Billie Whitelaw

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements.

John Calder, Samuel Beckett’s British publisher, moved to Montreuil, a town to the east of Paris, where Calder met with Billie Whitelaw, the muse, so to speak, of Beckett’s stage work, who is now relegated to a nursing home for actors.

Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) es, sin duda alguna, el mejor policía de Londres. Sus detenciones superan en un 400% al segundo mejor agente del Cuerpo. Es tan bueno que, comparado a él, cualquier poli es malo. Por eso sus superiores deciden trasladarle a un lugar en que su talento no ponga a nadie en evidencia, a Sandford, un aparentemente adormecido y pacífico pueblecito.

The filming of "The Omen" (1976) was plagued by tragedy and bizarre incidents. "The devil was at work and he didn't want that film made" - Producer Harvey Bernhard.

Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Frenzy'.

Francia siglo XVIII. El Marqués de Sade pasa los diez últimos años de su vida en el asilo Charenton. Allí entabla amistad con el abate Coulmier, con el que comparte el afecto de Madeleine, la lavandera del asilo. Cuando Napoleón envía a un médico para que cure su presunta locura, el temperamento rebelde del marqués se agudiza todavía más. Obtuvo tres nominaciones a los Oscar, incluyendo el de mejor actor (Geoffrey Rush).

After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.

Tras la muerte de su esposa y de su hija, un policía francés decide abandonar el cuerpo y trasladarse a Londres para trabajar como detective privado. Un antiguo amigo le pide ayuda para localizar al hermano de su esposa.

Byron Flitch is not enjoying his anniversary party. Instead of making him a partner in their classic car business, his father Burke has demanded he work harder. His mistress Judith could arrive to gate crash the celebrations at any moment and to top things off midway through the line 'I'm going to live forever' from his karaoke Fame rendition, Burke keels over with a heart attack. Amidst this chaos, Burke's wife Lili sees a chance to make her escape and ducks out of the party to leave for an impromptu holiday in Tenerife. When she returns, she is a changed woman and intent on taking up marathon running. With Burke critically ill and Lili off guard, the rest of the family squabble for control of the business.

A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his first cousin, the death of his father, and his decorated service with the French Resistance. He had settled in France before the Second World War, met fellow Irishman James Joyce, and begun writing. Patrick Magee's television performance of `Krapp's Last Tape' (1972) is interwoven with key landscapes and personalities from Beckett's life. The second part concludes the story of how Beckett finally began to connect with his audience, principally through `Waiting for Godot'. Includes an interview with the actress Billie Whitelaw, a celebrated interpreter of his work.

Jodie e Iris viven con su madre, una autoritaria y severa anciana que impide que sus hijas conozcan un hombre con el que casarse. Jodie está enamorada de un doctor local, un hombre mucho mayor que ella, pero la madre se opone totalmente. Beth entabla una relación con un stripper en Bristol, pero no ve futuro con su madre alrededor. Mientras ambas sueñan con deshacerse de su madre, Jodie conoce a H.R. Armstrong, un hombre conocido en el pueblo por asesinar a su mujer. Tras entablar conocimiento con él, a Jodie se le empiezan a aparecer los asesinos en serie más famosos de la historia, que no paran de darle consejos. (FILMAFFINITY)

Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. To assist them John is forced to come to terms with his daughter and her friends.

Adaptation of John Osborne's play.

Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught on an incidental love affair. Since then Carl has made Joanna's life impossible. 10 years later she's fed up with the situation and decides to visit him, only to find that once he made three copies of her

Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent

Por petición de un antiguo amigo en tiempos de guerra, el espía George Smiley accede a investigar el asesinato de Stella Rode, la mujer de un profesor en un exclusivo colegio masculino. Pronto descubre que a Stella le encantaba descubrir los secretos de los demás para cotillear y hacer chantaje. Introduciéndose en la tortuosa sociedad del colegio, Smiley descubre sociedades secretas, abusos sexuales y a un misterioso muchacho llamado Perkins que puede ser al mismo tiempo sospechoso, testigo y víctima.

