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  1. Review of Drowning by Numbers (1988) #4k #bluray #physicalmedia

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    • FilmsnBeyond
  2. Oct 5, 2018 · If you are thoroughly bored you can look at your watch and know you have fifty more numbers to go. You have often discussed your frustration at the way contemporary cinema is stuck telling narrative and screenplay-based fiction.

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    Severin’s two-disc edition of Drowning by Numbersis sourced from a native-4K scan of the film’s negative, and the transfer is suitably film-like, with a heavy emphasis on tactile texture on everything from clothing fabrics to the skins of fruits and the grooves in heavy, wooden furniture. Nighttime scenes demonstrate a range of black levels with no...

    Included here is a newly recorded commentary with Peter Greenaway, who gamely unpacks the film’s tributes to classic painters and the snatches of dialogue he adapted from the reported last words of various historical figures. He also describes how certain elaborate shots were achieved and recounts the film’s many interlocking games with warm humor....

    Severin’s two-disc 4K UHD Blu-ray release of Drowning by Numberscaptures Peter Greenaway’s black comedy in all its sumptuous beauty.

  3. What it's about. Three generations of women, all named Cissie Colpitts, all share the same marriage woes, and they all enlist the help of the lonely coroner Henry Madgett to help solve this issue, much to Madgett’s chagrin. The take. Murdering your spouse is bad, so it’s slightly bizarre how Drowning by Numbers has an unbothered, even ...

    • Arthur Spreckley
    • Peter Greenaway
  4. "Drowning by Numbers" is fascinating and a joy to watch - even more so with Severin's 4K UHD a/v that is like seeing the film anew. The commentary and interviews are very worthwhile and we strongly recommend this as a long term keeper.

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  5. Jun 7, 1991 · The best way to review “Drowning by Numbers” is by simple description. Here is a movie so personal and quirky that perhaps you will enjoy it more than I did, and I do not want to spoil your fun, since the movie is playful above everything else.

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  7. Feb 23, 2023 · Bernard Hill (THE LORD OF THE RINGS, TITANIC) co-stars in this “fascinating brain buster of very bad manners” (Entertainment Weekly), now featuring a new 4K scan from the original negative personally supervised by Greenaway. Webstore Exclusive Slipcover Featuring Artwork by Peter Greenaway.

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