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Jun 22, 1983 · Following are excerpts from a review by Vincent Canby that appeared in The New York Times on Oct. 2, 1982. The film opens today at the Cinema 2, Third Avenue and 60th Street.
Nov 30, 2022 · A new 4k restoration opens at Film Forum on December 2, providing an opportunity to look back at an important inflection point in Greenaway’s career, when he was beginning to incorporate more traditional storytelling elements like plot, setting, and dialogue into his work.
Jan 22, 2008 · Peter Greenaway’s 1982 Restoration comedy drama The Draughtsman’s Contract is a murder mystery set in a world wherein haughty aristocrats jockey for power within the narrow confines of carefully arranged social circles. Fittingly, then, the film’s construction makes it seem like a puzzle book for intellectual aesthetes.
Nov 10, 2022 · The Draughtsman’s Contract is out on 14th November on Blu-Ray, released by the BFI. The picture has a fairly heavy grain but it looks natural with no damage and pleasingly rich colours. The audio is strong too. The 2-disc set is loaded with extra features: – Newly remastered by the BFI National Archive and presented in High Definition
Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway's witty, stylized, erotic country house murder mystery catapulted him to the forefront of international art cinema in 1982.
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The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British period comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film (following the feature-length mockumentary The Falls).
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Feb 13, 2008 · Unable to afford Higgins' high fees, she contracts to pay him in sexual favors, but he uses her so brutally that her daughter eventually intervenes with her own contractual offer.
