Peter Greenaway Collection - 8-DVD Box Set ( The Draughtsman's Contract / A Zed & Two Noughts / Drowning by Numbers / Prospero's Books / The Baby of Mâcon / The Pillow Book / 8 ½ Women ) ( L'ultima tempesta / Das Wunder von Macon / Eight and a Half Women )

Peter Greenaway Collection - 8-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Draughtsman's Contract / A Zed & Two Noughts / Drowning by Numbers / Prospero's Books / The Baby of Mâcon / The Pillow Book / 8 ½ Women
Alternate Title: L'ultima tempesta / Das Wunder von Macon / Eight and a Half Women
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Fantasporto Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
884 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1982 - 1999 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )
Luxembourg ( France, Benelux )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Peter Greenaway

Written By:
Peter Greenaway
William Shakespeare
Sei Shonagon

Actors:
Anthony Higgins ..... Mr. Neville
Janet Suzman ..... Mrs. Herbert
Anne-Louise Lambert ..... Mrs. Talmann
Hugh Fraser ..... Mr. Talmann
Neil Cunningham ..... Mr. Noyes
Dave Hill ..... Mr. Herbert
David Gant ..... Mr. Seymour
David Meyer ..... The Poulencs
Tony Meyer ..... The Poulencs
Nicolas Amer ..... Mr. Parkes
Suzan Crowley ..... Mrs. Pierpont
Lynda La Plante ..... Mrs. Clement (as Lynda Marchal)
Michael Feast ..... The Statue
Alastair Cummings ..... Philip
Steve Ubels ..... Mr. Van Hoyten
Andréa Ferréol ..... Alba Bewick
Brian Deacon ..... Oswald Deuce
Eric Deacon ..... Oliver Deuce
Frances Barber ..... Venus de Milo
Joss Ackland ..... Van Hoyten
Jim Davidson ..... Joshua Plate
Agnès Brulet ..... Beta Bewick
Guusje van Tilborgh ..... Caterina Bolnes
Gerard Thoolen ..... Van Meegeren
Ken Campbell ..... Stephen Pipe
Wolf Kahler ..... Felipe Arc-en-Ciel
Geoffrey Palmer ..... Fallast
David Attenborough ..... Documentary Narrator (voice)
Joan Plowright ..... Cissie Colpitts 1
Juliet Stevenson ..... Cissie Colpitts 2
Joely Richardson ..... Cissie Colpitts 3
Bernard Hill ..... Madgett
Jason Edwards ..... Smut
Bryan Pringle ..... Jake
Trevor Cooper ..... Hardy
David Morrissey ..... Bellamy
John Rogan ..... Gregory
Paul Mooney ..... Teigan
Jane Gurnett ..... Nancy
Kenny Ireland ..... Jonah Bognor
Michael Percival ..... Moses Bognor
Joanna Dickens ..... Mrs. Hardy
Janine Duvitski ..... Marina Bellamy
John Gielgud ..... Prospero
Michael Clark ..... Caliban
Michel Blanc ..... Alonso
Erland Josephson ..... Gonzalo
Isabelle Pasco ..... Miranda
Tom Bell ..... Antonio
Kenneth Cranham ..... Sebastian
Mark Rylance ..... Ferdinand
Gerard Thoolen ..... Adrian
Pierre Bokma ..... Francisco
Jim van der Woude ..... Trinculo
Michiel Romeyn ..... Stephano
Orpheo ..... Ariel
Paul Russell ..... Ariel
James Thiérrée ..... Ariel
Julia Ormond ..... The Daughter
Ralph Fiennes ..... The Bishop's Son
Philip Stone ..... The Bishop
Jonathan Lacey ..... Cosimo Medici
Don Henderson ..... The Father Confessor
Celia Gregory ..... Mother Superior
Jeff Nuttall ..... The Majordomo
Jessica Hynes ..... The First Midwife (as Jessica Stevenson)
Kathryn Hunter ..... The Second Midwife
Gabrielle Reidy ..... The Third Midwife
Frank Egerton ..... The Prompter
Phelim McDermott ..... The First Tutor
Tony Vogel ..... The Father
Tatiana Strauss ..... The First Nun
Louisa Milwood-Haigh ..... The Second Nun
Vivian Wu ..... Nagiko
Yoshi Oida ..... The Publisher
Ken Ogata ..... The Father
Hideko Yoshida ..... The Aunt / The Maid
Ewan McGregor ..... Jerome
Judy Ongg ..... The Mother
Ken Mitsuishi ..... The Husband
Yutaka Honda ..... Hoki
Barbara Lott ..... Jerome's Mother
Miwako Kawai ..... Young Nagiko
Lynne Langdon ..... Jerome's sister (as Lynne Frances Wachendorfer)
Chizuru Ohnishi ..... Young Nagiko
Shiho Takamatsu ..... Young Nagiko
Aki Ishimaru ..... Young Nagiko
Hisashi Hidaka ..... Calligrapher
John Standing ..... Philip Emmenthal
Matthew Delamere ..... Storey Emmenthal
Vivian Wu ..... Kito
Annie Shizuka Inoh ..... Simato (as Shizuka Inoh)
Barbara Sarafian ..... Clothilde
Kirina Mano ..... Mio
Toni Collette ..... Griselda / Sister Concordia
Amanda Plummer ..... Beryl
Natacha Amal ..... Giaconda the Baby Factory
Manna Fujiwara ..... Giulietta / Half Woman
Polly Walker ..... Palmira
Elizabeth Berrington ..... Celeste, Emmenthal Maid
Myriam Muller ..... Marianne, Emmenthal Maid
Don Warrington ..... Simon
Claire Johnston ..... Amelia, Philip's Wife

