NATIONAL GALLERY opens this Friday, December 19 at the Opera Plaza Cinema in San Francisco! Showtimes & Tickets: bit.ly/134Ikc4 Legendary documentary director Frederick Wiseman (La Danse, Crazy Horse, At Berkeley) returns with a magnificent behind-the-scenes look at a great London institution, the National Gallery. He takes us on a revealing journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Caravaggio, Rubens, Velazquez, Goya, Holbein, Vermeer, Gainsborough, Rembrandt, Turner and so much more. His camera quietly captures a huge variety of activities: tours for children, boardroom debates about spending cuts, carpenters at work ripping up the walls, and the silent, minute exertions of restorers and experts in the gallery’s bowels. National Gallery is the portrait of a fascinating place, its way of working and relations with the world, its dedicated staff and enthusiastic public, and its spectacular paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, observing the observers, film watches art and people watching art, as we watch film.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:46:07 +0000
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