19 films that explore art and erotica: 1. The Dreamers — Bernardo Bertolucci 2. La Belle Noiseuse — Jacques Rivette 3. The Pillow Book — Peter Greenaway 4. Camille Claudel — Bruno Nuytten 5. Henry & June —Philip Kaufman 6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Celine Sciamma 7. Caravaggio — Derek Jarman 8. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus — Steven Shainberg 9. A Bigger Splash — Luca Guadagnino 10. Artemisia — Agnes Merlet 11. The Artist and the Model — Fernando Trueba 12. Anatomy of Hell — Catherine Breillat 13. Lust for Life — Vincente Minelli 14. Surviving Picasso — James Ivory 15. The Libertine — Laurence Dunmore 16. Goya's Ghosts — Milos Forman 17. The Dying Gaul — Craig Lucas 18. Factory Girl — George Hickenlooper 19. Claire's Camera — Hong Sang-soo

Some of these I've watched and loved, some I have yet to see. For future reference.

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Watched the most bizarre take on War of the Worlds last night; a Polish film on Mubi called THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: NEXT CENTURY. Not so much an adaptation as much as it is informed by War of the Worlds. And not just by the story itself, but by the story's lore, the fiasco surrounding Orson Welles' radio adaptation of piece in that THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: NEXT CENTURY utilizes the premise of an alien invasion to create a film about media and propaganda. It's like a War of the Worlds iteration filtered through an Eastern European Philip K. Dick. Bizarre stuff.

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