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This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order. The films and dates referred to are a director's first commercial cinematic release. Many filmmakers have directed works which were not commercially released, for example early works by Orson Welles such as his filming of his stage production of Twelfth Night in 1933 or his experimental short film The Hearts of Age in 1934 ...
- I. Introduction: Defining Tony
- First Films: Leading The Revolution 1955-1960
- II. Embracing The Wave: Lyrical Social Realism 1961-1962
- A Taste of Honey (1961): Commune of Outcasts
- The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner (1962): Ultimate Defiance
- III. Tom Jones: Riding High 1963
- IV. Charting New Territory: Subversive, One-Of-A-Kind Films
- The Loved One (1965): Blatantly Subversive
- Mademoiselle (1966): from Black Comedy to Austere Allegory
- The Charge of The Light Brigade (1968): An Unconventional Anti-War Film
It is understandable that so many critics have decried British director Tony Richardson for either being overly concerned with style or for having no style of his own; Richardson’s œuvre is difficult to encapsulate. Many critics fail to appreciate that Tony Richardson’s approach to filmmaking was his style. He believed in trying new or neglected ma...
Richardson’s early films are best understood against the backdrop of mainstream British cinema of the 1950s, which was æsthetically stagnant and whose subjects were limited to classics or dramas about the affluent classes. Working-class people only appeared as side characters or in comedic or denigrating roles. Richardson and others reacted against...
Richardson’s next two films, A Taste of Honey (1961) and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner(1962), are among the greatest of the British New Wave films because Richardson synthesizes the Nouvelle Vague style and atmospheric lighting of cinematographer Walter Lassally, the modern scores of John Addison (which use small musical combos rather ...
While the dialogue in Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer seem scripted, and the films were largely carried by the strong performances of Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier, in A Taste of HoneyRichardson’s ability to elicit nuanced performances from unknown actors and make dialogue seem natural, funny and fresh comes to the fore. Although he fi...
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, like A Taste of Honey, involves an adolescent coming to terms with his lot in life and is about the longing for individual freedom. In Alan Sillitoe’s short story of the same name, Colin Smith is a tough, cynical criminal with few redeeming qualities. Richardson’s paints him as a more sensitive character....
With Tom Jones, Richardson left lyrical social realism in black and white behind and made his first comedy and colour film. Based on Henry Fielding’s novel, Tom Jones: A Foundling, Richardson’s film is a bawdy farce set in Georgian England. It was Richardson’s biggest box-office success and won four Oscars in 1963 for Best Picture, Best Director, B...
During the remainder of the 1960s, Richardson sprinted through uncharted territory. Immediately following the success of Tom Jones, he easily obtained financing for any project of his choosing and he worked at a frenetic pace, completing seven more films before the end of the decade. From Tom Joneson, throughout the ’60s, Richardson never repeated ...
The Loved One, billed as having “something to offend everyone”, was an updated version of the 1948 Evelyn Waugh novel, The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, scripted by Christopher Isherwood and the irreverent Terry Southern. This is Richardson’s most subversive film. It pokes fun at the corruption and cheapening of the sacred under American ca...
Richardson, excited by the development of the French New Wave, chose to work in France with Jean Genet for his next project. With Mademoiselle, Richardson again jumped to a completely different genre, switching from black comedy to austere allegory, from the satirical writing of Terry Southern to the dark eroticism of writer Jean Genet, who wrote t...
Since his youth, Richardson had been haunted by the account of the unnecessary slaughter of the British cavalry in the Crimean War given in Cecil-Woodham Smith’s book, Reasons Why. The affair with Moreau ended, Richardson returned to Britain to work on a screenplay of the 1850s battle. Captain Nolan (David Hemmings) is a conscientious cavalryman di...
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Martin Charles Scorsese ( / skɔːrˈsɛsi / skor-SESS-ee, [1] [2] Italian: [skorˈseːze, -se]; born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker. He emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. He has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honored with the AFI Life ...
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