{"product_id":"the-early-films-of-peter-greenaway-vol1","title":"THE EARLY FILMS OF PETER GREENAWAY VOL1 - DVD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHistory of the Avant-Garde*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTHE EARLY FILMS OF PETER GREENAWAY 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Walk Through H | H is for House | Windows | Intervals | Dear Phone | Water Wrackets\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe has other reputations as well- as an academic, as a maker of curious artefacts, as a cataloguer of the bizarre and as a librarian of the absurd.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGreenaway might as well have been describing himself in this thumbnail sketch of Canton Remodell, a character in an unmade project. Before his international arthouse hit The Draughtsman's Contract Greenaway had made a series of highly inventive and witty short films. Their content varies widely: the potted history of 37 people who have fallen to their deaths from windows (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWindows\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), a sequence of 92 maps to guide a dead ornithologist on his way into the afterlife (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Walk Through H\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), but all the films are immensely playful and take pleasure in outlandish detail, fake erudition and corkscrew narratives. Composer Michael Nyman started his career with Peter Greenaway and contributed a thrilling score to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Walk Through H\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDVD extras\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e include a Galley of Artworks, a Gallery of Archives, filmed introductions to all six films by Peter Greenaway plus hidden features.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUK | 1969 1978 | colour and black \u0026amp; white | 87 minutes | Ratio 1.33:1 | Region 2 DVD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* A series of video releases featuring the best of radical and innovative filmmaking from the first hundred years of cinema\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A Walk Through H is one of the best British movies of the decade... You could call it a cross between vintage Borges 'fiction' and a Disney True Life Adventure.' --Tony Rayns, Time Out\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BFI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46600832024750,"sku":"BFIVD566","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0583\/4614\/3918\/files\/the-early-films-vol1-lime-light.jpg?v=1754409542","url":"https:\/\/limelightcollection.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-early-films-of-peter-greenaway-vol1","provider":"Limelight Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}