Jim ClarkFilmography

Virgin Territory

Crew: Editor

Actors: Hayden Christensen, Mischa Barton, Tim Roth, Chris Egan, Matthew Rhys

Synopsis: A lovely maiden with three potential suitors finds the competition to take her hand in marriage heating up to a fever pitch in an adventuresome comedy romance starring Hayden Christenson, Mischa Barton, Tim Roth, and Christopher Egan. Based on the novel by author Giovanni Boccaccio Read More

Opal Dream

Crew: Editor

Actors: Sapphire Boyce

Synopsis: When the imaginary friends of a young girl living in Australia's Lightning Ridge opal-mining town go missing, the inexplicable illness that befalls her soon prompts her brother to organize a desperate search for his sister's transparent pals in director Peter Cattaneo's adaptation of Ben Rice's Read More

Vera Drake

Crew: Editor

Actors: Imelda Staunton, Philip Davis, Peter Wight, Adrian Scarborough, Heather Craney

Synopsis: Written and directed by Academy Award-nominee Mike Leigh and set in England during the 1950s, this movie revolves around Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton), whose unrelenting dedication to her family is well known throughout her blue-collar town. However, there are more people than her rapidly aging Read More

City by the Sea

Crew: Editor

Actors: Robert De Niro, Frances McDormand, James Franco, Eliza Dushku

Synopsis: A man struggling to come to terms with the sins of his father makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime in a drama based on a true story. Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great Read More

Onegin

Crew: Editor

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler, Toby Stephens, Lena Headey, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: Another member of the Fiennes family leaves a mark in the film business, as Martha Fiennes makes her big-screen directorial debut with a screen adaptation of the verse novel by Aleksander Pushkin, with her big brother Ralph Fiennes in the leading role. Onegin (Fiennes) is a blase man who has grown Read More

The World Is Not Enough

Crew: Editor

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench

Synopsis: James Bond, the world's greatest secret agent, is sent once more into the breach in the name of Queen, Country, and a dry martini. In the 19th Bond adventure, 007 (Pierce Brosnan) must resolve a potentially deadly power struggle between two unstable nations, with control of the world's oil supply Read More

The Trench

Crew: Editor

Actors: Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Danny Dyer, James D'Arcy

Synopsis: In 1916, the British Army suffered their bloodiest and most severe defeat ever in the Battle of the Somme; The Trench focuses on the awful prelude to the battle as seen through the eyes of a group of inexperienced soldiers. Billy Macfarlane (Paul Nicholls) is a 17-year-old boy who joined the Army Read More

I Love You, I Love You Not

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Claire Danes, Jude Law, James Van Der Beek, Kris Park

Synopsis: Funded by the Ford Foundation, a one-act play by Wendy Kesselman about a teenage girl's coming of age was expanded to become the directorial debut of prominent casting director Billy Hopkins. Claire Danes stars as Daisy, a well-to-do but shy and bookish Manhattan teenager attending an exclusive Read More

The Jackal

Crew: Editor

Actors: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora, Tess Harper

Synopsis: In Moscow, after FBI deputy director Carter Preston (Sidney Poitier) and scarred Russian intelligence officer Valentina Koslova (Diane Venora) bring down a key figure in the Russian Mafia, they are threatened by the criminal's powerful brother who swears vengeance on the FBI and immediately hires Read More

Marvin's Room

Crew: Editor

Actors: Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: Two sisters try to set their familial differences aside -- one in hopes of saving her own life -- in this drama with comic accents. Bessie (Diane Keaton) has lived in Florida for the past 20 years, where she's been caring for her chronically ill father Marvin (Hume Cronyn) and her Aunt Ruth (Gwen Read More

Copycat

Crew: Editor

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Will Patton

Synopsis: A serial killer stalks the streets of San Francisco; unlike his many predecessors does not choose a distinctive, identifying pattern. No, this killer prides himself on his unoriginality: he is a copycat, recreating the violent murders of some of the country's most notorious serial killers, his Read More

Nell

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Richard Libertini, Nick Searcy

Synopsis: A woman is brought to civilization after spending her life in the wilds in this drama. Dr. Jerome Lovell (Liam Neeson) happens upon a shack deep in the woods, where he discovers a strange woman who appears to be about 30, speaking an incomprehensible language. The woman, named Nell (Jodie Foster) Read More

Radio Inside

Crew: Editor

Actors: William McNamara, Elisabeth Shue, Dylan Walsh, Ilse Earl, Pee Wee Love

Synopsis: As two brothers fall in love with the same woman they must come to grips with the accidental death of their father in this sensitive drama set in Miami. Matthew is still wracked with guilt about the death of his father one year before. As a lifeguard, he believes he should have been able to save Read More

A Good Man in Africa

Crew: Editor

Actors: Colin Friels, Joanne Whalley, Sean Connery, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Lithgow

Synopsis: Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political, social, and sexual gamesmanship of a group of British and African politicians. Morgan Leafy (Colin Friels) is a British diplomat who, for the past three years, has been assigned Read More

