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Belly of an architect (Motion picture)

The belly of an architect / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Film Four International and British Screen in association with Hemdale and SACIS present ; a British/Italian co-production, Mondial Ltd. (London) - Tangram Film SRL (Roma) ; a Colin Callender production ; produced by Colin Callender and Walter Donohue ; a film by Peter Greenaway.

[London] : Film Four International ; Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, ©2004, ©1987.

1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Stourley Kracklite, a burly middle-aged American architect, is in Rome to organize a large-scale exhibition of the work of Etienne-Louis Boullee (1728-1799), a visionary French architect. His wife Louisa is along, and a little bored with his cerebral fixations. Surrounded by Roman art and architecture--whose perfect scaling and Classicist surfaces he has always admired--Kracklite is overcome by narcissistic jealousy. Amidst the graceful clean domes, virile statues, and sturdily parallel columns of Roman monuments, Kracklite suspects Louisa of trying to poison him as his prodigious gut begins giving him searing pains. Anxious and paranoid, he's undone by his fear that despite his internal inspirations, an architect is a speck of a thing compared to what he builds--huge, material spectacles that far outlive their progenitors.

MPAA Rating: Rated R (pervasive sexuality); Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.

Architects -- Drama.

Gastritis -- Drama.

Adultery -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Americans -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama.

Rome (Italy) -- Drama.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Callender, Colin.

Donohue, Walter.

Greenaway, Peter.

Dennehy, Brian.

Webb, Chloe.

Wilson, Lambert.

Fantoni, Sergio.

Casini, Stefania.

Corbellini, Vanni.

Masé, Marino, 1939-2022

Scrivano, Enrica Maria.

Varelli, Alfredo.

Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001.

Mertens, Wim, 1953-

Branca, Glenn, 1948-2018

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Film Four International.

British Screen.

Hemdale Film Corporation.

SACIS (Firm)

Mondial Ltd. (Firm)

Tangram Film (Firm)

MGM Home Entertainment Inc.

Originally produced as a British/Italian motion picture in 1987.

Special features: Theatrical trailer (3 min.).

Director of photography, Sacha Vierny ; art director, Luciana Vedovelli ; editor, John Wilson ; music, Wim Mertens, Glenn Branca ; costume designer, Maurizio Millenotti ; architechture consultant, Costantino Dardi.

Brian Dennehy (Stourley Kracklite), Chloe Webb (Louisa Kracklite), Lambert Wilson (Caspasian Speckler), Sergio Fantoni (Io Speckler), Stefania Casini (Flavia Speckler), Vanni Corbellini (Frederico), Marino Mase (Trettorio), Enrica Maria Scrivano (Mother), Alfredo Varelli (Julio).

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital sound; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1.

In English with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; closed captioned.

Main title/Celebration -- Applause -- Discovering Boullée -- Blowing up the past -- Form, shape, function -- History lesson -- Positive -- Assignation -- Nose job -- Studio portrait -- Homage -- Change of plans -- Pen pal -- Metabolism -- Crucified -- Alpha & omega/Credits.

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