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Peter Greenaway - what members say
review by dougthom from Crawley
pure classic 8 April 2008
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Greenaway .. Throw -away !! 29 August 2004
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Weird Avant Garde stuff! 31 December 2004
Peter Greenaway - filmography
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Nightwatching
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle
Director: Peter Greenaway
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From renowned writer/director Peter Greenaway, Nightwatching is a theatrical, ironic costume drama about Rembrandt, his women and a conspiracy of foul murder in 'The Night Watch', the painting that both made and ruined him. Featuring a stellar cast, which includes Martin Freeman ("The Office"), Eva ..read more »

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from 492 members
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8.1/2 Women
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu
Director: Peter Greenaway
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Another erotic comedy from Peter Greenaway, 8 1/2 WOMEN takes its inspiration from one of cinema's greatest films. After a businessman (John Standing) tragically loses his wife, his son (Matthew Delamere) returns to Geneva from managing a series of Pachinko Parlors in Kyoto, Japan. When the pair ..read more »

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from 999 members
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The Pillow Book - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: Vivian Wu, Ken Ogata, Ewan McGregor
Director: Peter Greenaway
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An arresting Japanese model seeks to indulge her fantasy of having calligraphy inked on her body, a whim based partly on her father's habit of painting poetry on her face when she was a girl and partly on readings from the 10th-century erotica tome "The Pillow Book." But the tables are turned when ..read more »

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The Pillow Book
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Vivian Wu, Ken Ogata, Ewan McGregor
Director: Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway directed this elliptical and visually intricate tale of the far side of erotic and intellectual attraction. As a girl, Nagiko would receive a special gift each year from her father: a calligrapher (Ken Ogata) who would carefully paint a poem on her face, as her aunt (Hideko Yoshida) ..read more »

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from 2,235 members
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A TV Dante - The Inferno Cantos I-VIII
(1989)
Starring: John Gielgud, Bob Peck
Director: Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway's take on Dante's Inferno is a fascinating journey through a well-known classical work. The close-ups of Bob Peck (as Dante) and Sir John Gielgud (as Virgil, whom Dante has asked to be his guide to Hell) are accompanied by superimposed images of people, events, and animals mentioned ..read more »

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from 2 members
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Drowning by Numbers
(1988)
Starring: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Joely Richardson
Director: Peter Greenaway
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When you don't like your husband very much, murder may seem a drastic solution. Unless of course you decide to drown him and you are a close personal friend of a compliant coroner... So far, so good. But, what happens when other members of your family decide to follow your example? 'Drowning By ..read more »

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from 175 members
Currently unavailable
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A Zed and Two Noughts
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Andrea Ferreol, Joss Ackland, Brian Deacon
Director: Peter Greenaway, Peter Greena
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The always elliptical Peter Greenaway once again creates a beautiful film-as-puzzle. This tale concerns twin zoologist brothers whose wives are killed in a freak car crash involving a rare swan. The brothers form an unusual and strangely close relationship with Alba, the woman who was driving the ..read more »

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from 1,556 member
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A Zed And Two Noughts - Blu-ray
(1985)
Starring: Andrea Ferreol, Joss Ackland, Brian Deacon
Director: Peter Greenaway
Certificate: 
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The always elliptical Peter Greenaway once again creates a beautiful film-as-puzzle. This tale concerns twin zoologist brothers whose wives are killed in a freak car crash involving a rare swan. The brothers form an unusual and strangely close relationship with Alba, the woman who was driving the ..read more »

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from 12 members
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The Draughtsman's Contract
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert
Director: Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway's first fiction feature (after the mock-documentary The Falls) made him immediately famous and was named one of the most original films of the 1980s by British critics. The action is set in the director's beloved 17th century. Ambitious young artist Mr. Neville (Anthony Higgins) is ..read more »

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