Alan Benson

Movies

The Making of Sgt. Pepper
Director
This was an official documentary shown on television featuring George Martin taking us through the album tracks and Paul, George and Ringo giving us their memories of the sessions. The Making Of Sgt. Pepper was transmitted in the UK on ITV on 14th June 1992 and featured separate interviews with Paul (filmed on 9th April 1992), George (12th April) and Ringo (19th April). The show also features George Martin playing some unreleased Sgt. Pepper's recordings directly off the original studio 4-track master tapes.
Photographer Fay Godwin Documentary
Executive Producer
This film follows the renowned photographer Fay Godwin on location with her camera complete with extensive interviews and analysis. She loved the countryside in all its raw beauty rather than the sugar-coated image so often portrayed in the coffee table books of the time.
The South Bank Show: Michael Powell
Executive Producer
Documentary about British film director Michael Powell
Marguerite Duras: Worn Out with Desire . . . to Write
Director
She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others—and arguably qualifies as 20th-century France’s greatest femme de lettres. In this interview, the late novelist and filmmaker talks openly about the hardship and the romance of her childhood in French Indochina, sharing how this period haunted her life and shaped her work. Excerpts from her films and readings from her books by actress Elizabeth Rider and Duras herself—including The Lover, winner of the Prix Goncourt and translated into more than forty languages—bring to life those formative years in Vietnam.
Kathy Acker
Director
Documentary about Kathy Acker where she talks about her writing and her life in New York.
Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical
Director
Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of "Sweeney Todd", this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process with the musical's director, composer and actors.
Hockney at the Tate
Director
To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joined David Hockney for an exclusive private view of the exhibition and they were filmed discussing pictures from all stages of Hockney's remarkable career.