Oscar-winning director Peter Watkins' powerful masterpiece exploring the intertwined life and art of the celebrated painter of "The Scream", returns in a restored new 35 mm print. "As powerful, thoughtful and revelatory as anything you'll see this year, "Edvard Munch" stands as one of a tiny number of films about artists that are themselves masterpieces" (Jason Anderson, Toronto Eye).

Watkins and his cast--improvising from the details of Munch's life-- created an almost overwhelming portrait of not just Munch's life, but that of 19th century Scandinavian society, a society whose beauty and horror were reflected--much to its consternation - in the artist's work. The film, originally released in 1976, emerges anew as "the cinema's most intelligent attempt to probe and dramatize the mind and methods of a great artist," as Newsweek's Jack Kroll put it. "As portraits of artists as young and disturbed geniuses go, Edvard Munch is much more than a biopic; it's a revolutionary look at the art of creation and its aftershocks that's easily without equal." (Time Out New York)

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