Career
Following Marley"s death, Marley"s family asked Greenberg to make a film about Marley. In 1981, Greenberg filmed Land of Look Behind (1982), a documentary film that includes footage of Marley"s funeral as well as scenes filmed in Jamaica"s remote Cockpit Country and the capital city of Kingston. Greenberg worked closely with Werner Herzog on many projects.
He served as a special unit photographer on the films Cape Fear" by Martin Scorsese (1991) and 1900, by Bernardo Bertolucci (1976).
He also wrote twenty screenplays and three books His book Heart of Glass, about the making of the 1976 Werner Herzog masterwork of the same name, was called "The best book on the making of a film ever written" by Rolling Stone magazine.
A new and entirely revised edition of the book, entitled, "EVERY NIGHT THE TREES DISAPPEAR: Werner Herzog and the Making of "Heart of Glass"" was published in hard cover by the Chicago Review Press. lieutenant featured Greenberg"s previously-unpublished photographs, which Herzog called "strange and beautiful." In 2012 Greenberg was going to write and produce a film based on his acclaimed screenplay "Love in Vain", a poetic account of the mysterious blues genius Robert Johnson.
"Love in Vain" was also the first screenplay ever published by a major house (Doubleday) as literature.
Greenberg"s latest screenplay, "Tutankhamun - Lord of Two Lands", a radically researched vision of the Boy King"s murder intertwined with the intrigue surrounding his tomb"s discovery in 1922, was to have been produced in 2013.