John Maybury

Known for DirectingBorn 1958-03-25 (age 68)London, England, UK

John Maybury (born 25 March 1958) is an English filmmaker and artist. He first came to prominence as the director of the music video for the Pet Shop Boys 1984 single "West End Girls". In 2005 he was named as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain. During the 1980s, Maybury produced a number of short films and music videos including for Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U", which was voted #35 in a Channel 4 poll of the greatest pop music videos and received various awards, and "West End Girls" by the Pet Shop Boys, a defining 1980s video. In 1998, Maybury produced his first full-length feature Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, a biopic on the life of painter Francis Bacon starring Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, he directed The Jacket with Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley. In 2008 his film The Edge of Love, a biopic on the life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas starring Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys and Keira Knightley premiered. He also directed the final episode of the HBO/BBC Rome series.Read more

Movies & web series

Absurd

Union Jack Up

Waiting for Waiting for Godot

The Court of Miracles

Genetron

Premonitions Of Absurd Perversion In Sexual Personae, Part 1

Glistening with Energy

Cyndi Lauper: 12 Deadly Cyns... and Then Some

Rome

Tramps!

Tunnel of Love

Nothing Compares

Tortures That Laugh

Pagan Idolatry

The Borgias

Marco Polo

Sinéad O'Connor: The Value of Ignorance

Salò: Fade to Black

The Jacket

Dates

The Edge of Love

Jubilee: A Time Less Golden

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

The Last of England

ScreenPlay

Read Only Memory

The Alternative Miss World

The Dream Machine

Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies

Maledicta Electronica

The Queen Is Dead

Museum of Memory

Man to Man

Derek Jarman: A Portrait

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

Big Love: An Invitation to Disaster

Unclean

Circus Logic I-IV

The Technology of Souls

Glamour Is an Asset