Jim McBride

Nascimento : 1941-09-16, New York City, New York, USA

História

Jim McBride is an American television and film director, film producer and screenwriter. Richard Brody, writing for The New Yorker, named McBride as one of the twelve greatest living narrative filmmakers, citing David Holzman's Diary as a "time capsule of sights and sounds, ideas and moods, politics and history", and "one of the greatest first films." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim McBride, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmes

Alan Jackson: Small Town Southern Man
The feature-length documentary chronicles Alan’s life from his upbringing in Georgia in the 1950s and ’60s to his Hall of Fame induction in 2017. The film is primarily narrated by Alan and includes interviews with family members, musical colleagues and country stars, including Carrie Underwood. Written, produced and directed by John Albarian, the film showcases the inspirations that led Alan to write hits such as “Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow,” “Chattahoochee,” “Here in the Real World,” “Livin’ on Love,” and “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning).”
My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law
Writer
A short documentary by Jim McBride.
My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law
Editor
A short documentary by Jim McBride.
My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law
Director
A short documentary by Jim McBride.
Bem-Vindo a São Paulo
Director
All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the largest city of the Southern Hemisphere, with an incessant dynamics of cultural mixtures, with immigrants of all the world and migrants of all parts of Brazil. The gathering of these peculiarities are seen through the 13 film directors's sensibilities and their segments.
Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back
Director
"Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father and schoolmates over his size, he strikes out on his own after his mother's death, in an impossible task to prove himself to the world and to himself. A chance audition for a musical leads him to join forces with composer Jim Steinman, and together the two make music history with the operatic rock album "Bat Out of Hell." But the demons that drive Meat Loaf aren't assuaged by success, and eventually he must come to terms with them.
Dead by Midnight
Director
Just when he's beginning to take his perfect life and marriage for granted, John (Timothy Hutton) discovers that he's the result of a failed government experiment to spawn a race of perfect assassins. But the closer he gets to finding out what went wrong, the weirder the truth becomes.
Birth of a Nation
Self
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Pronto
Director
Harry Arno is a Miami Beach bookie who finds himself in trouble with his mob bosses for reasons he can't quite figure out. When an assailant attempts to kill him, he decides that it's time to retire, so he relocates to Greece.
The Informant
Director
A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in prison. He executes the grisly task but ends up captured by a sympathetic British police lieutenant named Ferris (Cary Elwes). The intimidating Chief Inspector of the Belfast Police (Timothy Dalton) convinces Gingy that his best hope is to become an informant and turn in other IRA operatives. As Gingy's marriage unravels under the stress, he is forced to come to terms with the fact that in this war both sides lose. Three men, three political circles, each fighting for their lives, each with their own agenda in the battle for Northern Ireland.
Uncovered
Screenplay
While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.
Uncovered
Director
While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.
Risco de Vida
Director
Era uma noite daquelas. Primeiro roubam a carteira de Alex depois ele encontra esse mesmo ladrão ferido mortalmente, e ainda por cima, vira suspeito. Com a polícia no seu encalço, Alex conta com a ajuda de um casal para fugir da cidade. Sob o ritmo intenso de uma escapada após a outra, ele se apaixona por Missy, uma bela e sedutora mulher com um só defeito, um marido muito perigoso.
Blood Ties
Director
Carpathian Americans are just like any other expatriate organization, they enjoy family get together, and share business opportunities. There is just one minor difference, the Carpathian Americans seem to have a predilection for drinking human blood.
A Fera do Rock
Screenplay
A história do cantor, compositor e pianista, Jerry Lee Lewis, um dos músicos pioneiros do rock and roll na década de 50. Ele enfrentou diversos conflitos por conta de sua arrogância, seu incrível talento e seu estilo de vida inconvencional. Um homem polêmico que enfrentou diversos problemas com a indústria musical e foi, muitas vezes, condenado pelo público.
