In these twenty-one interviews, filmmaker Peter Greenaway expresses
his film aesthetic and discusses his combat with the dominant
Hollywood style of filmmaking. His films have run unmistakably
against the main current of present cinematic practice, from the
short film Windows in the mid-seventies, to his more popular but
nonetheless challenging films such as A Zed and Two Noughts and The
Pillow Book in the nineties.
In this collection the ever-controversial Greenaway discusses
his philosophies of film, art, aesthetics, literature, and reality,
criticizing and even condemning the standard fare of what he calls
Hollywood cinema. For him such films tell stories or they translate
literature with its linear narrative onto a medium that he feels
should be preeminently visual. He finds that, instead of
foregrounding the image and the composition of visual elements as
in the long history of painting, Hollywood-style directors seem
mesmerized by the "and then and then" narrative.
In these provocative interviews Greenaway tells of his ambition
to make cinema a medium based more on image than on narrative. He
explains his painterly approach in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife,
and Her Lover, defends his use of total nudity of both sexes, and
declares that traditional literary-based cinema is dead. He
believes that the most creative imaginations, the most innovative
technologies, and the greatest financial resources are being
devoted to television and the Internet and that Hollywood
moviemaking is no longer in the vanguard.
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