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Caravaggio review by wikkidsmyle from Newmarket

As Sumptuous As The Paintings 21 November 2007
... and calculators) against a simple backstage to conjure up the tortured artist. Nigel Terry is both languid and edgy as Caravaggio and easily carries the weight of the fil... Read customer review

Nigel Terry - filmography

The Emperor's New Clothes on DVD (2001)
Starring: Nigel Terry, Tim McInnerny, Iben Hjejle
Director: Alan Taylor
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Alan Taylor (Palookaville) directs this comical re-imagining of the history surrounding Napoleon Bonaparte's exile and death on the remote Atlantic island of St Helena, based on Simon Leys' novel 'The Death of Napoleon'. A secret network of loyal Bonapartists is poised to return the Emperor (Ian ..read more »

56% from 206 members

Far From The Madding Crowd on DVD (1998)
Starring: Nathanial Parker, Nigel Terry, Jonathan Firth
Director: Nicholas Renton
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Far From The Madding Crowd is an evocative and sumptuous adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel set in the 19th Century. The arrival of Bathsheba Everdene (Paloma Baeza) as mistress of Weatherbury Farm causes quite a stir in the all-male environment of the Corn Exchange. A beautiful and proud ..read more »

68% from 1,216 member

Blue on DVD (1993)
Starring: john quentin (voice), nigel terry (voice), john quentin
Director: Derek Jarman
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Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.

63% from 253 members

Orchid House on DVD (1991)
Starring: Diana Quick, Nigel Terry, Madge Sinclair
Director: Horace Ove
Certificate:
Featuring an all-star cast and based on one of the great novels of West Indian literature; Orchid House is a gripping and at times breathtaking drama of thwarted passion, desire and colonialism in Dominica, directed by acclaimed independent director Horace Ove. Lally tells the story of all she has ..read more »

44% from 14 members

Edward II on DVD (1991)
Starring: Steven Waddington, Tilda Swinton, Kevin Collins
Director: Derek Jarman
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In EDWARD II, director Derek Jarman revisits Christopher Marlowe's play of bloodletting and royal intrigue, bringing the homosexual theme to the forefront. Steven Waddington stars as Prince Edward II, who upsets England's noblemen by sharing his throne with his commoner lover, Gaveston (Andrew ..read more »

48% from 788 members

War Requiem on DVD (1989)
Starring: Milo Bell, Nigel Terry, Patricia Hayes
Director: Derek Jarman
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The late great Derek Jarman's film of Benjamin Britten's unique choral work. Faced with the task of creating a visual equivalent to Britten's work, and using only the words Britten used (the poems of Wilfred Owen and the Latin Mass for the Dead), Jarman cast Tilda Swinton as the nurse looking after ..read more »

56% from 243 members

Caravaggio on DVD (1986)
Starring: Noam Almaz, Dawn Arhibald, Sean Bean
Director: Derek Jarman
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Derek Jarman's stylised biopic about the life of the early Renaissance Italian painter Caravaggio, who died in 1610. Caravaggio (Nigel Terry) uses street thug Ranuccio Thomasoni (Sean Bean) as a model for his erotic paintings of St John, and a homosexual attraction between the two men is gradually ..read more »

55% from 1,980 member

Excalibur on DVD (1981)
Starring: Nigel Terry, Liam Neeson, Helen Mirren
Director: John Boorman
Certificate:
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John Boorman directed this gloriously savage interpretation of Arthurian legend loosely based on Thomas Malory's novel Le Morte d'Arthur. By turns gleaming and filthy, tender and bloody, the film is a visually stunning epic which is never less than compelling. Nigel Terry is perfectly cast as ..read more »

65% from 6,407 members

The Lion In Winter on DVD (1968)
Starring: Nigel Terry, John Castle, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Anthony Harvey
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In the south of France, 1183, Henry II (Peter O'Toole) summons his family to a Christmas conference. His sons all have designs on his crown, whilst the presence of the King's mistress (Jane Merrow) adds spice to his exchanges with his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn). Hepburn ..read more »

71% from 2,064 members

Nigel Terry facts

5 most recent films

The Emperor's New Clothes - 3.0 stars
Far From The Madding Crowd - 3.5 stars
Blue - 3.0 stars
Orchid House - 2.0 stars
Edward II - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Lion In Winter - 3.5 stars
Far From The Madding Crowd - 3.5 stars
Excalibur - 3.5 stars
Blue - 3.0 stars
The Emperor's New Clothes - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Orchid House - 2.0 stars
Edward II - 2.5 stars
Caravaggio - 3.0 stars
War Requiem - 3.0 stars
The Emperor's New Clothes - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tilda Swinton - 5 times - show films
Sean Bean - 3 times - show films
Nicol Williamson - 2 times - show films
Michael Gough - 2 times - show films
Patrick Stewart - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Derek Jarman - 5 times - show films
John Boorman - 2 times - show films
Horace Ove - 1 times - show films
Nicholas Renton - 1 times - show films
Alan Taylor - 1 times - show films

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