Carl Davis

An Interview with Carl Davis

История состоятельной Флоренс Фостер Дженкинс, которая грезила петь на сцене, несмотря на отсутствие слуха и вокального таланта.

A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.

A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.

An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo offers an intimate look at the life and career of the movies' most luminous, reclusive and mystifying star. A portrait of Garbo the woman is drawn through interviews with biographers and admirers, plus many of the friends, relatives and associates who came closest to penetrating the lonely star's veil of solitude.

An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo offers an intimate look at the life and career of the movies' most luminous, reclusive and mystifying star. A portrait of Garbo the woman is drawn through interviews with biographers and admirers, plus many of the friends, relatives and associates who came closest to penetrating the lonely star's veil of solitude.

An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.

Новая работа известных автора либретто Гилберта и композитора Салливана проваливается. Творческий дуэт сталкивается с кризисом. Тут как нельзя кстати оказывается японская выставка в Лондоне…

Великобритания вступила во Вторую мировую войну, и небольшая тихая деревушка стала наполняться эвакуированными из Лондона детьми. Угрюмому вдовцу Тому Оукли, несмотря на протесты, достается десятилетний Уильям Бич. Мальчик доставляет много хлопот, но когда мистер Оукли узнает его получше, то понимает, что жизнь этого ребенка в родной семье была не такой уж и легкой. Спасти мальчика от ужасов войны и жестокости взрослых, раскрыть его таланты и помочь преодолеть все трудности сможет только мистер Том.

Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs Rochefort for Senegal in 1816. After striking a sandbar off the African coast, 150 civilians row safely to shore, but Captain Chaumareys (Jean Yanne) orders 140 soldiers and sailors onto a raft (minus supplies) and has it cut loose. Only 14 survive from the 140, creating a scandal back in France. Gericault (Laurent Terzieff) later talks to three of the survivors while researching his painting. Work on this film began in 1987, but sets destroyed by Hurricane Hugo caused delays, so the film was not completed until 1990. However, it then remained undistributed until an incident in which writer-director Azimi slashed his wrists in front of French Ministry of Culture officials.

Комедия о событиях в небольшом курортном городке в Ирландии в 20-е годы, большей частью населенном и управляемом женщинами, преимущественно вдовами (почему городок и получил шутливое название «Вдовья Гора«), спокойную и размеренную жизнь которого нарушает прибытие молодой богатой американки Эдвины (тоже вдовы).

In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a series of murders when he encounters the ghost of Genghis Cohn. The haunting turns into a taunting, and before he knows it, Schatz is slowly driven mad as he is lured into a trap.

Liberation tells the dramatic story of the battle waged on two fronts during World War II - the Allied campaign to liberate Europe and Hitler's genocidal campaign against the Jews. The World War II documentary uses film footage, radio broadcasts, and period music gathered from archives around the world. Interwoven throughout the film are the compelling stories of the Jews of Europe - unforgettable stories of tragedy, courage, resistance, and survival. Liberation begins in 1942, when Adolf Hitler was still at the height of his power and the Allies began envisioning a cross-channel invasion of Europe.

Проснувшись обычным будничным утром, законопослушный работник банка, господин К. обнаруживает в своих апартаментах двух незнакомцев, которые сообщают ему о том, что он арестован и находится под следствием. От чьего имени выступают эти люди и какова статья обвинения, узнать не удается. Тем не менее, все вокруг, будто сговорившись, подтверждают реальность случившегося...

Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith

Jim Broadbent wrote and starred in this short film directed by none other than Mike Leigh. As a member of the landed gentry, the 23rd Earl of Leete has a duty to maintain and expand his lands. Shot in the style and manner of a BBC documentary, Broadbent tells his family history to the crew, who slowly come to realise - as do we - that things are not what they seem.

Экранизация пьесы Пола Джованни, написанной по мотивам повести Артура Конана Дойла «Знак четырех». Шерлок Холмс занимается расследованием истории, связанной с некогда украденными в Индии сокровищами, на которых лежало древнее страшное проклятие.

In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But when Riah discovers the reason behind Miller's gifts, she vows to leave his house, but Miller has a hold on her, even after his death, when he leaves his house to her on the condition that she never marry. Riah's daughter, Biddy, grows up and becomes a laundress in a large house where her education keeps her from fitting in and makes her a target. But it also catches the eye of a son of the house, and with Miller's legacies, Biddy may yet find her way to happiness.

Echoes That Remain combines hundreds of rare archival photos and previously unseen film footage with live action sequences shot on location at the sites of former Jewish communities in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The film's production team spent over a year of research in archives around the world collecting film footage and photographs to help dramatize the folk stories, parables, and anecdotes. Playing an important role in the film are a series of evocative images from the famed photo biographer of Eastern European shtetl life, the late Roman Vishniac.

