David Rose Presentation: 18 January
Room M030 at the St Matthias campus,
2.00-4.30 on 18 January 2012
The Visual Culture Research Group and the Film Studies Research
Group are pleased to welcome the famous commissioning editor, David
Rose. David Rose will give a presentation about his time as commissioning
editor at Pebble Mill and Channel 4.
A former producer of the groundbreaking BBC TV drama Z
Cars, Rose was also responsible for the
spin-off series Softly Softly.
In the early seventies, Rose moved to the newly created BBC Pebble
Mill studios where he supported well known script writers such as
Arthur Hopcraft, David Rudkin and Peter Terson, and nurtured emergent
writers like Alan Bleasdale, Ian McEwan and Willy Russell by commissioning
dramas about regional Britain that ran counter to the dominant Londoncentric/Metropolitan
fare. By 1981 he had left Pebble Mill for Channel Four where he
was the driving force behind the landmark ‘Film
on Four’, producing critically applauded
films such as Angel
(d. Neil Jordan, 1982), Paris, Texas
(d. Wim Wenders, 1984), My Beautiful Laundrette
(d. Stephen Frears, 1985), Mona Lisa
(d. Jordan, 1986) and Distant Voices, Still
Lives (d. Terence Davies, 1988).
David will be accompanied by Barry Hanson, a script editor whom
David encouraged to move into television production. Barry’s
many productions include: one of the episodes for the legendary
Play for Today
series Gangsters
(1975) set in Birmingham, the whole of Out
(1978) and the crime thriller The Long Good
Friday (1980).
This event forms part of the ‘Creativity
in the Marketplace’ series.
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Coming Soon:
The Man Who Got Carter :
Michael Klinger, Independent Production and the British Film Industry
Andrew Spicer and Anthony McKenna
Michael Klinger was a major figure in the British
film industry - the most successful independent producer over
a twenty year period from 1960 to 1980, responsible for 32 films.
His most famous film Get Carter
(1971) has become a cult classic and his other major successes
include Roman Polanski’s
Repulsion (1965)
and Cul-de-sac
(1966). Yet Klinger has become one of the undeservedly lost figures
in British cinema.
This welcome critical celebration of Klinger, based on Klinger’s
newly uncovered personal papers, examines his role in the Soho’s
sex industry and the rise of the sexploitation film, notably the
highly successful ‘Confessions’
series of the late 1970s, through a
volatile and under-discussed period of British cinema, in terms
of the producer’s part in it. It also explores Klinger’s
Jewishness in the context of the Jewish contribution to the British
film and entertainment industries and sheds new light on those
involved in Klinger’s films, from actors Michael
Caine and Roger
Moore to directors Mike
Hodges and Gerry
O’Hara.
Download the pdf
 www.ibtauris.com
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Michael Caine in Get Carter (1971), directed
by Mike Hodges
and produced by Michael Klinger
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