Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella

male, 55 years old
Screenwriter, the english patient, Roman Catholic, Italian-Scot, Anglo-Italian, Vallerotonda…British, BritishFilmInstitute, film director
Anthony Minghella (born January 6, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was born on the Isle of...
Bill Douglas

Bill Douglas

male, 75 years old
film director, My Way Home, Peter Jewell, Newcraighall, My Childhood, The Younger Generation…BritishFilmInstitute, London International Film School
Bill (William Gerald Forbes) Douglas was a Scottish film director. He was born in Newcraighall on the outskirts of Edinburgh. He was brought up...
Laura Mulvey

Laura Mulvey

female, 68 years old
St Hilda's College, Oxford, Experimental filmmaker, St Hilda's College, feminist film theorist, gender studies, Birkbeck, University of London…Film Studies, British, BritishFilmInstitute, Film theorist, feminist film theory
Laura Mulvey (born August 15, 1941) is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor...
Amanda Nevill

Amanda Nevill

female
Bradford, Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Doctor of Letters, National Media Museum, Yorkshire, England, Bath, Somerset…BritishFilmInstitute
Amanda Nevill is an English arts administrator and is the current Director of the British Film Institute. She was educated in Yorkshire and Paris....
Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams

male, deceased (1988)
British, novelist, New Left, Communist Party of Great Britain member, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, Politics and Letters…British Media, BritishFilmInstitute
Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 - 26 January 1988) was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. His writings on politics, culture, the mass...
Tony Rayns

Tony Rayns

male, 61 years old
BritishFilmInstitute, New Chinese Cinema, Cinema of Thailand, Sight & Sound, Vancouver International Film Festival, East Asian cinema…film festival, British, film critic, film director
Tony Rayns (born 1948) is a British writer, film critic, commentator, film festival programmer and screenwriter. He writes for the British Film...
Joan Bakewell

Joan Bakewell

female, 76 years old
head girl, Jack Emery, Newsnight, BBC journalist, BBC Two, Newnham College…Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, British, BritishFilmInstitute
Joan Bakewell CBE (born April 16 1933, Stockport, Cheshire) is an English journalist and television presenter. Born Joan Dawson Rowlands, she was...
Joshua Clover

Joshua Clover

male (Davis, California, United States)
professor, University of California Davis, English, village voice, Criterion Collection, BritishFilmInstitute…Davis Humanities Institute
Joshua Clover (b.1962, Berkeley, California) is a California-based poet, critic, journalist and author. He has appeared in three editions of "Best...
Alain Tanner

Alain Tanner

male, 79 years old
BritishFilmInstitute, Free cinema, Cinémathèque Française, Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000, French New Wave, From geneva…film director, film producer
Alain Tanner (born 6 December 1929 in Geneva) is a Swiss film director. Alain Tanner studied economics at the university of Geneva. In 1951, he...
Nagisa Oshima

Nagisa Oshima

male, 77 years old
Film theorist, novella, kyoto university, manga, Ai to kibo no machi, bertold brecht…film director, Max mon amour film director, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence film director, Film editor, BritishFilmInstitute
Nagisa Oshima, born March 31, 1932 in Kyoto, is a famous Japanese film director. After graduating from Kyoto University he was hired by Shochiku...