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  Encyclopedia: John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger (February 16, 1926–July 25, 2003) was a British film director.
Schlesinger's next movie was Far From the Madding Crowd (1967), an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's popular novel.
Schlesinger underwent a quadruple heart bypass in 1998, before suffering a stroke in December 2000.
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 John Schlesinger
While in the '60s, Schlesinger seemed to have believed in some sort of collective negotiation by which a social equilibrium could be achieved, his later work offers a society where the individual is alone if she or he is not able to cope with the rapidly changing society.
Schlesinger's depiction of stereotypes (unusual for him) may have been, on one hand, an expression of his own insecurity as a person who lived and worked in both cultures; on the other hand, it may also have been what the British and US producers required, in particular, easily identifiable characters for an international mass audience.
Claver Salizzato and John Schlesinger, John Schlesinger, Nuovo Italia, Florence, 1986
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/schlesinger.html   (2935 words)

  
 K Schlesinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Guardian Unlimited Film: John Schlesinger: Picture imperfect An extract of the acceptance speech by John Schlesinger for his Bafta lifetime achievement award in 2002.
BBC News: Your tributes to John Schlesinger Tributes to the film veteran John Schlesinger.
Schlesinger, F Posters Schlesinger, Felix Posters John Schlesinger Posters
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 John Schlesinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Richard Schlesinger was born on February 16, 1926, in London, England.
Schlesinger began making his own films when he was 11.
Schlesinger suffered a stroke in December of 2000 from which he never recovered.
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John Richard Schlesinger (February 16, 1926 - July 25, 2003) was a British film director.
Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy (1969) was probably one of his best movies and it won Oscarss for Best Director and Best Picture.
He was an associate director of the National Theatre, London, from 1973 until his death.
www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_schlesinger.html   (223 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Obituary: John Schlesinger
Schlesinger's attitude to work made him impatient with fellow British directors, notably Lindsay Anderson (obituary, September 1 1994), whom he considered over-selective and unable (or, as he said, unwilling) to work regularly.
Schlesinger was born in London, into a comfortably-off Jewish family (his father was a doctor), with whom he retained strong bonds.
An extraordinary aspect of Schlesinger's personality was his boundless energy and enthusiasm for projects: when I arranged an NFT retrospective with him, he agreed to supply all his early material, off-cuts from films and his own 35mm copies, which were always provided as part of his contract.
film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,1006376,00.html   (1862 words)

  
 John Schlesinger @ Filmbug
John Schlesinger was already an award-winning director in his native England when he made his American film debut with Midnight Cowboy, for which he won an Oscar, a British Academy Award and the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Director.
Schlesinger's most recent feature film was Eye for an Eye for Paramount Pictures, and he recently directed The Tales of Sweeney Todd for television.
Schlesinger again directed Christie in the critically acclaimed Far From the Madding Crowd before directing the milestone American film Midnight Cowboy, which was also his first successful partnership with producer Jerome Hellman.
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 Directors Guild of Great Britain - John Schlesinger 1926 - 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When, last year, the Guild gave John Schlesinger its Lifetime Achievement Award he was too ill to make the journey to London but he was able to let the Guild know how delighted he was: ‘I have just received with great pleasure your beautiful plaque from the Directors Guild of Great Britain.
William Mann, who is writing an authorised biography of John Schlesinger to appear in 2004, said that he spent his career probing and exploring, looking for the truths inherent in the human condition.
John Schlesinger once said of his career: ‘I took risks.
www.dggb.co.uk /publications/article14_165.html   (791 words)

  
 John Schlesinger Extended Bio
The manuals were also written in GML (using standard tags this time) but this time Schlesinger also wrote a program to convert them to HTML and put up the second web site at Information Builders.
In 1997 Schlesinger presented a design for a broker to the company and left when the company decided to build an application server instead.
Schlesinger left DandB after 18 months to be a consultant in 2000 and worked for three years helping other companies implement integration architectures.
www.qcc.cuny.edu /xmlcenter/xbiojschlesinger.htm   (410 words)

  
 CBS News | Filmmaker John Schlesinger Dies | July 25, 2003 17:50:31
Schlesinger broke ground in 1969 with his first American film, "Midnight Cowboy." It starred Jon Voight as a naive Texan who turns to prostitution to survive in New York and Dustin Hoffman as the scuzzy, ailing vagrant Ratso Rizzo.
Schlesinger established himself as one of England's most promising young directors with the 1962 "A Kind of Loving," which starred Alan Bates as a man who marries his pregnant lover only to find himself ill-prepared for commitments.
She worked with Schlesinger again on his next film, 1965's "Darling," for which her role as a ruthless model who bullies her way to success won an Academy Award for best actress in 1965.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/07/25/entertainment/main565190.shtml   (1223 words)

  
 John Schlesinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Directors Guild of Great Britain - John Schlesinger LAA02 Evening   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Schlesinger’s sumptuous production of THE TALES OF HOFFMAN starring Placido Domingo played on screens whilst guests enjoyed drinks and canapes.
Finally Roger Schlesinger, on behalf of his brother, took the stage to read an acceptance speech which was received by a huge round of applause.
John Schlesinger Acceptance Letter "I send my warmest thanks to the Directors Guild of Great Britain for the great honour they pay me in giving this lifetime achievement award.
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 BBC - BBC Four Cinema - John Schlesinger: Profile
Schlesinger's Darling (1965), a satirical portrait of the swinging 60s, made her a household name.
Schlesinger returned to London to direct an acute study of a bisexual bourgeois love triangle, Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971).
(Schlesinger himself adapted Far from the Madding Crowd three decades earlier.) This light-hearted comedy of manners stars Kate Beckinsale as an unfortunate orphan spending a term with eccentric relatives at the titular farm.
www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/john-schlesinger.shtml   (557 words)

