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The History of British Cinema: 1994 |
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11/2 - |
Irish director Jim Sheridan’s In the Name of the Father, an attack of the British judicial system over the wrongful imprisonment of the Guildford Four, is released. Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite and Emma Thompson star. [ADD] |
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19/2 - |
The controversial director Derek Jarman dies of complications arising from AIDS at the age of 52. [ADD] |
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4/3 - |
Richard Attenborough’s Shadowlands, which tells the story of writer C. S. Lewis’s love affair with American poet Joy Gresham, is released. Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger star as the central characters, with support from Joseph Mazzello as Gresham’s young son. [ADD] |
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Backbeat, Iain Softley’s account of the Beatles’ early days in Hamburg is released. Focusing on the story of ‘fifth Beatle’ Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff), the film features an outstanding performance from Ian Hart as a young John Lennon. Sheryl Lee also stars as photographer Astrid Kirchherr, with whom Sutcliffe had an affair. [ADD] |
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13/5 - |
Mike Newell’s romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral makes an international star of floppy-haired Hugh Grant as a young man who, alone amongst a group of friends, remains single – until he meets American Andie McDowell. [ADD] |
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19/5 - |
George Harrison sells his film production company HandMade Films, who made Monty Python's Life of Brian and Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa, to Paragon Entertainment of Toronto for $8.5 million. [ADD] |
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5/6 - |
Thanks to the favourable exchange rate, three major American films are shooting at British studios for the first time in years. Mary Reilly, starring Julia Roberts, and Sylvester Stallone’s Judge Dredd are filming at Pinewood, while Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is in post-production at Shepperton. [ADD] |
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9/6 - |
Pierce Brosnan is announced as the fifth James Bond at a press conference in London. [ADD] |
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20/6 - |
Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992) re-enters the UK top 10. The film is still awaiting certification approval for its video release. [ADD] |
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5/8 - |
John Roberts’ War of the Buttons, in which rival gangs of Irish kids liberate the buttons from the clothes of any prisoners they take, is released. [ADD] |
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The BBRK Group, owner of Ealing Studios, goes into receivership, although the studios continue to be used. [ADD] |
