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Sep 4, 2022 · — Mike Figgis on casting Sting in Stormy Monday Sting, himself from Newcastle, understood the project immediately, playing with dry humor a kind of aspirational thug with taste who wears disheveled Armani and doesn’t always shave, but who loves quality jazz and will walk away from millions of dollars if he feels his friends have been ...
Feb 16, 2021 · 852 Films. “ Mother Tongue ,” a suspense thriller directed by two-time Academy Award nominee Mike Figgis (“Leaving Las Vegas,” “Internal Affairs”) starts shooting in Hong Kong this ...
Feb 9, 1996 · Leaving Las Vegas: Directed by Mike Figgis. With Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis. Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death.
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Sep 26, 2003 · "Hotel" is a movie that works in no conventional sense, and succeeds in several unconventional ones. Most audiences will find it baffling and unsatisfactory. Those who are open to its flywheel peculiarities may find it bold, funny, peculiar and delightful. The director is Mike Figgis, whose conventional thriller "Cold Creek Manor" opened last week.
Visual History with Mike Figgis Interviewed by: Jeremy Kagan Mike Figgis discusses his 30-plus year career as director of such films as Stormy Monday, Leaving Las Vegas, and Timecode. Figgis reveals his passion for drama, innovation, and his unending desire to experiment within the realm of narrative filmmaking.
Oct 12, 2019 · Oscar-winning director Mike Figgis shines a spotlight on Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood in 'Somebody Up There Likes Me,' with backing vocals by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Rod Stewart and more.
He played alongside Bryan Ferry in an R & B band, Gas Board, moved to London to study music, then became involved in the fringe theatre group, The People Show, before forming his own company, The Mike Figgis Group, in 1980. As a film director he has continued to draw upon his musical and theatrical background: writing the scores for almost all ...
