15° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
European Perspectives 1997
Love and Death on Long Island
by Richard Kwietniowski
Country: UK
Year: 1997
Duration: 93'
Middleaged widower Giles De'Ath is a "Man of Letters", untained by the twentieth century, until he sees an American "teen movie" by accident, and is instantly besotted by one of the bitpart actors: Ronnie Bostock. Giles kindles his obsession by collecting and cataloguing every possible representation of Ronnie, from pinups in heartthrob magazines to video of "teen movie". Swiftly becoming an enthralled expert on American youth culture and armed with every possible scrap of information about Ronnie, Giles arrives in Ronnie's Long Island town determined to find him.
Biography
film director
Richard Kwietniowski
Born in London, Kwietniowski studied literature and film at the Universities of Kent and California and subsequently worked in the independent film sector and in media education. His first film short Alfalfa premiered at the Berlin Film Festival to international acclaim and his subsequent impressive body of work in the short film arena has won several international awards and been both a critical and commercial success, achieving theatrical distribution and TV sales in Great Britain, Europe, Australia and the USA. Since 1989, he has worked in British television, where his skills were recognized with swift promotion to the rank of series director. In 1990 he set up his own production company. Love and Death on Long Island is Richard Kwietniowski's full length feature film directorial debut.
FILMOGRAFIA
Alfalfa (cm, 1987), Ballad of Reading Gaol (cm, 1988), Flames of Passions (cm, 1989), Proust's Favourite Fantasy (cm, 1991), The Cost of Love (cm, 1991), Love and Death on Long Island (1997).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Richard Kwietniowski.
Plot: dal romanzo di Gilbert Adair.
Director of photography: Oliver Curtis.
Art director: David McHenry.
Costume designer: Andrea Galer.
Editor: Susan Shipton.
Music: The Insects, Richard GrassbyLewis.
Cast and characters: john Hurt (Giles DeAth), Jason Priestley (Ronnie Bostock), Fiona Loewi (Audrey), Sheila Hancock (Mrs Barker), Maury Chaykin (Irving Buckmuller).
Produttori: Steve ClarkHall, Christopher Zimmer.
Direttori di produzione: Mairi Bett, Gilles Belanger.
Production company: Skyline Films, PO Box 8210, London W4 IWH, UK, tel. +44836275584, fax +44-181-9952117 Imagex, 30 Oland Court, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B3B 1V2, Canada, tel. +19024224000, fax +19024684088.
Foreign sales agent: The Sales Company, 62 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1V 7DE, UK, tel. +44171-4349061, fax +44171-4943293.
Italian distribution: Mikado Film s.r.l., via Vittor Pisani 12, 20124 Milano, Italy, tel. +390267070665/67070685, fax +39-0266711488
Plot: dal romanzo di Gilbert Adair.
Director of photography: Oliver Curtis.
Art director: David McHenry.
Costume designer: Andrea Galer.
Editor: Susan Shipton.
Music: The Insects, Richard GrassbyLewis.
Cast and characters: john Hurt (Giles DeAth), Jason Priestley (Ronnie Bostock), Fiona Loewi (Audrey), Sheila Hancock (Mrs Barker), Maury Chaykin (Irving Buckmuller).
Produttori: Steve ClarkHall, Christopher Zimmer.
Direttori di produzione: Mairi Bett, Gilles Belanger.
Production company: Skyline Films, PO Box 8210, London W4 IWH, UK, tel. +44836275584, fax +44-181-9952117 Imagex, 30 Oland Court, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B3B 1V2, Canada, tel. +19024224000, fax +19024684088.
Foreign sales agent: The Sales Company, 62 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1V 7DE, UK, tel. +44171-4349061, fax +44171-4943293.
Italian distribution: Mikado Film s.r.l., via Vittor Pisani 12, 20124 Milano, Italy, tel. +390267070665/67070685, fax +39-0266711488
