Tom Jolliffe looks at the weird wonders of cinema… There are pretty standard films when it comes to cinema. It could be straight horror (masked killer stalks teens) or Die Hard formula (terrorists take over something, everyman hero stops them). Sometimes a film lowdown tells you everything you need to know about what you’re about […]
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover: Anti-Cinema and Anti-Thatcher Allegory
Tom Jolliffe looks back at Peter Greenaway’s most iconic film, an unrestrained arthouse masterpiece… If anyone has ever watched the film work of Peter Greenaway, then they’ll know that his films are difficult to ingest. Greenaway is an artist turned film director. He’s never been particularly cinematically minded. His canvas through the lens of his […]
Strand Releasing acquires Peter Greenaway’s drama Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights from Films Boutique to Peter Greenaway’s historical drama Eisenstein in Guanajuato. Led by Elmer Bäck and Luis Alberti, the cast includes Maya Zapata, Lisa Owen, Stelio Savante, Rasmus Slätis and Jakob Öhrman. A passion project of filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s, the visually appealing film received its world premiere in […]
