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Saul Dibb
Saul Dibb (born 18 August 1968) is an English director and screenwriter. His father is the documentary maker Mike Dibb. Born in London, England, Saul Dibb is a graduate of the University of East Anglia. He is best known for co-writing and directing ''Bullet Boy'', for which he was nominated for the Douglas Hickox Award, ''The Line of Beauty'', and '' The Duchess'', which won the Academy Award for Best Costume in 2009. In 2016, he directed the adaptation for BBC2 of Zadie Smith's bestselling novel '' NW'' into a 90-minute television film of the same name, starring Nikki Amuka-Bird and Phoebe Fox. Dibb directed a film adaptation of R. C. Sherriff's 1928 play ''Journey's End'', which was released in 2017. This has been dubbed "The best ever film about the Great War" by ''The Times''. Filmography ;Film *''Bullet Boy'' (2004) *'' The Duchess'' (2008) *'' Suite Française'' (2015) *''Journey's End'' (2017) ;Television *''The Line of Beauty'' (2006) – 3 episodes *'' NW'' (BBC2, 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Dibb
Mike Dibb (born Wharfedale, Bradford, West Yorkshire, 29 April 1940) is an English documentary filmmaker. In almost half a century of making films mainly for television – on subjects including cinema, literature, art, jazz, sport and popular culture – "he has defined and re-defined not only the televisual art documentary genre but has been able to make moving image pieces as a form of self portraiture". Dibb has made many acclaimed films, including on Federico García Lorca, C. L. R. James, Astor Piazzolla, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Barbara Thompson and other notable subjects. In the words of Sukhdev Sandhu in ''The Guardian'': "In a career spanning almost five decades, it's possible Dibb has shaped more ideas and offered more ways of seeing than any other TV documentarian of his generation."Sukhdev Sandhu"Ways of Seeing opened our eyes to visual culture" ''The Guardian'', 7 September 2012. Mike Dibb is the father of film director Saul Dibb. Career After graduating from T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journey's End (2017 Film)
''Journey's End'' is a 2017 British war film based on the 1928 play by R. C. Sherriff. Written by Simon Reade and directed by Saul Dibb, it was screened in the " Special Presentations" section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The film is the fifth film adaptation of the play, following ''Journey's End'' (1930), '' The Other Side'' (1931), '' Aces High'' (1976), and ''Journey's End'' (1988 BBC TV film). Plot Young Second Lieutenant Raleigh is sent to the front lines of the war, the trenches in Northern France. He requests of General Raleigh, his uncle, that he be under the command of Captain Stanhope of C Company, a man who was a few years his senior at school who used to holiday with Raleigh and his sister Margaret. Although an outstanding leader, who won the Military Cross at the Battle of Vimy Ridge, Stanhope has taken to heavy drinking to numb himself to the horrors of war. Other company officers include the kindly second-in-command, Lieutenant Osborne, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Film Directors
This is a list of film directors and television directors who were born in the United Kingdom, or lived and/or worked in the UK for a significant part of their career. Some Irish, American and European directors who have spent large portions of their career working in the UK are included on this list. A * Babar Ahmed * Lewis Allen *Lindsay Anderson * Michael Anderson *Michael Apted * Andrea Arnold *Amma Asante *Anthony Asquith * Richard Attenborough * Paul WS Anderson * Jane Arden * Michael Armstrong *Richard Ayoade B *Roy Ward Baker * Leedham Bantock *Geoffrey Barkas *Sacha Bennett * Daniel Birt *Terry Bishop *Farren Blackburn *Keith Boak * John Boorman *John Boulting *Danny Boyle *Kenneth Branagh *Alan Bridges *Adrian Brunel *Paul Bryers *Clio Barnard * Jack Bond *Peter Brook C *Danny Cannon * Ben Caron *Henry Cass *Peter Cattaneo * Charlie Chaplin * Alan Clarke * Noel Clarke *Jack Clayton *Alex Cox *Charles Crichton *Richard Curtis *Alex Chandon * Elaine Constantine *Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of The University Of East Anglia
This List of University of East Anglia alumni includes graduates and non-graduate former students of the University of East Anglia. The list includes one current monarch and former Prime Minister, two de facto heads of state, one Vice President, one Deputy Prime Minister, and two former Leaders of the House of Lords. The list also includes two Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine, one President of the Royal Society, two Lasker Award winners, and a further 11 Fellows of the Royal Society. Literary alumni include one Nobel laureate in Literature, three Booker Prize winners, 11 Costa Book Award (formerly Whitbread Award) winners, and three Caine Prize winners. Politics and government Heads of state and government United Kingdom Europe Middle East Asia Oceania Americas Africa Diplomats Science and academia Science and public health ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1968 Births
