# Michael Radford
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Michael James Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an Indian-born English film director and screenwriter. He began his career as a documentary director and television comedy writer before transitioning into features in the early 1980s. His best-known credits include the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four starring John Hurt and Richard Burton (in his final role), the Shakespeare adaptation The Merchant of Venice, the true crime drama White Mischief, and the 1994 Italian-language comedy drama Il Postino: The Postman, for which he won the BAFTA Awards for Best Direction and Best Film Not in the English Language, and earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Episode 33: The Merchant Of Venice with Dr Andrea Smith
In 2004 Al Pacino lead a big screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Directed by Michael Radford (Il Postino, 1984, Flawless), it featured a star-studded mainly British cast and was a respectable hit at the worldwide box office.
Lecturer in English, ex-BBC producer and ...
1984
George Orwell’s dystopian novel was made into a great film in the year of its title: 1984.
I’m guessing most of you have at least heard of George Orwell’s novel “1984.” It’s about a totalitarian state in the future, one of constant surveillance, in which critical thinking is a crime, and authori...
MICHAEL MCDONOUGH - Cinematographer
SEASON 2 - EPISODE 159 - Michael McDonough - Cinematographer
We speak with cinematographer Michael McDonough (BOSCH, SUNSET SONG, WINTER'S BONE) in this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. If you listened to our conversation with Debra Granik (Season 2, Episode 158), then you know a bit about M...
#217 - The Last Rites of Joe May - 1984 - The Royal Tenenbaums
Jesse and Adam talk about The Last Rites of Joe May, from 2011, directed by Joe Maggio, and 1984, from 1984, directed by Michael Radford, and The Royal Tenenbaums, from 2001, directed by Wes Anderson.
FIRF #6 - Nineteen Eighty-Four
To tackle Michael Radford’s NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR on the sixth installment of Fresh Immigrants, Rotten Fascists almost feels like a cliche. But then, isn’t the current political climate in America a bundle of tired authoritarian tropes anyway? And so we dive into this bleak adaptation of Orwell’s ...
Kate Maravan on Rebuilding the Actors Centre and Meisner
Kate is an actress, writer and teacher, she graduated from RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and her work can be seen across theatres, BBC and Channel 4. As well as in classes at Arts Ed, LAMDA, Rutgers Uni at the Globe, National Opera Studio and for the New Actors Centre.
Her acting credits...
Sir Roger Deakins, cinematographer
Sir Roger Deakins is an acclaimed cinematographer who is known for his visual artistry on films including The Shawshank Redemption, 1917, Fargo, Skyfall and Blade Runner 2049. His talents have been acknowledged with a knighthood, five BAFTAs and two Oscars.
Roger was born in Torquay, Devon in...
1984 (1984)
Privacy can be hard to come by these days. Whether it’s nosy neighbors, intrusive family members, or the ever present eye of avaricious corporations gobbling up your personal data so they can charge you more for watermelons, the obstacles preventing modern man from a moment to himself are numerou...
118 The 1984 Show: Dystopia Revisited
At the conclusion of World War II, noted British journalist George Orwell wrote his prophetic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. This dark dystopian tale foretells a future for humanity polarized by the victors of the six year long global conflict Orwell had reported on; the communist Soviet block and t...
