1989

The Cook, the Thief, the Thief's Wife & the Thief's Lover (1989) Cook Up a Storm (2017) Cookie (1989) Cookie's Fortune (1999)

the amazing Tim Roth ()

One film that is hard to forget is the 1989 dark comedy, The Cook, the Thief, the Thief's Wife & the Thief's Lover, written and directed by Peter Greenaway and starring, among others, the outstanding actress Helen Mirren, and the amazing Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs).

That , The Final Cut (2004), Night at the Museum (2006), Red Dragon (2002), and Sitting Pretty (1948)

That’s the case with The Cook, the Thief, The Cook's Wife & The Cook's Lover (1989), The Final Cut (2004), Night at the Museum (2006), Red Dragon (2002), and Sitting Pretty (1948).

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A further inspiration was the 1989 film The Cook, the Thief,

a layer of stylization and allegory , standing between us and the materialwhich is missing in the Ferreri’s unvarnished film

The Thief, the Cook, the Cook's Wife and the Cook's Lover (1989), although in that banquet there again is a layer of stylization and allegory standing between us and the material, which is missing in the Ferreri’s unvarnished film.

The final piece '' Miserere Paraphrase,

The final piece 'Miserere Paraphrase', was written for use in The Cook, The Thief, The Cook's Wife And The Cook's Lover (1989), and is a transcription of Nyman's setting of the 'Miserere' text (Psalm 51) sung in the film by a boy soprano and mixed chorus.

1965

A mouth-watering blend of delicious black humor and Kafkaesque horror story, The Cook (1965) is a dark fable 'beginning in a vein of innocent fairy tale and ending with satanic revels' (The Observer).