Peter Greenaway

Directing·Apr 5, 1942·Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK

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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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Luther and His Legacy2017 · Director	Director
Giovanna D'Arco2016 · Director	Director
Eisenstein in Guanajuato2015 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
3x3D2013 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Goltzius & the Pelican Company2012 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth2012 · Director	Director
The Wedding at Cana2009 · Some characters (uncredited), Director	Some characters (uncredited), Director
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!2008 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Nightwatching2007 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Peopling The Palaces2007 · Director	Director
GGreenaway: The Shorts2006 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
WWriting on Water2005 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper2005 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish2005 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea2004 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Visions of Europe2004 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The European Showerbath2004 · Director	Director
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp2003 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story2003 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Cinema16: British Short Films2003 · Director	Director
The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway2002 · Director	Director
The Man in the Bath2001 · Director	Director
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama1999 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
8 ½ Women1999 · (uncredited), Director, Screenplay	(uncredited), Director, Screenplay
In the Dark1996 · Director	Director
Lumière & Company1995 · Director	Director
The Pillow Book1995 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Stairs 1 Geneva1994 · Director	Director
The Baby of Mâcon1993 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Darwin1992 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Peter Greenaway: A Documentary1992 · Director	Director
Rosa1992 · Director	Director
AA Walk Through Prospero's Library1992 · Director	Director
MM Is for Man, Music and Mozart1991 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Prospero's Books1991 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
A TV Dante1990 · Director	Director
Death in the Seine1989 · Director	Director
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover1989 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Fear of Drowning1989 · Director	Director
HHubert Bals Handshake1989 · Narrator, Director	Narrator, Director
Drowning by Numbers1988 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Belly of an Architect1987 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
A Zed & Two Noughts1985 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire1985 · Director	Director
Making a Splash1984 · Director	Director
Four American Composers: John Cage1983 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Four American Composers: Robert Ashley1983 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Four American Composers: Meredith Monk1983 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Sea in Their Blood1983 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Four American Composers: Philip Glass1983 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Draughtsman's Contract1982 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Falls1982 · Interviewer, Writer, Director	Interviewer, Writer, Director
Zandra Rhodes1981 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Terence Conran1981 · Director	Director
Act of God1980 · Director	Director
Leeds Castle1979 · Director	Director
Vertical Features Remake1978 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
A Walk Through H1978 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Water Wrackets1978 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Eddie Kidd1978 · Director	Director
Goole by Numbers1976 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
1-1001976 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Dear Phone1976 · Narrator, Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Narrator, Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Savile Row1976 · Director	Director
Windows1974 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
H Is for House1973 · (voice), Director, Writer, Director of Photography	(voice), Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Intervals1973 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
EErosion1971 · Director	Director
RRevolution1968 · Director	Director
55 Postcards from Capital Cities1967 · Director	Director
TTrain1966 · Director	Director
TTree1966 · Director	Director
DDeath of Sentiment1962 · Director	Director
Walking to ParisWriter, Director	Writer, Director
Tower StoriesWriter, Director	Writer, Director
BBoschDirector, Writer	Director, Writer
TThe Food of LoveWriter, Director	Writer, Director