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8 1/2 WOMEN
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Fellini's 8 1/2 might be the most obvious reference point in Peter         Greenaway's audacious feature, but, as you might expect from this                uncompromising director, this is far from a simple homage. Greenaway addresses   the nature of men directing women and male sexual fantasies in general as he   presents a visually complex story of a wealthy man and his son who decide to   create their own harem. "Greenaway has made a masterful meditation on grief, a parable of sexual indulgence and power, a study of wealth and corruption. If     8 1/2 Women isn't the best film of Greenaway's career, it ranks with     anything this obsessive and utterly distinctive filmmaker has ever done"       (Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com). With John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Polly Walker, Amanda Plummer, Toni Collette and Vivian Wu.                             Peter Greenaway---Great Britain---1999---120 mins.
BELLY OF AN ARCHITECT
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An extravagant and personal film about an architect, played by Brian Dennehy,    and his wife (Chloe Webb), who arrive in Rome, where he is to be the curator     of a new art exhibition. The themes include the aesthetics of Art and            Architecture, the limits and possibilities of mortality and immortality, and   the influence of obsession and omens. As in all of Greenaway's films,          symbolism, parallelism, allegory, and striking but static visual compositions  are the order of the day. Beautifully photographed by Sacha Vierny.              Peter Greenaway---Great Britain/Italy---1987---108 mins.
COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE, AND HER LOVER
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Peter Greenaway casts a cynical eye on man's most primal urges--food, lust and violence--in this brutal satire set in an exclusive restaurant. With Helen Mirren.
DEATH IN THE SEINE
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Peter Greenaway's fascinating essay on death and revolution is set in the        period between April 1795 and September 1801, when over 300 bodies were pulled   from the River Seine in Paris. Two mortuary attendants dutifully noted the       condition of each body in great detail, including their clothing, possessions  and wounds. This bounty of information is the basis for Greenaway's            structuralist speculation on the lives of these corpses and their relationship Peter Greenaway---Great Britain---1994---44 mins.
DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT, THE
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A luscious visual banquet in deep, cool tones. It's as though Peter Greenaway staged a Restoration comedy inside a Caravaggio painting.
GREENAWAY: THE EARLY FILMS SET
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This set includes long and short-form early works by avant-garde filmmaker       Peter Greenaway. Greenaway: The Falls includes two films: The           Falls (1980, 185 mins.) tells of 92 individuals affected by an apocalyptic    phenomenon known as VUE: the Violent Unknown Event. Greenaway's film           demonstrates his signature fascination with organizing systems and the natural world. Also included is Vertical Features Remake (1978, 45 mins.), a     savagely comic satire in which stuffy academics argue about the work of Tuls  e  Luper--Greenaway's cinematic alter-ego. With music by Michael Nyman and Brian  Eno. Greenaway: The Shorts includes six of the artist's earliest works:  A Walk Through H (1978, 41 mins.), H is for House (1973, 10 mins), Windows (1975, 4 mins.), Intervals (1969, 7 mins.), Dear          Phone (1977, 17 mins.), and Water Wrackets (1975, 12 mins.).          Peter Greenaway---Great Britain---1969-1980---330 mins.
GREENAWAY: THE FALLS
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A sprawling early accomplishment from experimental filmmaker Peter Greenaway, this faux-documentary is the director's first feature-length work. The Falls (1980, 195 mins.) tells of 92 individuals affected by an apocalyptic phenomenon known as VUE: the Violent Unknown Event. Greenaway's film demonstrates his signature fascination with organizing systems and the natural world. Also included is Vertical Features Remake (1978, 44 mins.), a savagely comic satire in which stuffy academics argue about the work of Tulse Luper--Greenaway's cinematic alter-ego. With music by Michael Nyman and Brian Eno. "The most delicious snarl-up of pedantry and poetry in British cinema's   history. The Falls is moviedom's answer to Tristram Shandy and you should fall over yourself to see it" (Nigel Andrews, Financial Times).   Peter Greenaway---Great Britain---1978, 1980---239 mins.
