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Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012) Peter Greenaway, Ramsey Nasr, F. Murray Abraham, Hendrik Aerts
The life of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. Read More »
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) Peter Greenaway, Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Read More »
The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) Peter Greenaway, Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert
Mr. Neville, a cocksure young artist, is contracted by Mrs. Herbert, the wife of a wealthy landowner Read More »
Drowning by Numbers (1988) Peter Greenaway, Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson
Tired of her husband’s philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. Read More »
Four American Composers (1983) Peter Greenaway, Robert Ashley, John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, Documentary
This is a 4 pieces documentary that follow 4 different contemporary composers performing/creating/building theirs shows. Read More »
The Baby of Mâcon (1993) Peter Greenaway, Julia Ormond, Ralph Fiennes, Philip Stone, Drama, History
A movie about the corruption in all levels of society. A baby is born from a supposed-to-be virgin woman, so a chain of hysteria about divine intervention in the birth takes place.
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Prospero’s Books (1991) Peter Greenaway, John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc, Drama, Fantasy
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the ‘The Tempest’.
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Rembrandt’s J’Accuse…! (2008) Peter Greenaway, Martin Freeman, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, Documentary, Mystery
An ‘essayistic’ documentary in which Greenaway’s fierce criticism of today’s visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt’s Nightwatch. Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder and the motives of all its thirty-four painted characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads us through Rembrandt’s paintings into seventeenth-century Amsterdam. He paints a world that is democratic in principle, but is almost entirely ruled by twelve families. The notion exists of these regents as charitable and compassionate entities. However, reality was different.
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The Falls (1980) Peter Greenaway
The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.
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