War of the Buttons

Crew: Editor

Actors: Liam Cunningham, Gregg Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, John S. Coffey, Eveanna Ryan

Synopsis: Rival groups of boys from two neighboring Irish villages engage in a running battle in this remake of the 1962 French movie of the same name, based on a novel by Louis Pergaud. The boys from Ballydowse, who dress as they please, exchange insults with boys from nearby Carricksdowse -- who wear Read More

This Boy's Life

Crew: Editor

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku

Synopsis: A single mother and her difficult son find family life isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be in this drama adapted from writer and professor Tobias Wolff's 1989 memoir of the same name. Nomadic, flaky Caroline (Ellen Barkin) just wants to settle down in one place, find a decent guy, and Read More

Meeting Venus

Crew: Editor

Actors: Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Erland Josephson, Macha Meril

Synopsis: Meeting Venus is based on a play cowritten by the film's director, Istvan Szabo. Glenn Close plays a celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson who is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian Read More

Memphis Belle

Crew: Editor

Actors: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, David Strathairn

Synopsis: Unabashedly sentimental, this war film was produced by David Putnam in partnership with Catherine Wyler, whose father William Wyler directed an acclaimed documentary about the real-life events depicted in the film. The ensemble cast is composed of ten young actors portraying the crew of the World Read More

Young Toscanini

Crew: Editor

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophie Ward, Pat Heywood, John Rhys-Davies

Synopsis: This biographical costume drama from director Franco Zeffirelli covers the early life of Arturo Toscanini and stars C. Thomas Howell as the famous composer. When Arturo lands a job with the orchestra of Claudio Rossi (John Rhys-Davies), he soon finds himself bound for a tour of South America and Read More

Code Name: Chaos

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: A group of former CIA agents team up to ransom the entire world by staging an international crisis in the Orient. Only one man (Brian Kerwin), also an agent, can stop them. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Mission

Crew: Editor

Actors: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: Featuring a majestic score by Ennio Morricone and lush Oscar-winning cinematography by Chris Menges, Roland Joffé's The Mission examines the events surrounding the Treaty of Madrid in 1750, when Spain ceded part of South America to Portugal, and turns this episode into an allegory for the mid-'80s Read More

French Lesson

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jane Snowden, Alexandre Sterling, Jacqueline Doyen, Raoul Delfosse, Jeanne Herviale, Oystein Wiik

Synopsis: The French Lesson was released in some markets as The Frog Prince. Studying at the Sorbonne, young British lass Jenny (Jane Snowden) lives with a rural, respectable French family. Her head full of curious romantic notions, Jenny would like to surrender her virginity, but only when the "right" boy Read More

The Killing Fields

Crew: Editor

Actors: Sam Waterston, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T. Nelson, Athol Fugard, Spalding Gray, Bill Paterson

Synopsis: The Killing Fields is a romanticized adaptation of an eyewitness magazine story by New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg. Covering the U.S. pullout from Vietnam in 1975, Schanberg (Sam Waterston) relies on his Cambodian friend and translator Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) for inside Read More

Privates on Parade

Crew: Editor

Actors: John Cleese, Denis Quilley, Nicola Pagett, Patrick Pearson, Michael Elphick

Synopsis: This kooky British comedy chronicles the zany and occasionally dramatic exploits of the Song and Dance Unit, Southeast Asia (SADUSEA, pronounced "sad-you-see") assigned to entertain troops stationed in the Malayan jungle during WW II. It is based on a play by Peter Nichols. The entertainers are Read More

Honky Tonk Freeway

Crew: Editor

Actors: Beau Bridges, Hume Cronyn, Beverly D'Angelo, William Devane, George Dzundza

Synopsis: In this involved send-up of two American icons -- the automobile and the tourist trap -- the tiny Florida town of Ticlaw strives desperately for success after it has been denied the most essential of all tourist amenities -- a freeway exit. The insane, and mostly successful, schemes of the mayor (William Devane Read More

Agatha

Crew: Editor

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton, Helen Morse, Celia Gregory

Synopsis: What happened when best-selling mystery novelist Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days back in 1926? The British Agatha "answers" that question. Vanessa Redgrave is cast as Ms. Christie, who vanished from her home not long after her husband (Timothy Dalton) informed her that he was leaving her. Read More

Yanks

Crew: Editor

Actors: Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Rachel Roberts, Chick Vennera

Synopsis: John Schlesinger directs the war romance Yanks, based on the story by Colin Welland. Set in England at the end of WWII, the story concerns three American GIs and their affairs with British women of varying social status. The central romance concerns Sgt. Matt Dyson (Richard Gere) and Jean Moreton Read More

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

Crew: Editor

Actors: Ann-Margret, Marty Feldman, Michael York, Peter Ustinov, James Earl Jones

Synopsis: Beau Geste, the classic adventure story of a young man's dangerous journeys as part of the French Foreign Legion, becomes the subject of broad parody in this slapstick comedy. The original tale, best known to film lovers from William Wellman's 1939 classic, tells of several brothers who join the Read More

