Michael Hastings

Nacimiento : 1938-09-02,

Muerte : 2011-11-19

Películas

The American
Writer
After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get past the Paris nightlife. After an affair with a haughty painter, he falls in love with the daughter of the late marquis de Bellegarde. She was married off and traumatized by her abusive late husband for the family's sake. Her elder brother supports their ruthless mother, but junior Valentin is besotted with the artist and strikes a partnership with Christopher.
The Deep Blue Sea
Script Editor
Hester Collyer es rescatada por un vecino después de intentar suicidarse en el departamento que comparte con su joven amante, el ex piloto de la RAF, Freddie Page. Los vecinos alertan a su esposo, quien llega al apartamento solo para encontrarla completamente recuperada...
Tom & Viv
Writer
Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). El joven poeta inglés Thomas S. Eliot corteja a Vivianne, la hija de una aristocrática familia. Como él carece de fortuna, la pareja decide huir para poder casarse. Eliot cuenta con la protección del filósofo Bertrand Russell. El matrimonio se instala en una modesta vivienda, y Eliot se ve obligado a aceptar un trabajo en un banco para poder salir adelante. Muy pronto la esposa del poeta muestra una personalidad desequilibrada que se manifiesta a través de continuos cambios de humor. Finalmente, el poeta consigue publicar su primer libro. (FILMAFFINITY)
Forbidden
Writer
In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall in love. She gets involved in helping Jews escape from the Nazis. All get out of Berlin except the young man. There is a room in her apartment where he can't be seen through the windows and a chest converted into a sofa where she and her brothers played hide-and-seek as children. This real life hide-and-seek game has high stakes. The movie is said to be based on a true story.
Stars of the Roller State Disco
Writer
Video-shot on studio sets, Stars of the Roller State Disco borders on science fiction of the dystopian variety. Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco of the title, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become available. They leave the building in a wash of light, though we do not go through that door with them. For others it's a subsistence existence of vending machine food, video games, with sex and drug freely available as distractions. (Television @ The Digital Fix)
Los últimos juegos prohibidos
Writer
Aislados en una casa de campo inglesa, dos hermanos huérfanos, Miles (Christopher Ellis) y Flora (Verna Harvey), viven en compañía de su institutriz y de un extraño jardinero llamado Quint (Marlon Brando). De vez en cuando los visita un pariente lejano que pasa largas temporadas en Londres. Inspirada en la novela "Otra vuelta de tuerca" (The Turn of the Screw), de Henry James.
Los libertinos
Screenplay
Adaptación de un best seller de Harold Robbins ambientado en un imaginario país sudamericano en el que tiene lugar una revolución. Considerables dosis de sexo y violencia para un filme que obtuvo críticas bastante negativas.