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oliver9184 · 02-27-2010, 06:42 AM

Peter Greenaway's feature debut, The Falls (1980), is three hours and fifteen minutes of rambling, almost coherent but meticulously thought-out nonsense describing, with grave candour and a dry, lucid wit the effects on 92 people whose surname begins 'Fall-' of a vague and unspecified phenomenon known as the Violent Unknown Event (V.U.E.). It's an absurdist masterpiece of pointlessness and excruciatingly detailed triviality and, in its entirety, admittedly fairly unwatchable. I had to watch it in bitesize chunks, fifteen minutes at a time. This is one of the 92:

Watch the entire film here: The Falls (1980) Digital | LOVEFiLM

The earlier shorts, Water Wrackets (1975), Dear Phone (1977) and A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1978), provide a more accessible glimpse into Greenaway's extraordinary imagination. See The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & Her Lover (1989) for the closest he ever got to the mainstream.

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oliver9184 Psycho	Peter Greenaway's feature debut, The Falls (1980), is three hours and fifteen minutes of rambling, almost coherent but meticulously thought-out nonsense describing, with grave candour and a dry, lucid wit the effects on 92 people whose surname begins 'Fall-' of a vague and unspecified phenomenon known as the Violent Unknown Event (V.U.E.). It's an absurdist masterpiece of pointlessness and excruciatingly detailed triviality and, in its entirety, admittedly fairly unwatchable. I had to watch it in bitesize chunks, fifteen minutes at a time. This is one of the 92: Watch the entire film here: The Falls (1980) Digital \| LOVEFiLM The earlier shorts, Water Wrackets (1975), Dear Phone (1977) and A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1978), provide a more accessible glimpse into Greenaway's extraordinary imagination. See The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & Her Lover (1989) for the closest he ever got to the mainstream.