Roger Spottiswoode

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  • Biography: Roger Spottiswoode (born January 5, 1945) is a Canadian-born film director and writer, who began his career as an editor in the 1970s. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He has directed a number of notable films and television productions, including Under Fire (1983) and the 1997 James Bond film... Read more

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LOS ANGELES -- February 26, 2009 -- Regent Releasing, a leading independent U.S. film distributor, announced today that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the docudrama "Shake Hands With The Devil," from EMMY?-nominated director Roger Spottiswoode and OSCAR?-winning producer... ... Full Article

Though George Hogg was a far cry from T. E. Lawrence, director Roger Spottiswoode isn't afraid to borrow an epic, David Lean-inspired style to tell his story in The Children of Huang Shi -- and it's a bit of a... ... Full Article

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theage.com.au2008-07-03
Based on a true story and directed by the Canadian-born Roger Spottiswoode, this Australian-Chinese-German co-production is a competent if faintly disjointed matinee spectacle that suggests a gender-reversed version of the recent Somerset Maugham adaptation The Painted Veil . Again, the... ... Full Article

CHICAGO - The second Chinese/Japanese war, which was a 1937 prelude to the great conflict of World War II , is notable today mostly because modern China rose from its ashes. ... Full Article

Larger than life
thestar.com2008-06-06
In life and in art Roger Spottiswoode seems drawn to tragic, larger-than-life men. This may explain why the 63-year-old Ottawa-born director, whose film The Children of Huang Shi opens today, launched his movie career working as an editor with director... ... Full Article

Director Roger Spottiswoode is not averse to taking risks as a filmmaker from "Shake Hands with the Devil" to the 1930s-set true story of "The Children of Huang Shi". ... Full Article

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