{"product_id":"the-early-films-of-peter-greenaway-vol2","title":"THE EARLY FILMS OF PETER GREENAWAY VOL2 - 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 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVertical Features Remake | The Falls\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Draughtsman's Contract\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Greenaway had made a series of highly inventive films which established all the obsessions that run through his later work. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVertical Features Remake\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a playful parody of avant-garde theorising, academics argue about the work of Tulse Luper, Greenaway's best-known fictional character. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Falls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is divided into 92 biographies of people who have all been affected by the VUE , the Violent Unknown Event, a phenomenon in some way connected with birds and flying. Michael Nyman provided the score for both films.\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 both films by Peter Greenaway plus hidden features.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUK | 1978 1980 | colour | 224 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\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'...the most delicious snarl-up of pedantry and poetry in British cinema's history. The Falls is moviedom's answer to Tristram Shandy and you fall over yourself to see it.' --Nigel Andrews, Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Falls is monstrously clever, undeniably inventive, certainly monumental, and terminally cute.' --J Hoberman, The Village Voice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BFI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46600832090286,"sku":"BFIVD565","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0583\/4614\/3918\/files\/the-early-films-lime-light.jpg?v=1754409541","url":"https:\/\/limelightcollection.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-early-films-of-peter-greenaway-vol2","provider":"Limelight Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}