Greenaway’s biggest arthouse success was 1989’s “The Cook, The Thief,” starring Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon. The three-time Oscar-winning, rather adult-skewing “Roger Rabbit” would’ve looked like a very different film in the hands of Welsh auteur Greenaway, who in the mid-1980s was making bawdy, high-minded art-inspired films like “A Zed & Two Noughts” and “Belly of an Architect.” His 1988 “Drowning by Numbers” is now being re-released in 4K. “I like the prospect of combining notions of animation with live action, which became very fashionable after that film, I believe.” I remember seeing him on British children’s television a long, long time before he became even remotely a name,” Greenaway said. “I always admired that actor, Bob Hoskins.
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