2031 год, Лос-Анджелес. Безумный ученый по имени Джо Дьюкеннен, работающий над созданием супер-оружия, совершает путешествие в прошлое и попадает в швейцарский городок начала девятнадцатого века. В местом пабе Бьюкенен знакомится с печально известным изобретателем, доктор Виктором Франкенштейном.

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies.

A woman goes slowly mad as she is confined to a room for weeks on end by her husband.

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.

Когда у юной девушки вопреки всем предрассудкам, свойственным ее богатой и консервативной семье, пробуждаются первые чувственные желания, она стремится получить от жизни все. Урсула познает горечь несчастной любви, неприятие собственной семьи, но не теряет стремления к тому прекрасному идеалу пылкой и нежной страсти, который живет в ее воображении.

Когда у юной девушки вопреки всем предрассудкам, свойственным ее богатой и консервативной семье, пробуждаются первые чувственные желания, она стремится получить от жизни все. Урсула познает горечь несчастной любви, неприятие собственной семьи, но не теряет стремления к тому прекрасному идеалу пылкой и нежной страсти, который живет в ее воображении.

Фильм рассказывает о скандале, который спровоцировал роман британского министра и экзотической танцовщицы.

A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite the fact that he knows virtually nothing about her. She insists on not being married in a church, and after they are married, some bad things from her past begin surfacing in subtly supernatural ways, and he must find the best way to deal with them without destroying their relationship.

A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.

Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading regulations. One night in Basle, Switzerland, he leaves his home to post a letter, the start of a nightmare journey that leads to terrible consequences for his life, his career and for his wife and children.

Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading regulations. One night in Basle, Switzerland, he leaves his home to post a letter, the start of a nightmare journey that leads to terrible consequences for his life, his career and for his wife and children.

Экранизация известного библейского предания о пастухе Давиде, одолевшего великана Голиафа и взошедшего на трон древнего Израиля.

Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

The Pickwick Papers is a twelve-part BBC adaption of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, first broadcast in 1985. It starred Nigel Stock, Alan Parnaby, Clive Swift and Patrick Malahide, with narration spoken by Ray Brooks.

Картина, основанная на документальных записях, тщательно и подробно воспроизводит обстоятельства жизни академика Андрея Сахарова, его борьбы за права человека — начиная с известного письма руководству КПСС в конце 60-х годов и вплоть до ссылки в Горький.

The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National

Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster who the father thinks will bail him out of his money troubles instead.

Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.

Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.

In the 1930s, Alison starts a new boarding school and becomes embroiled in a sinister plot to dethrone the royal family of Bosnovia.

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.

1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the mode of dress and manners of behaviour she thinks expected of a wealthy woman.

A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.

Фильм основан на романе известного писателя Джона Фаулза. Эта история произошла в 19 веке в Англии. Чарльз Смитсон, богатый и молодой биолог, помолвлен с девушкой. Сара Вудрафф — падшая женщина, отвергнутая всеми. Человек из высшего света и женщина, изгнанная из него. Что может сблизить этих людей? Только внезапно вспыхнувшая страсть… Но Сара бросает Чарльза. Параллельно с этим развивается другая история. Анна и Майк, молодые актеры, играющие Сару и Чарльза, настолько вживаются в свои роли, что не замечают, как персонажи начинают изменять их собственные судьбы.

A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.

Biopic of Malcolm Campbell, detailing his tumultuous life and extreme drive as he attempts to break the world speed records on land and water.

The early days of the Fab Four are traced from their bleakest hours as unknowns on Penny Lane in Liverpool to their triumph on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.

Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.

Trevor is an extremely shy undertaker's assistant. He always tags along with his good friend Ronnie, when he goes to the pub with his girlfriend Sandra. Sandra introduces Trevor to her more forward friend Linda. Linda has a difficult time getting Trevor to go out with her, but she finally gets him to go to a disco; he won't dance, so Linda dances with Ronnie.

When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the past.

Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion will not be a solution, and he finds himself more distressed than ever.

Биографический фильм о жизни Квентина Криспа – человека, сломавшего ханжескую мораль консервативной Британии, открыто признавшегося, что он гей, и заставившего в судебном порядке оправдать его. Только после этого прецедента в послевоенной Англии было упразднено уголовное преследование за гомосексуализм.

Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment. Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being. With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.

Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has eliminated much of the original dogma of Catholicism. A group of Irish monks rebel against this situation and react back to the past: they begin to say Mass in Latin and act according to traditional Catholic dogma. So, Rome decides to send a representative to investigate what is happening

Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions even further. Jack Gould directs such outstanding British actors as Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden, Mervyn Johns, and, in only his second film, Bob Hoskins. The renowned Carl Davis composed the score.

Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detective agency to guard the gas and steal it respectively... confusion, double crosses and hilarity ensue...

A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour...

Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth Mr. Blake (also Lee) who gets more monstrous with each transformation. Peter Cushing plays his friend and colleague, Dr. Utterson.

A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink his place within the revolution after the events of the 1968 May uprising in Paris.