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Prospero's Books (1991) Peter Greenaway Synopsis, Characteristics

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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 Peter GREENAWAY

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


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This is much more than simply a script of Prospero's Books; it is an artistic work with essays explaining the innovative processes of production as well as illustrations of story-boards and stills from the film.


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PROSPERO'S BOOKS by Greenaway, Peter - ISBN 10: 0701137592 - ISBN 13: 9780701137595 - Random House UK - 1992 - Softcover


Prospero's Books movie review (1991) Roger Ebert

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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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 — Saskia Boddeke & Peter Greenaway

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)

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.


PROSPERO’S BOOKS American Cinematheque

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.


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Prospero's Books is a 1991 British avant-garde film adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, written and directed by Peter Greenaway. Sir John Gielgud plays Prospero, the protagonist who provides the off-screen narration and the voices to the other story characters.As noted by Peter Conrad in The New York Times on 17 November 1991, Greenaway intended the film "as an homage to the.


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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.


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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.