Tony Palmer

Tony Palmer al Sofia international Film Festival, marzo 2017

Tony Palmer (Londra, 29 agosto 1941) è un regista e scrittore britannico[1][2].

Biografia

Ha diretto oltre 100 pellicole tra film e documentari, spettacoli teatrali e opere liriche. È inoltre noto per i suoi lavori con musicisti rock come The Beatles, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher e Frank Zappa (200 Motels), e per i documentari biografici su Maria Callas, Margot Fonteyn, John Osborne, Igor Stravinsky, Richard Wagner, Peter Sellers, Yehudi Menuhin, Julian Lloyd Webber, Carl Orff, Benjamin Britten e Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Ha vinto 12 medaglie d'oro del New York Film Festival oltre a numerosi premi BAFTA e Emmy Award. Palmer ha ricevuto anche due Prix Italia,[3] per A Time There Was nel 1980 e At the Haunted End of the Day nel 1981.

Filmografia

  • The Art of Conducting (1966)
  • Up the Theatre (1966)
  • Conceit (1967)
  • Benjamin Britten & his Festival (1967)
  • Burning Fiery Furnace (1967)
  • Corbusier (1967)
  • Twice a Fortnight - serie TV (1967)
  • All My Loving (1968)
  • Cream's Farewell Concert (1968)
  • Will the Real Mr. Sellers... Please Stand Up? (1969)
  • How It Is (1969)
  • Rope Ladder to the Moon (1969)
  • Colosseum and Juicy Lucy (1970)
  • Fairport Convention & Matthews Southern Comfort (1970)
  • Glad All Over (1970)
  • National Youth Theatre (1970)
  • 200 Motels (1971)
  • Brighton Breezy (1971)
  • Mahler 9 (1971)
  • Ginger Baker in Africa (1971)
  • Birmingham (1971)
  • The Pursuit of Happiness (1972)
  • The World of Liberace (1972)
  • The World of Hugh Hefner (1973)
  • International Youth Orchestra (1973)
  • Bird on a Wire (1974)
  • Rory Gallagher – Irish Tour '74 (1974)
  • The World of Miss World (1974)
  • Tangerine Dream – live at Coventry Cathedral (1975)
  • All You Need is Love - serie TV (1976–1980)
  • The Wigan Casino (1977)
  • Biddu (1977)
  • The Edinburgh Festival (1977)
  • The Mighty Wurlitzer (1978)
  • The Edinburgh Festival Revisited (1978)
  • The Space Movie - film TV (1979)
  • Pride of Place [6 parti] (1979)
  • A Time There Was (1979)
  • First Edition (1980)
  • At the Haunted End of the Day (1980)
  • Once, at a Border... (1982)
  • Wagner - film TV (1983)
  • Primal Scream (1984)
  • Puccini - film TV (1984)
  • Mozart in Japan (1986)
  • Testimony (1987)
  • Maria Callas (1987)
  • In From The Cold? (1988)
  • Dvorak - In Love? (1988)
  • Hindemith – a Pilgrim's Progress (1989)
  • The Children (1990)
  • Menuhin, a Family Story (1990)
  • I, Berlioz(1992)
  • Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (1993)
  • A Short Film About Loving (1994)
  • O Fortuna (1995)
  • England, My England (1995)
  • Brahms & The Little Singing Girls (1996)
  • Michael Crawford (1996)
  • Hail Bop – a profile of John Adams (1997)
  • Parsifal (1997)
  • The Harvest of Sorrow (1998)
  • The Kindness of Strangers(1998)
  • Valentina Igoshina plays Chopin (1999)
  • The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka(1999)
  • Foreign Aids (2001)
  • Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming (2002)
  • Hero – The Story of Bobby Moore (2002)
  • Toward the Unknown Region(2003)
  • John Osborne & The Gift of Friendship (2003)
  • Ivry Gitlis & The Great Tradition (2004)
  • The Adventures of Benjamin Schmid (2005)
  • Margot (2005)
  • The Salzburg Festival – A Brief History (2006)
  • "O Thou Transcendent..." (2007)
  • The Wagner Family (The South Bank Show) (2009)
  • Holst – In the Bleak Midwinter (2011)
  • Vangelis and the Journey to Ithaka (2013)
  • Britten: Nocturne (2013)
  • The Beatles and World War II (2016)
  • Vangelis: The Interviews (2016)

Libri

  • Born Under a Bad Sign (1970)
  • The Trials of Oz (1971)
  • Electric Revolution (1971)
  • The Things I Love (1976)
  • All You Need Is Love (1976)
  • Charles II: Portrait of an Age (1979)
  • Julian Bream: A Life on the Road. (1982) ISBN 0-356-07880-9
  • Menuhin: A Family Story (1991)

Note

  1. ^ IMDb: Tony Palmer
  2. ^ The Telegraph UK 13 September 2009 South Bank Show review, The Last Bastion of Civilization on ITV. S. Heffer.
  3. ^ Winners 1949–2010 Archived copy (PDF), su prixitalia.rai.it. URL consultato il 21 gennaio 2013 (archiviato dall'url originale il 22 ottobre 2013).

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