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John Schlesinger
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John Schlesinger - what members say
review by A customer from Leamington Spa, England
Midnight Cowboy 9 January 2004
review by from London
Caron and Christie 26 August 2005
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Yanks for the memories... 24 November 2004
John Schlesinger - filmography
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The Next Best Thing
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Madonna, Rupert Everett, Michael Vartan
Director: John Schlesinger
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When best friends Abbie (Madonna - EVITA) and Robert (Everett - MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING)--who happens to be gay--engage in an unexpected tryst, they write it off as the result of clouded judgment from too many drinks. However, when Abbie discovers she's pregnant, the two decide to move in together ..read more »
 
51%
from 1,574 member
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Eye For An Eye
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris
Director: John Schlesinger
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Karen McCann's (Sally Field) world is torn apart while driving home one day when she receives a call on her cell phone from her daughter--who is being raped and murdered as she speaks. The murderer--smirking, animalistic Robert Doob (Kiefer Sutherland)--is arrested, but is then released on a ..read more »
63%
from 1,098 member
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Madame Sousatzka
(1988)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Peggy Ashcroft, Navin Chowdry
Director: John Schlesinger
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A Russian/American piano tutor living in London encounters a young Indian boy who seems to have an extraordinary musical gift, which she realises can be moulded into genius. Here is her chance to create a world-acclaimed maestro.
58%
from 6 members
Not available for rental
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The Believers
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Harley Cross
Director: John Schlesinger
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Set in New York, this tense drama revolves around a tough police psychologist fighting to save his family from the evil workings of an ancient religion, while he also attempts to solve a series of evil ritualistic child murders.
53%
from 306 members
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The Falcon And The Snowman
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle
Director: John Schlesinger
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Based on an actual incident, THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN is a tale of espionage about two upper-middle class kids who, in 1977, became spies for the Soviet Union. Disillusioned with the American government, a drop-out seminary student, Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton), begins stealing classified ..read more »
61%
from 458 members
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Honky Tonk Freeway
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Beau Bridges, Teri Garr, Beverly D'Angelo
Director: John Schlesinger
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Merchants and residents of a small Florida hamlet called Ticlaw are up in arms over the construction of a major freeway that's scheduled to bypass their town, funnelling much needed tourism thirty-two miles up the road to the freeway's nearest exit. Mayor Kirby T. Calo attempts to bribe highway ..read more »
52%
from 91 members
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Yanks
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, Lisa Eichhorn
Director: John Schlesinger
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From early 1942 until D-Day, several million Americans landed in Britain on their way to fight at the European front. To the war-weary British, many of these troops were "overpaid and oversexed." But despite the resentment, with thousands of men abroad, the stage was set for romantic dalliances ..read more »
67%
from 834 members
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Marathon Man
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, Dustin Hoffman
Director: John Schlesinger
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Watch now: Unavailable
Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the U.S. government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence Olivier). Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New York...read more »
70%
from 8,441 members
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Midnight Cowboy - Blu-ray
(1969)
Starring: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles
Director: John Schlesinger
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John Schlesinger's Oscar-winning film, which features brilliant performances by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, brought an unusually gritty realism to the screen and offered a then-rare portrait of New York's street scene. Joe Buck (Jon Voight - DELIVERANCE, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE), a male prostitute ..read more »
77%
from 14 members
Not available for rental
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Midnight Cowboy
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles
Director: John Schlesinger
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John Schlesinger's Oscar-winning film, which features brilliant performances by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, brought an unusually gritty realism to the screen and offered a then-rare portrait of New York's street scene. Joe Buck (Jon Voight - DELIVERANCE, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE), a male prostitute ..read more »
72%
from 13,855 members
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Far from the Madding Crowd
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp
Director: John Schlesinger
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Watch now: Unavailable
In rural Victorian England, circa 1865, a headstrong young woman inherits her dead uncle's farm in Wessex. Soon after her arrival, three very different men begin to pursue her: a failed sheep farmer; a wealthy landowner; and the one she falls in love with, a reckless military sergeant whose ..read more »
71%
from 1,984 member
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Darling
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey
Director: John Schlesinger, Bryan Forbes
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Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a role that would garner her an Oscar as Best Actress. Although she's married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair that has each of them leaving their spouses ..read more »
62%
from 2,173 members
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Billy Liar
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles
Director: John Schlesinger
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
BILLY LIAR was an immediate sensation as first a novel, then a hit play--both written by Keith Waterhouse, who also served as screenwriter on the film. Director John Schlesinger's screen version was a British landmark in the fertile cinema of the late 1950s and early '60s, and launched the career ..read more »
69%
from 3,707 members
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A Kind Of Loving
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird
Director: John Schlesinger
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Drama based on the novel by Stan Barstow which tells of a young draughtsman who is forced into marriage after making his girlfriend pregnant. Living with her dragon-like mother soon makes him realise that his marriage is just a fragile relationship based purely on sex.
73%
from 1,329 member
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John Schlesinger facts
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...Midnight Cowboy
D. John Schlesinger
This was Schlesinger?s first film in America. It stars John Voight as Joe Buck, a rather simple minded Texan who fancies his chances as a ...
