John Maybury

John Maybury born 25 March 1958 is an English filmmaker and artist He first came to prominence as the director of the music video for the Pet Shop Boys 1984 single West End Girls In 2005 he was named as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain During the 1980s Maybury produced a number of short films and music videos including for Sinéad OConnors Nothing Compares 2 U which was voted 35 in a Channel 4 poll of the greatest pop music videos and received various awards and West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys a defining 1980s video In 1998 Maybury produced his first fulllength 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 HBOBBC Rome series