Tony Palmer

Tony Palmer al Sofia international Film Festival, marzo 2017

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

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, 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)

Collegamenti esterni

• Sito ufficiale, su tonypalmer.org.
• Opere di Tony Palmer, su MLOL, Horizons Unlimited.
• (EN) Tony Palmer, su IMDb, IMDb.com.
• (EN) Tony Palmer, su AllMovie, All Media Network.
• (DE, EN) Tony Palmer, su filmportal.de.