Prospero's Books — Saskia Boddeke & Peter Greenaway
Shakespeare is without peer, the man of whom Harold Bloom said he invented humanity. `The Tempest' is his richest and essentially his last play, clearly about himself and his career. John Gielgud is the finest Shakespearean actor of our age. Greenaway is the most creative, lush and introspective filmmaker working. This film is important.
Prospero's Books movie review (1991) Roger Ebert
Peter Greenaway's then state-of-the-art production of Prospero's Books offers a purely subjective take on The Tempest, as witnessed through the eyes of Prosp.
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I remember reading John Gielgud's obit in the New York Times this spring, and near the end, he is quoted saying that among all of his roles, his Prospero in Prospero's Books was his most satisfying.
Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991) YouTube
Though faithful to the text of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Greenaway's characteristically dense film could hardly differ more from literal adaptations like Branagh's Henry V.Structuring its motifs.
Prospero's Books Peter GREENAWAY
Prospero's books by Peter Greenaway, 1991, Heron Communications, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991 edition, Hardcover in English
Prospero's Books (1991) Peter Greenaway Synopsis, Characteristics
Prospero's Books. Greenaway's sixth feature is operatic in its use of music, song, dance, and the choreography of scores of extras. Against opulent settings of Renaissance architecture, naked spirits form tableaux based on classical mythology or Western art. The spectacle is further enhanced by the density of the images. Greenaway uses both
PROSPERO’S BOOKS American Cinematheque
PROSPERO'S BOOKS by Greenaway, Peter - ISBN 10: 0701137592 - ISBN 13: 9780701137595 - Random House UK - 1992 - Softcover
Prospero’s Books 1991 Greenaway The Cinema Archives
Paperback. £24.90 3 Used from £24.90 1 Collectible from £45.95. This book of the film "Prospero's Books" includes the full screenplay as well as Greenaway's detailed descriptions of the sets, action and visual effects. The film's cast includes Sir John Gielgud as Prospero and Michael Clark as Caliban, and the music is by Michael Nyman.
Prospero's Books (1991) directed by Peter Greenaway • Reviews, film
The one thing these films seem to have in common is that all are quite pretentious and much ado about nothing. But that description is an amazing understatement when applied to "Prospero's Books," Greenaway's adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Sir John Gielgud, in rare form (even at 87), is Prospero, the play's central figure, here.
Prospero's Books (1991) — The Movie Database (TMDb)
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Prospero's Books (1991) MUBI
Prospero's Books: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc, Erland Josephson. The magician Prospero attempts to stop his daughter's affair with an enemy.
Prospero's Books (1991)
It is a visual marvel but its narrative momentum/strength isn't near what some of his previous films are—as Ebert says, ""it need not make sense, and it is not "too difficult" because it could not have been any less so. It is simply a work of original art, which Greenaway asks us to accept or reject on his own terms" A few angry critics calling it pure arrogance and deriding it.
Prospero's Books (1991) IMDb
All in all, a magical book. The 24 books thrown into the leaky vessel that took Prospero into exile are the starting point of Peter Greenaway's screen adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Prospero's book Peter Greenaway imagens) American, Cartaz
Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books serves as a transitional marker for this book's growing concentration on intermedial concerns. Received with bewilderment, even irritation, when first released, Prospero's Books is recuperated here as a prescient harbinger of intermedial things to come. The film's many technical innovations make it a crucial formal turning/meeting point in the.
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Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books Skribis
Herbert Klein (Berlin) "The far side of the mirror": Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books. Peter Greenaway's film Prospero's Books had its first showing at the Venice Film Festival in 1991. It is based on Shakespeare's The Tempest and Sir John Gielgud plays the leading role. Although t he play experiments with new techniques and technology, the underlying post-Romantic interpretation is.