Julian Schnabel and Eric Fischl. (2008)