Sandy Whitelaw
1930 - 2015Whitelaw was born in London and educated in Switzerland, the UK and the United States. He represented Britain as a skier in the 1956 Olympics.
Whitelaw's film career began when he worked as an assistant to the producer David O. Selznick on the 1957 film A Farewell to Arms. He also worked for the production company Hecht-Lancaster. He went on to work for United Artists in a number of capacities, including as head of production for UA Europe.
At this time he was based in London and worked on films including Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris (1972), Federico Fellini’s Roma (1972) and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Decameron (1971). He directed two films: Lifespan (1974), which starred Klaus Kinski, and Vicious Circles (1997), which starred Ben Gazzara. He acted in a number of films including The American Friend (1977), Broken English (1981) and The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005).
Whitelaw began to work as a subtitler in the 1970s in Paris. It was the producer Pierre Cottrell who suggested that he subtitle Jean Eustache's film Mes petites amoureuses. He continued to work as a subtitler for four decades.
Whitelaw provided English subtitles for more than 1,000 films over a period of several decades. He once called it "like getting paid to do crosswords". One of the more challenging jobs he took on was the subtitling, with Stephen O'Shea, of Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film La Haine. Their subtitles for this film received considerable critical attention.
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Mylène Farmer: Pourvu qu'elles soient douces (Libertine II)
Laurent Boutonnat
Mylène Farmer, Yann Babilée Keogh
Story of two women's feud continues during the events of The Seven Years' War Music video for Mylène Farmer's song Pourvu qu'elles soient douces
Mylène Farmer: Pourvu qu'elles soient douces (Libertine II)
The American Friend
Wim Wenders
Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
The American Friend
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Jacques Audiard
Ромен Дюри, Niels Arestrup
Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle...
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Notorious Nobodies
Stanislav Stanojevic
Juliette Andres, Anna-Maria Castro
Director Stanislav Stanojevic's award-winning drama tells eight stories of people whose human rights have been violated by their governments. Set in Zaire, Uruguay and several European countries, the stories all take place on November 10, 1983. Starring Juliette Andres, Anamaria Castro and Laurence Wistoursky, the film depicts the struggle of unjustly persecuted people trying to hold on to their dignity.
Notorious Nobodies
La tortue sur le dos
Luc Béraud
Jean-François Stévenin, Bernadette Lafont
Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins around him because of his severe case of writer's block. He tries every remedy known to man and makes up a few new ones in this comedy. All his efforts are futile: he loses his girlfriend and his apartment and has a succession of misadventures until finally, homeless and hospitalized, he rediscovers his inspiration.
Like a Turtle on Its Back
Tout feu, tout flamme
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Yves Montand, Isabelle Adjani
Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take advantage that Pauline, his eldest daughter now fully responsible for the whole family, has begun to work for the Ministry of Finance. Pauline thwarts his new projects but when she realizes gangsters are looking for Victor she will put her life at risk to help him and save their family.
All Fired Up
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
Pierre Zucca
Fabrice Luchini, Michel Bouquet
This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image.
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
Enigma
Jeannot Szwarc
Martin Sheen, Brigitte Fossey
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Enigma
Lifespan
Sandy Whitelaw
Hiram Keller, Tina Aumont
Cult icon Klaus Kinski features in this dark and intriguing existential thriller. He plays the mysterious "Swiss Man" - ruthless industrialist Nicolas Ulrich - who is obsessed with a search for the elixir of life. He tricks a young American scientist into joining him on his demonic quest. A quest that ends in suicide, death and madness. The story takes place in the atmospheric European city of Amsterdam. Its winding alleys and ancient canals trap the characters in a labyrinthine maze as they find themselves manipulated like figures on a giant chess board.
Lifespan
Music Videos
Laurent Boutonnat
Mylène Farmer, Hervé Lewis
Maman à tort, Plus grandir, Libertine, Pourvu qu'elles soient douces, Tristana, Sans contrefaçon, Ainsi soit-je, Sans logique, A quoi je sers, Allan (live 89), Plus grandir (live 89), Désenchantée, Regrets (a duo with Jean-Louis Murat), Je t'aime mélancolie, and Beyond my control.
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