I have been in the mood to watch some art-related films currently out.

The Milos Forman movie Goya's Ghosts, starring Natalie Portman and Javier Bardem, known from the Academy Award film "No Country For Old Men", is a lovely film. The painter Francisco Goya is the thread which runs through the movie in the backdrop of France through the Inquisition to Napoleanic times.

A controvercial film, My Kid Could Paint That is a serious challenge to what is considered contemporary modern art. It is a documentary about a four-year old whose paintings are compared to Picasso. Is it miraculaous or an elaborate hoax? The documentary follows the rise, the fall and the rise again of the small prodigy as she makes hundreds of thousands of dollars for her work.

Finally, Who the *&% Is Jackson Pollack, is an amusing film about a semi truck driver who buys a painting for five dollars. When she is told it may be an original Jackson Pollack, the quest is on to prove that it is truly an original.