Peter Greenaway — Director (34)

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Act of God (1980)
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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'.

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Intervals (1973)
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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.

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Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! (2008)
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other title: Rembrandt's J'accuse / Rembrandt's J'Accuse …
J'accuse is an 'essay-istic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch. Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder and the motives of all its 34 painted characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads us through Rembrandt's paintings into 17th century Amsterdam. He paints a world that is democratic in principle, but is almost entirely ruled by twelve families. The notion exists of these regents as charitable and compassionate beings. However, reality was different.

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Windows (1974)
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other title: Finestre
A sort of documentary on the people known to have fallen out of windows in a certain time frame in a certain geographical location. One of Greenaway's early short films.

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The Pillow Book (1995)
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Peter Greenaway actor: Vivian Wu / Yoshi Oida …
other title: I racconti del cuscino / O Livro de Cabeceira …
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

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Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Peter Greenaway actor: Elmer Bäck / Luis Alberti …
other title: Eisenstein in Messico / Que Viva Eisenstein ! …
In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.

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The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
The Baby of Mâcon
other title: Il bambino di Mâcon / O Bebé de Macon …
In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

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Lumière & Company (1995)
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Francis Girod / David Lynch … actor: Jeff Alperi / Romane Bohringer …
other title: Lumière et Compagnie / Lumière e Companhia …
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

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The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
The Draughtsman's Contract
Peter Greenaway actor: Anthony Higgins / Janet Suzman …
other title: I misteri del giardino di Compton House / Tegnerens kontrakt …
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.