Movies: Mike Dibb
- 1985
About Time (1985)
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Film Essay based on “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos” by John Berger....
- 2001
The Miles Davis Story (2001)
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This British documentary shows the complex layers of legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, who was a major innovator in post-bop, cool jazz, hard-bop and fusion. Davis's raw-edged trumpet tones were some of the most evocative sounds ever heard. This ...
- 1995
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema (1995)
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Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British cinema....
- 1968
One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks (1968)
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Short film, going behind-the-scenes of shooting for One Plus One (1968) in London, featuring an interview with Godard sitting beside a tree. Many crew members from this shoot were then borrowed by him, playing the press in the film's Eve Democracy se...
- 1973
Paul Newman (1973)
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Recording of the actor in conversation with Joan Bakewell at the National Film Theatre, London....
- 1980
Parting Shots from Animals (1980)
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“Parting Shots from Animals” was inspired by essays by John Berger and developed in collaboration with Chris Rawlence. Shot entirely in the UK, it consists of a diverse series of arresting ‘films within a film’, each presented as if made about us fro...
- 1967
The Nomad (1967)
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An interview with film director Roman Polanski, recorded for BBC TV in 1967....
- 2016
John Berger or The Art of Looking (2016)
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Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or the Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and art critic whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding of the concept for over five...
- 1976
Beyond a Boundary (1976)
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A film based on Beyond a Boundary, the classic book by C. L. R. James,...
- 1991
Appalachian Journey (1991)
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Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). It offers songs, dances, stories, and religious rituals of the Southern Appalachians. Preachers, sing...
- 2004
Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation (2004)
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A documentary portrait of one of the world's superstars of Jazz, pianist Keith Jarrett, exploring his life and work....
- 2004
Edward Said: The Last Interview (2004)
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Edward Said, Professor of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was a prominent literary critic of the late 20th century and a leading spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the US. Born to a Palestinian family in Al-Quds (Jerus...
- 1972
Bette Davis (1972)
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Bette Davis talks with Joan Bakewell and members of the audience at the National Film Theatre, London....
- 1969
The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One' (1969)
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A short film Mike Dibb directed for the BBC in July 1968 in Cowdray Park, where Godard was shooting a sequence with the Rolling Stones for ONE PLUS ONE. It was broadcast on BBC2 within the framework of the arts magazine RELEASE on the 30 November 196...
- 1972
Kirk Douglas (1972)
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Talking with Michael Parkinson and members of the audience at the National Film Theatre, London. An informal discussion illustrated with extracts from some of his most famous films: Champion (1949), Ace in the Hole (1951), Paths of Glory (1958), Lon...
- 1979
Pig Earth (1979)
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“Pig Earth” marked John Berger’s first return to television after “Ways of Seeing”. The film, boldly using mostly still photographs, is based on John’s book of the same name, which was both a work of fiction as well as a history of French Peasant exp...
- 2009
Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall (2009)
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In this stimulating and eloquent four-hour interview, conducted by the literary journalist Maya Jaggi and directed by Mike Dibb, Hall reflects on his life and career, talking personally and in depth about the trajectory of his work and how it has int...
- 2012
Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time (2012)
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For over forty years, virtuoso saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson has been Britain's most brilliant and best-known female jazz musician. But in 1997, the same year that she received an MBE for her services to music, disaster struck. Barbara was di...
- 1969
Rex Harrison at the N.F.T. (1969)
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Actor Rex Harrison talks entertainingly about his long stage and screen career with David Lewin and members of the audience of the National Film Theatre....
- 1985
Studs Terkel's Chicago (1985)
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This documentary features acclaimed Chicagoan broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel talking about the value of oral history and the voice of ordinary working Americans....