The anguished paintings of Edvard Munch, who was born in 1863, foreshadowed expressionism and provided uneasy visual correlatives to the horror and loneliness of the twentieth century. But it wasn’t ...

Famously described by Ingmar Bergman as a "work of genius", Peter Watkins' multi-faceted masterpiece is more than just a bio-pic of the iconic Norwegian Expressionist painter. Focusing initially on ...

"EDVARD MUNCH," Peter Watkins's 1974 docudrama about the Norwegian artist's life, in Norwegian with English subtitles. 2 p.m., National Gallery of Art, East Building, Fourth Street and Constitution ...

La Commune‘s selected but fervent praise, an Anthology retro, the exhumation of Punishment Park and Privilege at the Walter Reade, and now a restored re-release of his 1974 masterpiece Edvard Munch.

Densely edited and largely achronological, Peter Watkin’s epic portrait of the artist is an essay with actors that has the form and tropes of a doc: direct address, contrapuntal voice-over, casual ...

Edvard Munch is a 1974 biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch, written and directed by Peter Watkins. It was originally created as a three-part miniseries co-produced ...

Made for Norwegian TV in 1974, this long but fascinating biopic by Peter Watkins mixes dramatic and documentary techniques to profile the man who painted The Scream. A documentary voice-over in ...