feb 13
2008
Greenaway
Is it just me or does no one ever talk about Peter Greenaway any more? I just noticed that The Draughtsman's Contract and A Zed & Two Noughts were released on DVD yesterday.
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OK, but when are we going to get The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, Her Lover? Shouldn't that be the starting point? Especially with all the post-QueenHelen Mirren love.
posted by Jared at 11:49 AM on February 13, 2008 
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9812/msg00040.html - what do you mean, "any more?"
posted by glory at 12:27 PM on February 13, 2008
I talk about Peter Greenaway all the time. Mainly to strangers on trains, at bus stops and in libraries. What I mainly talk about is why his early work is so compelling and his recent work (last 15 yrs!) has sucked. His Tulse Luper experiment has failed I think. It's impossible to get your hands on the 2nd and 3rd films, and they got little publicity It was supposed to be a cross media epic. I say go back to the cheap cameras and situationist/oulipian ideas Peter; leave the paintbox at home. Please. I love the Falls, Zoo, Drowning, Belly etc., BTW his rants about cinema as a failed media are getting tedious even for me.
posted by davidarthurs2@yahoo.com at 10:33 AM on February 14, 2008
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