‘The Belly of an Architect’

Ever-audacious British filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s 1987 film is a real you’ll-either-hate-it-or-love-it kind of film, and even those of us who love it would be hard put to claim that it is flawless. Brian Dennehy (pictured), in what will surely always be among the most bravura performances of his career, plays an eminent architect coming unglued in Rome, where he’s curating an exhibition. It’s a grand, operatic pageant of a film, posing big questions about art, life, love and mortality. Sacha Vierny’s gorgeous cinematography is crucial to the film’s exalted tone. The key drawback is the woeful miscasting of Chloe Webb as the architect’s young wife. Worth a taping (KTLA Wednesday at 3:30 a.m.).