Picture Windows
Picture Windows was a television miniseries that aired on Showtime in 1994.[1] It comprised six short films inspired by works of art and directed by prominent filmmakers such as Joe Dante, Norman Jewison, John Boorman, Jonathan Kaplan, Peter Bogdanovich, and Bob Rafelson, respectively. It included performances by a number of notable actors, Robert Loggia, Steve Zahn, John Hurt, Alan Arkin, and George Segal. Co-creator David Wesley Wachs also wrote and directed a 20-minute pilot titled The Life of Art based on the painting Hitchhiker by Robert Gwathmey. The miniseries won one Emmy Award and several CableAce Awards.[2] John Boorman's episode Two Nudes Bathing won the Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "Soir Bleu" | Norman Jewison | Seth Flicker | TBA | |
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Inspired by the painting Soir Bleu by Edward Hopper. | |||||
| 2 | "Song of Songs" | Peter Bogdanovich | Harry Mark Petrakis John Petrakis | TBA | |
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Inspired by the painting Primavera by Sandro Botticelli. | |||||
| 3 | "Language of the Heart" | Jonathan Kaplan | Bruce Meade | TBA | |
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Inspired by the painting Ballet Rehearsal by Edgar Degas. | |||||
| 4 | "Lighting" | Joe Dante | Jim Byrnes | TBA | |
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Inspired by the painting Stampede by Lightning by Frederic Remington. | |||||
| 5 | "Two Nudes Bathing" | John Boorman | John Boorman | TBA | |
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Inspired by the painting Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs by an unknown artist. | |||||
| 6 | "Armed Response" | Bob Rafelson | Frederic Raphael | TBA | |
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Inspired by the painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) by David Hockney. | |||||
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