Every two years John Packer of the Scottish cloth manufacturer Reid & Taylor put on a show. His fashion extravaganzas promoted some of the most expensive fabrics in the world, and attracted top designers and an audience of fashionistas, including guest of honour Princess Margaret.

Leeds.Castle.1979.576p.BFI.WEB-DL.h264.AAC-InstaGib.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/0DEE26CBF414ECB/Leeds.Castle.1979.576p.BFI.WEB-DL.h264.AAC-InstaGib.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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From the IMDB:
26 Bathrooms is a witty, light little film that must be seen by those who appreciate Greenaway’s darker, more allegorical works. Simultaneously satiric and celebratory, the lighter side of his humanism washes through this quirky quasi-documentary of our most fundamental bodily needs and the spaces we create to fulfil them.

Inside.Rooms.26.Bathrooms.London.and.Oxfordshire.1985.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Runtime:	31mn 13s
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Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Made for TV and the French Bicentennial celebrations, this is an extreme case of Peter Greenaway’s obsession with cataloguing and classification. Comprising 23 case histories of corpses fished out of the Seine between 1795 and 1801, it forms a kind of micro-reprise of his monumental The Falls, piling up its narratives, Holmesian speculations and slow, clinical tracking shots over corpses, in a rigidly uniform structure. But within this forbidding system, Greenaway breaks up the frame, much as in Prospero’s Books, using Paintbox graphics to play on the comparative textures of television and paper. Death in the Seine is a pedantic film, because it’s about pedantry and the systematic collecting of facts which might or might not constitute evidence. It wasn’t taken up by British TV, which considering the film’s sign-off comments about the transience of memory and recorded knowledge, is a rather sour irony.

Death In The Seine (1989).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/8E5F415A001E1F1/Death_In_The_Seine_(1989).mkv

Language(s):English, French
Subtitles:None

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A short film based on the work of choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker where a woman dances before being joined by a man and the two then dance together.
‘Rosa’ (1992) was filmed at the foyer of the Ghent Opera House, Belgium, which was undergoing a huge restoration at the time (1991).

A film that calls to mind Denis’s Towards Mathilde, as Greenaway relinquishes his baroque directorial flourishes to simply stage Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker’s choreography as an act of artistic solidarity, curiosity, and appreciation. And if I enjoyed Greenaway’s film significantly more than Denis’s, it’s only because I found the dancing so much more fascinating and beautiful. A lonely lament transformed into a frenzied pas de deux, and the resigned grace of simply getting back on with it once the whirlwind’s spent and done; a whole emotional minefield condensed into the way two bodies move with and without one another. Indeed, a film that made me ponder for the first time just how much Denis and Greenaway have in common; of the great filmmakers, the two perhaps most interested in the expressivity of the human body, the material fact of corporeality.

	
Rosa_(1992)_Peter Greenaway.mkv

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Runtime: 	15 min 51 s
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https://nitro.download/view/01C5FB8EC1E6780/Rosa_(1992)_Peter_Greenaway.mkv

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Subtitles:None

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AMG plot
It makes sense that an offbeat director such as Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero’s Books) would be attracted to a project such as 4 American Composers, a 1983 British television special profiling John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, and Robert Ashley, four U.S. musical artists who haven’t been content simply to entertain, but feel compelled to “push the envelope” of music.

Meredith Monk episode chronicles the career of the award-winning artist, a composer and singer who also works in film and dance. Monk is the fourth generation in her family to become a singer, and pioneered “extended vocal technique.” Greenaway here provides viewers with performance sequences from Monk’s multimedia pieces “Dolman Music,” “Travelling,” “Ellis Island,” and others.

Robert Ashley episode chronicles the work and career of the distinguished composer , an innovator of opera who has worked to make it American in subject matter and idiom, writing opera for television. Greenaway here provides viewers with performances excerpted from Ashley’s seven-part television opera Perfect Lives. The opera was co-produced by Britain’s Channel Four television network in August of 1983.

Philip Glass episode chronicles the career of the award-winning artist , a composer trained in mathematics and philosophy, who in his twenties had a musical epiphany when he discovered the techniques of Indian music while transcribing Ravi Shankar’s music for a French filmmaker. Glass eventually applied techniques from India, North Africa, and the Himalayas to his seminal work. Greenaway here provides viewers with excerpts from performances of Glass’ compositions

John Cage episode centers on a concert performed in England on Cage’s 70th birthday. Featured are partial performances (sometimes overlapping) of a number of pieces, including “Roaratorio” (with Cage as narrator), “Forever and Sunsmell,” “Double Music,” and others. Highlights include a performance by Marcel Duchamp and interview commentary by Cage and others.

Four American Composers Meredith Monk 1983 PAL DVD DD2.0 x264-nosferato.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/0449690446F2CD7/Four_American_Composers_Robert_Ashley_1983_PAL_DVD_DD2.0_x264-nosferato.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:French

The post Peter Greenaway – Four American Composers (1983) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

AMG plot
It makes sense that an offbeat director such as Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero’s Books) would be attracted to a project such as 4 American Composers, a 1983 British television special profiling John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, and Robert Ashley, four U.S. musical artists who haven’t been content simply to entertain, but feel compelled to “push the envelope” of music.

Peter Greenaway - John Cage.avi

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https://nitro.download/view/7C0C0F00CEB40AC/Peter_Greenaway_-_Philip_Glass.avi
https://nitro.download/view/8B1ABE77A276087/Peter_Greenaway_-_Robert_Ashley.avi
https://nitro.download/view/AB88C87BA00D544/four.zip

Language(s):English
Subtitles:French

The post Peter Greenaway – Four American Composers (1983) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
A film made for the Central Office of Information concerning Britain’s coastline, with music by Michael Nyman.

The Sea in their Blood [--1080p--] [Peter Greenaway, 1983].mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/A9A70EB8668CB5D/The_Sea_in_their_Blood__–1080p–___Peter_Greenaway,_1983_.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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