Alan Parker
Also Known As: Алан Паркер, 앨런 파커, 알란 파커
Biography: Sir Alan Parker was a director, writer and producer. His feature films have won nineteen BAFTA awards, ten Golden Globes and ten Oscars. His films include Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning, The Commitments, Evita, Fame, Birdy, Angel Heart and Angela’s Ashes. He was founding chairman of the UK Film Council, a position he held for five years, and prior to that was chairman of the BFI. Sir Alan received the CBE in 1995 and a knighthood in 2002. He was also an Officier Des Arts et Lettres (France).
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Islington, London, England, UK
Birthday: February 14, 1944
Deathday: July 31, 2020
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Gender: Male
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Evita: The Making of a Superstar
Overview: Suzy Klein travels deep into the world of musical theatre, and the colourful landscapes of Argentina, to discover the story of one of the West End's most celebrated characters. Intertwining the stories of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's creation with the true story of Eva Peron, she celebrates the extraordinary show in the 40th year after its creation. Meeting musical stars including Elaine Paige, Hal Prince and Tim Rice, she hears how the show came into being, all inspired by a face on a postage stamp. She then travels to Argentina, meeting politicians, performers and Eva fans to hear how this intensely divisive figure - loved by the poor, loathed by the rich - became one of the enduring icons of our time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-24
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A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita'
Overview: Documentary about the making of Alan Parker's film adaptation of the stage musical EVITA.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-13
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On Location with: FAME
Overview: A short film about the making of the movie "Fame" (1980)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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A Turnip Head’s Guide To The British Cinema
Overview: Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s Lynn on the making of Hugh Hudson’s Revolution, starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, and Nastassja Kinski.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Overview: The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard Attenborough.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-25
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The Life of David Gale
Overview: A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-21
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Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Overview: A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as he prepares to release his final major film I, Daniel Blake.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-30
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The Commitments - Looking Back
Overview: Documentary about the 1991 film
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-16
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Angela's Ashes
Overview: An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Overview: An examination of the evolution of commercials as an artistic medium, featuring interviews with media luminaries who relate how the in-your-face stylistic conventions of commercials have influenced feature films and the visual arts. A documentary film talking about art and advertising divided in three parts: 1. Crossing Over - from cinema to ads from ads to cinema 2. Humour - How humour affects us in advertising 3. Shock - The way shock is used to sell
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-17
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100 Films and a Funeral
Overview: This documentary covers the life and death of London-based Polygram Filmed Entertainment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-02
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Pink Floyd's The Wall: The Ultimate Critical Review
Overview: It is now over 25 years since the launch of The Wall. Conceived by Roger Waters as an ambitious double album, a spectacular live show and a ground breaking feature film. The Wall has gone on to achieve iconic status in the history of popular music. This program draws on live performance footage of Pink Floyd and highlights from the film. Also includes extracts from archive interviews with Gerald Scarfe and Alan Parker, the director of The Wall, along with the views of a team of leading musicians and musicologists. This is the independent critical review of a milestone in popular culture, which strips away the prejudice to produce the ultimate retrospective on one of the most important and iconoclastic popular works of the twentieth century. Featuring Highlights From: • Another Brick in The Wall Part 2 • Comfortably Numb • One Of My Turns • Plus Many More!
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-07
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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Overview: With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-02
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The Other Side of the Wall
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at Roger Waters and Alan Parker’s 1982 film, “The Wall”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Retrospective: Looking Back at the Wall
Overview: Interviews on the making of Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982). Included as a 2-Part special feature on the 1999 and 2005 DVD editions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
Overview: Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-14
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Who Killed British Cinema?
Overview: A feature length documentary about the real state of the British film industry in relation to UK structures past, present and currently for the future. This film exposes the shocking truths about the UK Governments' will to grow an indigenous British film industry, the legacy and testament of the now closed UK Film Council (UKFC), the current British Film Institute and the new Creative England.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-26
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The Commitments
Overview: Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-14
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It's Black Entertainment
Overview: A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Williams traces the struggles and triumphs of the superstars of music and film. Among the many artists featured are: Whitney Houston, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ella Fitzgerald, and Little Richard, Also included are today's contemporary superstars: Snoop Dogg, Ice T, Quincy Jones, Spike Lee, Russell Simmons, and many, more! 80 minutes plus DVD bonus features.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-08
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Evita
Overview: The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-14
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Overview: In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-05
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Michael Powell
Overview: The first episode of a new arts documentary program from BBC Scotland was dedicated to Michael Powell in his centenary year. The program interviews many people who knew or worked with him or were influenced by his work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-14
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