Alan Parker, who turns 75 today ... it is because he decided, at the relatively young age of 60, that his best work was behind him—and so it wasn't worth making anything new.

Sir Alan received the CBE in 1995 and a knighthood in 2002. He was also an Officier des Arts et Letters (France). Parker was also generous in sharing his time, knowledge and experience with young ...

Alan Parker, an influential British filmmaker ... In 1975, Parker wrote and directed Bugsy Malone, his first feature film. A young Jodie Foster starred in the gangster spoof musical with a ...

Alan Parker’s first theatrical feature film ... a child cast as gangsters who shoot ice cream and sing about it. Young Jodie Foster and Scott Baio star.

British director Alan Parker has died, the British Film Institute ... I always found this set incredibly evocative of how it feels to be young, hungry and dreaming in the big city.

He formed the Alan Parker Film Co. to craft commercials for ... a BBC film about two young boys being evacuated during the Blitz. His first big-screen feature, the inventive Bugsy Malone, was ...

Puttnam’s Masterclass was aimed to serve as a springboard in which he would use an audience Q&A to reach out to a new generation of young filmmakers ... Alan Parker, encouraging him to write ...

LONDON — Alan Parker, a successful and sometimes surprising ... of gangster films with a cast of children, including a young Jodie Foster. He followed that with the 1978 feature “Midnight ...

Alan Parker, a successful and sometimes surprising ... exuberant musical pastiche of gangster films with a cast of children, including a young Jodie Foster. He followed that with 1978 feature ...

AP Share LONDON — Filmmaker Alan Parker, one of Britain’s most successful ... of gangster films with a cast of children, including a young Jodie Foster. He followed that with “Midnight ...