“​With her latest film, Typist Artist Pirate King,​ on Netflix, it’s a good time to survey the back-catalogue of one of the UK’s most thrilling film-makers, from a jaw-droppingly personal documentary to a misunderstood neo-noir…” Read the full article on The Guardian website.  

Rolling Stone UK picks Typist Artist Pirate King as its Top British Film of 2023. Film Critic Anna Smith says: “Actress Monica Dolan is a delight in Carol Morley’s roadtrip drama, in which she plays Audrey Amiss, an artist who persuades her psychiatric nurse (Kelly Macdonald) to drive her across Britain. An imaginative take on […]

EXCLUSIVE: Metro International has sold UK and Irish rights to Carol Morley’s Typist Artist Pirate King to Modern Films. Deal was finalized this week in Cannes. Drawing from the extensive archives of forgotten artist Audrey Amiss, the feature is a road movie of her life. The film uses real events and actual dialogue from Amiss’s letters and diaries […]

Morley’s latest feature Typist Artist Pirate King had a successful, sold out, UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival on 8 March 2023. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw said: “With natural sympathy and warmth, filmmaker Carol Morley has created this likeable, generous, imaginative response to the work of the neglected English artist Audrey Amiss, played here with […]

“In 1991, as a film student, I was offered £50 by a German women’s collective to shoot Muriel Box. But when the documentary director and I arrived at her home we were told that she was too ill to see us. She died a few months later aged 85. While I regret never meeting her, […]

On 8 and 9 March 2023, Glasgow Film Festival favourite Carol Morley returns with a wonderfully imaginative insight into the life of Audrey Amiss, an artist only properly recognised after her death. Anchored by another terrific performance from the brilliant Monica Dolan, the film follows Audrey and her mental health carer Sandra (Kelly Macdonald) on […]

The world premiere of Carol Morley’s Typist Artist Pirate King is among the 16 features programmed in Critics’ Picks, the new competitive section of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (POFF, November 11-27). The section will host 10 world and three international premieres, with three further films screening out of competition including a gala screening of Estonian co-production Call […]

You can find all of Morley’s films on the BFI Player, as well as on other streaming platforms. The Falling is available on Prime Video, Apple TV, Chili, and Rakuten TV. Out of Blue is available on Prime Video, Google Play, Apple TV, YouTube, and the Sky Store.

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-nominee Carol Morley (Out Of Blue) is underway in Yorkshire, England, on under-the-radar new feature Typist Artist Pirate King, which will star BAFTA winner Monica Dolan (The Dig), Golden Globe and BAFTA nominee Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire) and BAFTA winner Gina McKee (Phantom Thread).

Take a look at the UK trailer and posters for Out of Blue, which will be released by Picturehouse Entertainment in the UK and Ireland on Friday 29 March.  

“Cannon and Morley Productions was founded by Manchester-born writer/director Carol Morley and US-born producer Cairo Cannon to make Morley’s documentary confessional The Alcohol Years (2000). It has gone on to produce all of her work, including documentary Dreams Of A Life and fiction feature The Falling, starring Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh. The pair’s Out […]

Friday 16 November, 6:15pm at Duke of York’s, CINECITY presents Out of Blue + Q&A with Writer/Director Carol Morley. Book your ticket here. “A detective drama that ends up interrogating mysteries far more cosmic than the murder which kick-starts its plot, Carol Morley’s first US-set feature is an ethereal, heady neo-noir. Patricia Clarkson gives a […]