Alan Parker was a very fashionable director before he went very out of fashion. Today, he doesn't care, he's dead. The British filmmaker died of a long illness on Friday July 31 at the age of 76. He leaves behind fourteen films, few masterpieces but some have marked their time and have been a resounding success, in addition to gleaning Oscars (10 in total). This is of course the case with Midnight Express , in 1978, a great advertisement for Turkish jails through the true story of an American sentenced to thirty years in prison for trafficking in hashish. When it was released, the film traumatized all readers of the Guide du Routard (founded in 1973) attempted by Istanbul and made the Italian Giorgio Moroder, composer of music, a star.
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Music is at the heart of the work of Alan Parker, born in London in 1944 and from the same generation as other British directors who, like him, made their debut in advertising before breaking into Hollywood: Adrian Lyne,
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