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Arthouse

1997
1 season
19 episodes
Documentary

Channel 4 documentary series covering all branches of the arts.

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Van Gogh Fakes

    26-10-1997

    Geraldine Norman investigates the growing body of evidence that casts doubt on the authenticity of paintings which have long been held to be works of Vincent Van Gogh.

  • Ep 2

    2.Big War in Lilliput

    03-11-199751m

    Hungarian businessman Gyorgy Klapka attempts to resurrect the once-famous Lilliput dwarf theatre in Budapest, closed down long ago by the Communists, to mount a production of Alfre...

  • Ep 3

    3.In Search of the Amber Room

    09-11-1997

    Anthony Wilson tries to solve the mystery of the Amber Room of the tsars in St. Petersburg, stolen by the Germans and never found.

  • Ep 4

    4.A Very British Psycho

    23-11-199751m

    Vilified on its release in 1960 as pornographic, Michael Powell's film Peeping Tom is now regarded by many as a masterpiece.

  • Ep 5

    5.Rebel With a Cause

    30-11-1997

    Can flamboyant US ad-man Tony Kaye market himself as a serious artist?

  • Ep 6

    6.Naked and Famous

    07-12-1997

    Profile of rap artist and writer Tricky, who returns to the Bristol estate where he grew up.

  • Ep 7

    7.Ivanov Goes to Moscow

    14-12-199751m

    Ralph Fiennes, Harriet Walter, and the rest of the Almeida Theatre Company earlier this year took their acclaimed production of Chekhov's Ivanov back to its roots in Moscow.

  • Ep 8

    8.Songs from the Golden City

    20-12-199751m

    Returning from exile, Joe Mogotsi of the legendary Manhattan Brothers, takes us on a cinematic journey into the virtuosity, exuberance and resistance of South African jazz. Joe rec...

  • Ep 9

    9.Making a Killing

    28-06-1998

    Through the story of the Gutmann family's quest to recover the art collection stolen by the Nazis from their parents, questioning the international art market's collusion in Nazi a...

  • Ep 10

    10.Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin

    19-07-199851m

    Back in the 1960s, the novelist Anaïs Nin was acclaimed as a feminist icon when her revelatory diaries were published. But she had omitted much of her bigamous past, and it is only...

  • Ep 11

    11.The Fine Art of Crime

    26-07-1998

    The theft of a Caravaggio from a Palermo church nearly 30 years ago shocked the art world. Since then, art has come to play an integral part in the laundering of the proceeds of cr...

  • Ep 12

    12.The Other Francis Bacon

    02-08-1998

    Art-world orthodoxy holds that Bacon did not prepare or rehearse his paintings. But Bacon's friend and neighbour Barry Joule has revealed an enormous cache of sketches and treated...

  • Ep 13

    13.The Lost Frescoes

    09-08-1998

    Restoration of frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, badly damaged in a 1997 earthquake, is being held up.

  • Ep 14

    14.Tuning With the Enemy

    16-08-199851m

    American piano tuner Ben Treuhaft tries to get pianos into Cuba.

  • Ep 15

    15.Daydream Believers

    29-08-1998

    Tells the story of five people who auditioned to become Monkees but failed to make the cut. Their feelings about it range from relief to embarrassment, self-justification, and regr...

  • Ep 16

    16.A Roll of the Dice: The Story of The Capeman

    06-09-1998

    The 40-member cast of Paul Simon's Broadway musical disaster The Capeman grapple with the staging of the controversial show based on a true story about a 16-year-old Puerto Rican k...

  • Ep 17

    17.The Lost Supper

    27-12-1998

    The restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous masterpiece, The Last Supper, produced results some call glorious and others call tragic. Da Vinci’s famously fragile fresco was alway...

  • Ep 18

    18.Loving Lenin

    10-01-1999

    Imaginative use of archive footage and interviews to examine how Lenin achieved mythical status, and why his death is still mourned by some in Russia.

  • Ep 19

    19.The Cowboy and the Eclipse

    08-08-1999

    James Turrell is famous for creating the world's largest piece of "land art" - reshaping a volcano. But he has also built a giant camera obscura on a Cornish hillside to record the...

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