On October 17th, Leonardo da Vinci will be brought to life by BAFTA award-winning actor Peter Capaldi (DOCTOR WHO, IN THE LOOP) in a dramatized documentary.

INSIDE THE MIND OF LEONARDO is based on the artist's private journals dating from the Italian Renaissance, including more than 6,000 pages of handwritten notes and drawings.

Before it rolls out nationwide, there is a press screening Thursday and Monday in New York City. I'm not in town but if you are a Science 2.0 member and in the NYC metro area on those days, let me know and you can represent us and write up a review.

Using his collected writings and drawings, the film seeks to recreate the mindscape and ideas of mankind's greatest polymath. Peter Capaldi portrays Leonardo, dramatically narrating passages and monologues from his journals and explores how Leonardo experienced the world around him. Following a biographical narrative, the feature captures the artist's birth as a bastard peasant, his thwarted ambitions, hurt, anger, and sexual desire (what? He is considered the world's foremost asexual - a phenotype that is only now being studied) and also the mundane events of everyday life: his shopping lists, health tips, and bawdy jokes.

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