Director: Toby MacDonald
Script: Mark Chappell
Photography: Andy Hollis
Editor: Mark Thornton
Music: Andy Blaney
Sound: Alastair Widgery
Production Design: Les Stephenson
Casting: Tracey Gilham
Principal Cast: Kris Marshall, Andrew Scott, Alice Lowe
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
Executive Producers: Kenton Allen, Sophie Clarke-Jervoise
Production: BBC
Distribution: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
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First Broadcast: 19.10.2004, 21:00, BBC3, 0.4 mill.
Selected Filmography Paul Schlesinger: Absolute Power, 2003; Wild West, 2002; Chambers, 2000; Beast, 2000; People Like Us, 1999; Europigeon, 1998.
Who’s never once thought of his life as a film? For Art, however, it’s his normal course of life. The box office clerk and wannabe low budget director keeps dreaming himself into his favorite films. Alas, reality never quite falls in line with the plots of the classics of cinema. Satirical references to classic movies are a standard device in Hollywood comedies, but screenwriter Mark Chappell is taking the art of citation to new absurd heights in his BBC mini-series "My Life in Film". Each episode’s music, photography and editing are cast in the mould of a seminal classic, be it a masterpiece of European auteur cinema, such as Fellini’s "8 1/2", or, in the case of "Top Gun", a new low in patriotic Hollywood entertainment.