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A one-man cinema vanguard and world-class VJ, the British media artist Peter Greenaway is also an unusual personality—at once self-righteous moralizer and sadistic scamp who suggests an unholy combination of Ken Loach's pedantry and Alfred Hitchcock's tricksiness. Having relocated to Amster...
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Peter Greenaway’s new film, Rembrandt’s J’accuse, opening today at the Film Forum, is one of the most striking films the legendary director has ever made: A pseudo-documentary journey through Rembrandt’s masterpiece, "The Night Watch," in which Greenaway argues that the Dutch painter was using his canvas to solve a murder, it mixes the playful nature and bravura editing of the director’s earlier films with his recent obsession with reimagining...
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From nymag.com
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AMSTERDAM.- 'J'Accuse' is an essayistic documentary in
which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued
by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's "Nightwatch".
Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder
and the motives of all its 34 painted characters who have conspired to
kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads us through...
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From artknowledgenews.com
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It is not uncommon to describe filmmakers as “true artists,” however in the case of Peter Greenaway it is literally the case that he brings an artist's sensibility to work on the big screen. Born in Newport, Wales, in 1942, Greenaway grew up in London and studied to be a painter at the city's Walthamstow College of Art. In the late 60s, Greenaway began to explore his fascination with cinema, embarking on a series of documentary short films...
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From filmmakermagazine.com
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Peter Greenaway, the British director who was educated as a painter, first came to wide attention in 1982 with The Draughtsman’s Contract, a silky comedy about seventeenth-century aristocrats. Greenaway then promptly set out not to build on this success, undertaking one eccentric film project after another. It was almost as if he were determined not to grow cumulatively, as most of...
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From tnr.com
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Leonardo's Last Supper, Peter Greenaway's multimedia installation art, captures Melbourne in a stunning dialogue that merges cinema and painting seamlessly.Contributor: Kevin RenniePublished: Nov 02, 2009
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From associatedcontent.com
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With his didacticism knob dialed way up, Peter Greenaway analyzes Rembrandt’s painting “The Night Watch” in this formidable documentary-cum-seminar. Greenaway’s mastery of his subject matter and medium are impressive but there’s a certain dourness to the learned virtuosity displayed. The Welsh polymath, who has called Amsterdam home for over a decade, serves as a garrulous on-screen guide, always eager to reference his fixation with our...
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