The British filmmaker Peter Greenaway began his career as a painter and, by aspiration, still is one. He speaks of his films -- ''The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover'' from 1989 is the best known -- as painterly. And a few years ago he announced a long-term project called 10 Classic Paintings Revisited, in which, through a fusion of film,...
IF you had tied on a blindfold, suspended disbelief and allowed yourself to be carried last week to a particular location just off Park Avenue near 66th Street, your reopened eyes would have had trouble telling that they were not inside the Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan, looking at a sight everyone knows and few have actually seen: a...
''One must always apologize for talking about painting,'' the French poet Paul Valéry wrote. To which, I suspect, the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway would say, ''Nonsense.'' In ''Rembrandt's J'Accuse,'' his generally absorbing if sometimes fog-inducing feature-length documentary investigation into the mysteries of the Rembrandt painting ''The...