Basic Info
Title:
Georgia O'Keeffe
Genre:
Drama
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Running
time: 89 minutes
Release
date: September 19, 2009
Staff
Director:
Bob Balaban
Produced by: Joshua D. Maurer, Alixandre
Witlin, Joan Allen, Tony Mark
Screenplay: Michael Cristofer
Cinematography:
Paul Elliott
Music:
Jeff Beal
Editor:
Kathryn Himoff
Cast
Joan Allen as Georgia O'Keeffe
Jeremy Irons as Alfred Stieglitz
Henry Simmons as Jean Toomer
Ed Begley, Jr. as Stieglitz's
brother Lee
Tyne Daly as Mabel Dodge Luhan
Kathleen Chalfant as Mrs. Stieglitz
Linda Emond as Beck Strand
Summary
"Georgia O'Keeffe" is a 2009 American television biographical film produced by City Entertainment in collaboration with Sony TV. It is a story about the famous American painter Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Directed by Bob Balaban, the film was shown on Lifetime Television, starring Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons.
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| Georgia O'Keeffe |
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| Alfred Stieglitz |
Selected as 9 nominations at the 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards and 3 nominations at the 2009 Golden Globe Awards, this film has received more total nominations than in the history of Lifetime Television combined, making it the most critically acclaimed film in Lifetime's history.
Plot
Georgia O'Keeffe (Joan Allen) is a young painter in the 1910s, and Alfred Stieglitz (Jeremy Irons) is a New York-based photographer and artistic impresario who discovers her works. Later, O'Keeffe collides with Stieglitz when she discovers that her works are displayed at an art gallery without her permission.
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| Sunrise, Georgia O'Keeffe (1916) |
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| A Snapshot Paris, Alfred Stieglitz (1911) |
However he fascinates her
and their 20-year relationship begins. Stieglitz, 23 years older than O'Keeffe,
begins living with her and later divorces his wife to marry her. However, as
O'Keeffe becomes a famous artist, their relationship deteriorates.
Movie
Review
“You were put on this
earth to paint”
“Needs a Big-Screen
Release”
“Joan Allen superb!!!”
“I don't know what art is,
but I'll know it when I'll see it!”
Interesting
stories about the film
1. This film was
originally scheduled to be produced by HBO, but as HBO gave up production,
Lifetime TV took it over.
2. The screenplay of
the film was written by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cristofer, best known for
Pulitzer Prize-winning play “The Shadow Box (1977)” and 1998 film “Gia”.
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| Movie, Gia |
3. The film was shot
entirely in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico.
4. The executive
producers worked closely with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, especially with
curator and leading scholar of the Museum, Barbara Buhler Lynes, and were
allowed to use more than 70 paintings of O'Keeffe in the film.
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| Georgia O'Keeffe Museum |
5. The filmmakers were
given permission to film at O'Keeffe's home in Ghost Ranch, near of Abiquiú,
New Mexico, which was given to a film company for the first time.
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| Ghost Ranch |
6. Joan Allen, who
starred as O'Keeffe, took a separate painting lessons for this film.
Thank you.
