"reviews. Roger Ebert was pleased with the film and described the lead performances as ""wonderful"", and ""Entertainment Weekly"" wrote of Johansson's ""embracing, restful serenity"". ""The New York Times"" praised Johansson, then 18, for playing an older character. In Peter Webber's ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"", which is based on the novel of same name by Tracy Chevalier, Johansson played Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by English actor Colin Firth). Webber interviewed 150 actors before casting Johansson. Johansson found the character moving, but did not read the novel, as she thought"
"of a bustling family. Firth also studied painting techniques and visited museums carrying Vermeer works. After Firth, Webber's next casting decision was Tom Wilkinson as the patron Pieter van Ruijven, who was hired in late 2002. He was soon joined by Judy Parfitt as Vermeer's domineering mother-in-law, and Essie Davis, who portrayed Vermeer's wife Catharina. The Australian daughter of an artist, Davis did not believe her character was the film's ""bad guy,"" as ""[Catharina] has a certain role to play for you to want Griet and Vermeer to be involved."" Cillian Murphy, known for his recent role in ""28 Days"
"(Scarlett Johansson) is a shy girl living in the Dutch Republic in 1665. Her father, a Delftware painter, has recently gone blind, rendering him unable to work and putting his family in a precarious financial situation. To help matters, Griet is sent to work as a maid in the household of famed painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth). Griet works hard, almost wordlessly, in the lowest position in a harsh hierarchy. She does her best to adjust, despite the unkind treatment from Vermeer's daughter Cornelia. While she is on a routine shopping trip outside the house, a butcher's son, Pieter (Cillian"
"the painting at an auction, seemed to know more about the painting than the auctioneer. The next story revealed how Vermeer came to paint the girl's picture. Finally, Cornelia tells us how she came in possession of the painting, and it is perhaps the most interesting story of them all Tagline: ""A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed."" Brush with Fate Brush with Fate was a made-for-TV film debuted on February 2, 2003, on CBS. It followed the life of an imaginary painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer as it passes through the hands of"
"Brush with Fate Brush with Fate was a made-for-TV film debuted on February 2, 2003, on CBS. It followed the life of an imaginary painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer as it passes through the hands of various people. The film was based on ""Girl In Hyacinth Blue"", a novel by author Susan Vreeland, and starred Glenn Close and Ellen Burstyn. The imaginary painting 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue', the principal object in this film, is painted exactly in Vermeer's painting technique by the American master painter Jonathan Janson, author and webmaster of the world-known website about the life and work"
"to Vermeer's career. Vermeer's rich patron, Van Ruijven (Tom Wilkinson), notices Griet on a visit to the Vermeer household and asks the painter if he will give her up to work in his own house, a situation which ""ruined"" his former girl-maid. Vermeer refuses, but agrees to paint a portrait of Griet for Van Ruijven. As Vermeer secretly works on the eponymous painting, Catharina cannot help but notice something is amiss. Her growing disdain for Griet becomes more apparent, spurred on by Van Ruijven's deliberate suggestions of an improper relationship between Vermeer and the young maid. A conflicted Griet must"
"extensively and is in constant contact with museum personnel and art historians involved with Dutch genre painting and specifically with the work of Vermeer. In 2002, Janson was commissioned by the American Hallmark Hall of Fame to paint a hypothetical Vermeer for the television adaptation Brush with Fate, based on Susan Vreeland’s best-selling novel ""Girl in Hyacinth Blue"". It was broadcast on CBS a year after. In 2009, Janson is featured in a documentary ""Views on Vermeer: 12 Short Stories"" by Hans Pool and Koos de Wilt. The film presents influential contemporary painters, writers, photographers, art historians and opinion leaders"
"De Schippers van de Kameleon De Schippers van de Kameleon (2003) is a Dutch family film with as main characters identical twins Koen van der Donk (Hielke Klinkhamer) and Jos van der Donk (Sietse Klinkhamer). The actors are also identical twins, born March 6, 1988. The film is based on the books of about the adventures of the twins with their boat, the opduwer De Kameleon. The film received a Golden Film (100,000 visitors) and a Platinum Film (400,000 visitors) and with 750.000 viewers in cinemas. It was the best viewed Dutch film production in 2003. In 2006 it was"
