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...later, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) tries to duplicate, erotically, the touch of her father's brush. She challenges her lovers to write their lust all over her body. Then she finds a handsome Englishman (Ewan McGregor) who convinces her that she should do the writing, on his body. "Any Peter Greenaway (Drowning by Numbers, The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover) film is a complex word-and-picture game -- of stories within stories, images within images, like a Chinese puzzle box," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "The director also insists that his actors throw themselves, soul and especially body, into...
...their best, his friezes of androgynous Shirley Temploids hold the long scroll format beautifully, with a fine sense of interval and grouping. With the big, delicate flowers and butterflies alternating with weird, cavernous landscapes, searchlight rays and puffs of rifle smoke, they are like a skewed version of Kate Greenaway's Victorian illustrations. The pale, blooming color is rarely less than inventive, and it can break out into a startling decorative richness--as in Two Spangled Blengins, showing a pair of dragons with striped and polka-dotted wings hovering protectively around a cutout of a little girl...
Devotees of Candace Bushnell,--a journalist who looks like Suzanne Somers with a polo-club membership--approach her writing the way they might a car wreck or a Peter Greenaway movie: they know it might repel, but they are forced to have a look. For two years Bushnell's column "Sex and the City" has appeared regularly in the New York Observer--a salmon-colored weekly paper doted on by Manhattan's media elite--offering bleakly funny reportage on dating rituals among the city's most physically and financially privileged. Now 25 of her pieces have been compiled...
...handed a big role in Dennis Potter's 1993 TV series Lipstick on Your Collar. His dreamboat looks and what Emma director Douglas McGrath calls "a boyish, endearing playfulness" have won him leads on TV (in the BBC's Scarlet and Black) and in seven films (including Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, as a full-frontal demon lover) over the past two years. With Trainspotting, McGregor looks set to take Hollywood, if he cares to. Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh Grant--beware! Here comes Brit star quality, the next generation...
...even better way to affect the fortunes of contemporary music was to write it himself. In 1976 he composed incidental music for a play by Italian librettist Carlo Goldoni at Britain's National Theatre. He quickly found his own Minimalist style in In Re Don Giovanni (1976), and when Greenaway came calling for the first of their 10 films together, One to One Hundred, Nyman found his true pitch...