Peter Greenaway: Cinema and Painting
- When
- Event has passed (Fri Jun 8, 2012 - Sat Jun 9, 2012)
- Cost
- $5.50 - $9.50
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- Movies
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Friday, June 8, 20127:00 p.m. Rembrandt’s J’Accuse
Peter Greenaway (U.K./Netherlands, 2008). This provocative cine-essay by the director of The Draughtsman’s Contract and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover reframes Rembrandt’s The Night Watch as an indictment of seventeenth-century Amsterdam’s ruling elites. (90 mins)
Saturday, June 9, 2012
6:00 p.m. Nightwatching
Peter Greenaway (U.K./Netherlands/Poland/Canada, 2007). This precursor to Rembrandt’s J’Accuse takes a fictional approach to the painter’s life, portraying Rembrandt’s relations with three women, his wife, his model, and his servant, during the creation of his masterpiece, The Night Watch. Starring Martin Freeman (The Office; Sherlock). (134 mins)
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- http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/greenaway
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