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Peter Greenaway is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Editor British born on 5 april 1942 at Newport (United-kingdom)

Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 5 april 1942 (82 years) at Newport (United-kingdom)
Awards Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Golden Calf, Golden Calf for Best Script

Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a British film director. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his film are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death.

Biography

Sa ligne de conduite créatrice principale est l'encyclopédisme singulier. Plus directement, pour une large part du public, Peter Greenaway est l'archétype-même du réalisateur "intellectuel", plus soucieux de l'esthétique de ses films, aux images extrêmement soignées et composées, que du récit, parfois elliptique ou abscons. La critique française a toutefois loué la richesse visuelle de ses films et leur foisonnement graphique, que ce soit pour peindre des demeures et des parcs britanniques (Meurtre dans un jardin anglais) ou l'atmosphère nocturne de Rome (Le Ventre de l'architecte).

Bien que son œuvre soit très empreinte de noirceur, l'humour britannique, pince-sans-rire et l'humour noir, y sont très présents. Son travail n'est pas sans rapport avec la pataphysique et l'Oulipo ; lui-même n'y fait pas référence explicitement, mais il a déjà reconnu l'influence sur lui d'Italo Calvino, membre de l'Oulipo. Greenaway utilise souvent la contrainte numérique comme élément de structuration de certaines de ses œuvres. Ses films sont axés sur l'art en général (peinture, architecture, musique...) et révèlent souvent une fascination pour la couleur et les nombres. Les œuvres, sombres et cruelles, privilégient la lenteur et la beauté de la mise en scène au point de créer un certain malaise chez le spectateur.

Jusqu'en 1991, il confia principalement les musiques de ses films à Michael Nyman.

En tant que plasticien, Peter Greenaway est l'auteur de l'exposition STAIRS GENEVE " Du cadrage au public" . Il s'agissait d'une manifestation consacrée au cadrage dans les rues et les espaces publics de la ville de Genève

L'exposition s'est tenue du 23 avril au 31 juillet 1994.

Usually with

Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman
(7 films)
Ben van Os
Ben van Os
(6 films)
Jan Roelfs
Jan Roelfs
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Peter Greenaway (23 films)

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Actor

8 ½ Women
8 ½ Women (1999)
, 1h58
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors John Standing, Vivian Wu, Toni Collette, Annie Yi, Amanda Plummer, Natacha Amal
Rating56% 2.8015852.8015852.8015852.8015852.801585
After the death of his wife (Claire Johnston), wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal (John Standing) and his son Storey (Matthew Delamere) open their own private harem in their family residence in Geneva (they get the idea while watching Federico Fellini's 8½ and after Storey is "given" a woman, Simato (Shizuka Inoh), to waive her pachinko debts). They sign one-year contracts with eight (and a half) women to this effect.
The Falls
The Falls (1980)
, 3h15
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy
Actors Peter Greenaway
Roles Interviewer
Rating71% 3.5934153.5934153.5934153.5934153.593415
The world has been struck by a mysterious incident called the "Violent Unknown Event" or VUE, which has killed many people and left a great many survivors suffering from a common set of symptoms: mysterious ailments (some appearing to be mutations of evolving into a bird-like form), dreaming of water (categorised by form, such as Category 1, Flight, or Category 3, Waves) and becoming obsessed with birds and flight. Many of the survivors have been gifted with new languages. They have also stopped aging, making them immortal (barring disease or injury).

Director

Walking to Paris
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure
Actors Carla Juri, Emun Elliott, Remo Girone

