Cannon and Morley Productions
Cannon and Morley Productions
From biting nuns to twitching schoolgirls, the professor takes us on a musical journey through mass hysteria.
Carol Morley tracks down her old friend Catherine Corcoran and returns to India where they once travelled as teenagers. “A warm, very human film investigating the loss of friendship and the cathartic process” – The Independent “Return Trip is a fascinating piece of voyeuristic escapism for any viewers looking for an alternative to Corrie and […]
Based on the filmmaker’s collection of British newspaper cuttings, Everyday Something features interlocking private moments that give glimpses into everyday life.
Set in a fast food restaurant where twenty somethings talk about their troubles.
Using some of the devices of the genre of melodrama – the staircase, the father – as some kind of destiny, Girl deals with the need and impossibility of re-creating a time, a place, and a memory. Cross-cutting between the girl protagonist and her father, the film creates a sense of crisis and conflict. As […]
Would anyone miss you? “Hauntingly unforgettable” – Screen “Nothing has lingered in my mind like this” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian “A compelling, compassionate mix, Dreams speaks volumes about the mysteries of other people’s lives” – Total Film “This sobering cocktail of drama and documentary is at once engaging and enraging, enthralling and appalling…. Miraculously […]
Strange encounters at the Cliff Edge Hotel where death is never far away. “It is a brooding, atmospheric drama with themes and ideas that intersect revealingly with the rest of Morley’s films.” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian “Morley’s dreamlike visual style is mesmerising, drawing us into the situations as she continually hints at something dark […]
“This film is compulsive, experimentation with the documentary form is still possible” – The Independent on Sunday “Nails the zeitgeist better than countless documentaries about Joy Division, The Stone Roses and The Fall” – Evening Standard “Is this documentary at all? Not in any conventional sense perhaps, but it’s powerful, original and somehow, amongst the […]
