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What Just Happened
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What Just Happened is a satirical comedy-drama directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robert De Niro. The supporting cast includes Catherine Keener, Robin Wright Penn, Stanley Tucci, what Just Happened is an independent film, produced by 2929 Productions, Art Linson Productions and Tribeca Productions, and was released on October 17,2008. The film is based on the book What Just Happened, bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line by Art Linson, about his experiences as a producer in Hollywood. This film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival on May 25,2008, Ben, a veteran Hollywood producer, is suffering a number of professional and personal problems. His latest film, Fiercely, has a disastrous test screening, Ben and his maverick British director, Jeremy Brunell, plead their case to studio executive Lou Tarnow. She accuses Ben of filming the dogs killing only so he could use it as a bargaining chip - to make it easier to negotiate against cutting other problematic scenes, Lou threatens to pull Bens movie from Cannes and take over editing unless at least the dogs death is removed. Jeremy adamantly refuses, throwing a tantrum, adding to Bens problems, he is having trouble making a clean break from Kelly, his second wife. Ben later discovers his wife is having an affair with Scott Solomon, Scott has a screenplay that hes trying to get off the ground, to which Brad Pitt later becomes attached. Lastly the studio is threatening to cancel a planned Bruce Willis movie because of the unwillingness to shave the large. Bens career hinges on the fate of the film, but any attempt to reason with Willis inevitably meets a violent, ultimately Jeremy relents and re-edits the ending of Fiercely to have the dog survive. Ben tries to get Williss agent, Dick Bell, to reason with him and get the beard removed, nonetheless, Willis does eventually shave his beard off, and the film goes ahead. A week later, Ben, Lou and Jeremy attend Cannes, unfortunately, and without telling Ben or Lou, Jeremy has re-edited Fiercely again, not only killing the dog, but adding nearly a full minute of bullets being shot into their bodies. While the new ending destroys the films chances of a Palme dOr and angers many in the audience, others eagerly applaud the final version of the film, Lou is not impressed, and immediately flies out of Cannes on the studios private jet, leaving Ben stranded in France. Based on 139 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the film has received an overall Rotten rating of 51%, the sites consensus states, What Just Happened has some inspired comic moments, but this inside-baseball take on Hollywood lacks satirical bite
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Promotional poster
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Cannes
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Cannes is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune of France located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, the city is known for its association with the rich and famous, its luxury hotels and restaurants, and for several conferences. On 3 November 2011 it also played host to the G20 organisation of industrialised nations, by the 2nd century BC, the Ligurian Oxybii established a settlement here known as Aegitna. Historians are unsure what the name means, the area was a fishing village used as a port of call between the Lérins Islands. In 69 AD, it became the scene of violent conflict between the troops of Otho and Vitellius, in the 10th century, the town was known as Canua. The name may derive from canna, a reed, Canua was probably the site of a small Ligurian port, and later a Roman outpost on Le Suquet hill, suggested by Roman tombs discovered here. Le Suquet housed an 11th-century tower which overlooked swamps where the city now stands, most of the ancient activity, especially protection, was on the Lérins Islands and the history of Cannes is closely tied to the history of the islands. An attack by the Saracens in 891, who remained until the end of the 10th century, the insecurity of the Lérins islands forced the monks to settle on the mainland, at the Suquet. Construction of a castle in 1035 fortified the city by then known as Cannes, one took a century to build. Around 1530, Cannes detached from the monks who had controlled the city for hundreds of years, during the 18th century, both the Spanish and British tried to gain control of the Lérins Islands but were chased away by the French. The islands were controlled by many, such as Jean-Honoré Alziary. They had many different purposes, at the end of the 19th century, henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux bought land at the Croix des Gardes and constructed the villa Eleonore-Louise. His work to improve living conditions attracted the English aristocracy, who built winter residences. At the end of the 19th century, several railways were completed, in Cannes, projects such as the Boulevard Carnot and the rue dAntibes were carried out. After the closure of the Casino des Fleurs, an establishment was built for the rich winter clientele. This casino was demolished and replaced by the new Palace in 1979, in the 20th century, new luxury hotels such as the Carlton, Majestic, Martinez, and JW Marriott Cannes were built. The city was modernised with a centre, a post office. There were fewer British and German tourists after the First World War, winter tourism gave way to summer tourism and the summer casino at the Palm Beach was constructed
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The
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Cannes seen from Spot Satellite
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Panorama of the waterfront
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Boulevard de la Croisette along the waterfront.
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Cannes Film Festival
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Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+ Pierre Lescure took over as President of the festival, the Board of Directors also appointed Gilles Jacob as Honorary President of the festival. The 2016 Cannes Film Festival took place between 11 and 22 May 2016, australian film director George Miller was the President of the Jury. I, Daniel Blake, directed by British director Ken Loach, in 2017, The Festival de Cannes will celebrate its 70th anniversary edition from May 17 to 28. In 1947, the festival was held as the Festival du film de Cannes, at that time the principle of equality was introduced, with a jury made up of only one representative per country. The festival is now held at the Palais des Festivals, expressly constructed for the occasion, although for its 1949 inaugural the roof was unfinished, the festival was not held in 1948 and 1950 on account of budgetary problems. Although its origins may be attributed in part to the French desire to compete with Autumns Venice Film Festival, in 1955, the Palme dOr was created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival which had been given until that year. In 1957, Dolores del Rio was the first female member of the jury as a Sélection officielle – Member, in 1959, the Marché du Film was founded, giving the festival a commercial character and facilitating exchanges between sellers and buyers in the film industry. Today it has become the first international platform for film commerce, in 1962, the International Critics Week was born, created by the French Union of Film Critics as the first parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. Its goal was to showcase first and second works by directors all over the world. In 1965, an hommage was paid to Jean Cocteau after his death, the next year, Olivia de Havilland was named the first female president of the festival. The 1968 festival was halted on 19 May, some directors, such as Carlos Saura and Miloš Forman, had withdrawn their films from the competition. The filmmakers achieved the reinstatement of the President, and they founded the Film Directors Society that same year, during the 1970s, important changes occurred in the Festival. In 1972, Robert Favre Le Bret was named the new President and he immediately introduced an important change in the selection of the participating films. Until that date, the different countries chose which films would represent them in the festival, Bessy created one committee to select French films, and another for foreign films. In 1978, Gilles Jacob assumed the President position, introducing the Caméra dOr award, in 1983, a new, much bigger Palais des Festivals et des Congrès was built to host the Festival. It was nicknamed The Bunker and provoked many reactions against it, in 1984, Pierre Viot replaced Robert Favre Le Bret as President of the Festival. It was not until 1995 that Gilles Jacob created the last section of the Official Selection and its aim was to support the creation of works of cinema in the world and to contribute to the entry of the new scenario writers in the circle of the celebrities
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Stars posing for photographers are a part of Cannes folklore.
