Nov 12th 
Prospero's Books**  

(GB/Fra/Netherlands 1991)

Shakespeare's The Tempest as interpreted by Peter Greenaway with many of his opulent excesses, with a tour de force from Gielgud speaking most of the verse (including the other characters), and only partly coherent with the play itself, but never boring to look at.

Written and Directed by: Peter Greenaway.
Producers: Michel Seydoux, Philippe Carcasonne.
Starring: John Gielgud, Isabelle Pasco, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Cranham, Tom Bell, Michel Blanc, Erland Josephson.
Photography: Sacha Vierny.
Music: Michael Nyman.
Production Design: Ben Van Os, Jan Roelfs.

Preceded by:
Babbage**
(GB 2008. Frame On Frame. 15m. ws; Occasionally clunky but also ingenuous and quietly moving biopic of the world's first computer inventor, focusing on is inspirations that drove him in his solitary work.; w: Eamon Wyse, Claire Barker; d: Claire Barker; s: Steven Payne, Andrew Neil, Nicola Marsland, Heather Darcy.)