My career started as a trainee assistant in the film cutting room working on commercials and music videos. With a passion for film – and music – I soon progressed to editor, working with directors including Nic Roeg, Richard Lester, Mike Hodges, Richard Loncraine, Charles Sturridge, David Mallet and Julian Temple. I then moved into directing commercials, corporates and music videos before broadening my horizons with longform music productions, live concerts and factual programmes. I maintain a love of editing and continue to cut much of my own work, as well as programmes and live concerts for other producers and directors. I have worked with some of the world’s most successful artists including The Beatles, John Lennon, The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Cream, Queen, Ronnie Wood, The Who, Blondie, The Doors, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Frank Zappa, Deep Purple, Metallica, The Sex Pistols, Tom Petty, Black Sabbath, Blur, The Kinks, Ray Davies and Jeff Beck.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Director and editor
- 13 on MovieCove · 30 credits in all
Known for
What are Matthew Longfellow's films like?
Across their 12 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Ideas and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 12
Light 10 · Serious 2 · Dark 0
Grounded 11 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 1
Gentle 6 · Charged 6 · Intense 0
Steady 11 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 9 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 0
Slow burn 10 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 8 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 11 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 0
Resolved 11 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Happy5
- Bittersweet4
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Matthew Longfellow's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 9 of their 13 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Matthew Longfellow's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
30 credits, 13 with a MovieCove page.
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Classic Albums: The Who Sell Out (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
The Kinks: Echoes of a World - The Story of the Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society(2018)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Classic Albums: The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Classic Albums: Rush - 2112 & Moving Pictures (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Classic Albums: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Classic Albums: Black Sabbath - Paranoid (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Classic Albums: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Classic Albums: Cream - Disraeli Gears (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Classic Albums: Queen - The Making of A Night at the Opera (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Classic Albums: Deep Purple - Machine Head (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Classic Albums: Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Classic Albums: Def Leppard - Hysteria (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Classic Albums: Metallica - Metallica (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
blur | The Best Of (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Classic Albums(1997)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all shows
B-Roads (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Blur: Showtime - Live At Alexandra Palace (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
Blur: Starshaped(1993)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
Aria(1987)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 26 titles from 1987 to 2021.
Biggest box office
Aria (1987)
Highest rated
Pink Floyd: The Making of the Dark Side of the Moon (2003)
Most popular right now
Aria (1987)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Matthew Longfellow's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 92nd percentile, the median of all 12; across their 12 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 90th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up11
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
None of their 13 titles divides audiences: 7 are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved5
- Crowd Pleaser7
- Mixed1
Reviewers score the atmosphere 54/100 and the pacing 55/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Matthew Longfellow work with?
People who share at least 2 of Matthew Longfellow's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Martin R. Smith shares the most, 5.
Directors
- Martin R. SmithShared titles: Travelin' Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall (2022), Jeff Beck: Still on the Run (2018), The Beach Boys: Making Pet Sounds (2017), The Who: The Making of Tommy (2013), Blur: Starshaped (1993)See all 5 shared titles with Martin R. Smith
Actors
- Rod StewartShared titles: Somebody Up There Likes Me (2019), Jeff Beck: Still on the Run (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Rod Stewart
- Ronnie WoodShared titles: Somebody Up There Likes Me (2019), Jeff Beck: Still on the Run (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Ronnie Wood
- David GilmourShared titles: Jeff Beck: Still on the Run (2018), Pink Floyd: The Making of the Dark Side of the Moon (2003)See all 2 shared titles with David Gilmour
Editors
- Matt AshtonShared titles: Somebody Up There Likes Me (2019), John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Matt Ashton
Producers
- Geoff KempinShared titles: Somebody Up There Likes Me (2019), John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky (2018), The Ritchie Blackmore Story (2015), The Who: The Making of Tommy (2013)See all 4 shared titles with Geoff Kempin
- Peter WorsleyShared titles: Somebody Up There Likes Me (2019), John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky (2018), The Ritchie Blackmore Story (2015), The Who: The Making of Tommy (2013)See all 4 shared titles with Peter Worsley
- Terry ShandShared titles: Somebody Up There Likes Me (2019), John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky (2018), The Ritchie Blackmore Story (2015), The Who: The Making of Tommy (2013)See all 4 shared titles with Terry Shand
- Andrew WinterShared titles: The Kinks: Echoes of a World - The Story of the Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (2018), Genesis: Together and Apart (2014), The Who: The Making of Tommy (2013)See all 3 shared titles with Andrew Winter