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Poll: The "Best Bio-Pics Ever Made"
According to Richard Brody, a movie critic for the New Yorker magazine, bio-pics "present very particular artistic challenges" so he wrote an article that explores the ones that "transcend them." Those movies are listed below. Some are very well known and widely seen (three are even on IMDb's Top 250), while others are little known and a few even hard to find. Which is your favorite or which one would you most like to see?
Please feel free to discuss here.
Note: Movies are listed in chronological order, as they are in the New Yorker article, which can be read here.
Make Your Choice
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Gentleman Jim (1942)
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The Great Moment (1944)
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
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A Scandal in Paris (1946)
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Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
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The Actress (1953)
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The Eternal Breasts (1955)
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Lola Montès (1955)
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The Wrong Man (1956)
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The Wings of Eagles (1957)
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Djamilah (1958)
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Enchanted Desna (1964)
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The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966)
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The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)
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The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
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American Hot Wax (1978)
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The Elephant Man (1980)
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Raging Bull (1980)
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
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Bird (1988)
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Close-Up (1990)
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Jacquot of Nantes (1991)
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Malcolm X (1992)
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The Last Days of Immanuel Kant (1993)
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Shulie (1998)
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Marie Antoinette (2006)
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Talk to Me (2007)
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Nainsukh (2010)
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Cinema Verite (2011)
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A Quiet Passion (2016)
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Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017)
