1.   All three hours of the film argue against the advisability of making biographical films like this at all.

2.   First, you get four tradition-bound biographical films and production numbers.

3.   George Segal, Elizabeth Mitchell and Gary Bakewell star in this biographical film that traces her life from meeting Paul McCartney through her cancer diagnosis.

4.   In his biographical film about his late friend and fellow artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, the painter Julian Schnabel creates a remembrance in kind.

5.   Most biographical films fictionalize a real-life story.

6.   Russell Crowe leads this biographical film about John Forbes Nash, a gifted mathematician whose career is threatened by his battle with mental illness.

7.   The festival combines performance footage, documentaries and biographical films into a three-day, two-screen celebration of jazz greats gone by.

8.   Andrei Rublev is a revered figure in Russian art, and the subject of an epic biographical film by the renowned Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky.

9.   Arkara Entertainment and Magna Pictures may have won the battle to produce their respective versions of the biographical film, but they were not the first to try.