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Palme d'Or awarded to
Apocalypse Now at the
1979 Cannes Film Festival
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Barry Levinson
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Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. Levinsons best-known works are comedy-drama and drama such as Diner, The Natural, Good Morning, Vietnam, Rain Man, Bugsy. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for his work on Rain Man, Levinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Violet Vi and Irvin Levinson, who worked in the furniture and appliance business. His family was of Russian Jewish descent, Levinsons first writing work was for variety shows such as The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine, The Lohman and Barkley Show, The Tim Conway Show, and The Carol Burnett Show. Diner was the first of a series of set in the Baltimore of Levinsons youth. The others were Tin Men, a story of aluminum-siding salesmen in the 1960s starring Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito, the immigrant family saga Avalon and his biggest hit, both critically and financially, was Rain Man, a sibling drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The film won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director and it also won the Golden Bear at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. Another of his films is the popular period baseball drama The Natural. Redford would later direct Quiz Show and cast Levinson as television personality Dave Garroway, Levinson also directed the classic war comedy Good Morning, Vietnam, starring Robin Williams, with whom he later collaborated on the fantasy Toys and the political comedy Man of the Year. Levinson also directed the critically acclaimed crime drama Bugsy, which starred Warren Beatty and was nominated for ten Academy Awards. He directed Dustin Hoffman again in Wag the Dog, a political comedy co-starring Robert De Niro about a war staged in a film studio, the film won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. Levinson partnered with producer Mark Johnson to form the production company Baltimore Pictures. The two parted ways in 1994 and he has a television production company with Tom Fontana and served as executive producer for a number of series, including Homicide, Life on the Street and the HBO prison drama Oz. Levinson also played a main role as a judge in the short-lived TV series The Jury. Levinson published his first novel, Sixty-Six, in 2003, like several of his films, it is semi-autobiographical and set in Baltimore in the 1960s. He directed two webisodes of the American Express ads The Adventures of Seinfeld and Superman, in 2004, Levinson was the recipient of the Austin Film Festivals Distinguished Screenwriter Award. Levinson directed a documentary PoliWood about the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, the documentary, produced by Tim Daly, Robin Bronk and Robert E. Baruc, had its premiere at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. Levinson is in production on a film based on Whitey Bulger, in September 2013, Levinson was set to direct the film titled Rock the Kasbah, written by Mitch Glazer
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Levinson at the 2009 premiere of
Poliwood
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Rachid Bouchareb
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Rachid Bouchareb is an Algerian film director. From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company, subsequently, he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2. He formed a company called 3B with his associate Jean Bréhat in 1988. Bouchareb began making films in the 1980s. His featured film debut came in 1985 with Bâton Rouge, boucharebs films have a following amongst international cineastes. His film, Hors-la-loi, competed for the Palme dOr at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in May and it was the Algerian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards and was one of the five final nominees. 1976, La Pièce 1977, La Chute 1978, Le Banc 1983, Peut-être la mer 1985, Bâton rouge 1991, Cheb, flucht aus Afrika 1994, Poussières de vie, a. k. a. Dust of Life / Die Kinder von Saigon / Der Himmel ohne Sonne 2000, Little Senegal 2006, Days of Glory, a. k. a
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Bouchareb in 2011
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Sergio Castellitto
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Sergio Castellitto is an Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter. Sergio Castellitto was born in Rome in 1953, at the Teatro di Genova he starred in the roles of Tuzenbach in Chekhovs Three Sisters and Jean in Strindbergs Miss Julie, both under the direction of Otomar Krejka. In the coming years, he starred in such theatrical productions as Linfelicità senza desideri. He also appeared in Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon, during his years in the theatre, he worked alongside many famous actors, including Luigi Squarzina, Aldo Trionfo, and Enzo Muzii. Castellitto began his career in 1983 beside Marcello Mastroianni and Michel Piccoli in The General of the Dead Army by Luciano Tovoli. He interpreted many films like Sembra morto. ma è solo svenuto directed by Felice Farina, Piccoli equivoci by Ricky Tognazzi and he became more famous with the films The Great Pumpkin by Francesca Archibugi and The Star Maker by Giuseppe Tornatore. In the late 1980s, Castellitto appeared in several Italian television miniseries, including Un siciliano in Sicilia, Cinque storie inquietanti, Piazza Navona, Cinéma and he also appeared in the miniseries Victoire, ou la douleur des femmes. Success arrived with the films La famiglia, Lultimo bacio, Caterina in the Big City, My Mothers Smile, Mostly Martha, other films that he interpreted include Il regista di matrimoni by Marco Bellocchio and La stella che non cè by Gianni Amelio. In France Castellitto played the lead opposite Jeanne Balibar in Jacques Rivettes Va savoir. His most recent accomplishment as actor has been in his role as Padre Pio, Miracle Man, the first film that he directed is Libero Burro, followed by Dont Move. He played the role of the antagonist, King Miraz, in the film The Chronicles of Narnia and his most recent film as director was Twice Born, which played at the Toronto Film Festival, where it was not well received by much of the English speaking press. Most recently, Castellitto appeared in the television series In Treatment in the role of Giovanni, Castellitto is married to Margaret Mazzantini with four children
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Sergio Castellitto
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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According to Thai naming customs, this person is addressed by the given name, Apichatpong, instead of the surname, Weerasethakul. Apichatpong Joe Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, Weerasethakul has received numerous additional accolades, including the 2016 Principal Prince Claus Award. Working outside the confines of the Thai film studio system, Weerasethakul has directed several features. Cinephiles affectionately refer to him as Joe, Apichatpong was born in Bangkok, Thailand to a Thai Chinese family. His parents were physicians, and worked in a hospital in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Apichatpong attended Khon Kaen University and received a degree in architecture in 1994. He made his first short film, Bullet, in 1993 and he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a masters degree of fine arts in filmmaking in 1997. Apichatpongs feature-length debut, Dokfa nai meuman is a documentary and was based upon the exquisite corpse game invented by surrealists. He co-founded the production company, Kick the Machine, in 1999, the list of other founders includes Gridthiya Gaweewong and Suaraya Weerasethakul and the company co-organised the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival in 1999,2001,2005 and 2008. Apichatpongs 2002 film Sud Sanaeha was his debut feature film and was awarded the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. His 2004 Sud Pralad won a Jury Prize from the same festival, the low-budget, digital movie was a spoof of Thai films of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly the musicals and action films of Mitr Chaibancha and Petchara Chaowarat. The Adventure of Iron Pussy was screened at the Berlin Film Festival in 2004, when asked about the film in May 2013, Apichatpong said, I have had enough of Iron Pussy for now. I was having a time making it but I was not inspired. Along with his features, Apichatpong is also known for his films, videoworks. For the 2005 Jeonju International Film Festival, he was commissioned to contribute to the Three Digital Short Films project and his film was called Worldly Desires, while Japanese filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto made Vital, Bullet Ballet and Song Il-gon from South Korea created Magician. His contribution was the film Ghost of Asia, the Thai Office of Contemporary Art and Culture also honoured Apichatpong with its 2005 Silpathorn Award for filmmaking. The annual award is given to living artists in various disciplines. It premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and screened at numerous film events, the films Thai release, originally slated for April 19,2007, was indefinitely delayed after the Thai Censorship Board demanded the removal of four scenes
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul, December 2010
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Marina Hands
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Marina Hands is a French stage and film actress. Hands is the daughter of British director Terry Hands and French actress Ludmila Mikaël, and she studied acting at the Cours Florent and the CNSAD in France, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in England. In 1999, she made her debut in Le Bel Air de Londres by Dion Boucicault. Her first film was Andrzej Żuławskis La Fidélité, followed by The Barbarian Invasions and she then appeared in Les Âmes grises, for which she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress, and Ne le dis à personne. Her most notable performance to date was in the role of Lady Chatterley. Hands won the 2007 César Award for Best Actress for her performance, in 2006, Hands became a company member of the Comédie-Française. In 2008, she was nominated for a Molière Award for her play in Partage de midi. In 2011, she starred in Claude Millers film Voyez comme ils dansent, Marina Hands at the Internet Movie Database Marina Hands at AllMovie Marina Hands at AlloCiné
