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Peter Watkins (born 29 October 1935) is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton , Surrey, lived in Sweden , Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama .
The film was greatly influenced by the award-winning 1962 Wolf Koenig/Roman Kroitor National Film Board of Canada documentary Lonely Boy, which in cinema verité style follows the growing hysteria surrounding the teen idol Paul Anka, with some scenes (notably that showing Steven Shorter at a table with a venue owner named "Uncle Julie" in both) being almost one-to-one reproductions of the ...
In February 2007, it was screened at the Mexico City International Festival of Contemporary Cinema as part of a retrospective on Peter Watkins. Between April 25 and May 1, 2007, all nineteen parts of the film were screened at the Austrian Filmmuseum in Vienna, Austria as part of a retrospective on Peter Watkins. [citation needed]
Films directed by Peter Watkins. Pages in category "Films directed by Peter Watkins" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Like Watkins' other films, Edvard Munch uses a docudrama approach; scenes from Munch's life are re-enacted by a large cast (mostly Norwegian non-professional actors), but there is also a voiceover narration by Watkins, and there are moments when the characters speak directly to camera, as if being interviewed about their own lives or their opinions of Munch.
Culloden (known as The Battle of Culloden in the U.S.) is a 1964 docudrama written and directed by Peter Watkins for BBC TV.It depicts the 1746 Battle of Culloden, the final engagement of the Jacobite rising of 1745 which saw the Jacobite Army be decisively defeated by government troops and in the words of the narrator "tore apart forever the clan system of the Scottish Highlands."
La Commune (Paris, 1871) is a 2000 historical drama film directed by Peter Watkins about the Paris Commune. A historical re-enactment in the style of a documentary, the film received much acclaim from critics for its political themes and Watkins' direction.
The War Game is a 1966 British pseudo-documentary film that depicts a nuclear war and its aftermath. [1] Written, directed and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC, [2] it caused dismay within the BBC and within government, and was withdrawn before the provisional screening date of 6 October 1965. [3]