Antonia Bird

In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird’s legacy, and to place her where she belongs – among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.

A documentary directed by Antonia Bird.

A documentary directed by Antonia Bird.

After living in Australia for the past decade, Fitz and Judith return to Manchester in 2004 for their daughter Katie's wedding. Drinking too much at the reception, Fitz stumbles through a rambling toast, which only embarrasses the bride. Instead of spending time with his grandson, son of his married son Mark, Fitz opts to join in the investigation of a serial killer who has an apparent dislike of Americans in the wake of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq.

A gripping story of love, deceit, betrayal and survival set against the backdrop of the Miners' Strike of 1984-85. Michelle is married to Gary, a young miner who goes on strike as soon as the dispute between the Thatcher government and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) begins. Meanwhile, her sister Linda's husband Paul is a local policeman. Paul becomes more and more voluble in his opposition to the strike, while Linda looks around her and witnesses the women of her community suddenly find a voice and independence. The scene is set for political and personal conflicts which would change their lives forever.

A fictionalized account of the September 11 hijackers.

TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around.

TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around.

A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.

Действие фильма происходит в 1847 году, в период войны Америки с Мексикой. Капитана Джона Бойда чествуют и награждают различными медалями, однако он не рад этим обстоятельствам. Причиной его чествования стал захват ставки противника в одиночку, но только он один знает все обстоятельства столь смелого поступка — он просто струсил, бросил оружие и притворился мёртвым. Так он пролежал длительное время среди мёртвых товарищей, а впоследствии в состоянии аффекта поубивал всех неприятелей. Однако продвижения по службе Джон не получил, вместо этого его направляют в одинокий форт в горах Калифорнии. Через некоторое время в форт приходит оборванный и изголодавшийся мужчина по имени Калхун. Из его истории становится ясно, что он был членом каравана, который вёл проводник. Проводник заблудился и люди, в связи с наступившей зимой, поселились в пещере. Однако запасов еды было мало и в тот момент, когда они кончились люди начали поедать друг друга. Калхуну удалось бежать.

...Пятеро лондонцев ограбили банковское хранилище, но денег оказалось меньше, чем они ожидали. Слишком мелкие были купюры, а до приезда полиции - всего четыре минуты. Ночью к Рэю), главарю банды, пришел окровавленный соучастник ограбления, сообщив, что в его доме на него напали и забрали деньги неизвестные. Начинаются их поиски, и зрителя ждет масса сюрпризов. Но главное в картине не сюрпризы, а то, как глубоко, убедительно и нетипично для жанра выписаны и сыграны роли. Фильм, сам по себе захватывающий, поднимается намного выше среднего уровня и надолго остается в памяти. Удовольствие от него получат как любители "экшн", так и ценители хорошего кино. Лицам младше 16 лет просмотр не рекомендуется из-за сцен насилия, снятых крайне натуралистично.

Со времен Ромео и Джульетты поэты называют любовь безумием. Для некоторых это — не просто красивые слова. Ничто на свете не может разлучить Мэтта и Кейси, преданных друг другу всем сердцем — кроме болезненной тяги девушки к самоубийству. После неудачной попытки умереть родители прячут ее в психиатрическую клинику, но дикой страсти нет никаких преград. Мэтт похищает возлюбленную, чтобы увезти ее на край света. Но очень скоро романтическое путешествие становится смертельно опасным…

Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.

Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.

While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.

A black comedy and period piece set during the Thatcher years, it tells the story of an affair between two academics, previously devoted wife and mother Charity Walton (Harriet Walter) and serial womanizer Mark Carleton (Bill Nighy)

Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.

Play by Tom McClenaghan, about a routine patrol in the submarine HMS Superior. Strange, near-farcical take on tensions, eccentricities and sexuality among the crew of a Polaris submarine, on a six-week tour of duty off the coast of Faslane in Scotland. Among their number, Neil Pearson is the wily, mascara-wearing, cross-dressing messhand AB Seaman ‘Cock’ Roach, using his Bilko-esque charm to scale the naval pecking order and positively thrive in this tiny, cloistered world

Playwright Trevor Griffiths' Oi For England, originally set in Moss Side, was first screened by Central TV in April 1982. It was then staged at The Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, directed by the late, then resident director Antonia Bird and featured Paul McGann, Robin Hayter, Dorian Healy, Peter Lovstrom, Paul Moriarty, and Beverley Martin in the cast. The play toured youth clubs and community centres across London in a bid to engage young people in the social and political issues of the day and to unite them against racism and fascism. This film replete with exclusive interviews from Griffiths, musical director Andy Roberts and guests Alan Gilbey (east end writer) and Micky Geggus (Cockney Rejects) looks back at the tour by way of a reunion of the play's original cast and crew almost 30 years later.

Playwright Trevor Griffiths' Oi For England, originally set in Moss Side, was first screened by Central TV in April 1982. It was then staged at The Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, directed by the late, then resident director Antonia Bird and featured Paul McGann, Robin Hayter, Dorian Healy, Peter Lovstrom, Paul Moriarty, and Beverley Martin in the cast. The play toured youth clubs and community centres across London in a bid to engage young people in the social and political issues of the day and to unite them against racism and fascism. This film replete with exclusive interviews from Griffiths, musical director Andy Roberts and guests Alan Gilbey (east end writer) and Micky Geggus (Cockney Rejects) looks back at the tour by way of a reunion of the play's original cast and crew almost 30 years later.