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Marina Hands at the 2012
Deauville American Film Festival
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Marina Hands at the
2008 Cannes Film Festival.
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24 City
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24 City is a 2008 film directed and cowritten by Chinese film-maker Jia Zhangke. The film follows three generations of characters in Chengdu as a state-owned factory gives way to an apartment complex. The film was known as The Story of 24 City during production. The apartment complex featured in the film is a development built on the former site of an airplane engine manufacturing facility. Jia will also produce a documentary about the location, the films narrative style is described by critics as a blend of fictive and documentary story-telling, and it consists of authentic interviews and fictive scenes delivered by actors. 24 City made its debut shown in competition for the Palme dOr at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Film Comment, official journal of the Film Society of Lincoln Center listed the film at the end of 2008 as the second-best unreleased film of the year. The Hollywood Reporter called the film a moving elegy to modern-day China and said of the films documentary strain that it prevails to simple, screen International states the latest chapter in Jia Zhangkes chronicles of modern Chinese history is certain to reinforce the directors status as an international arthouse icon. Mr. Jia is one of the most original filmmakers working today, anthony Kaufman of IndieWIRE praised the film and states Jias masterful aesthetic remains consistent, mixing documentary and fiction with intriguing results. J.24 City at the Internet Movie Database 24 City at AllMovie 24 City at 2008 Cannes Film Festival 24 City at the Chinese Movie Database 24 City at Rotten Tomatoes
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Cannes Film Festival poster
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Changeling (film)
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When, however, she tries to demonstrate this to the police and city authorities, she is vilified as delusional and an unfit mother. Straczynski spent a year researching the story after hearing about the Wineville Chicken Coop case from a contact at Los Angeles City Hall, almost all of the films script was drawn from thousands of pages of documentation. His first draft became the script and his first film screenplay to be produced. Ron Howard had meant to direct the film, but scheduling conflicts led to his replacement by Eastwood, instead, Howard and his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer produced Changeling alongside Malpaso Productions Robert Lorenz and Eastwood. Universal Pictures financed and distributed the film, several actors campaigned for the leading role, ultimately, the key factor in Eastwoods decision to cast Jolie was his feeling that her face would suit the 1920s period setting. The film also stars Jeffrey Donovan, Jason Butler Harner, John Malkovich, Michael Kelly, while some characters are composites, most are based on actual people. Principal photography, which began on October 15,2007 and concluded a few weeks later in December, took place in Los Angeles, Eastwoods low-key direction led actors and crew to note the calmness of the set and the short working days. In post-production, scenes were supplemented with computer-generated skylines, backgrounds, vehicles, Changeling premiered to critical acclaim at the 61st Cannes Film Festival on May 20,2008. Critical reaction was more mixed than at Cannes, while the acting and story were generally praised, the films conventional staging and lack of nuance were criticized. In Los Angeles in 1928, single mother Christine Collins returns home to discover her nine-year-old son, several months after Walters disappearance, the LAPD tells Christine that he has been found alive. Believing the positive publicity will negate recent criticism of the department, although Walter claims he is Christines son, she says he is not. Captain J. J. Jones, the head of the LAPDs Juvenile Division, insists the boy is Walter, after Christine confronts Jones with physical discrepancies between Walter and her son, Jones arranges for a medical doctor to visit her. He tells Christine that Walter is three inches shorter than before his disappearance because trauma has shrunk his spine, and that the man who took Walter had him circumcised. A newspaper prints a story that implies Christine is an unfit mother, Walters teacher and dentist give Christine signed letters confirming Walter is an impostor. Christine tells her story to the press, as a result and she befriends inmate Carol Dexter, who tells Christine she is one of several women who were sent there for challenging police authority. Dr. Steele deems Christine delusional and forces her to take mood-regulating pills, Steele says he will release Christine if she admits she was mistaken about Walter, she refuses. Detective Ybarra travels to a ranch in Wineville, Riverside County, the boys uncle, Gordon Northcott, has fled after a chance encounter with Ybarra, who mentions his business there being a juvenile matter. Clark tells Ybarra that Northcott forced him to kidnap and murder around twenty children
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Theatrical release poster
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Angelina Jolie was cast partly because Eastwood believed her face evoked the period.
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The production used two functioning replica
Pacific Electric Railway streetcars for some scenes. The visual effects team added further streetcars to background shots.
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Scenes set outside
Los Angeles City Hall were retouched by the effects team to make the building appear new.
