
Directing
Alison Maclean
Born
1958-07-31 (68)
Place of birth
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Known for
Directing
Credits
18 titles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alison Maclean is a Canadian film director of music videos, short films, television (episodes of Sex and the City, The Tudors, Homicide: Life On the Street), commercials and feature films. Her works include the music video Torn (Natalie Imbruglia, 1998), the short film Kitchen Sink (1989) and the feature films Jesus' Son (1999) starring Billy Crudup and Crush (1992) starring Marcia Gay Harden. Alison Maclean was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1958, to New Zealand-born parents. Her first short film, Kitchen Sink, a surreal suburban nightmare, debuted in Cannes in 1989 and won eight international awards. Maclean moved to New York in 1992. Her film Crush wa…
Known for
6.2A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Jesus' Son
2000
5.6An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
Subway Stories
1997
NR"Glorious: The Singles 97–07" is a greatest hits album by Australian singer-songwriter Natalie Imbruglia, celebrating ten years since the release of her first album, Left of the Middle. The album consists of all nine singles released from Imbruglia's past three studio albums as well as five new songs including the single "Glorious". A limited-edition version includes a bonus DVD of Imbruglia's music videos.
Natalie Imbruglia - Glorious: The Singles 97-07
2007
6.0A car crash blazes a destructive trail trough the lives of three women – an awkward adolescent, a malevolent femme fatale, and a wheelchair-ridden critic.
Crush
1992
A casting director puts a group of actors through hell.
Intolerable
2006
5.2First-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral minefield.
The Rehearsal
2016
Behind the camera
6.2A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Jesus' Son
2000
5.6An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
Subway Stories
1997
NR"Glorious: The Singles 97–07" is a greatest hits album by Australian singer-songwriter Natalie Imbruglia, celebrating ten years since the release of her first album, Left of the Middle. The album consists of all nine singles released from Imbruglia's past three studio albums as well as five new songs including the single "Glorious". A limited-edition version includes a bonus DVD of Imbruglia's music videos.
Natalie Imbruglia - Glorious: The Singles 97-07
2007
6.0A car crash blazes a destructive trail trough the lives of three women – an awkward adolescent, a malevolent femme fatale, and a wheelchair-ridden critic.
Crush
1992
6.0A car crash blazes a destructive trail trough the lives of three women – an awkward adolescent, a malevolent femme fatale, and a wheelchair-ridden critic.
Crush
1992
A casting director puts a group of actors through hell.
Intolerable
2006
5.2First-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral minefield.
The Rehearsal
2016
5.2First-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral minefield.
The Rehearsal
2016
NRMystery and menace abound in this debut film from Alison Maclean (Crush, The Rehearsal). Made when Maclean was an Elam art student, the experimental short plays with gender and racial stereotypes by constantly thwarting narrative expectations. What there is of a plot consists of a woman emerging from the sea and a 'centrepiece' pursuit leading to a confrontation between two characters: a man and a woman.
Taunt
1983
A professor at a West Coast college dreams of marrying a cowboy.
The Professor
2014
6.6From the bowels of the kitchen sink, comes a dark and tender love… An original and full-blooded short film that combines humour with surrealism and leads the viewer towards the fantasy of horror.
Kitchen Sink
1989
6.6From the bowels of the kitchen sink, comes a dark and tender love… An original and full-blooded short film that combines humour with surrealism and leads the viewer towards the fantasy of horror.
Kitchen Sink
1989
A radio compere is forced to take the late shift and finds her night going places she couldn't have imagined.
Talkback
1987
A radio compere is forced to take the late shift and finds her night going places she couldn't have imagined.
Talkback
1987
A documentary concerning the detention of Muslim-Americans in the wake of 9/11.
Persons of Interest
2004
Nan, recently widowed by Rud, a religious eccentric, treats her idolised son Mark and his family to a Sunday roast. An ironic comedy about a disconnected New Zealand family.
Rud's Wife
1986
Nan, recently widowed by Rud, a religious eccentric, treats her idolised son Mark and his family to a Sunday roast. An ironic comedy about a disconnected New Zealand family.
Rud's Wife
1986
Nan, recently widowed by Rud, a religious eccentric, treats her idolised son Mark and his family to a Sunday roast. An ironic comedy about a disconnected New Zealand family.
Rud's Wife
1986