A Fera do Rock
Director
A história do cantor, compositor e pianista, Jerry Lee Lewis, um dos músicos pioneiros do rock and roll na década de 50. Ele enfrentou diversos conflitos por conta de sua arrogância, seu incrível talento e seu estilo de vida inconvencional. Um homem polêmico que enfrentou diversos problemas com a indústria musical e foi, muitas vezes, condenado pelo público.
Acerto de Contas
Director
Reny McSwayn, um jovem simpático e levemente corrupto policial, investiga em Nova Orleans o assassinato de um membro da Máfia local quando é interpelado pela promotora Anne Osborne, empenhada numa investigação sobre corrupção na polícia. Eles se envolvem afetiva e sexualmente, mas se opõem no plano profissional: McSwayn vê o crime como um acerto de contas entre gangues rivais, enquanto a incorruptível promotora acredita no envolvimento direto de policiais.
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
A Força de um Amor
Screenplay
Las Vegas. Jesse Lujack (Richard Gere) rouba um Porsche e vai para Los Angeles, sendo perseguido pela polícia. Após matar um policial, ele procura refúgio na casa de Monica Poiccard (Valérie Kaprisky), sua namorada, e na leitura de revistas em quadrinhos. Retido na cidade sem conseguir cobrar uma dívida, Jesse vê aos poucos o cerco se fechar sem nada poder fazer para escapar. Jesse desestrutura a vida de Monica, forçando-a abandonar a faculdade para fugir com ele para o México, mas uma grande surpresa o aguarda.
A Força de um Amor
Director
Las Vegas. Jesse Lujack (Richard Gere) rouba um Porsche e vai para Los Angeles, sendo perseguido pela polícia. Após matar um policial, ele procura refúgio na casa de Monica Poiccard (Valérie Kaprisky), sua namorada, e na leitura de revistas em quadrinhos. Retido na cidade sem conseguir cobrar uma dívida, Jesse vê aos poucos o cerco se fechar sem nada poder fazer para escapar. Jesse desestrutura a vida de Monica, forçando-a abandonar a faculdade para fugir com ele para o México, mas uma grande surpresa o aguarda.
O Abraço da Morte
Man in Cantina
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.
Hot Times
Writer
Wild sex romp loosely based on Archie Comics characters
Hot Times
Director
Wild sex romp loosely based on Archie Comics characters
Glen and Randa
Screenplay
Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. They know nothing of the outside world, except that Glen has read about and seen pictures of a great city in some old comic books. He and Randa set out to find this city.
Glen and Randa
Director
Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. They know nothing of the outside world, except that Glen has read about and seen pictures of a great city in some old comic books. He and Randa set out to find this city.
Pictures from Life's Other Side
Himself (uncredited)
A sequel to My Girlfriend's Wedding. Pictures from Life’s Other Side focuses almost entirely on a later cross-country trip, this one also including Clarissa’s illegitimate, preadolescent son Joe and a couple of dogs, with Clarissa and Joe taking over the commentary and the whole family trading off various sound and camera duties.
Pictures from Life's Other Side
Director
A sequel to My Girlfriend's Wedding. Pictures from Life’s Other Side focuses almost entirely on a later cross-country trip, this one also including Clarissa’s illegitimate, preadolescent son Joe and a couple of dogs, with Clarissa and Joe taking over the commentary and the whole family trading off various sound and camera duties.
My Girlfriend's Wedding
Editor
Director Jim McBride's "liberated" English girlfriend talks candidly about her life and her reasons for marrying another man. The awkward city hall ceremony and aftermath are also photographed.
My Girlfriend's Wedding
Himself
Director Jim McBride's "liberated" English girlfriend talks candidly about her life and her reasons for marrying another man. The awkward city hall ceremony and aftermath are also photographed.
My Girlfriend's Wedding
Director
Director Jim McBride's "liberated" English girlfriend talks candidly about her life and her reasons for marrying another man. The awkward city hall ceremony and aftermath are also photographed.
David Holzman's Diary
Writer
Um jovem diretor decide fazer um filme sobre a sua própria vida.
David Holzman's Diary
Producer
Um jovem diretor decide fazer um filme sobre a sua própria vida.
David Holzman's Diary
Editor
Um jovem diretor decide fazer um filme sobre a sua própria vida.
David Holzman's Diary
Director
Um jovem diretor decide fazer um filme sobre a sua própria vida.