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Che (2008 film)
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Che is a two-part 2008 biopic about Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro. Rather than follow a chronological order, the films offer an oblique series of interspersed moments along the overall timeline. Part Two is entitled Guerrilla and focuses on Guevaras attempt to bring revolution to Bolivia, both parts are shot in a cinéma vérité style, but each has different approaches to linear narrative, camerawork, and the visual look. Filmmaker Terrence Malick originally worked on a limited to Guevaras attempts to start a revolution in Bolivia. When financing fell through, Malick left the project, and Soderbergh subsequently agreed to direct the film, peter Buchman was hired to write the screenplay, the script was so long that Soderbergh decided to divide the film into two parts, one chronicling Cuba and other depicting Bolivia. Soderbergh shot the films back-to-back starting at the beginning of July 2007, with Guerrilla first in Spain for 39 days, Che was screened as a single film at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Del Toro won the Best Actor Award, and the film received positive reviews. Strong box office led to the special roadshow edition being extended in N. Y. C. and L. A. The film was released as two films, titled Che Part 1, The Argentine and Che Part 2, Guerrilla. The Independent Film Channel released the films via video on demand, Che Parts I and II have grossed nearly $41 million USD, against a budget of $58 million USD. In Havana 1964, Che Guevara is interviewed by Lisa Howard who asks him if reform throughout Latin America might not blunt the message of the Cuban Revolution, in 1955, at a gathering in Mexico City, Guevara first meets Fidel Castro. He listens to Castro’s plans and signs on as a member of the July 26th Movement, Guevara deals with debilitating bouts of asthma as his group of revolutionaries meet up with Castro’s. Together, they attack an army barracks in the Sierra Maestra on May 28,1957, on October 15,1958, the guerrillas approach the town of Las Villas. The Battle of Santa Clara is depicted with Guevara demonstrating his skill as the guerrillas engage in street-to-street fighting and derail a train carrying Cuban soldiers. Near the film‘s end, they are victorious, with the Cuban Revolution now over, Guevara heads to Havana, remarking we won the war, the revolution starts now. The film is organized by the number of days that he was in the country, on Day 26, there is solidarity among Guevaras men despite his status as foreigner. By Day 67, Guevara has been set up for betrayal and he tries to recruit some peasants only to be mistaken for a cocaine smuggler. On Day 100, there is a shortage of food and Guevara exercises discipline to resolve conflicts between his Cuban and Bolivian followers, by Day 113, some of the guerrillas have deserted and the Bolivian Army has discovered their base camp
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Promotional poster
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Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. Film critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the poster boy of the Sundance generation, Soderbergh also directed, photographed and edited all episodes of the television drama The Knick. In addition, he has produced film and television programs. Soderbergh was born on January 14,1963, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Mary Ann and Peter Andrew Soderbergh and his fathers ancestry was Swedish and Irish, his paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Stockholm. His mother was of Italian, and a little Irish, descent, in Baton Rouge, he discovered filmmaking as a teenager, directing short Super 8 mm films with equipment borrowed from LSU students. His primary high school education was at Louisiana State University Laboratory School, while still taking classes there around the age of 15, Soderbergh enrolled in the universitys film animation class and began making short 16 mm films with secondhand equipment. His big break came when he directed the Grammy-nominated concert video 9012Live for the rock band Yes in 1985 and it was not until Soderbergh came back to Baton Rouge that he conceived the idea for Sex, Lies, and Videotape, which he wrote in eight days. The independent film won the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, became a commercial success. At age 26, Soderbergh became the second youngest director to win the top award. Movie critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the poster boy of the Sundance generation and he also directed the Spalding Gray monologue film Grays Anatomy in 1996. The film was praised, though only a moderate box-office success. It reaffirmed Soderberghs potential, sparking the beginnings of an artistic partnership between Clooney and Soderbergh. Soderbergh followed up on the success of Out of Sight by making another crime caper, The Limey, from a screenplay by Lem Dobbs and starring veteran actors Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda. The film was well-received, but not as much as Erin Brockovich, written by Susannah Grant, later that year, Soderbergh released Traffic, a social drama written by Stephen Gaghan and featuring an ensemble cast. Traffic became his most acclaimed movie since Sex, Lies, and Videotape and he was also nominated that same year for Erin Brockovich. He is the director to have been nominated in the same year for Best Director for two different films by the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and the Directors Guild of America. The double nomination was the first in 60 years, the films star, George Clooney, subsequently appeared in Solaris, marking the third time the two have headlined a film. A film within a film, the title is a film reference to an actor or actress appearing fully nude
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Soderbergh in 2009, at the
66th Venice International Film Festival
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Brad Pitt,
George Clooney,
Matt Damon,
Andy García,
Julia Roberts, and Soderbergh at
Incirlik Air Base,
Turkey in December 2001
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Soderbergh (right) and
Benicio del Toro signing autographs at the premier of Che in 2008.
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A Christmas Tale
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It tells the story of a family with strained relationships which gathers at the parents home for Christmas, only to learn that their mother has leukemia. It was in competition for the Palme dOr at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Junon Vuillard is Abel Vuillards wife, and the iron-willed matriarch of the Vuillard family. Junon held her family together through many times, and although her willpower helped the family survive and prosper. The couple has three children, all grown and in their 30s and their eldest daughter is Elizabeth, who is a successful playwright who is married to an equally successful man, Claude. They have one child, 16-year-old Paul, who is mentally ill, the couples middle son is Henri, who drinks too much and has always fought and argued with other members of the family. He has a new girlfriend, Faunia, Ivan is the couples youngest son. He is married to Sylvia, and they have two sons, Basile and Baptiste, Henri and Ivan are close friends with Simon, their cousin who was raised with them after the death of his parents. Simon works in Abels small fabric dying plant, but is an avid and he is also an alcoholic who has gotten in trouble many times for brawling in public. All three men dated or were interested in Sylvia at one time, but they manipulated her to think that only Ivan loved her, she married him and grew to love him. It may be part of the siblings poor relationship is the resentment they feel toward one another for not saving Josephs life. Six years prior to the Christmas gathering that is the heart of this film, Elizabeth paid off his debts, but demanded that he never see her again, meaning he was left out of family gatherings as well. Just before Christmas, Junon learns that she, too, has leukemia and does not have long to live and her family gathers at the Vuillard home in Roubaix, a small city in the north of France. The family immediately falls to bickering, Junon asks her children if one of them will donate bone marrow to her that will allow her to survive. Henri and Elizabeth cruelly fight with one another, and Henri begins drinking heavily, Paul fears that the blood test he will have to undergo may also reveal that his father is not his biological parent. Henri initially refuses to have the blood test, because, he claims, Faunia, who is Jewish, has agreed to spend some time with the Vuillards before leaving to spend the holiday with her own family. Her honesty and gentleness have a impact on Henri. On 23 December, Rosaimée visits the family for dinner and fireworks, Rosaimée was Abels mothers friend, although it is suggested that perhaps the two women were lesbian lovers rather than just friends. Rosaimée tells Sylvia that Simon stopped seeing Sylvia because he believed that she would be if she fell in love with Ivan
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Theatrical release poster
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Arnaud Desplechin
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Arnaud Desplechin is a French film director and screenwriter. He is the son of Robert and Mado Desplechin, and grew up in the Nord department and he has a brother named Fabrice who has acted in several of his films, and two sisters, novelist Marie Desplechin and screenwriter Raphaëlle Desplechin. Arnaud Desplechin studied film directing at the University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle then at the IDHEC and he made three short films inspired by the work of the Belgian novelist Jean Ray. During the late 1980s, Desplechin worked as a director of photography on several films, the 54-minute-long film won the Jean Vigo Prize for Short Films, and was shown at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Desplechins 1996 film My Sex Life, or How I Got Into an Argument was critically successful. In 2000, Desplechin made his first English-language film, Esther Kahn, adapted from a story by Arthur Symons. The film was seen as a homage to François Truffauts work because it deals with coming of age, the next year, he directed Kings and Queen, which mixed comedy and tragedy to tell the story of two ex-lovers played by Amalric and Devos. The film also starred Catherine Deneuve in the role of a psychiatrist, Kings and Queen was nominated for several awards and Amalric won the César Award for Best Actor. However, controversy arose when actress Marianne Denicourt, Desplechins ex-girlfriend, accused him of revealing elements of her life in the screenplay of Kings. In 2005, she published Mauvais génie, describing her relationship with a film director called Arnold Duplancher. In 2006 she unsuccessfully sued Desplechin, in 2007, Desplechin filmed LAimée, a documentary showing his father, his brother, and his nephews in the family house in Roubaix just before it was to be sold. That same year, he filmed the family drama A Christmas Tale, starring Deneuve, Amalric, Devos and this film was screened in competition at Cannes in 2008. His 2013 film Jimmy Picard was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival constituting his fifth film selected in the main competition, in 2014 he adapted Alexander Ostrovskys play The Forest. For the drama film My Golden Days, which he directed and co-wrote, Desplechin won the César Award and Lumières Award for Best Director, in 2016, he was a member of the main competition jury of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. La Vie des morts La Sentinelle My Sex Life, how I Got Into An Argument at The Auteurs Ryland Walker Knight on My Sex Life. and Kings and Queen at The House Next Door
