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Notes provided by Fox Searchlight SYNOPSIS Set against the glitzy backdrop of the French Riviera and its seedy underworld is Academy Award®-winner Neil Jordan's clever, sexy caper, THE GOOD THIEF. Bob Montagnet (Nick Nolte) is about to gamble it all on the casino heist of a lifetime; a spectacular sleight of hand - two heists, one real, one not, but which is which? Inspired by the Jean Pierre Melville classic BOB LE FLAMBEUR, THE GOOD THIEF is a remake of an original that features a complex plot full of copies and originals. The film's hero draws his inspiration from the man he regards as the greatest thief and copycat of all ...Picasso. Under the watchful eye of Roger (Tchéky Karyo), a policeman who would as soon save his longtime opponent as arrest him, Montagnet assembles a team that consists of partners Paulo (Sa_d Taghmaoui) and Raoul (Gérard Darmon), technical mastermind Vladimer (Emir Kusturica), former-drug-dealer-turned-informant Said (Ouassim Embarek), Anne (Nutsa Kukhianidze), a young Eastern European girl Montagnet rescued from prostitution, and the perfect complement to a double theft - identical twins Albert and Bertram (Mark and Mike Polish). THE GOOD THIEF also features Ralph Fiennes as a ruthless art dealer. THE GOOD THIEF was produced by Stephen Woolley, John Wells and Seaton McLean and financed by ALLIANCE ATLANTIS. It was shot by Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges (THE KILLING FIELDS, THE MISSION) and Jordan's longstanding team of skilled technicians. The film is a Stephen Woolley/John Wells/Alliance Atlantis production of a Neil Jordan film co-produced by Tracey Seaward and executive produced by Neil Jordan, Kristin Harms and Thierry de Navacelle. NEIL JORDAN'S COMMENTARY It is quite hard to talk about a remake, which is a commission, but which you end up putting as much, if not more effort into than an original. I was asked to consider the possibility of a remake of BOB LE FLAMBEUR and began writing, having viewed again the original film. The story was tiny, almost like a miniature, about a clapped-out gambler, who planned a casino robbery, and as the robbery went awry, got lucky at the tables. The style of it was serene and beautiful, but you can't, or I can't, make a movie about style. So I came up with a story of a double heist, a fake one that was a diversion for a real one, within which the original story could play itself out, upon which I could play a variation. The fake heist would involve, like the original, the robbery of a casino on the night of the Grand Prix. The real heist would involve the theft of a collection of paintings that had come to grace the casino walls, like the Bellagio in Las Vegas, which has its own collection of Picassos. I remembered an article I had read, about Japanese corporations who, when they buy European art, get perfect copies made to grace the corporation boardrooms, to preserve the originals, in a temperature-controlled vault. I ran with this idea then, of perfect copies of the art on the casino walls, the originals in a vault nearby and realized the plot was becoming a riff on the idea of fake and real, of an original and a copy, which was in fact, oddly enough, what I was doing, making a copy of kinds, a remake, of an original, the Melville film. I began to look again at other movies then, among them Jules Dassin's RIFFIFFI, and John Huston's THE ASPHALT JUNGLE. I realized that of course Melville's movie was a kind of response to Huston's film, his Bob a kind of French version of Sterling Hayden's character. Now, a remake may or may not be an interesting proposition, but a film about remaking, about the interplay between fakes and originals became very interesting to me indeed. So I began to write - meaning coherent scenes, dialogue, character, as opposed to scribbled notes in planes and restaurants - and somewhere out of these ideas of the real and the fake, the character Bob emerged. A middle-aged American gambler left adrift by reason of a criminal past in a France that seems largely of his imagination, Bob himself was a fake, continually reinventing his past to get out of whatever fix he found himself in. Melville's Bob had talked little, of course, like, as I said, a French version of Sterling Hayden. But this Bob talked incessantly, about thievery, numbers, probability theory, gambling, art, as only fakes can. His hero was Pablo Picasso, who he regarded, perversely, as the best thief that ever lived. His prized possession was a Picasso, which he claimed he won during a bet with the master in the bullring at Pamplona. "Pablo bet on the matador, I bet on the bull. The matador got twenty-six stitches, I got a painting..." There's an element of luck in writing and luckily Bob came alive as a character. But then this Bob's theme was luck, the kind of mythological luck that would change a scam artist into a real one. His dream was of the impossibly complicated heist with a shape that had to be aesthetically pleasing. He proved suitably complicated for the double-plot I had come up with. And as this Bob moved through the story, the theme of double replicated itself: two robberies, two versions of every story. And, in the end, luck does visit this Bob, but because the story had by now somehow doubled the Melville original, luck visits him twice. So eventually this Bob himself solved the problems inherent in the idea of a remake. Because this Bob liked copies, replays, versions of versions, feints, old hands played in different ways. Even the Picasso he owns is revealed to be a double of the original, a fake. He replies, without losing a beat - "it's a good fake, though. Painted by Paul Keating, one of the truly great fakers. I met him at a betting shop in Croydon, gave him a tip for the Cheltenham Gold Cup..." In truth, there is a real Paul Keating, who made quite a good career for himself as an art-forger, before the law caught up with him. He lives in London, and his fakes, paradoxically, are now sold for serious money ...but as real fakes. BOB MONTAGNET'S RULES OF GAMBLING 1.Clothes. He or she should always look their best. 2.Gambling and dope don't mix. 3.Always play the game to the limit ...Damn the consequences. 4.You're going to see fake glamour, serious money and a lot of bad plastic surgery, but remember, the dice falls the same for all of them. 5.See number 4. 6.See number 4. 7.Displays of emotion are kept to a minimum. 