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Wilde is a 1997 British biographical romantic drama film directed by Brian Gilbert.The screenplay, written by Julian Mitchell, is based on Richard Ellmann's 1987 biography of Oscar Wilde.
Hotel Mumbai is a 2018 independent action thriller film [4] [5] [6] directed by Anthony Maras and co-written by Maras and John Collee. An Indian-Australian-American co-production , it is inspired by the 2009 documentary Surviving Mumbai [ 7 ] [ 8 ] about the 2008 Mumbai attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India.
The film's title alludes to the children's story by Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, which Wilde would read aloud to his children. [3] The film was released in Italy on 12 April 2018, in the United Kingdom on 15 June 2018 and in the United States on 10 October 2018 to positive reviews from critics.
Films based on plays by Oscar Wilde (3 C, 8 P) C. Films based on The Canterville Ghost (8 P) P. Films based on The Picture of Dorian Gray (14 P)
The film was the inspiration for a promotional film made for the Rolling Stones song "We Love You"; the 1967 film, directed by Peter Whitehead, featured Mick Jagger as Wilde, Keith Richards as the judge in the Wilde trial, and Marianne Faithfull as Bosie. [19]
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde.At Oxford University he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship.
This was one of two films about Wilde released in 1960, the other being The Trials of Oscar Wilde.They were both released in the last week of May 1960. [1]Author and former film extra Brian Edward Hurst gives a detailed description of a scene he witnessed during filming where Morley (as Wilde) attempted to pick up a newspaper boy on a foggy London street.
The Importance of Being Earnest is a 2002 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Oliver Parker, based on Oscar Wilde's classic 1895 comedy of manners of the same name.A British-American co-production, the film stars Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, and Judi Dench in lead roles, with Tom Wilkinson, Anna Massey, and Edward Fox in supporting roles.