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Arnaud Desplechin in 2015
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The Class (2008 film)
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The Class is a 2008 French drama film directed by Laurent Cantet. Its original French title is Entre les murs, which translates literally to Between the walls or Within the walls and it is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau. The film stars Bégaudeau himself in the role of the teacher, the film received the Palme dOr at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, making it the first French film to do so since 1987, when Maurice Pialat won the award for Under the Sun of Satan. The Class was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the film centers around Marin and the various experiences he has with students in his French literature class within one academic year. The class is difficult, as Marin is unable to relate to his students due to his ethnicity, Marin makes various attempts to try and garner trust and respect from his students but fails miserably. At the students protest of their dislike of the reading material Anne Frank, due to lack of cultural relevance. He asks his students to write self-portraits in which they describe their aspirations, hobbies, the self-portraits are eventually collated by Marin who creates an end-of-year book with them. Most of his students respond positively to this assignment including Soulemayne, the film concludes with consequences of Marins actions and failures that ultimately leave him unscathed and one of his students expelled. The film explores themes of colonialism, displacement, assimilation versus cultural pluralism, the film has received critical acclaim, achieving a 96% rating at Rotten Tomatoes out of 150 reviews counted. Metacritic lists Entre les murs with a rating of 92, making it one of the best reviewed films of the according to the website. The film was the opening night selection at the 46th New York Film Festival in 2008. The film appeared on many top ten lists of the best films of 2008
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Theatrical release poster featuring Esmeralda Ouertani and Rachel Regulier
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The cast at Cannes Film Festival 2008
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Paolo Sorrentino
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Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. His first film as screenwriter, The Dust of Naples, was released in 1998 and he also began directing short movies, including Lamore non ha confini in 1998 and La notte lunga in 2001. His feature-length debut was One Man Up, for which he was awarded the Nastro DArgento prize and he achieved international recognition in 2004 for his thriller, The Consequences of Love. The film, which explores the mindset of a businessman being used as a pawn by the Mafia. Sorrentinos next feature, The Family Friend, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May and it tells the story of a malicious septuagenarian loan shark who develops a fixation with the beautiful daughter of one of his customers. Sorrentino made his debut with a cameo appearance in Nanni Morettis film The Caiman. Sorrentinos following film, Il Divo, is a biopic of Giulio Andreotti. The feature, which won the Prix du Jury at Cannes Film Festival, sees Sorrentino reunited with The Consequences of Love star Toni Servillo, in 2009, Sorrentino wrote the screenplay for a film version of Niccolò Ammanitis Ti prendo e ti porto via. This Must Be the Place marked the English-language feature debut of the Italian filmmaker, the film was co-written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello, and premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. His 2013 film The Great Beauty won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in the 2014 Academy Awards and it won the BAFTA award for Best Film Not in the English Language in the 67th British Academy Film Awards. It also won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the film also received several accolades at the 2013 European Film Awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Sorrentino. Youth is Sorrentinos second English-language film, and features Michael Caine as an orchestra conductor. It competed for the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Sorrentino likes to work with the same team of filmmakers, often engaging cast and crew from his previous films. Lino Fiorito, who was the set designer for all Sorrentinos feature-length films until Il Divo
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Sorrentino in 2008
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Lucrecia Martel
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Lucrecia Martel is an Argentine film director, screenwriter, and producer. According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes for Mabuse, Martel studied at Avellaneda Experimental and then attended the National Experimentation Filmmaking School in Buenos Aires. Because the film school she attended closed for lack of funds, Martel said, I watched movies, I read books, I wrote. I was a mind, because I had to be. Martel directed a number of films between 1988 and 1994. The award winning short film Rey Muerto was part of Historias Breves I, additionally, James Quandt of Artforum declared The Headless Woman as one of the great films of the decade. Martel was a member of the Cannes Film Festival Feature Films Jury in 2006, Martel is currently developing an adaptation of Antonio di Benedettos novel Zama starring Daniel Giménez Cacho. El 56 Piso 24 Besos rojos Rey muerto La Ciénaga a. k. a, the Swamp La Niña Santa, a. k. a. The Holy Girl La mujer sin cabeza, a. k. a, TV Series Wins Havana Film Festival, Coral Best Short Film, for Rey muerto,1995. Sundance Film Festival, NHK Award, for La Ciénaga,1999, uruguay International Film Festival, First Work Award – Special Mention, for La Ciénaga,2001. Toulouse Latin America Film Festival, French Critics Discovery Award, Grand Prix, Havana Film Festival, Best Director, Grand Coral – First Prize, for La Ciénaga,2001. Berlin International Film Festival, Alfred Bauer Prize, for La Ciénaga,2001, Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Silver Condor, Best First Film, for, La Ciénaga,2002. Clarin Entertainment Awards, Clarin Award Film Best Director, for La Niña santa,2004, são Paulo International Film Festival, Critics Award – Honorable Mention, for La Niña santa,2004. Nominations Berlin International Film Festival, Golden Berlin Bear, for La Ciénaga,2001, Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Silver Condor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, for La Ciénaga,2002. Cannes Film Festival, Golden Palm, for La Niña santa,2004, iMDb, Lucrecia Martel Lucrecia Martel at Cinenacional. com
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Lucrecia Martel
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Walter Salles
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Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence. Salles attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and he is the son of Brazilian banker, politician and philanthropist Walter Moreira Salles. Salless first notable film was Terra Estrangeira, released in Brazil in 1995, locally, it was widely acclaimed by film critics and a minor box-office hit, and it was selected by over 40 film festivals worldwide. In 1998 he released Central do Brasil to widespread international acclaim, Salles won a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, becoming the first Brazilian to win a Golden Globe. In 2001, Abril Despedaçado, starring Rodrigo Santoro, was nominated for the Best Foreign Film Golden Globes, both films were produced by veteran Arthur Cohn and had worldwide distribution. In 2003, Salles was voted one of the 40 Best Directors in the World by The Guardian and his biggest international success has been Diarios de Motocicleta, a 2004 film about the life of young Ernesto Guevara, who later became known as Che Guevara. It was Salless first foray as director of a film in a other than his native Portuguese and quickly became a box-office hit in Latin America. In 2005, Salles released his first Hollywood film, Dark Water and he also helped to produce the Argentine picture Hermanas which was a major success. In 2006, Salles wrote and directed a segment in the French film Paris, the film is a collection of 18 shorter segments made by different 21 directors and set in different arrondissements of Paris. Salles segment called Loin du 16e and took place in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, in 2007, Salles took part in a similar project called To Each His Own Cinema in the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival. He made a 3-minute segment called A8944 km de Cannes, in 2008, Salles wrote and directed the film Linha de Passe also with Daniela Thomas. It is a story about four brothers from a family who need to fight to follow their dreams. He was nominated for the Golden Palm and Sandra Corveloni won the best actress award for her role in film in Cannes Film Festival in 2008. In 2012 Salles released José Riveras screenplay adaptation of Jack Kerouacs On the Road, the film was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. com Walter Salles interviewed by Michael Ordoña for the San Francisco Chronicle
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Salles at the 2012
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On the Road
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Salles in 2005
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My Magic
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My Magic is a 2008 Singaporean Tamil language drama film directed by Eric Khoo and produced by Zhao Wei Films in association with Infinite Frameworks. My Magic was the first Singapore film to be nominated for the Palme DOr and it has been also selected as Singapores official entry for the Oscars in 2009. It was released in Singapore cinemas on 25 September 2008, a single father takes a job as a magician to provide for his son, only to be pressured into dangerous acts. Bosco Francis Jathisweran as Rajr Grace Kalaiselvi Jason Lim Seet Keng-yew Derek Elley of Variety wrote that it walks a thin line, between sympathy with and exploitation of its main characters woes. Bosco Francis was named best actor at the Asian Festival of First Films, official website My Magic at the Internet Movie Database My Magic at Rotten Tomatoes
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Theatrical release poster.
