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	A Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		Munch was one of six children born to a fiercely Christian doctor and a mother who died when Munch was young.
		Munch's first affair was with a married woman named Fru Heiberg, and the film presents it and its aftermath as formative influence on Munch and his work.
		A sequence of Munch painting is intercut with a philosophical argument at a tavern.
	www.tollbooth.org /2005/movies/munch.html (1130 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Edvard Munch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edvard Munch (December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944) was a Norwegian expressionist painter and printmaker.
		While Munch was still young, his mother, a brother and Munch's favourite sister Sophie (in 1877) died.
		In 1892, Munch formulated his characteristic, and original, Synthetist idiom as seen in Melancholy in which colour is the symbol-laden element (The Scream).
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Edvard_Munch (1308 words)

	Edvard Munch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edvard Munch [IPA: ɛdvɒ:rt munk] (December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944) was a Norwegian expressionist painter and printmaker.
		Munch was also often ill. Of the five siblings only Andreas married, only to die a few months after the wedding.
		Munch traveled to Paris in 1885, and his work began to show the influence of French painters — first of the impressionists, and then of the postimpressionists and of art nouveau design.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edvard_Munch (1390 words)

	EdvardMunch_PeterWatkins
		‘Edvard Munch’ was filmed during two separate periods in 1973: February-March for the winter scenes, and May-June for the spring and summer scenes.
		In the case of ‘Edvard Munch’, a group of NRK producers met the day after the film was shown to denounce its use of ‘amateurs’and the fact that the cast employed idiomatic modern expressions in their dialogue, as opposed to the style of Norwegian language spoken at the turn of the century.
		Oliver has produced two new and fully restored versions of the film: the original full-length version which was first shown on TV in the 1970's, and the shorter cinema version which was originally prepared for the first film screenings in France, the U.K. and the USA in the 1970s.
	www.mnsi.net /~pwatkins/munch.htm (1430 words)

	'Edvard Munch' paints adark portrait of the artist - The Boston Globe
		Repeatedly reviled by the critics of his day, the Norwegian-born Munch became the standard-bearer of the German Expressionist movement, which sought to portray the internal wranglings of the psyche in art.
		''Edvard Munch," Peter Watkins's 1976 television film about the artist, is a relentless, dark, and clever examination of the artist's life, and how it informed his art.
		For Munch, life was a cycle of love, loss, despair, and jealousy, and his goal as an artist became to express those emotions as conditions of humanity.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2005/07/28/edvard_munch_paints_adark_portrait_of_the_artist (496 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Edvard Munch
		Edvard Munch, who is to become Norway's most famous painter, is born in 1863 to decidedly bourgeois household.
		This makes Edvard Munch not just an examination of a single man's genius, but an equally faithful dissection of a historical moment, specifically as it pertains to the revolutionary innovations that were occurring in the European art community during the last years of the 19th century.
		Munch's descent into self-destruction and clear insanity isn't prettified in any way; neither is the painstaking and often painful process of self-realization and epiphany, be it emotional, spiritual, or artistic in nature.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/edvardmunch.php (1005 words)

	Edvard Munch - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Munch was one of the most influential of modern artists, inspiring expressionism.
		Munch's tortured, isolated figures and violent colouring caused a scandal when he exhibited his work in Berlin in 1892, but his paintings inspired progressive artists to form the Sezession.
		The Oslo outsider: two recent museum exhibitions, in New York and London, provided opportunities to view Edvard Munch's work in depth and to consider the factors that continue to prevent a full appreciation of his artistic achievement.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-MunchEdvard.html (501 words)

	Munch-museet : Education -> Film
		Film Film programme Munch's own film recordings (1927) From Ekely: the city and the artists (documentary, 1953) Moments in the life of Edvard Munch (documentary, 1957) The Munch Museum in Oslo (documentary, 1963)
		In connection with Munchâs exhibition of Honour at the National Gallery in Berlin in the spring of 1927 he went on an extended trip to the Continent, during which he also visited Dresden before returning to Oslo in May. One of the cassette films were taken in Dresden, the other three in Oslo and Aker.
		The last part of the film is of Munch himself at the foot of the stairs at Ekely.
	www.munch.museum.no /content.aspx?id=68&mid=29&lang=en (1037 words)

