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What is the best Peter Greenaway film of all time?

By YPB Team

Counted corpses, framed paintings, elaborate cruelty. Some of these were canonised; others barely got screened.

  1. The Tulse Luper Suitcases — ranked #11
    The Tulse Luper Suitcases
    The 2003-2004 trilogy tracking a prisoner of the 20th century through 92 suitcases.
    1000pts
  2. Prospero's Books — ranked #22
    Prospero's Books
    A 1991 version of The Tempest with John Gielgud speaking every part.
    873pts
  3. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover — ranked #33
    The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
    The 1989 restaurant revenge fable with Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon.
    753pts
  4. A Zed & Two Noughts — ranked #44
    A Zed & Two Noughts
    A 1985 story of twin zoologists filming decay after a car crash kills their wives.
    753pts
  5. The Baby of Mâcon — ranked #55
    The Baby of Mâcon
    A 1993 play-within-a-film about a miracle child sold by his sister.
    667pts
  6. Nightwatching — ranked #66
    Nightwatching
    A 2007 film about Rembrandt hiding an accusation of murder inside The Night Watch.
    565pts
  7. The Draughtsman's Contract — ranked #77
    The Draughtsman's Contract
    Greenaway's 1982 breakthrough, a country-house puzzle of twelve drawings and a disappearance.
    439pts
  8. The Falls — ranked #88
    The Falls
    A 1980 mock encyclopedia of 92 survivors of a mysterious Violent Unknown Event.
    439pts
  9. The Pillow Book — ranked #99
    The Pillow Book
    A 1996 film of a calligrapher who writes on human skin, drawn from Sei Shonagon.
    439pts
  10. Vertical Features Remake — ranked #1010
    Vertical Features Remake
    A 1978 short mockumentary about academics reconstructing a lost film of vertical objects.
    439pts
  11. Goltzius and the Pelican Company — ranked #1111
    Goltzius and the Pelican Company
    A 2012 story of a printmaker staging biblical taboos for a Alsatian margrave.
    439pts
  12. 8 1/2 Women — ranked #1212
    8 1/2 Women
    A 1999 comedy of a father and son opening a private brothel in their Geneva mansion.
    282pts
  13. Drowning by Numbers — ranked #1313
    Drowning by Numbers
    A 1988 comedy in which three women named Cissie Colpitts drown their husbands, counted from 1 to 100.
    282pts
  14. The Belly of an Architect — ranked #1414
    The Belly of an Architect
    A 1987 drama of an American architect unravelling in Rome, with Brian Dennehy.
    282pts
  15. Eisenstein in Guanajuato — ranked #1515
    Eisenstein in Guanajuato
    A 2015 account of ten days Sergei Eisenstein spent in Mexico in 1931.
    282pts
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