National Gallery Page #19

Synopsis: The National Gallery in London is one of the great museums of the world with 2400 paintings from the 13th to the end of the 19th century. Almost every human experience is represented in one or the other of the paintings. The sequences of the film show the public in various galleries; the education programs, and the scholars, scientists and curators, studying, restoring and planning the exhibitions. The relation between painting and storytelling is explored.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Frederick Wiseman
Actors: Leanne Benjamin, Kausikan Rajeshkumar, Jo Shapcott, Edward Watson
Production: Zipporah
  9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
89
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
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Year:
2014
180 min
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so in a... in a way, all of my poems

are efforts to translate something else.

And they never quite do.

But... but the gap is...

the meaning is all in the gaps.

And I... I felt that with Callisto's Song,

that I'd set myself, you know,

not just a gap,

but, you know, several light years

to straddle

between what she might sing

and how I might transcribe it.

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Frederick Wiseman

Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theatre director. His work is "devoted primarily to exploring American institutions". He has been called "one of the most important and original filmmakers working today". more…

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