Peter Greenaway
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.
Fotos
Películas (88)
Ritratti di cinema
2025 · Self
Blondi
2025 · Writer
Peter Greenaway: The Film Architect - Beyond The Belly of an Architect
2023 · Himself
The Exile
2022 · Director, Writer
The Missing Nail
2019 · (voice), Director, Writer
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
2019 · Self, Producer
The Greenaway Alphabet
2018 · Peter Greenaway
Luther and His Legacy
2017 · Director
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
2016
Giovanna D'Arco
2016 · Stage Director, Director
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
2015 · Director, Screenplay
3x3D
2013 · Director, Writer
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
2012 · Director, Writer
Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth
2012 · Director
The Wedding at Cana
2009 · Some characters (uncredited), Director
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
2008 · Himself / Public Prosecutor, Director, Screenplay
Nightwatching
2007 · Director, Writer
Peopling The Palaces
2007 · Director
Greenaway: The Shorts
2006 · Director, Writer
Writing on Water
2005 · Director, Writer
A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
2005 · Director, Writer
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
2005 · Director, Writer
Close to Greenaway
2004 · Self
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
2004 · Director, Writer
Visions of Europe
2004 · Director, Writer
The European Showerbath
2004 · Director
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
2003 · Director, Writer
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003 · Director, Writer
Cinema16: British Short Films
2003 · Self - Commentary, Dear Phone (voice), Director
The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway
2002 · Himself, Director
The Man in the Bath
2001 · Director
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
1999 · Narrator, Director, Writer, Stage Director
8 ½ Women
1999 · (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
In the Dark
1996 · Director
Lumière & Company
1995 · Director
The Pillow Book
1995 · Director, Writer, Editor
Stairs 1 Geneva
1994 · Director
The Baby of Mâcon
1993 · Writer, Director
Darwin
1992 · Director, Writer
Peter Greenaway: A Documentary
1992 · Himself, Director
Rosa
1992 · Director
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
1992 · Director
M Is for Man, Music and Mozart
1991 · Writer, Director
Prospero's Books
1991 · Director, Screenplay
A TV Dante
1990 · Director
Death in the Seine
1989 · Director
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989 · Director, Screenplay
Fear of Drowning
1989 · Himself, Director
Hubert Bals Handshake
1989 · Narrator, Director
Drowning by Numbers
1988 · Director, Writer
The Belly of an Architect
1987 · Director, Writer
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985 · Director, Writer
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire
1985 · Director
Making a Splash
1984 · Director
Four American Composers: John Cage
1983 · Director, Writer
Four American Composers: Robert Ashley
1983 · Director, Writer
Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
1983 · Director, Writer
The Sea in Their Blood
1983 · Director, Writer
Four American Composers: Philip Glass
1983 · Director, Writer
The Draughtsman's Contract
1982 · Director, Screenplay
The Falls
1982 · Interviewer, Director, Writer, Editor
The Pledge
1982 · Editor
Zandra Rhodes
1981 · Director, Screenplay
Terence Conran
1981 · Director
Act of God
1980 · Director
Leeds Castle
1979 · Director
Vertical Features Remake
1978 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
A Walk Through H
1978 · Director, Writer, Editor, Scenic Artist
Water Wrackets
1978 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
Eddie Kidd
1978 · Director, Editor
Goole by Numbers
1976 · Director, Writer
1-100
1976 · Director, Writer
Dear Phone
1976 · Narrator, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
Savile Row
1976 · Director
Windows
1974 · Narrator, Director, Writer, Editor
H Is for House
1973 · (voice), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
Intervals
1973 · Director, Writer
Erosion
1971 · Director
Revolution
1968 · Director
5 Postcards from Capital Cities
1967 · Director
Train
1966 · Director
Tree
1966 · Director
Death of Sentiment
1962 · Director
Walking to Paris
· Director, Writer
Tower Stories
· Writer, Director
Bosch
· Writer, Director
The Food of Love
· Director, Writer
Tie and Dye
· Editor
