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Peter Greenaway‌

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calendar1942-04-05

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Peter Greenaway

Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK

Peter Greenaway

Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1942-04-05

Popularity

star2.9

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.

Movie Credits

Peter Greenaway: A Documentary

Peter Greenaway: A Documentary‌
star0.0
calendar 1992

Peter Greenaway: The Film Architect - Beyond The Belly of an Architect

Peter Greenaway: The Film Architect - Beyond The Belly of an Architect‌
star0.0
calendar 2023

The Falls

The Falls‌
star7.1
calendar 1980

Windows

Windows‌
star6.5
calendar 1975

H Is for House

H Is for House‌
star6.4
calendar 1973

The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch

The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch‌
star5.0
calendar 2016

Dear Phone

Dear Phone‌
star5.3
calendar 1976

The Wedding at Cana

The Wedding at Cana‌
star10.0
calendar 2009

The Missing Nail

The Missing Nail‌
star0.0
calendar 2019

Cinema16: British Short Films

Cinema16: British Short Films‌
star4.6
calendar 2003

Fear of Drowning

Fear of Drowning‌
star5.0
calendar 1989

Close to Greenaway

Close to Greenaway‌
star0.0
calendar 2004

Hubert Bals Handshake

Hubert Bals Handshake‌
star5.0
calendar 1989

Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!

Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!‌
star7.2
calendar 2008

8 ½ Women

8 ½ Women‌
star5.6
calendar 1999

The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama

The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama‌
star4.0
calendar 1999

The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway

The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway‌
star0.0
calendar 2002

The Greenaway Alphabet

The Greenaway Alphabet‌
star6.6
calendar 2018

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice‌
star8.5
calendar 2019

Tv Credits

Kulturplatz

Kulturplatz‌
star6.0
calendar 2004