Peter Greenaway

Angelfish Decay

The Poor Mouth (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009

An arrangement of Michael Nyman's Angelfish Decay. From the sound track to Peter Greenaway's A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS Am away today. Back tomorrow

From The Office to Nativity!

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009

Martin Freeman made his name in the The Office as the lovely Tim. Now he's playing another nice bloke in Nativity! So why is he so defensive about being typecast? Martin Freeman is sitting opposite me in a London hotel, and he's being charming. He's already offered to fetch me some refreshments ("Well, if you were in my kitchen I'd get you a drink") and is responding to my questions with...

Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Coliseum, London re-rite, Bargehouse, London

The Independent (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

In her book Bluebeard's Legacy: Death and Secrets from Bartók to Hitchcock, Victoria Anderson quotes a brief exchange from Jane Campion's film In the Cut. Shocked by her students' boredom with the subtleties of To the Lighthouse, a professor obsessed by a serial killer asks, "How many dead women does it take to make a good story?" At least three, is the answer.

Truly Irresistible

Greenridge Chronicles (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009

I don't know why I have so much trouble resisting stuff like this. I should know better. I really should. Here I wrote a post about a summer holiday we had one year, up island with the kids. I wrote about my penchant for reading the English version (as opposed to the truly terrible Canadian version) of Hello! magazine. I wrote about the British Stars I don't know and how strangely compelling I find...

Watercooler: Precious

Living in Cinema (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009

Throw a stick on the internet and the Oscar prognosticator you hit is likely predicting that Precious is a sure thing for multiple Oscar nominations. The film has been on everyone’s lips since it won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the clamor only grew louder when it took the People’s [...]

I saw Peter Greenaway's "Rembrandt's j'accuse" at...

Just outside (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

I saw Peter Greenaway's "Rembrandt's j'accuse" at the Film Forum on Sunday, with Carol. A very interesting (if, perhaps, slightly over-fussy) film, one that does get you thinking about "visual illiteracy" and how much you don't see in paintings. For those unaware, Greenaway contends that Rembrandt's so-called "Night Watch" contains clues to a contemporary murder conspiracy...

# The pillow book by Peter Greenaway

boiteaoutils (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

The Pillow Book is a Peter Greenaway's movie (1996) which dramatize the ceremonial of calligraphy on human skin. The brush's slight caress on the body and the mystery of those signs for the westerner that I am, develop an irresistible eroticism which is perfectly arranged in the movie by a constant mix of genres between Western and Japanese cinema.

Peter Greenaway: From "The Falls"

Waggish (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009

Erhaus Bewler Falluper Whilst acknowledging his output, Falluper's detractors accused him of manufacturing fictions and deliberately confusing identities. He was also accused of not knowing the difference between a good joke and a bad one. Falluper's supporters were certain that these accusations were often true, but they believed that Falluper's half-fictions were effervescent by-products of his...

The Bourne Cinema Filmography: Peter Greenaway, "Rembrandt's J'Accuse" (2008)

The Bourne Cinema Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009

Rembrandt's J'Accuse . 2008. Written and directed by Peter Greenaway . Produced by Femke Wolting , Bruno Felix , and Kees Kasander . Cinematography by Reinier van Brummelen . Edited by Elmer Leupen . Music by Giovanni Sollima and Marco Robino . Production designed by Maarten Piersma . Costume design by Marrit van der Burgt . Sound by Bram Boers . Cast: Peter Greenaway (Himself), Martin Freeman (Rembrandt...

BlinkBox goes all arty, signs deal with British Film Institute

TechCrunch UK (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009

[UK] Online film and TV aggregator BlinkBox has gone all arty on us, signing a content partnership with the British Film Institute (BFI) -- bringing the total number of British TV and film titles on offer to over five hundred and the total number of "premium" titles available on the service to just under six thousand. Seeing BlinkBox, arguably, go a little up market with the BFI partnership...

Spring vegetable and lentil chowder

Green Gourmet Giraffe (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

It was a leisurely weekend with very little cooking. On Friday E has bought me a Smiths compilation album. It was on the stereo a lot over the weekend. “Heaven knows I am miserable now”, I sang along, reliving my student days while I fed Sylvia her breakfast. She just laughed. After all our spring rain, we had plenty of sunshine. Saturday found us indulging in some leisurely reading in...

Peter Greenaway's New Film Offers Criticism of Today's Visual Illiteracy

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009

AMSTERDAM.- 'J'Accuse' is 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 34 painted characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads...

• Peter Greenaway's Rembrandt's J'Accuse Offers Fierce Criticism of Today's Visual Illiteracy - Artdaily

Director Peter Greenaway on Rembrandt’s J’accuse and Our Visual Illiteracy

Vulture (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009

Peter Greenaway’s new film, Rembrandt’s J’accuse , opening today at the Film Forum, is one of the most striking films the legendary director has ever made: A pseudo-documentary journey through Rembrandt’s masterpiece, "The Night Watch," in which Greenaway argues that the Dutch painter was using his canvas to solve a murder, it mixes the playful nature and bravura...

Second Life Machinima Integrated Into Multimedia Theatrical Production Co-Created By UK Director Peter Greenaway

New World Notes (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009

While interviewing Italian artist Luca Lisci about his latest SL machinima, he casually mentioned an earlier project he worked on last year: creating machinima for The Blue Planet, a live stage multimedia show co-directed by Peter Greenaway. (Trailer above.) Film...

Bright Star Reviewed at MovieZeal

Most Beautiful Fraud in the World (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009

Jane Campion is one of the most delectable filmmakers working today. In much the same vein as Michael Powell or Nick Ray or Peter Greenaway, Campion's films are likely to devour you with their visual sensuality and deeply textured romanticism. With this as my prefacing thought, I sat down and watched the auteur's seventh film, Bright Star . My views were not changed. Bright Star is a tragically gorgeous...