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Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, CBE, born 5 April 1942, is prominently recognized as a British film director, screenwriter, and artist. His notable works are deeply ingrained with Renaissance and Baroque painting influences, particularly Mannerism. His films invariably feature distinct traits of scenic composition, contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, and the striking interplay of sexual pleasure and painful death. Greenaway was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales. His family relocated there before his birth to escape the Blitz. After World War II, they returned to the London area, settling in Woodford. From an early age, Greenaway nourished his interest in painting and European cinema, with notable influences from films of Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Alain Resnais. He embarked on his filmmaking studies in 1962, at Walthamstow College of Art and later joined the Central Office of Information, where he honed his skills for 15 years as a film editor & director. His first feature-length film was 'The Falls' (1980), and his most successful film was 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover' (1989). Currently, he resides in Amsterdam and is a professor of cinema studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Biography, Career & Filmography
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Given Name: Peter Greenaway
Born: Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Birthday: April 5, 1942
Occupations: Film director, Screenwriter, Visual artist
Years Active: 1962-present
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
8 ½ Women
The Pillow Book
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
3x3D
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
The Greenaway Alphabet
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway
The Missing Nail
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
Writing on Water
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
M Is for Man, Music and Mozart
A Walk Through Prospero’s Library
The Falls
Terence Conran
The Draughtsman’s Contract
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire
A Life in Suitcases
Zandra Rhodes
Four American Composers: Philip Glass
Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
Four American Composers: John Cage
A Zed & Two Noughts
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Prospero’s Books
Four American Composers: Robert Ashley
Drowning by Numbers
The Belly of an Architect
Hubert Bals Handshake
Fear of Drowning
Death in the Seine
Hotel Royalty Since 1887
Hubert Bals Handshake
H Is for House
Darwin
Eddie Kidd
Rosa
Water Wrackets
Peter Greenaway: A Documentary
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
Dear Phone
Savile Row
Vertical Features Remake
The Baby of Mâcon
Windows
Career Timeline
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2004
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
1989
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Hubert Bals Handshake
Narrator
Fear of Drowning
Himself
Death in the Seine
Hubert Bals Handshake
Narrator
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