Will Self

Will Self

William Woodard Self is an English television personality, journalist, political commentator and author. Self is the author of eleven novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas, and five collections of non-fiction writing.

  • Title: Will Self
  • Popularity: 0.2148
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1961-09-26
  • Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England
  • Homepage: https://will-self.com/
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Will Self Movies

  • 2021
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    Clay & Bone

    Clay & Bone

    1 2021 HD

    Clay & Bone is an experimental documentary film, constructed from the film archive that was created during the building of Crossrail, the new railway under London.

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  • 2007
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    Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool

    Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool

    6.3 2007 HD

    Karl Pilkington, best known for his podcasts with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and his travel show An Idiot Abroad goes on a quest to find out if intelligence really makes you happier.

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  • 2009
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    The London Perambulator

    The London Perambulator

    7 2009 HD

    Leading London writers and cultural commentators Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Russell Brand explore the importance of the liminal spaces at the city's fringe, it's Edgelands, through the work of enigmatic and downright eccentric writer and researcher Nick Papadimitriou - a man whose life is dedicated to exploring and archiving areas beyond the permitted territories of the high street, the retail park, the suburban walkways.

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  • 2019
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    Dorian Gray: A Portrait of Oscar Wilde

    Dorian Gray: A Portrait of Oscar Wilde

    6.6 2019 HD

    The Picture of Dorian Gray, the seminal work of Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), continues to find new readers and inspire artists and creators around the world more than a century after its publication in 1891, because it was endowed with all the elements necessary to make it an undisputed heritage of world literature.

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  • 2023
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    Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy

    Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy

    9 2023 HD

    Examines and re-evaluates the 60-year history and cultural impact of A Clockwork Orange, as a novel, movie and stage play, with the help of archival content and interviews with important creative figures.

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  • 2015
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    The Secret World of Lewis Carroll

    The Secret World of Lewis Carroll

    6 2015 HD

    It's a timeless classic of children's literature and the third most-quoted book in English after the Bible and Shakespeare. But what lies behind the extraordinary appeal of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to generations of adults and children alike? To mark the 150th anniversary of its publication, this film explores the life and imagination of its author, the Reverend Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. Journalist Martha Kearney delves into the biographies of both Carroll himself and of the young girl, Alice Liddell, who inspired his most famous creation. She discusses the book with a range of experts, biographers and distinguished cultural figures - from actor Richard E Grant to children's author Philip Pullman - and explores with them the mystery of how a retiring, buttoned-up and meticulous mathematics don, who spent almost his entire life within the cloistered confines of Christ Church Oxford, was able to capture the world of childhood in such a captivating way.

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  • 2023
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    Jake Chapman's Accelerate or Die!

    Jake Chapman's Accelerate or Die!

    1 2023 HD

    As one of the highly provocative British art duo The Chapman Brothers, artist Jake Chapman is no stranger to challenging his audience. In this new film, he poses the question, “why is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?” Perhaps the answer is ‘Accelerationism’, which emerged 50 years ago and predicted the reality we’re now living: A frenzied stasis of rapid technological advancement coupled with cultural and political stagnation. Capitalism – Accelerationism claims – is breaking down our society, our humanity, and our planet. But the only way forward is not to run from it, but to dive deeper into it. Regardless of where that takes us… As befitting for an artist as visual and extreme as Jake Chapman, this film is also part-artwork – playfully and uncompromisingly distorting the idea of how a documentary should look and feel.

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  • 2014
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    The One and Only Mike Leigh

    The One and Only Mike Leigh

    9 2014 HD

    In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's most celebrated performances, and Leigh's new film Mr Turner is already winning critical acclaim. Actors including Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Sally Hawkins, Lesley Manville and James Corden give fascinating insights into the director and his distinctive method of working.

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  • 1999
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    Human, All Too Human

    Human, All Too Human

    1 1999 HD

    European philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. The theme revolves heavily around the school of philosophical thought known as Existentialism, although the term had not been coined at the time of Nietzsche's writing and Heidegger declaimed the label. The documentary is named after the 1878 book written by Nietzsche, titled Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits.

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  • 2007
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    Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

    Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

    8 2007 HD

    Crime writer Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmare in September 1885, Rankin traces the roots of this story, which stretches back to Stevenson's childhood. Grave-robbers, hallucinatory drugs and prostitution all play their part in the disturbing account of Henry Jekyll's double-life, as Rankin's journey takes him into the yeasty draughts and unlit closes of the city that inspired the tale - Edinburgh.