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Eric Khoo
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Eric Khoo Kim Hai is a Singaporean director, producer and credited for the revival of the Singapore film industry. Khoos films Mee Pok Man and 12 Storeys have together been screened at over 60 film festivals, held all over the world including Ivy League festivals such as Venice, Berlin and Rotterdam. In 1998, Khoo was ranked as one of the 25 exceptional trend makers of Asia by Asiaweek magazine and in the following year was included into Asiaweek’s leaders for the millennium issue. He was an Executive Producer for the comedy hit, “Liang Po Po – The Movie”, and “One Leg Kicking”. He also produced “15” directed by Royston Tan, which has been invited to the Venice Film Festival and Sundance. His TV work includes being Executive Producer of “DRIVE”, a series for the Television Corporation of Singapore, and “Seventh Month”. These productions served as a platform for grooming young talented filmmakers, Khoo was conferred the Singapore Youth Awards in 1999 for his dedication to film-making and contributions to society. In 2004 Khoo directed his third feature Be With Me which was selected as the film for the Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 2005. The film has won several awards overseas and has been invited to the Toronto International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival. It has also received international distribution including the US and Europe with glowing reviews in the French media when it opened in October 2005. Khoo was a judge at the 10th Busan International Film Festival 2005, in 2006 Khoo executive produced Royston Tan’s second feature “4, 30” and was invited to direct for the Jeonju Digital Film Festival in Korea - “No Day Off” the story of an Indonesian maid. He was awarded the 2006 Singapore Youth Awards Medal Of Commendation, the Seoul Independent Film Festival paid this tribute to him. In 2007, Khoo was appointed as a member of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He produced Royston Tan’s “881” a box office hit and received the highest arts honor the Cultural Medallion by the President of Singapore in the same year and it is distributed in France by ARP and Wild bunch for international sales. My Magic picked up the best film award at Fribourg International Film Festival and was voted best film of 2008 by Le Monde, in 2009, Khoo entered into a partnership with Infinite Frameworks to form a new company, Gorylah, specializing in the production of genre films. Gorylah’s maiden effort, Darah, went on to win the Best Actress award at the 2009 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, Khoo executive produced Boo Jun Feng’s first feature film, Sandcastle. The film was selected for 2010 Critic’s Week at Cannes, centre Pompidou in Paris held an Eric Khoo retrospective in 2010 and he was featured in Phaidon Books, Take 100 - The Future of Film,100 new directors. Eric was President of the Jury for the International Competition at the 63rd edition of the Locarno International Film Festival in 2010
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Eric Khoo in 2010
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Palermo Shooting
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The film follows a German photographer who comes to Palermo because he needs to make a clean break from his past. In the city, he meets a woman and a completely different way of life. The film is the first one directed by Wenders in his hometown, filming also took place in the nearby cities of Essen and Neuss as well as Palermo and other areas of Sicily. The film was released in Germany on 20 November 2008, the film had its U. S. premiere on 20 January 2009 at the Berlin and Beyond film festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco
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German DVD cover
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At Cannes 2008
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Brillante Mendoza
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Brillante Mendoza is a Filipino film director. He was born and raised in San Fernando, Pampanga and he took Advertising Arts of the then College of Architecture and Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas. He has directed sixteen films since 2005 and he won the award for Best Director for his film Kinatay at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. His 2009 film Lola won the award for Best Film at the 6th Dubai International Film Festival and his 2012 film Captive was shown in competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012. His 2012 film Thy Womb competed for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival and his film Taklub has been selected to be screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. On July 25,2016, he directed the first State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte, brillante Mendoza at the Internet Movie Database
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Mendoza at the
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Mendoza won Best Director at the
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Luc Dardenne
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Brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne are a Belgian filmmaking duo. They write, produce and direct their films together, the Dardennes began making narrative and documentary films in the late 1970s. They came to attention in the mid-1990s with La Promesse. They won their first major international film prize when Rosetta won the Palme dOr at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, in 2002, Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at Cannes for the Dardennes Le Fils. In 2005, they won the Palme dOr a second time for their film L’Enfant, putting them in a club, at the time. Their film, Le Silence de Lorna, won Best Screenplay at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was released in Europe in the fall. Their film The Kid with a Bike won the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, received one Golden Globe nomination, Jean-Pierre was the jury president for the Cinéfoundation and Short Films sections of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, their film Deux jours, une nuit received nine Magritte Award nominations, creators of intensely naturalistic films about working class life in Belgium, brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have created a notable body of work since 1996. With La Promesse, Rosetta, Le Fils, and LEnfant, the Dardennes’ films show young people at the fringes of society – immigrants, the unemployed, the inhabitants of shelters. Both Rosetta and LEnfant were awarded the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, the Dardennes were born and raised in Seraing in Liege, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium. Jean-Pierre studied drama while Luc studied philosophy, in 1975 they established Derives, the production company that produced the roughly sixty documentary films they made before branching into feature films. These films covered such topics as Polish immigration, World War II resistance and their first two feature films, however, are rarely seen today, Falsch and Je pense a vous, which Luc would later describe as an unfortunate adventure. The Dardennes had their first international success with La Promesse in 1996, with Rosetta the Dardennes turned their focus to the burdens – philosophical, spiritual, psychological – of unemployment. Rosetta was the first Belgian film ever to win the Palme dOr at Cannes, coming in ahead of films by David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Takeshi Kitano, the film provided some impetus for a labor law designed to protect young workers like Rosetta shortly after the films release. ’t was pure chance, ’ Jean-Pierre insists, ‘There was already a bill going through, and the minister took advantage of our award to call it the Rosetta Law. But we never intended to get laws changed. ’ Luc adds, ‘Of course, we hope our films will speak to people, disturb them. Crimes and occupations again figure prominently in the Dardennes’ fourth film, the film earned the Dardennes the Palme dOr from Cannes, their second in seven years. LEnfant won the André Cavens Award in 2005, making directors Jean-Pierre, the Dardenne brothers have a regular stable of collaborators, including cinematographer Alain Marcoen and editor Marie-Hélène Dozo
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Luc (left) and Jean-Pierre Dardenne at the
2014 Cannes Film Festival
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The Dardenne Brothers at the
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Synecdoche, New York
