John Maybury Trailers
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John Maybury (born 25 March 1958) is an English filmmaker and artist. He first came to prominence as the director of the music video for the Pet Shop Boys 1984 single "West End Girls". In 2005 he was named as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain.
During the 1980s, Maybury produced a number of short films and music videos including for Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U", which was voted #35 in a Channel 4 poll of the greatest pop music videos and received various awards, and "West End Girls" by the Pet Shop Boys, a defining 1980s video. In 1998, Maybury produced his first full-length feature Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, a biopic on the life of painter Francis Bacon starring Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, he directed The Jacket with Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley. In 2008 his film The Edge of Love, a biopic on the life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas starring Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys and Keira Knightley premiered. He also directed the final episode of the HBO/BBC Rome series.
Most Popular John Maybury Trailers
Total trailers found: 34
27 May 2003
Documentary about the making of Derek Jarman's 1979 film "Jubilee".
01 January 2001
A short documentary exploring the ongoing relevance and power of 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.
01 January 1986
A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke of Brion Gysin using a dream machine.
04 March 2005
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
20 June 2008
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera.
23 September 2022
Since the beginning of her career, Sinéad O’Connor has used her powerful voice to challenge the narratives she was surrounded by while growing up in predominantly Roman Catholic Ireland.
25 January 1991
A BBC Arena profile of the Director from the time of the release of his film, The Garden, featuring interviews with Jarman, his collaborators and friends.
16 September 1998
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts.
01 December 1990
This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief.
23 August 1987
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose.
01 May 1994
Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has developed alongside the technology itself.
26 August 1992
Shortly before the WW II, Ella Gericke takes on the identity of her husband Max after his death to work instead of him in the factory.
21 March 1994
Cyndi Lauper tours a theme park, meeting strange characters and remembering her past. The film is also illustrated by a collection of Cyndi's pop videos, like "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" and "Sally's Pigeons".
16 July 2023
Goes deep into the heart of Britain’s New Romantics scene, tracing how a group of outsiders transformed London's underground art and music communities and its enduring influence and impact across the globe.
01 January 1982
Abstract images of figures moving about a room. Filmed from a video monitor in Super 8 during a rehearsal of a RADA production of Beckett's "Waiting for Godot".
20 November 2024
Three promotional films by The Smiths directed with an artistic and conceptual vision by the late director Derek Jarman.
01 January 1989
Live recording of Sinéad O'Connor's concert at the Dominion Theatre in London, on June 3, 1988, in support of her debut album "The Lion and the Cobra" (performed in its entirety except for two songs).
01 January 1998
The film's attempt to re-create an acid trip is showcased in this creature's dance: whenever she moves, a rainbow of colors and shapes appear, as if her appendages are the artist's brushes.
20 November 1992
Another cutting-edge visual experiment from British artist John Maybury, Premonitions Of Absurd Perversion In Sexual Personae, Part 1 serves up a video tribute to the male body, a steamy Kenneth Anger for the video age.
18 September 1980
A filmed record of the 1978 "Alternative Miss World" beauty pageant held in a circus tent on Clapham Common in South London.
01 January 1981
A model poses in bright primary colours alongside a number of oblique words. Images of a woman rotating wearing long flowing dresses are overlain and played at different speeds.
01 January 1982
Through a series of tableaux/still life settings, characters are subjected to experiments dealing with elegance, science, violence, technology, glamour and love, attempting to examine the levels of alienation which the modern world and lifestyles encourage.
18 November 1996
Maledicta Electronica is a mesmerising journey into a video world of performance, S&M, politics and poetry.
01 January 1985
The Union Jacking Up is an ode to friends, including Trojan and Leigh Bowery who feature in the film among others, as well as a collage of news footage of 80s Britain.
01 May 1984
The mesmerizing and beautifully evil experimental short film by Cerith Wyn Evans & John Maybury made for Psychic TV’s “Unclean”.
01 May 1989
Absurd is a collage of Maybury’s earlier work, with some new footage, which expresses and reflects his experience of the past decade.
01 January 1987
A short film broadcast on the Network 21 pirate tv station in 1987. "a short film, devoid of soundtrack, of a youth on a cross spinning suspended in fire, over which was superimposed another youth languishing in an armchair.
