Thursday,
November 29 + Friday, November 30
Two
Films by Peter Greenaway featuring Newly Restored Prints from
Zeitgeist Films
Thursday,
November 29 at 7pm
The
Draughtsman's Contract
dir.
Peter Greenaway, UK, 1982, 35mm, 108 mins, color
 Peter
Greenaway became a director of international renown with this
witty, stylized, erotic country-house murder mystery. In an
apparently idyllic 17th-century Wiltshire, an ambitious draughtsman
is commissioned by an aristocrat’s wife to produce twelve drawings
of her husband’s estate, in return for which he will receive
payment, board and bed – hers. Extravagant costumes, a twisted
plot, elegantly barbed dialogue and a score by frequent Greenaway
collaborator Michael Nyman make the film a treat for ear, eye
and mind.
Friday,
November 30 at 7pm
A
Zed and Two Noughts
dir.
Peter Greenaway, UK, 1985, 35mm, 115 mins, color
 In
Peter Greenaway’s much-lauded follow-up to The Draughtsman’s
Contract, a car collides
with a swan outside Rotterdam Zoo. Two women passengers die
and the driver, Alma Bewick, has her leg amputated. Obsessed
with the accident, the husbands of the dead women – Siamese
twins Oswald and Oliver – embark on an affair with Alma and
soon begin experimenting with the time-lapse aesthetics of decay.
Full of surprises and magnificent conundrums, Greenaway's third
feature is as perversely comic and teasing as it is shocking.
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