ڈرامہسال1976دورانیہ1h 34mIMDb6.7

Butley

ڈرامہرومانی

An English professor finds his life crumbling around him.

ابھی دیکھیں

ٹریلر

کاسٹ

Harold Pinter

Director

Alan Bates

Ben Butley

Jessica Tandy

Edna Shaft

Richard O'Callaghan

Joey Keystone

Georgina Hale

Carol Heasman

Michael Byrne

Reg Nuttall

Susan Engel

Anne Butley

Simon Rouse

Gardner

OM

Oliver Maguire

Man in the Tube

CH

Colin Haigh

First Student

DA

Darien Angadi

Second Student

JG

Jill Goldston

Tube Passenger

Lindsay Ingram

Female Student

AL

Anthony Lang

Tube Passenger

Patti Love

Female Student

BL

Belinda Low

Female Student

Derrick O'Connor

Irishman in pub

John Savident

James

Susan Wooldridge

Female Student

SG

Simon Gray

Writer

تبصرے

8 تبصرے

glow princessMay 29, 2023

source: Butley

مومياءNov 18, 2022

Yasser | ياسرNov 16, 2022

Butley

Lisa Chloé MalambaNov 16, 2022

This really plays much like a filming of a play. The direction is almost minimal. That's probably for the good given that what remains is a great bit of showmanship. Alan Bates is stunningly good as the lead Butley. He's a brilliant professor and writer at the end of his career. There is some amazing scheming between his character and younger more promising acolytes that he is jealous of. The only reason to watch this is for the dialogue which is sharp and literate -- one wonders what became of this. The version I saw was a film version of the play. Not much of production value but the playwright's craft is still preserved. Even mentioning all of this, it's amazing how well this holds up almost 40 years later. That's probably due to Bates' bravura performance.

Burna BoyNov 16, 2022

This American Film Theater presentation of Simon Gray's play about a bisexual professor of English whose life is in full collapse is a wordy affair. Alan Bates, in the title role, talks almost nonstop.... or perhaps I should say that he speaks. Harold Pinter directed this production like a stage play, and the performances are theatrical. I found it impossible to work up any sympathy for Bates' character, who seems to have sabotaged his life through bad choices. Likely that was Gray's point. He taught at Queen Mary College for a quarter of a century, and this looks like an illustration of the irony that the in-fighting in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small. Of course, these are people fighting for their lives, but they don't seem to care much for those lives, just in scoring hateful points off each other. In any case, I found the show as unpleasant as the self-absorbed characters.

zozo gnoutouNov 16, 2022

"Butley" is a film version of the play by the same name that also starred Alan Bates. This is fortunate, as so often when plays are brought to film, the producers completely recast the actors. And, I must say Bates did an amazing job in the lead. That being said, although Alan Bates did a great job playing a very caustic man, the film itself if probably NOT something most folks will enjoy. He plays a cynical, lazy, nasty alcoholic....the type person you really WOULDN'T want to spend much time with nor build a film around them. In other words, Bates did a great job playing someone you'll strongly dislike...or worse. There really is NOTHING to like about Butley...nothing. And that is why this is an unusual film...very well made but thoroughly unenjoyable after a while.

Sarah HassanNov 16, 2022

When I first saw this film, Ben Butley fascinated me (my cousin, who saw it with me, hated him). I've seen the film many times since then--I bought the video before I had a VCR to play it on--and it remains my favorite movie. And Alan Bates remains my favorite actor, although he's not at all like Butley. I wouldn't recommend the film to everybody, because it's a filmed play, totally in one room, all talk. Ah, but what talk, what dynamics between characters, what vicious game-playing and ruthlessness and humor. Simon Gray's never written a better play.

user1597547516656Nov 16, 2022

The Long Gay's Journey into Night. Nothing but bileous dialogue. Unwitty, uninteresting and unbearable. This is one of the most excruciating films I have ever seen. I can't believe the good reviews. They must have bought the pretense.

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