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Oct 5, 2008 · Combining Derek Jarman’s “Caravaggio” and the director’s own painterly “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,” Peter Greenaway turns fine art into a worthy murder mystery in ...
Oct 5, 2008 · Combining Derek Jarman's "Caravaggio" and the director's own painterly "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover," Peter Greenaway turns fine art into a worthy ...
Rembrandt’s J’accuse. An essayistic documentary in which director Peter Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic deep-dive into Rembrandt's famed oil painting The Night Watch - a masterpiece of Western art history that portrays thirty-four subjects in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, all of ...
Rembrandt's J'accuse. An 'essayistic' documentary in which director Peter Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch.
Oct 20, 2009 · In “Rembrandt’s J’Accuse,” his generally absorbing if sometimes fog-inducing feature-length documentary investigation into the mysteries of the Rembrandt painting “The Night Watch,” Mr ...
- Peter Greenaway
Oct 20, 2009 · In Rembrandt’s J’Accuse, a companion documentary to his 2006 audiovisual installation Nightwatching and the 2007 feature film of that name, Greenaway rails against our failure to interpret art correctly (one reason cinema is impoverished, he avers) in telling the story of why Rembrandt painted The Night Watch the way he did in 1642.
“Rembrandt’s J’Accuse” is Greenaway’s critique on our visual illiteracy and uses the world’s fourth most popular painting – after Leonardo DaVinci’s “Mona Lisa (#1), his “The Last Supper (#2)” and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling (#3) – to make a case for murder, conspiracy and the motivations of the 34 people ...
