Biography: Michael Radford |
Filmmaker Michael Radford is best known for helming the internationally praised and Oscar-nominated Il Postino (1994), the story of the friendship between an earnest local postman (the late Massimo Troisi, who died of a congenital heart ailment the... more
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Il Postino director Michael Radford takes the helm for this comedy drama set during the waning days of Spanish Civil War and centering on a soldier who, after finding a mule on the battlefield, travels through the countryside with the animal while...
Cast: Michael Caine Demi Moore
Tags: Period Film Caper Thriller Crime Drama
Length: 105min
Michael Radford (Il Postino and The Merchant of Venice) directs screenwriter Edward Anderson's script about an aging janitor and an American executive who form an unlikely alliance in order to carry out an elaborate jewel heist. Set in 1960s-era...
Cast: Al Pacino William Shakespeare Jeremy Irons
Tags: Drama Tragedy Period Film
Length: 131min
One of William Shakespeare's most powerful comedies has been given a bold cinematic adaptation in this film version of +The Merchant of Venice. Bassanio (Joseph Fiennes) is a young and vital member of the aristocratic classes in 16th century Italy;...
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
Cast: Bernardo Bertolucci Jean-Luc Godard István Szabó Claire Denis Mike Figgis Michael Radford Jirí Menzel
Length: 106min
Eight master directors of world cinema combine forces for this omnibus film that focuses cumulatively on the subject of time. Bookended by cello interludes, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello presents just one parameter to each of its filmmakers: no final...
Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000)
Tags: Psychological Drama Erotic Drama Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 123min
The personal lives of five exotic dancers go under the microscope in this drama, the first American feature from director Michael Radford. Eddie (Robert Wisdom) is the manager of a strip club in suburban California known as the Blue Iguana, where he...
Cast: Rupert Everett
Tags: Thriller Crime Thriller Romantic Drama
Length: 90min
In this witty romantic thriller, Alan (Jared Harris) is a London schoolteacher who leads a quiet, mildly stuffy life. As a hobby, he serves as a jazz disc jockey, spinning tunes for a hospital's public address system, but he craves danger and...
Cast: Philippe Noiret
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Drama
Length: 116min
In this remake of the 1983 Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skarmeta, the time and place have been changed to Italy in the 1950s, but the relationship between the Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda and Mario (Massimo Troisi), the postman who...
Cast: John Hurt Greta Scacchi Cole Porter
Tags: British Empire Film Drama Period Film
Length: 108min
Based on one of the most scandalous murders in British history, White Mischief transpires in Kenya at a time just before the beginning of World War II. Jock Broughton (Joss Ackland) is a wealthy rancher who becomes taken with a young gold-digger named...
Cast: Richard Burton
Tags: Political Satire Science Fiction Psychological Sci-Fi
Length: 120min
Directed by British filmmaker Michael Radford, Nineteen Eighty-Four is the second film adaptation of the George Orwell novel. The film is set during April of 1984 in post-atomic war London, the capital city of the repressive totalitarian state of...
Another Time, Another Place (1983)
Length: 101min
This story of a World War II romance in the Scottish highlands develops in a gradual but lyrical manner as Janie (Phyllis Logan), a Scottish woman married to a cold and remote man, starts an affair with Luigi (Giovanni Mauriello), an Italian confined...
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