Peter Greenaway
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 5, 1942 (age 84)
- Birthplace
- Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Walking to Paris
Movie · Director
Bosch
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The Food of Love
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Tower Stories
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The Exile
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The Missing Nail
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Luther and His Legacy
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Giovanna D'Arco
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Eisenstein in Guanajuato
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3x3D
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Goltzius & the Pelican Company
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Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth
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The Wedding at Cana
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Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
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Nightwatching
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Peopling The Palaces
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Greenaway: The Shorts
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
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A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
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Writing on Water
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
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Visions of Europe
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The European Showerbath
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
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Cinema16: British Short Films
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
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The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway
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The Man in the Bath
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8 ½ Women
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The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
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In the Dark
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The Pillow Book
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Lumière & Company
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Stairs 1 Geneva
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The Baby of Mâcon
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Darwin
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A Walk Through Prospero's Library
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Rosa
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Peter Greenaway: A Documentary
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Prospero's Books
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M Is for Man, Music and Mozart
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A TV Dante
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A TV Dante
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
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Death in the Seine
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Hubert Bals Handshake
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Fear of Drowning
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Drowning by Numbers
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The Belly of an Architect
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A Zed & Two Noughts
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Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire
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Making a Splash
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Four American Composers: Philip Glass
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Four American Composers: John Cage
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Four American Composers: Robert Ashley
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Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
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The Sea in Their Blood
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The Draughtsman's Contract
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The Falls
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Terence Conran
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Zandra Rhodes
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Act of God
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Leeds Castle
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Vertical Features Remake
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A Walk Through H
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Water Wrackets
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Eddie Kidd
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Dear Phone
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Goole by Numbers
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1-100
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Savile Row
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Windows
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Intervals
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H Is for House
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Erosion
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Revolution
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5 Postcards from Capital Cities
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Tree
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Train
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Death of Sentiment
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