Mike Figgis Biography
Mike Figgis, real name Michael Figgis, is an English film director, screenwriter and composer born February 28 1948 in Carlisle, Cumberland, and grew up in Nairobi, Kenya until he was eight. He has been nominated for Academy awards for his work, Leaving Las Vegas in 1995.
Mike Figgis Family
Figgis dad was an Irish colonial who was educated in England. He was a pilot during the war. he was also a writer and a jazz pianist. Her mother was a typist and worked in Nairobi. he has a young sister. The family names have not been disclosed.
Mike Figgis Age
Figgis is 71 years old as of 2019.
Mike Figgis Wife
Figgis was in a relationship with Saffron Burrows. The two have seperated just recently after Saffron Burrows left him.
Mike Figgis Children
Figgis has two children namely Arlen Figgis, Louis Figgis.
Mike Figgis Timecode
Timecode is a 2000 American experimental film written and directed by Figgis. The film is constructed from four continuous 93-minute shots that were simultaneously filmed by four cameramen; the screen is divided into quarters and the four shots are shown simultaneously. The film depicts several groups of people in Los Angeles as they interact and conflict while preparing to shoot a film in a production office. The dialog was largely improvised, and the film’s sound mix is designed to dominate the soundtrack at any given moment by the most significant of the four sequences on the screen.
Mike Figgis Films
- The House (1984)
- Stormy Monday (1988)
- Internal Affairs (1990)
- Women & Men 2 (1991)
- Liebestraum (1991)
- Mr. Jones (1993)
- The Browning Version (1994)
- Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
- Flamenco Women (1997)
- One Night Stand (1997)
- The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)
- Miss Julie (1999)
- Timecode (2000)
- Hotel (2001)
- The Battle of Orgreave (2001)
- Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) Segment: About Time 2
- The Blues (2003) – Episode: Red, White, And Blues
- Cold Creek Manor (2003)
- The Sopranos – Episode: “Cold Cuts” (2004)
- Co/Ma (2004)
- Love Live Long (2008)
- The Co(te)lette Film (2010)
- Suspension of Disbelief (2012)
Mike Figgis Sopranos
Cold Cuts is the sixtieth episode of the original HBO series The Sopranos and the fifth season of the show’s tenth. Originally aired on May 9, 2004, it was written by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess and directed by Figgis.
Mike Figgis Hotel
Hotel is a 2001 experimental british italian comedy directed by Figgis.
Mike Figgis Digital Filmmaking
Academy Award nominee Figgis offers the reader in this indispensable guide a step-by-step tutorial on how to use digital filmmaking technology to get the best out of it. He outlines the equipment and its uses and provides the shooting process with an authoritative guide from working with actors to lighting, framing, and camera movement. He dispenses further wisdom on the process of editing and the use of sound and music, while creating a sound aesthetic basis for the digital format.
Mike Figgis Books
- The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations6 Oct 2016
by Mike Figgis.
Digital Film-Making19 Apr 2007
by Mike Figgis - LEAVING LAS VEGAS – MOVIE1 Jan 1995
by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue - CONVERSATIONS WITH JACK CARDIFF: Art, Light and Direction in Cinema30 Sep 2003
by Justin Bowyer and Mike Figgis - Digital Film-making Revised Edition6 Feb 2014
by Mike Figgis - Projections 10: Hollywood Film-makers on Film-making No. 1018 Oct 1999
by Mike Figgis - Leaving Las Vegas15 Nov 2012
by Mike Figgis - [ The 4 Dreams of Miss X ] [ THE 4 DREAMS OF MISS X ] BY Figgis, Mike ( AUTHOR ) Apr-01-2007 HardCover1 Apr 2007
by Mike Figgis - HiBrow: Richard Strange’s A Mighty Big If – Mike Figgis21 Feb 2018 | Original recording
by Richard Strange and Mike Figgis - In The Dark: Images and Text by Mike Figgis by Mike Figgis (2003-09-01)1655
by Mike Figgis - Collected Screenplays:Stormy Monday,Liebestraum,Leaving Las Vegas Vol 18 Apr 2002
by Mike Figgis
One Night Stand20 Oct 1997
by Mike Figgis
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Mike Figgis Miss Julie
Miss Julie is a 1999 movie directed by Figgis based on August Strindberg’s play of the same name, featuring Saffron Burrows in Jean’s role as Miss Julie and Peter Mullan.
