Catalogue des films de « Michael Grigsby »

Director Michael Grigsby returns to Northern Ireland for a third time for this film, which creates a portrait of the country's peace process through those that live it daily. Focusing on a disparate series of rehearsals with poets and musicians...

A group of football fans head to their team's ground on a Saturday afternoon for a match between Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers. Using football chants to create a musical score, the film constructs the narrative of the match solely...

Director Michael Grigsby returns to the Scottish town of Lockerbie ten years after it became the centre of international media attention following the terrorist bomb that exploded on Pan Am Flight 103 over the town, killing everyone on board and...

A golden wedding anniversary is the occasion for a family reunion which presents the film-makers with a cross section of working class experience from all over England covering the period from the fifties and post-war reconstruction to Thatcherism...

Recording the lives of four families, Grigsby's elegy to the fragmentation of British society in the eighties creates a mosaic of impressions, running freely with time and space. Interviews with the generation born between the Wars are intercut...

A film about deep-sea fishermen trawling in Icelandic waters. Often compared to Grierson's Drifters in its lyrical tone and preoccupation with the terrible might of nature, this film has a clear political bite. The families left on shore share...

For this - one of the first films to deal with the experiences of Vietnam vets returning home - Grigsby travelled to small-town Texas, far from the liberal coastal areas where the anti-war demonstrations were taking place, and spoke to three men...

Thank God tomorrow's Saturday being the motto of the film. Grigsby allows the impressively naturalistic image of his subjects to speak for itself in this record of a summer's evening in the textile town of Blackburn.

Made for Unit Five Seven by a group of young filmmakers encouraged by Lindsay Anderson and Karel Reisz, "Enginemen" records a day in the life of a locomotive shed just outside the suburbs of Manchester. Made at a time when diesel was replacing...