- published: 17 Jan 2016
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.
Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States of America and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day.
Actors: Tom Hollander (actor), Graham Chapman (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor), John Cleese (actor), John Cleese (actor), John Cleese (actor), Ronnie Corbett (actor), Graham Chapman (actor), David Frost (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor), Eric Idle (actor),
Genres: Animation, Comedy,Actors: Bram Stoker (writer), Stephen Salvati (actor), Stephen Salvati (actor), Stephen Salvati (director), Stephen Salvati (editor), Stephen Salvati (producer), Stephen Salvati (writer), Stephen Salvati (miscellaneous crew), Lesa Thurman (actress), Jeremy Soule (composer), Lara Doree (actress), Audrey McCoy (actress), Sharon McCoy (actress), Frank O'Keeffe (actor), Sergey Gusev (actor),
Plot: No ordinary documentary, this feature-length film investigates the history and background of Dracula's Dublin-born creator and the influencing places, people and tragedies that ultimately inspired the birth of the vampire as we know it. A tale of a being rising from the dead bringing the mystery and excitement of the vampire legend to life. Experience the awesome, moving and haunting journey into a world of mystery, adventure and horror. This beautiful tale harmoniously blends fiction and fact as the audience spirals through the land of the living, the tombs of the dead and most importantly, the world of the 'undead'
Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, blood, bram-stoker, character-name-in-title, darkness, dracula, horror-filmmaking, punctuation-in-title, thriller-filmmaking, vampireActors: Jeroen Krabbé (actor), Bruce Davey (producer), Julianne Moore (actress), Lindsay Duncan (actress), Cate Blanchett (actress), John Wood (actor), Minnie Driver (actress), Rupert Everett (actor), Oliver Ford Davies (actor), Peter Vaughan (actor), Nickolas Grace (actor), Doug Bradley (actor), Neville Phillips (actor), Jean Bourne (miscellaneous crew), Oscar Wilde (writer),
Plot: Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Keywords: 36-year-old, argument, bachelor, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, based-on-play, bath-house, bathhouse, bet, blackmailActors: Deborah Raffin (producer), Zoë Wanamaker (actress), Gemma Jones (actress), Tom Wilkinson (actor), Orlando Bloom (actor), Vanessa Redgrave (actress), Jude Law (actor), Robert Lang (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), Michael Sheen (actor), Ioan Gruffudd (actor), James D'Arcy (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Debbie Wiseman (composer), Oscar Wilde (writer),
Plot: The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas, nicknamed Bosie. After legal action instigated by Bosie's father, the enraged Marquise of Queensberry, Wilde refused to flee the country and was sentenced to two years at hard labor by the courts of an intolerant Victorian society.
Keywords: aristocracy, bare-butt, based-on-book, biopic, bisexual, character-name-in-title, courtroom, diving, england, family-relationshipsActors: David W. Foster (editor), Larry Cedar (actor), Tim Curry (actor), Richard Farnsworth (actor), Laurence Fishburne (actor), Fabian (producer), Kieth Merrill (producer), Brian Keith (actor), Lance LeGault (actor), Jack Lemmon (actor), Ritchie Montgomery (actor), Mary Kay Bergman (actress), Mary Kay Bergman (actress), Mary Kay Bergman (actress), Conchata Ferrell (actress),
Genres: Documentary, History,Actors: Nickolas Grace (actor), Ken Russell (actor), Ken Russell (actor), Glenda Jackson (actress), Oscar Wilde (writer), Ken Russell (director), Glenda Jackson (actress), Ken Russell (writer), David Doyle (actor), Linzi Drew (actress), Stratford Johns (actor), Stratford Johns (actor), Arlene Phillips (miscellaneous crew), Dan Ireland (producer), Douglas Hodge (actor),
Plot: Late on Guy Fawkes Day, 1892, Oscar Wilde arrives at a high-class brothel where a surprise awaits: a staging of his play "Salome," with parts played by prostitutes, Wilde's host, his lover Bosey, and Lady Alice. The movie moves between the play and Wilde's night. In the play, Herod begs his pubescent step-daughter Salome to dance for him, promising her anything she desires. Her mother, Herodias, objects. Salome is stung by John the Baptist's rejection of her affections. The prophet's scolding celibacy puts him between the expressed desire of age and youth. Wilde dallies with a young man as he watches the show, provoking Bosey's jealousy. Two surprises await us.
Keywords: 1890s, 19th-century, actor, actress, anachronism, angel-of-death, apple, arrest, backstage, balmoral-castleActors: Hans Quest (actor), Werner Abrolat (actor), Klaus Maria Brandauer (actor), Hans Brenner (actor), Götz Burger (actor), Wolfgang Weiser (actor), Rudolf Schündler (actor), Horst Sachtleben (actor), Doris Kunstmann (actress), Nikolaus Schilling (actor), Joachim Hackethal (actor), Carl Sternheim (writer), Edwin Noel (actor), Helga Pinnow-Stadelmann (costume designer), Gundel Thormann (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Judy Gringer (actress), Preben Mahrt (actor), Elith Pio (actor), Morten Grunwald (actor), Henning Palner (actor), Tove Bang (actress), Clara Østø (director), Elaine Morgan (writer), Vivien Ackland-Snow (actress),
Genres: Western,Actors: John Welsh (actor), Michael Goodliffe (actor), Campbell Singer (actor), Lloyd Lamble (actor), Lionel Jeffries (actor), James Mason (actor), Laurence Naismith (actor), Charles Carson (actor), Meredith Edwards (actor), John Bennett (actor), James Booth (actor), Peter Finch (actor), Ian Fleming (actor), Albert R. Broccoli (producer), Irving Allen (producer),
Plot: At the height of his fame (his plays being much celebrated in London in the 1890's), Oscar Wilde angers the Lord Queensbury by having what is whispered and gossiped as a romantic relationship with Queensbury's son, twenty years Wilde's junior. When Queensbury slanders Wilde, the arrogant artist decides to take the matter to court, and brings about his own downfall.
Keywords: based-on-book, based-on-play, based-on-true-story, blackmail, character-name-in-title, courtroom, defense-attorney, gay, gay-father, gay-husbandActors: Gregory Ratoff (director), Gregory Ratoff (producer), Martin Boddey (actor), Martin Benson (actor), Dennis Price (actor), Leonard Sachs (actor), Phyllis Calvert (actress), Ralph Richardson (actor), Alexander Knox (actor), Ronald Leigh-Hunt (actor), Robert Morley (actor), Edward Chapman (actor), John Neville (actor), Antony Gibbs (editor), Henry Oscar (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,Episodes and parallels
Don't you want the invitation
Big bright accent, catty smile
Oscar Wilde confrontation
Ah, Live like it's the style
When we waltz on your front porch
We are all our-own devil
We are all our-own devil
We make this world our hell
Porcelain teacups decorate
Tables and the conversation
Beauty pageants, all the time
Is running out, the time is running out
Time keeps on ticking away
Always running away
We're always running in time