Bøger af Peter Greenaway

A story of love, lust and parenthood, born beneath a series of thunderstormsThis script by the acclaimed Welsh film director and screenwriter Peter Greenaway (born 1942) follows a love triangle between two men and a woman as they fall in and out of love and eventually procreate together amid a series of thunderstorms.

As a footnote to Drowning By Numbers (the film), and with his customary intelligence, humour and causticity, Peter Greenaway has undertaken to comment in 100 chapters on the story, the sub-plots, the creation and the possible continuations of his film.Drowning by Numbers is the story of three women who drown their husbands - one in a bath, one in the sea and one in a swimming pool. It is an affectionate, ironic tale of male impotency in the face of female solidarity. What is the male defence... to play games? For them, any event is a good excuse for a game. Even - and especially - death.

This book is the script for Joseph, the new film by Peter Greenaway (born 1942), an ironic portrayal of the figure of Joseph, father of Jesus. Here, God--"the other father"--becomes, in Greenaway's words, "vulnerable to jealousy ... since he has a rival on earth."

This script by British director Peter Greenaway (born 1942) follows Russian director Eisenstein to Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1930, where he worked for ten days on a never-completed film called Que Viva Mexico.

Peter Greenaway's Goltzius is the second installment in his Dutch Masters series. Its story runs thus: sometime during the winter of 1590, the Dutch printmaker Hendrik Goltzius holds an interview with Margrave of Alsace, in the grand library at his castle on the Rhine. Goltzius needs money in order to build a printing press to print erotic illustrated books, and he entices Margrave of Alsace into paying for an extraordinary book of pictures of Old Testament Biblical stories, by dramatizing the erotic stories of Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Samson and Delilah and John the Baptist and Salome--stories in which themes of incest, adultery, female entrapment and necrophilia abound. Margrave's court is completely seduced by Goltzius' titillating storytelling, and swiftly sinks into a pit of lechery and religious politics, until the court is forced to buy its way out, and Goltzius can begin his ambitious endeavor. Peter Greenaway was born in Wales in 1942. His films include The Falls, The Belly of an Architect, Drowning By Numbers, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover, Prospero's Books, The Pillow Book, Nightwatching and others.

This novel announces itself as the first in a 100-book series of histories, the start of "an encyclopedic compendium of everything in the world gathered together in one place." Author (and filmmaker) Peter Greenaway doesn't want to write them all: the idea is to set up a motley collection of academics, all with vested special interests, all determined to stave off forgetfulness and mortality, and have them substantiate the truism that "there is no such thing as history, there are only historians." Among the 99 other proposed titles are the stories of toys, games, cripples, towers, conceptions, diseases, maps, tics, red hats, adulteries, journeys to the sea, languages, names, gardens, acts of violence, pricks, griefs and ghosts. Greenaway's books include Nightwatching and Rosa, and his films include Prospero's Books, The Belly of an Architect, and The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover.

A documentary fiction from filmmaker Peter Greenaway, presenting "research" on victims of a "violent unknown event" which has afflicted millions of people with such symptoms as immortality and identification with birds.

A bizarre murder mystery by filmmaker Greenaway in which he investigates the death of a Brazilian composer who wrote music for 1950s Hollywood Westerns.

British director Peter Greenaway trained as a painter for four years and is known to be an art lover. His movies draw from Northern Renaissance and Baroque compositions and palettes, and he has also created digital video installations "remixing" famous paintings. Papers illustrates how, in between making films, Greenaway stretched his imagination with pencils, gum, gouache and acrylics. This publication brings together for the first time a key selection of his works: of interest in themselves but also bearing witness to the filmmaking process.Peter Greenaway (born 1942) began making his own movies in 1966. He has made 12 feature films and 50 short films and documentaries, and has regularly been nominated for the Cannes, Venice and Berlin Film Festivals.

In this collection of essays, various postmodern and poststructuralist aspects of Peter Greenaway's films are explored, including The Draughtman's Contract, The Belly of an Architect, A Zed and Two Noughts, and The Pillow Book. This collection of diverse essays, which includes two texts by Greenaway, two interviews with the director, and a revised filmography, explores the cultural, historical, and philosophical implications of this hybrid artist whose paintings, drawings, exhibitions, installations, and operatic productions are an intrinsic part of his work in film.

Presents a veritable film on paper through 92 plates/frames comprising solely images and drawings, colours and architectural references interspersed with 92 pages where words rule. This title condenses an urban and architectural history of more than two thousand years, suggesting a vision for the cities of tomorrow.