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Peter Greenaway’s short COI-commissioned documentary explores Britain’s coastline through a series of images of marine life – the animals who live off the sea, the people who work on the sea and the visitors who come for leisure.
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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.
- 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.
- The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) Peter Greenaway’s masterpiece was also one of his earliest efforts. After more experimental works like his short films and The Falls, The Draughtsman’s Contract is one the director’s more conventional films, from an aesthetic and storytelling perspective.
- The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is probably Greenaway’s most famous and critically acclaimed film.
- Drowning by Numbers (1988) One of the most strange of Greenaway’s early films, Drowning by Numbers is a bizarre, somewhat unintelligible stylistic masterpiece with an enticing plot.
- The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2003 – 2005) By far Greenaway’s most ambitious and sprawling projects, and one of the largest by any director really, The Tulse Luper Suitcases is a multimedia work spreading across many years.
Dec 1, 2003 · Greenaway has more than once been known to disappear up his own aesthetics, but this collection of his short films plays to his strengths, tolerating little tedium. Disc One includes six films...
Before his international arthouse hits like THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER and Prospero’s Books, Greenaway made a series of highly inventive films that established all the obsessions that run through his later work.
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Dec 3, 2004 · Seven 16-millimeter shorts by British filmmaker Peter Greenaway: Intervals (1969), Windows (1974), H Is for House (1976), Dear Phone (1976), Water Wrackets (1978), Vertical Features Remake...
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