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.

런던에서 잘나가는 경찰 니콜라스 엔젤(사이몬 페그)은 몸을 사리지 않는 근성과 동물적인 감각으로 검거율 400%라는 경이적인 기록을 세우며 승승장구하지만 경찰청 간부들과 동료들의 견제를 받아 시골로 좌천된다. 그가 부임한 곳은 범죄율 제로를 자랑하는 아름답고 평화로운 마을 샌드포드. 좀 덜 떨어진듯한 순둥이 경찰 대니 버터맨(닉 프로스트)과 파트너가 되어 마을 축제의 안전관리, 실종된 백조 수색 등의 무료한 업무에 전전하던 어느 날, 끔찍한 사고들이 연이어 발생한다. 평화롭기만 하던 마을의 이면에는 엄청난 비밀이 숨겨져 있는데...

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'.

나폴레옹 황제가 통치하던 시대의 프랑스 가학적이고 문란한 성생활 때문에 정신병원에 수감된 사드 후작(제프리 러시)은 그 안에서도 자신의 욕망을 소설로 써 내려 간다. 그는 젊은 세탁부 마들렌(케이트 윈슬렛)을 통해 원고를 몰래 출판하기까지 한다. 이상주의에 불타는 병원 원장 쿨미어 신부(와킨 피닉스)는 그런 사실을 모르는 채 사드를 교화하려 하지만 나폴레옹은 잔인한 치료로 악명 높은 의사 꼴라(마이클 케인)를 병원에 파견한다. 꼴라는 점잖은 외모 뒤에 위선과 죄악을 감추고 있는 인물이었는데...

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.

파리의 마약 수사 기관에서 일하는 자비에 롬바드는 자신이 보는 앞에서 가족들을 무참하게 살해한 범인들을 직접 심판하여 해고된 후 심신이 모두 황폐해진 상태에서 런던으로 건너가 사립탐정 일을 하며 생활한다. 낯선 도시 런던의 좁은 아파트에서 금붕어와 살면서, 바람난 아내를 잡아달라는 남편들의 요청으로 하고 있는 사립탐정 일은 벌이가 의외로 괜찮은 편이다. 그러던 어느날 롬바드는 전직 동료의 처가집이자 오스트리아 제화업을 하는 부유한 집안에서 행방불명된 아들 레온을 찾아달라는 사건을 의뢰받는다. 그는 크리스마스 시즌이라 조사비용과 수수료를 많이 챙길 수 있다는 생각으로 그 사건을 맡는다. 롬바드는 실종된 레온의 아파트를 둘러보다가 레온이 1년전부터 마약중독에 걸려 있었고 그의 실종이 아동매매춘 조직과 관련이 있다는 것을 알게 된다. 레온의 여자친구로부터 건네받은 비디오로부터 성폭행을 당하는 아이들의 실상을 알게 되고 아동매매춘 범죄 조직과 직접 부딪치게 된 롬바드는 평소 가깝게 지내던 창녀 나탈리를 이용해 매춘 고객으로 가장하여 잠입 수사를 펼친다. 하지만 곧 의심을 받게 되고 롬바드를 도와준 나탈리는 끝까지 그의 이름을 밝히지 않은 채 살해당한다. 결국 그는 혼자 힘으로 계속해 사건을 파헤치기로 하고 멕시코에서 두 개의 얼굴을 가진, 아동들을 돌보면서 한 편으로는 그들을 매매하는 프리드만을 찾아낸다. 하지만 프리드만은 롬바드를 알고 있었고, 사건은 갈수록 꼬리를 물고 이어지는데...

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.

Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has feelings for the local doctor, a man much older than her, for which her mother strongly disapproves. Beth finds a relationship with a male stripper in Bristol, but sees nothing in the future with Mother around. While both girls would like to be rid of Mother, nothing happens until Jodie sees images of H. R. Armstrong, the man who put the town on the map by dispatching his un-loving wife

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

At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband's hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife's death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other's little secrets and then gossip about them - or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré's 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre"s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.

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'.

런던 토박이임을 자랑으로 여기는 바이올렛(Violet Kray: 빌리 화이트로 분)은 1934년 쌍둥이 아들 로날드(Ronald Kray: 게리 켐프 분)와 레지날드(Reggie Kray: 마틴 켐프 분)를 낳는다. 전쟁의 혼란 속에서도 두 아이를 끔찍히 키웠지만, 성장한 두 아들은 거리를 주름잡는 불량배 조직의 두목으로 부상한다. 처절한 싸움 끝에 쌍둥이 형제가 런던을 장악한 것이다. 동생 레지날드는 양가집 규수와 결혼도 하지만, 아내 프란시스(Frances: 케이트 하디 분)가 암흑가 내부 생활에 적응하지 못해 자살한다. 레지날드는 폐인이 되다시피하고, 조직을 떠나 슬픔에 빠진다. 자연히 조직의 기강은 해이해지고 여지껏 쌍둥이의 위력에 숨죽이던 세력들이 기지개를 켜기 시작한다. 위기를 느낀 로날드는 동생과 조직을 구하기 위해 반대 세력의 소탕작전을 펴서 두 세력을 철저하게 응징한다. 그러나 쌍둥이도 결국은 법망에 걸려 종신형을 선고받고, 현재 수감 중인데..