Hulmerist is a VHS and DVD release that includes seven promotional films by Morrissey, released initially on VHS, in 1990, and then on DVD in 2004. It was certified Gold by the RIAA on 18 January 1991. The title refers to Morrissey's childhood home in Hulme, Manchester. The L is silent, so it sounds like "humourist". The promotional films are 'The Last of the Famous International Playboys', 'Sister I'm a Poet', 'Everyday is Like Sunday', 'Interesting Drug', 'Suedehead', 'Ouija Board, Ouija Board' and 'November Spawned a Monster'.

Narra la vida de dos gemelos, Ronald y Reginald Kray, nacidos en Londres en 1943, que con el uso desmedido de la violencia y las amenazas, llegan a convertirse en los gángsters más importantes del suburbio en el que se criaron.

En 1673, Exmoor está bajo el poder de una familia de nobles terratenientes, los Doone. Pero, tras la muerte de Cromwell, caen en desgracia, sus tierras son expropiadas y se les declara proscritos. Sin embargo, los Doone se sienten lo bastante fuertes como para desafiar al rey. La primera víctima es un campesino, cuyo hijo, John, decidido a vengar la muerte de su padre, consigue entrar al castillo de los Doone. Una vez allí, conoce a Lorna, la nieta de Lord Doone. Años después, tras servir en el ejército, John regresa a Exmoor. El conflicto con los Doone continúa y también Lorna sigue allí.

'I, Margie Starling, am perfectly, perfectly happy, right now!' ...and why not? An adoring young husband, a grown-up daughter who'll soon adjust to having a stepfather her own age, and now a birthday picnic by the river. Why shouldn't Margie be happy?

In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

The growing relationship of two people who travel through Ireland in a series of stolen cars.

Una enfermedad de cólera en la India colonial deja huérfana a Mary Lennox Craven, una niña británica nacida en este continente, por lo que es enviada al Reino Unido a vivir con un tío suyo llamado Sr. Craven, en una gran mansión ampulosa de Yorkshire, en el que este hombre vive sumido en un ambiente irrespirable y al que para mayor desasosiego se le añade las males artes de la estricta ama de llaves la señora Medlock. Sin embargo, en este espacio opresivo Mary descubre un gran jardín, cerrado y abandonado por años, que se convertirá en un mágico refugio para ella y sus tres nuevos amigos: Colin, un chico discapacitado y caprichoso, Dickon, el reverso, una persona ingenua y llena de bondad y el petirrojo. Los tres niños y el petirrojo rehabilitan el lugar que a su vez les ayudará a construir una especial relación, que cambiará sus destinos para siempre.

Gran Bretaña, principios del siglo XX. Cuando el joven Maurice (James Willby) va a la universidad, se enamora de Clive (Hugh Grant), uno de sus compañeros de clase. Juntos vivirán un romance que mantendrán en secreto. Sin embargo, Clive, para evitar habladurías y normalizar su vida, decide casarse con una joven. Maurice, por su parte, seguirá manteniendo relaciones secretas con otros hombres, aunque no será lo mismo.

The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee—Beckett’s great dramatic interpreters—appear in selected extracts from the plays; Beckett specialist David Warrilow narrates a variety of texts.

A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film.

A former CIA agent is forced by crooked agents of the government to pose as a notorious smuggler of the Tangier Straits who happens to be a stiff

An English woman (Ali MacGraw) returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer.

Camille es una cortesana de París. Ella cae profundamente enamorada de un joven prometedor, Armand Duval. Cuando el padre de Armand le ruega no arruinar su esperanza de una carrera y la posición al casarse con Armand, ella asiente y deja a su amante. Sin embargo, cuando la pobreza y la enfermedad la acechan, Camille descubre que Armand no ha perdido su amor por ella.

Documental sobre el mejor cine de terror y suspense hasta 1984, incluyendo reportajes e imágenes de películas de terror varias, donde salen muchas caras conocidas.

Mel Brooks talks about his life and career to an invited audience, and with others entertains on the stage, leading up to the release of his film To Be Or Not to Be.

Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.

Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the offenders are punished through grisly executions. Stone uses his wits to find a reclusive friend Terry (Mel Smith) just in time for a psychedelic funhouse showdown with his stalker.

