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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Release Date: November 10, 2006 (NY, LA; expansion: November 17)
Studio: Picturehouse
Director: Steven Shainberg
Screenwriter:
Erin Cressida Wilson
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr., Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander, Emmy Clarke, Genevieve McCarthy
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R (for graphic nudity, some sexuality and langauge)
Official Website: Furmovie.com
 
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Kidman stars as legendary photographer Diane Arbus. Set in New York in the late 1950s, the film explores an unlikely romance that leads Arbus into a strange new world, sparking her evolution into one of the most provocative and visionary photographers of all time. More here

 

 

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Fast-Paised review: 'Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus'
Chicago Tribune, United States - Nov 16, 2006
... Bored with being her husband's assistant, Diane (pronounced "Dee-ann") Arbus (Nicole ... it: There's a spacey hue of weirdness that makes "Fur" watchable, but ...

Telluride Review: Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Cinematical, CA - Nov 10, 2006
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, is a beautiful, elegant, poem of a film, and yet, like Arbus (Nicole Kidman) herself, it's so strange it almost ...

Strange Fur' just a hair below great
Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH - Nov 22, 2006
We talk about good hair and makeup in movies, but what if hair is the makeup? In "Fur," Robert Downey Jr. plays Lionel, a man with ...

Teaming of Kidman, Downey doesn't pay off in "Fur"
Asbury Park Press, NJ - Nov 22, 2006
BY ELEANOR O'SULLIVAN. It's hard to imagine a bigger disappointment this year: "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" has three ...

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Tucson Weekly, AZ - Nov 21, 2006
It’s almost impossible to count how many things went wrong in this Steven Shainberg-directed story about photographer Diane Arbus. ...

Nothing warm and fuzzy about 'Fur'
Scripps News, DC - Nov 21, 2006
By PHIL VILLARREAL. It's called "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus," but there's nothing imaginary about the film. It's real ...


External Links:

Official Website: Furmovie.com

Double Exposure Washington Post article; stories behind the photographs, interviews with the Wade twins, Colin "grenade boy" Wood, and others.

Diane Arbus: Art as Freakshow? Prof. Christie Davies, Social Affairs Unit Web Review

Diane Arbus: Revealed And Rediscovered Washington Post article; Photo Essay by Frank Van Riper

Diane Arbus: Revelations exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 13 Otober 2005 — 15 January 2006

Essay on Arbus's psychology and the links between her life and work at http://www.psychobiography.com

Photo of the Jewish Giant

 



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