"Colin Firth as Vermeer. Firth and Webber, both of a similar age and background, spent significant time discussing Vermeer's personality and lifestyle in the period leading up to the beginning of filming. While researching the role, Firth realised that Vermeer was ""incredibly elusive as an artist."" As a result, unlike Webber and Johansson, Firth chose to read the book to gain a better grasp of a man of whom little information existed on his private life. Firth sought to ""invent"" the character and discover his motivations, and ultimately identified with the artist for having a private space in the midst"
"of Johannes Vermeer ""Essential Vermeer"". Richard is a new art teacher at a high school. Cornelia Englebrecht (played by Glenn Close) is a history teacher who invites Richard to see a painting of a young girl at a table, which she believes to be a genuine Vermeer, where she tells him stories, which are portrayed as flashbacks about the people who owned the painting in the past. All of the stories take place in the Netherlands, and the flashbacks happen mostly before the one preceding it. The first story, from the late 1800s, involved a romance and had flashbacks within"
"novels published in 1999 which also deal with 17th century Dutch painting. Susan Vreeland’s ""Girl in Hyacinth Blue"" is a set of stories centred upon a supposedly lost painting by Vermeer; and Katharine Weber’s ""The Music Lesson"" deals with the stolen Vermeer painting of that title. Deborah Moggach’s ""Tulip Fever"", on the other hand, is set in Amsterdam and also deals with the love between a painter and his subject. In addition, it too started from an attempt to decipher the enigmatic look of the sitter in a painting of the period. Another theme - that is demonstrated in the"
"drama A Real Vermeer premiered starring Feryn playing leading lady to Dutch actor Jeroen Spitzenberger. Feryn can currently be seen this fall from August to November 2017, in #HetIsIngewikkeld, the Flemish remake of the popular Danish dramedy ""Splitting Up Together"" directed by Lenny Van Wesemael. Here she plays a young married mother of three. In 2018 Feryn will hit German big screens for the first time playing opposite German stars, Katja Riemann, Oliver Masucci and Samuel Finzi in the highly anticipated film ""SUBS"". Directed by Germany's acclaimed director Oskar Roehler, Feryn plays in German with a Russian accent. Besides being"
"used in the film are based on the backgrounds of the paintings by Vermeer. Paintings by Schalcken showing young women holding candles in a dark rooms are used throughout the drama, but the final image, again showing a young candlelit woman, but this time with a man in the shadowy background drawing his sword, was created for the film, based on the style of Schalcken. The painter Godfried Schalcken sees his true love, Rose, the niece of the artist Gerrit Dou, wedded by contract for a large sum of money to Vanderhausen of Rotterdam, a strange and ghostly figure. Filled"
"The Inheritance (2003 film) The Inheritance (Danish: Arven) is a 2003 Danish film directed by Per Fly. It is released as Inheritance in the United Kingdom. The Screenplay was written by Kim Leona, Per Fly and Mogens Rukov produced by Ib Tardini, and starred Ulrich Thomsen and Lisa Werlinder. Christoffer (Ulrich Thomsen) is called back from his life as a restaurant manager in Sweden when his father commits suicide. His mother, Annelise (Ghita Nørby) puts pressure on him to take over management of the family business, a steelworks factory. Although his heart is not in it, he feels obligated to"
"Later"", was hired as Pieter, Griet's butcher love interest. Murphy, taking on his first period film role, was interested in serving as a foil to Firth's Vermeer, and representing the ""ordinary"" world that Griet seeks to avoid upon her meeting the artist. Other cast members included Joanna Scanlan as the maid Tanneke, as well as the young actresses Alakina Mann and Anna Popplewell as Vermeer's daughters, Cornelia and Maertge, respectively. During preproduction, Webber and cinematographer Eduardo Serra studied the period's artwork and discussed the different moods they wanted to create for each scene. The director was a lover of the"
"including Simon Duiker. Other artists who were inspired by Vermeer include Danish painter Wilhelm Hammershoi and American Thomas Wilmer Dewing. In the 20th century, Vermeer's admirers included Salvador Dalí, who painted his own version of ""The Lacemaker"" (on commission from collector Robert Lehman) and pitted large copies of the original against a rhinoceros in some surrealist experiments. Dali also immortalized the Dutch Master in ""The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table"", 1934. Han van Meegeren was a 20th-century Dutch painter who worked in the classical tradition. He became a master forger, motivated by a"
"was directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 American fantasy swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski and the first film in the ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" film series. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer, the film is based on Walt Disney's ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" attraction at Disney theme parks. The story follows pirate Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and blacksmith Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) as they rescue the kidnapped Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) from the"
