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The Favourite (2018)
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
influenced by The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
Themes Visuals
The Favourite often puts you in mind of Peter Greenaway's equally irreverent and raunchy The Draughtsman's Contract.
Lanthimos’ fussily composed shots and smothering aesthetic excess sometimes bring to mind the English director Peter Greenaway, whose 1982 murder mystery, The Draughtsman’s Contract , also took place in a world of merciless aristocrats and severely trimmed hedge mazes.
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Directed by Alain Resnais
influenced The Pillow Book (1995), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Vierny made his reputation shooting the hypnotic Last Year at Marienbad and Muriel for Alain Resnais, that standard-bearer of the most experimental movement of the French New Wave.
There can be no doubt that Greenaway, working as usual with veteran cinematographer Sacha Vierny (who shot both "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "Last Year at Marienbad" for Alain Resnais), is an exceptional visual stylist with an aesthetic that prides itself on being self-consciously artistic.
Among his few acknowledged influences are avant-garde precisionist Hollis Frampton and French New Wave puzzlemaker Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad), whose brilliant cinematographer, Sacha Vierny, he has adopted as his own.
Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book was in a similar vein.
What immediately came to mind was a similar scene of unbridled hedonism in the beginning of Peter Greenaway’s 1991 tome, “Prospero’s Books.”
Phantom Thread (2017)
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
influenced by Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Visuals
Not since Peter Greenaway’s Drowning by Numbers (1988) has a camera filmed vases of flowers with such exquisite, painterly precision.
Only Peter Greenaway ("A Zed and Two Noughts," "Drowning by Numbers," "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover") comes to mind as a director who creates such precisely crafted and emotionally cool works.
Fresh (2022)
Directed by Mimi Cave
influenced by The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Visuals
Gnawing, slurping and chewing have not been this horrifying since Michael Gambon ate a bookshop opener in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover .
The Bride! (2026)
Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal
influenced by The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Visuals
This scene thrusts us into granular colour, a not-quite-real world akin to Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.
This writing on the body parts reminded me of the Peter Greenway film about calligraphy, "The Pillow Book."
Blue Velvet (1986)
Directed by David Lynch
influenced The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Themes
An artist like David Lynch, director of "Blue Velvet," violates taboos, but not simply for shock effect.
Brazil (1985)
Directed by Terry Gilliam
influenced The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Visuals
With a dungeon-like kitchen that looks like it was snatched out of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, this is a fantastically bizarre place to eat dinner.
Or, more to the point, it's The Pillow Book as produced by Merchant Ivory.