8.Never tempt fate. 9.Always tip. 10. If you're going to win big ...do it with a girl called Anne. MEETING THE GOOD THIEF "The ponies run. The girls are young. The odds are there to beat You win a while. And then it's done. Your little winning streak. And summoned now to deal with your invincible defeat A thousand kisses deep. I'm turning tricks. I'm getting fixed I'm back on Boogie Street. You lose your grip. And then you slip. Into the masterpiece... " - "A Thousand Kisses Deep..." by Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson THE GOOD THIEF is the thirteenth film from Writer/Director Neil Jordan, whose credits include MONA LISA, INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, THE CRYING GAME and THE END OF THE AFFAIR, and his eleventh film collaboration with Producer Stephen Woolley. Jordan also wrote the screenplay, which was inspired by Jean Pierre Melville's 1955 film BOB LE FLAMBEUR. While the character of Bob Montagnet is based loosely on Melville's charismatic anti-hero, there was plenty of scope for developing and updating the original story, Jordan explains, "I began working on the script with a bit of circumspection, because I like the original movie a lot and I wasn't sure that I wanted to do something that was a remake of it. I put it on the back-burner for a long time, thinking it would only be worth it if I could find an angle on the original as ingenious as Bob's scam." After reading an article in Vanity Fair on the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas and its collection of Picassos designed to bring the gambling experience up-market, Jordan remembered another article he had read about the various Impressionist masterpieces bought by Japanese corporations, which were kept secure in temperature-controlled vaults, with perfect copies of the originals on display in the boardrooms. The idea of two robberies - one a cover for the other - came to life. A casino, refurbished by a Japanese bank, using as its main attraction the art it had bought at extravagant prices in the ' 80s, perfect copies on the walls, the originals in a vault nearby. Jordan explains, "The idea of an original and a copy had obvious appeal, since that was in fact my commissioned task, to make some kind of copy of an original. The thought of two robberies, one apparent and one real had an even greater appeal since I could leave the plot of the original movie intact, as a kind of decoy to the real plot, the real robbery. Theoretically, the original film would weave its way through whatever I was writing and one would act as a kind of mirror to the other." He began to write about this idea of real and fake and soon the character Bob emerged. Jordan says, "A gambler plays with mathematics, chance and the laws of probability, of course, and no matter how inspired or lucky, can never match the sublime position of one who plays with the laws of aesthetics, the history of painting itself. Thus Picasso becomes a kind of symbol in the film for a state of grace the characters themselves can never hope to reach. Their mode is imitation, and no matter how perfectly they imitate, the result will always be an imitation." Producer Stephen Woolley first tried to acquire the rights to BOB LE FLAMBEUR from Melville's estate about 17 years prior but was unsuccessful. More than a decade later, fate intervened. Warner Bros., with whom Jordan and Woolley had collaborated on MICHAEL COLLINS, had acquired the rights from Melville and agreed to work with the two. Jordan developed the script in conjunction with John Wells at Warner Bros and Woolley began preparing the production. But by the time they were ready to make the film, the company had changed management regimes, set up its own gambling-themed remake, OCEAN'S 11, and passed on the project "partly because of those conflicts," Woolley suggests. John Wells then took control of the rights so that Jordan and Woolley could make the film elsewhere. Shortly afterwards, Alliance Atlantis came on board as co-producer and financier. Motion Picture Production President Seaton McLean commented, "I have always been a great admirer of both Jordan's and Woolley's work. I was also a fan of the BOB LE FLAMBEUR, so the opportunity to work with them both on an original feature inspired by the Melville film was irresistible." Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired limited distribution rights following the 2002 Cannes Film Festival premiere of the picture. A CAST OF THIEVES "Name the best thief that ever livecL..Pablo Picasso... cat stole from everybody. " - Bob Montagnet Writer/Director Neil Jordan said the selection of Nick Nolte as the lead of this largely international cast was natural. At the time, Nolte was performing with his THE THIN RED LINE co-stars Sean Penn and Woody Harrelson in Sam Shepard's stage production "The Late Henry Moss." Jordan, who saw the show in San Francisco describes, "After seeing Nick on stage and meeting him afterwards, I just knew he could be Bob ...I thought ...this is the character I've been writing about." There was no hesitation on the part of Nolte to accept the role of the existential incurable rebel Bob, a loser with a romantic streak who yearns for the one big win that can redeem his tattered fortunes. Jordan was delighted, "Nick is a bit tired of playing the game in Hollywood, so he relished the opportunity to play this part. He's a superb actor. Just as the character began to get its own energy and life on the page, so Nick is so much more like the character than I could ever have imagined. There's a tremendous amount of dialogue, which he delivers with a punch, speed and intelligence you don't often get in movies nowadays." Woolley agrees that Nolte was "tailor-made" for the role. "He is worldly and has lived life to the full, which you can see from his face and hear in his voice. He is so versatile; utterly convincing as a sad loser in a seedy backroom but transformed into a suave gambler in the casino scenes. And always he has warmth, which is vital because Bob manages to inspire loyalty in everyone he meets." Having agreed to play Bob, Nolte admits that he didn't really have to research the part, "I've lived that life, apart from the heroin. An actor really has no choice but to play himself. You can form and shape it, though. So there's a bit of Bob, a bit of me - we're both getting older, and have a bit of trouble functioning. Bob is a wonderful character who can sense the approach of the end of life and there's not a whole lot left for him to live for. Anne kind of brings Bob back to life. I think it's wonderful to be around youth. The other young people come up with the idea of the heist, and hope he'll regain