Marathon Man

Crew: Editor

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller

Synopsis: Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the U.S. government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence Olivier). Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New Read More

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

Crew: Editor

Actors: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Leo McKern

Synopsis: Comic actor Gene Wilder made his debut as a writer and director in this period comedy in which he plays Sigerson Holmes, the older bother of famous detective Sherlock Holmes. For years, Sigerson has been living in his little brother's shadow, and he is convinced that he must constantly prove his Read More

The Day of the Locust

Crew: Editor

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: The Day of the Locust is anything but a cheerful, light look at Hollywood in the '30s. It recreates both the town as well as the filmmaking world around which much of the town revolved with devastating accuracy. The movie tells the twin tales of talentless wannabe actress Faye Greener (Karen Read More

Madhouse

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Cushing, Vincent Price

Synopsis: This semi-serious horror film represented the first on-screen pairing of icons Vincent Price and Peter Cushing, who play, respectively, aging former horror star Paul Toombes and actor-turned-writer Herbert Flay, who unite in an effort to revive the popularity of Toombes' screen character "Dr. Read More

Visions of Eight: The Olympics of Motion Picture Achievement

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: This documentary of the 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, is remarkable for bringing eight of the world's most notable film directors to work on it. They are: Milos Forman, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch and John Schlesinger. Each Read More

Rentadick

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this pre-Monty Python parody of private-eye movies by Graham Chapman and John Cleese, someone has stolen nerve gas that paralyzes victims from the waist down. Now the bumbling boys at Rentadick, Inc. must find them before it is too late. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

X, Y and Zee

Crew: Editor

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York, Margaret Leighton, John Standing

Synopsis: More commonly known as Zee & Co., this cautionary tale of extramarital discretions finds a threatened and desperate wife lashing out in order to salvage a faltering marriage. An upper-crust couple living the high-life in post-'60s London, Zee (Elizabeth Taylor) and Robert (Michael Caine) Blakely's Read More

Think Dirty

Crew: Director

Actors: Marty Feldman, Shelley Berman, Judy Cornwell, Julie Ege, Patrick Cargill

Synopsis: This offbeat comedy finds Teddy (Marty Feldman) as a television advertising man given a seemingly meaningless project. Slated to make frozen porridge commercials, he comes up with the idea to find an erotic Goldilocks to sell the product. Soon a nationwide search is launched for the female Read More

Darling

Crew: Editor

Actors: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey, Roland Curram, José-Luis de Villalonga

Synopsis: Julie Christie won an Oscar for her portrayal of a bored, amoral fashion model in this cynical melodrama from director John Schlesinger. Following the break-up of a teenage marriage, Diana Scott (Christie) drifts into the world of modeling and acting, where she meets a television news reporter Read More

The Pumpkin Eater

Crew: Editor

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Johnson

Synopsis: Anne Bancroft stars as a restless, twice-married British woman with six children, whose third husband is a fledgling screenwriter (Peter Finch). When success spins Finch's head around, he begins to dally with women other than his wife. Meanwhile, Bancroft is forced to stay home and play "domestic Read More

Charade

Crew: Editor

Actors: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, Ned Glass, George Kennedy

Synopsis: Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star in this stylish comedy-thriller directed by Stanley Donen, very much in a Hitchcock vein. Grant plays Peter Joshua, who meets Reggie Lampert (Hepburn) in Paris and later offers to help her when she discovers that her husband has been murdered. After the funeral Read More

Term of Trial

Crew: Editor

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Roland Culver, Frank Pettingell, Terence Stamp, Thora Hird

Synopsis: Based on James Barlow's novel The Burden of Proof, this is a thoughtful drama revolving around the relationship between a schoolteacher and his students, in particular a fifteen year old girl (played by the debuting Sarah Miles, although she was in fact 21 at the time), who has become infatuated Read More

The Grass Is Greener

Crew: Editor

Actors: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Moray Watson

Synopsis: A rousing chorus of Noël Coward's "Stately Homes of England" is heard as the opening titles of The Grass Is Greener fade into several stock shots of those stately homes. One of these mansions is owned by British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to Read More

The Innocents

Crew: Editor

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Megs Jenkins, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens, Michael Redgrave, Peter Wyngarde

Synopsis: In this lugubrious but brilliantly realized adaptation of Henry James' classic novella The Turn of the Screw, 19th century British governess Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) arrives at a bleak mansion to take care of Flora (Pamela Franklin) and Miles (Martin Stephens), the wealthy household's two Read More

Surprise Package

Crew: Editor

Actors: Yul Brynner, Bill Nagy, Mitzi Gaynor, Barry Foster

Synopsis: This is an unimpressive spy-comedy from director Stanley Donen who inserts his specialty, a small song-and-dance number, into the odd proceedings. Gangster Nico March (Yul Brynner) has been ordered out of the United States because of his unsavory activities and back to the Greek island from whence Read More