Peter Greenaway

 
Peter Greenaway (born, 1942 in Newport, Wales, lives and works in Amsterdam) trained as a painter for four years, and started making his own films in 1966. He has continued to make cinema in a great variety of ways, which has also informed his curatorial work and the making of exhibitions and installations in Europe from the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice and the Joan Miro Gallery in Barcelona to the Boijmans van Beuningen Gallery in Rotterdam and the Louvre in Paris. He has made 12 feature films and some 50 short-films and documentaries, been regularly nominated for the Film Festival Competitions of Cannes, Venice and Berlin, published books, written opera librettos, and collaborated with composers Michael Nyman, Glen Branca, Wim Mertens, Jean-Baptiste Barriere, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Borut Krzisnik and David Lang. His first narrative feature film, The Draughtsman's Contract, completed in 1982, received great critical acclaim and established him internationally as an original film maker, a reputation consolidated by the films, The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover, The Pillow Book, and The Tulse Luper Suitcases.

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Peter Greenaway - The Falls
1993
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
A commission examines a sample of 92 persons subject to an enigmatic obsession with birdwatching and flying: a fictional investigation playing with the codes of documentary journalism which served as a script for Greenaway's film The Falls.
Peter Greenaway - Rosa
1993
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
The libretto to the opera Rosa, with music by the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen.
Peter Greenaway - Rosa
1993
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
The libretto to the opera Rosa, with music by the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen.
Peter Greenaway - Le cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant
1989
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
currently out of stock
The complete script of the film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, a tragic tell about revenge and an allegory for Thatcherism. Greenaway reveals himself not only as a great creator of cinematographic splendors but also as an authentic writer who seeks literary imagery and metaphor.
Peter Greenaway - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
1989
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
currently out of stock
The complete script of the film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, a tragic tell about revenge and an allegory for Thatcherism. Greenaway reveals himself not only as a great creator of cinematographic splendors but also as an authentic writer who seeks literary imagery and metaphor.
Peter Greenaway - Drowning by Numbers
1988
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
Drowning by Numbers tells the story of three women from different age groups named Cissie Colpitts who each have murdered their husbands by drowning them. The narrative structure of the film underlies a numerical order based on the number 100. A fascinating riddle on man's relationship with death and time.
Peter Greenaway -
1987
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Monographs
This monograph points up the many facets of Greenaway's work—pictorial, literary, musical and philosophical—all of which are inherent to his films.
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