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A TV Dante - The Inferno Cantos I-VIII
[1989]

Starring: John Gielgud, Bob Peck, Joanne Whalley, Laurie Booth, Susan Wooldridge
Director: Raoul Ruiz Peter Greenaway Tom Phillips
Format: PAL
Released: 27 Mar 1995
RRP: £15.99
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This is what television can do...when's Big Brother on? - By: Jason Parkes, 28 Nov 2002
I saw this amazing TV adaptation around a decade ago, & it is a reminder of how potent TV can be & how it is possible for a literary adaptation to be something that isn't 19th Century and/or written by Andrew Davies. This book made me want to read The Divine Comedy (the Dorothy L Sayers translation is excellent) & here we have an excerpt from Inferno (aka Hell).

Greenaway is always visuallly sumptuous, this looks as mindblowing as Drowning By Numbers, A Zed with Two Noughts or The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. The Greenaway film which this is closest to is probably that of The Tempest- 1990's Prospero's Books (which I feel is underrated- though not as much fun as the Animated Tales or Derek Jarman's version). Joanne Whallley features in this, which reminds you that she was in stuff like The Singing Detective before going off to America & making terrible movies.

This adaptation is well worth viewing, not as pretetntious as Greenaway's other works- something that grates on people... This doesn't appear to have been shown since transmission & will only surface on channels like Artsworld- which is a shame as it is beguiling stuff. We need people like Dennis Potter, Ken Russell, Derek Jarman & Peter Greenaway in the British film & TV industry to this day. Though of course low grade fayre like Big Brother, Linda Green & Wire in the Blood is where it's at??????