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His 2008 film Rembrandt's J'Accuse is a sequel or follow-on, and covers the same idea, using extremely detailed analysis of the compositional elements in the painting; in this Greenaway describes The Night Watch as (currently) the fourth most famous painting in the Western world, after the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and the ceiling of the ...
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. Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder and the motives of all its thirty-four painted characters who have ...
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 ...
Behind Rembrandt’s masterpiece “The Night Watch” lies an intricate conspiracy. Peter Greenaway’s fierce criticism of today’s visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of the painting, discovering the many clues hidden in the canvas which reveal vendettas, corruption and power games.
Critics reviews. Behind Rembrandt’s masterpiece “The Night Watch” lies an intricate conspiracy. Peter Greenaway’s fierce criticism of today’s visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of the painting, discovering the many clues hidden in the canvas which reveal vendettas, corruption and power games.
Sep 13, 2013 · Rembrandt’s J’Accuse is indeed a rehash of the concepts of Nightwatching but the contrived story stripped away. Instead, we get Greenaway doing what he does best: Lists, painterly images, minimalist music, and his desire to reorganize the constructs of the world based on his own interests and desires. Clearly this is the Rembrandt film he ...
The documentary was titled "Rembrandt's J'Accuse," and in it, Greenaway himself brings to light all of his conspiracy theories that he failed to dramatize in the main film. This documentary should have been the work released to film festivals and theaters around the world.
