James Fox — Actor (23)
High Season (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
High Season
other title: Temporada Alta / 希臘情緣
On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.
The Art of Cornwall (2010) [Movie] IMDb
The Art of Cornwall
director: Spike Geilinger actor: James Fox
An alternative history of the 20th century avant-garde featuring the dramatic lives and works of eight artists who most made the art colony of St Ives in Cornwall, from Kit Wood and Alfred Wallis to Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.
Surviving Christmas with the Relatives (2018) [Movie] Eggplant.place TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Surviving Christmas with the Relatives
director: James Dearden actor: Julian Ovenden / Gemma Whelan
other title: Weihnachten mit der Familie / 与亲人共度圣诞节
Two sisters come together to spend Christmas with their families in their recently deceased parents’ falling down country house, with hilariously chaotic consequences, as ancient sibling rivalries flare up again to sabotage the hoped for season of good will.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) [Movie] Min reol
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
other title: Greystoke, la légende de Tarzan / Greystoke - Die Legende von Tarzan, Herr der Affen
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) [Movie] Min reol
Mickey Blue Eyes
director: Kelly Makin actor: Hugh Grant / James Caan
other title: Mickey les yeux bleus / 미키 블루 아이즈
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
Ransom (1975) [Movie] Douban
Ransom
director: 卡斯帕·弗雷德 actor: 肖恩·康纳利 / 伊恩·麦柯肖恩
other title: 绑架 / 赎金
恐怖分子活动异常频繁令人毛骨悚然,恐怖分子利用飞机制造恐怖事件无不得逞,本片可谓是恐怖活动的一个缩影,多名歹徒劫机,一百多名旅客的生命危在旦夕,内政部部长及军区上将亲自指挥,国家安全部长亲自挂帅,最终柳暗花明,歹徒被毙,旅客被救。
King Rat (1965) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
King Rat
director: 布莱恩·福布斯 actor: 乔治·席格 / 汤姆·康特奈
other title: 鼠王 / 黑狱枭雄
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
Jinnah (1998) [Movie] WikiData Douban IMDb TMDB
Jinnah
director: 贾米勒·德拉维 actor: Christopher Lee / James Fox
other title: 真纳传 / 지나
The movie tells the story of the leader of PAKISTAN, the great QUAID E AZAM MOHAMMAD ALI JINNAH, and the creation of PAKISTAN.
A cinematic masterpiece, it brought tears to my eyes and effected me deeply.
This movie sets the record straight about THE GREAT JINNAH, after the biased potrayal of him in the movie "gandhi".
Margaret (2009) [Movie] Douban
Margaret
director: 詹姆斯·肯特 actor: Lindsay Duncan / Ian McDiarmid
other title: 撒切尔夫人
It’s November 1990 and Britain’s longest serving Prime Minster for more than 150 years is about to announce her resignation after almost 11 years in office. She has just been forced to face another ballot for the position of Conservative leader (illustrated here by an amusing bit of footage featuring John Sergeant) and her party ally Geoffrey Howe has just stepped down due to her European policy.
And so marks the political downfall of Maggie Thatcher, played by multi-BAFTA nominated actress Lindsay Duncan who starred as Servilia in the HBO/BBC series Rome, the subject of this TV film entitled Margaret which tells the story a woman who simply couldn’t keep up the fight after her time as British Prime Minister.
Thatcher – A Hate Figure or Political Revolutionary?
The name Margaret Thatcher drums up many images and polarised opinions. She is someone who was famous for her tough-talking persona (earning her the nickname the ‘Iron Lady’), her staunch approach to the trade unions, the introduction of the poll tax (and successive riots) and the 1982 Falklands War, all of which made her a hate figure amongst the politically active left-wing but viewed as a strong leader by her supporters.
This film is an intimate portrayal of a woman on the brink of ruin; a human story about Maggie behind the public persona as she loses her grip on the power she had strived to achieve. In her last days the Cabinet tell her that she must go before she is "humiliated" and she is being challenged by her long time rival Michael Heseltine.
The story is also complemented by flashes to 15 years previously showing Maggie challenging the then Conservative leader Ted Heath and how she rose through the ranks of the Tory party.
