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One thing that can be said about Peter Greenaway is that his films never lack vision. Even his least enjoyable films, like 8 ½ Women, are precisely, or very nearly, the films that he set out to create. Another thing that can be said about the director is that he does not seem to care if his audience enjoys watching his movies.
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Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942 [1]) is a British film director, screenwriter and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Mannerism painting in particular.
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- 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover' (1989) Letterboxd Rating: 4.1/5. If it's possible to call The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover a gangster movie, then it's one of the best ever made.
- 'The Falls' (1980) Letterboxd Rating: 3.9/5. Though The Falls is up there as one of the highest-rated Peter Greenaway films, it also might be one of his most daunting to watch, especially for those who find long runtimes challenging.
- 'Drowning by Numbers' (1988) Letterboxd Rating: 3.9/5. By the late 1980s, Peter Greenaway was seriously hitting his stride as a filmmaker, with Drowning By Numbers - released one year before his most well-recognized film - being one of his best-known and most well-regarded works.
- 'A Zed & Two Noughts' (1985) Letterboxd Rating: 3.8/5. Three years on from The Draughtsman's Contract, Peter Greenaway released his third feature film, A Zed & Two Noughts.
- 8 The Draughtsman's Contract
- 7 Nightwatching
- 6 Rembrandt's J'accuse
- 5 Walking to Paris
- 4 The Falls
- 3 A Zed & Two Noughts
- 2 The Tulse Luper Suitcases
- 1 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Greenaway’s first conventional film, The Draughtsman’s Contractintroduces the themes that would dominate Greenaway’s works to come: art, scandal, crime, and perversion. The story of an artist and his patrons engaging in elaborate blackmail, artistic obsession, and taboo sexuality marked Greenaway as a painterly filmmaker to watch. While it fails to...
Greenaway’s 2007 film Nightwatching, starring Martin Freeman, marked his return to the approach familiar from The Draughtsman’s Contract and the first in a set of films that would come to be called his “Dutch Masters” series. Extrapolating from Rembrandt’s famous painting of “The Night’s Watch,” Greenaway crafts a murder mysteryin which the poses o...
Rembrandt’s J’Accuse presents itself as a documentary taking aim at contemporary visual illiteracy by positing that Rembrandt's “Night Watch” painting is, in fact, the documentation of a murderous conspiracy. Released in conjunction with Nightwatching, and taking that (fictional) film’s premise as a truth that is revealed by the painting’s details,...
Throughout his career, Greenaway has pushed the boundary between fact and fiction. In Walking to Parishe takes up the true story of Constantin Brâncuși’s journey by foot from his home in Romania to Paris. This trip really happened, but the details of what happened along the way are lost to history. Greenaway takes this as an opportunity to flesh th...
The faux-documentary that launched Greenaway’s career, The Fallspurports to be interviews with 92 people in the wake of a "Violent Unknown Event" that has left large numbers of people obsessed with birds and flight. The surnames of these interviewees all begins with the letters Fall-, and it is soon revealed that the VUE has left them mutating into...
1985’s A Zed & Two Noughtsfollows twin zoologists, Oswald and Oliver Deuce, whose wives die in a mysterious car crash instigated by a swan. In the wake of the accident, the twins become increasingly obsessed with death and decay, and fall into a relationship with a prostitute who works as the zoo named Venus de Milo. As the twins film the decomposi...
According to Greenaway, "Tulse Luper is a sort of alter ego created many years ago,” and the centerpiece of the Tulse Luper Suitcases, a sprawling multimedia project taking in CD-ROMs, books, websites, Flash games, and more, including three extremely fascinating experimental films. Luper is a collector who catalogs unusual artifacts. At the center ...
The artistically gorgeous and coldly intense 1989 crime drama The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is perhaps Greenaway’s most conventional project, though its graphic violence and nude scenes caused controversy at the time of its release, earning an NC-17 rating. Regardless, its lavish, highly stylized cinematography, incredible lighting, hau...
Peter Greenaway. Director: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. Peter Greenaway trained as a painter and began working as a film editor for the Central Office of Information in 1965.
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Nov 17, 2022 · We talk history, knowledge and cinema with visionary British director Peter Greenaway. 17 November 2022. Prospero’s Books (1991) By Lillian Crawford. Interviews. Peter Greenaway is looking forward to returning to London for the BFI ’s retrospective of his films, Frames of Mind.
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Oct 31, 2022 · The Belly of an Architect is out as a BFI dual format edition (Blu-ray and DVD). A beginner’s path into the playful labyrinths of one of Britain’s most celebrated arthouse directors, Peter Greenaway.
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