Jim McBride

Nacimiento : 1941-09-16, New York City, New York, USA

Historia

Jim McBride is an American television and film director, film producer and screenwriter. Richard Brody, writing for The New Yorker, named McBride as one of the twelve greatest living narrative filmmakers, citing David Holzman's Diary as a "time capsule of sights and sounds, ideas and moods, politics and history", and "one of the greatest first films." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim McBride, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Películas

Alan Jackson: Small Town Southern Man
The feature-length documentary chronicles Alan’s life from his upbringing in Georgia in the 1950s and ’60s to his Hall of Fame induction in 2017. The film is primarily narrated by Alan and includes interviews with family members, musical colleagues and country stars, including Carrie Underwood. Written, produced and directed by John Albarian, the film showcases the inspirations that led Alan to write hits such as “Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow,” “Chattahoochee,” “Here in the Real World,” “Livin’ on Love,” and “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning).”
My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law
Writer
A short documentary by Jim McBride.
My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law
Editor
A short documentary by Jim McBride.
My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law
Director
A short documentary by Jim McBride.
Welcome to São Paulo
Director
All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the largest city of the Southern Hemisphere, with an incessant dynamics of cultural mixtures, with immigrants of all the world and migrants of all parts of Brazil. The gathering of these peculiarities are seen through the 13 film directors's sensibilities and their segments.
Meat Loaf: La historia y el drama
Director
Aday "Meat Loaf" es un joven de Texas, el hijo de una mujer gentil enferma de cáncer y un padre alcohólico abusivo. Atormentado por su padre y sus compañeros de colegio por su tamaño físico, Aday, se va por su cuenta después de la muerte de su madre, en una tarea imposible de demostrar: su valía al mundo y a sí mismo. Una oportunidad en una audición para un musical lo lleva a unir fuerzas con el compositor Jim Steinman, y juntos hacen historia músical con el disco de rock ópera "Bat Out of Hell". Pero los demonios que impulsan a Meat Loaf no son mitigados por el éxito, y, finalmente, deberá luchar contra ellos.
Dead by Midnight
Director
Just when he's beginning to take his perfect life and marriage for granted, John (Timothy Hutton) discovers that he's the result of a failed government experiment to spawn a race of perfect assassins. But the closer he gets to finding out what went wrong, the weirder the truth becomes.
Birth of a Nation
Self
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Pronto
Director
Harry Arno is a Miami Beach bookie who finds himself in trouble with his mob bosses for reasons he can't quite figure out. When an assailant attempts to kill him, he decides that it's time to retire, so he relocates to Greece.
The Informant
Director
A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in prison. He executes the grisly task but ends up captured by a sympathetic British police lieutenant named Ferris (Cary Elwes). The intimidating Chief Inspector of the Belfast Police (Timothy Dalton) convinces Gingy that his best hope is to become an informant and turn in other IRA operatives. As Gingy's marriage unravels under the stress, he is forced to come to terms with the fact that in this war both sides lose. Three men, three political circles, each fighting for their lives, each with their own agenda in the battle for Northern Ireland.
La tabla de Flandes
Screenplay
Julia Darro, una joven restauradora de arte, comienza a restaurar la Tabla de Flandes, un famoso cuadro del siglo XV que muestra una partida de ajedrez inacabada. Al quitar algunas capas de pintura descubre una inscripción oculta. Intrigada, ella y una amiga solicitan permiso a Don Juan Belmonte, su dueño, para desvelar la inscripción, lo cual eleva el precio del cuadro.
La tabla de Flandes
Director
Julia Darro, una joven restauradora de arte, comienza a restaurar la Tabla de Flandes, un famoso cuadro del siglo XV que muestra una partida de ajedrez inacabada. Al quitar algunas capas de pintura descubre una inscripción oculta. Intrigada, ella y una amiga solicitan permiso a Don Juan Belmonte, su dueño, para desvelar la inscripción, lo cual eleva el precio del cuadro.
The Wrong Man
Director
US merchant sailor Alex Walker (Kevin Anderson) is stranded in Mexico, penniless and wanted by the police. He meets and joins up with an unlikely couple - ageing but likeable shit Phillip Mills (John Lithgow) and young sexy, frustated wife Missy (Rosanna Arquette). The three develop a curiously inter-dependent relationship. Meanwhile, Police Captain Diaz and Detective Ortega are closing in and the plot circle is closed at Tapachula rail station amidst a stack of mistakes and wrong decisions.
Blood Ties
Director
Carpathian Americans are just like any other expatriate organization, they enjoy family get together, and share business opportunities. There is just one minor difference, the Carpathian Americans seem to have a predilection for drinking human blood.
Gran bola de fuego
Screenplay