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being elected leader of the Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on April 8. ** 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash: A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Salisbury Poisonings
''The Salisbury Poisonings'' is a fact-based television drama, starring Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall and Annabel Scholey which portrays the 2018 Novichok poisonings and decontamination crisis in Salisbury, England, and the subsequent Amesbury poisonings. The series was broadcast in three parts on BBC One in June 2020, and has been shown in four parts elsewhere. It was created by Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn for Dancing Ledge Productions. Synopsis On 4 March 2018, emergency services receive a call to attend to Sergei and Yulia Skripal who have been found unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury city centre. Medical practitioners are initially puzzled by their illness, and police and the local public health department become involved. A national emergency is precipitated when it is learned that Skripal is a former Russian military intelligence officer who acted as a double agent for the UK's intelligence services during the 1990s and early 2000s. It emerges that he and his d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin Murders
''Dublin Murders'' is a crime drama television series created by Sarah Phelps. It is based on the ''Dublin Murder Squad'' books by Tana French, commissioned by the BBC for BBC One and Starz, with RTÉ later joining the project. The first series, consisting of eight episodes, is adapted from ''In the Woods'' (2007) and '' The Likeness'' (2008). Broadcast began on BBC One on 14 October 2019, on RTÉ One on 16 October 2019, and on Starz on 10 November 2019. The series ended in the UK with episode 8, broadcast on 5 November 2019, watched by 4.58 million UK viewers. In January 2020 it was reported that Starz is in talks for a second series. Cast Main * Killian Scott as Rob Reilly * Sarah Greene as Cassie Maddox * Michael D'Arcy as Adam Reilly * Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Frank Mackey * Eugene O'Hare as (Det.) Quigley * Moe Dunford as Sam O'Neill * Ellie O'Halloran as Jamie Rowan * Niall Jordan as Peter Savage * Ian Kenny as (Gda.) Phelan Recurring * Conleth Hill as (Superintendent) O'Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suite Française (film)
''Suite Française'' is a 2015 war romantic drama film directed by Saul Dibb and co-written with Matt Charman. It is based on the second part of Irène Némirovsky's 2004 novel of the same name. The film stars Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sam Riley, Ruth Wilson, Lambert Wilson and Margot Robbie. It concerns a romance between a French villager and a German soldier during the early years of the German occupation of France. ''Suite Française'' was filmed on location in France and Belgium. It was released theatrically in the UK on 13 March 2015 and premiered in the US through Lifetime cable network on 22 May 2017. The film was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition. Plot In German-occupied France, Lucile Angellier ( Michelle Williams) and her domineering mother-in-law Madame Angellier ( Kristin Scott Thomas) await news of her husband Gaston, who was serving in the French Army. While visiting tenants, Lucile and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as ''The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journey's End
''Journey's End'' is a 1928 dramatic play by English playwright R. C. Sherriff, set in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, towards the end of the First World War. The story plays out in the officers' dugout of a British Army infantry company from 18 March 1918 to 21 March 1918, providing a glimpse of the officers' lives in the last few days before Operation Michael. The play was first performed at the Apollo Theatre in London by the Incorporated Stage Society on 9 December 1928, starring a young Laurence Olivier, and soon moved to other West End theatres for a two-year run. It was included in Burns Mantle's ''The Best Plays of 1928–1929''. The piece quickly became internationally popular, with numerous productions and tours in English and other languages. A 1930 film version was followed by other adaptations, and the play set a high standard for other works dealing with similar themes, and influenced playwrights including Noël Coward. It was Sherriff's seventh play. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
