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John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre.
In a productive life of more than 40 years, Osborne explored many themes and genres, writing for stage, film and TV. His personal life was extravagant and iconoclastic. He was notorious for the ornate violence of his language, not only on behalf of the political causes he supported but also against his own family, including his wives and children.
Osborne was one of the first writers to address Britain's purpose in the post-imperial age. He was the first to question the point of the monarchy on a prominent public stage. During his peak (1956–1966), he helped make contempt an acceptable and now even cliched onstage emotion, argued for the cleansing wisdom of bad behaviour and bad taste, and combined unsparing truthfulness with devastating wit.
L'année suivante, Osborne propose Le Cabotin, un drame dont Laurence Olivier tient le rôle-titre. La Paix du dimanche et Le Cabotin seront toutes deux portées à l'écran par Tony Richardson.
En 1963, Osborne gagne l'Oscar du meilleur scénario adapté pour le film Tom Jones réalisé par Richardson d'après le roman de Henry Fielding.
Osborne est mort des suites du diabète le 24 décembre 1994, peu de temps après son 65e anniversaire.
(1964)
(Auteur)
(1985)
(Scriptwriter)
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 12 december 1929 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 24 december 1994 (at 65 years) at Shropshire (United-kingdom)
Birth 12 december 1929 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 24 december 1994 (at 65 years) at Shropshire (United-kingdom)
In a productive life of more than 40 years, Osborne explored many themes and genres, writing for stage, film and TV. His personal life was extravagant and iconoclastic. He was notorious for the ornate violence of his language, not only on behalf of the political causes he supported but also against his own family, including his wives and children.
Osborne was one of the first writers to address Britain's purpose in the post-imperial age. He was the first to question the point of the monarchy on a prominent public stage. During his peak (1956–1966), he helped make contempt an acceptable and now even cliched onstage emotion, argued for the cleansing wisdom of bad behaviour and bad taste, and combined unsparing truthfulness with devastating wit.
Biography
John Osborne est né en 1929 au sein d'une famille de la classe moyenne. Sa pièce La Paix du dimanche, écrite alors qu'Osborne a 25 ans, est créée à Londres en 1956 et remporte un succès immédiat. Elle sera par la suite considérée comme une des premières manifestations du mouvement contestataire des 'angry young men' qui agitera l'Angleterre vers la fin des années 1950.L'année suivante, Osborne propose Le Cabotin, un drame dont Laurence Olivier tient le rôle-titre. La Paix du dimanche et Le Cabotin seront toutes deux portées à l'écran par Tony Richardson.
En 1963, Osborne gagne l'Oscar du meilleur scénario adapté pour le film Tom Jones réalisé par Richardson d'après le roman de Henry Fielding.
Osborne est mort des suites du diabète le 24 décembre 1994, peu de temps après son 65e anniversaire.
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Flash Gordon (1980)
, 1h48Directed by Mike Hodges, Brian W. Cook
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Dans l'espace, Sur une planète fictive, Superhero films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Chaim Topol, Timothy Dalton, Max von Sydow, Ornella Muti
Roles Arborian Priest
Rating64%
Emperor Ming the Merciless declares that he will first play with and then destroy the Earth using natural disasters. On Earth, New York Jets football star "Flash" Gordon boards a small plane, where he meets travel journalist Dale Arden. Mid-flight, the cockpit is hit by a meteorite and the pilots are lost. Flash takes control and manages to crash land into a greenhouse owned by Dr. Hans Zarkov. Zarkov, who believes the disasters are being caused because an unknown source is pushing the Moon towards Earth, has secretly constructed a spacecraft which he plans to use to investigate. Zarkov's assistant refuses to go, so he lures Flash and Dale aboard. The rocket launches, taking them to the planet Mongo, where they are captured by Ming's troops.
Tomorrow Never Comes (1978)
, 1h49Directed by Peter Collinson
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Oliver Reed, Susan George, Paul Koslo, Raymond Burr, John Ireland, Donald Pleasence
Roles Lyne
Rating50%
Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank (Stephen McHattie) discovers that his girlfriend Janie (Susan George) is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well as other gifts, in exchange for her affections. In the course of fighting over this development, tensions between Frank and Janie escalate out of control until he is holding her hostage in a standoff with the police. As the negotiators (Oliver Reed, Paul Koslo) try to talk Frank into giving himself up, the desperate man feels himself being pushed further and further into a corner.