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Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 American postmodern drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. The plot follows a theatre director as he works on an increasingly elaborate stage production whose extreme commitment to realism begins to blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. The films title is a play on Schenectady, New York, where much of the film is set, the film premiered in competition at the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 23,2008. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the United States distribution rights, paying no money and it had a limited theatrical release in the U. S. on October 24,2008, and generated much less revenue than it cost. It was also nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Theater director Caden Cotard finds his life unraveling. After the success of his production of Death of a Salesman, Caden unexpectedly receives a MacArthur Fellowship and he is determined to use it to create an artistic piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can pour his whole self. Gathering an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattans Theater District, he directs them in a celebration of the mundane. As the mockup inside the warehouse grows increasingly mimetic of the city outside and he is traumatized as he discovers Adele has become a celebrated painter in Berlin and Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adeles friend Maria. After a disastrous fling with Hazel, he marries Claire, an actress in his cast and their relationship ultimately fails, and he continues his awkward relationship with Hazel, who is by now married with children and working as his assistant. Meanwhile, a condition is systematically shutting down his autonomic functions one by one. As the years pass, the continually expanding warehouse is isolated from the deterioration of the city outside. Caden buries himself ever deeper into his magnum opus, blurring the line between reality and the world of the play by populating the cast and crew with doppelgängers. For instance, Sammy Barnathan is cast in the role of Caden in the play after Sammy reveals that he has been obsessively following Caden for 20 years, Sammys interest in Hazel sparks a revival of Cadens relationship with her, leading Sammy to commit suicide. As he pushes against the limits of his personal and professional relationships, Caden lets an actress take over his role as director and takes on her previous role as Ellen, Adeles custodian. He lives out his days in the model of Adeles apartment under the replacement directors instruction while some unexplained calamity occurs in the warehouse leaving ruins and bodies in its wake. Finally, he prepares for death as he rests his head on the shoulder of an actress who had previously played Ellens mother, seemingly the only person in the warehouse still alive. As the scene fades to gray, Caden says that now he has an idea of how to do the play when the voice in his ear gives him his final cue. The film began when Sony Pictures Classics approached Kaufman and Spike Jonze about making a horror film, the two began working on a film dealing with things they found frightening in real life, rather than typical horror-film tropes
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Theatrical release poster
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Charlie Kaufman
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Charles Stuart Charlie Kaufman is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and lyricist. He wrote the films Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and he made his directorial debut with Synecdoche, New York, which was also well-received, film critic Roger Ebert named it the best movie of the decade in 2009. He also won two BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplays and one BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, three of Kaufmans scripts appear in the Writers Guild of Americas list of the 101 greatest movie screenplays ever written. Kaufman was born in New York City to a Jewish family on November 19,1958 and he grew up in Massapequa, New York before moving to West Hartford, Connecticut where he graduated high school. While attending high school, Kaufman was part of the drama club, performing in numerous productions before landing the lead role in a production of Play It Again. After high school graduation, Kaufman attended Boston University before transferring to New York University where he studied film, while attending New York University, Kaufman met Paul Proch, with whom he would write many unproduced scripts and plays. Between 1983 and 1984, Kaufman and Proch wrote comedic articles and his work included parodies of Kurt Vonnegut and the X-Men. Kaufman and Proch tried to get their screenplays produced, sending them to people in film industry. The only response the two ever received for their work was a letter from Alan Arkin in regards to their screenplay titled Purely Coincidental. In hope of finding talent agents the two began to write scripts for television series such as Married. In 1991, Kaufman moved from Minneapolis to Los Angeles in search of job prospects. Kaufman got his start in television by writing two episodes for Chris Elliotts Get a Life during the 1991–1992 season, during the 1993–1994 season, Kaufman worked on Foxs sketch comedy show The Edge. Kaufman wrote some pilot scripts while working as a television writer and he later worked as a writer for Ned and Stacey and The Dana Carvey Show. He first came to notice as the writer of Being John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze, earning an Academy Award nomination for his effort. He wrote the script on spec in 1994, sending it to companies and studios. Kaufman and Jonze reunited yet again as the director screenwriter respectively for Adaptation, Adaptation featured a fictionalized version of Kaufman and his fictional brother, Donald, who is credited as writer of the film along with Kaufman. The idea came to Kaufman while attempting to adapt Susan Orleans novel The Orchid Thief into film, struggling with writers block, Kaufman turned the script into an exaggerated account of his struggles with adapting the screenplay. The film focuses on Barriss claim to have been a CIA hit man and it was George Clooneys directorial debut
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Kaufman at the
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James Gray (film director)
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James Gray is an American film director and screenwriter. Gray was born in New York City and he is of Russian Jewish descent, with grandparents from Ostropol. His father was once an electronics contractor, the film won the Silver Lion at the 1994 Venice Film Festival. In 2000, Miramax released his film, The Yards. We Own the Night was released theatrically in the US on October 12,2007, in November 2012 he was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2012 International Film Festival of Marrakech. His 2013 film The Immigrant was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and he wrote the screenplay for Guillaume Canets 2013 film Blood Ties with Canet. In August 2015, it was announced that Warner Bros tapped Gray to write and direct White Devil, Gray married Alexandra Dickson in 2005
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Gray at the Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles on March 5, 2010
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Waltz with Bashir
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Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated war documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories of his experience as a soldier in the 1982 Lebanon War and this film and $9.99, also released in 2008, are the first Israeli animated feature-length films released theatrically since Alina and Yoram Grosss Baal Hahalomot. The film is banned in Lebanon. In 1982, Ari Folman was a 19-year-old IDF infantry soldier, in 2006, he meets with a friend from that period, who tells him of the nightmares hes having connected to his experiences from the Lebanon War. Folman is surprised to find that he recalls nothing from that period, later that night he has a vision from the night of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the reality of which he is unable to clearly recall. In his memory, he and his comrades are bathing at night by the seaside in Beirut under the light of flares descending over the city. Folman rushes off to meet a friend, who advises him to seek out others who were in Beirut at the same time, to understand what happened there. Folman converses with friends and other soldiers who served in the war, among others a psychologist, and Israeli TV reporter Ron Ben-Yishai, who covered Beirut at the time. He concludes that his amnesia stemmed from his feeling as a soldier that he was as guilty of the massacre as those who actually carried it out. The film ends with animation dissolving into actual footage of the aftermath of the massacre, the film contains both fictional composites of real-life figures and actual living people. Ari Folman, an Israeli film-maker who recently finished his military reserve service, some twenty years before, he served in the IDF during the Lebanon War. Miki Leon as Boaz Rein-Buskila, an accountant and Israeli Lebanon War veteran suffering from nightmares, ori Sivan, an Israeli filmmaker who previously co-directed two films with Folman and is his long-time friend. Yehezkel Lazarov as Carmi Canan, an Israeli Lebanon War veteran who once was Folmans friend, ronny Dayag, an Israeli Lebanon War veteran and high food engineer. During the war, he was a Merkava tank crewman, shmuel Frenkel, an Israeli Lebanon War veteran. During this war he was the commander of an infantry unit, zahava Solomon, an Israeli psychologist and researcher in the field of psychological trauma. Ron Ben-Yishai, an Israeli journalist who was the first to cover the massacre, dror Harazi, an Israeli Lebanon War veteran. During the war, he commanded a tank stationed outside the Shatila refugee camp, thematically, the films title is a symbolic description of the Waltz, which is a dance for a couple, that Folman is dancing with his memories from the war in Lebanon. The title also refers to Israels short-lived political waltz with Bashir Gemayel as president of Lebanon, others have speculated that the title is a reference to Kurt Vonneguts satirical novel Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Childrens Crusade, A Duty-Dance with Death
