10.0
10.0
The Wedding at Cana
2009
Director
Peter Greenaway
Also known as: P. Greenaway
Directing
Born:April 5, 1942(age 84)
Birthplace:Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK
Nationality:United Kingdom
Education:Forest School, Walthamstow College of Art
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (86 movies)
8.1
8.1
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
2019
Producer
7.4
7.4
A Walk Through H
1978
Writer
7.3
7.3
Four American Composers: Philip Glass
1983
Writer
7.3
7.3
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989
Director
7.2
7.2
The Falls
1980
Director
7.2
7.2
Vertical Features Remake
1978
Writer
7.1
7.1
The Draughtsman's Contract
1982
Director
7.0
7.0
Drowning by Numbers
1988
Director
7.0
7.0
Darwin
1992
Writer
7.0
7.0
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985
Director
6.9
6.9
The Baby of Mâcon
1993
Writer
6.8
6.8
The Belly of an Architect
1987
Director
6.7
6.7
Prospero's Books
1991
Screenplay
6.7
6.7
The Sea in Their Blood
1983
Writer
6.7
6.7
Act of God
1980
Director
6.7
6.7
Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth
2012
Director
6.7
6.7
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
2008
Screenplay
6.5
6.5
Windows
1974
Writer
6.4
6.4
A TV Dante
1990
Director
6.3
6.3
The Pillow Book
1995
Writer
6.3
6.3
Nightwatching
2007
Writer
6.2
6.2
Lumière & Company
1995
Director
6.1
6.1
H Is for House
1976
Writer
6.1
6.1
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
2015
Director
6.1
6.1
The Greenaway Alphabet
2018
as Peter Greenaway
6.0
6.0
Rosa
1992
Director
6.0
6.0
Luther and His Legacy
2017
Director
6.0
6.0
Revolution
1968
Director
6.0
6.0
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
2014
Director
5.8
5.8
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire
1985
Director
5.8
5.8
Water Wrackets
1978
Director
5.7
5.7
Zandra Rhodes
1981
Director
5.5
5.5
Intervals
1973
Writer
5.4
5.4
8 ½ Women
1999
Screenplay
5.3
5.3
Dear Phone
1976
Writer
5.3
5.3
Terence Conran
1981
Director
5.3
5.3
A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
2005
Writer
5.2
5.2
Death in the Seine
1989
Director
5.2
5.2
Train
1966
Director
5.1
5.1
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003
Director
5.0
5.0
Hubert Bals Handshake
1989
Director
5.0
5.0
Fear of Drowning
1989
Director
5.0
5.0
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
2016
4.9
4.9
Visions of Europe
2004
Director
4.9
4.9
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
2005
Director
4.7
4.7
3x3D
2013
Writer
4.7
4.7
Making a Splash
1984
Director
4.6
4.6
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
2004
Director
4.6
4.6
Cinema16: British Short Films
2003
Director
4.6
4.6
M Is for Man, Music and Mozart
1991
Writer
4.0
4.0
Leeds Castle
1979
Director
4.0
4.0
Writing on Water
2005
Director
3.3
3.3
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
1999
Director
3.3
3.3
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
2003
Director
Ritratti di cinema
2025
as Self
Peter Greenaway: The Film Architect - Beyond The Belly of an Architect
2023
as Himself
Peter Greenaway: A Documentary
1992
Director
The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway
2002
Director
The Missing Nail
2019
Writer
Close to Greenaway
2004
as Self
5 Postcards from Capital Cities
1967
Director
Greenaway: The Shorts
2006
Writer
Giovanna D'Arco
2016
Director
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
1992
Director
Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
1983
Director
Goole by Numbers
1976
Writer
1-100
1976
Writer
Bosch
TBA
Writer
Four American Composers: John Cage
1983
Director
The Food of Love
TBA
Writer
Tree
1966
Director
Tower Stories
TBA
Director
Stairs 1 Geneva
1994
Director
Erosion
1971
Director
The Exile
1981
Director
Hotel Royalty Since 1887
2021
Director
The European Showerbath
2004
Director
Death of Sentiment
1962
Director
The Man in the Bath
2001
Director
Four American Composers: Robert Ashley
1983
Director
Eddie Kidd
1978
Director
Savile Row
1976
Director
Blondi
2025
Writer
In the Dark
1996
Director
Walking to Paris
TBA
Director
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