The Falls.

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 6878645 | KanopyPublisher: British Film Institute, 1980Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (195 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:

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Feature films.

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Adam Leys, Colin Cantlie, Hilary Thompson, Serena Macbeth, Sheila CanfieldSummary: Following a series of inventive shorts, Peter Greenaway arrived fully formed as a feature filmmaker with this highly confident, audacious epic. A mockumentary of sorts, it’s constructed as an excerpt from an imagined, filmic directory listing everyone affected by VUE – the Violent Unknown Event – a mysterious apocalyptic occurrence that has left a substantial section of the British public speaking bizarre, invented languages, dreaming of water and identifying themselves with birds. The excerpt in question concerns everyone whose surname begins with ‘Fall’, hence the title. Winner of the Sutherland Trophy at the **British Film Institute Awards.** Nominated for a Gold Hugo for Best Feature the **Chicago International Film Festival.** *"Peter Greenaway has the most inscrutable, brilliant and possibly deranged mind in modern cinema. In fact, he's one of the few filmmakers still around you would use the term 'modern cinema' for." - Desson Howe, **The Washington Post***

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Adam Leys, Colin Cantlie, Hilary Thompson, Serena Macbeth, Sheila Canfield

Originally produced by British Film Institute in 1980.

Following a series of inventive shorts, Peter Greenaway arrived fully formed as a feature filmmaker with this highly confident, audacious epic. A mockumentary of sorts, it’s constructed as an excerpt from an imagined, filmic directory listing everyone affected by VUE – the Violent Unknown Event – a mysterious apocalyptic occurrence that has left a substantial section of the British public speaking bizarre, invented languages, dreaming of water and identifying themselves with birds. The excerpt in question concerns everyone whose surname begins with ‘Fall’, hence the title. Winner of the Sutherland Trophy at the **British Film Institute Awards.** Nominated for a Gold Hugo for Best Feature the **Chicago International Film Festival.** *"Peter Greenaway has the most inscrutable, brilliant and possibly deranged mind in modern cinema. In fact, he's one of the few filmmakers still around you would use the term 'modern cinema' for." - Desson Howe, **The Washington Post***

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