Peter Greenaway — Director (31)
Death of Sentiment (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Death of Sentiment
director: Peter Greenaway
Greenaway's virtually unseen first film is described by the director as "a work of juvenalia" shot in four London cemeteries, focusing on "church yard furniture, crosses, flying angels, [and] typography on grave stones," with the occasional painting reference thrown in as well.
Train (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Train
director: Peter Greenaway
A mechanical ballet composed of footage of the last steam trains arriving to the Waterloo Station
A Walk Through H (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Walk Through H
director: Peter Greenaway actor: Colin Cantlie / Jean Williams
other title: Un viaggio attraverso H
An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.
H Is for House (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
H Is for House
director: Peter Greenaway actor: Colin Cantlie / Hannah Greenaway
other title: C sta per casa
Ostensibly, a film about a child's pictorial alphabet stuck on the letter H.
A Walk Through Prospero's Library (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
director: Peter Greenaway actor: John Gielgud / Isabelle Pasco
A short made for TV with director Peter Greenaway discussing the dazzling 3.5 minute opening sequence from his film, 'Prospero's Books'. As Prospero (John Gielgud) walks through his library, Greenaway comments on the historical, mythological, biblical & fictional characters occupying the library.
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
director: Peter Greenaway actor: JJ Feild / Raymond J. Barry
other title: Le valigie di Tulse Luper - La storia di Moab / Las maletas de Tulse Luper. La historia de Moab
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe. In the first of three parts, we follow Luper through three distinct episodes: as a child during the First World War; as an explorer in Mormon Utah; and as a writer in Belgium during the rise of fascism.
Rosa (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Rosa
director: Peter Greenaway actor: Nordine Beuchorf / Fumiyo Ikeda
A short film based on the work of choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.
The Belly of an Architect (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Belly of an Architect
director: Peter Greenaway actor: Brian Dennehy / Chloe Webb
other title: Il ventre dell'architetto / A Barriga de Um Arquitecto
Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.
The Falls (1982) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Falls
director: Peter Greenaway actor: Colin Cantlie / Stephen Quay
other title: Le cadute
Told in the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts, nineteen million people are left obsessed with birds and flight following a strange occurrence. A documentarian analyses the lives of all the survivors whose surnames begin with FALL to uncover the truth behind the event.
Vertical Features Remake (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Vertical Features Remake
director: Peter Greenaway actor: Colin Cantlie
other title: Vertical Features Remake: An investigation into the work of Tulse Luper by the Institute of Restoration and Reclamation
Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his notes and structuralist film theory. The footage consists mostly of vertical landscape features, such as trees and posts, shot in the English landscape.
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama (1999) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
director: Peter Greenaway actor: Lyndon Terracini / Miranda van Kralingen
other title: Death of a Composer
"Rosa", with a libretto by Peter Greenaway and score by Louis Andriessen, is the first in a projected series of 10 operas, each dealing with the death of a famous composer - some real, others fictional. "Rosa" falls into the latter category; it tells the story of Juan Manuel de Rosa, a Brazilian who went to study music in America but spent most of his time in the cinema instead, becoming particularly entranced by Westerns. Now 32 years old and residing in an abandoned Uruguayan slaughterhouse, Rosa has become one of Hollywood's foremost composers, specialising in Westerns. He also has a beautiful 19-year-old fiancee, Esmeralda, but he pays her little heed, instead lavishing his attentions on a black mare named Bola. One day, a group of men attired as cowboys arrive at the abattoir and kill both Rosa and Bola; an investigation is conducted, with particular suspicion!
M Is for Man, Music and Mozart (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
M Is for Man, Music and Mozart
director: Peter Greenaway actor: Astrid Seriese / Ben Craft
Dutch composer Louis Andriessen collaborates with director Peter Greenaway on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart. Gods create Man, Music and Mozart.
Making a Splash (1984) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Making a Splash
director: Peter Greenaway
Film which explores the relationship of man to water, his mastery of the fear of drowning and accomplishments in swimming.
Act of God (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Act of God
director: Peter Greenaway
other title: Atto di Dio
Documentary film by Peter Greenaway made for Thames Television, in which people who have survived being struck by lightning relate their experiences against a typically Greenaway backdrop of lists, black humour and 'collated statistics'.
Intervals (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Intervals
director: Peter Greenaway
A short film which has its emphasis on back street walls with peeling posters and the constant pedestrian traffic in the foreground. It has a static camera positioned in front of the walls; experimental editing techniques, no dialogue-just background music, and quick edits of blackness throughout.