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  • 2000
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    Mike Leigh: The Conversation

    Mike Leigh: The Conversation

    1 2000 HD

    An interview with British film director Mike Leigh produced for BBC-TV.

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  • 2007
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    The Double Life of Saki

    The Double Life of Saki

    1 2007 HD

    Drama-documentary which explores the life and work of the writer Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name Saki, whose short stories satirised Edwardian society and culture.

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  • 2003
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    The Importance of Being Morrissey

    The Importance of Being Morrissey

    6.7 2003 HD

    Featuring interviews by famous fans and followers, this rare documentary encapsulates the essence of the controversial, enigmatic, and deliciously melancholic bard.

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  • 2003
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    100 Worst Britons

    100 Worst Britons

    5 2003 HD

    Channel 4 (UK) ran a poll, in 2003, for viewers to nominate their "worst Briton". The nominations had to be people who were living, not in prison and British.

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  • 2016
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    The Future of Work and Death

    The Future of Work and Death

    6.9 2016 HD

    The documentary focuses on how future technology could significantly change the two inevitable features of the human experience: punching the clock and fading away. With advanced automation and artificial intelligence, the utopia of the end of human labor or the dystopia of widespread unemployment could not be a thing of science fiction. Scientists, engineers and academics all come together to share their thoughts on the future.

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  • 2012
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    Flytopia

    Flytopia

    3.75 2012 HD

    A dark fantastical tale in which a man enters into a pact with all the insect inhabitants of his small cottage.

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  • 2021
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    Clay & Bone

    Clay & Bone

    1 2021 HD

    Clay & Bone is an experimental documentary film, constructed from the film archive that was created during the building of Crossrail, the new railway under London.

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  • 2011
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    The North London Book of the Dead

    The North London Book of the Dead

    3.8 2011 HD

    Grown man, W, struggles to come to terms with the death of his domineering mother, only to discover that she's spending her dead existence very happily in a suburb of London.

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  • 1998
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    If I Ruled the World

    If I Ruled the World

    7 1998 HD

    If I Ruled the World is a BBC comedy panel show parodying politics and politicians. Hosted by Clive Anderson, with team captains, Graham Garden and Jeremy Hardy. Guests included Mark Steel, Rebecca Front, Tony Hawks, Andy Hamilton and Doon MacKichan.

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  • 1993
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    Shooting Stars

    Shooting Stars

    7.6 1993 HD

    Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its cancellation in 2011. Created and hosted by double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it uses the panel show format but with the comedians' often slapstick, surreal and anarchic humour does not rely on rules in order to function, with the pair apparently ignoring existing rules or inventing new ones as and when the mood takes them.

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  • 1997
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    Ruby

    Ruby

    1 1997 HD

    Ruby was a late-night talk show broadcast on BBC Two in the United Kingdom. The series premiered on 12 May 1997, and was hosted by writer and comedian Ruby Wax. In each episode Wax holds an unscripted roundtable discussion with up to five guests. Framed as a dinner party, guests included actors, writers, stand-up comedians, musicians, journalists and other well-known figures in the entertainment industry. A total of 48 episodes were broadcast between May 1997 and November 2000.

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  • 1994
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    Room 101

    Room 101

    6.3 1994 HD

    Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.

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  • 2003
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    Grumpy Old Men

    Grumpy Old Men

    7.2 2003 HD

    Series giving a voice to 35- to 54-year-old men, very probably the grumpiest sector of our society.

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  • 1979
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    Question Time

    Question Time

    5.5 1979 HD

    This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.

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  • 1970
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    Have I Got a Bit More News for You

    Have I Got a Bit More News for You

    7 1970 HD

    Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme.

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  • 2000
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    Trigger Happy TV

    Trigger Happy TV

    7.3 2000 HD

    Trigger Happy TV is a hidden camera/practical joke reality television series. The original British edition of the show, produced by Absolutely Productions, starred Dom Joly and ran for two series on the British television channel Channel 4 from 2000 to 2003. Although Channel 4 is owned and operated by the Channel Four Television Corporation, he made a name for himself as the sole star of the show, which he produced and directed with cameraman Sam Cadman.

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  • 1990
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    Have I Got News for You

    Have I Got News for You

    7.1 1990 HD

    Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.

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