FLAM Special Limited Engagement: A week of curated new release and restored classic Films on Literature, Art and Music. You may purchase tickets at regular price for any individual film in the series, or purchase a series pass to see all six movies for one low price: $30 for non-members, and $20 for members. Passes available at the Box Office or online at www.icfilmscene.org/flam-pass.
FLAM lineup: Music of the Moment; Burroughs: The Movie; Rome, Open City; Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets; 20,000 Days on Earth; National Gallery. See icfilmscene.org/calendar for showtimes.
NATIONAL GALLERY
"This is one of Wiseman's richest and most thought-provoking films, and easily one of his best." -Budd Wilkins, Slant Magazine
"Meticulously crafted, intellectually intricate, and touched with profundity. An invigorating portrait. A film about classics and their illustrious home that itself has been made by a modern master.” -Nick Schager, Village Voice
"Wiseman captures some remarkable, wholly unexpected moments. Scarcely a scene or shot goes by, even the ones without speech, in which you don't learn something. It's a film about art, about its power, its multi-faceted nature, and the legacies it can create. " -Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe
From acclaimed filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, NATIONAL GALLERY takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. NATIONAL GALLERY is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film.