Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales) is a British film director. He is currently professor of cinema studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Peter Greenaway's family left South Wales when he was three years old (they had moved there to begin with to avoid the Blitz) and settled in Essex, England. He attended Forest School in North-East London. At an early age Greenaway decided on becomi...
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Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales) is a British film director. He is currently professor of cinema studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Peter Greenaway's family left South Wales when he was three years old (they had moved there to begin with to avoid the Blitz) and settled in Essex, England. He attended Forest School in North-East London. At an early age Greenaway decided on becoming a painter. He became interested in European cinema, focusing first on the films of Bergman, and then on the French nouvelle vague film-makers such as Godard, and most especially, Resnais.
In 1962 Greenaway began studies at Walthamstow College of Art, where a fellow student was musician Ian Dury (later cast in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover). Greenaway trained as a muralist for three years; he made his first film, Death of Sentiment, a churchyard furniture essay filmed in four large London cemeteries. In 1965, he joined the...
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