Starry Night

I am an art history major, and I honestly don't know how this movie won awards. It was cute, but rather poorly done and incredibly hokey. Abbot Alexander looks dead on van Gogh, but thats about where the excellence of this movie ends. If you are looking just for a happy movie, this is good, just remember it is highly inaccurate and tremendously fantastical. If you want a really good van Gogh movie, try Lust For Life

This was shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival (April 2000), where it won an Audience Award for Best Feature Film. It's a real delight. Good cinematography and a good story. It's a fantasy/fable in which Van Gogh comes back to life in the present day. When he finds out how much his paintings are worth, he decides to take them back (since he only sold one during his lifetime, the rest are still his) and sell them to raise money for scholarships for art students. Along the way, he runs afoul of art critics and manages to keep one step ahead of the police.

Just caught this movie this morning on cable. I came to the IMDB to see how low the rating was, because I quite honestly thought it was terrible... the acting was especially bad and cheesy...and I agree that the production quality was really subpar. It was so bad I actually thought it was funny! Belongs in that book "Bad Movies We Like", though I didn't really even like it all that much.

I, too, say that if you want to watch a movie about Vincent Van Gogh, watch _Lust for Life_. MUCH MUCH better.

Sure after watching it, you'll catch yourself wondering: how did THE WAVES bring (Vincent) from Europe to Hollywood?!, how did the girl love him that easily?!, how on earth he could be that genius as a thief to steal all of his paintings?!!, how come he was that stupid to go to the auction and claim all of that millions?!!, and how his sane girlfriend didn't stop him?!, and what is it with all of that back-projections to make us believe that (Vincent) and his two friends are in Paris?!!, you can say that again about those shots, from 2 cameras, which the news bulletin of the American TV aired for (Vincent) in jail; it was part of the movie, not the news! Ok, don't tire yourself with those questions, since the movie looked like a project of cinema school student with all the faults, videography, and that zero budget; and that's an enough answer!

But, fairly, the story was beautiful. Also the cover version of (Starry Night) at the opening credits was so good and tender like the performance of all the cast. (David Abbott) was fine as the sensitive gentle (Vincent), with the crazy look lasting in his eyes. (Lisa Waltz) was wonderful, despite how her part gave her nothing to do except loving the man and believing in him! (Lou Wagner) was as childish as the movie itself. Actually all the cast was pretty amazing, believing the true fantasy of the situation with a smile on their faces as they're telling a story for a kid, and that's the real purpose of this very tiny movie anyway.

It's about honoring, even in an unassuming way, the memory of (Vincent Van Gogh), and teaching us some sweet messages too; for instance, how to believe in miracles and not to be that logical all the time; like the detective who loses because of this very reason, love your friend; (Vincent) - here - cut off his earlobe as a regret for insulting his friend (Paul Gauguin)!, have faith in your dreams, high art is not for the rich people only who must ensure sponsorship for the young unknown artistes, and the good message about the late evaluation of the artist, and how that mustn't delay the artist's resolution or make him doubt his talent; to shoot himself like (Vincent).

It's a childish movie; with the worst and the best meanings of the word. So it's naive, some kind of poor, but nice, and well-meaning for any child around, including the one inside every one of us.

Just finished watching this film and i thought it was incredibly bad. I didn't see the beginning but the entire story seemed stupid. The characters were extremely annoying, the dubbing and blue screen was bad and just too obvious, and to top it all off, it was just annoying!! I really disliked the character Kathy, and the way the news had clips of the movie was silly too. I also thought that the detective really over egged her performance.

Still, i liked the really bad accents :)