Richard Rodney Bennett

Nascimento : 1936-03-29, Broadstairs, Kent, England, UK

Morte : 2012-12-24

História

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett CBE (29 March 1936 – 24 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist and occasional vocalist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia page Richard Rodney Bennett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmes

Circus Drawings
Music
Sketches of a Spanish circus made by Richard Williams in 1953 come to life. Williams began the project at the age of 20 and finished it when he was 77. It premiered at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 2010.
Making
Self
This featurette takes a closer look at the production history of Murder on the Orient Express. Included in it are clips from archival interviews with dierctor Sidney Lumet, producer Richard Goodwin, and cast and crew members.
Making
Music
This featurette takes a closer look at the production history of Murder on the Orient Express. Included in it are clips from archival interviews with dierctor Sidney Lumet, producer Richard Goodwin, and cast and crew members.
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
Original Music Composer
The fictional tale of the murderous 19th century barber (Ben Kinglsey) who sold his kills to a neighboring butcher (Joanna Lumley) for her renowned meat pies. A young innocent (Selina Boyack) and the dashing inspector (Campbell Scott) who tries to solve the murders are also thrown into the mix.
Quatro Casamentos e um Funeral
Music
Charles (Hugh Grant) é um solteirão que nunca quis nada sério com ninguém, até conhecer uma envolvente mulher, por quem se apaixona. Sua complicada situação de assumir relacionamentos pode mudar depois de três outros casamentos e um funeral, que dão título ao longa.
Enchanted April
Original Music Composer
Four English women, unhappy with their lives, rent an Italian villa on holiday.
A Maldição do Espelho
Original Music Composer
When Miss Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy, murder most foul is bound to occur.
Knockback: 2
Music
Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.
Knockback: 1
Music
In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.
O Retorno do Soldado
Original Music Composer
The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife, Kitty, or remember their years together. While Baldry attempts to cope with the unfamiliar surroundings of his own home, he seeks out the company of an old flame from his childhood, Margaret Grey. His amnesia also makes him a ready target for the affections of his older cousin, Jenny.
Os Yankees Estão Voltando!
Original Music Composer
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.
Um Golpe Muito Louco
Original Music Composer
Depois de uma maré de má sorte, o criminoso Tony Pino (Peter Falk) e sua gangue roubam com sucesso um carro forte da Brink’s que continha US$30.000. Surpreendentemente, o roubo foi ignorado pela mídia. Curioso, Tony checa a sede do Brink’s e descobre que o nível de segurança de lá é baixo. Agora, um roubo de verdade é preparado…
Equus
Music
Martin Dysart (Richard Burton), um psiquiatra de meia-idade, investiga os motivos que levaram Alan Strang (Peter Firth), um jovem de 17 anos de idade empregado de um estábulo, a furar os olhos de seis cavalos sem razão aparente. Martin mergulha fundo na mente de Alan e depara-se com enigmas de fúria sexual e ira, mas acaba se vendo obrigado a confrontar os sombrios demônios escondidos em sua própria alma. Adaptação cinematográfica da peça teatral vencedora do Prêmio Tony, de autoria do mundialmente consagrado dramaturgo Peter Shaffer.
The Accuser
Music
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.
Sherlock Holmes em Nova York
Music
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
Permissão Para Matar
Music
An unsavory intelligence agent (Dirk Bogarde) plots the downfall of a Third World political leader (Bekim Fehmiu).
Assassinato no Expresso Oriente
Original Music Composer
O detetive Hercule Poirot está a bordo do Expresso do Oriente quando um passageiro é encontrado morto. Amplamente desprezada, a vítima tinha muitos inimigos, e Poirot tem que peneirar um grupo excêntrico de suspeitos para encontrar o assassino.
Voices
Music
After her young son accidentally drowns, a woman has a breakdown and is finally placed in a mental hospital. After her release, her husband takes her for a weekend at a secluded country mansion, hoping to help her recover. However, things at the mansion aren't quite what they seem to be, the couple begin to feel an uneasy and oppressive presence, and the mother starts to see things that may, or may not, be hallucinations.
Lady Caroline Lamb
Music
