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Richard Curson Smith
Richard Curson Smith is a British television director and producer. He has BAFTA, Emmy, RTS, Grierson, Real Screen, Broadcast, CSA and Prix Italia awards and nominations. He heads his own production company, Absinthe Film Entertainment and is married to the British television producer and author Franny Moyle and has three children. Filmography * ''Urban Myths - Orson Welles In Norwich'' 2020. * ''The Importance of Being Oscar'' 2019. * ''Joe Orton Laid Bare'' 2017. * ''Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence'' 2017. Nominee BAFTA Scotland Award * ''Justice for MLK: The Hunt for James Earl Ray'' 2017. Nominee Canadian Screen Award * ''Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death'' 2016. Nominee BAFTA Scotland Award, Winner Celtic Media Award. Grierson nominee. * ''THE SON OF SAM'' 2017. * ''RUDOLF NUREYEV: DANCE TO FREEDOM'' 2015. Nominee specialist factual BAFTA. Winner Dance Screen Best Film. Special mention Prix Italia. * ''END OF THE DREAM'' 2015. Nominee Canadian Screen Award: Best Bio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franny Moyle
Franny Moyle (born 1964) is a British television producer and author. Her first book ''Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites'' (2009) was adapted into the BBC drama serial ''Desperate Romantics'' by screenwriter Peter Bowker. Her second book, ''Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde'' was published in 2011 to critical acclaim. In 2016 she released ''Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner'', published by Viking. In 2021, her book, ''The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein'', was published by Abrams Press in New York. Career Moyle is a graduate in English and the History of Art from St John's College, Cambridge. She joined BBC television in 1992 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Myths
''Urban Myths'' is a British biographical comedy drama television series first aired on 19 January 2017 on the Sky Arts. Each episode featured a story surrounding popular culture which may or may not be true, ranging from Muhammad Ali talking a man down from a ledge to Bob Dylan turning up on a stranger's doorstep in London. A second series was announced featuring The Sex Pistols and Salvador Dalí, which began airing on 12 April 2018. The series was most notable for a controversy surrounding the casting of Joseph Fiennes in the role of Michael Jackson, an episode that was pulled from transmission. Episodes Series 1 (2017) Series 2 (2018) Series 3 (2019) Series 4 (2020) Reception Although stories surrounding the pulled episode overshadowed the rest of the series, the aired episodes attracted a positive response. In particular the opening episode, featuring Eddie Marsan as Bob Dylan, was described in approving newspaper reviews as "charming and hilarious", "short, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Making Of A Lady
''The Making of a Lady'' is a television film based on the 1901 novel ''The Making of a Marchioness'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett that uses a screenplay adaptation by Kate Brooke. The film premiered in 2012 on ITV in Britain and was subsequently broadcast on PBS in the United States in 2014. Directed by Richard Curson Smith, the film stars Lydia Wilson as Emily, Linus Roache as Lord James Walderhurst, Joanna Lumley as Lady Maria Byrne, and James D'Arcy James D'Arcy (born Simon Richard D'Arcy; 24 August 1975) is an English actor and film director. He is known for his portrayals of Howard Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series '' Agent Carter'' and the ... as Captain Alec Osborn. References External links * 2012 television films 2012 films Films based on American novels Films based on British novels Films based on works by Frances Hodgson Burnett {{UK-tv-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wire In The Blood
''Wire in the Blood'' is a British crime drama television series, created and produced by Coastal Productions for Tyne Tees Television and broadcast on ITV from 14 November 2002 to 31 October 2008. The series is based on characters created by Val McDermid, including a university clinical psychologist, Dr Anthony "Tony" Valentine Hill (Robson Green), who is able to tap into his own dark side to get inside the heads of serial killers. Working with detectives, Hill takes on tough and seemingly impenetrable cases in an attempt to track down the killers before they strike again. ITV cancelled the series in 2009, citing high production costs (which were estimated at up to £750,000 per episode) and the large number of new series being broadcast on the network. Plot The series is set in the fictional town of Bradfield, which is assumed to lie within West Yorkshire. It follows the Major Incident Team (MIT) of Bradfield Metropolitan Police's CID and the assistance provided to the detec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consenting Adults (2007 Film)
''Consenting Adults'' is a 2007 BBC Four television film which portrays the events of the Wolfenden Committee, chaired by Sir John Wolfenden. The film is set in the 1950s and depicts social attitudes towards homosexuality in Britain at that time, while also focusing on Wolfenden and his homosexual son Jeremy Wolfenden Jeremy John Le Mesurier Wolfenden (26 June 1934, England – 28 December 1965) was a foreign correspondent and British spy at the height of the Cold War. Biography The son of John Wolfenden, chairman of the Wolfenden Report which recommended t .... The Committee first met on 15 September 1954 and published its report on 4 September 1957, recommending that "homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should no longer be a criminal offence". The report led to the passage of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexuality in England and Wales. The film was commissioned as part of a season of programming marking the 40t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinochet In Suburbia