some of his old enthusiasm." Nolte continues, "Bob's substitute for the thrill of life is gambling, but now that's turned bad." A gambler himself who came to look upon Montagnet as a friend, Nolte says, "I think there's a natural affinity between actors, art and gambling." At the onset of the film, Bob saves the life of Roger, a cop who is looking out for Bob's future. Played by one of France's most popular actors, Tchéky Karyo (THE PATRIOT, ADDICTED TO LOVE) describes, "Roger is an ordinary man, not special, not a hero, which is why I wanted to play him. He doesn't like violence, and would rather look weak to avoid confrontation." He continues "He's been on Bob's case for years, regarding him as `a gentleman cambrioleur.' He likes and admires him and is trying to stop him from making another mistake - warning that his next conviction would put him away for life. In many ways, Bob leads Roger by the nose, but he knows that criminals always slip up." Playing the part of Raoul, Bob's partner in crime going back many years, is one of France's most popular screen actors Gérard Darmon (DIVA, 37.2 LE MATIN AKA BETTY BLUE). "Gérard just has this fabulous face, a wonderful dignity combined with a slightly fox-like quality ...Perfect for the part of Raoul," comments Woolley on the casting selection. In the role of Vladimer, the security software mastermind, is Emir Kusturica (THE WIDOW OF ST. PIERRE), a multi -award-winning director, writer, actor and musician who Woolley says, "brings a nervy, strange, weird element to the character of Vladimer." The bass player of a Serbian rock band since the late 80s, Kusturica was a natural at playing the "stratocaster" in the film. Sá d Taghmaoui (THREE KINGS, HIDEOUS KINKY) plays the role of Bob's admiring but overly passionate sidekick Paulo. Instantly drawn to the script, Taghmaoui says, "It's such a rich combination of dark and light. Paulo himself is a young guy who hero-worships Bob. He sees him as a generous man with all too human weaknesses, which is why people love him. Bob was a friend of his father's, a long time ago. Now he's in jail, so Bob has become a father figure. Paulo helps organize the heist, but he also falls in love with Anne, who doesn't really care." Anne, a beautiful young Eastern European girl `trapped' by a crooked club owner who plans to force her into prostitution, is played by Nutsa Kukhianidze. Jordan and Woolley first saw the Georgian actress in Nana Djordjadze's feature film 27 MISSING KISSES, which played in Directors' Fortnight at Cannes 2000 to great acclaim and went on to win more than half a dozen awards. Jordan describes, "Her performance was stunning. We loved her corkscrew curls and wonderful voice." Upon calling her in to a London audition, Jordan and Woolley were astonished to learn that Kukhianidze had moved to "the other Georgia - the one in Atlanta!" and that her English was perfect. When she arrived for the audition at the Groucho Club, her hair was cropped, dyed black and she had a scar under her eye following a major car crash. Nonetheless, they had found their Anne. Jordan explains, "She did the most fantastic screen test. She has huge talent, amazing energy, commitment and a real empathy with the characters. I put her right up there alongside our other `discoveries,' Cathy Tyson and Jaye Davidson ...It's thrilling to find someone so young, so unexposed; she's remarkable." Nolte adds, "Nutsa has this wonderful combination of real streetwise savviness and incredible fresh-seeming innocence. When Bob meets Anne, he is pulled out of his downward spiral. A lot of this film and Bob's world is discovered through her eyes. Here she is getting to know this much older man who is going through withdrawal and she has only just arrived from the Eastern block. She gives him a completely new lease on life. It's a bit like Beauty and the Beast." The admiration between the two went both ways Kukhianidze says, "Working with Nick was such an education ...He is a great actor ...so open and friendly, always there to help - just like Bob really." When Anne first arrives in France, Remi, played by singer/songwriter Marc Lavoine, attempts to lure her into prostitution. Of Lavoine, Woolley says, "Marc is a bit of an institution in France, which I hadn't realized when we cast him. He turns Remi into a handsome, outgoing and seductive rogue, not an ugly thug." It was a role Lavoine thoroughly enjoyed playing both for the intrigue of the character and the cast. "I love being part of a team, surrounded by so many talented people." Dealer-turned-snitch Said was played by 20-year-old Ouassini Embarek, whom Woolley says, "brings a real fragility to the part, which reflects the reality of the drug world - dealers aren't all thugs." The gang members are an eclectic mixture of interesting faces and nationalities. British actress Sarah Bridges was recruited from an agency called Musclecast to play the part of trans-sexual muscleman Philippa, who is terrified of spiders. Roger's colleague, Junior Cop Philippe, is played by French actor Julien Maurel, who kept the cast and crew entertained during the long shooting hours with a selection of magic and balancing tricks - some of which have found their way into the film. The twins, Bertram and Albert, were played by Americans Mike and Mark Polish, the creators of the award-winning TWIN FALLS. And lastly, Ralph Fiennes, who starred in Jordan's award-winning movie THE END OF THE AFFAIR, makes a brief appearance in THE GOOD THIEF as British art dealer Tony Angel. MAKING THE GOOD THIEF THE GOOD THIEF was filmed entirely on location in the South of France, the Italian Riviera, Monte Carlo and at the Riviera Studios, Nice, all of which are a departure from the original film, which was set in Paris and Deauville. Woolley explains, "Paris has changed a lot since the '50s. Many of Bob's haunts are now tourist attractions. Montmartre and all those places that were seedy and weird and full of Genet characters in the ' SOs and ' 60s don't really exist any more." Jordan adds, "To bring the story up to date, I found the contrast between the shifty, shady underworld of Nice and the gaudy opulence of Monte Carlo was much more striking." In many ways, says Jordan, the story could be set in any casino-driven city, "Tijuana, Atlantic City, Las Vegas. But the attraction of Nice was not just the proximity to Monte Carlo, but the fact that Bob's character, the crumpled American gambler abroad, is plausible in a way he wouldn't be in, say, Dublin or London, as so many Americans have made the Riviera their home." Jordan has