Mike Figgis Photography
Faggis started using a camera at the age of 11. He began taking family photos. he later used a friends camera before buying his own. His photography is not well known than cinematography.
Mike Figgis Rosey Chan
Mike Figgis Leaving Las Vegas
A 1995 American romantic tragedy film written and directed by Figgis, Leaving Las Vegas is based on John O’Brien’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Nicolas Cage stars in Los Angeles as a suicidal alcoholic who has decided to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death, divorced and recently fired. As he drives from Los Angeles to Nevada, he loads a supply of liquor and beer into his BMW and gets drunk. He develops a romantic relationship once there with a beautiful but hardened prostitute played by Elisabeth Shue, the center of the film. O’Brien died of suicide following the signing off of the novel’s film rights.
Mike Figgis Net Worth
Faggis has an estimated net worth of $14 MILLION
Mike Figgis 36 Dramatic Situations
Georges Polti wrote the original 36 Dramatic Situations in the 1850s in French. Polti synthesized all drama as a mixture of 36 situations. With examples from classical and French theatre, he illustrates every’ situation’ in the book. When Figgis used the book as an aid in setting up a film treatment, he found that his creativity landscape had changed quite radically and that ideas came forward with relative ease. He realized that the book of Polti was a reference system that might be a powerful tool for writers. So he started updating all the references, moving the focus away from the theater and mainly focusing on cinema.
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The queen of fashion, the queen of hearts, and the queen: Sotheby’s Made in Britain auction features pictures of Kate Moss, Princess Diana and the queen among lots
Adopted from antiquestradegazette.com
Published on 14 Mar 2019
It is not quite a full house in a game of cards, but Sotheby’s Made in Britain auction has dealt three ‘queens’ alongside works by British artists including David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Dame Lucie Rie, Mary Fedden and Beryl Cook.
The auction, to take place on March 20 in London, is marketed as a “showcase” of the “very best in Modern British Art across the disciplines of paintings, works on paper, prints, photography, contemporary and studio ceramics and design”.
Estimates start from only £300, but the ‘queen’ pictures of fashion model Kate Moss, Princess Diana and The Queen are estimated in the thousands.
Sotheby’s has released the video below to promote the ‘queens’ ahead of the auction.
Kate Moss, Descending, (2007) by film director, screenwriter and composer Figgis (b. 1948) was filmed in a deserted mansion for part of four short films created in 2007 for the lingerie brand Agent Provocateur titled Miss X. The giclee print, signed and numbered AP 2/2 from an edition of 10, is estimated at £40,000-60,000.
Diana admired French fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier’s (b. 1943) work and, in 1989, commissioned him to photograph her, leading to his role as the first non-British official photographer for the royal family. His photographs of her graced Vogue magazine covers in 1991 and 1994. This silver print, flush-mounted on linen, signed and numbered 7/25 in pencil, Princess Diana (1990) is estimated at £20,000-30,000.
This picture of the queen with her eyes closed was described as a happy ‘accident’ by photographer Chris Levine (b.1960). He was commissioned to commemorate the Jersey’s 800th year of allegiance to the crown in a holographic portrait, a process that involved a high-resolution digital camera which moved along a rail taking 200 images over eight seconds. The queen was required to sit still for eight seconds at a time, and between the passes she closed her eyes to rest. Levine was struck by the beauty of her meditative state and snapped the shutter.
Lightness of Being (2010), a lenticular print from an edition of 200, is estimated at £12,000-18,000.