John Maybury
Directing
Born 1958-03-25
London, England, UK
40 credits
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John Maybury (born 25 March 1958) is an English filmmaker and artist. He first came to prominence as the director of the music video for the Pet Shop Boys 1984 single "West End Girls". In 2005 he was named as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain.
During the 1980s, Maybury produced a number of short films and music videos including for Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U", which was voted #35 in a Channel 4 poll of the greatest pop music videos and received various awards, and "West End Girls" by the Pet Shop Boys, a defining 1980s video. In 1998, Maybury produced his first full-length feature Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, a biopic on the life of painter Francis Bacon starring Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, he directed The Jacket with Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley. In 2008 his film The Edge of Love, a biopic on the life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas starring Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys and Keira Knightley premiered. He also directed the final episode of the HBO/BBC Rome series.
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Filmography
Directing
32 credits
Rome
The Borgias
Marco Polo
ScreenPlay
The Jacket
Dates
The Edge of Love
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Man to Man
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
Cyndi Lauper: 12 Deadly Cyns... and Then Some
The Dream Machine
Big Love: An Invitation to Disaster
Tunnel of Love
Glistening with Energy
The Queen Is Dead
Tortures That Laugh
Sinéad O'Connor: The Value of Ignorance
Pagan Idolatry
Absurd
Glamour Is an Asset
The Court of Miracles
Museum of Memory
Circus Logic I-IV
Maledicta Electronica
Genetron
Premonitions Of Absurd Perversion In Sexual Personae, Part 1
Read Only Memory
Union Jack Up
The Technology of Souls
Unclean
Acting
6 credits
Nothing Compares
Derek Jarman: A Portrait
The Alternative Miss World
Waiting for Waiting for Godot
Salò: Fade to Black
Jubilee: A Time Less Golden
Other credits
2 credits
Writing
2 credits
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
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