Accompanying the
Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris blockbuster exhibition, currently being held at the Art Gallery of NSW, is a very special film program entitled
Picasso Goes to the Movies. Curated by Robert Herbert, this film program brings together key feature films which detail the social, political and cultural events which occurred during Picasso's lifetime. The film program intends replicate Picasso's career through cinema and explores what may have contributed to the creation of
Picasso's Blue Period (1901 to 1904),
Picasso's Rose Period (1904 to 1906),
Picasso's African Period (1906 to 1909),
Cubism Era (1909 to 1912),
Classicism Era (1916 to 1924),
Surrealism Era (1925 to 1935) and later works.
The Picasso Goes to the Movies film program will run from the 9th of November 2011 to the 25th of March 2012 on selected Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays at the
Domain Theatre. Some of the highlights of the film program include free screenings of
Bicycle Thieves (1948), directed by Vittorio De Sica,
Beauty and the Beast (1946), directed by Jean Cocteau,
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953), directed by Jacques Tati,
The Third Man (1949), directed by Carol Reed,
Orphée (1950), directed by Jean Cocteau,
La Strada (1954), directed by Federico Fellini,
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), directed by Alain Resnais,
Breathless (1960), directed by Jean Luc Godard,
Billy Liar (1963), directed by John Schlesinger,
The Passenger (1975), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), directed by Stanley Kubrick. View the entire Picasso Goes to the Movies film program on the Art Gallery of NSW website,
located here.
Picasso Goes to the Movies is just one of the special events accompanying the
Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris exhibition, you can view all the special events, workshops and public lectures
here.
