Peter Greenaway’s movies look like something you should frame and hang on a wall. His visions almost take the motion out of “motion picture,” so painterly are they. He takes this approach to a new ...
A character in the new film by Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) expresses the view that the two greatest sources of pleasure in life are literature and the body. That it ...
Peter Greenaway is a film director and painter, though preferring the term 'creator of images', who is best known for his most successful and controversial film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her ...
Director Peter Greenaway’s movies (“The Pillow Book,” “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover,” to name a couple) are famous for their baroque compositions, bold nudity, themes of sex and death, ...
The latest film from acclaimed filmmaker Peter Greenaway (“The Pillow Book”) has found a home. “Eisenstein in Guanajuato,” a lush, romantic foray into 1930s Mexico, has been picked up from Films ...
Excuse me but . . . what planet is Peter Greenaway from? His provocative, obscure and recondite oeuvre makes a good deal more sense if one begins with the proposition that he is from some other sphere ...
Right off the bat, Peter Greenaway wants to make clear that he’s never really taken himself seriously as a filmmaker — although like so many of the paradoxes that comprise Greenaway’s identity, it’s ...
Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. At once more accessible than many of Peter Greenaway’s films and more problematic, The Pillow Book (1996) presents a fairly ...
Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor. In this unique, erotically charged film directed by Peter Greenaway, a writer communicates her art by covering her lover's naked body with her words.