Brian Cox

  • Lindsay Anderson – In Celebration (1975)

    Lindsay Anderson1971-1980DramaUnited Kingdom

    from allmovie:
    One of the more cinematic entries in the mid-1970s American Film Theatre series, In Celebration is adapted from the play by David Storey. Lindsay Anderson, who directed the original stage version, reassembles his cast for this filmization. Alan Bates, James Bolam and Brian Cox play Andrew, Colin and Steven, the well-educated sons of roughhewn coal miner “Mr. Shaw” (Bill Owen) and his wife (Constance Chapman). On the occasion of their parents’ wedding anniversary, the three sons return to their dank little home village. All three boys have become successful, but only Bolam is comfortable with his success. To his parents’ dismay, Andrew announces that he has given up his law practice to become an artist; he also confesses to harboring homosexual inclinations. Prompted by the embittered Andrew, the other sons churn up memories of their childhood that they–and their parents–had hoped to keep buried. — Hal EricksonRead More »

  • Ken Loach – Hidden Agenda (1990)

    1981-1990DramaKen LoachPoliticsUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man’s girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth… which they soon discover to be contained in an audio tape which the man had with him, exposing political manipulations at the highest levels of government. But such underlying agendas require careful considerations to avoid worse things than murder.Read More »

  • Michal Leszczylowski – Regi Andrej Tarkovskij aka Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1988)

    1981-1990DocumentaryMichal LeszczylowskiPhilosophySweden

    Plot Summary :
    During the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky’s last film Offret, cameraman Arne Carlsson taped around 50 hours of behind the scenes footage. Editor Michal Leszczylowski took the material and added scenes of previous interviews and interesting statements from the script of Offret and from Tarkovsky’s book ‘Sculpting in Time’. The result is a documentary that shows the way Tarkovksy worked: carefully building each scene. Shows why he did the things he did: his vision on film. And shows the emotion of the man Tarkovsky: his great disappointment when the camera breaks while shooting the house going up in flames.Read More »

  • Eugene Jarecki – The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)

    2001-2010DocumentaryEugene JareckiPoliticsUSA

    Is the American diplomat and Nobel Laureate Henry Kissinger a war criminal? This documentary is based on the book The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens. The script is by Alex Gibney.Read More »

  • Michael Cuesta – L.I.E. [+Extras] (2001)

    2001-2010DramaMichael CuestaQueer Cinema(s)USA

    What could have been just another of the countless coming-of-age tracts churned out on the indie-sector conveyor belt each year becomes a deeply nuanced drama full of original angles in Michael Cuesta’s accomplished feature bow, “L.I.E.”

    SYNOPSIS
    Central character, adolescent Howie (Paul Franklin Dano), is introduced precariously balancing on the expressway overpass, his voiceover recalling the number of lives claimed on the road, from celebrities like Harry Chapin and Alan J. Pakula to his mother years earlier. He barely communicates with his building contractor father, Marty (Bruce Altman), who’s preoccupied with sleeping with his girlfriend and his mounting legal problems over a fire probe into the use of unsafe materials.Read More »

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