For those who haven't yet caught it, Peter Greenaway's latest is most definitely THE GOODS. You must see it at once. A wonderful film. Do NOT wait to rent it. Seeing it on a large screen is essential. I think directors like Greenaway (Atom Egoyan is another) are the main hope for cinema considered as an art form. (Not that I dislike popular cinema, but there are other possibilities, as here we see). The split-screen experimentation (Yes, I know, but it's no cliche in Greenaway's hands) that seemed such a muddle in PROSPERO'S BOOKS is here used with absoulute artistic control and ravishing visual results. Each image is firmly related to the others, and all of them are subordinated to the artistic idea they gradually disclose. Which is? Go see. Text = image = thing = life; drawing on paper/flesh = living life itself; literature and experience are not two but one. All that and a good deal more. Plus a grim tale about a man who couldn't write a book but became one. Greenaway incorporates the experience of literature without being in thrall to it. He does not mount a book as THE ENGLISH PATIENT did. He encompasses literature within a vocabulary of images; this is a truly (and purely) cinematic realisation of an idea. Must, must, MUST see. Wayne ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]