always been passionate about European film-making, and describes THE GOOD THIEF as an homage to the kind of European films that made him want to become a director in the first place. "I'm tired of the dominance of American movies over everything, every facet of filmmaking and cinema-going. I just think it's time to make a move back to Europe. It's exciting to see European directors making films with reach, punch and intellectual ambition." It soon became clear just how much Nice had to offer in the way of locations: almost permanent sunshine, the sea, fabulous, vivid colors, all made the Côte d'Azur a perfect backdrop for the film. "The French Riviera is so rich and alive," says Jordan. But the area isn't all glamorous, he continues. "I had always associated filming in the South of France with those rather dated and elegant old films like MONTE CARLO OR BUST or TO CATCH A THIEF. But actually there is some really serious stuff going on down there. In no time I was finding out about the Russian Mafia, the drug-dealing, the young Eastern European girls who are lured to the Côte d'Azur with false promises of employment and find themselves falling into prostitution." Working closely with Jordan and award-winning Director of Photography Chris Menges was Production Designer Anthony Pratt, who relished the chance to work in the streets of Nice. "The city is automatically very visual, very vivid. The hometown of Matisse and Chagalle, it resonates with art, color and texture." "The film has the same kind of magical realism that you find in most of Neil's work," says Woolley. Although Bob's story takes place in familiar territory, that twilight world of gangsters, petty criminals, terrorists and gamblers, Jordan explains, "Ultimately, this is a story set in a place of the mind. We've built an imagined city, an imagined environment. There's a deeply romantic feel to this film. We've done a lot of night shooting. We've plastered neon and strings of bulbs everywhere." One of the major design and lighting challenges for Pratt was transforming the magnificent Regina Hotel into the Casino Riviera. A former residence of Queen Victoria and Matisse, the building now houses luxury apartments and has been the setting of more than 150 photo, commercial and film shoots in the last year alone. For the interiors, the lobby was plunged into darkness by an enormous blackout drape, which took five days to erect. Five roulette tables and seven blackjack tables were brought over from England. The room was filled with striking reproduction impressionist paintings, commissioned from a local artist. Venturing out of the town center, Pratt's team used an old abbatoir as the police station. Nearby is the Abbaye de Saint-Pons, the church where Bob and Roger convene. Bob's home was located in the Villa Beau-Site, an extraordinary but run-down 19th Century building with commanding views over the Baie des Anges. Many of the scenes take place on the sleazy streets of the Quartier. Filming also took place in the harbor at Ville Franche, where an old machine tool factory was used for Vladimer's warehouse apartment. The horse race scene was shot up the coast at the famous Hippodrome at Hyeres, near Toulon. Some 200 local people gathered to appear as extras. To encourage the authenticity, the cast and crew placed actual bets on the races. The consummate actor, Nick Nolte expertly played out the scene in which he loses the last of his money. In actuality, he won that race, but managed to contain his enthusiasm until the moment when the camera stopped rolling and he could punch the air victoriously and go collect his winnings. The last few days of filming took place at the famous Studios de la Victorine, now called the Riviera Studios, which have been the shooting location for countless classics including RED SHOES, TO CATCH A THIEF, CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, THE LION IN WINTER, MONTE CARLO OR BUST and DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS. THE SOUND OF THE GOOD THIEF Filled with music that maintains its sultry, decadent vibe, THE GOOD THIEF's soundtrack playlist consists of: "Minuit" by Cheb Khaled; "Lucky Eyes" by the film's multiple award-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal; "A Thousand Kisses" by Leonard Cohen; "Endorphin Spoon" by Goldenthal; "Verite" by Rachid Taha; "Overture Francais" by Goldenthal; "Parisien Du Nord" by Cheb Mami & K-Mel; "Snake 5" by Goldenthal; "Noir C'est Noir" by Johnny Hallyday; "Waltz for Anna" by Goldenthal; "Flashback" by Intense; "36 Hadjim Street" by Goldenthal; "Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus" by Serge Gainsbourgh with Jane Birkin; "Confessions to JC with Love" by Goldenthal; "That's Life" by Bono; and "Redemption Rehearsal" by Goldenthal. CAST BIOGRAPHIES NICK NOLTE (Bob Montagnet) Nick Nolte is a two-time Academy Award nominee with the ability to masterfully portray a wide range of rolls. He will be seen this summer in Ang Lee's THE HULK for Universal Pictures and the Polish Brothers' NORTHFORK for Paramount Classics. Nolte also re-teamed with director Alan Rudolph to film INVESTIGATING SEX, in which he starred opposite Neve Campbell and Robin Tunney. Nolte returned to his theatre roots recently when he starred along with Sean Penn, in the stage production of Sam Shepherd's play "The Late Henry Moss." In recent years, Nolte has successfully added to his credit top contending films such as director Paul Schrader's AFFLICTION, for which he received Academy Award, Golden Globe© and Independent Film nominations for Best Actor, Oliver Stone's U-TURN, co-starring Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez-, AFTERGLOW, produced by Robert Altman; JEFFERSON IN PARIS, in which he portrayed Thomas Jefferson; Martin Scorsese's thriller remake CAPE FEAR; and THE PRINCE OF TIDES, in which he starred opposite Barbra Streisand, and received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe as Best Actor from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Nolte starred opposite Julia Roberts in I LOVE TROUBLE and as a basketball coach in BLUE CHIPS for director William Friedkin. Additionally, Nolte starred in I'LL DO ANYTHING for writer/director James L. Brooks, and in the critically acclaimed LORENZO'S OIL, co-starring Susan Sarandon. His production company Kingsgate, currently has in development WHITE JAZZ, James Ellroy's script based on his best selling film noir novel and THE LAST MAGIC SUMMER, an adaptation of the Peter Gent novel of the same name. Upcoming on Nolte's and Kingsgate's schedule is BEST OF ENEMIES, a film based on a true story set in South Carolina in the early 60s dealing with the relationship between a Klansman and a militant African-American woman. Nolte, an Omaha, Nebraska native, played college football before he discovered theatre, and began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse. He then studied briefly with Bryan O'Byme at Stella Adler's Academy in Los Angeles. Soon following, he traveled for several years performing in regional theatres. Landing a breakthrough role in the legendary television series "Rich Man, Poor Man" marked only the beginning for Nolte, launching him into international fame. Following its success, he made his feature film starring debut in THE DEEP, opposite Jacqueline Bisset. Nolte has since never looked back. Diversity of character became Nolte's signature in his early film career, with roles as a drugsmuggling Vietnam veteran in WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN; a disillusioned football star in NORTH DALLAS FORTY, which he developed with author Peter Gent; as free-spirited beat-era writer Neal Casady in HEART BEAT; and as a reclusive marine biologist in CANNERY ROW. Nolte continued to challenge himself with such character roles as the philosophical vagrant in DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS; a tough cop in 48 HOURS; an American photojournalist in UNDER FIRE; and a determined lawman in EXTREME PREJUDICE. He created another unique character in WEEDS, as an ex-con turned playwright. Other Nolte film credits have included THREE FUGITIVES, FAREWELL TO THE KING, Scorsese's segment of NEW YORK STORIES, Karel Reisz' EVERYBODY WINS and Sidney Lumet's Q&A. TCHÉKY KARYO (Roger) One of France's most popular actors, Tchéky Karyo was nominated for a César© award for his starring role in LA BALANCE and received the prestigious Jean Gabin prize in 1986 in recognition of his talent. Karyo has almost 70 international film credits to his name including American films THE PATRIOT with Mel Gibson; WING COMMANDER; ADDICTED TO LOVE with Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick- BAD BOYS with Will Smith; and AND THE BAND PLAYED ON with Richard Gere. His English feature credits include: SAVING GRACE; Hugh Hudson's WORLD OF MOSS; MY LIFE SO FAR with Colin Firth; GOLDENEYE with Pierce Brosnan and NOSTRADAMUS. Additionally he has appeared in TO HAVE AND TO HOLD with Rachel Griffiths, TERRA STRAGNIERA and EXPOSURE. His French cinema highlights include: Luc Besson's LE BAISER DU DRAGON (AKA: THE KISS OF THE DRAGON) with Bridget Fonda and Jet Li; LE ROI DANCE (AKA: THE KING IS DANCING); Luc Besson's JOAN OF ARC; DOBERMANN; CRYING FREEMAN; 1492; Ridley Scott's CONQUEST OF PARADISE with Gerard Depardieu; Luc Besson's NIKITA (Grand Prix de la Jeunesse ISC); Jean-Jacques Armand's LOURS (AKA: THE BEAR) (Prix de l'Academie Nationale du Cinema 1988); LE MOINE ET LA SORCIERE (AKA: THE SORCERESS); LA MODE D'EMPLOI; L'AMOUR BRAQUE with Sophie Marceau; LES NUITS DE LA PLEINE LUNE (AKA: FULL MOON IN PARIS); LA BALANCE (AKA: THE NARK); LE RETOUR DE MARTIN GUERRE (AKA: THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE) with Gerard Depardieu and Nathalie Baye; and TOUTE UNE NUIT (AKA: ALL NIGHT LONG). Karyo studied drama at the Cyrano Theatre and became a member of the Daniel Sorano Company, where he played numerous classical roles. He then joined the National Theatre of Strasbourg, where he starred in contemporary theatre as well as in many classical works. SAÏD TAGHMAOUI (Paulo) Saïd Taghmaoui was a champion boxer before he became an actor. He burst onto the scene in LA HAINE (AKA: HATE), in a part tailor-made for him. Since this film brought him to international fame, he has been in demand with English language directors and has been cast in THREE KINGS, opposite George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg; HIDEOUS KINKY, opposite Kate Winslet; ROOM TO RENT; LAST MINUTE KASBAH; GO FOR GOLD; and the upcoming US version of the big British television hit "Absolute Fabulous." Taghmaoui's film credits also include: CONFESSIONS D'UN DRAGUEUR; LE PETIT POUCET (AKA: TOM THUMB); GAMER; ALI ZAOU; TORBALL; LA TAULE (AKA: THE SLAMMER); I GIARDINI DELL'EDEN (AKA: THE GARDEN OF EDEN); ONOREVOLLI DETENUTI (AKA MEN BEHIND BARS); LE TEMPS DE L'INNOCENCE; SAMIR; HEROINES; LA TACHE; PUTAIN DE PORTE; LA RACAILLE; LES FANTOMES DE MINUIT and L'ATTACHE. His television work includes the award-winning "Nationale 7" (aka: Uneasy Riders); "La Bougeotte;" `Elvis Aziz;" "Trop Libre Pour Toi;" `Ereres;" and "Racket." NUTSA KUKHIANIDZE (Anne) Georgian-born Nutsa Kukhianidze starred in Nana Djordjadze's feature film 27 MISSING KISSES, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to great acclaim and went on to win more than half a dozen awards. Nutsa herself won the Best Actress award at the Baltic Pearls Riga Film Festival, as well as the Best Newcomer award. Born in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, in 1993 Kukhianidze moved to the other Georgia - in Atlanta. In the same year she played the lead role in a short film NO PAL, directed by Gio Mgeladze, which won the Best Film award at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, the Portuguese Short Film Festival and at the Riverum International Film Festival in 1998. In 1999, Kukhianidze graduated from Tbilisi High School and the following year attended acting and directing classes in the Tbilisi Theatrical Institute. GÉRARD DARMON (Raoul) Gerard Darmon was a revered theatre actor for many years before making his feature film debut opposite Richard Bohringer in DIVA as one of the two memorable villains. Since then he has worked extensively in cinema, most notably with Jean-Jacques Beineix, in such films as 37.2 LE MATIN (AKA: BETTY BLUE), becoming one of France's most popular screen actors. Other film appearances include: ASTERIX & OBELIX; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE; LES GRANDES BOUCHES;AMOUR ET CONFUSIONS; LE VICTIMES;POUR VU QUE CA DUKE; TETA Y LA LUNA (AKA THE TIT AND THE MOON); LA CITE DE LA PEUR; LE VOLEUR ET LA MENTEUSE (AKA: THE THIEF AND THE LIAR); TOUT CA... POUR CA! (AKA ALL THAT... FOR THIS?!); PAS D'AMOUR SANS AMOUR; LE GRAND PARDON II (AKA: DAY OF ATONEMENT); L'ETOILE ET LE VAGABOND; LA BELLE HISTOIRE;POUR SACHA; GASPARD ET ROBINSON-, LE PASSEPORT (AKA: THE PASSPORT); IT Y A DES JOURS ET DES LUNES; SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE (AKA: WITHOUT FEAR OR BLAME); PATHOS - SEGRETA INQUIETUDINE (AKA: A TASTE FOR FEAR); PREUVE D'AMOUR; LE BEAUF; LES LOUPS ENTRE EUX (AKA AMOUNG WOL VES); LIBERTE, EGALITE, CHOUCROUTE, ON NE MEURT QUE DEUX FOIS (AKA: HE DIED WITH HIS EYES OPEN); NOTRE HISTOIRE (AKA: SEPARATE ROOMS); LES PRINCES; CAP CANAILLE; LE GRAND CARNAVAL (AKA: THE BIG CARNIVAL); LA BARAKA; LE GRAND PARDON and PUTAIN D'HISTOIRE D'AMOUR. His television credits include: "Louisiane;" "Un Flic Presque Parfait;" "La Ferme Du Crocodile;" "L'enfer Vert-," "L'Heritiere de Charme;" "Enquete Interdite" and "Mais Qui Arretera La Pluie." Theatre credits includes: "Le Roman de Lulu" (Petit Theatre de Paris); "OnPurge Bebe;" "Un Caprice;" "Argent Mon Bel Amour" (Theatre Daunou); "L'ile aux Chevres;" "A Force D'attendre L'autobus;" "Les Catcheuses;" "Lorenzaccio;" "Le Voyage sur la Lune;" "Kings;" "Romeo et Juliette" (Theatre Daniel Sorano); "Ruy Blas" (Theatre des Tuileries); "L'Odyssee D'une Tasse De The" (Theatre de la Ville); "Par Dela Les Marronniers"; "Espace Cardin," (Festival du Marais); "Je suis un Steak" (Theatre Pigalls) and "Les Fraises Musclees" (Theatre la Bruyere). MARC LAVOINE (Remi) Marc Lavoine is a successful singer/songwriter who has released seven albums and contributed to many compilations. His first single was "Je ne sais meme plus de quoi j'ai Fair," his first album "Elle a les yeux revolver." This was followed by "Fabrique," "Les Amours du Dimanche," "Paris," "Faux Rever," "Je Te Dis Vous" (three songs for Patricia Kaas's album), "Une Nuit Sur Son Epaule" (duo with Veronique Sanson); "1985-1995," a compilation album; "C'est ca la France" (Prix du Meilleur Video-clip aux Victoires de la Musique) and his most recent album "Septieme Ciel," released in 1999. Lavoine's film credits include: DECEPTION; LE DOUBLE DE MA MOITIE; CANTIQUE DE LA RACAILLE (AKA: MELODY FOR A HUSTLER); LE MENTEURS (AKA: THE LIARS); FIESTA; L'ENFER (AKA HELL); FRANKENSTEIN 90 and PAUSE-CAFÉ. Television credits include: "bans la Gueule du Loup;" "Le Juge est une Femme" (episode: Le Rachat); "Vice Vertu et Vice Versa" and "Pause Café." He has made one theatre appearance in Jerome Savary's "Cabaret." EMIR KUSTURICA (Vladimer) Emir Kusturica is a multi-award-winning director, writer, actor and musician who most recently starred in the critically acclaimed film THE WIDOW OF SAINT PIERRE opposite Juliet Binoche and Daniel Auteuil. Kusturica's feature film credits as director and writer include: BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT in which he also starred (Silver Lion, Venice, 1998); UNDERGROUND (Palme d'Or, Cannes, 1995); ARIZONA DREAM (Silver Bear, Berlin, 1993); LE TEMPS DES GITANS (aka: The Time of Gypsies) (Prix de la mise en scene, Cannes, 1989); PAPA EST EN VOYAGE D'AFFAIRES (aka: When Father Was Away on Business) (Palme d' Or, Cannes 1985); DO YOU REMEMBER DOLLY BELL? (Golden Lion, Venice 1981, Critics' Prize, Sao Paulo Festival 1982), the tele-films Sept Jours dans la Vie D'un Oiseau (for France 2); Buffet Titanic (First Prize, Yugoslavian Film & Television Festival, 1980) and Les Jeunes Manes Arrivent (aka: The Brides are Coming) and the short films Guernica (First Prize, Student Film Festival Karlovy-Vary, 1978); Automne and Une Partie de la Verite. Since the late 80s Emir has played bass guitar for a Serbian rock band, Zabranjeno Pusenje. OUASSINI EMBAREK (Said) Ouassini Embarek's film appearances include: LE CAGE DE LA PLAGE, TOTAL WESTERN, BAISE-MOI, FAITES COMME ST JE N'ETAIS PAS LA (AKA: PRETEND I'M NOT HERE), LA CIGOGNE, DROIT DANS LE MUR, MESSIEURS LES ENFANTS, LE PLUS BEAU MÉTIER DU MONDE (AKA: THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD) AND BYE BYE. Television includes: "Grosse Betisse," "L,e Bahut," "Dossier; Disparus," "Justice," "Aux Frontieres de la Loi," "Clandestin," "Navarro V," `Pleure Pas Petit Homme" and `Fractures Sociales." He trained at the Ecole Theatre Par le Bas at Nanterre. FILMMAKER BIOGRAPHIES NEIL JORDAN (Writer/Director) Neil Jordan's early career began as a writer. After setting up the Irish Writers' Co-operative in 1974, he went on to win the Guardian Fiction Prize for his book of short stories Night in Tunisia (1976). Since then he has published three novels, The Past (1979), The Dream of a Beast (1983) and, most recently, Sunrise With Sea Monster (1994). Jordan's published fiction has been translated into several languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Japanese. In 1982, Jordan wrote and directed his first feature film, ANGEL, for which he won the London Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer. THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984) was his next film and was honoured with Best Film and Best Director Awards by the London Critics' Circle and a Golden Scroll for Outstanding Achievement from the Academy of Science Fiction and Horror Films. MONA LISA followed in 1986, starring Michael Caine, Cathy Tyson and Bob Hoskins, who won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. The film itself was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics' Award and a Best Screenplay nomination from the Writer's Guild of America. It was also nominated in the categories of Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay in the 1986 BAFTAs. MONA LISA was followed by two comedies: HIGH SPIRITS (1988), set in Ireland and starring Daryl Hannah, Steve Guttenberg and Peter O'Toole and WE'RE NO ANGELS (1989), Jordan's first allAmerican production, starring Robert De Niro and Sean Penn. He then returned home with a much smaller film, THE MIRACLE (1991) that starred Beverly D'Angelo. In 1992, Jordan wrote and directed THE CRYING GAME, which was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Stephen Rea), Best Supporting Actor (Jaye Davidson) and which won Jordan an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. In addition, it was voted Best Foreign Film by the Los Angeles Film Critics' Association and Best Screenplay by the New York Film Critics' Circle and the Writers' Guild of America. It also received the Best Foreign Film Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Drama and the Mystery of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Film. In the UK, the film won the BAFTA for Best British Film and was nominated for five other BAFTA Awards including Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Editing. Jordan was selected Best Director by the Guild of Regional Film Writers and nominated for Best Screenplay by the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. The film also received Norway's award for Best Foreign Film. In 1994, Jordan returned to the United States to film an adaptation of Anne Rice's popular