Richard Kwietniowski

Directing

Richard Kwietniowski

Born

1957-03-17 (69)

Place of birth

London, England

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Richard Kwietniowski (born 17 March 1957) is an English film director and screenwriter of Polish descent. During the 1980s he was a film lecturer at Bulmershe College of Higher Education (now Bulmershe Court in Reading, Berkshire. He has directed eleven films since 1987. His film Love and Death on Long Island was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.

Known for

Owning Mahowny poster
6.8

Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.

Owning Mahowny

2003

Love and Death on Long Island poster
6.3

Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.

Love and Death on Long Island

1998

The Ballad of Reading Gaol poster
3.7

Oscar Wilde’s famous and eloquent defence of love – made while he was being cross-examined at the trial that led to his incarceration and death – is strikingly illustrated, word by word, with Mapplethorpe-like imagery.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1988

Alfalfa poster
5.0

Film introduces a gay alphabet, with the aid of images and music, which it is argued is a defense against heterosexual language, and the hidden insults contained within.

Alfalfa

1987

Flames of Passion poster
6.0

Set on a steam-shrouded railway station and shot in high-contrast black and white, Richard Kwietniowski's film lovingly twists David Lean's stiff-upper-lipped romance Brief Encounter into a rich and witty contemporary melodrama, with two devilishly handsome young men standing in for Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.

Flames of Passion

1989

The Cost of Love poster
3.3

When Sam notices a number inside a matchbook he calls it and what ensues is a night of wild sex. Next day when trying the number again he realizes that he misdialed the night before and now wants to relocate his mystery man. This is a photo-romance featuring a number of events which may be made illegal in Britain by Clause 25 of the Criminal Justice Bill.

The Cost of Love

1991

Behind the camera

Owning Mahowny poster
6.8

Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.

Owning Mahowny

2003

Love and Death on Long Island poster
6.3

Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.

Love and Death on Long Island

1998

Love and Death on Long Island poster
6.3

Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.

Love and Death on Long Island

1998

The Ballad of Reading Gaol poster
3.7

Oscar Wilde’s famous and eloquent defence of love – made while he was being cross-examined at the trial that led to his incarceration and death – is strikingly illustrated, word by word, with Mapplethorpe-like imagery.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1988

The Ballad of Reading Gaol poster
3.7

Oscar Wilde’s famous and eloquent defence of love – made while he was being cross-examined at the trial that led to his incarceration and death – is strikingly illustrated, word by word, with Mapplethorpe-like imagery.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1988

Alfalfa poster
5.0

Film introduces a gay alphabet, with the aid of images and music, which it is argued is a defense against heterosexual language, and the hidden insults contained within.

Alfalfa

1987

Alfalfa poster
5.0

Film introduces a gay alphabet, with the aid of images and music, which it is argued is a defense against heterosexual language, and the hidden insults contained within.

Alfalfa

1987

Alfalfa poster
5.0

Film introduces a gay alphabet, with the aid of images and music, which it is argued is a defense against heterosexual language, and the hidden insults contained within.

Alfalfa

1987

Flames of Passion poster
6.0

Set on a steam-shrouded railway station and shot in high-contrast black and white, Richard Kwietniowski's film lovingly twists David Lean's stiff-upper-lipped romance Brief Encounter into a rich and witty contemporary melodrama, with two devilishly handsome young men standing in for Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.

Flames of Passion

1989

Flames of Passion poster
6.0

Set on a steam-shrouded railway station and shot in high-contrast black and white, Richard Kwietniowski's film lovingly twists David Lean's stiff-upper-lipped romance Brief Encounter into a rich and witty contemporary melodrama, with two devilishly handsome young men standing in for Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.

Flames of Passion

1989

The Cost of Love poster
3.3

When Sam notices a number inside a matchbook he calls it and what ensues is a night of wild sex. Next day when trying the number again he realizes that he misdialed the night before and now wants to relocate his mystery man. This is a photo-romance featuring a number of events which may be made illegal in Britain by Clause 25 of the Criminal Justice Bill.

The Cost of Love

1991

Proust's Favorite Fantasy poster
7.0

The greatest author of the twentieth century finds himself in a hotel room with a gendarme and a chicken...

Proust's Favorite Fantasy

1991

What's Cooking? poster
NR

Originally shown as part of Channel 4's series of shorts 'Women Call The Shots' on UK TV in 1986. The ingredients of animation are a motorcar, a dressmaker's dummy, and a glass of brandy. Out of the frying pan and into the fire goes sex and politics. What then is cooking?

What's Cooking?

1986

Actions Speak Louder Than Words poster
10.0

Six deaf performers-three women, three men- are brought together to devise staged pieces based on their experience of gay and deaf cultures intersecting, and the highly politicized nature of both in Britain. The result is a diverse, assertive collage, ranging from advice on how to seduce a librarian( in silence, of course), to the importance of short hair in visibly proclaiming your lesbianism and deafness: plus an essential beginner's guide to sexual signing. Shot entirely in British Sign Language with subtitles for the hearing.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

1992

No artwork available
NR

An elaborate gay dinner party with good food, good wine, and good conversation.

Out

1991