Picture Windows

Originally produced as the premiere episode of Showtime's Picture Windows miniseries, this three-part anthology film is based on an interesting premise: Each 30-minute romance, directed by a renowned filmmaker, is inspired by a masterpiece of Western art. In "Soir Bleu," directed by Norman Jewison and based on the Edward Hopper painting of the same name, a clown (Alan Arkin) falls in love with the abused wife (Rosana DeSoto) of the circus's owner (Dan Hedaya), a fateful devotion that ends in murder. In Peter Bogdanovich's "Song of Songs," inspired by Botticelli's "La Primavera," the married owner of a local bakery (George Segal) is up in arms when a lingerie s...