John Schlesinger

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A Kind of Loving (1962): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. June Ritchie, Alan Bates; A key film of the British New Wave, describing in unfussy black–and–white images the life of young couple June Ritchie and Alan Bates…
Billy Liar (1963): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie; Tom Courtenay daydreams his way out of a dull office job, to entertaining yet damaging effect, eventually ending up engaged to two fiances at the…
Darling (1965): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde; Oscar–winning, watershed film of British sexual mores is a fashionably flashy and cynical moral fable. Julie Christie social climbs to a…
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp…; Pastoral, moody epic set in 18th Century England follows the romantic intrigues of an independent woman farmer with three men. Photography by Nic…
Midnight Cowboy (1969): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman; Stunning character study of a naive farm–hand whose pipe–dreams take him to New York where he befriends a derilect and makes a living as…
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch; Bizarre love triangle develops when a couple find themselves having an affair with the same man. A mature and provocative drama.
Day of the Locust, The (1974): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith…; A decadent, densely–detailed adaptation of Nathaniel West's scalding movie–biz novel of the 1930s that recreates Golden Age Hollywood…
Marathon Man (1976): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider…; Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman display their thespian prowess in this dark tale of a marathon runner entangled in international espionage. One…
Alan Bennett at the BBC (1978-1992): Dir. Stuart Burge, John Schlesinger, Richard Eyre
Feat. James Fox, Alan Bates, Prunella Scales…; An exceptional anthology of previously unreleased BBC productions from revered playwright Alan Bennett. Collection includes: – A Day Out…
Falcon and the Snowman (1985): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton; A composed intellectual convinces his wayward friend to sell federal secrets to the Russians. Stunning political drama featuring a stand–out…
Believers, The (1987): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Martin Sheen; Martin Sheen investigates serial killings connected to the Santaria cult in New York.
Madame Sousatzka (1988): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Shirley Maclaine; Shirley Maclaine is acutely cast as an eccentric, reclusive piano teacher forced to confront the modern world when her talented pupils deny her their…
Pacific Heights (1991): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton; Part of a mini–wave of couple–in–peril thrillers, this better example has what it takes to tie your tum in knots. Melanie Griffith…
Innocent, The (1994): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Campbell Scott, Isabella Rossellini; Anthony Hopkins toplines WW2 espionage thriller about a British engineer (Campbell Scott) who becomes caught in the crossfire of suspicion during his…
Cold Comfort Farm (1996): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen…; A beguiling comedy transpires when a penniless woman of society is forced to live with her yokel cousins. Full of eccentric dialogue and characters,…
Eye for an Eye (1996): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris; Grief and anger manifest in retribution for Sally Field as the mother of a murdered child who sees the killer released on a technicality. Weighty…
Sweeney Todd (1997): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Joanna Lumley; Based on the true story of the demon barbers of Fleet Street, Ben Kingsley and Joanna Lumley attend this gruesome tale of the esteemed barbershop in…
Next Best Thing, The (2000): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Madonna, Rupert Everett; 'Who will be the father of my child?' comedy, with Madonna tempted to settle for gay housemate Rupert Everett. Diverting and reasonably topical, the…

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