Dennis Potter — Playwright (12)
Lipstick on Your Collar (Lipstick on your Collar) (1993) [TV] Douban
Lipstick on your Collar part of TV Series: Lipstick on Your Collar
actor: Giles Thomas / Ewan McGregor
The main story is set in a British Military Intelligence Office in Whitehall during 1956, where a small group of foreign affairs analysts find their quiet existence disrupted by the Suez Crisis. Ewan McGregor plays Mick Hopper, who is doing his national service as an interpreter of Russian documents. Bored with his job, Hopper spends his days creating fantasy daydreams that involve his work colleagues breaking into contemporary hit songs. Louise Germaine plays Sylvia Berry, the blonde wife of the violent Corporal Pete Berry (Douglas Henshall). Sylvia is an object of desire for Mick's fellow clerk Private Francis Francis and a middle-aged pipe-organist named Harold Atterbow (Roy Hudd). Unlike the street-wise Hopper, Francis is a clumsy Welsh intellectual whose academic career has been interrupted by his army call up. The appearance of the bookish niece of a seconded American officer enables the two conscripts to pair off with suitable partners, after initial mismatching. Some of the side themes include the influence of American rock and roll on English society, the gulf between the senior analysts, who are regular army officers, and the conscripted other ranks, the work of Russian playwright Chekhov, and the appreciation of opulent theatre pipe organs. The unusual context — a military culture transplanted into a civil service style office environment — reflects Potter's own national service during the 1950s. While this piece has the form of a romantic comedy, unlike the less conventional works of Dennis Potter's middle period, it is not without graphic sex and violence, as well as Potter's characteristic flashes of dreamlike imagery. The centrepiece of this production is the surreal musical sequence set to the song In a Persian Market.
Christabel (1988) [Movie] Douban
Christabel
other title: 克里斯塔贝尔
An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live as normal a life as they can in Hitler's Germany. When Allied bombs start falling on German cities, Christabel takes her two young sons to a village in the mountains. Then she learns that her husband and some of his friends have been arrested for plotting to assassinate Hitler. She travels to the prison where he is held, wondering if telling the commandant that she knows Winston Churchill will help her husband or seal his fate. This is said to be based on a true story.
Mesmer (1994) [Movie] Douban
Mesmer
6.4 (5 ratings) director: 罗杰·斯波蒂斯伍德 actor: 艾伦·瑞克曼 / 敦尔·当纳利
other title: 疯狂游戏 / 巫医
影片描述了一个古代“巫医”,他经常用一种类似气功或是特异功能的手法治疗病况特殊的病人,尤其是女病人。但这种医术远远超出一般医生的理解范畴,因此他经常被当作巫医遭人轻视。这到底是福是祸?
Gorky Park (1983) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Gorky Park
6.8 (5 ratings) director: 迈克尔·艾普特 actor: 威廉·赫特 / 李·马文
other title: 高尔基公园惨案 / 血洒红场
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.
Track 29 (1988) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Track 29
director: 尼古拉斯·罗伊格 actor: 加里·奥德曼 / 泰莉莎·拉塞尔
other title: 第29轨 / 트랙 29
A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth. While eating at a roadside cafe, she encounters a British hitchhiker, who turns out to be her son. They spend time together trying to find a bond. The son begins to hate the husband, and the wife begins worrying about the safety of her husband and his train set. Written by Ed Sutton {[email protected]}
For this psychological drama, Dennis Potter reworked his 1974 TV play, Schmoedipus, transposing the setting from London to the United States. The title "Track 29" is taken from the lyrics of "Chattanooga Choo Choo." Distraught and dreamy Linda Henry (Theresa Russell) complains to her husband, surgeon Henry Henry (Christopher Lloyd), about their sex-less, childless marriage, but he's obsessed with his basement model railroad layout and also engaged in an affair with a nurse (Sandra Bernhard). When mysterious stranger Martin (Gary Oldman) drops in on Linda, he claims to be her long-lost illegitimate son. As seen in flashbacks, the 16-year-old Linda was raped at a carnival by a man (Gary Oldman) who resembles Martin. Subsequent events hint at Martin as a delusion, a product erupting from Linda's fantasy world. Written by Bhob Stewart {[email protected]}
Brimstone and Treacle (1982) [Movie] Douban
Brimstone and Treacle
director: 理查德·隆克瑞恩 actor: 斯汀 / 丹霍姆·艾略特
other title: 硫磺石与蜜糖
英国歌坛巨星斯汀主演的惊悚片,他饰演一个外貌像天使,内心似恶魔的流浪汉马丁,偶然地钓上了高尚的圣诗作曲家汤马士,并得悉他有个女儿。于是借口归还他遗失的钱包,成为汤马士家中的座上客。后来,马丁发现他有一个虔诚的妻子,而她女儿则在车祸中瘫痪了,于是一场骗财的阴谋随即展开。导演对人性的善良和邪恶有所探讨,而宗教的神秘力量则是塑造了本片戏剧张力的重要支柱。斯汀演得相当出色,而且创作了电影音乐。
Dreamchild (1985) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dreamchild
director: Gavin Millar actor: 卡罗尔·布朗 / 伊安·霍姆
other title: 梦童 / 梦的小孩
80-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honour of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice's close friendship with the writer was the creative catalyst for Carroll's most beloved work. However, as Alice reflects on her experiences with the author, she slowly realises the complexity of their bond has had lasting, deeply felt ramifications.