Watch: National Gallery 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – The National Gallery in London is one of the great museums of the world with 2400 paintings from the 13th to the end of the 19th century. Almost every human experience is represented in one or the other of the paintings. The sequences of the film show the public in various galleries; the education programs, and the scholars, scientists and curators, studying, restoring and planning the exhibitions. The relation between painting and storytelling is explored..
Plot: A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of the employees and the experiences of the Gallery’s visitors. The film portrays the role of the curators and conservators; the education, scientific, and conservation departments; and the audience of all kinds of people who come to experience it.
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Wiseman allows museum to speak for itself in this brilliant vérité doc
For those who enjoy the experience of visiting art museums, National Gallery’ is a must-see. The brilliant objectivist documentarian Frederick Wiseman captures the iconic British museum from every side imaginable. Over the course of three hours, he offers a grand glimpse of the museum’s collection and temporary exhibits as others look or discuss them, from art historians to tour guides. Fixed history and interpretation are celebrated in both Wiseman’s camera and the loosely strung scenes of people in the exhibition halls. The movie cuts to various perspectives of the museum, from details of paintings to entire galleries, as people gaze at works. But Wiseman also captures the people operating the museums during PR and budget meetings and, most intriguingly, at work restoring paintings. No one looks at the camera to explain their work and Wiseman never even uses superimposed title cards, yet you will come away enlightened.
A travesty of the NG and history
It’s hard to know where to begin when analyzing what’s so wrong with this long, boring film. Fundamentally, it’s that museums are embedded in history, collecting and displaying great art from the past, and educating the public about their collections. Director Wiseman is not just ahistorical in his approach, but anti-historical, in his affectation to identify no one in the film. It DOES matter that the NG’s director at the time was Nicolas Penny, just as it’s important to know that Larry Keith was head of conservation. What they say isn’t ahistorical gospel but very individual opinions. To erase their identity is to erase history. What we are shown instead well could serve as a PR effort to get money from the government because one would think, on the basis of the film, that the museum does nothing but cater to the public. How tiresome are Wiseman’s head shots of the audience! How irrelevant are his juxtapositions with painted heads! Collecting? That is a primary mission of museums, if not its first purpose; but not a word about that activity in this film. Rather, what we are subjected to for three hours could pertain to any great museum: to the Louvre, the Met, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, etc. That the film gives no idea of what is special about the NG underscores its superficiality and disregard of history.
Original Language en
Runtime 3 hr (180 min)
Budget 0
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Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Documentary
Director Frederick Wiseman
Writer Frederick Wiseman
Actors Leanne Benjamin, Kausikan Rajeshkumar, Jo Shapcott
Country France, United States, United Kingdom
Awards 1 win & 9 nominations
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Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
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Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)