Promo director During the 1980s, Maybury produced a number of short films and
music videos including for
Sinéad O'Connor's "
Nothing Compares 2 U", which was voted #35 in a Channel 4 poll of the greatest pop music videos and received various awards.
Films In 1998, Maybury produced his first full-length feature,
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, a biopic on the life of painter
Francis Bacon starring
Derek Jacobi and
Daniel Craig. The film was screened in the
Un Certain Regard section at the
1998 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, he directed
The Jacket with
Adrien Brody and
Keira Knightley. In 2008, his film
The Edge of Love, a biopic on the life of Welsh poet
Dylan Thomas starring
Sienna Miller,
Cillian Murphy,
Matthew Rhys and
Keira Knightley, premiered. He also directed the final episode of the HBO/BBC
Rome series.
Filmography as director •
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) - also writer •
The Jacket (2005) •
The Edge of Love (2008) ==References==