Recorded Picture Company
British film-production company
original logo of RPC (Recorded Picture Company) Recorded Picture Company is a British film production company founded in 1974 by producer Jeremy Thomas .
History
Recorded Picture Company (RPC) is an independent production company that makes feature films for worldwide theatrical release. Jeremy Thomas founded the London-based company in 1974, and remains chairman. Its first production, The Shout Jerzy Skolimowski , went on to win the Grand Prix de Jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978. Thomas has since produced or executive-produced over 60 films through RPC, of which all but one have obtained North American theatrical release.[citation needed
RPC is a director-driven company, and has close relationships with a number of leading directors including Bernardo Bertolucci , Phillip Noyce , Terry Gilliam , Stephen Frears , David Cronenberg and Takeshi Kitano . Its films have achieved commercial success and critical acclaim, with the best-known being Bertolucci's The Last Emperor Academy Awards including 'Best Picture'. Other notable productions include Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty Little Buddha Naked Lunch Crash Sexy Beast Jonathan Glazer , Brother Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Nagisa Oshima . RPC's films have garnered numerous prizes at Cannes and other major festivals and awards ceremonies.[citation needed
Jeremy Thomas later remembered forging the reputation of the company in the 1970s:
At the beginning I didn't really understand what I was doing. I didn't understand business terms and I probably didn't understand taste or cultural terms, but it was about now I was beginning to refine what I was trying to do. I was trying to think what sort of films that I wanted to make, what sort of audiences I was trying to find. And I am the type of independent producer, I am looking for a film to make my next film and to make profits and successful films, but I am not working in the arena of super profits. I am not working in an industrialised process. I am making global films but not films for a globalised market.[ 1]
Productions
RPC's releases include Bertolucci's The Dreamers Tideland Wim Wenders ' Don't Come Knocking Richard Linklater 's Fast Food Nation Jon Amiel 's Creation ,Charles Darwin starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly , which was the Opening Gala of the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival . 2010 saw Takashi Miike 's samurai epic 13 Assassins Essential Killing Venice International Film Festival , with both films going on to feature in Official Selection at Toronto. In 2012, Miike's Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai Cannes International Film Festival , the first 3D film ever to do so.
Recent releases include David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method Kon-Tiki Thor Heyerdahl 's best-selling book, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2012. The company premiered Jim Jarmusch 's vampire opus Only Lovers Left Alive Dom Hemingway Richard Shepard at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival , the dark fantasy Tale of Tales Matteo Garrone In Competition at the 2015 Cannes Film festival, the sci-fi period thriller High-Rise by Ben Wheatley at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival, and Blade of the Immortal Matteo Garrone and Julien Temple . RPC's head of development Alainée Kent works closely on the slate with Thomas.[ 2]
Films
The Shout Jerzy Skolimowski )Bad Timing Nicolas Roeg )Eureka Nicolas Roeg )Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Nagisa Oshima )The Hit Stephen Frears )Insignificance Nicolas Roeg )The Last Emperor Bernardo Bertolucci )Everybody Wins Karel Reisz )The Sheltering Sky Bernardo Bertolucci )Let Him Have It Peter Medak )Naked Lunch David Cronenberg )Little Buddha Bernardo Bertolucci )Stealing Beauty Bernardo Bertolucci )Victory Mark Peploe )Rough Magic Clare Peploe )The Ogre Volker Schlöndorff )Crash David Cronenberg )Blood and Wine Bob Rafelson )The Brave Johnny Depp )All the Little Animals Jeremy Thomas )Sexy Beast Jonathan Glazer )Brother Takeshi Kitano )Gohatto Nagisa Oshima )Rabbit-Proof Fence Phillip Noyce )Triumph of Love Clare Peploe )Young Adam David Mackenzie )Travellers and Magicians Khyentse Norbu )The Dreamers Bernardo Bertolucci )Dreaming Lhasa Tenzing Sonam & Ritu Sarin )Don't Come Knocking Wim Wenders )Tideland Terry Gilliam )Glastonbury Julien Temple )Fast Food Nation Richard Linklater )Mister Lonely Harmony Korine )Franklyn Gerald McMorrow )Creation Jon Amiel )13 Assassins Takashi Miike )Essential Killing Jerzy Skolimowski )Pina Wim Wenders )A Dangerous Method David Cronenberg )Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai Takashi Miike )Kon-Tiki Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg )Dom Hemingway Richard Shepard )Only Lovers Left Alive Jim Jarmusch )High-Rise Ben Wheatley )Tale of Tales Matteo Garrone )Blade of the Immortal Takashi Miike )The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Terry Gilliam )Samurai Marathon Bernard Rose )First Love Takashi Miike )Pinocchio Matteo Garrone )Traveling Light (2022, directed by Bernard Rose )EO Jerzy Skolimowski )
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