Synopsis:

***WARNING***The films contain the following languages and regions: 81/2 women (Reg. 0) - English audio & English subtitles; The Pillow Book (Reg. 0) - English, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, French audio & English subtitles; The Baby of Macon (Reg. 0) - English audio; Prospero's Books (Reg. 0) - English audio; Drowning by Numbers (Reg. 0) - English audio; A Zed & Two Noughts (Reg. 4) - English, French, Dutch audio & Dutch, French subtitles; The Draughtsman's Contract (Reg. 4) - English, French audio & French, Dutch subtitles***

Best known for The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover, British director Peter Greenaway's visionary cinema pushes the limits of the medium. Elaborate and visually extravagant, his films have won a passionate audience, particularly for his collaborations with composer Michael Nyman.
Box Set Contains
The Draughtsman's Contract
A Zed & Two Noughts
Drowning By Numbers
Propero's Books
Baby of Macon
The Pillow Book
8 1/2 Women
Peter Greenwaway: A Documentary

The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
Mr. Neville, a cocksure young artist is contracted by Mrs. Herbert, the wife of a wealthy landowner, to produce a set of twelve drawings of her husband's estate, a contract which extends much further than either the purse or the sketchpad. The sketches themselves prove of an even greater significance than supposed upon the discovery of the body of Mr. Herbert.

A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Identical twins Oliver and Oswald Deuce lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. The brothers, who are zoologists, become obsessed with the death and decay of animals. They both have a relationship with Alba, the driver of the crashed car, who loses first one leg then the other. When Alba dies, the twins film their own death.

Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Three generations of women, a mother, her daughter and her niece - all called Cissie Colpitts - experience dissatisfaction with their husbands and cause them to drown. The local coroner, an inveterate game player called Madgett, is drawn into a plot to disguise the murders. The story is paced by the numbers one to one-hundred, which appear sequentially through the film.

Prospero's Books (1991)
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
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.

The Pillow Book (1996)
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from 'The Pillow Book', the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a 'parfait mélange' of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.

8 ½ Women (1999)
Following the death of the mother, a father and son open up a brothel in their Genevan estate after watching Fellini's '8 1/2'.

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