novel INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas and Christian Slater. Next came the film of the Irish revolutionary MICHAEL COLLINS (1996), starring Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn and Julia Roberts, which won a Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. In 1996, Jordan was also awarded the Distinction of Les Arts et Lettres, as Officer in the Order, on the occasion of L'Imaginaire Irlandais in France, for his contribution to cinema. He went on to collaborate with Irish novelist Pat McCabe, adapting his novel The Butcher Boy for the screen in 1997. The film won Jordan a Silver Bear Award for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival, and newcomer Eamon Owens received a special mention for his performance in the film. In 1999, Jordan made the psychological thriller IN DREAMS starring Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jr, Aidan Quinn and Stephen Rea. In the same year, he went on to direct his own adaptation of Graham Greene's novel The End of the Affair, starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea. The film was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards and ten BAFTA Awards. Jordan was honoured with a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay. Jordan soon went on to direct a 14-minute film based on Samuel Beckett's play "Not I," which starred Julianne Moore and had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. Neil Jordan lives in Dublin, Ireland. STEPHEN WOOLLEY (Producer) Stephen Woolley's most recent producing credits include THE BUTCHER BOY, MICHAEL COLLINS and INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE for Warner Bros/Geffen Pictures, and IN DREAMS for Dream Works SKG. His last released collaboration with Writer/Director Neil Jordan was an awardwinning adaptation of Graham Greene's THE END OF THE AFFAIR for Columbia Pictures. In 1993, he won the Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America and an Academy Award nomination for THE CRYING GAME. In 1982, Woolley launched Palace Video in partnership with Nik Powell, releasing such titles as ERASERHEAD and MEPHISTO. Establishing a theatrical arm one year later, Palace acquired, marketed and distributed some 250 independent and European movies from DIVA to WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. During this period, Woolley's producing career flourished and he established a long-term partnership with Neil Jordan, beginning with Angela Carter's fantasy fairy story compendium THE COMPANY OF WOLVES. He followed this with ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS, directed by Julien Temple and starring David Bowie; the Oscar- nominated, Cannes prize-winning MONA LISA starring Bob Hoskins and Michael Caine; and then the US dance comedy SHAG starring Bridget Fonda. SCANDAL starring Joanne Whalley, John Hurt and Bridget Fonda again attracted phenomenal critical acclaim and box-office success on both sides of the Atlantic. Other productions include THE BIG GAME starring Liam Neeson and Joanne Whalley; A RAGE IN HARLEM with Robin Givens and Forrest Whitaker; and THE POPE MUST DIE starring Robbie Coltrane. Woolley also acted as Executive Producer on Richard Stanley's first and second features HARDWARE and DUST DEVIL, as well as on WATERLAND, starring Jeremy Irons, and Terence Davies' THE NEON BIBLE. Woolley produced BACKBEAT, the story of the fifth Beatle, which was his first film with Scala Productions, of which he was Co-Chairman. For Scala Productions he has produced B. MONKEY directed by Michael Radford; THE HOLLOW REED directed by Angela Pope; FEVER PITCH directed by David Evans and starring Colin Firth; LITTLE VOICE directed by Mark Herman and starring Michael Caine, Jane Horrocks and Brenda Blethyn; Shane Meadow's debut feature TWENTYFOUR: SEVEN starring Bob Hoskins; Stephan Eliott's WELCOME TO WOOP WOOP; and Chris Menges' THE LOST SON starring Daniel Auteuil. Scala projects that Woolley plans to produce include the bio-pics BRIAN JONES, JONATHAN WILDE and FREDDIE MILLS. Most recently he was Executive Producer on Mark Herman's PURELY BELTER and producer of the prestigious Beckett short NOT I starring Julianne Moore. In 1998, Stephen Woolley formed a film production company funded by Dream Works SKG, of which he is co-director with Neil Jordan. The outfit is called "Company of Wolves" after the first feature film they made together. Included among other projects Woolley is developing with Jordan are a comedy script THE ACTORS by Conor McPherson (award-winning author of THE WEIR); BREAKFAST ON PLUTO, the Booker-nominated novel from THE BUTCHER BOY writer Patrick McCabe; THE TRUE STORY OF THE KELLY GANG from the best-selling novel by Peter Carey and an original screenplay called NO MAN'S LAND, which is to be Stephen Rea's directorial debut. Woolley is Chairman of the British Academy Film Committee, a member of the British Academy Council and an American Academy member. SEATON MCLEAN (Producer) Seaton McLean is President, Production, Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group. In his current role, McLean oversees all aspects of the Company's in-house motion picture and television productions. McLean's current projects as producer include OWNING MAHOWNY, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver and John Hurt, directed by Richard Kwietniowski; FORMULA 51, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle, directed by Ronny Yu- and FOOLPROOF, starring Ryan Reynolds and David Suchet, directed by William Phillips, which is scheduled for release in Fall 2003. McLean also is Executive Producer on Lynne Ramsay's MORVERN CALLAR, which stars Samantha Morton. TV productions that McLean produced or co-produced have won an Academy Award ("Boys and Girls"), an Emmy ("Lost in the Barrens") and numerous Cable ACE and Gemini awards. McLean was one of the founding partners of Atlantis Films Ltd., which, in 1988, became Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. Headquartered in Toronto, Alliance Atlantis operates offices in Los Angeles, London, Montreal, Dublin, Edmonton, Halifax, Shannon and Sydney. The Company's common shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange - trading symbols AAC.A, AAC.B and on NASDAQ - trading symbol AACB. McLean has scripted several award-winning films and has also worked as a film editor. JOHN WELLS (Producer) In addition to THE GOOD THIEF, John Wells' most recent motion picture credits include Peter Kosminsky's adaptation of Janet Fitch's critically acclaimed novel White Oleander, starring