Oliver Parker

Oliver Parker - what members say

The Importance Of Being Earnest review by from OULTON

27 February 2004
...Although Oliver Parker has already scripted and directed a successful Wilde adaptation, this second attempt is not up to the first. The additional dialogue screams out from ...

St Trinian's - The Legend of Fritton's Gold review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor

superb.............. 23 May 2009
...dventure set very much like a cross between The Goonies and The Da Vinci Code. Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson are the Directors once again and the writers are Piers Ash...

Dorian Gray (2009)
Starring: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Caroline Goodall
Director: Oliver Parker
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Oliver Parker has made an impressive career out of directing stylish adaptations of the Oscar Wilde plays THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST and AN IDEAL HUSBAND, and now he continues his work with the reading-list favorite, Wilde's novel THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. In this drama, Ben Barnes (THE ..read more »

Rate this: 61% from 222 members
Due for release on 18th January 2010

Dorian Gray - BLU-RAY Version (2009)
Starring: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Caroline Goodall
Director: Oliver Parker
Certificate:
Oliver Parker has made an impressive career out of directing stylish adaptations of the Oscar Wilde plays THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST and AN IDEAL HUSBAND, and now he continues his work with the reading-list favorite, Wilde's novel THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. In this drama, Ben Barnes (THE ..read more »

Rate this: 56% from 3 members
Due for release on 18th January 2010

St Trinian's - The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009)
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Colin Firth, David Tennant
Director: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson
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The girls of St. Trinians are on the hunt for buried treasure after discovering headmistress Miss Fritton is related to a famous pirate.

Rate this: 70% from 8 members

Fade To Black on DVD (2006)
Starring: Christopher Walken, Danny Huston, Paz Vega
Director: Oliver Parker
Certificate:
Watch now: £3.49
In an attempt to recover from his marriage to Rita Hayworth and restart his career, Orson Welles travels to Italy...only to be drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue, murder and politics when an actor is murdered on his set. Based on true events.

Rate this: 50% from 337 members

Othello (1995)
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Irene Jacob, Kenneth Branagh
Director: Oliver Parker
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The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.

Rate this: 70% from 59 members

Fade to Black to Watch Now (2008)
Starring: Danny Huston, Paz Vega, Christopher Walken
Director: Oliver Parker
Certificate:
Watch now: £3.49
Run time: 92 minutes
Rome, 1948: In an attempt to recover from his marriage to Rita Hayworth and to restart his career, Orson Welles travels to Italy to act in the film Black Magic. When an actor is murdered on his set, Welles is drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue, murder and politics. With only the last words of a ..read more »

Rate this: 20% from 1 member

Othello - 3.5 stars
The Importance Of Being Earnest - 3.5 stars
An Ideal Husband - 3.0 stars
Dorian Gray - 3.0 stars
St. Trinian's - 3.0 stars

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Barnaby Thompson - 3 times - show films