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Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh writer-director, painter, and video artist based in Amsterdam. Throughout the late 1960s and '70s, he produced several experimental documentary/mockumentary shorts while working as a film editor for the Central Office of Information. This early period culminated in "The Falls" (1980), a three-hour mockumentary indexing the strange effects of the VUE (the Violent Unknown Event) on 92 people whose names begin with the letters F-A-L-L. He made his dramatic feature film debut with "The Draughtsman's Contract" (1982), and throughout the 1980s directed a string of critically acclaimed and frequently controversial films: "A Zed & Two Noughts" (1985), "The Belly of an Architect" (1987), "Drowning by Numbers" (1988), and his best-known work, the vicious Thatcher-era satire "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" (1989). In the 1990s, he directed the Shakespeare adaptation "Prospero's Books" (1991), controversial religious satire "The Baby of Mâcon" (1993), erotic drama "The Pillow Book" (1996), and "8½ Women" (1999), an homage to the films of Federico Fellini, a major influence on Greenaway. In the early 2000s, Greenaway embarked on the ambitious "Tulse Luper" project, a multimedia body of historical fiction revolving around the life of the eponymous fictional hero. In addition to novels, CD-ROMs, online material, and a touring exhibition, the project spawned a trilogy of feature films: "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story" (2003), "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea" (2004), and "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish" (2004). The trilogy was followed by a fourth feature, "A Life in Suitcases" (2005), which abridges the Tulse Luper saga into a single film. Since the mid 2000s, Greenaway's film work has focused on idiosyncratic, heavily fictionalised biopics dedicated to some of his favourite artists: Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn in "Nightwatching" (2007), Dutch Baroque engraver Hendrik Goltzius in "Goltzius and the Pelican Company" (2012), Soviet Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein in "Eisenstein in Guanajuato" (2015), and Romanian-French sculptor Constantin Brâncuși in "Walking to Paris" (TBD). Greenaway has lived and worked in Amsterdam since the mid 1990s. He is married to artist Saskia Boddeke, with whom he has two children. He also has two children from a previous marriage to potter Carol Greenaway.
Most Popular Peter Greenaway Trailers
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06 November 1981
Commissioned by the COI, Peter Greenaway made a biographical short film about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.
16 April 1980
Documentary film by Peter Greenaway made for Thames Television, in which people who have survived being struck by lightning relate their experiences against a typically Greenaway backdrop of lists, black humour and 'collated statistics'.
01 January 2016
With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein in Guanajuato) combines the worlds of film and opera at the Verdi Festival in Parma, demonstrating what magic those two can do together with an all new approach to Giuseppe Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco, staged and edited by himself and his wife, Saskia Boddeke.
01 January 1978
An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.
11 July 1982
Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.
13 October 1989
When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners.
17 September 1993
In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy.
31 August 2003
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper.
01 September 1995
Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan.
07 February 1989
Peter Greenaway presents this "Commentary in one hundred parts" on Drowning by Numbers (1987), discussing and analyzing many of the film's more intriguing features.
04 October 1985
Identical twin zoologists lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. They become obsessed with the death and decay of animals, and develop a strange and unusual relationship with the driver of the car, a woman who is now an amputee.
01 January 1976
A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones.
02 November 2007
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
22 May 1999
After his wife dies, middle-aged businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight-and-a-half concubines.
01 December 1983
A television documentary about John Cage and his music.
01 January 1978
Multifarious images of a lake are overlaid with water effects and a narrated history of the campaigns fought by the fictional water-wracket army.
20 December 1995
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895.
28 August 1994
The film comprises one hundred sequences showing a location in the city of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1994, over a period of one hundred days, one hundred white wooden staircases were installed around the city to be climbed by the public.
14 July 1966
A mechanical ballet composed of footage of the last steam trains arriving to the Waterloo Station
01 May 2004
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
01 January 1976
Ostensibly, a film about a child's pictorial alphabet stuck on the letter H.
01 January 1973
A short film which has its emphasis on back street walls with peeling posters and the constant pedestrian traffic in the foreground.
05 May 2003
This critically acclaimed DVD contains 16 of the best classic and award winning British short films and delivers a snapshot of British cinema past and present.
01 January 1989
Peter Greenaway remembers his first meeting with Rotterdam Film Festival director Hubert Bals.
11 February 2015
In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film.
04 October 2008
J'accuse is an 'essay-istic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch.
03 November 1991
Dutch composer Louis Andriessen collaborates with director Peter Greenaway on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart.
30 August 1991
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
02 September 1988
Cissie Colpitts drowns her cheating husband and, in the ensuing cover-up, enlists the help of lonely coroner Henry Madgett, an old friend with a longstanding weakness for her charms.
01 January 1992
A short made for TV with director Peter Greenaway discussing the dazzling 3.5 minute opening sequence from his film, 'Prospero's Books'.
30 June 1992
A short film based on the work of choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.
13 June 1990
A TV Dante is an experimental mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway.
08 July 1984
Film which explores the relationship of man to water, his mastery of the fear of drowning and accomplishments in swimming.
01 January 1968
A grim-looking leftist march of young men, edited to the Beatles’ Revolution.
12 November 1982
R. Neville, a brash young draftsman, is hired to make a dozen landscape illustrations at the estate of Mr Herbert and his wife Virginia.
01 January 2002
Peter Greenaway discussing a variety of topics, with each segment ranging in length from 6s to 2m47s.
01 December 1978
Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his notes and structuralist film theory.
25 February 2019
Five hundred years after his birth, the life and career of the Italian Renaissance's last great painter is explored.
10 October 2004
Close to Greenaway takes us behind the scenes of the first part of the trilogy The Tulse Luper's Suitcases in Barcelona and Almeria.
18 July 2003
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper.
01 December 1983
A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway.
12 November 2012
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints.
15 September 2005
Calligraphy on water. The first joint work of director Peter Greenaway and composer David Lang.
01 December 1983
A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway
01 January 1981
Like plants, people can either thrive or wither when removed from their native soil, as this short film explores.
14 August 1992
Searching for the roots of Peter Greenaway in his films, this artful documentary begins with a workshop from 1991 in which Peter Greenaway discusses his film career, from his early short Revolution (1968) to The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989).
07 June 2001
An audiovisual work by Philip Glass and Peter Greenaway.
25 December 1962
Greenaway's virtually unseen first film is described by the director as "a work of juvenalia" shot in four London cemeteries, focusing on "church yard furniture, crosses, flying angels, [and] typography on grave stones," with the occasional painting reference thrown in as well.
31 December 1971
A film by Peter Greenaway
26 July 1976
A short film by Peter Greenaway.
23 September 1987
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.
22 May 2013
A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway.
07 July 2005
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper.
01 January 1985
Greenaway's short documentary shows 26 bathrooms, each representing a letter of the alphabet.
09 June 2005
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper.
26 July 1976
A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.
30 December 2016
Exhibition on Screen's latest release celebrates the life and masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch brought together from around the world to his hometown in the Netherlands as a one-off exhibition.
05 October 1983
A film made for the Central Office of Information concerning Britain's coastline, with music by Michael Nyman.
