The Tulse Luper Suitcases (Peter Greenaway, 2003-2004)

[Tommaso]

Not even Greenaway, whatever his crimes, deserves to be put on a list which also contains Loach.

[MichaelB]

Not even Greenaway, whatever his crimes, deserves to be put on a list which also contains Loach.

British filmmakers born within three years of the start of World War II?

[jsteffe]

Parts 1 - 3 of The Tulse Luper Suitcases are showing on The Sundance Channel this month. They're showing back-to-back on July 27 for those of you who missed out the first time around.

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part One - The Moab Story
Director - Peter Greenaway
Audacious, ambitious and tantalizingly rich with enigmatic content, this three-part dramatic epic from British filmmaker Peter Greenaway (THE DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT) discards conventional narrative and explores nothing less than the course of the 20th century. Ostensibly a witty investigation into the life of collector, adventurer, journalist and spy Tulse Luper (J.J. Feild), the vital center of this unique film is Greenaway's encyclopedic layering of text, image-within-image and sound to create a cinematic equivalent of an experimental novel.
(2003) Color (127 mins)
THURSDAY JUL 3 at MIDNIGHT | SUNDAY JUL 27 at MIDNIGHT

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part Two - Vaux to the Sea
Director - Peter Greenaway
Filmmaker Peter Greenaway continues his epic, episodic walk through 20th century history as protagonist Tulse Luper witnesses World War II in Northern Europe. Greenaway's stories about Luper (J.J. Feild), collector, adventurer, journalist and spy, form the framing device for an audacious and ambitious attempt at a cinema of ideas - not plots - utilizing many of the same aesthetics as painting: structure, composition and framing. Visually stunning and tantalizingly rich with enigmatic content. With Isabella Rossellini and Franka Potente.
(2003) Color (108 mins)
THURSDAY JUL 10 at MIDNIGHT | SUNDAY JUL 27 2:15AM

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part Three - From Sark to Finish
Director - Peter Greenaway
Filmmaker Peter Greenaway continues his epic, episodic walk through 20th century history as protagonist Tulse Luper witnesses World War II in Northern Europe. Greenaway's stories about Luper (J.J. Feild), collector, adventurer, journalist and spy, form the framing device for an audacious and ambitious attempt at a cinema of ideas - not plots - utilizing many of the same aesthetics as painting: structure, composition and framing. Visually stunning and tantalizingly rich with enigmatic content. With Isabella Rossellini and Franka Potente.
(2003) Color (105 mins)
THURSDAY JUL 17 at MIDNIGHT | SUNDAY JUL 27 4:15AM

[Giles]

two years later after that Sundance Channel airings, and still no DVD release... stateside, I think the only places/fests that showed the Trilogy were Tribeca and Facets in Chicago. The Palm Springs International Film Festival and DC (At the Hirshhorn Museum) showed the first film and 'The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp' (in high def), Greenaway was at attendence for the DC showing and he gave an excellent post film(s) Q&A (and also slammed the museum for it's shoddy hidef presentation of 'Antwerp'). Wish Criterion could release the four films as a box set.

[Tommaso]

two years later after that Sundance Channel airings, and still no DVD release... .

Get this !:-)

I haven't got the set myself, but Madman is a quality label for sure.