Le film est consacré au périple d’un jeune artiste de 26/27 ans appelé à devenir célèbre, Constantin Brâncuși, voyageant à travers l'Europe. Il part de la Roumanie où il est né et où il a commencé à étudier les beaux-arts, jusqu’à Paris où il souhaite approfondir cette formation. Ce voyage est un fait réel, effectué à pied sur 2 500 kilomètres, à travers l’Europe au début du XX siècle. Il a duré 18 mois. Pour autant, le détail de cette aventure est resté inconnu. Peter Greenaway a construit une fiction cinématographique à partir de ce voyage, et imagine des péripéties comiques ou violentes, quelquefois sexuelles et quelquefois romantiques. La pérégrination ainsi reconstituée est également jalonnée d’édification de sculptures avec les matériaux trouvés chemin faisant
Eisenstein in Guanajuato, 1h45
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Stelio Stavante, Maya Zapata, Lisa Owen
Rating62% 3.148223.148223.148223.148223.14822
1931. Le réalisateur Sergueï Eisenstein est au Mexique, à Guanajuato, et tourne son film Que Viva Mexico!.
Goltzius & the Pelican Company, 1h56
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Biography, Comedy, Documentary, Historical
Actors Ramsey Nasr, F. Murray Abraham, Kate Moran, Giulio Berruti, Anna Louise Hassing, Vincent Riotta
Rating64% 3.243863.243863.243863.243863.24386
The film is based on the life of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. He seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books. Goltzius promises him an extraordinary book of pictures of the Old Testament Biblical stories. Erotic tales of the temptation of Adam and Eve, Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Joseph and Potiphar's wife, Samson and Delilah, and John the Baptist and Salome. To tempt the Margrave further, Goltzius and his printing company will offer to perform dramatizations of these erotic stories for his court.
3x3D
3x3D (2013)

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Edgar Pêra
Genres Drama, Comedy
Rating58% 2.9463952.9463952.9463952.9463952.946395
Dans la ville millénaire de Guimarães, trois réalisateurs renommés, Peter Greenaway, Edgar Pêra, Jean-Luc Godard, explorent la 3D et son influence sur notre perception du cinéma. Surimpression et superposition des images pour Peter Greenaway dans « Just in Time », interrogation ludique sur le nouveau spectateur de cinéma pour Edgar Pêra avec « Cinesapiens », esquisse d'une histoire du cinéma en 3D pour Jean-Luc Godard dans « Les Trois Désastres ».
3X3D
3X3D (2013)
, 1h9
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Edgar Pêra
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Rating58% 2.9463952.9463952.9463952.9463952.946395
Dans la ville millénaire de Guimarães, trois réalisateurs renommés, Peter Greenaway, Edgar Pêra, Jean-Luc Godard, explorent la 3D et son influence sur notre perception du cinéma. Surimpression et superposition des images pour Peter Greenaway dans « Just in Time », interrogation ludique sur le nouveau spectateur de cinéma pour Edgar Pêra avec « Cinesapiens », esquisse d'une histoire du cinéma en 3D pour Jean-Luc Godard dans « Les Trois Désastres ».
Nightwatching, 2h14
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Peinture
Actors Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Christopher Britton, Jodhi May, Toby Jones, Matthew Walker
Rating64% 3.247343.247343.247343.247343.24734
The film is centred on the creation of The Night Watch, Rembrandt's most famous work, depicting civilian militiamen who wanted to be celebrated in a group portrait. The film posits a conspiracy to murder within the musketeer regiment of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, and suggests that Rembrandt may have immortalized a conspiracy theory using subtle allegory in his group portrait of the regiment, subverting what was to have been a highly prestigious commission for both painter and subject.
8 ½ Women
8 ½ Women (1999)
, 1h58
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors John Standing, Vivian Wu, Toni Collette, Annie Yi, Amanda Plummer, Natacha Amal
Rating56% 2.8015852.8015852.8015852.8015852.801585
After the death of his wife (Claire Johnston), wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal (John Standing) and his son Storey (Matthew Delamere) open their own private harem in their family residence in Geneva (they get the idea while watching Federico Fellini's 8½ and after Storey is "given" a woman, Simato (Shizuka Inoh), to waive her pachinko debts). They sign one-year contracts with eight (and a half) women to this effect.
The Pillow Book, 2h6
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Ken Ogata, Yoshi Oida, Hideko Yoshida, Ronald Guttman
Rating64% 3.249163.249163.249163.249163.24916
The film's title, "The Pillow Book", refers to an ancient Japanese diary written by Sei Shōnagon, actual name believed to be Kiyohara Nagiko, from whence the protagonist's name in the film.
Stairs 1 Geneva, 1h47
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Genres Documentary
Rating65% 3.2811253.2811253.2811253.2811253.281125