Barrie Gavin Movies

Interview with French director Jacques Tati, focusing on his on-screen persona, Monsieur Hulot. Produced for the British television series "Omnibus".

An opera by Benjamin Britten, on a libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville. Billy Budd is a young sailor...

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

Documentary on 84-year old Marevna; painter, friend of Picasso and one-time mistress of Diego Rivera; and her daughter by Rivera, Marika; former...

Humphrey Burton introduces two Omnibus USA reports on the arts in New York... that is the arts in the streets, away from the museums and the concert...

A film based on Beyond a Boundary, the classic book by C. L. R. James,

Portrait of the composer, Peter Maxwell Davies, set in the context of the islands of Orkney. George Mackay Brown is featured reading his own verse...

A. L. Lloyd

Film of Morton Feldman's short opera (libretto by Samuel Beckett).

"Grainger is music's natural man... a noble savage of music." That quote describes Percy Grainger, the Australian-born composer and pianist. Grainger...

An interview with film director Roman Polanski, recorded for BBC TV in 1967.

In 1906 the young Bela Bartok set out to discover the forgotten music of his people. He found a vast treasure of folk music all over Eastern Europe,...

Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.

1968 interview with Lord Harewood.

Com: BBC for documentary 'Sound on Film'.Derived from music and dance filmed in Transylvania.

One public housing flat in Moscow stood out above all others: the home of George Costakis, the foremost collector of early 20th century Russian...

Documentary film on Arnold Schoenberg

Friend, instructor and student of Picasso, a welder at Renault, a painter and goldsmith – Julio González was all of these. The...