Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Comedy | Drama
Three generations of women share the same problem–marriage woes–and want to put an end to it.
Starring: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bryan Pringle, Trevor Cooper
Director: Peter Greenaway
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Rejected by Hollywood and facing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino, he experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos, happy to create their effects in cinema, troubled to suffer them in life.
Starring: Elmer Bäck, Luis Alberti, Stelio Savante
Director: Peter Greenaway
A Zed & Two Noughts / Zoo (1985)
Comedy | Drama
The always elliptical Peter Greenaway once again creates a beautiful film-as-puzzle. This tale concerns twin zoologist brothers whose wives are killed in a freak car crash involving a rare swan. The brothers form an unusual and strangely close relationship with Alba, the woman who was driving the car, now an amputee. Preoccupied with death and decomposition, the brothers organise elaborate studies on the decomposition of animals, making time-lapse films of dalmatians and zebras to chart the decay. Cue the scurrying hoards of snails and Michael Nyman's thrilling frenetic score. When Alba herself dies, the twins decide to join her in death, and set about filming their own decaying human bodies. Greenaway's fascination with the Dutch painter Vermeer, is evident in A Zed And Two Noughts, particularly in the lighting.
Starring: Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon
Director: Peter Greenaway
The British Academy Film Awards (TV 2014)
Awards
The 67th British Academy Film Awards more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 16 February 2014 at the Royal Opera House in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2013. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), accolades are handed out for the best in feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality, that were screened at British cinemas during 2013. The British-American film Gravity won six of its eleven nominations, including Outstanding British Film, Best Cinematography, Best Original Music, Best Sound, Best Special Visual Effects and Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón. 12 Years a Slave won Best Film. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Cate Blanchett won the Best Actor and Best Actress in a Leading Role awards, respectively while Barkhad Abdi and Jennifer Lawrence won the Best Actor and Best Actress in a Supporting Role awards, respectively.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Alfonso Cuarón, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Poulter, Peter Greenaway, Jennifer Lawrence, Barkhad Abdi, Kieran Evans, Helen Mirren
The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery
About six years after the "Glorious Revolution," rogue artist R. Neville is invited to a rustic English abode, discreetly delighting in country pleasures.
Starring: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser, Neil Cunningham
Director: Peter Greenaway
The Pillow Book (1996)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
In contemporary Japan and Hong Kong, a successful model revives memories of her calligrapher father by having her lovers give her pleasure by writing on her body. An affair with an Englishman leads her to start writing herself, using others as her paper.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Vivian Wu
Director: Peter Greenaway
Nightwatching (2007)
Biography | Drama | History | Mystery
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting "The Night Watch".
Starring: Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, Toby Jones
Director: Peter Greenaway
The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
Drama | History
A movie about the corruption in all levels of society. A baby is born from a supposed-to-be virgin woman, so a chain of hysteria about divine intervention in the birth takes place.
Starring: Julia Ormond, Ralph Fiennes, Philip Stone
Director: Peter Greenaway
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Drama
Peter Greenaway writes and directs this psychological drama. Architect Stourley Kracklite goes to Rome to organise an exhibition paying tribute to an 18th century predecessor. There he becomes convinced his pregnant wife, Louisa, is having an affair with one of his rivals and when he develops stomach cramps he suspects she is trying to poison him.
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson
Director: Peter Greenaway
