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Richard Eyre - news / articles

Notes on a Scandal: Cate Blanchett interview, with Richard Eyre and Patrick Marber - 29 January 2007
left, right and centre, for their performance in this gripping drama. We caught up with Oscar-winner Blanchett and film-makers Richard Eyre and screenwriter Patrick Marber, just before Christmas to get the low-down on the making of this Oscar-nominated movie… - -

Richard Eyre - what members say

Stage Beauty review by Welshwaspy from London

Beautiful but no real substance 14 March 2005
... glory. There is nothing really worng with this fim as the acting is good and Richard Eyre handles the material with his usual competence but without astounding the audie... Read customer review

Notes On A Scandal review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent

Notes on a Scandal 18 March 2007
...urn the situation to her advantage, to become closer to Sheba. Say the name Richard Eyre to even a movie buff and you're likely to be met with a blank expression. Unfai... Read customer review

Richard Eyre - filmography

The Other Man on DVD (2008)
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Abigail Canton, Amanda Drew
Director: Richard Eyre
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After many years of marriage a man's wife dies. Shortly afterwards, a letter arrives for her from another man. Obsessed with finding out the truth, the husband writes back, impersonating his dead wife. Soon he discovers a love which he cannot understand.

53% from 895 members

King Lear on DVD (2008)
Starring: Timothy West, Victoria Hamilton, Ian McKellen
Director: Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn
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The Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of the Bard's famous tale/ this lavish interpretation features an all star cast that includes Sir Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Sylvester McCoy and Romola Garai.

68% from 173 members

Notes On A Scandal on DVD (2006)
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Tom Georgeson
Director: Richard Eyre
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When Barbara Covett (Dame Judi Dench), a domineering and solitary teacher at a decaying state-run secondary school in London meets the school's new art teacher, Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchette) her world is turned upside down. Sheba appears to be the kindred spirit and loyal friend Barbara has always ..read more »

70% from 61,091 members

Stage Beauty on DVD (2004)
Starring: Claire Danes, Billy Crudup, Rupert Everett
Director: Richard Eyre
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In the seventeenth century the roles of women in live theatre are played by men and one of the most famous is Ned Kynaston. When Charles II tires of the same old faces he decides to allow real women on the stage. Overnight Ned becomes a nobody and heads towards suicide until an actress named Maria ..read more »

59% from 7,915 members

Iris on DVD (2001)
Starring: Judi Dench, Hugh Bonneville, Kate Winslet
Director: Richard Eyre
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Based on the book ELEGY FOR IRIS, by John Bayley, this biopic tells the inspiring and heartbreaking story of the writer's 40-year romance with English novelist Dame Iris Murdoch. The film cuts back and forth between the young Iris and John (played by Kate Winslet and Hugh Bonneville), at the height ..read more »

68% from 10,701 members

Tumbledown on DVD (1988)
Starring: Colin Firth
Director: Richard Broke, Richard Eyre
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Produced in 1989, a mere seven years after the Falklands War, TUMBLEDOWN was extremely controversial at the time of transmission but became a ratings winner nonetheless. Colin Firth stars as Lieutenant Robert Lawrence, a Falklands veteran that returns home and continues to rage a war... with himself.

64% from 421 members

Laughterhouse on DVD (1984)
Starring: Ian Holme, Bill Owen, Penelope Wilton
Director: Richard Eyre
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This gentle comedy relates the story of one man's determination in the face of unsurmountable odds and five hundred pairs of webbed feet that waddled their way into the heart of a nation.

45% from 12 members

The Ploughman's Lunch on DVD (1983)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry, Rosemary Harris
Director: Richard Eyre
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A deceitful journalist tries every trick in the book to enable him to climb to the top in his career. In the midst of his plans he discovers that he has been the object of a deception far more clever than his own.

57% from 34 members

Loose Connections (1983)
Starring: Lindsay Duncan, Stephen Rea, Carole Harrison
Director: Richard Eyre
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Two strangers with almost no common ground are stuck travelling across Europe together in this British comedy. Sally (Lindsay Duncan) is an ardent feminist from London who, with the help of two of her closest friends, builds her own car. Sally and her comrades are to attend a conference on women's ..read more »

33% from 3 members
Currently unavailable

Alan Bennett At The BBC (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Alan Bates, Patricia Routledge
Director: Richard Eyre, Stephen Frears, John Schlesinger
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Alan Bennett is one of Britain’s most popular and prolific authors and playwrights. He initially wrote for the stage, but found that with his observant eye for the absurdities of modern life and sharp ear for dialogue, his work transferred easily and effectively to the small screen. This ..read more »

77% from 122 members

King Lear
Starring: Ian Holm, Amanda Redman, Barbara Flynn
Director: Richard Eyre
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Adapted from the acclaimed 1997 production by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Ian Holm stars as the tragic monarch, King Lear, wise, headstrong but blind to his weaknesses. Richard Eyre directs.

65% from 203 members
Not currently released

Richard Eyre facts

5 most recent films

The Other Man - 2.5 stars
King Lear - 3.5 stars
Notes On A Scandal - 3.5 stars
Stage Beauty - 3.0 stars
Iris - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Alan Bennett At The BBC - 4.0 stars
Notes On A Scandal - 3.5 stars
King Lear - 3.5 stars
Iris - 3.5 stars
King Lear - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Loose Connections - 1.5 stars
Laughterhouse - 2.5 stars
The Ploughman's Lunch - 3.0 stars
The Other Man - 2.5 stars
Stage Beauty - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Timothy West - 3 times - show films
Kas Graham - 2 times - show films
Penelope Wilton - 2 times - show films
Amanda Redman - 2 times - show films
Laura Linney - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Stephen Frears - 5 times - show films
John Schlesinger - 5 times - show films
Richard Broke - 1 times - show films
Trevor Nunn - 1 times - show films