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Tarzan and the Brown Prince
After a ruler dies, tradition dictates the new ruler must accomplish a series of harrowing challenges whilst competing with other aspirants. One of them, Nasu a young prince, engages in the contest, but evildoers plan the young prince's demise. Tarzan protects him while ensuring he meets the tests
Nicholas e Alexandra
Original Music Composer
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Dois Vultos na Paisagem
Original Music Composer
Two escaped convicts are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black helicopter.
The Buttercup Chain
Original Music Composer
Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. The close relationship between the cousins is suspended when Margaret is sent abroad for schooling. Now a young woman, Margaret returns to London and resumes her intimate connection with France.
Cerimônia Secreta
Original Music Composer
A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.
Jazz Calendar
Music
A documentary record of the 1968 ballet by Frederick Ashton, performed by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House.
O Cérebro de Um Bilhão de Dólares
Original Music Composer
Um ex-espião britânico tropeça em um complô para derrubar o comunismo com a ajuda de um supercomputador. Mas quem está trabalhando para quem? Harry Palmer deixou o Serviço Secreto Britânico e se tornou um detetive particular. Uma de seus primeiros trabalhos é entregar uma garrafa térmica aparentemente inocente a um velho amigo em Helsinque. Palmer suspeita do conteúdo da térmica e começa a duvidar dos motivos de seu amigo e do seu chefe, um bilionário texano.
Longe Deste Insensato Mundo
Music
A herdeira de uma fazenda contrata seu rejeitado pretendente como pastor de ovelhas. Depois comete o erro de apaixonar-se e casar com um oficial da cavalaria.
The Witches
Original Music Composer
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.
Nas Garras do Ódio
Original Music Composer
Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he's been in for two years, since the death of his younger sister. Joey refuses to eat any food Nanny's prepared or take a bath with her in the room. He also demands to sleep in a room with a lock. Joey's parents -- workaholic Bill and neurotic Virgie -- are sure Joey is disturbed, but he may have good reason to be terrified of Nanny.
One Way Pendulum
Original Music Composer
A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic.
Hamlet at Elsinore
Music
Christopher Plummer is joined by an all-star cast including Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, Roy Kinnear and Donald Sutherland in this historic production of Hamlet filmed on location at Elsinore, Denmark, the actual location where the play is set.
O Mundo Fabuloso de Billy Liar
Music
O preguiçoso e irresponsável Billy Fisher trabalha como assistente em uma funerária no norte da Inglaterra. Seus devaneios constantes e histórias desprovidas de verdade são a causa das más decisões que afastam seus amigos e familiares, que o apelidam de “Billy Mentiroso.”
Only Two Can Play
Music
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
A Marca do Cárcere
Original Music Composer
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
O Discípulo do Diabo
Original Music Composer
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
Entrevista com a Morte
Original Music Composer
Em Londres da década de 1950, o pintor holandês Jan-Van Rooyer tem um caso com uma francesa rica que é assassinada, fazendo com que Van Rooyer se torne o principal suspeito do Scotland Yard.
Colinas da Ira
Music
Nazis chase a U.S. newsman (Robert Mitchum) paid to smuggle names of Greek resistance leaders to London.
O Homem Que Enganou a Morte
Original Music Composer
Um artista e cientista centenário em uma Paris de 1890 mantém sua juventude e saúde substituindo periodicamente uma glândula de seu corpo pela de uma pessoa viva.
Indiscreta
Original Music Composer
Philip (Cary Grant), um americano rico, e uma famosa atriz, Anne (Ingrid Bergman), se encontram de maneira inusitada. Anne insiste em conquistá-lo, como faz com todos os homens. Embora Philip resista, acaba fisgado, e ela também não consegue resistir ao charme eletrizante do galã. Quando Cary Grant e Ingrid Bergman se reuniram novamente em Indiscreta - mais de uma década depois de Interlúdio, de Hitchcock - um grande sucesso já era previsto. Essa dupla de astros mais o grande diretor Stanley Donen (Charada) transformam um simples romance, num clássico de alto nível. "Um filme inteligente, agradável, um belo conto sobre a acidentada estrada do amor" (Variety).
Perseguição Sem Tréguas
Original Music Composer
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.