Aproximación biográfica al mito del rock and roll Jerry Lee Lewis. Se narran sus comienzos como cantante, sus grandes éxitos -con sus espectaculares actuaciones donde quemaba el piano- y cómo cayó en desgracia cuando se casó con una prima suya de sólo trece años.
Gran bola de fuego
Director
Aproximación biográfica al mito del rock and roll Jerry Lee Lewis. Se narran sus comienzos como cantante, sus grandes éxitos -con sus espectaculares actuaciones donde quemaba el piano- y cómo cayó en desgracia cuando se casó con una prima suya de sólo trece años.
Querido detective
Director
En Nueva Orleans, un duro detective se encuentra con problemas en la resolución de un caso cuando su camino se cruza con el de la nueva fiscal del distrito, una mujer obsesionada con seguir los reglamentos al pie de la letra. A pesar de sus diferencias, los dos acceden a colaborar para intentar resolver el caso, iniciando una relación marcada por la pasión y el peligro.
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
Vivir sin aliento
Screenplay
Jesse (Richard Gere), un impetuoso ladrón de coches con varios delitos a sus espaldas, se dirige a Las Vegas para encontrarse con Mónica (Valérie Kaprisky), una joven francesa estudiante de arquitectura de la que está enamorado. Accidentalmente, durante el camino, Jesse asesina a un policía, por lo que a partir de entonces ambos vivirán un tormentoso romance siempre acosados por la policía.
Vivir sin aliento
Director
Jesse (Richard Gere), un impetuoso ladrón de coches con varios delitos a sus espaldas, se dirige a Las Vegas para encontrarse con Mónica (Valérie Kaprisky), una joven francesa estudiante de arquitectura de la que está enamorado. Accidentalmente, durante el camino, Jesse asesina a un policía, por lo que a partir de entonces ambos vivirán un tormentoso romance siempre acosados por la policía.
El eslabón del Niágara
Man in Cantina
Harry Hannan es ingresado en una institución mental después de asistir impotente al asesinato de su esposa en un restaurante mexicano. Después de cuatro meses de baja por una profunda depresión, Harry intenta reincorporarse a su trabajo en una agencia secreta del gobierno pero descubre que lo han apartado del servicio de manera indefinida. Incluso le ha realquilado su propia casa a una desconocida. Harry está convencido de que alguien quiere quitárselo de encima. Un día descubre un papel bajo la puerta de su apartamento, una amenaza de muerte sacada del Deuteronomio y escrita en arameo.
Calientes 16 años
Writer
Jugueteo sexo salvaje vagamente basada en los personajes de comic de Archie.
Calientes 16 años
Director
Jugueteo sexo salvaje vagamente basada en los personajes de comic de Archie.
Glen and Randa
Screenplay
Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. They know nothing of the outside world, except that Glen has read about and seen pictures of a great city in some old comic books. He and Randa set out to find this city.
Glen and Randa
Director
Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. They know nothing of the outside world, except that Glen has read about and seen pictures of a great city in some old comic books. He and Randa set out to find this city.
Pictures from Life's Other Side
Himself (uncredited)
A sequel to My Girlfriend's Wedding. Pictures from Life’s Other Side focuses almost entirely on a later cross-country trip, this one also including Clarissa’s illegitimate, preadolescent son Joe and a couple of dogs, with Clarissa and Joe taking over the commentary and the whole family trading off various sound and camera duties.
Pictures from Life's Other Side
Director
A sequel to My Girlfriend's Wedding. Pictures from Life’s Other Side focuses almost entirely on a later cross-country trip, this one also including Clarissa’s illegitimate, preadolescent son Joe and a couple of dogs, with Clarissa and Joe taking over the commentary and the whole family trading off various sound and camera duties.
My Girlfriend's Wedding
Editor
Director Jim McBride's "liberated" English girlfriend talks candidly about her life and her reasons for marrying another man. The awkward city hall ceremony and aftermath are also photographed.
My Girlfriend's Wedding
Himself
Director Jim McBride's "liberated" English girlfriend talks candidly about her life and her reasons for marrying another man. The awkward city hall ceremony and aftermath are also photographed.
My Girlfriend's Wedding
Director
Director Jim McBride's "liberated" English girlfriend talks candidly about her life and her reasons for marrying another man. The awkward city hall ceremony and aftermath are also photographed.
David Holzman's Diary
Writer
A young filmmaker decides to make a movie about his day-to-day activities in an attempt to understand himself and get his life back in order. A precursor to reality television and vlogs.
David Holzman's Diary
Producer
A young filmmaker decides to make a movie about his day-to-day activities in an attempt to understand himself and get his life back in order. A precursor to reality television and vlogs.
David Holzman's Diary
Editor
A young filmmaker decides to make a movie about his day-to-day activities in an attempt to understand himself and get his life back in order. A precursor to reality television and vlogs.
David Holzman's Diary
Director
A young filmmaker decides to make a movie about his day-to-day activities in an attempt to understand himself and get his life back in order. A precursor to reality television and vlogs.