"Chasing Vermeer Chasing Vermeer is a 2004 children's art mystery novel written by Blue Balliett and illustrated by Brett Helquist. Set in Hyde Park, Chicago near the University of Chicago, the novel follows two children, Calder Pillay and Petra Andalee. After a famous Johannes Vermeer painting, ""A Lady In Writing"", is stolen en route to the Art Institute of Chicago, Calder and Petra work together to try to recover it. The thief publishes many advertisements in the newspaper, explaining that he will give the painting back if the community can discover which paintings under Vermeer's name were really painted by"
"of Mirth""<br> 3. Ellen Burstyn – ""Requiem for a Dream"" 1. Benicio del Toro – ""Traffic""<br> 2. Fred Willard – ""Best in Show""<br> 3. Willem Dafoe – ""Shadow of the Vampire"" 1. Elaine May – ""Small Time Crooks""<br> 2. Frances McDormand – ""Almost Famous"" and ""Wonder Boys""<br> 3. Marcia Gay Harden – ""Pollock"" 1. Kenneth Lonergan – ""You Can Count On Me""<br> 2. Steve Kloves – ""Wonder Boys""<br> 3. Stephen Gaghan – ""Traffic"" 1. Agnès Godard – ""Beau Travail""<br> 2. Peter Pau – ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" (""Wo hu cang long"")<br> 2. Steven Soderbergh – ""Traffic"" 1. The Life and"
"women over the letter and its potential contents. Mistress and Maid Mistress and Maid (c.1667) is a painting produced by Johannes Vermeer, now in the Frick Collection in New York City. The work of Johannes Vermeer, also known as Jan, is well known for many characteristics that are present in this painting. The use of yellow and blue, female models, and domestic scenes are all signatures of Vermeer. This oil on canvas portrays two women, a Mistress and her Maid, as they look over the Mistress' love letter. Johannes Vermeer was born in 1632 in Delft, Holland. He worked and"
"beach. Their lives are like so many rural youth, but a dramatic accident changed everything. When the three of them are sitten on the tractor, Jacques falls below it, while Thomas steers the wheel. Thomas asks himself in the depths of his thoughts if his jealousy of Jacques, who ran off with Manou the evening before, had something to do with the accident. Shocking Blue (film) Shocking Blue is a 2010 Dutch drama film. Directed by Mark de Cloe, the movie stars Lisa Smit, Dragan Bakema, and Niels Gomperts. It was screened at the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival, the"
"tense, mysterious, transcendent world"" of Vermeer's paintings. The director also made a conscious effort to slow the pace of the film, hoping that by ""slowing things down [we could] create these moments in between the dialogue that were full of emotion. And the more silent the film became, the closer it seemed to be to the condition of those Vermeer paintings and the closer it seemed to capture some kind of truth."" The film was budgeted at £10 million. While it is set in Delft, the film was primarily shot in Amsterdam, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Chevalier later remarked that Webber"
"review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Buoyed by Farrell's recently found fame, the film earned $98.7 million worldwide. In 2002, he directed Cate Blanchett in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced biopic ""Veronica Guerin"". The film is about the eponymous Irish journalist, who was murdered by drug dealers in 1996. Schumacher directed a film version of the musical ""The Phantom of the Opera"" in 2004, an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's original stage musical. Despite mixed reviews, the film earned $154.6 million worldwide (Schumacher's biggest hit of the 21st century to date) and was nominated for three Academy Awards, as well as three Golden Globes,"
"2003 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 38th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2004, honored the best in film for 2003. 1. American Splendor<br> 2. ""Mystic River""<br> 3. ""Lost in Translation"" 1. Clint Eastwood – ""Mystic River""<br> 2. Peter Jackson – """"<br> 3. Sofia Coppola – ""Lost in Translation"" 1. Bill Murray – ""Lost in Translation""<br> 2. Sean Penn – ""Mystic River""<br> 3. Paul Giamatti – ""American Splendor"" 1. Charlize Theron – ""Monster""<br> 2. Hope Davis – ""American Splendor"" and ""The Secret Lives of Dentists""<br> 3. Naomi Watts – ""21 Grams"" 1. Peter Sarsgaard"
"Priest's work was greatly inspired by the mystery associated with the women in the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. The women in Vermeer's paintings typically stood quietly and did not perform complicated or complex tasks. Terri Priest borrowed his style in feminine depiction and repurposed them in her own paintings. She took them in their original setting and placed them in the context of modern painting. These renditions were first widely seen in her exhibition at Clark University in 2001. Proof of Priest's success can be seen in the many positive"
