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Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway is a British filmmaker and visual artist.
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culture · British film director (born 1942) · theatre director · film director · writer · experimental artist · screenwriter · painter · film editor · actor · cinematographer · television director · also Peter Greenaway, P. Greenaway, Greenaway
Born 5 April 1942 · Q55282
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2026· 27 entries
“What are you -- some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...”
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“Perhaps. I need writing. Don't ask me why -- just take out your pen and write your name on my arm -- go on.”
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“Then I think you have a choice -- please your mother or face criminal charges.”
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“I like sleeping. (after a pause) You were conceived in this bed.”
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“No -- but I have a feeling your mother was.”
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“Money's not interesting -- too easy to get hold of.”
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“You have no right to be jealous of a woman who wants to be more of a woman by watching a man dressed up as a woman.”
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“Raw sex is the last thing you are going to encounter in a Jane Austen woman.”
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“A long white dress that starts under the breast and travels on interminably down -- so their legs are entirely mysterious -- they could have one leg or two inside that dress... A Jane Austen woman could be incredibly passionate inside that dress.”
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“And you would never know if she had feet.”
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“No we mustn't! She'll have us all audited.”
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“Naked! So I can see no pranks and ruses.”
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“Imagine you are sucking the little fingers of a lady... or... no, you wouldn't understand that -- since you'd never get that close to a lady -- who'd want to get that close to you for God's sake?”
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“I wouldn't be so interested in her fingers.”
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“That's just the sort of remark you would make -- you'd just be intent on whipping it in, whipping it out, and wiping it on your jacket! Look at your jacket! Looks like a pig field! Your nails could do with a clean. Show me your nails! God! Why can't I have some bloody quality in my associates?”
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“Georgie doesn't like babies do you Georgie? Some days, Georgie, I think you behave like a bloke.”
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“I once saw a film where the main character didn't speak for the first half hour.”
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“… like us? Counting up the minutes -- have we spent half an hour together?”
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“I was completely absorbed as to what would happen because anything was possible.”
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“… and within five minutes I'd lost interest.”
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“Now you've opened your mouth, do you expect me to lose interest?”
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“No -- it's not necessary for a bookkeeper to read all the stock.”
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“You could spend a lifetime reading in here.”
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“What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?”
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“I have always found them very reasonable --they don't change their minds when you aren't looking at them. Each one can always be relied upon to say the same thing.”
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“What do you mean -- Happy anniversary? It's not my birthday.”
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2023· 2 entries
Deadline.com: Wang Bing & Peter Greenaway To Be Honored By IFDA Doc Fest
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Collider: Peter Greenaway's 'Drowning by Numbers' Gets 4K Ultra HD Release
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2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: ‘The antique tea set was worth more than our entire budget’: How Peter Greenaway and Janet Suzman made The Draughtsman’s Contract
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The Guardian: The Draughtsman’s Contract review – Peter Greenaway’s cerebral intrigue still beguiles
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Yahoo: Peter Greenaway Reflects on Career While Finishing First Film Since 2015
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2019· 2 entries
Vulture: Peter Greenaway
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The Guardian: Peter Greenaway plans racetrack in tribute to Jack Kerouac book
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Film director Peter Greenaway calls for 'image-based cinema'
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2015· 4 entries
The Guardian: Peter Greenaway to direct Russian film backed by sanction-hit Putin ally
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The Guardian: Greenaway offends Russia with film about Soviet director's gay affair
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Yahoo: Films Boutique Picks Up Peter Greenaway’s ‘Eisenstein in Guanajuato’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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The Guardian: Russian authorities deny censoring Peter Greenaway's Eisenstein script
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2014· 3 entries
Awarded BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award (2014).
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Awarded Annual award ACFK presented by Association of Czech Film Clubs (2014).
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Received the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award
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2012· 1 entry
“d actually rather be a painter – and plans to end it all in 10 years anyway Thu 15 Nov 2012 15.00 EST Share Prefer the Guardian on Google W hen Peter Greenaway”
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2007· 1 entry
Won Golden Calf for Best Script (2007).
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2006· 1 entry
Greenaway began a series of digital video installations, Nine Classical Paintings Revisited, with his exploration of Rembrandt's Night Watch in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
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2001· 4 entries
Awarded Time Machine Award (2001).
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They live in Amsterdam and have a daughter named Zoë (often referred to as Pip) (born c. 2001), who featured in the documentary The Greenaway Alphabet.
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Peter Greenaway married the Dutch multimedia artist Saskia Boddeke
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In 2001 Peter Greenaway married the Dutch multimedia artist Saskia Boddeke.
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1995· 1 entry
Louis Andriessen completed the sixth libretto, Rosa – A Horse Drama
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded Sitges Film Festival Best Director award for The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989).
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Greenaway collaborated with artist Tom Phillips on a television serial A TV Dante, dramatising the first few cantos of Dante's Inferno
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1980· 2 entries
Won Sutherland Trophy for The Falls (1980).
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Greenaway delivered The Falls (his first feature-length film) – a mammoth, fantastical, absurdist encyclopaedia of flight-associated material all relating to ninety-two victims of what is referred to as the Violent Unkno
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1965· 1 entry
Joined the Central Office of Information (COI), where he went on to work for fifteen years as a film editor and director
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1962· 1 entry
Greenaway began studies at Walthamstow College of Art, where a fellow student was musician Ian Dury (later cast in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover)
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1961· 1 entry
“s Last Year in Marienbad (1961) had been the most important influence upon his own filmmaking (and he himself established a close working relationship with that film”
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1950· 2 entries
“It tells you how to boil water. What expression to wear when you are eating eggs. How to starve. When to eat. What your first meal should be. What your last meal should be. It says more about death than eating and more about living than cooking.”
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“French Cuisine. By Guillaume Rosart. Publisher Henri Simonel. In 1950 it cost me twenty francs -- about 2 pounds -- about 15 pounds now.”
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-04-05.
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