Picture Windows

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| genre = Drama

| creator = Scott J.T. Frank
Daniel Halperin
David Wachs

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| country = United States

| language = English

| num_episodes = 6

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| runtime = 30 minutes

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| first_aired = {{Start date|1995|09}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1995|10}}

| network = Showtime

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Picture Windows is an American television miniseries that aired on Showtime in 1995.{{cite web |title=Picture Windows |date=1995-10-23 |website=Variety |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111010437/https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/picture-windows-1200443313/ |archive-date=2022-01-11 |url-status=live |url=https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/picture-windows-1200443313/}}{{cite web |title=TV REVIEWS : 'Picture Windows' Trilogy No Artistic Masterpiece |date=1995-09-30 |website=Los Angeles Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709182448/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-30-ca-51761-story.html |archive-date=2023-07-09 |url-status=live |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-30-ca-51761-story.html}} It consists of six short films, each inspired by a different iconic painting, matched with a story by a renowned author, 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. Dan Halperin directed the pilot episode for the series entitled Rosemary, which was produced by Halperin and Scott JT Frank under their Epiphany Pictures banner.

Reception

The miniseries won one an Emmy Award and several CableAce Awards.{{cite web |title=IT'S HBO AGAIN AT CABLEACES |date=1995-09-25 |website=Variety |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416115340/https://variety.com/1995/tv/features/it-s-hbo-again-at-cableaces-99129112/ |archive-date=2023-04-16 |url-status=live |url=https://variety.com/1995/tv/features/it-s-hbo-again-at-cableaces-99129112/}} John Boorman's episode, Two Nudes Bathing, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3602/year/1995.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Two Nudes Bathing |accessdate=7 September 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}} The series was also acknowledged for the exceptional cinematography of Seamus Deasy and Paul Sarossy.