The Belly of an Architect Blu-ray

Release Year: 1987

Runtime: 118 min

Rating: R

Director: Peter Greenaway

Cast: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson, Sergio Fantoni, Stefania Casini

Studios: Callender Company, Mondial, Tangram Film, British Screen, Hemdale Group, SACIS, Film Four International

Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.

Special Features:

Newly scanned & restored in 2K from its 35mm original camera negative

Commentary track with film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth

Stately Progress

18 min - editor John Wilson on Peter Greenaway and The Belly of an Architect

Caput Mundi

28 min - an interview with architect Gianpaolo Ercolani

Technical Specifications:

• dts-HD Master Audio
• Stereo
• 1.85:1