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George Fenton
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Biography
George Richard Ian Howe Fenton (born October 19, 1949) is an English composer primarily known for writing music for film and television. He has had longstanding collaborations with many directors including Ken Loach, Stephen Frears, Nicholas Hytner, Neil Jordan, Richard Attenborough, Andy Tennant, and Nora Ephron.
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Groundhog Day
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The History Boys
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The Lady in the Van
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The Company of Wolves
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My Name Is Joe
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Planet Earth
Original Music Composer
You've Got Mail
Original Music Composer
Hitch
Original Music Composer
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Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The University of British Cinema
From the dreaming spires of Cambridge to the redbrick campuses of the provinces, a journey through the British university film and what it reveals about class,...
8 films
Fractured Fables
From Grimm to the modern screen, a journey through films that twist the familiar into the unsettling, the erotic, and the profoundly human.
8 films
Rewinding the Reel: How VHS Championed British Independents
From Thatcher's Britain to the video shop era, discover how VHS gave gritty, daring British films a second life and a devoted audience.
9 films
The Classroom Without Walls
From a London schoolroom to a Parisian banlieue, a journey through films where teaching becomes an act of defiance and connection.
8 films
Pure-Hearted Heroes
Sixty years after Batman '66 taught us that heroism can be bright, sincere, and utterly without irony, this chain celebrates films whose protagonists believe, s...
7 films
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Music
The Old Oak
2023
The Duke
2021
The Secret: Dare to Dream
2020
The Lady in the Van
2015
Bears
2014
The Zero Theorem
2013
Frozen Planet
2011
Life
2009
Fool's Gold
2008
The History Boys
2006
Planet Earth
2006
Last Holiday
2006
Hitch
2005
Sweet Home Alabama
2002
Bread and Roses
2000
Center Stage
2000
You've Got Mail
1998
My Name Is Joe
1998
Dangerous Beauty
1998
The Crucible
1996
Land and Freedom
1995
The Madness of King George
1994
Mixed Nuts
1994
Groundhog Day
1993
The Fisher King
1991
The Long Walk Home
1990
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
High Spirits
1988
A Handful of Dust
1988
Clockwise
1986
The Company of Wolves
1984
Gandhi
1982