This early Peter Greenaway/Michael Nyman collaboration is nominally a COI-commissioned documentary about Britain’s coastline, but you’d guess the director and composer in a millisecond. It’s a veritable encyclopaedia of marine imagery, both still and moving, accompanied by a barrage of eccentric statistics. Some of these date the film: Milton Keynes now has several Japanese restaurants. (Michael Brooke)

The complete film is included (in HD) as an extra on the BFI’s new Blu-ray release of Greenaway’s ‘A Zed and Two Noughts’: http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/…