Barrie Gavin Movies

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

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

A documentary about the life and work of the composer Hans Werner Henze followed by a performance of Requiem

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

A portrait of Eric Lyons and Span, under the scrutiny of Ian Nairn, as well as the residents of their estates.

In 1915 the Russian artist Malevich declared a Black Square on a White Background an icon of his times and thus founded a new form of art, liberated...

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,...

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

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

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

The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to...

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

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

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

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

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

Documentary film on Arnold Schoenberg