The arthouse director says it is 'a pleasure and a delight' to be honoured for his years of effort and experiment
• Peter Greenaway: 'I plan to kill myself when I'm 80'
Peter Greenaway is to receive the outstanding British contribution to cinema award at this Sunday's Bafta film awards.
The director of The Draughtsman's Contract, Drowning by Numbers and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover will be honoured for more than three decades of film-making. He made his debut in 1980 with The Falls, a post-apocalyptic mock-documentary in 92 short sections.
Greenaway, who is known for his collaborations with the composer Michael Nyman, said: "Given the always complex effort involved, to be permitted in the first place to make films with so many collaborators always astonishes me, and to be permitted the licence to do so with such freedom to continually experiment even more so. Everyone agrees that...
• Peter Greenaway: 'I plan to kill myself when I'm 80'
Peter Greenaway is to receive the outstanding British contribution to cinema award at this Sunday's Bafta film awards.
The director of The Draughtsman's Contract, Drowning by Numbers and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover will be honoured for more than three decades of film-making. He made his debut in 1980 with The Falls, a post-apocalyptic mock-documentary in 92 short sections.
Greenaway, who is known for his collaborations with the composer Michael Nyman, said: "Given the always complex effort involved, to be permitted in the first place to make films with so many collaborators always astonishes me, and to be permitted the licence to do so with such freedom to continually experiment even more so. Everyone agrees that...
- 2/15/2014
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
British director to receive BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema.
BAFTA is to honour director Peter Greenaway, best known for 1989’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, with the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award at the Ee British Academy Film Awards ceremony in London on Sunday (Feb 16).
The award-winning British writer and director originally trained as a painter and worked at the Central Office of Information (Coi) for 15 years, during which time he directed and edited a series of short films, the first of which was Death of Sentiment.
Greenaway made his first feature film in 1980, entitled The Falls, and was the first of many collaborations with composer Michael Nyman. His critical breakthrough came in 1982 with 17th century drama The Draughtsman’s Contract and he went on to make the seminal The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover in 1989.
Over the course of his career, Greenaway has been...
BAFTA is to honour director Peter Greenaway, best known for 1989’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, with the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award at the Ee British Academy Film Awards ceremony in London on Sunday (Feb 16).
The award-winning British writer and director originally trained as a painter and worked at the Central Office of Information (Coi) for 15 years, during which time he directed and edited a series of short films, the first of which was Death of Sentiment.
Greenaway made his first feature film in 1980, entitled The Falls, and was the first of many collaborations with composer Michael Nyman. His critical breakthrough came in 1982 with 17th century drama The Draughtsman’s Contract and he went on to make the seminal The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover in 1989.
Over the course of his career, Greenaway has been...
- 2/13/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
I'm going to get this out of the way first. It's the list of great science-fiction films of the late 1970s and early 1980s that I felt were specifically referenced in Beyond the Black Rainbow, as jotted in order in my notebook as I watched the international premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival:
Peter Greenaway's The Falls, David Cronenberg's The Brood (and, later, Crimes of the Future and Scanners), The Andromeda Strain, Thx-1138, Star Crash, Cosmos: War of the Planets, Firestarter, Soylent Green, Blue Sunshine, Altered States, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension, Brainstorm, Rush's video for "Distant Early Warning" and every cover of Omni Magazine ever.
Director Panos Cosmatos has no shortage of design influences. Beyond the Black Rainbow is set in an alternate future 1983 where up-no-good new age scientists have let their experiments with consciousness-altering drugs mutate a young woman. In addition to looking worried,...
Peter Greenaway's The Falls, David Cronenberg's The Brood (and, later, Crimes of the Future and Scanners), The Andromeda Strain, Thx-1138, Star Crash, Cosmos: War of the Planets, Firestarter, Soylent Green, Blue Sunshine, Altered States, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension, Brainstorm, Rush's video for "Distant Early Warning" and every cover of Omni Magazine ever.
Director Panos Cosmatos has no shortage of design influences. Beyond the Black Rainbow is set in an alternate future 1983 where up-no-good new age scientists have let their experiments with consciousness-altering drugs mutate a young woman. In addition to looking worried,...
- 4/25/2011
- UGO Movies
It is not uncommon to describe filmmakers as “true artists,” however in the case of Peter Greenaway it is literally the case that he brings an artist's sensibility to work on the big screen. Born in Newport, Wales, in 1942, Greenaway grew up in London and studied to be a painter at the city's Walthamstow College of Art. In the late 60s, Greenaway began to explore his fascination with cinema, embarking on a series of documentary short films which he continued throughout the 1970s that set out to capture the peculiarities of the world (or the world from a peculiar standpoint). He made his feature debut in 1980 with the faux-documentary The Falls, about the victims of an unspecified disaster, but first made an impact with The Draughtsman's...
- 10/19/2009
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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