	Edvard Munch - Movie Review
		Munch portrays our solitary existence by having people touching each other just meld together, rather than the closeness normally associated with contact neither human is truly present or one is absorbing the other’s life force like a vampire.
		Thankfully, Munch’s work isn’t designed to be reprinted on greeting cards, but what scares some people and thus stirs their vehement condemnation is it goes places they don’t want to be, to the depths of human psychology, the darkest corners of the mind.
		Watkins shows that Munch’s work was mainly influenced by his personal life, a childhood of sickness and death (mother, siblings) followed by a brief but perpetually haunting affair with an unattainable married woman.
	metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/edvardmunch.html (835 words)

	Edvard Munch : Filmcritic.com Movie Review
		Munch is both maligned and embraced by a culture and a world that was quick (as it seems it remains) to kick the freaks out and at the same time gloat over their shenanigans.
		The film mixes documentary approaches, an atonal narrator (Watkins himself) detailing Munch’s life and his place in the art world, while segments are “performed” by non-actors who relive his most traumatic moments.
		The measures that made Munch the man he was, so Watkins says, were periods of illness and death – his mother of consumption when he was but a tyke, his sister also to TB, and his own struggle with disease and near-death as a teen.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/60e74e041ca9cd6b8625626f0062219f/dbf166f98eb078160825711f0083a273?OpenDocument (619 words)

	© PSYCHOMEDIA - Luca Trabucco - Edvard Munch. Art and Transformation of Mental Suffering. Psychoanalytical ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A theme which in Munch, for his elements more clearly melancholic and paranoical, gets the meaning of a persecutory fate which is to mean the presence of death into life, as if what is given to the child with his birth would only be a condemnation to suffer death.
		Munch's solitude is expressed at its apex, in the utmost tension as represented in "Despair" (1892).
		Munch did ot reach the limit to re-building his own inner world, but, thanks to a childish experience preeceding the sad traumas which impressed him indelibly, must have found a family experience where the space for creativity could sufficiently be developed, without being annishilated by the traumatic experience.
	www.psychomedia.it /pm/culture/visarts/munch2.htm (9204 words)

	Peter Watkins' Edvard Munch: Diagnosing panic and dread (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Relying on a fragmented narrative derived from Munch’s diaries, including recurring (and sometimes repetitious) images from the painter’s trauma-filled childhood, the film primarily covers a 10-year period from 1884 to 1894, when Munch was age 21 to 31.
		In its first moments, the film cuts between images of the city and shots of factory workers talking about their conditions of life as they face the camera—a technique Watkins calls removing the “fourth wall” (the latter is considered by the director to be an “elitist barrier” that separates actor and filmmaker from the viewer).
		Too much of Munch is devoted to pointless musings about the marital bondage of women, recurring and bloody images of illness in his family, and the film’s constant replay of visual and verbal banalities regarding his love affair with Mrs.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2006/mar2006/mnch-m25_prn.shtml (1924 words)

	edvardmunch
		Munch's the tortured genius artist driven to madness, whose story is taken from his extensive diary; he earned his international fame from his painting called Scream, whose striking unforgettable images of anxiety and inner terror has become part of the world's consciousness.
		What is remarkable, is how alive this presentation is. It tells how Munch's internal conflicts were exacerbating his already ill health, and when taken over in his last years by increasing isolation and bouts with depression and an eventual nervous breakdown, he still never stopped painting until hospitalized in his final year at 80.
		Watkin's sober-minded personal film is a detailed study of Munch brought to the screen in such a vivid and forceful expressive manner that is worthy of its subject; it captures the spirit of the creative process--which might be the most difficult thing to do when presenting an artist's biography.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/edvardmunch.htm (303 words)

	review of - DVDTOWN.com
		Edvard´s mother, brother and his beloved sister Sophie died when he was still a child, and these crippling losses would haunt him the rest of his life.
		The film begins in 1884 when young Munch (played by Geir Westby who, like the rest of the cast, was a non-professional actor) is a member of the Bohemian intellectual circle spearheaded by Hans Jaeger (Kåre Stormark).
		Though the film is about Edvard Munch, sometimes the story expands to depict life in Christiania, where the bourgeoisie thrived but the working class suffered from wretched labor conditions as well as rampant disease.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/edvardmunch/18404/3482 (825 words)

	Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY
		The film covers roughly half of Munch’s life, from his painful childhood (both mother and sister died of tuberculosis), which he characterized as being “hovered over by dark angels of illness, insanity, and death,” through his middle years as he struggled against the ignorance and suffocating conventions of his time.
		The film focuses on a crucial time of trauma, hardship, and artistic ferment for Munch, who lived to 80 years old (dying in 1944) and towards the end of his life received his justly deserved recognition.
		Munch represented a vanguard in modern painting and graphic arts: his work represents a switch from exteriors (the Impressionist experiments in light and atmosphere) to an attempt to portray the interior; his work is a cathartic working out of his deepest feelings of pain, loss, jealousy, and sexuality.
	www.cinemaartscentre.org /edvard.htm (351 words)

	Amazon.com: Edvard Munch: DVD: Geir Westby,Gro Fraas,Eric Allum,Amund Berge,Kerstii Allum,Inger-Berit Oland,Susan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From EDVARD MUNCH we recall far more extraordinary feelings of being lifted out of ourselves and thrust back into the very rooms Munch lived in and the into the Scandanavian light he worked in and into the tortured set of his mind as he shrank figures into hard, strong, symbolic forms.
		EDVARD MUNCH is an ambitious, often heavy-going effort to transcend traditional artist biographies with a cinematic equivalent of the artist's paintings.
		EDVARD MUNCH is one of the very few to give us a sense of both the man and his work.
	www.amazon.com /Edvard-Munch-Geir-Westby/dp/B000E1NX90 (2539 words)

	CNN.com - Munch-mysterious: Haunting at MoMA - Feb 20, 2006
		Munch poured what this exhibition reveals was a vast experience of painful, darkening depression into some of the most famously disturbing imagery of the last century.
		Edvard Munch's most famous image is from "The Scream." This detail of the 1895 lithograph with watercolor is from the Munch Museum, Oslo.
		Munch, while clearly wrestling with insecurity, fear, dread and at times an unstable emotional construct, was keenly aware of himself.
	edition.cnn.com /2006/TRAVEL/02/20/moma.munch (1369 words)

	notcoming.com \| Edvard Munch
		That being said, however, Edvard Munch is also the work of a master editor, brilliantly assembled in a chronology that follows the most fervidly experimental period of the artist’s career with constant divergences and interruptions from the past.
		Munch, with his personal fixations on a childhood filled with “illness, insanity, and death,” and on a traumatic affair with a married woman, pursues his artistic experimentation under a constant assault from the ghosts of the past.
		Edvard Munch is, then, a further project of Watkins’ historical materialism in film, intersecting past and present in a way that challenges conventional or authoritative narratives of the past and its meaning.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews.php?id=449 (681 words)

	Edvard Munch \| Fenway Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edvard Munch by Peter Watkins (Sweden/Norway, 1976, 167 min.).
		Considered by many to be the most successful portrayal of the artistic process ever depicted on film, this is the intensely personal biographical recreation of the early struggles endured by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.
		Crucified by critics and public alike in the late nineteenth century, Munch is seen here as a young man in battle with puritanical Norwegian society and beset with various family tragedies and resultant depressions, all the while wrestling to give expression to his own artistic voice.
	fenway-views.com /edvard_munch_1 (133 words)

	Peter Watkins—Notes and Questions: (3) Edvard Munch. By By John Gianvito
		Munch’s association with Hans Jaeger and his circle in Kristiana during the 1880s became a crucial turning point in the artist’s life, and a source of new inner unrest and conflict.
		Edvard Munch deeply sensed the angst running through society, the existential fear of man’s seeming incapacity to learn from history, to lurch from one war to another, from one unjust social system to the next.
		Edvard Munch tries to counter this reactionary and dangerous tendency, by using a complex form which hopefully ensures that people have varying reactions to it.
	www.cinema-scope.com /cs25/feat_gianvito_watkins.htm (3651 words)