''Pinochet in Suburbia'' (retitled ''Pinochet's Last Stand'' for US release) is a 2006 drama about former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and the attempts to extradite him from Great Britain during his visit there in 1998 for medical treatment. It was written and directed by Richard Curson Smith. Pinochet was played by Derek Jacobi, Margaret Thatcher by Anna Massey and Pinochet's wife Lucía by Phyllida Law, with the cast also including Peter Capaldi, Pip Torrens and Jessica Hynes. It premiered in March 2006 on BBC Two BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream an ... and in September 2007 in the US. References External links * {{Margaret Thatcher Films about Margaret Thatcher 2006 television specials BBC television dramas Augusto Pinochet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Life In Pictures
''Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures'' is a 2001 documentary about the life and work of Stanley Kubrick, famed film director, made by his long-time assistant and brother-in-law Jan Harlan. Summary With its running time of 142 minutes long, it consists of several 15-minute chapters, each detailing the making of one of his films – and two more showing his childhood and life. Jan Harlan got many of Kubrick's collaborators for interviews, including Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Keir Dullea, Arthur C. Clarke, Malcolm McDowell, Peter Ustinov, Jack Nicholson, György Ligeti and Matthew Modine. It also has interviews from film directors who were inspired by Kubrick such as Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Sydney Pollack. The film contains some rare footage, including from the Kubrick family home videos and on film sets, and clips from ''Fear and Desire'' - Kubrick's first feature-length film. Release It was released on DVD on October 23, 2007, and was featured on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home (2003 Film)
''Home'' is a paranoid, darkly comic, hour-long television film made by the BBC and directed by Richard Curson Smith. He adapted it from a short story by J. G. Ballard in 2003. The plot follows a middle class man who chooses to abandon the outside world and restrict himself to not leaving his house, becoming a hermit. He soon starts to destroy his furniture to rid his life of clutter. The viewer follows his plight through both his video diary (in which he addresses the viewer) and through traditional film cameras. All he has is the food in his cupboard, and once the bills run out will have no gas or electricity - his mind soon becomes fevered. As he runs out of food he begins to consume shampoo, plants from his garden, his neighbours' cats (which he catches with a home-made trap) and anything else which crosses his path. In his increasing fear of the outside world he kills a man who comes to reclaim the television who insists upon entering, but refuses to hand over a cable which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNN Millennium
CNN Millennium was a 10-part series on human history from the 11th to the 20th centuries.{{Cite news, url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/10/09/a-journey-of-athousand-years/339a340a-f748-4f8b-8752-83c12b95d679/, title=A Journey Of aThousand Years, last=Shales, first=Tom, date=1999-10-09, work=Washington Post, access-date=2018-08-24, language=en-US, issn=0190-8286 The Millennium series should not be confused with the CNN Millennium 2000 DVD, which documented the celebrations around the world for the arrival of the year 2000. CNN Millennium originally aired between October 24, 1999, and December 26, 1999, at 10 p.m. on Sundays. Sir Jeremy Isaacs, filmmaker of "The World at War" and CNN's ''Cold War'', and Pat Mitchell, president of CNN Productions and Time Inc. Television, served as executive producers. The CNN website elaborates: Each of the 10 episodes of MILLENNIUM focuses on a single century, brought to life by five vignettes from five different locations wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside Victor Lewis-Smith
''Inside Victor Lewis-Smith'' is a British comedy sketch/sitcom series that ran on BBC2 from November to December 1993. It was co-written and presented by comedian and writer Victor Lewis-Smith. It ran for six episodes. Premise The series was set in the Frank Bough Memorial Zip Injury Wing at St. Reith's Hospital for Distressed Broadcasters, a BBC-owned hospital. One of its residents is an apparent caricature of Lewis-Smith, who lies immobilised in a "comic coma" after a motorcycle crash. In an attempt to stimulate his brain, the hospital staff play old BBC programmes to him via a TV monitor plugged into his life support machine - but for some unexplained reason, he also starts playing the programmes back, albeit with his warped sense of humour. This effectively makes him a one-man transmitter, which the BBC plan to use as an economical replacement for their current staff and equipment. Meanwhile, inside Lewis-Smith's body, Lewis-Smith himself embarks on a guided tour of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Producers
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English Documentary Filmmakers
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national identity, an identity and common culture ** English language in England, a variant of the English language spoken in England * English languages (other) * English studies, the study of English language and literature * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity Individuals * English (surname), a list of notable people with the surname ''English'' * People with the given name ** English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer ** English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach ** English Gardner (b. 1992), American track and field sprinter Places United States * English, Indiana, a town * English, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * English, Brazoria County, Texas, an unincorporated community * Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |