Peter Greenaway
DirectingPeter 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.
Known For
8 ½ Women
(uncredited)
Ritratti di cinema
Self
Cinema16: British Short Films
Self - Commentary, Dear Phone (voice)
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
Himself / Public Prosecutor
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
Self
The Falls
Interviewer
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
The Greenaway Alphabet
Peter Greenaway
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
Narrator
Filmography — Acting
8 ½ Women
(uncredited)
Ritratti di cinema
Self
Cinema16: British Short Films
Self - Commentary, Dear Phone (voice)
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
Himself / Public Prosecutor
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
Self
The Falls
Interviewer
Close to Greenaway
Self
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
The Greenaway Alphabet
Peter Greenaway
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
Narrator
Peter Greenaway: The Film Architect - Beyond The Belly of an Architect
Himself
Dear Phone
Narrator
Windows
Narrator
Peter Greenaway: A Documentary
Himself
The Wedding at Cana
Some characters (uncredited)
H Is for House
(voice)
The Missing Nail
(voice)
Hubert Bals Handshake
Narrator
Fear of Drowning
Himself
The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway
Himself
Filmography — Crew
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Director
The Pillow Book
Director
Nightwatching
Director
8 ½ Women
Director
The Baby of Mâcon
Writer
Lumière & Company
Director
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Director
The Draughtsman's Contract
Director
Drowning by Numbers
Director
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
Director
Prospero's Books
Director
A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
Director
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Director
A Zed & Two Noughts
Director
Cinema16: British Short Films
Director
Visions of Europe
Director
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
Director
The Belly of an Architect
Director
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
Director
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
Director
Tower Stories
Writer
Walking to Paris
Director
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
Producer
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Director
The Falls
Director
A Walk Through H
Director
A TV Dante
Director
3x3D
Director
Blondi
Writer
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
Director
Making a Splash
Director
Eddie Kidd
Director
Revolution
Director
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
Director
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire
Director
Peopling The Palaces
Director
Act of God
Director
Four American Composers: Philip Glass
Director
The Food of Love
Director
Giovanna D'Arco
Director
Death in the Seine
Director
Dear Phone
Director
The Sea in Their Blood
Director
The Man in the Bath
Director
Four American Composers: John Cage
Director
Tree
Director
Train
Director
Death of Sentiment
Director
Windows
Director
Luther and His Legacy
Director
Vertical Features Remake
Director
M Is for Man, Music and Mozart
Writer
Zandra Rhodes
Director
Bosch
Writer
Rosa
Director
Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
Director
Peter Greenaway: A Documentary
Director
The Wedding at Cana
Director
Stairs 1 Geneva
Director
Intervals
Director
H Is for House
Director
The Missing Nail
Director
Erosion
Director
In the Dark
Director
Four American Composers: Robert Ashley
Director
Goole by Numbers
Director
Darwin
Director
Terence Conran
Director
Leeds Castle
Director
The European Showerbath
Director
Water Wrackets
Director
Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth
Director
5 Postcards from Capital Cities
Director
Hubert Bals Handshake
Director
Savile Row
Director
Writing on Water
Director
Fear of Drowning
Director
The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway
Director
1-100
Director
Greenaway: The Shorts
Director
The Exile
Director