After portraying Rembrandt in “Nightwatching,” scribe-helmer Peter Greenaway continues his exploration of Dutch masters to vivid and theatrical effect in “Goltzius and the Pelican Company.” The ...

Peter Greenaway's latest opus features F. Murray Abraham alongside a multinational cast. By Jordan Mintzer Greenaway Still - H 2012 ROME — Director Peter Greenaway offers up another thickly layered, ...

Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to publish illustrated books. The engraver undertakes to deliver him an extraordinary book of illustrations from Old Testament ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. But here is a racy, racing light-and-thunder show, culled from history, whose images ripple like St Elmo’s fire.

Adam. Eve. Branch. Tree. Apple. Penis. Mount of Venus. Cock. Vagina. Rose. Kiss. Sky. Words blaze across the screen. There are words on naked bodies (Man: Property of God). There are words in cursive ...

Peter Greenaway gets younger with every film. In fact his latest, a self-consciously stagey period drama about a sixteenth century Dutch printer and his travelling company of artisans and actors, ...

Engraver Goltzius urgently needs a new printing press and strikes a deal with the Margrave of Alsace: to give the count a preview of his latest works, actors are to perform the scenes live. As the ...

Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to publish illustrated books. The engraver undertakes to deliver him an extraordinary book of illustrations from Old Testament ...

Peter Greenaway is back with a new concoction of beautiful costumes in a historical background and a plot centring on sex. Set in 1590 it tells the tale of an illustrator of erotic books and deals in ...

Furthermore, Greenaway hasn't made a film in the UK since 1989 - in part because of a lack of opportunities - and his latest, Goltzius and the Pelican Company has taken two years to reach us, after ...

As fully expected, Peter Greenaway’s latest endeavour, Goltzius and the Pelican Company, is a sexually charged, surreal and abstract feature film. Fans of the unique auteur, or simply those familiar ...