Picture Windows

Picture Windows
Picture Windows
Genre	Drama
Created by	Scott J.T. Frank ; Daniel Halperin ; David Wachs
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	Showtime
Original release	September 1995 –; October 1995

Picture Windows is an American television miniseries that aired on Showtime in 1995.[1][2] It consists of six short films, each inspired by a different iconic painting and directed by a prominent filmmaker such as Norman Jewison, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Kaplan, Joe Dante, John Boorman, and Bob Rafelson, respectively. With a different cast in each installment, these films included performances by a number of notable actors, including Alan Arkin, George Segal, Sally Kirkland, Robert Loggia, Steve Zahn, Brooke Adams, Dan Hedaya, Michael Lerner, Ron Perlman, and John Hurt. 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.

Reception

The miniseries won one Emmy Award and several CableAce Awards.[3] John Boorman's episode Two Nudes Bathing was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.[4]

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	"Soir Bleu"	Norman Jewison	Seth Flicker	TBA
Inspired by the painting Soir Bleu by Edward Hopper.
2	"Song of Songs"	Peter Bogdanovich	Harry Mark Petrakis John Petrakis	TBA
Inspired by the painting Primavera by Sandro Botticelli.
3	"Language of the Heart"	Jonathan Kaplan	Bruce Meade	TBA
Inspired by the painting Ballet Rehearsal by Edgar Degas.
4	"Lightning"	Joe Dante	Jim Byrnes	TBA
Inspired by the painting Stampede by Lightning by Frederic Remington.
5	"Two Nudes Bathing"	John Boorman	John Boorman	TBA
Inspired by the painting Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs by an unknown artist.
6	"Armed Response"	Bob Rafelson	Frederic Raphael	TBA
Inspired by the painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) by David Hockney.

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