Peter Greenaway: Film (page 2)

“The large body of the swan wedged in the shattered glass of the car windscreen fills the film frame. Its head is bent back on itself in a parody of its orthodox gracefulness.”

Peter Greenaway

A Zed and Two Noughts

Cars

“In the film The Belly of an Architect, an architect from Chicago organizes an exhibition of his favourite architect Etienne-Lous Boullée (1728-1799). I wrote an account of this hypothetical exhibition as though it had been seen by an unlikely Boullée contemporary -- Jane Austen (1775-1817). She made a prim but perceptive account of her progress through the corridors and halls of the Vittoriano in the centre of Rome -- a building constructed long after both of these eminent personages were dead.”

Peter Greenaway

Watching Water

Dead

“One [film] is based on the Medea myth about a woman who kills her own child -- The Love of Ruins. It is almost a technical exercise to see if I can convince an audience or make an audience sympathetic to a woman who kills her own child.”

Peter Greenaway

In an interview in Film Quarterly, Winter 1991-92
Interviews

Love , Exercises

“The film begins with a visual list of eight and a half Japanese Pachinko Parlours filmed in several Japanese cities -- Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto.”

Peter Greenaway

8 1/2 Women

“She picks up the baby and contemplates the Bonsai-bush, and, as we watch, in the growing half-dark, the Bonsai-bush flowers. On the black-and-white film, the thousands of flower-petals blush a deep red.”

Peter Greenaway

Conclusion of the published script.
The Pillow Book

Flowers , Baby

“ "It was only a film."”

Peter Greenaway

Michael and Georgina
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover