- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
24 fps
Titles
+ Draughtsman’s Contract, The
- Alternate Title:
- Meurtre Dans Un Jardin Anglais
- Director:
- Greenaway, Peter
- Production Co:
- British Film Institute, Channel Four Television
- Running Time:
- Feature. 108 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - DTS-HD Master Audio
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1982
- Language:
- English, German, and Dutch with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Mystery, Comedy
- Notes:
- Newly remastered in 4K by the BFI National Archive, The Draughtsman's Contract is Peter Greenaway’s masterpiece. Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, this witty, stylized, erotic country house murder mystery catapulted Greenaway to the forefront of international art cinema. Adorned with intricate wordplay, extravagant costumes and opulent photography, Greenaway’s first narrative feature weaves a labyrinthine mystery around the maxim “draw what you see, not what you know.” An aristocratic wife (Janet Suzman) commissions a young, cocksure draughtsman (Anthony Higgins) to sketch her husband’s property while he is away—in exchange for a fee, room and board, and one sexual favor for each of the twelve drawings. As the draughtsman becomes more entrenched in the devious schemings in this seemingly idyllic country home, curious details emerge in his drawings that may reveal a murder.
Disc includes commentary and introduction by Peter Greenaway, four deleted scenes, and behind-the-scenes footage.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Intervals
- Director:
- Greenaway, Peter
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - dolby digital stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1969
- Language:
- English, Italian
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Short
- Notes:
- A short film which has its emphasis on back street walls with peeling posters and the constant pedestrian traffic in the foreground. It has a static camera positioned in front of the walls; experimental editing techniques, no dialogue-just background music, and quick edits of blackness throughout.
+ Windows
- Director:
- Greenaway, Peter
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - dolby digital stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1974
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary, Short
- Notes:
- A sort of documentary on the people known to have fallen out of windows in a certain time frame in a certain geographical location. One of Greenaway's early short films.
+ Dear Phone
- Director:
- Greenaway, Peter
- Running Time:
- Short. 17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - dolby digital stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1976
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Short
- Notes:
- A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed with artistic shots of telephone boxes in a variety of locations.
+ Water Wrackets
- Director:
- Greenaway, Peter
- Production Co:
- British Film Institute
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - dolby digital stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1978
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Short, Docu Fiction, Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Hypnotic photography of swirling rivers and misty ponds and droning music (not Michael Nyman for a change) form the backdrop to a documentary-style narration about the history of a fictional tribe in the distant past (or is it the far future?).
+ Interview with Composer Michael Nyman
- Production Co:
- The Guardian
- Running Time:
- Event Documentation. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - dolby digital stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Interview