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Ever since Kirk Douglas sliced off an ear in the 1956 Hollywood biopic “Lust for Life,” Vincent van Gogh has had a grip on the popular imagination, portrayed on screen, stage and in song as a howling, crazed genius.
“Loving Vincent,” a new animated film opening Sept. 22, is a radical departure—one of several recent works about Van Gogh that…