beamish14 wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:23 pm
The project formerly known as Lucca Mortis has begun filming
An article on Lucca Mortis in today's Guardian, saying that apparently production wrapped at the end of 2024 but is in a dispute as the Producers decided to make a 'more commercial' cut of the film. Apparently there are two versions of the film - Greenaway's and the Producers' - stuck in post-production at the moment.
And it is apparently going to be set in the 9/11 era and being re-titled as "Tower Stories", to not associate the Italian town of Lucca with the concept of death.
The Head Gardener Pre-production Tower Stories Post-production Veni Vidi Vinci In Development Volga In Development Walking To Paris Completed
I stopped paying attention to his output since 8 1/2 Women which I hated so much I walked out of. Still enjoy his early films though. Any standout from his 21st century output if I feel ready to give him another go?
Lowry_Sam wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2026 4:02 pm
from IMDB
The Head Gardener Pre-production Tower Stories Post-production Veni Vidi Vinci In Development Volga In Development Walking To Paris Completed
I stopped paying attention to his output since 8 1/2 Women which I hated so much I walked out of. Still enjoy his early films though. Any standout from his 21st century output if I feel ready to give him another go?
Rembrandt’s J’Accuse is wonderful, and better than the already very good Nightwatching. It feels a bit like his F for Fake; a very playful essay film
Tulse Luper is hard to truly judge, as it’s never been completed, and you need to contextualization it with some of the books he’s written.
I can’t think of any living filmmaker who has published so many books of his unproduced scripts. The OK Doll and Joseph really should get made
Well, fwiw, I read the script for Lucca Mortis, which was published years ago, and I think it was always situated right after 9/11. Alternate title is not inappropriate but I do hope he sticks with the original title in his cut as it just fits in more with his earlier work.
Of his later, post-Pillow Book films I would most highly recommend Goltzius which absolutely retains a connection to that past work and acts as a kind of fusion of the tech formalism and arcane subject matter of Prospero's Books and the salacious irony of that which came before and was more specifically his own. It is the one from this period that really does seem closest to those and belongs the most with them. I have a limited tolerance for or interest in the whole Tulse Luper project and I personally thoroughly dislike Nightwatching which I regard as far too much of a concession to convention all around with only a sprinkling of what makes Greenaway Greenaway (it's the one of his I might like least). But then again I do actually really like 8 1/2 Women so that may make my view on all this suspect to start. I was cool toward his Eisenstein pic though I was amused recently to see Adrian Martin go off on how much he loathes it. Of all his so far unrealized projects I hope most fervently that he can get his film on Bosch off the ground but at this point I'll just be grateful to ever see Walking to Paris.
