Mike Figgis

Biography: Mike Figgis

Born in England and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, director Mike Figgis studied music in London, where he helped form a rhythm and blues group called the Gas Board that included amongst its members a young Bryan Ferry. Figgis' roots as a musician would later be made readily apparent in his screen work, as he has scored several of his films. Following his tenure with the Gas Board, he went on to work with an experimental British comedy/variety group known as The People Show. After being turned down by the National Film School, Figgis bankrolled his own 60-minute TV movie, The House (1976), gaining an entree into mainstream filmmaking. In 1988, Figgis made his feature directorial and screenwriting debut with Stormy Monday. A moody character study set against the backdrop of the jazz and crime worlds, it received a moderately strong reception. Earning probably his greatest recognition for his successful direction of Richard Gere in Internal Affairs (1990) and the near-surrealistic Mr. Jones (1993), Figgis attracted strong notices for his 1994 remake of The Browning Version. However, it was with his highly acclaimed Leaving Las Vegas (1995) that the director really hit the big time. A somber, resolutely unsentimental portrait of the last days of a writer determined to drink himself to death, the film earned Figgis Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director Academy Award nominations, and provided Nicolas Cage with an Oscar for Best Actor. Figgis followed up this success two years later with One Night Stand; an ensemble drama centering on the repercussions of adultery, it received only a lukewarm critical reception. Figgis rebounded in 1999, releasing two films that year. The first, The Loss of Sexual Innocence, was a story revolving around a young man's sexual evolution, while the second, Miss Julie, was an adaptation of August Strindberg's play about an illicit love affair between a titled young woman (Saffron Burrows) and her servant (Peter Mullan). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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Love Live Long (2008)
Cast: Mike Figgis Daniel Lapaine Sophie Winkleman
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 76min
Maverick director Mike Figgis once again offers a look at the grim underside of human relationships in this short feature. Darren (Daniel Lapaine) is a wealthy amateur racecar driver from London who has come to Istanbul to take part in the Gumball...
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The Blues: Red, White & Blues (2003)
Cast: Mike Figgis Martin Scorsese Tom Jones Eric Clapton Lulu
Tags: Music History Biography Social History Music
Length: 120min
Part of The Blues documentary film series on PBS, Red, White & Blues is directed by British filmmaker Mike Figgis. This installment explores the impact of black American lues music on mostly white audiences in the U.K., who then reintroduced the...
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Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Cast: Mike Figgis Dennis Quaid Sharon Stone Stephen Dorff Juliette Lewis
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 119min
New Yorkers get a crash course in the more dangerous aspects of moving to the country and buying a "handyman's special" in this hriller from award-winning director Mike Figgis. Cooper and Leah Tilson (Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone) are a wealthy...
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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
Cast: Bernardo Bertolucci Jean-Luc Godard Claire Denis Mike Figgis István Szabó
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...
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Hotel (2001)
Cast: Burt Reynolds Mike Figgis David Schwimmer Salma Hayek Saffron Burrows
Tags: Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 109min
Following up on his innovative work Timecode, which featured four stories being told in real time simultaneously, Mike Figgis returns to a modified form of his technique in this film about the tourists, the prostitutes, the tour guides, a killer, and...
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)
Cast: Mike Figgis Julian Sands Kelly MacDonald Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Saffron Burrows
Tags: Erotic Drama Drama Coming-of-Age Ensemble Film
Length: 106min
Director Mike Figgis, creator of the Academy award-winning Leaving Las Vegas, presented this film's world premiere at the 1999 ~Sundance Film Festival. The story is made up of non-linear, interconnected episodes about a man at different stages of his...
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Timecode (2000)
Cast: Mike Figgis Holly Hunter Salma Hayek Jeanne Tripplehorn Stellan Skarsgård
Tags: Comedy Drama Showbiz Drama Ensemble Film Showbiz Comedy
Length: 97min
Director Mike Figgis helmed this ground-breaking experimental feature, filmed with four synchronized digital video cameras in four separate locations. The story, outlined in advance but otherwise improvised, was enacted in a single continuous take,...
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Miss Julie (1999)
Cast: Mike Figgis Peter Mullan Maria Doyle Kennedy Saffron Burrows
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Psychological Drama Drama Romance
Length: 103min
August Strindberg's once-controversial play is brought to the screen in this adaptation directed and co-written by Mike Figgis. Miss Julie is set on the estate of a wealthy Swedish family in 1894, where the servants live a life of uncomfortable...
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Cast: Nicolas Cage Mike Figgis Elisabeth Shue Julian Sands Valeria Golino
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Romantic Drama Addiction Drama
Length: 112min
Mike Figgis' grim drama documents a romantic triangle of sorts involving prostitute Sera (Elisabeth Shue), failed Hollywood screenwriter Ben (Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage), and the constant flow of booze which he loves more dearly than life itself....
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One Night Stand (1997)
Cast: Mike Figgis Robert Downey, Jr. Kyle MacLachlan Joe Eszterhas Ming-Na Wen
Tags: Psychological Drama Marriage Drama Drama
Length: 102min
A man's brief fling threatens to ruin what he values most in life in this drama. Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) lives in California, where he has a successful career directing television commercials and is happily married to Mimi (Ming-Na Wen), with whom...
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