"Alek Wek" Filmography
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Valentino: The Last Emperor
2008, USA
- Actors: Valentino, Giancarlo Giammetti, Nati Abascal, Giorgio Armani, Jeannie Becker, Matthew Broderick, Michael Caine, Joan Collins, Alessandra Facchinetti, Dante Ferretti, Tom Ford, Anne Hathaway, Jacqueline Kennedy, Karl Lagerfeld, Matteo Marzotto, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Claudia Schiffer, Meryl Streep, André Leon Talley, Uma Thurman, Donatella Versace, Diane von Fürstenberg, Alek Wek, Anna Wintour
- Genre: Documentary
- Director(s): Matt Tyrnauer
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Available languages:
- Italian Italian.
A story of friendship, a retrospective, and a look at haute couture as business: we watch Valentino Garavani (1932- ) and partner Giancarlo Giammetti from preparation for the 2006 Spring/Summer Collection in Paris to a July 2007 retrospective of Valentino's 45-year career, which included dressing Jacqueline Kennedy. The film documents a year of work, shows, business changes, and decisions. We follow a creation from sketch to runway: he's always in pursuit of beauty. We're in Paris, Rome, and Venice. He receives the French Legion of Honor medal; his acceptance speech brings tears. Reporters ask when he'll retire. Is the Roman retrospective his career's finale? Cue Puccini.
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The Four Feathers
2001, USA, UK
- Actors: Wes Bentley, Mohamed Bouich, Campbell Brown, Daniel Caltagirone, James Cosmo, Andy Coumbe, Angela Douglas, Karim Doukkali, Lucy Gordon, Megan Hall, James Hillier, Nick Holder, Djimon Hounsou, Kate Hudson, Alex Jennings, Alexandra Kabi, Heath Ledger, Julio Lewis, Craig McDonald, Lionel Mahop, Richard Manlove, Kris Marshall, Manar Mohamed, Marouazi Mohammed, Nider Mohamed, Anna Diafe Ndiaye, Medoune Ndiaye, Deobia Oparei, Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni, Charles Pemberton
- Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
- Director(s): Shekhar Kapur
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Available languages:
- English English.
Set in 1884 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fiancée give him four white feathers, the symbol of cowardice, but little do they know he's actually going undercover and plans to redeem his honor.