Peter Greenaway

About

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...

Known for

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her LoverMovie • 1989The Draughtsman's ContractMovie • 19828 ½ WomenMovie • 1999The Pillow BookMovie • 1995NightwatchingMovie • 2007Goltzius & the Pelican CompanyMovie • 2012Drowning by NumbersMovie • 1988A Zed & Two NoughtsMovie • 1985The Baby of MâconMovie • 1993The Belly of an ArchitectMovie • 1987The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab StoryMovie • 2003Lumière & CompanyMovie • 1995Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!Movie • 2008Eisenstein in GuanajuatoMovie • 2015Prospero's BooksMovie • 1991Visions of EuropeMovie • 2004The FallsMovie • 1982WindowsMovie • 1974Dear PhoneMovie • 1976H Is for HouseMovie • 1973IntervalsMovie • 1973Vertical Features RemakeMovie • 1978