"central motif and cryptic mystery of the giallo horror film The House with Laughing Windows In 1990's ""The Godfather Part III"", Michael Corleone is awarded the Order of Saint Sebastian, said by some sources to be fictitious. Pietro Vannucci Perugino’s painting ( 1495) of Saint Sebastian is featured in the 2001 movie ""Wit"" starring Emma Thompson. Thompson’s character, as a college student, visits her professor's office, where an almost life-size painting of Saint Sebastian hangs on the wall. Later, when the main character is a professor herself, diagnosed with cancer, she keeps a small print of this same painting of"
"Van Meegeren who stages highly exact scenes from Vermeer paintings in order to paint copies of them. John Jost's film ""All the Vermeers in New York"" (1990) makes reference to a woman's resemblance to a Vermeer painting. Dutch composer Louis Andriessen based his opera ""Writing to Vermeer"" (1997–98, libretto by Peter Greenaway) on the domestic life of Vermeer. Brian Howell's novel ""The Dance of Geometry"" (Toby Press, 2004) narrates four interlinking episodes that centre around the creation of Vermeer's ""The Music Lesson"", dealing with his childhood and courtship of his wife-to-be, a visit by a French traveller who becomes involved"
"– ""Mississippi Burning""<br> 3. Dustin Hoffman – ""Rain Man""<br> 3. Max von Sydow – ""Pelle the Conqueror"" (""Pelle erobreren"") 1. Judy Davis – ""High Tide""<br> 2. Jodie Foster – ""The Accused""<br> 3. Carmen Maura – ""Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown"" (""Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios"")<br> 3. Melanie Griffith – ""Working Girl""<br> 3. Barbara Hershey – ""A World Apart"" 1. Dean Stockwell – ""Married to the Mob"" and """"<br> 2. Alec Guinness – ""Little Dorrit""<br> 3. Tim Robbins – ""Bull Durham"" 1. Mercedes Ruehl – ""Married to the Mob""<br> 2. Lena Olin – ""The Unbearable"
"as being ""about creativity and the link between art and money and power and sex in some strange unholy mixture."" Characterising it as a ""coming of age"" story with a ""fascinating dark undertow,"" Webber deliberately did not read the book prior to filming, as he was concerned about being influenced by it, opting instead to rely on the script and the period. The casting of Griet was Webber's first major step, and led to interviews with 150 girls before Webber chose the 17-year-old actress Scarlett Johansson. He felt that she ""just stood out. She had something distinctive about her."" Johansson"
"which includes cast and crew interviews; ""A Conversation with Jerry Bruckheimer""; a deleted scene recreating Guerin's speech to the Committee to Protect Journalists; and historical footage of Guerin's speech. Veronica Guerin (film) Veronica Guerin is a 2003 American-Irish-British biographical crime film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Cate Blanchett in the title role. The screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue focuses on Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996, at the age of 37. The film is the second to be inspired by Guerin's life. Three years"
"""Stranger than Paradise"" (Jim Jarmusch, 1984), ""Blue Velvet"" (David Lynch, 1986), ""The Civil War"" (Ken Burns, 1990), ""The Crying Game"" (Neil Jordan, 1992), ""Mulholland Drive"" (David Lynch, 2001), ""Brokeback Mountain"" (Ang Lee, 2005), ""The Imitation Game"" (Morten Tyldum, 2014), ""Sully"" (Clint Eastwood, 2016), ""Moonlight"" (Barry Jenkins, 2016), and ""Lady Bird"" (Greta Gerwig, 2017). Since 1995 a special medallion has also been presented annually, usually to a non-filmmaker who has had a major impact on American or international film culture. Past recipients include Milos Stehlik (founder of Facets Multi-Media), HBO, the French film magazine ""Positif"", Ted Turner, and Janus Films. Each"
"role playing Joss in the 2003 romantic drama ""Beyond Borders"", an epic tale of turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers, with Angelina Jolie. In the 2004 British film drama Red Dust, Bartlett acted in a supporting role of Dirk Hendricks, a local policeman, opposite Hilary Swank where Academy Award winning director Tom Hooper directed the film. The film, based on the novel Red Dust by Gillian Slovo sees a New York lawyer Sarah Barcant (Hilary Swank) return to the place where she grew up, South Africa. Barcant returns to fight the case of Alex Mpondo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a black politician"
"came to an end in 2006 with Paul Verhoeven's war thriller ""Black Book"", which was the first Dutch film since ""Kruimeltje"" to get over a million admissions. Black Book was the most expensive Dutch film production of all time, with a reported budget of just under €18 million. The success was bested only one year later, with the romantic comedy ""Alles is Liefde"". The most successful Dutch actors in Hollywood are Rutger Hauer (""Blade Runner""), Jeroen Krabbé (""The Fugitive""), Famke Janssen (""X-Men""), and Carice van Houten (""Game of Thrones""). Filmmakers besides Paul Verhoeven who successfully began a career in Hollywood"