Ken McMullen — Director (7)
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1871 (1990)
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Ken McMullen
actor:
Timothy Spall
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Ian McNeice
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"1871" is a visually sumptuous, multi-layered treatment of the Paris Commune which was selected for the "Un Certain Regard" section of the 1990 Cannes festival.
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The bloody history of radical revolutionary movements in France has frequently provoked otherwise reasonable people in other countries to have an unreasoning fear of alternative political movements. In 1871, Napoleon III ruled France in a way that made him very popular with the rich and with aristocrats and would-be aristocrats around the world. In particular, he rigorously suppressed any hint of dissent, and prevented the development of trade unions and socialist political movements. In 1871 there was a bloody uprising which produced a short-lived regime known as "The Paris Commune," founded on principles every bit as radical as anything from the French Revolution of 1789. The story of this time is told from the point of view of the actress Severin (Ana Padrao) and the theater in which she worked. Her favors were sometimes available to those with sufficient funds, and she had two lovers: one, a revolutionary, the other, an English spy. In the end, neither is able to save her.
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Partition (1987)
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Ken McMullen
actor:
Bhasker Patel
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Saeed Jaffrey
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other title:
分裂
1947年,印度和巴基斯坦分裂,印度脱离英国的控制,获得独立。环绕着这个事件,一出制作卓越,并且严肃热烈的剧作问世。mcmullen以sasdat hassan manto著名的探讨分裂的短篇小说为蓝本,聚焦于历史的次要者---印巴两国精神病院之间病员的谴换:muslims被送往pakistan,hindus与skhs谴往india。影片立足的两个场所:一所位于国界线的精神病院和两国首脑们的会议室,这两个空间里的角色,政坛人物和精神病院的患者,由同一批演员饰演,恰如精神病院的事变正映射着当权者规则的动作。庄重的术语和先验的构思,都完善了这部电影的构成。而演职员表俨然是一份印度表演天才们的纵览。
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An Organization of Dreams (2009)
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Ken McMullen
actor:
Steven Barber
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Lex Shrapnel
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Brief synopsis:
A writer returns, disillusioned, to London and Paris. He begins on a story: a sleeper cell of young, glamorous urban terrorists. Gabriella, glamorous trophy wife of a young king-in-exile, holed up in an opulent London riverside penthouse, falls under the spell of a modern-day Che Guevara and, Patty Hearst-style, enlists in The Cause. She is sent to Paris under the 'front' of a drama student aiming at film. She takes her studies exceptionally seriously: encounters Bernard Stiegler, the leading philosopher on the subject of cinema and the human condition, and other luminaries. And she meets fellow-"student" activists, half-sister and -brother Julia and Sam, skilled actors who seem more interested in petty crime and scams. Their father is a political prisoner held in London; is he the master-mind? Has he been grooming them since childhood?
Our writer adopts the persona of a sleuth as he follows these anti-heroes. Books are passed, stolen: do they bear coded messages? Why is Gabriella obsessed with capturing her interviews on an outdated Nagra tape-recorder? What is their connection with the incipient terrorism on the city streets?
So our writer/sleuth uncovers events; but is he documenting actuality, or inventing a fiction?
Movie
There We Are, John (1993)
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Ken McMullen
actor:
John Cartwright
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Derek Jarman
other title:
記憶の彼方へ デレク・ジャーマン ラスト・インタヴュー
Movie
Ghost Dance (1983)
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肯·麦克姆伦 Ken McMullen
actor:
帕斯卡·欧吉尔
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德里达 Jacques Derrida
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other title:
幽灵之舞
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幽靈的舞
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Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers a stunning analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and the past. It is an adventure film strongly influenced by the work of Jacques Rivette and Jean Luc Godard but with a unique intellectual and artistic discourse of its own and it is this that tempts the ghosts to appear, for Ghost Dance is permeated with all kinds of phantasmal presence. The film focuses on philosopher Jacques Derrida who considers ghosts to be the memory of something which has never been present. This theory is explored in the film. This Film has also been compared with the following works; Celine and Julie Go Boating, Thelma & Louise, O Lucky Man, Sans Soleil, Week End, Viva Maria.