Neil Armfield

Nascimento : 1955-04-22, Sydney, Australia

Filmes

The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet
Director
When Australian composer Brett Dean’s Hamlet had its world premiere at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017, The Guardian declared, “New opera doesn’t often get to sound this good … Shakespeare offers a gauntlet to composers that shouldn’t always be picked up, but Dean’s Hamlet rises to the challenge.” On June 4, this riveting contemporary masterpiece appears live in cinemas, with Neil Armfield, who directed the work’s premiere, bringing his acclaimed staging to the Met stage. Many of the original cast members have followed, including tenor Allan Clayton in the title role. Nicholas Carter makes his Met debut conducting a remarkable ensemble, which also features soprano Brenda Rae as Ophelia, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly as Gertrude, baritone Rod Gilfry as Claudius, and legendary bass John Tomlinson as the ghost of Hamlet’s father. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe
National Theatre Live: I’m Not Running
Stage Director
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas. Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalwart loyalist in Labour Party politics, she’s faced with an agonising decision. What’s involved in sacrificing your private life and your piece of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?
Glyndebourne: Hamlet
Stage Director
Brett Dean's multi-award-winning opera received its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017. The world premiere recording of Brett Deans new opera based on Shakespeares best-known tragedy: To be, or not to be. This is Hamlets dilemma, and the essence of Shakespeares most famous and arguably greatest work, given new life in operatic form in this original Glyndebourne commission. Thoughts of murder and revenge drive Hamlet when he learns that it was his uncle Claudius who killed his father, the King of Denmark, then seized his fathers crown and wife. But Hamlets vengeance vies with the question: is suicide a morally valid deed in an unbearably painful world?
Holding the Man
Director
Tim e John se apaixonam enquanto adolescentes. John era o capitão do time de futebol americano, Tim um aspirante a ator desempenhando um papel menor em Romeu e Julieta. O romance perdurou por 15 anos para rir na cara de tudo que a vida jogou para eles - separações, discriminações, tentações, ciúmes e perdas.
The Marriage of Figaro
Director
Charming, light-hearted and fizzing with subversive wit, Neil Armfield's sparkling production of the marriage of Figaro captures Mozart's most popular Opera. In this classic performance, recorded live at the Sydney Opera House, Patrick Summers conducts a energetic fresh-voiced cast, headed up by baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Taryn Fiebig who make a vivacious, appealing pairing as Figaro and Susanna, while Peter Coleman-Wright triumps as the lascivious Count Almaviva.
Candy
Screenplay
Candy é uma pintora jovem e talentosa e Dan, um poeta promissor. Ambos são viciados em drogas. Quando se encontram, é amor à primeira vista. No início, sentem como se tivessem encontrado o paraíso. Mas, como em todos os paraísos, também neste há um pecado original: a heroína. Ambos acreditam que a felicidade não tem limites. Com o decorrer do tempo, percebem que não têm como sobreviver. Candy precisa se prostituir, e Dan não a impede. Eles decidem fortalecer o amor que os une e se casam.
Candy
Director
Candy é uma pintora jovem e talentosa e Dan, um poeta promissor. Ambos são viciados em drogas. Quando se encontram, é amor à primeira vista. No início, sentem como se tivessem encontrado o paraíso. Mas, como em todos os paraísos, também neste há um pecado original: a heroína. Ambos acreditam que a felicidade não tem limites. Com o decorrer do tempo, percebem que não têm como sobreviver. Candy precisa se prostituir, e Dan não a impede. Eles decidem fortalecer o amor que os une e se casam.
The Castanet Club
Director
A 1991 Australian film starring the popular Newcastle cabaret troupe, The Castanet Club. A movie you can dance to!
Sweetie
Thanks
Conservadora e supersticiosa, Kay tenta levar uma vida normal com o novo namorado Louis. Isso até Sweetie, sua irmã despreocupada, voltar para casa depois de um tempo fora, expondo as raízes podres de sua família e colocando pressão no relacionamento de Kay e Louis.
Twelfth Night
Writer
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.
Twelfth Night
Director
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.