The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and steal their cargoes.

En otro mundo, en otro tiempo... En la época de la fantasía... habitaban el mundo unos seres llamados Urskeks, que vivían en paz y armonía... Hasta que uno de ellos dañó el centro de su mundo, su más preciado tesoro: el Cristal Oscuro. Su mundo cambió a partir de ese momento. Los Urskeks se dividieron en dos razas, los sabios Místicos, que viven en continua meditación apartados de la sociedad, y los malvados Skeksis, quienes reinan sobre la tierra, dominando a todas las razas con su crueldad. Místicos y Skeksis viven interconectados: cada uno de ellos tiene una contrapartida en la raza opuesta. Así, cuando un Místico sufre una herida su Skeksis correspondiente recibe el mismo daño, y cuando muere un Skeksis muere un Místico del mismo modo, y viceversa.

After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man's son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man's memory and his increasingly suspicious death.

A one-woman play written by Samuel Beckett at the request of Daniel Labeille. The piece was produced by Labeille on behalf of the State University of New York's Programs in the Arts for a festival and symposium in commemoration of Beckett's 75th birthday (Wikipedia). A self-reflective drama of a figure, W, rocking "to and fro" in her dead mother's rocking chair wearing her mother's sequined funereal garment. With the aid of her pre-recorded voice, W recounts the different phases of a single memory in a bid to connect with "another creature like herself" before rocking herself into an eternal sleep.

Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.

A tender romance develops between an attractive young woman and a famous race car driver who lives incognito after supposedly being killed in an auto accident.

Sometido a la tiranía de dos individuos sin escrúpulos, Tom, un chico de doce años, se ve obligado a trabajar de deshollinador. Pero consigue escapar de esta tiranía, entrando, con su amiga Ellie, en un mundo de fantasía poblado de seres extraños como los «niños acuáticos». Se trata del "Lago Mágico", un lugar cuya leyenda atrae a chicos tan intrépidos y valerosos como Tom y Ellie. (FILMAFFINITY)

A female voice identifies a lone man in a room. The shots cut closer, revealing he is holding a cassette recorder, playing Beethoven's "Ghost" Piano Trio no. 5. The film repeats the imagery, and then shows what he has been reacting to.

Cuando Kathy Thorn da a luz a un bebé muerto, su esposo Robert le oculta la verdad y sustituye a su hijo por un niño huérfano, ignorando su origen satánico. El horror empieza cuando, en el quinto cumpleaños de Damien, inesperadamente, su niñera se suicida. Un sacerdote que trata de advertir a Robert del peligro que corre, muere en un inesperado accidente. El creciente número de muertes hace que Robert, por fin, se dé cuenta de que el niño que han adoptado es el Anticristo, y que hay que matarlo para impedir que se cumpla una terrible profecia.

Performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 16th January, 1973 Produced for the BBC in 1977 by Tristram Powell Directed by Anthony Page and Samuel Beckett Cast: Billie Whitelaw

Tras quedarse viuda de repente, Ellen cae en una depresión, pero poco después conoce a John y se casa con él. La vida del matrimonio trasncurre feliz hasta que un día Ellen presencia un asesinato en la casa de al lado. Cuando su marido y su mejor amiga tratan de convencerla de que quizá se haya equivocado, Ellen considera sospechosa su actitud y llega a plantearse la posibilidad de que la muerte de su primer marido no haya sido natural.

Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.

En el Támesis ha aparecido una mujer estrangulada con indicios de haber sido violada. Días más tarde, aparece el cadáver de la señora Blaney, estrangulada también, que era dueña de una agencia matrimonial que contactaba parejas. Todas las sospechas recaen sobre el señor Blaney como principal autor de los asesinatos hasta que aparece muerte una camarera amiga suya.

