James Mitchell

James Mitchell

Nacimiento : 1948-03-28,

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James Mitchell

Películas

One Million Dubliners
Writer
Glasnevin Cemetery is the final resting place of 1.5 million souls; it is Ireland's national necropolis. ONE MILLION DUBLINERS reveals the often unspoken stories of ritual, loss, redemption, emotion, history - and the business of death.
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
Executive Producer
Unos cineastas americanos llegan al Reino Unido a filmar una película sobre Winston Churchill, el gran Primer Ministro que ganó la guerra a los nazis. Pero cuando van a rodar deciden cambiar al escuálido actor que interpretará a Churchill por otro más atractivo y viril. (FILMAFFINITY)
Sophiatown
Producer
Little Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. SOPHIATOWN celebrates the great popular jazz music of the 1950's in South Africa; a rich tradition deserving international attention. Director Pascale Lamche, traces the music, uncovers the artists who created it and the unique culture in which it thrived, concentrated in Sophiatown, Johannesburg's own Harlem, which fuelled by liberation politics until its destruction by the Apartheid regime. The film features Nelson Mandela and such household names from the jazz world as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas Gwangwa and Caiphus Semenya.
Criminal y decente
Executive Producer
Comedia criminal ambientada en el mundo de los gángsters del Dublin actual. Spacey es un carismático criminal de doble moral, famoso en toda la ciudad, que tiene a la policía pisándole los talones.
Mi enemigo íntimo
Executive Producer
En los años 50, Werner Herzog compartía piso con Klaus Kinski, un diabólico ególatra. Kinski padecía repentinos e injustificables arrebatos de ira o locura, durante los cuales podía llegar a destrozar el mobiliario del apartamento. La terrible personalidad de Klaus fascinó a Werner y entre ambos nació una estrecha amistad que se fue al garete durante el rodaje de la película "Aguirre, la cólera de Dios". (FILMAFFINITY)
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Executive Producer
A strongly visual look at the life, work and obsessions od the writer Bruce Chatwin, who died of AIDS in 1989. Chatwin was hailed as the greatest novelist since Hemmingway, and the foremost travel writer of modern times.
Croupier
Executive Producer
Jack Manfred, un aspirante a escritor con problemas económicos, decide aceptar un trabajo de croupier para salir adelante. Lo malo es que en el casino entabla relación con una empleada que lo arrastra por caminos peligrosos. (FILMAFFINITY)
My Mother's Courage
Producer
The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.
Moondance
Executive Producer
The close relationship between two fun-loving brothers comes under threat when a beautiful, sensitive girl arrives on the scene. As the younger brother comes of age, the inevitable jealousy, confusion, rivalry and lust place their brotherly love in jeopardy.
Un hombre sin importancia
Executive Producer
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
Escapada al sur
Executive Producer
Un viudo acostumbrado a la vida nómada se establece en Dublín con sus hijos. Los jóvenes además cuidan a un caballo muy especial que les regaló su abuelo. Un drama familiar con guión de Jim Sheridan que cosechó muy buenas críticas.
La desaparición
Executive Producer
Thriller sobre un asesino a sueldo cuya esposa ha desaparecido. Cuando es contratado por una organización internacional para llevar a cabo un golpe, sospecha que están relacionados con su desaparición.