“A drama not a documentary” – says Margaret Writer Richard Cottan
It’s not the first time Thatcher has been documented on screen either through real-life footage or in fictional accounts but it’s one that is bound to confront your perception on the person it portrays. The toughest task however must be trying to make even the most hardened anti-Thatcherite feel any sympathy for her.
Screenwriter Richard Cottan said: “What I was trying to do was to take the downfall as the narrative spine of a more personal story. When writing the script the biggest challenge was deciding what to leave out. I'm sure there will be much debate about the blurring between fact and fiction but I consider this to be a drama not a documentary.”
An Impressive Supporting Cast for Margaret
The producers have managed to attract an exciting array of veteran actors to portray her closest allies and advisors including Ian McDiarmid (Emperor Palpatine from the Star Wars films) as Thatcher's husband Denis, Robert Hardy (All Creatures Great And Small) as her trusted second-in-command Willie Whitelaw, Philip Jackson (Poirot) as no-nonsense press secretary Bernard Ingham and Kevin McNally (Pirates Of The Caribbean and recently ITV’s Demons) as Kenneth Clarke.
The supporting cast also lists John Sessions as Geoffrey Howe, Michael Maloney (Notes On A Scandal) taking the role as Thatcher's successor John Major, Roy Marsden (The Palace) as Norman Tebbit, Casualty’s Nigel Le Vaillant as former Conservative Prime Minster Ted Heath and an appearance by the Queen played by Rosemary Leach.
Whether or not the content of Margaret and the human side of Thatcher will appeal to most people the prospect of seeing such an impressive display of talent on one screen is too tempting to miss.
Regardless of your personal opinions on the Thatcher government and despite being vilified by numerous comedians (namely Ben Elton) and countless rock bands over the decades she still remains as one of the most important political figures in British history and the reason why she is still the topic of TV shows almost 20 years later.
Lover's Prayer (2001) [Movie] Douban
Lover's Prayer
other title: 恶意的诱惑
电影改编自屠格涅夫的小说《初恋》,讲的是弗拉基米尔在莫斯科附近度过夏天,他爱上了一个女孩子,可是她竟然和自己的父亲陷入爱河……
Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art (2016) [Movie] Douban
actor: James Fox
Dr James Fox has never really got conceptual art. And he's not alone. Conceptual art has been treated with suspicion and incredulity by virtually everyone outside the art world for nearly a hundred years. Ever since Marcel Duchamp first displayed a signed urinal and claimed it was art in 1917. So was he taking the piss? Or was he on to something, creating a whole new approach to art that has now lasted a century?
Dr Fox embarks on an open-minded guide for the perplexed and asks 'What is conceptual art?' 'How should we approach it?' and crucially, 'Why should we care?'. Roaming between the past, present and future he examines a mind-bending selection of the most influential conceptual ideas and artworks, alongside meeting the leading movers and shakers of today. And who knows? In the end, Dr Fox might find himself unexpectedly seduced by this trickiest of art forms.
The Art of Japanese Life (2017) [TV] IMDb
The Art of Japanese Life
actor: James Fox
other title: 日本生活的艺术 第一季
BBC Arts2017年制作,艺术史学家詹姆斯·福克斯博士(James Fox)游历日本,讲述这个神秘国度的历史和现在。 全3集分别为:第1集《自然.Nature》博士探究了日本文化与自然环境之间的联系。他周游日本,探究发现佛教和神道对自然的反应。 第2集《城市.Cities》博士来到日本三大城市,京都、江户和东京的艺术生活,城市是如何帮助塑造了日本过去和现在。 第3集《家庭.Home》博士走访日本家庭。探究日本家庭的极简主义为何出口到世界各地,它的起源有什么精神和哲学价值。
The Souvenir: Part II (2021) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Souvenir: Part II
7.5 (15 ratings) director: Joanna Hogg actor: Honor Swinton Byrne / 乔·阿尔文
other title: 더 수베니어 2 / 纪念品:第二部分
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
A Very British Renaissance (2014) [TV] Douban
A Very British Renaissance
director: Helen Shariatmadari actor: James Fox
Art historian Dr James Fox makes the case for a singularly British renaissance, telling the stories of the artists and artisans who changed Britain forever.