Peter Greenaway
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
"He has other reputations as well-as an academic, as a maker of curious artifacts, as a cataloguer of the bizarre and as a librarian of the absurd." Peter Greenaway might well have been describing himself in this thumbnail sketch of Canton Remodell, a character in an unmade project. Before his international arthouse hits like THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER, Greenaway made a series of highly inventive films that established all the obsessions...
4) The Falls
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Standing at a pivotal point in his filmography, poised between his earlier, witty shorts and the unique pleasures of his post-DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT oeuvre, THE FALLS is arguably the most significant film of Peter Greenaway's prolific career. Shot as a pseudo-documentary, this magnum opus dazzlingly details 92 case histories of people who have been affected by the VUE (Violent Unknown Event)-a mysterious, apocalyptic phenomenon related to birds, flying,...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After 500 years Bosch's paintings still shock and fascinate us. Delve into the vivid imagination of this true visionary. Who was Hieronymus Bosch? Why do his strange and fantastical paintings resonate with people now more than ever? How does he bridge the medieval and Renaissance worlds? Where did his unconventional and timeless creations come from? Discover the answers to these questions and more with this remarkable new film from EXHIBITION ON SCREEN...
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
With the enchanting narrative voice of Helena Bonham Carter, a new exciting cinema production celebrates the 500th anniversary of the birth of the last great artist of the Italian Renaissance. It will explore the rivalry among the most important Venetian artists of the 16th century: Tintoretto, Titian and Veronese in Venice. We'll discover Venice through Tintoretto's life and canvases. As the narrative unfolds we'll begin to understand how the plague...
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway's sumptuous and sensuously charged brainteaser catapulted him to the forefront of international art cinema. Adorned with intricate wordplay, extravagant costumes and opulent photography, Greenaway's first narrative feature weaves a labyrinthine mystery. An aristocratic wife commissions a young, cocksure draughtsman to sketch her husband's property while he is away-in exchange for a...
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
A masterpiece of modern cinema, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is Peter Greenaway's beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba, loses her leg. The two widowers, twin zoologists Oliver and Oswald, fixate on their wives' bodies, and slowly become obsessed with evolution and decomposition. With this follow-up to his acclaimed...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"The falls" was shot as a pseudo-documentary and details 92 case histories of people who have been affected by the VUE (Violent Unknown Event) - a mysterious, apocalyptic phenomenon related to birds, flying, and bizarre invented languages. "Vertical features remake" a group of self-important academics argue about the work of Tulse Luper.
The content of the six playful shorts features a wide variety of themes - from the condensed, wry history of 37...
Author
Language
English
Description
Oscar® nominee Dame Joan Plowright (ENCHANTED APRIL), four-time BAFTA Award nominee Juliet Stevenson (TRULY MADLY DEEPLY) and two-time Golden Globe nominee Joely Richardson (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO) star as three generations of women who murder their husbands in an unsettling salvo of sumptuous visuals, macabre capers and numerical mischief.
13) The Pillow Book
Author
Language
English
Description
Peter Greenaway's erotically-charged drama follows a young woman who finds pleasure having calligraphy pained on her, and the revenge she seeks on the man who exploited her father.
14) Nightwatching
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In the year 1642, Rembrandt reluctantly agrees to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later come to be known as the Nightwatch and stumbles upon a treacherous murder plot.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three generations of women, all with the same name, rid themselves of their unwanted husbands one by one and each in the same way: they drown them. The local coroner agrees to declare each of the deaths accidental in return for sexual favors. But when things don't go exactly as planned, he devises a final game that could result in the undoing of them all.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Oliver and Oswald Deuce, twin zoologists, lose their wives when a swan collides with their car. The driver of the vehicle and only survivor of the crash, Alba Bedwich loses her leg in the tragedy. As the only connection the brothers have to the deceased, they obsess over her. When Alba can't give a reason for the women's deaths, they turn to science for answers, holding up in the zoo to research the origins of life and its decay after death, hoping...
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