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The Best Episodes of Arthouse

Every episode of Arthouse ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Arthouse!

Channel 4 documentary series covering all branches of the arts.
Genre:Documentary
Network:Channel 4

Best Episodes Summary

"The Van Gogh Fakes" is the best rated episode of "Arthouse". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/26/1997. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "Big War in Lilliput".

  • The Van Gogh Fakes
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    #1 - The Van Gogh Fakes

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/1997

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Big War in Lilliput
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    #2 - Big War in Lilliput

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/3/1997

    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 Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi. But after suffering years of exploitation as well as banishment, the dwarf actors are keen to maximise their assets by appearing in other, perhaps more lucrative productions.

    Director: Nicholas Rohl

    Writer: N/A

  • In Search of the Amber Room
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    #3 - In Search of the Amber Room

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/1997

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

    Director: Stuart Clarke

    Writer: N/A

  • A Very British Psycho
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    #4 - A Very British Psycho

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/23/1997

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

    Director: Christopher Rodley

    Writer: N/A

  • Rebel With a Cause
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    #5 - Rebel With a Cause

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/30/1997

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

    Director: Marc Munden

    Writer: N/A

  • Naked and Famous
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    #6 - Naked and Famous

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/7/1997

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

    Director: Mark Kidel

    Writer: N/A

  • Ivanov Goes to Moscow
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    #7 - Ivanov Goes to Moscow

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/14/1997

    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.

    Director: Geoff Dunlop

    Writer: Geoff Dunlop

  • Songs from the Golden City
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    #8 - Songs from the Golden City

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/20/1997

    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 reconnects with jazz greats Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim as he seeks justice, recognition, and recompense for the Manhattan Brothers’ extraordinary catalogue of music.

    Director: Virginia Heath

    Writer: N/A

  • Making a Killing
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    #9 - Making a Killing

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/28/1998

    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 art looting.

    Director: Christopher Spencer

    Writer: N/A

  • Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin
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    #10 - Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/19/1998

    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 now that a complete picture of this secretive writer is emerging.

    Director: Coky Giedroyc

    Writer: N/A

  • The Fine Art of Crime
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    #11 - The Fine Art of Crime

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/26/1998

    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 crime. Reviewing some of the most famous stolen works of art.

    Director: Sonali Fernando

    Writer: N/A

  • The Other Francis Bacon
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    #12 - The Other Francis Bacon

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/2/1998

    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 photographs he claims Bacon left to him.

    Director: Nicola Roberts

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lost Frescoes
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    #13 - The Lost Frescoes

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 8/9/1998

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

    Director: Heenan Bhatti

    Writer: N/A

  • Tuning With the Enemy
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    #14 - Tuning With the Enemy

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 8/16/1998

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

    Director: Helen Gallacher, Tricia O'Leary

    Writer: N/A

  • Daydream Believers
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    #15 - Daydream Believers

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 8/29/1998

    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 regret.

    Director: Ian MacMillan

    Writer: N/A

  • A Roll of the Dice: The Story of The Capeman
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    #16 - A Roll of the Dice: The Story of The Capeman

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 9/6/1998

    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 kid, Sol Agron, who murdered two people in the 1950s.

    Director: Jeremy Marre

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lost Supper
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    #17 - The Lost Supper

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 12/27/1998

    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 always going to be a challenge for its secretive Italian restorers. No one, however, could have foreseen how problematic and strange their task would become. Marked by a series of extraordinary mishaps, mistakes, and miscalculations, the incredible restoration is hilarious to watch but may have resulted in the loss of a masterpiece.

    Director: Colin Spector

    Writer: N/A

  • Loving Lenin
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    #18 - Loving Lenin

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/10/1999

    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.

    Director: Angus Macqueen

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cowboy and the Eclipse
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    #19 - The Cowboy and the Eclipse

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 8/8/1999

    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 eclipse image.

    Director: Ursula Macfarlane

    Writer: N/A