The Falls is a 1980 film directed by Peter Greenaway. It was Greenaway's first feature-length film after many years making shorts. It does not have a traditional dramatic narrative; it takes the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts. 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway (b. ... Mockumentary (portmanteau of mock documentary. ...

The premise of the film is that the world has been struck by a mysterious incident called the "Violent Unknown Event" or VUE, which has killed many people and left a great many survivors suffering from a common set of symptoms: mysterious ailments, dreaming of water (categorised by form, such as Category 1, Flight, or Category 3, Waves) and becoming obsessed with birds and flight.

Many of the survivors have been gifted with new languages, such as: Some authors use fictional languages as a device to underline differences in culture, by having their characters communicate in a fashion which is both alien and dislocated. ...

• Abcadefghan
• Agalese
• Agreet
• Allow
• Allow-ease
• Althuese
• Antoneen
• Betelguese
• Candoese
• Capistan
• Carn-est-aero
• Cathaganian
• Cathanay
• Curdine
• Entree
• Fallaver
• Foreignester
• Glendower
• Glozel
• Hapaxlegomena
• Hartileas B.
• Instantaneious Dekis
• Ipostan
• Itino Re
• Karnash
• Kantan
• Katan
• Kath-a-ganian
• Maudine
• Mickel-ease
• O-Lev-Lit
• Os-leet-ter
• Orthocathalian
• Regest
• Sackamayer
• U-thalian
• Untowards
• Vionester

A directory of these survivors has been compiled, and The Falls is presented as a film version of an excerpt from that directory, corresponding to the 92 entries for persons whose surnames begin with the letters FALL-. Not all of the 92 entries correspond to a person - some correspond to deleted entries, cross references and other oddities of the administrative process that has produced the directory. One biography concerns two people - the twin brothers Ipson and Pulat Fallari, who are played (in still photographs) by the Brothers Quay. Abcadefghan is a fictional language featured in the 1980 film The Falls, directed by Peter Greenaway. ... Stephen and Timothy Quay (b. ...

In addition to the common VUE symptoms mentioned above, a number of themes run through the film. Among these are references to a number of bureaucratic organisations including the VUE Commission and the Bird Facilities Investments (a parody of the British Film Institute), the history of manned flight from Daedalus with the suggestion that birds may be responsible for the VUE (and that the film may thus be seen as a sequel to Hitchcock's The Birds), complex debates over the location of the epicentre of the VUE, and repeated references to Tulse Luper. Luper is a recurring off-stage character in Greenaway's early films, and would eventually appear on film in the epic series The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2003 onwards). The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and... This is a timeline of aviation history. ... This article deals with the mythological character Daedalus. ... The Birds (1963) is a horror film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a short story by Daphne Du Maurier. ... Tulse Luper is a fictional 20th century character, created by Peter Greenaway. ... The Tulse Luper Suitcases is a massive cross media project by Peter Greenaway comprising three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs and CD-ROMs, and books. ...

The Falls includes clips of a number of Greenaway's early shorts. It also anticipates some of his later films: the subject of biography 27, Propine Fallax, is a pseudonym for Cissie Colpitts, the central figure of Drowning by Numbers (1988), while the car accident in biography 28 prefigures that in A Zed and Two Noughts (1985). Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 motion picture directed by Peter Greenaway. ... A Zed & Two Noughts (A.K.A. Zoo) is a 1985 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. ...

The largely formal and deadpan manner of the narration contrasts with the absurdity of the content. The soundtrack is mainly by Michael Nyman and is partly based, like his later music for Drowning by Numbers, on the slow movement of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra K. 364. The soundtrack also includes short excerpts of pieces by Brian Eno from Another Green World. Michael Nyman (born March 23, 1944) is a British minimalist composer, pianist, librettist and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway. ... W. A. Mozart, 1790 portrait by Johann Georg Edlinger Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) is among the most popular, significant and influential composers of European classical music. ... In the 1770s Mozart had been experimenting with the Sinfonia concertante genre, leading in 1779 to the Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra K. 364, which can be considered his most succesful realisation in this cross-over genre between Symphony and Concerto. ... Brian Eno in 1977 Brain Eno (born Brian Peter George St. ... Another Green World is an album by experimental musician Brian Eno, released in November of 1975 (see 1975 in music). ...

See also

• The Falls, published by Dis Voir, ISBN 2-906-571-32-6, contains the 92 biographical texts
• Gold, published by Dis Voir, ISBN 2-914-563-11-6
• A website dedicated to the film
• Lleyn, a peninsula in North Wales
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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The Falls MOH:AA MAP

"The Falls" is also the name of a popular custom made map for the popular first person shooter computer game Medal of Honor: Allied Assault developed by 2015 Inc and EA games. A first-person shooter (FPS) is a computer or video game where the players on-screen view of the game world simulates that of the character, and there is some element of shooting involved. ... Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (MoH:AA) is a first-person shooter (FPS) computer game by Electronic Arts. ...