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Nightwatching
''Nightwatching'' is a 2007 film about the artist Rembrandt and the creation of his 1642 painting ''The Night Watch''. The film is directed by Peter Greenaway and stars Martin Freeman as Rembrandt, with Eva Birthistle as his wife Saskia van Uylenburg, Jodhi May as his lover Geertje Dircx, and Emily Holmes as his other lover Hendrickje Stoffels. Reinier van Brummelen is the director of photography. James Willcock, known for his esoteric sets, is the art director. The film is described by co-producer Jean Labadie as "a return to the Greenaway of ''The Draughtsman's Contract''." It features Greenaway's trademark neoclassical compositions and graphic sexuality. The music is by Włodek Pawlik. The film premiered in competition, at the Venice Film Festival. ''Nightwatching'' is the first feature in Greenaway's film series "Dutch Masters". The following film in the series is ''Goltzius and the Pelican Company''. An associated work by the same director is the documentary film ''R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh film director, screenwriter and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his films are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death. Early life Greenaway was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, to a teacher mother and a builder's merchant father. Greenaway's family left South Wales when he was three years old (they had moved there originally to avoid the Blitz) and settled in Chingford, Essex. He attended Forest School in nearby Walthamstow. At an early age Greenaway decided on becoming a painter. He became interested in European cinema, focusing first on the films of Ingmar Bergman, and then on the French '' nouvelle vague'' filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard and, most especially, Alain Resnais. Greenaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goltzius And The Pelican Company
''Goltzius and the Pelican Company'' is a 2012 historical film by writer-director Peter Greenaway. Plot The film is based on the life of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. He seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books. Goltzius promises him an extraordinary book of pictures of the Old Testament Biblical stories. Erotic tales of the temptation of Adam and Eve, Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Joseph and Potiphar's wife, Samson and Delilah, and John the Baptist and Salome. To tempt the Margrave further, Goltzius and his printing company will offer to perform dramatizations of these erotic stories for his court. ''Goltzius and the Pelican Company'' is the second feature in Greenaway's film series "Dutch Masters", which includes the previous film '' Nightwatching''. The third entry in the series was to focus on Hieronymus Bosch and its release was planned to coinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Britton (actor)
Christopher Britton is a Canadian film, stage, television and voice actor who is probably best known for his work in '' X-Men: The Animated Series'', in which he was the voice of Mister Sinister. More recently, he has voiced the character of Soichiro Yagami in the English dub of the anime series ''Death Note'' and its live action counterpart. He also was the narrator on the '' Dino Crisis II'' video game created by Capcom in 2000. He has a regular role as Richard Norton in ''Da Vinci's Inquest/City Hall'', and has acted in several different movies from ''The Day After Tomorrow'' to '' Godsend''. He has worked on many different plays and theater productions, including two seasons with the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, and has acted throughout Ontario, Vancouver, and the United States. Background Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Chris Britton first studied acting as a teenager. For a brief period, an interest in dance led him to become a member of the Judy Jarvis Dance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Watch (painting)
''Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq'', also known as ''The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch'', but commonly referred to as ''The Night Watch'' ( nl, De Nachtwacht), is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn. It is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum but is prominently displayed in the Rijksmuseum as the best-known painting in its collection. ''The Night Watch'' is one of the most famous Dutch Golden Age paintings. The painting is famous for three things: its colossal size (), the dramatic use of light and shadow (tenebrism) and the perception of motion in what would have traditionally been a static military group portrait. The painting was completed in 1642, at the peak of the Dutch Golden Age. It depicts the eponymous company moving out, led by Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (dressed in black, with a red sash) and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch (dressed in yellow, with a white sash). With ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rembrandt's J'Accuse
''Rembrandt's J'Accuse'' is a 2008 Dutch, German and Finnish documentary film directed by Peter Greenaway about criticism of today's visual illiteracy argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's 1642 painting ''The Night Watch''. Greenaway explains the conspiracy about a murder and the motives of all its characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. The film is considered a companion piece ''Companion Piece'' is an original novella written by Robert Perry and Mike Tucker and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Seventh Doctor and Catherine Katherine, also spe ..., since it came out a year after Greenaway's '' Nightwatching'', a narrative film about Rembrandt featuring most of the same actors and sets. References External links * 2008 films Dutch documentary films Documentary films about painters Films directed by Peter Greenaway Finnish documentary films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendrickje Stoffels