1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon

Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney), un presentador y animador de veladas de cabaret, es un apasionado de la literatura policiaca que vive obsesionado con la idea de convertirse en un personaje de Dashiell Hammett. Así, un día, publica un anuncio ofreciéndose como detective privado. Pronto se le presenta el primer caso: un desconocido se pone en contacto con él y le envía una importante suma de dinero, una pistola y una fotografía para que haga desaparecer a una joven universitaria, hija de un militar. Ginley se ve entonces involucrado en una serie de turbios asuntos ligados a la política, a las drogas y al tráfico de armas. (FILMAFFINITY)

In this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lodger are destined to stay on separate paths.

Adaptación de una obra teatral de George Tabori que ilustra el proceso de concienciación de un decadente aristócrata cuya mansión se halla junto a un barrio de marginados.

En tiempo previos a la Revolución Francesa, dos parejas de gemelos son separados al nacer. Una pareja se criará en la realeza, mientras la otra crecerá como niños de unos campesinos

An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.

Martin es un joven con la mente perturbada que tiene una madre que lo trata como si fuera un niño pequeño, un padrastro que lo desprecia, y un hermano retrasado encerrado en una institución mental. Su única amiga es Susan, con quien le une un vínculo muy especial cuando Martin se refugia en su "otra" personalidad... la de Georgie, un niño de seis años. Pero cuando Susan se distancia de él, Martin entra en cólera y se obsesiona de tal forma con Susan que inicia un oleada de inusitada violencia.

Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.

Jack Palance incorpora el doble papel del apacible Doctor Jeckyll, cuyos experimentos le transforman en el brutal Mr. Hyde. El clásico de Robert Louise Stevenson describe fielmente la espantosa doble vida del científico que asesina a jóvenes muchachas por la noche.

A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.

German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his old friend Baron Von Straub (Christopher Lee), the two rekindle a friendship that was interrupted by the war. However, when Von Straub asks Droste to deliver a small package to a friend in West Germany, the befuddled Droste is set up for a series of complicated spy games.

El señor Topaze es un profesor que pierde su trabajo porque no quiere aprobar a un alumno que no cumple los requisitos para pasar de curso. En paro, se pone al frente de un negocio que lo acabará cambiando por completo. Poco a poco, va dejando de lado al honesto profesor para convertirse en un negociante sin escrúpulos al que sólo importa su propio beneficio.

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.

Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He's smitten with a girl named Lena who works in a machine shop next door and takes her out despite a bullying driver claiming her for himself.

In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.

Cuenta la persecución del criminal Don Starling recién escapado de la cárcel, tras dejar malherido a uno de sus carceleris, quien supuestamente tiene que pasar por Manchester, ya que allí deben estar guardadas las joyas que robó y que tratará de recuperar.

El doctor Robert Knox imparte clases de anatomía a jóvenes estudiantes en la Academia que lleva su nombre. Al concluir una de sus clases, el prestigioso Knox recibe la visita de su prima, mientras horas más tarde se cita a altas horas de la madrugada con Billy Burke y William Hare, un par de siniestros personajes del pueblo que proveen al veterano profesor de cadáveres recientes para sus prácticas. El modus operandi de Burke y Hare resulta siempre el mismo en sus inicios: el asesinato de viejos sin recursos económicos perpetrados cerca o dentro de la casa del primero, provista de habitaciones para huéspedes, que regenta junto a su esposa. Pero el perfil de las víctimas cambia cuando Hare intenta violar a Mary Patterson, la díscola y alcohólica prometida de Christopher Jackson, uno de sus alumnos menos brillantes de la clase de anatomía cuyas clases dirige Knox.

Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves portray parents of the title character, an infant who talks like an adult.

A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.

Londres, Inglaterra, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Tras vivir una trágica experiencia vital, la joven Violette Szabo se une al Ejecutivo de Operaciones Especiales y cruza las líneas enemigas alemanas como agente secreto para ayudar a un grupo de la Resistencia francesa.

The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddling, he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then, there's a visit from Mr Finch, who feels it's time Albert was replaced.

In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets Julia Gozzi, a barmaid, and "The Miracle" happens.

Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.

Un psiquiatra consigue atrapar a un ladrón que había entrado en su casa. A cambio de ser liberado, el delincuente se presta a servir de conejillo de Indias para que el doctor pueda investigar sus teorías sobre la rehabilitación de los pacientes.

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.