Hockney (U.K./USA)

One of the art world’s true originals, David Hockney provides enough eye candy to fill several films. The home movies here are as colourful as his sly paintings, with the gaudiness of 1960s California playing out in ruby-red carpets, turquoise kidney-shaped swimming pools, and iconic green palm trees. The painter escaped to L.A. from the dingy tenements of Yorkshire, finding sexual and artistic freedom in America—and those are just the beginning of the insights you’ll glean from the interviews and old footage on hand.

Expect to leave with a huge new appreciation both for his art and for the lively rebel with the platinum mop.

(P.S.: There’s a funny story behind his hair, too.)