What is a 1996 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, that was produced by a man who formed the film production company Thin Man Films in 1988?
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Simon Channing Williams Simon Channing Williams (10 June 1945 – 11 April 2009) was a British film producer. He was born in Maidenhead. After having worked as a production assistant and producer of TV films and TV series in the 1970s and early 1980s, he and Mike Leigh formed the film production company Thin Man Films in 1988. This company has produced all of Mike Leigh's films since then, among them the double Oscar-winning "Topsy-Turvy", the Oscar-nominated "Vera Drake" and the Palme d'Or-winning "Secrets & Lies".
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Secrets &amp; Lies (film) Secrets & Lies is a 1996 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Leigh regulars, it stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Hortense, a well-educated black middle-class London optometrist, who was adopted as a baby and has chosen to trace her family history – only to discover that her birth mother, Cynthia, played by Brenda Blethyn, is a working-class white woman with a dysfunctional family. Claire Rushbrook co-stars as Cynthia's other daughter Roxanne, while Timothy Spall and Phyllis Logan portray Cynthia's brother and sister-in-law, who have secrets of their own affecting their everyday family life.
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Georgina Lowe Georgina Lowe is a British film and television producer, who has produced director Mike Leigh's films since 2009.
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The Disappearance of Finbar The Disappearance of Finbar is a 1996 Irish-Swedish mystery drama film directed by Sue Clayton and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers in an early role. The film also features the first appearance of Colin Farrell, in an uncredited role.
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Trainspotting (film) Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy crime film directed by Danny Boyle, and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald in her acting debut. Based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996.
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The Angry Silence The Angry Silence is a 1960 black-and-white British drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig and Bernard Lee. The film marked the first release through screenwriter Bryan Forbes's production venture, Beaver Films and Forbes won a BAFTA Award and an Oscar nomination for his contribution (shared with original story writers Michael Craig and Richard Gregson).
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Tin Cup Tin Cup is a 1996 romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Ron Shelton, and starring Kevin Costner and Rene Russo with Cheech Marin and Don Johnson in major supporting roles.
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Mike Salisbury John Michael "Mike" Salisbury, OBE (born March 1942) is an English documentary filmmaker specialising in natural history programmes for television. In a career spanning four decades, he spent over 30 years working for the BBC Natural History Unit where he produced a string of award-winning series, many in collaboration with David Attenborough. He retired from the Unit in 2006 but continues to work as a freelance producer. In 2007, he was made an OBE in the New Year Honours List for his services to broadcasting.
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La Passione (1996 film) La Passione is a British 1996 drama film written and produced by Chris Rea, directed by John B. Hobbs, and starring Sean Gallagher, Paul Shane and Shirley Bassey. The film premiered on 14 November 1996 at the BFI London Film Festival. The film features a cameo appearance by Rea, as well the same-titled soundtrack also composed by him.
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Layin' Low Layin' Low is a 1996 film directed by Danny Leiner and stars Jeremy Piven, Louise Lasser and Edie Falco.
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Heavy Weather (film) Heavy Weather is a television film by Douglas Livingstone based on the novel "Heavy Weather" by P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), set at Blandings Castle. It was made by the BBC and WGBH Boston, first screened by the BBC on Christmas Eve 1995 and shown in the United States on PBS's "Masterpiece Theatre" on 18 February 1996.
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Icon Films Icon Films is a British independent television production company that produces factual programmes for broadcast by networks both in the UK and US. The company was founded in 1990 by Harry Marshall and Laura Marshall, and is based in Bristol.
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Ecosse Films Ecosse Films is a British film and television production company based in London.
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Frank Leigh Frank Leigh (18 April 1876 – 9 May 1948) was a British stage and film actor.
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Big Night Big Night is a 1996 American comedy-drama film directed by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci. Produced by David Kirkpatrick and Jonathan Filley for the Samuel Goldwyn Company, the film met with positive reviews and grosses $14 million worldwide. It was nominated for the "Grand Jury Prize" at the Sundance Film Festival and the "Grand Special Prize" at the Deauville Film Festival.
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Element of Doubt Element of Doubt is a 1996 British thriller film directed by Christopher Morahan and starring Gina McKee and Michael Jayston.
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Triga Films Triga Films is a UK film company specialising in gay porn. Early pioneers of chav, scally, "straight lad" and working class gay films, the vast majority of which star raconteur Alexander 'the Toffee Boy' Austin. Company started in 1997 with release of its first film entitled "Skinhead", a mildly erotic documentary about the British Skinhead phenomenon and its links to gay working class culture, or gay skinheads Company also made a lesbian release entitled 'Dolly Birds' in 1999 before specialising entirely in gay male product. As the company has evolved the narrative of their films has centred on many typical working-class professions such as construction workers, "white-van-men", removal men and those in uniform. Whilst others have featured story-lines which portray a world set around 'hooligans', gangsters and disenfranchised urban unemployed men.
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The Elephant Man (film) The Elephant Man is a 1980 American historical drama film about Joseph Merrick (whom the script calls John Merrick), a severely deformed man in late 19th century London. The film was directed by David Lynch and stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon and Freddie Jones. It was produced by Jonathan Sanger and Mel Brooks, the latter of whom was intentionally left uncredited to avoid confusion from audiences who possibly would have expected a comedy.
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Mull (film) Mull is a 1988 Australian drama film directed by Don McLennan. The film is based on the popular 1986 book, "Mullaway" by Bronwen 'Bron' Nichols.
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1996 Laurence Olivier Awards The 1996 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 1996 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre.
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Heaven's Prisoners Heaven's Prisoners is a 1996 American crime drama thriller film directed by Phil Joanou and starring Alec Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Mary Stuart Masterson, Teri Hatcher and Eric Roberts. It is based on a Dave Robicheaux homonymous novel by James Lee Burke. Harley Peyton and Scott Frank wrote the screenplay.
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The Ogre (1996 film) The Ogre (German: Der Unhold ) is a 1996 French-German drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring John Malkovich, Gottfried John, Marianne Sägebrecht, Volker Spengler, Heino Ferch, Dieter Laser and Armin Mueller-Stahl. It was written by Jean-Claude Carrière and Schlöndorff, based on the novel "The Erl-King" by Michel Tournier. The story follows a simple man who recruits children to be Nazis in the belief that he is protecting them.