Peter Greenaway on his filmmaking style & career | A Life In Pictures
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Peter Greenaway CBE, one of Britain’s most ambitious and controversial directors, looks back on his a filmmaking career spanning 50 years, musing on the essence of cinema, the notion of realism and “the enslavement of narrative.”
After initially training as a painter, Greenaway began making his own films in 1966 with his first short Death of Sentiment, before making films including: The Draughtsman’s Contract, A Zed & Two Noughts, Drowning by Numbers, the controversial but critically acclaimed, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, starring Helen Mirren, and his latest film Eisenstein in Guanajuato. He received a BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in 2014.
Greenaway’s other credits include art installations & exhibitions, documentaries and mockumentaries, opera and music theatre performances, and various television projects including 1990’s A TV Dante.
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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. A true masterpiece.
'itla lahved shellfish
Check out The Draughtsman's Contract which is another one of his films that is good.
I’ve really liked a number of his films and will always remember the others.
Mr Greenaway: Re abstract films being boring: Harry Smith's films are not boring; Oskar Fischinger's films are not boring; Stan Brakhage's hand painted films are not boring. I could go on. You can't just sweep these works under the carpet with a glib remark.
I had to read a lecture from him for my study and now I'm depressed
Which lecture was that?
Overweldigende filmbeelden bij Rosa, a horse drama en bij Vermeer. De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. Speeches van Peter tijdens het werkproces aan beide producties. Dear memories.
Greenaway's rejection of "the word" claiming images come first does not take into account the evolutionary neurobiology of attention. Images only "exist" as "images" because we "recognize" them as such. While Greenaway knows much about imagistic artistry, he fails to acknowledge the cognitive frameworks that make images relevant. The logos, or objective reality, is what the Genesis account of "the Word" is describing (not language).
Jordan Peterson is eating animal crackers she decrying Marxism.
Una leyenda viva.
30:00 A TV Dante
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Isn´t this the most pretentious would-be artist that ever lived? I spent years looking for a deeper meaning but at last I realized it is plain empty and boring.
this guy is incredible to listen to. very erudite but also, very precise and creative.
Peter Greenaway has left us with a handful of films that will live as long as there is film... DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT + COOK, THIEF, WIFE AND HER LOVER + TV DANTE + PROSPERO'S BOOKS + REMBRANDT'S J'ACCUSE.
So intelligent, so clear, so interesting.
The Pillow Book is one of my favorite movies. It's still thirty years ahead of its time in its visual-forms.
The seventh art is not dead. It's a fairly young art form. Theater has been around for millennia and we still have it. Just because it's changing doesn't mean it's dead.
WoW! Listening tohis rapid-fire intricate but direct concise explications is as exciting as his films. i got the feeling he uses this style to get the money or sell to the producers fellini too was good at this and if you watch Orson Welles is also a great salesman he talks to his interviewers like he is unfolding great secrets here Greenaway expkains it all for you.Greenaway primes the Essence:" Inow think and see he too is a genius! The future of film is eachof us sharing bits and pieces of life then commenting on it sharing it with friends and family. So yes -already film as masse event has practically in its death throes . We still want a simulacrum of life so audio-visuals will continue and porn allows us to get close tothe dreams we cnt have in our waking hours and remember so movies willnever leave just morph as Roman theaterand circuses of death and glory became the church became opera became melodrama became entertainment bits we share now !I didn't know he made 12 films with Sascha Vierney .I've only seenZed,Cook,Pillowbook. Every sentence he utters .History is a word-idea. "There is no history .There is only historians " Editing . Codes of visual information . Formalization vs. genre,performance ,text,scenario,mise-en-scene,etc. Iknew when I saw Zed and 2 Noughts this man 's integrity would never allow him to settle or sellout . He always surprisesby taking genres and never compromising ...Drowning by Numbers and Draughtfman's Contract I must find ! What a mind, what a project, being doubtful of narrative in cinema."the story is not that important ...it all hangs upon sequence ,space affects us...(he saying the tactile is more important than story and "the enslavement of story " WOW! hE LOVES RESNAIS of course that was one of the beginning deconstructionist of narrative ! Vermillion and Crimson . 8 women and The Falls .i've missed somany films in the last 10 years. All eating is cannabalism .Lets be honest and that is why therestaurant is red in Cook ! Greenaway on Gielgud . I'mmesmerized. Derek Jarman's The Tempes I dont get but I must see Greenway's ! TheBabyof Macron? What a master !
His speech is like his movies.
Just like a Greenaway.
interesting movie maker
great man!
For someone who espouses image, he is very verbal.
That is true, but he says screenwriters should be shot. Without a script, no director would know where to begin. BTW, have you ever seen "The Color Of Pomegranites"? It is on you tube. Mindblowing. But back to Prospero's Books: so much nudity. What was the purpose in that? Psychological transparency or a box office draw? Hee hee heee.
Were you expecting him to paint his answers? ; )
Amardeep Singh Prospero’s Books I think was meant partially to be a series of moving Italian Renaissance/baroque paintings mashed up with Shakespeare and an opportunity for Gielgud’s favorite role.
He is being interviewed....
@@stevenbenedict4424 Lol
Listening to people get worked up over a screenplay plot is so funny. The best films are about characters and images.
A massive handlebar moustache would look perfect on Greenaway. It would fit his ebullient personality.
I agree with him. We need image-based films, but preferably devoid of the pretentious witterings that Greenaway writes for his so-called characters. And if Greenaway can say that all directors need to go to written sources for inspiration, he’s clearly forgotten David Lynch, and that he once said Eraserhead was one of his favourite films.