Peter Greenaway
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Peter Greenaway - The Early Works
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
- Water Wrackets (1978), Dear Phone (1976) and A Walk through H (1978). Three shorts from the celebrated director demonstrate his distinctive style.
- Falls, The (1980)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Peter Westley, Aad Wirtz, Michael Murray
- One of dir. Greenaway's more trenchantly avant–garde works (think 'A Walk Though H' crossed with DROWNING BY NUMBERS), expanding his riddling…
- Draughtsman's Contract, The (1982)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman
- A 17th Century painter is commissioned to draw the estate of a rich mistress, who in return endows him with certain liberties. A bizarre and…
- Zed and Two Noughts, A (1985)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Andrea Ferreol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon…
- Enigmatic visual essay centres around a pair of identical twin zoologists and a paraplegic Spanish seductress! A difficult but rewarding film…
- Belly of an Architect, The (1987)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Sergio Fantoni
- Brian Dennehy excels as an American architect who faces a mid–life crisis while setting up his exhibition in Rome. Oblique yet trenchant and of…
- Drowning by Numbers (1987)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson
- Blackly comic tale of three women who each drown their husbands. Peppered with references to game–playing, you can take part by counting to…
- Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, The (1989)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Helen Mirren, Tim Roth, Michael Gambon
- Greenaway combines the best elements of his previous work into one illustrious concoction of charcoal humour, explicit violence, awe–inspiring…
- A TV Dante (The Inferno Cantos I - VIII) (1989)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. John Gielgud, Bob Peck, Joanne Whalley
- Striking recitation by Gielgud and company of the first eight cantos. Greenaway superimposes some truly potent images over a series of talking heads.…
- Prospero's Books (1991)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. John Gielgud
- A radically stylised take on Shakespeare's The Tempest, with John Gielgud in the title role upstaged by the graphic opulence on display. Like a good…
- Not Mozart (M is for Man, Music and Mozart; Letter, Riddles and Writs) (1991)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway, Pat Gavin, Jeremy Newson
- Two experimental television dramas commissioned to celebrate the Mozart Bicentennial.