United Creators recommends the following films that have something profound, interesting and apropos to show and tell about the contemporary arts and those who have helped shape it:

By Gil Sembrano • Managing Editor

FRIDA (2002)
Six Oscar nominations including Best Actress for Salma Hayek's bravura performance as Mexican artist Frida Kahlo were well-deserved for director Julie Taymor's evocative and visually extravagant film. The story chronicles the controversial and uncompromising life of Frida Kahlo: her beginnings and rise as an artist, her turbulent relationship with muralist Diego Rivera, her involvement with Communism and her dalliances with women. Director Taymor (notable for her innovative production work and direction for Titus and the stage version of The Lion King), weaves elements of Kahlo's paintings into the narrative creating a hauntingly beautiful and dream-like world. Actress Hayek, who also produced the film, portrays Kahlo as artistically, politically and sexually revolutionary and redeems herself from career mis-steps as Wild Wild West and 54.
* (left) Selma Hayek IS painter
* Frida Kahlo in Frida

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of
Francis Bacon (1998)
Former music video director (Sinead O'Connor and Everything But the Girl) John Maybury capably directs Derek Jacobi as Francis Bacon and a pre-007 Daniel Craig as his muse, model and lover George Dyer in this stylish and dark biopic. Since Bacon's estate refused the film production the usage of his actual painted works, Maybury recreated the pain, pathos and anger of Bacon's art through brilliantly staged cinematography and production design. Watch for cameos by UK former YBA artists: Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin.
(above) Derek Jacobi as
painter Francis Bacon
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