	Real Change
		Edvard Munch’s nightmarish painting The Scream — depicting a Martian-like being, hands to ears, eyes afright, and mouth in full bellow— is a staple of pop imagery.
		Edvard Munch, the film, first released in 1972, draws the eponymous artist as a man delivered into a life of agony.
		That Edvard Munch is a work of love and dedication for Watkins is never in doubt.
	www.realchangenews.org /2006/2006_03_01/filmreview.html (497 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Edvard Munch
		Edvard Munch is a long film but a fascinating one, an honest work of conceptual art that follows no rules but its own.
		Edvard doesn't subscribe to the hatred of middle class values but he does gravitate toward the movement's espousal of free love when he has an affair with a married woman, Mrs.
		Edvard Munch is a movie one begins in trepidation and then quickly becomes hooked on.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1911munc.html (1465 words)

	Munch - Research the news about Munch - from HighBeam Research
		Edvard Munch's life was as colourful and contorted as his psychologically acute canvases.
		Arts: The Munch bunch; Edvard Munch went to hell and back, and his vision reflected his troubles, as six decades of self-portraits show.
		Munch's fetishes, fears and phobias; Dogged by sexual demons and damaged by alcohol, Edvard Munch's torments defined his art.
	www.highbeam.com /search.aspx?q=Munch,&ref_id=ency_botnm (1297 words)

	An Artist Working in Despair's Grip - New York Times
		Extraordinary in execution and impact, the biographical film "Edvard Munch" relates the true-to-life story of the Norwegian painter whose work held up a mirror to a feverishly anguished life.
		Like "Edvard Munch," that film employs fiction and nonfiction techniques, an approach that was so disturbingly effective that the BBC banned "The War Game" from television for nearly two decades.
		Munch's favorite sister followed nine years later, an event that he later committed to canvas in one of his most important paintings, "The Sick Child." The creation of this landmark painting, which he obsessively reworked, forms one of the most compelling interludes in Mr.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/06/18/movies/MoviesFeatures/18choi.html?ex=1276747200&en=cf916bc14a877441&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (572 words)

	Felonious Munch - February 21, 2006 - The New York Sun
		His films don't incite controversy but rather the kind of suppression kept so quiet that no one bothers to protest the protest.
		One of the most probing dissections of an artist ever attempted on film,"Edvard Munch" is every bit as severe and political as "Punishment Park," framing the artist as an indefatigable visionary trying to illuminate the lives of those who prefer the dark.
		Although his film is no more a documentary than "Lust for Life" or "Moulin Rouge," Mr.Watkins combines nonfiction techniques with a Bressonian asceticism and trust in amateur actors.
	www.nysun.com /article/27855 (828 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Edvard Munch
		Strangely enough, two of his most acclaimed films take place decades before the Edison's kinetoscope, but Watkins seems to use the anachronism of creating a hypothetical "first-person cinema" in the B.C. years to accentuate his impassioned appeal for elevated media consciousness.
		His 1974 film Edvard Munch, commissioned (and then, according to Watkins, ceremoniously held hostage) by the Norwegian NRK and Swedish SVT television stations, is neither as slow as La Commune nor does it reach any sort of boil.
		Munch first loses any hope of a good reputation at home in Norway, and then abroad where his canvases are ridiculed for either being too grotesque or for being opportunistic, jumping on the caboose of Parisian expressionism.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=2088 (417 words)

	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions \| 2006 \| Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul
		This is the first retrospective devoted to the work of the internationally renowned Norwegian painter, printmaker, and draftsman to be held in an American museum in almost three decades.
		Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul surveys Munch’s career in its entirety, from 1880 to 1944, showcasing his artistic achievement in its true richness and diversity.
		Through eighty-seven paintings and fifty works on paper representing each phase of his career, the exhibition reveals Munch’s struggle to translate personal trauma into universal terms and, in the process, comprehend the fundamental components of human existence: birth, love, and death.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/2006/Munch.html (273 words)

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