Eileen Diss

Nacimiento : 1931-05-13, Hackney, London, England, UK

Películas

Celebration
Production Design
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an adjacent table a banker and his wife banter over his recently discovered affair. But while Pinter gets a lot of laughs out of these gold-plated philistines, he also suggests they are displaced people. Shorn of any inherited values, they live in an eternal present of sex, food and conspicuous consumption. - Michael Billington, Guardian
Longitude
Production Design
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Landscape
Production Design
A middle aged couple, housekeeper and chauffeur sit in the huge bare kitchen of a country house pursuing their own thoughts aloud in a ghastly semblance of conversation. Doollee.com
Un puñado de polvo
Production Design
Tras siete años de matrimonio, Brenda, hastiada de su vida en la mansión Hetton, que es el orgullo y la alegría de su marido, entabla relación con un solicitado joven londinense. Lo que empezó siendo una simple vía de escape, está a punto de derrumbar los pilares de su tradicional modo de vida. Adaptación de "A Handful of Dust", de Evelyn Waugh, un retrato de la alta sociedad inglesa del periodo de entreguerras que muestra el carácter artificioso y frío de unas relaciones sociales no exentas de cinismo y crueldad.
Sherlock Holmes: El signo de los cuatro
Art Direction
Cada año, desde que murió su padre, la señorita Moran ha recibido una extraña perla. Cuando es invitada a conocer a su benefactor, pide consejo a Sherlock Holmes. El misterio se complica extraordinariamente y termina con una emocionante persecución por los canales de Londres en busca de un tesoro indio de valor incalculable. (FILMAFFINITY)
Betrayal
Production Design
Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the husband's point of view, with the scenes in precise reverse chronological order. Written by Dan Hartung
Ghosts
Art Direction
Adaptation of Ibsen’s play. Mrs Alving’s son is ill - but what with?
Trouble in Tahiti
Production Design
Leonard Bernstein's 1952 opera is a biting satire on the emptiness of materialist values and the false promise of suburban comforts. This production, conducted by the composer himself, presents a live-action cast performing on an animated set. Inspired by jazz and American musical comedy, the score is a path-breaking fusion of lyric art with popular entertainment.
Chantaje contra una esposa
Art Direction
Nora Helmer, casada y con cuatro hijos pequeños, parece una mujer feliz. Aunque su marido es muy autoritario y dominante, el carácter alegre y algo frívolo de Nora hace soportable la situación. Pero, años atrás, Nora, sin conocimiento de su marido, contrajo una deuda que intenta liquidar sustrayendo pequeñas sumas al presupuesto familiar. Sin embargo, como su marido es muy estricto en el control de los gastos, ha ido retrasando los pagos, ha pedido incluso dinero a algunos conocidos, pero llega un momento en el que su situación es desesperada.
An Afternoon at the Festival
Art Direction
Ahead of a screening of his latest film a director converses with a prostitute, whilst his female star and estranged wife talks to a writer, his brother. Intercut are scenes from the film, and the making of it.
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Art Designer
Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its audiences. Mrs. Warren has graduated from prostitution to opening and operating a chain of brothels throughout Europe. When her educated daughter Vivie discovers the truth about her mother's profession her reactions affect everyone around her.
Robin Redbreast
Production Design
After the break-up of a long-term relationship, urban sophisticate Norah seeks refuge in a remote house in the country. The locals are friendly, if eccentric, and she toys with the idea of a flirtation with dishy young gamekeeper Rob. But events at Harvest Festival leave her feeling manipulated, and six months later, with the consequences all too evident, she finds herself trapped in what is more like a nightmare. What role is she destined to play in the cycle of the seasons -- and of the generations?
Up the Junction
Production Design
The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.
The Siege of Manchester
Production Design
A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
A Tap on the Shoulder
Production Design
Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?