Hendrickje Stoffels (1626 – 21 July 1663) was the longtime partner of Rembrandt. The couple were unable to marry because of the financial settlement linked to the will of Rembrandt's deceased wife Saskia, but they remained together until Hendrickje's death. In 1654 she gave birth to Rembrandt's daughter Cornelia. In the later years of their relationship Hendrickje managed Rembrandt's business affairs together with the painter's son Titus. Hendrickje is widely believed to have modelled for several of Rembrandt's works and to be depicted in some Tronie portraits. However, her role as Rembrandt's model is disputed by some critics. Life Youth Hendrickje was born in the garrison city of Bredevoort, Gelderland, the daughter of sergeant Stoffel Stoffelse and Mechteld Lamberts. Sergeant Stoffel Stoffelse was Jager (hunter) for the castle at Bredevoort and so was also nicknamed Jeger, with his children nicknamed 'Jegers', but always officially referred to as 'Stoffels'. Hendrickje h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geertje Dircx
Geertje Dircx (; 1610-1615 – c. 1656) was the lover of Rembrandt van Rijn after the death of his wife Saskia. She was hired as a wetnurse to the painter's son Titus, but lived with Rembrandt as his lover for several years. The relationship broke up acrimoniously, leading to a lengthy court-case for "breach of promise" (a euphemism for seduction under reachedpromise to marry), in which she claimed maintenance from Rembrandt. She was eventually imprisoned after displaying increasingly unstable behaviour. After her release she tried to sue Rembrandt for wrongful imprisonment. She may be the model for a number of Rembrandt's works, but there is disagreement about which images depict her. Life In Rembrandt's service Geertje was born in Edam. Between 1630 and 1640, she worked in an inn in Hoorn. At some point she was married to Abraham Claesz, a trumpeter, but her husband died. After that she lodged with her brother Pieter, a ship's carpenter in Waterland. It was possibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodhi May
Jodhi Tania May (''née'' Hakim-Edwards; 8 May 1975) is a British actress. She remains the youngest recipient of the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, for ''A World Apart'' (1988). Her other film appearances include ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1992), '' Sister My Sister'' (1994), and ''A Quiet Passion'' (2016). Early life May was born Jodhi Tania Hakim-Edwards in 1975 in Camden Town, London.England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916-2006 atabase online/ref> Her name was later legally changed to Jodhi Tania May. Her mother, Jocelyn Hakim, is an art teacher of French-Turkish descent who as a student arranged to marry artist-designer Malcolm McLaren to obtain citizenship, paying him £50 to marry her in a Lewisham register office in 1972. They later divorced, a move that cost McLaren's grandmother £2,000. May has not publicly identified her father, besides stating he is German. She was educated at Camden School for Girls. May first acted at the age of 12 for '' A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Birthistle
Eva Birthistle (born 1974) is an Irish actress and writer. She is best known for her role in '' Ae Fond Kiss...'' and since 2015 has starred in ''The Last Kingdom''. She won the London Film Critics Circle British or Irish Actress of the Year Award in 2004, and has twice won the IFTA Best Actress in a Leading Role (Film) award. Early life and education Birthistle was born in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, but moved with her family to Derry, Northern Ireland when she was 14. She was raised Catholic but attended the non-denominational Foyle College. After her GCSEs, she studied acting at The Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. Career In 1995, she got her first TV role as Regina Crosbie in the serial ''Glenroe''. She stayed for three years until 1998. She was offered her first feature film in 1997, ''All Souls' Day'' by Alan Gilsenan. She played a variety of roles in Irish films, including ''Drinking Crude'' (1997), co-starring Colin Farrell, and TV movie ''Miracle at Midnight'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Holmes
Emily Holmes is a Canadian television and film actress. She has appeared in such television series as '' Night Visions'', ''Mysterious Ways'', '' The Dead Zone (Chapter 1 and 2 of the first season)'', ''Stargate SG-1'', '' Dark Angel'' and more. In 2002, Holmes appeared in Steven Spielberg's '' Taken'' as Julie Crawford. She also appeared in the webisode A webisode (portmanteau of "web" and "episode") is an episode of a series that is distributed as part of a web series or on streaming television. It is available as either for download or in streaming, as opposed to first airing on broadcast or c ... series '' Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance'' and '' Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda''. Filmography Film Television External links * Canadian film actresses Canadian television actresses Living people 21st-century Canadian actresses 1977 births {{Canada-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.Gombrich, p. 420. Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of style and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological themes and animal studies. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age, when Dutch art (especially Dutch painting), whilst antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was prolific and innovative. This era gave rise to important new genres. Like many artists of the Dutch Golden Age, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Freeman
Martin John Christopher Freeman (born 8 September 1971) is an English actor. Among other accolades, he has won an Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Freeman's most notable roles are that of Tim Canterbury in the mockumentary series ''The Office'' (2001–2003), Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama series '' Sherlock'' (2010–2017), young Bilbo Baggins in ''The Hobbit'' film trilogy (2012–2014), and Lester Nygaard in the first season of the dark comedy-crime drama series ''Fargo'' (2014). He has also appeared in films including the romantic comedy ''Love Actually'' (2003), the horror comedy '' Shaun of the Dead'' (2004), the sci-fi comedy '' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (2005), the action comedy '' Hot Fuzz'' (2007), the semi-improvised comedy '' Nativity!'' (2009), the sci-fi comedy '' The World's End'' (2013), and as Everett K. Ross in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
