Telluride Film Review: 'Tim's Vermeer'

[SysAdmin]

Catching up with Amiga Developer Pioneers

From time to time Amiga.org will seek out and catch up on what Amiga developer pinoeers have been up to. These early Amiga developers helped shape what the Amiga was to become and helped it sell millions of machines.

Today we are focusing on NewTek founder Tim Jenison and his new film 'Tim's Vermeer'

So entertaining audiences hardly even realize how incendiary it is, "Tim's Vermeer" stirs up a flurry of scandal in the hallowed realm of art history. Obsessive inventor Tim Jenison has a hunch that the only explanation for the photorealistic quality evident in the work of 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer is that he "cheated," using lenses or some other technological apparatus to achieve such remarkable detail. Jenison devises a five-year science experiment to test his theory, emerging with an uncanny crowd-pleaser -- the secret weapon in Sony Picture Classics' fall arsenal -- that plays like the ultimate episode of "MythBusters."

Read more below.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-09-02/entertainment/sns-201309021314reedbusivarietyn1200596123-20130902_1_johannes-vermeer-lenses-penn-jillette

http://www.sonyclassics.com/timsvermeer/

[Matt_H]

This sounds really interesting. I hope this movie makes it to Boston - would love to see it!

[amiga999]

cool article in vanity fair about Tim's Vermeer with nice pics

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/11/vermeer-secret-tool-mirrors-lenses