  
 John Schlesinger Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Richard Schlesinger (February 16, 1926 July 25, 2003) was a British film director.
Born in London to a Jewish family, he went on to work in television as an actor after graduating from the Balliol College, Oxford.
Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy (1969) was internationally acclaimed and it won Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture.
www.greatartworks.com /search/encyclopedia/John_Schlesinger   (391 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Oscar-winning director John Schlesinger dies aged 77
The film director John Schlesinger died peacefully yesterday morning near his home in Palm Springs, California at the age of 77.
Schlesinger had been unable to work since his serious stroke at the end of 2001 and he had had difficulty in speaking.
With Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson and Karel Reisz, Schlesinger, the son of a paediatrician, was part of the British new wave that transformed film in the 1960s.
film.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,12589,1006129,00.html   (312 words)

  
 John Schlesinger Movies - BestPrices.com's John Schlesinger Movie Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
During the height of the swinging 1960s, John Schlesingers DARLING was one of the rare critiques of the frivolous behavior that characterized British films of the time.
Directed by John Schlesinger, SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY is a sociologically astute drama about the bisexual love triangle between three characters navigating the changing mores of the early-1970s sexual revolution.
Based on Nathanael Wests satirical novel, John Schlesingers THE DAY OF THE LOCUST is an absorbing look at the desperate characters who populate the Hollywood film industry.
www.uln.com /cgi-bin/vlink/directors/dvds-by-director-John-Schlesinger.html   (555 words)

  
 Hollywood Film Festival® - John Schlesinger
John Schlesinger's outstanding work as a director over the past four decades includes such popular and highly acclaimed films as Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, The Day of the Locust, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Far From the Madding Crowd, and Darling, to name a few.
Schlesinger full circle back to the keen social awareness, fascination with love's complexities, and penchant for drawing out big performances that distinguished his early work.
In 1970, John Schlesinger was made CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II.
www.hollywoodawards.com /schlesinger/index.html   (599 words)

  
 Midnight Cowboy (1969) - John Schlesinger
Midnight Cowboy, starring Jon Voigt and Dustin Hoffman, is a 1969 John Schlesinger film, based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, in which a naive young Texas cowboy named Joe Buck (Jon Voigt) comes to New York City to be a male hustler (a "midnight cowboy").
The first, and only, X-rated film to win a best picture Academy Award, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy seems a lot less daring today (and has been reclassified as an R), but remains a fascinating time capsule of late-1960s sexual decadence in mainstream American cinema.
Schlesinger's quick-cut, semi-psychedelic style has dated severely, as has his ruthlessly cynical approach to almost everybody but the lead characters.
www.jahsonic.com /Cowboy.html   (436 words)

  
 Cinequest VIII Schlesinger Tribute
Almost without exception, actors in a Schlesinger film infuse their characters with a sensitivity, a humanness that can evoke uproarious laughter one minute, then flooding tears the next.
Schlesinger's characters are fully realized: their relationships complicated, yet filled with truth.
Don't miss the special Tribute Event to John Schlesinger, Sunday February 1 at 5:00pm, where we will screen Falcon and the Snowman and present Mr.
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 Frank Schlesinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rotten Tomatoes: John Schlesinger Filmography, news, and forum.
It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Frank".
Schlesinger, F Posters Schlesinger, Felix Posters John Schlesinger Posters Frank Posters Frank Oz Posters L.
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 John Schlesinger, director of "Midnight Cowboy," has Died
John Schlesinger, director of "Midnight Cowboy," has Di...
John Schlesinger, the director of Midnight Cowboy, died on July 25, 2003.
He was taken off life support on July 24 and died the next day.
www.harrynilsson.com /news-51-24779.html   (114 words)

  
 Produktionen, John Schlesinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Schlesinger; Richard Gregson (R) William Dudley (B) Maria Björnson (K) Contact London(RO)
John Schlesinger; Andrew Sinclair (R) William Dudley (B) Maria Bjørnson (K) Contact London(RO)
John Schlesinger (R) William Dudley (B) Maria Bjornson (K) 4 Produktionen gefunden
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 John Schlesinger
Reflections of an Englishman abroad: an interview with John Schlesinger.
Obituary: John Schlesinger; Oscar-winning director of `Midnight Cowboy' who brought a fresh approach and contemporary viewpoint to his films.(Obituaries) (The Independent (London, England))
John Schlesinger blamed heart failure on Madonna's antics Oscar- winning director claimed in a letter that pop star's 'outrageous' behaviour during making of film contributed to his collapse (The Sunday Telegraph)
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 MSN Encarta - Résultats de la recherche - Marathon Man (John Schlesinger)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
MSN Encarta - Résultats de la recherche - Marathon Man (John Schlesinger)
Marathon Man (John Schlesinger), film américain en couleurs de John Schlesinger, réalisé en 1976.
Schlesinger, John (1926-2003), acteur, scénariste, producteur et réalisateur de cinéma britannique dont la carrière s’est partagée entre la...
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 Britmovie - John Schlesinger Biography
After Oxford John Schlesinger worked as an actor, playing the occasional bit part in British films in the fifties.
His early feature films were part of the sixties new wave; A Kind of Loving (1962), Billy Liar (1963) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) all noted as exemplary film-making.
Skilled at observing contemporary life, Schlesinger's films have always been imbued with a cynical quality of the moment, a trap that leads to premature dating.
www.britmovie.co.uk /biog/s/003.html   (153 words)

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