The Baby Of Macon - directed by Peter Greenaway. I thought the whole play-within-a-film concept was interesting and I appreciated the composition (looked like a Rennaissance painting come to life), the cinematography and the surreality of it all, but the violence was, quite frankly, gratuitous and over-the-top - the disembowlment of a man whilst having sex, gang rape, and infanticide/child mutilation. Dessert anyone?
It was on the Sundance Channel a year or two ago, but I doubt they'll ever play it again. Alternatively, several Blockbuster Video shops have it in the Foreign/Art House section - if you're interested, that is. I also doubt it'll see the light of day as a DVD, but then again "Cannibal Holocaust" has received a Region 2 release...
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yeah, i saw it around ... geez almost a ...
yeah, i saw it around ... geez almost a decade ago now. apparently it's Greenaway's comment on corruption within the Catholic church (that's what the rape stands for ... Mary/whore of babylon, selling the miraculous, when you shouldn't really ...)
i tried to just go "it's just art", but yeah, it's bloody hard to take at times ... i thoroughly recommend "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" - it too is disturbing, but it's actually quite funny at times, gorgeous to look at, and Tim Roth steals the show. i also liked "Belly of an Architect" - not really a Greenaway feeling film, but bloody good. He also did this absofuckinglutely amazing Dante's Inferno docudrama on video - but you'd have to be real lucky to track that down. it was utterly gorgeous, very complex.
i'm surprised most of PG's stuff isn't on DVD yet - i'd sure love to hear a director's commentary for some of them!
OMG - I'd never heard of the TV Dante, ...
OMG - I'd never heard of the TV Dante, thnanks so much for that information. It gets better - we have it in the library - I am so going to watch this.
//i'm surprised most of PG's stuff ...
//i'm surprised most of PG's stuff isn't on DVD yet - i'd sure love to hear a director's commentary for some of them!
Yeah, maybe - but he'd probably just babble on about how his films are the only true films and that everything else is just text with pictures, and the cinema as a medium is dead, etc etc.
I've seen "The Cook, the Thief..." - and like "The Baby Of Macon" - it looks superb, but story-wise it doesn't do much for me. For artsy visuals coupled with a great story, see Lauzon's French-Canadian should-be-cult film "Leolo" - it too was on Sundance some time back.
i saw Leolo a long time ago too - ...
i saw Leolo a long time ago too - didn't something bad happen to a cat at some point?
shudder ...
Yeah, but probably not what you think ...
Yeah, but probably not what you think happened to it...
Hoo, I'd have to say the most ...
Hoo, I'd have to say the most disgusting film I've ever seen is The Bad Lieutenant. That is, if the sight of Harvey Keitel naked is disgusting to you, which it certainly is to me.