A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.

'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.

When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.

20세기 초 영국, 케임브리지 대학교. 우연히 만나게 된 모리스와 클라이브는 낡은 관념의 무료한 대학 생활 속에서 서로에게 해방감을 줄 수 있는 존재로 발전해가고, 누구보다 가까웠던 두 사람의 우정은 서서히 사랑의 감정으로 변해간다. 하지만 사랑 하나면 모든 걸 버릴 수 있는 모리스와 그 모든 걸 잃는 게 두려운 클라이브의 사랑은 조금씩 흔들리기 시작한다.

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 is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.

A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.

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.

지구가 아닌 또 다른 행성을 배경으로, 영적인 힘을 지닌 다크 크리스탈을 지키기 위해 착한 집단인 미스틱 사이에서 성장한 고아 젠이 나선다. 행성을 지배하고 있던 새 형상의 괴물이 젠을 처단하려고 하는데......

사설탐정 사무소 조수인 미모의 처녀 코델리아는 상관인 탐정이 자살하자 얼떨결에 사건을 맡는다. 대부호인 칼렌다는 외아들 마크가 자살하자 그 이유를 밝혀달라는 사건의뢰를 받는다. 한가지씩 비밀의 껍질을 벗겨가며 코델리아는 사건의 진실에 접근해 간다. 정원사의 아들이었던 칼렌다가 집주인 딸 이브와 도망쳐서 결혼한 후 자식을 낳지 못하자 딸의 친구인 리밍과의 사이에서 아들 마크를 낳고 이브가 낳은 것처럼 꾸민다. 그러나 마크의 할아버지가 사위인 자신을 제쳐놓고 손자인 마크에게 전재산을 상속해 버리자 칼렌다는 마크를 살해하고 자살로 위장했다가 결국 모든 것일 밝혀지고 끝내 죽음을 당한다.

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.

This children's fantasy tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who discovers a complex underwater world where young children are held prisoner by an evil shark and an eel.

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.

6월 6일 새벽 6시 로마 갓 태어난 아들이 죽었다는 소식을 들은 쏜 대사는 같은 시각 같은 병원에서 태어난 데미안을 아무도 모르게 데려와 친자식처럼 키운다. 5년 뒤 유모가 데미안을 부르며 건물 난간에서 떨어져 목 매달아 죽는 이상한 사건이 발생한다. 브레넌 신부라는 사람이 쏜 대사를 찾아와 데미안은 일류의 파멸을 위해 보내진 악마의 아들이라는 사실을 듣게 된다. 또 데미안을 죽이지 않으면, 부인도 뱃속에 든 태아도 죽게 되며 데미안은 쏜 대사의 직위와 재산을 발판으로 전세계를 악마의 손아귀에 넣으려 하고, 이는 요한 계시록에 예언되어 있다고 한다. 그러던 중 신부의 예언대로 부인이 이층에서 떨어져 아이가 유산되고 신부는 비명에 횡사한다. 무당 부겐하겐을 찾아가 없애는 법을 듣고 집에 돌아온 쏜 대사는 데미안이 악마의 아들이란 표시 666이란 점이 머리카락 밑에 있는 걸 확인하고 죽이려한다. 이때 비밀이 밝혀지자 데미안을 보호하고 있는 저승 사자인 데미안의 새 유모가 쏜에게 달려들자, 결국 쏜은 유모에게 칼을 드는데...

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

Ellen Wheeler, a rich widow, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does anybody believe her?

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

공군 출신의 리처드 블래니는 일하던 술집에서 해고되자 친구 밥 러스크에게 신세 한탄을 늘어놓는다. 리처드는 결혼 중개소를 운영하는 전 부인 브렌다를 찾아가는데, 두 사람은 또 다투고 만다. 그런데 리처드가 브렌다를 만나고 간 후 브렌다가 살해된 채 발견된다. 브렌다가 일련의 연쇄 살인의 피해자들과 같은 방법으로 참혹하게 살해되자 경찰은 리처드를 연쇄 살인범으로 보고 그를 뒤쫓는다. 할리우드에서 활동하던 히치콕이 아주 오랜만에 영국으로 돌아와 만든 스릴러.

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

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

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.

Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.

An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens around them. Based, very loosely, on Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities," Dumas's "The Corsican Brothers," etc.

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

Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.

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.

In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the hidden, dark side of man, who, in the process of his experiment, releases a murderer from within himself.

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.

Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.

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.

Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.

Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...

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.

London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.

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.

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.

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.