GREENAWAY: THE SHORTS
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Six playful works from British postmodernist Peter Greenaway, whose sly, schematic brand of film making is charmingly seductive and radically experimental. Includes A Walk Through H (1978, 41 mins.), in which a collection of 92 extraordinary maps guide a dead orthinologist to the afterlife. H is for House (1973, 10 mins.) blends rural settings with classical music and references to H and other letters. Windows (1975, 4  mins.) is one of Greenaway's most intelligent and winning creations. The short film offers a condensed, wry history of 37 people who have fallen to their deaths from windows. Intervals (1969, 7 mins.) is an abstract examination of forms from the everyday world, including peeling posters and scurrying pedestrians. Dear Phone (1977, 17 mins.) is a curious account  of characters with the initials "HC", and their respective experiences with telephones. Finally, Water Wrackets (1975, 12 mins.) offers an exotic tour of various bodies of water, including a lake stained black by plants.  Peter Greenaway---Great Britain---1969-1978---91 mins.
NIGHTWATCHING
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Not exactly experimental by Peter Greenaway's standards, but his film about Rembrandt is no straight biopic either. With exquisite costumes, lighting, framing, and a disregard for the strong narrative drive of most period dramas, Greenaway casts Martin Freeman as the 17th century Dutch master, who is commissioned to paint a portrait of the royal militia of Amsterdam. There, the artist believes he has uncovered a murder plot and immortalizes the conspiracy with clues in his chaotic, shadowy masterpiece, The Night Watch. Also, segues into Rembrandt's very active sex life provide ample opportunities for filming graphic nudity. Everybody wins! "Rembrandt is captured in all his joyful, bawdy, self-analyzing ways...Freeman, best known for the U.K. series The Office, is just the man, inhabiting the foul-mouthed, lusty artist and making him believable rather than theatrical" (Variety).

Peter Greenaway---Great Britain/Netherlands/Poland---2007---135 mins.
PILLOW BOOK
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Peter Greenaway's bold, stylistic experiment has, as its theme, the "correspondence" between the daughter of a famous writer and a publisher, written on the bodies of their lovers. With a bravura use of video technology, this erotic, visually beautiful film is a powerful treatise on signs, silence, communication and desire. With Ewan McGregor, Vivian Yu, Ken Ogata, Yoshi Oida, Hideko Yoshida and Judy Ongg. Japanese and Mandarin with English         Peter Greenaway---France/Great Britain/Netherlands---1996---126 mins.
TULSE LUPER SUITCASES, THE
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A sweeping trilogy/epic from Peter Greenaway about the life and times of Tulse Luper, a man bigger than the world itself, who collects pieces of his adventures in 92 enigmatic suitcases. Conceived as a giant multimedia project that encompassed cinema, print, the web and conceptual art, the series follows Luper's unbelievable global escapades using wholly original constructions that challenge all notions of the film experience. Part 1: The Moab Story (127 mins.) is broken into three sections spanning the years 1928-1940. It follows the protagonist from his childhood in South Wales to the desert monuments of Moab, Utah, to WWII Antwerp. Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (108 mins.) tracks Luper through Belgium and Vaux-le-Vicomte, France, where he is imprisoned by Fascists. Part 3: From Sark to Finish (120 mins.) is the most hurried chapter of Suitcases, covering five decades in Luper's life and history, from washing up on the island of Sark and on through Barcelona, Budapest, and Moscow, where he is imprisoned yet again. "Greenaway frequently proclaims his dissatisfaction with traditional cinematic narrative, so plot summaries do little to explain his vision. He is, however, a lover of stories, and the Suitcases trilogy is nothing if not a compendium of elaborately constructed tales" (Variety).

Peter Greenaway---Great Britain---2003-2004---355 mins.
ZED & TWO NOUGHTS
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This film is an erotic, beautiful, disturbing, absurdist and metaphorical        achievement that uses the Zoo as the background against which to pose timeless   questions about life and love. "The boldest and arguably the best of Peter       Greenaway's fiction features...Definitely a one-of-a-kind movie" (Jonathan     Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). Cinematography by Sacha Vierny.              Peter Greenaway---Great Britain---1985---115 mins.