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- The Pillow Book (1996) The Pillow Book takes its name from an ancient diary from Japan and follows a young model, Nagiko, who, obsessed with calligraphy, seeks to find a lover who is skilled at both handwriting, to write on her skin, and pleasuring her.
- Nightwatching (2007) Marking Greenaway’s first major project since the enormous “Tulse Luper” endeavor, Nightwatching is a very personal film, and it shows, forming a much more well thought out film than usual.
- Prospero’s Books (1991) Based on Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, this experimental treat focuses on the legendary library of the main character Prospero, played by the iconic Shakespearean actor John Gielgud, that he famously saves from the storm and obsesses over.
- The Baby of Macon (1993) The Baby of Macon is a very interesting entry in Greenaway’s filmography. The film concentrates on a play of the same name, set in the 1600s, being performed in front of an audience.
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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...
Nov 27, 1991 · Peter Greenaway’s “Prospero’s Books” is not a movie in the sense that we usually employ the word. It’s an experiment in form and content. It is likely to bore most audiences, but will enchant others — especially those able to free themselves from the notion that movies must tell stories.
To properly acquaint oneself with the work of English auteur Peter Greenaway is to become a student of the neo-baroque, postmodernism, art history, and religious allegory. Trained as a painter, Greenaway’s passion for the films of Bergman, Fellini, Godard, Pasolini, and Resnais led him to begin a career in experimental film in the early 1960’s.
Jul 4, 1997 · Greenaway, whose work includes “The Draughtsman's Contract,” “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover” and “Prospero's Books,” uses an essentially Japanese technique. He likes to build up his images in layers, combining film and video, live action and paintings, spoken narration and visual texts.
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All 15 Peter Greenaway Movies Ranked From Worst To Best. There are few directors in film history as polarizing as Peter Greenaway. Initially trained as a painter, Greenaway has a terrific mind for visual framing and composition.