Get Carter (1971)
, 1h52Directed by Mike Hodges
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, Britt Ekland, Bryan Mosley, Wolfgang Suschitzky
Roles Kinnear
Rating72%
Newcastle-born gangster Jack Carter has lived in London for years in the employ of organised crime bosses Gerald and Sid Fletcher. Jack is sleeping with Gerald's girlfriend Anna and plans to escape with her to South America. But first he must return to Newcastle and Gateshead to attend the funeral of his brother Frank, who died in a purported drunk-driving accident. Unsatisfied with the official explanation, Jack investigates for himself. At the funeral Jack meets with his teenage niece Doreen and Frank's evasive mistress Margaret. It is later implied that Doreen might actually be Jack's daughter.
First Love (1970)
, 1h29Directed by Maximilian Schell
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Dominique Sanda, John Moulder-Brown, Maximilian Schell, Valentina Cortese, Marius Goring, Dandy Nichols
Roles Maidanov
Rating64%
For plot details, see First Love the novella by Ivan Turgenev.
Tom Jones (1964)
, 2h8Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Diane Cilento, Joyce Redman
Rating63%
The story begins with a silent film sequence during which the good Squire Allworthy (George Devine) returns home after a lengthy stay in London and discovers a baby (played by a girl, Lynn Goldsworthy) in his bed. Thinking that his barber, Mr. Partridge (Jack MacGowran), and one of his servants, Jenny Jones (Joyce Redman), have "birthed" the infant out of lust, the squire banishes them and chooses to raise little Tom Jones as if he were his own son.
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England, My England (1995)
Directed by Tony Palmer
Genres Biography, Historical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Simon Callow, Michael Ball, Lucy Speed, Letitia Dean, Nina Young, John Shrapnel
Roles Writer
Rating69%
Look Back in Anger (1989)
, 1h55Directed by Judi Dench
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Gerard Horan, Siobhan Redmond
Roles Writer
Rating69%
Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter (Branagh), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Thompson), and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles (Redmond). Cliff (Horan), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.
Colonel Redl (1985)
, 2h20Directed by István Szabó
Origin German
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Spy films, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe, Jan Niklas, András Bálint
Rating73%
Alfred Redl, a Ruthenian boy from Galicia in the Austria- Hungary Empire, wins an appointment to a prestigious military academy in spite of being the son of a mere peasant farmer. At his departure from home, his mother installs in him eternal gratitude towards the Emperor Franz Josef. Redl is never to forget that he owes to the emperor his promising career.
God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (1985)
Directed by Tony Palmer
Genres Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Trevor Howard
Roles Writer
Rating67%
In old age the British-German composer George Frideric Handel reflects over his life and musical career.
Look Back in Anger (1980)
, 1h40Directed by Lindsay Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes, Fran Brill
Roles Writer
Rating73%
Look Back in Anger is about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man Jimmy Porter (Malcolm McDowell), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Lisa Banes), and her snooty best friend Helena Charles (Fran Brill). Cliff (Raymond Hardie), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976)
, 1h40Directed by John Gorrie
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Peter Firth, John Gielgud, Jeremy Brett, Judi Bowker, Nicholas Clay, Nicholas Ball
Rating2%
Luther (1974)
, 1h51Directed by Guy Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films based on plays
Actors Stacy Keach, Julian Glover, Maurice Denham, Judi Dench, Patrick Magee, Hugh Griffith
Roles Writer
Rating64%
The time span covered by the film is 1506–1526: from Luther's completion of his novitiate in the Order of Eremites of St. Augustine in Erfurt to a time just after the birth of his first son Hans (b. June 7, 1526). It is narrated by Julian Glover, who portrays a young knight in the tradition of Ulrich von Hutten and Franz von Sickingen. He takes Luther to task for failing to complete his "revolution" by supporting the peasants in their uprising: "You could have done it, Martin." Luther is confronted in the course of the film six other times, giving him the opportunity to defend himself in his own words. The metaphor of constipation and flatulence is employed to indicate Luther's progression from insecurity to confidence in life.
Inadmissible Evidence (1968)
Directed by Anthony Page
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Nicol Williamson, Peter Sallis, Eileen Atkins, Isabel Dean, Gillian Hills, Jill Bennett
Roles Writer
Rating64%
, 2h19Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett, Mark Burns
Roles Writer
Rating65%
The film is about the folly of war, and the poor state of the British Army and its leadership during the Crimean War (1853–56). Britain had not fought in a European theatre since the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, and the army had become sclerotic and bound by bureaucracy. Tactical and logistical methodology had not advanced in forty years, and the whole ethos of the army was bound in outmoded social values.