Alison Lohman, Robin Wright Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer and Renee Zellweger. In an arrangement unique to the business, John Wells Productions funds the independent operation of Christine Vachon, Pam Koffler and Katie Roumel's New York-based Killer Films. Wells also executive produced FAR FROM HEAVEN, THE GREY ZONE, ONE HOUR PHOTO and the forthcoming AT HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD, THE COMPANY and the 2003 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition entries CAMP and PARTY MONSTER. Wells currently oversees three notable hour-long television series: "ER," "Third Watch" and "The West Wing." Wells' television division has received unprecedented critical acclaim with "ER" -- now in its ninth season -- receiving 104 Emmy© nominations -- more than any other drama series in history. "The West Wing" garnered 22 Emmy Awards in three years, including three consecutive wins for Outstanding Drama Series. Wells and his talented team of producers have also received five Peabody Awards, nine People's Choice Awards, three Producer's Guild Awards, four Humanitas Prizes and two golden Globe Awards, among other honors. Before beginning work on "ER," John Wells wrote and produced ABC's acclaimed "China Beach." The Alexandria, Virginia native is the immediate past president of the Writers Guild of America. His award-winning stage work includes productions of "Judgment," "Balm in Gilead," "Battery" and "She Also Dances." CHRIS MENGES (Director of Photography) Chris Menges is an Oscar-winning cinematographer who initially worked on documentaries in Africa, South East Asia and the Amazon Jungles. In the early 1970s, he remained in Burma for a year and a half to shoot a film on the drug trade there, and had a price put on his head by the local government. His feature film career began with Ken Loach's POOR COW (1967) and KES (1970) and Stephen Frears's first feature GUMSHOE (1971). He subsequently found major assignments on LOCAL HERO (1983 Winner Evening Standard Award, Best Technical Achievement), COMFORT & JOY (1984) and two films for Director Roland Joffe - THE KILLING FIELDS (1984) and THE MISSION (1986) - that won him Oscars for Cinematography. THE KILLING FIELDS also won him the BAFTA Award. He photographed four other films for Ken Loach: BLACK JACK (1979), THE GAMEKEEPER (1980), LOOKS AND SMILES (1981) and FATHERLAND (1986) as well as MARIE (1985) and SHY PEOPLE (1987). Other film credits include: THE PLEDGE, directed by Sean Penn; Jim Sheridan's THE BOXER and Neil Jordan's MICHAEL COLLINS and ANGEL (Winner, Evening Standard Award Best Technical Achievement). Menges made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed apartheid story A WORLD APART and followed this with the mainstream movie CRISS CROSS with Goldie Hawn. ANTHONY PRATT (Production Designer) Anthony Pratt's film and television credits include: "Band of Brothers" with Tom Hanks for HBO; Neil Jordan's THE END OF THE AFFAIR with Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore; GREY OWL; THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK with Leonardo di Caprio; Neil Jordan's' THE BUTCHER BOY and MICHAEL COLLINS; BEYOND RANGOON; YEAR OF THE COMET; SHINING THROUGH; NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER; NAKED TANGO; John Boorman's HOPE & GLORY (Winner, London Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement); David Hare's PARIS BY NIGHT; John Boorman's EXCALIBUR; SOLARBABIES; SANTA CLAUS - THE MOVIE; Peter Webb's GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADSTREET; John Boorman's ZARDOZ; DEATHWATCH; THE DEEP END and Boorman's HELL IN THE PACIFIC. PENNY ROSE (Costume Designer) Penny Rose's costume design credits include: SLEEPING DICTIONARY starring Bob Hoskins, Brenda Blethyn and Noah Taylor, set in the 1930s and shot on location in Malaysia; Jean Marie Poire's JUST VISITING; ENTRAPMENT starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones; Nancy Meyers' remake of the classic comedy THE PARENT TRAP starring Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson and Lindsay Lohan and LOST IN SPACE. Penny received a BAFTA nomination for her work on Alan Parker's acclaimed EVITA starring Madonna. Other credits include: Brian de Palma's MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE; Christopher Hampton's CARRINGTON; THE ROAD TO WELVILLE; Richard Attenborough's SHADOWLANDS and IN LOVE AND WAR; SPLITTING HEIRS; Vincent Ward's MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART; UNDER SUSPICION; THE COMMITMENTS; STRAPLESS; Pat O'Connor's CAL; Marek Kanievsak's ANOTHER COUNTRY; PINK FLOYD: THE WALL; Bill Forsythe's LOCAL HERO and Jean-Jacques Armand's QUEST FOR FIRE. JENNY SHIRCORE (Make-Up/Hair Designer) Jenny Shircore received both an Oscar and a BAFTA award for Best Make-Up/Hair for ELIZABETH, starring Cate Blanchett and Joseph Fiennes. Other film credits include: THE FOUR FEATHERS; Michael Apted's ENIGMA starring Kate Winslet; BLOW DRY; GANGSTER NO. 1; COMPLICITY starring Jonny Lee Miller; NOTTING HILL starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant; LAND GIRLS starring Rachel Weisz; PRAIRIE DOVES; COUSIN BETTE starring Jessica Lange; ROSEANNA' S GRAVE; RASPUTIN; Christopher Hampton's THE SECRET AGENT starring Robin Williams, Gerard Depardieu and Bob Hoskins; Kenneth Branagh's IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER; MARY REILLY starring Julia Roberts, John Malkovich and Glenn Close; SISTER MY SISTER AND THE DWELLING PLACE starring James Fox. Other film credits include: SECOND BEST starring William Hurt; SECRET RAPTURE; THE SECRET GARDEN; DOG BOY; THE BIG MAN starring Liam Neeson; DEMON IN MY VIEW starring Anthony Perkins; NORBERT SMITH: A LIFE; Terry Jones's ERIC THE VIKING starring Tim Robbins; LADDER OF SWORDS; TREE OF HANDS starring Lauren Bacall; PAPERHOUSE; ARIA; STORMY MONDAY starring Melanie Griffith; ON THE BLACK HILL; WISH YOU WERE HERE; A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY; PERSONAL SERVICES; BILLY THE KID and THE GREEN BAIZE VAMPIRE; THE DRESS and Gavin Miller's THE DREAMCHILD. Before going freelance, Shircore worked at the BBC in Drama Series, Plays, Operas and Films, where her credits included: "The Weather in the Streets;" "`Tis Pity She's A Whore;" "Pennies From Heaven;" "The Oresteia" with Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg; "Soft Targets;" "Caught on a Train" with Dame Peggy Ashcroft; "The Aerodrome;" 'Macbeth" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." 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