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Peter Greenaway - what members say
review by dougthom from Crawley
pure classic 8 April 2008
review by from London, England
Greenaway .. Throw -away !! 29 August 2004
review by A customer from U.K
Weird Avant Garde stuff! 31 December 2004
Peter Greenaway - filmography
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Nightwatching
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Toby Jones, Jonathan Holmes, Martin Freeman
Director: Peter Greenaway
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In 1642, the life of the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt takes a turn for the worst. He changes from a wealthy respected celebrity to a discredited pauper. His pregnant wife, Saskia, insists that he paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that would later become known as The ..read more »
 
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8.1/2 Women
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Elizabeth Berrington, Natacha Amal, John Standing
Director: Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway's tale of sexual fantasies and blackmail. In Tokyo businessman Philip Emmenthal (John Standing) places his son Storey (Matthew Delamere) in charge of his eight and a half, recently acquired, pachinko parlours. When Storey's mother dies, he travels to his father's Geneva chateau to ..read more »
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The Pillow Book
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Ken Mitsuishi, Judy Ongg, Ken Ogata
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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The Pillow Book - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: Ken Mitsuishi, Ewan McGregor, Judy Ongg
Director: Peter Greenaway
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In Japan in the 1970s, a calligrapher delicately writes a birthday greeting on his daughter's face. When the little girl grows up, she remembers the event with such fondness that she begins a search for a calligrapher-lover who will use her whole body as his personal paper. Eventually, she comes ..read more »
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A TV Dante - The Inferno Cantos I-VIII
(1989)
Starring: Bob Peck, John Gielgud
Director: Peter Greenaway
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A collaborative attempt by Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway to bring to the screen one of the greatest and most widely known works of art in the history of Western civilisation, Dante's 'Inferno'. Using radical new techniques a rich televisual tapestry is created to illustrate and complement Dante'..read more »
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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 189 members
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A Zed and Two Noughts
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jim Davidson, Brian Deacon, Geoffrey Palmer
Director: Peter Greenaway, Peter Greena
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This twisted black comedy is obsessed in turn with swans, twins, and decay. Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol) is involved in a swan-related car accident near the zoo. The accident kills two other women, the wives of two twin zoologists, Oliver and Oswald Deuce (Brian and Eric Deacon). Alba is lucky ..read more »
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A Zed And Two Noughts - Blu-ray
(1985)
Starring: Jim Davidson, Brian Deacon, Geoffrey Palmer
Director: Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway's surreal story has twin brothers (Brian and Eric Deacon), both zoologists, re-examining the meaning of life after a car accident involving a swan claims the lives of their wives. They study the decomposition of several animals with time-lapse photography, plot to liberate zoo ..read more »
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The Draughtsman's Contract
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Janet Suzman, Hugh Fraser, Anthony Higgins
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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The Early Films Of Peter Greenaway - Vol. 1
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Peter Greenaway
Director: Peter Greenaway
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Six early shorts by the director of 'The Draughtsman's Contract' and 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover'. 'A Walk Through H' describes a series of 92 maps that guide a dead ornithologist on his way to the afterlife, whilst 'Windows' is the history of 37 people who have fallen to their ..read more »
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Peter Greenaway facts
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