Customer Reviews
Reinventing Tulse Luper - By: Salvador Fortuny Miro, 04 Feb 2006 
Peter Greenaway considers the two films included in this second volume of his early works, speciallly The fallls, the most emblematics of his career as filmmaker: they are an inventory of his most beloved obssessions,a synthesis of his previous achievements as director interested in experimentation in movies & a seed of future projects.
In VERTICAL FEARURES REMAKE ( 1976 ) he introduces again the figure of Tulse Luper, a fictional character that later would be the "protagonist" of a film trilogy ( "Tulse Luper stair case" series ). V.F.Remake is a sarcastic & playful parody of structuralism theorising, academic criticism & cultural institutions around a false documentary & his many reconstructions.
THE FALLS ( 1978 ) is a catalogue of 92 invented biographies of people whose name begins with the word " fallls " & affected
by an unknown illness ( the U.V.E. ) in some way connected with birds & flying.This is a seminal work of Greenaway's particular mithology that works as a game of mirrors in which he blends bizarre situations, human mutations, false interviews, archive footage, ironic self-references ( he introduces in a new context stuff of his previous films ) & conceptual playing inside an structure that by its peculiar characteristics & form, as the director has told, can be reformulated & extended "ad infinitum". " The fallls " is probably the film that better illustrates Greenaway's cinema conception & his voluptuous & enciclopedic spirit:his passion for catalogues & dictionaries; his interest in structuralism & conceptual games; his taste in weird artefacts, bizarre invention, the theatre of absurd & barroque visual compositions, also as his miscellaneous erudition. All this packed in an only film directed with fine irony & amazing visual invention.
The scores of both films have been composed by Michael Nyman & this DVD edition supervised by Greenaway himself.
