A great Greenaway film


Greenaway's films went a bit downhill starting with The Baby of Macon but he's slowly regained the strength of his 80s output with his last few features.
Here's hoping he keeps it up with his next few films.

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Disagree Baby of Macon is really quite complex and intelligent, with triple level breaking down of story within a play within a film. Macon is the apex, high point of Greenaway.

As far as Eisenstien, I suppose one could make a romantic comedy celebrating Leni Riefenstahl, but I would pass. Eisenstein was an enabler of Stalin as much as Riefenstal was of Hitler. Modern scholarship and opening of archives have now illuminated what a craven bigot Eisenstein was and how he used the same Add to dictionary in service of genocide as Riefenstal.

Good read here: http://gablog.cdh.ucla.edu/2006/12/no-enemies-on-the-left/

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