Celebrating Jeremy Thomas

As founder of the British film production outfit Recorded Picture Company, Jeremy Thomas, who passed away this September, set in motion some of the most sensational, provocative, and culturally impactful art-house hits of the last fifty years, enabling creatively restless directors to realize their visions. From challenging audiences with his very first production, Jerzy Skolimowski’s terrifying enigma THE SHOUT, to courting controversy with Nicolas Roeg’s daring study of erotic obsession BAD TIMING to achieving Oscar glory with Bernardo Bertolucci’s sumptuous epic THE LAST EMPEROR, Thomas left a titanic imprint on film culture by giving uncompromising, personal cinema a space to flourish.