Artworks

Starring:Virginia Madsen, Daniel Von Bergen
Studio: Mti Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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Product Description
A police chief's daughter, a sales agent for a home-security firm, meets an art gallery owner. Love and envy lead them to hatch a plot to steal overlooked but valuable paintings from her wealthy clients.

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Running Time 95 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Not what it could have been
Art Appreciation Daze
Sexy lady - high class ho - not much going on in the script
Virginia Madsen and Rick Rossovich in a Sexy Thriller.
When the passion overpasses the ethic!

Artworks
Starring: Virginia Madsen
Director: Jim Amatulli
Manufacturer: Mti Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0006IIPWG
Release Date: 2005-01-25

Product Description

A police chief's daughter, a sales agent for a home-security firm, meets an art gallery owner. Love and envy lead them to hatch a plot to steal overlooked but valuable paintings from her wealthy clients.

System Requirements:

Running Time 95 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

Not what it could have been.......2006-01-16

I had "The Thomas Crowne Affair" in hand when I wondered if there might be a similar movie I hadn't yet seen. "Artworks" was an obvious choice.

It proved entertaining and interesting enough - particularly its premise. But the whole thing had a "made for TV" feel to it - the cinematography, script, and the acting (which may have just been a result of the writing - hard to tell).

I can only imagine how good this good-guy heist movie could have been had it had the cinematic mood and suspenseful style of "The Thomas Crowne Affair" or the chic style and crisp dialogue of "Ocean's 11".

Art Appreciation Daze.......2005-11-18

While it's easy for me to get caught up in Virginia Madsen's ability to lend her understated, sometimes breathtaking talents to even the most mediocre of roles (think HIGHLANDER 2), I still had trouble enjoying ARTWORKS. Though the cinematography is first-rate and the acting pretty decent among the cast, something falls short.

Maybe it's the rather blah writing or the lack of motivation and background on the characters of Bret Rogers and Cory Wells. It also could be the fact that all the chemistry in the world still doesn't really explain why Emma Becker and Bret fall in love (Do we really even care?)

The main reason I stuck with this "art heist movie trying to be an independent film" was because I could relate to the aching appreciation for art Virginia Madsen so eloquently conveys through her portrayal of Emma Becker. Her quiet suffering at the loss of her newborn baby can only be alleviated through painting and acquiring, unfortunately through illegal means, artwork that others take for granted.

"Artworks" might have worked better if the writers could have made us care more about the action scenes. ("Action" is probably too generous a word since each art theft seems to have been phoned in, rather than played with any enthusiasm that reflects the characters' passion for art.)

It's true I'm giving this movie three stars, but I would like to give the cat who appears during one particularly passionless scene five stars for providing one of "Artwork"'s few suspenseful moments:).

Sexy lady - high class ho - not much going on in the script.......2005-07-03

Just a simple textbook crime spree by thrill-seeking, amateur kleptomaniacs. Which ends in the expected. Lackluster script that moves waaay too slowly; not many ideas. The lady's sexy, and for gay or female viewers, the men are not bad either, but otherwise? Teh!

Virginia Madsen and Rick Rossovich in a Sexy Thriller........2005-05-31

In this sexy and captivating thriller about art heist, Virginia Madsen turned in a multilayered performance as a home alarm technician/aspiring artist with a desire to steal some of her clients' expensive paintings. Emma Becker(Madssen) is still grieving over the death of her baby and she is on the verge of getting a divorce from her husband who no longer connects to her. She meets Bret Rogers(Rick Rossovich), an art gallery owner with a history of art heist. They hit it off romantically, and they shared the same passion for art. They envy their wealthy clients, and decide to steal some paintings. With the help of Bret's assistant Cory Wells(Eddie Mills), a lock specialist, they successfully stole paintings by replacing the originals with fake ones. When Bret grew tired and worried about getting caught, Emma insisted on doing one more job before moving away to a wine country down south. At the same time, one of the house reported the crime when the painting was recognized as a fake. Will Emma's police chief father be able to help them get out of the situation and avoid any arrest?...

Virginia Madsen and Rick Rossovich had some very steamy scenes together, and they made a perfect couple. They had plenty of romantic chemistry. The story and characters are well written, while the film is not keen on elaborate scenes of the stealing.

When the passion overpasses the ethic!.......2005-02-26

The film has to do with that question. In the actual times, art's world has trivialized by itself; the love and the passion for an artwork has even limited in all its aspects. The inner commitment of the artist has been distorted and probably due the future is considered not just a new day but the extension of the present . The artist not only must show the horror , the pain, the pity and the sorrow, but having a major scope and intend to express the possibility of living in other worlds inside this one. The art is possibly precisely due the world is imperfect, in a perfect world the art would not have any sense. In the other hand, some collectors art is immersed in a real vertigo, a kind of mirror hall and a huge market gallery.

Two outsiders will meet and decide to fake artworks in the name of ... It is very easy to remind a crucial film of that talented director Alan Rudolph with the Moderns on the early eighties which dealt with a similar issue.

Virginia Madsen loads the screen with her mysterious beauty and Rossovich makes an adequate portrait of the cold blood brain master in this interesting picture. Certain commercial concessions don't weak the final intentions of the script, even the resolution is not convincing at all.

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Artworks
Starring: Virginia Madsen
Director: Jim Amatulli
Manufacturer: Sterling Ent
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000G2YCWY
Release Date: 2006-06-05

Masterpieces of Western Art: A Virtual Art Gallery

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Masterpieces of Western Art: A Virtual Art Gallery

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Pan and Zoom features brings out the fine details of each painting.
The finest paintings by over 60 Masters of Western Art
Accompanied by some of the greatest Classical Music Masterpieces.
Includes brief titles mentioning the artist's name for each series of works.

ASIN: B000PRQCLE

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Enjoy the Greatest Masterpieces of Western Art in the comfort of your own home. Volume One of the Living Arts DVD Series, this DVD offers 90 minutes of the finest artworks of Masters such as Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Da Vinci, John Singer Sargent, John William Waterhouse, Vermeer, Albert Bierstadt, Gaugin, Bouguereau, Degas, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Remington, Raphael, Rubens, and many more. Pan and Zoom features bring out the finest details of the artworks, and your Virtual Gallery Tour is accompanied by some of the greatest classical music ever created, including works by Bach, Wagner, Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Vivaldi, and other classical composers.

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