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Theatrical release poster
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Ari Folman
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Ari Folman is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and film score composer. He is perhaps best known for directing his animated documentary film Waltz With Bashir as well as directing the live-action/animated film The Congress and he currently plans to direct an animated drama film based on the life of Anne Frank during the Holocaust. Ari Folman was born in Haifa to Holocaust survivors and his wife is also a film director. In 2006 he was the writer of the Hot 3 famous drama series BeTipul. Ari Folmans memories of the aftermath of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre which took place when he was a 19-year-old soldier, served as the basis for his movie Waltz with Bashir
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Ari Folman at 43rd
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Johnny Mad Dog
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Johnny Mad Dog is a 2008 French/Liberian war film directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and based on the novel Johnny Chien Méchant by the Congolese author Emmanuel Dongala. It tells the story of a group of soldiers fighting for the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy rebels in 2003. The teenage rebel Johnny Mad Dog leads the group of younger boys commanded by the older General Never Die. The soldiers are depicted as almost feral, committing acts of pillage and rape and they wear a variety of outlandish outfits – including butterfly wings and a wedding dress – and have nicknames such as No Good Advice, Captain Dust to Dust, and Chicken Hair. The actors were mostly aged 10 to 15, including Christopher Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy, Dagbeh Tweh, Barry Chernoh, Mohammed Sesay, all were unknowns when cast, some were themselves former child soldiers. Official website Johnny Mad Dog at the Internet Movie Database Johnny Mad Dog at Rotten Tomatoes
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Promotional image showing the unusual costumes of the boys
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Raymond Depardon
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Raymond Depardon is a French photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. Depardon is mainly a self-taught photographer, as he began taking pictures on his familys farm when he was 12 and he apprenticed with a photographer-optician in Villefranche-sur-Saône before he moved to Paris in 1958. He began his career as a photojournalist in the early 1960s and he travelled to conflict zones including Algeria, Vietnam, Biafra and Chad. In 1966, Depardon co-founded the photojournalism agency Gamma, in 1973 he became Gamma’s director. From 1975 to 1977 Depardon traveled in Chad and received a Pulitzer Prize in 1977, the next year he left Gamma to become a Magnum associate, then a full member in 1979. In the 1990s, Depardon went back to his farm to photograph rural landscapes in color. In May 2012, he took the official portrait of French President François Hollande, Depardon is also the author of several documentary shorts and feature films. His approach as a director is influenced by cinéma vérité and direct cinema, in 1969 he made his first film and he has directed 16 films since then. In 1979 he received a George Sadoul Prize for his film Numéro Zéro, in 1984 Depardon made his first fiction film, Empty Quarters. Other notable examples include 1974, une partie de campagne, on the 1974 presidential campaign of Valéry Giscard dEstaing, Reporters and New York, at the 2000 Kraków Film Festival, Depardon received the Dragon of Dragons, a lifetime achievement award. Un homme sans lOccident Profils paysans, lapproche Muriel Leferle Paris Afriques, Comment ça va avec la douleur
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Raymond Depardon in 2012
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Amat Escalante
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Amat Escalante is a Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter. Escalante was incidentally born in Barcelona, Spain while his parents —composed by a Mexican father, back in Mexico, he directed a short film that received an award at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival. He worked as an assistant of Carlos Reygadas in Batalla en el cielo, during the filming of the movie —which entered the 2005 Cannes Film Festival— both became close friends, and Reygadas ended up co-producing some of Escalantes first films. One of those films, Sangre, filmed in November 2004 with a budget of US$60,000, was included in Un Certain Regard and in both Rotterdam and San Sebastián. His film Heli was selected to compete for the Palme dOr at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and was awarded the prize for Best Director by a jury presided by U. S. director Steven Spielberg. In 2016, his film The Untamed was selected to compete in the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, Escalante won the Silver Lion for Best Direction for his film
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Amat Escalante (left) with
Víctor Gaviria (center) at Talent Campus,
Guadalajara (March 2009).
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Bent Hamer
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Bent Hamer is a film director, writer and producer, born in Sandefjord, Norway in 1956. Hamer studied film theory and literature at the University of Stockholm, in addition to his feature films, he has written and directed a number of short films and documentaries. His first film, Eggs, premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it was shown in the Directors Fortnight section and his 2003 film Kitchen Stories screened at many international festivals and was the Norwegian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In April 2004, Bent Hamer started shooting Factotum based on the novel of the name by US poet. The screenplay was written by Hamer and Jim Stark, who produced the film together with Christine Walker, the film premiered at the Kosmorama Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway, on 2005-04-12. Hamer is the owner and founder of the BulBul Film Association, established in Oslo in 1994
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Bent Hamer
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Michel Gondry
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Michel Gondry is a French independent film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is noted for his visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and he is well known for his music video collaborations with Radiohead, Björk, Beck, The Chemical Brothers and The White Stripes. He is the grandson of inventor Constant Martin, Gondrys vision and career began with his emphasis on emotion. Much of his inspiration, he says, came from the film Le voyage en ballon and he stated, When I watch this movie, I dream Im flying and then I do stories where people are flying. His career as a filmmaker began with creating videos for the French rock band Oui Oui. The style of his videos for Oui Oui caught the attention of music artist Björk, the collaboration proved long-lasting, with Gondry directing a total of eight music videos for Björk. Other artists who have collaborated with Gondry on more than one occasion include Daft Punk, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, The Vines, Steriogram, Radiohead, and Beck. Gondry’s video for Lucas Secons Lucas With The Lid Off was nominated in the Best Music Video category at the 37th Grammy Awards, Gondry, along with directors Spike Jonze and David Fincher, is representative of the influx of music video directors into feature film. Gondry made his film debut in 2001 with Human Nature. His second film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, was released in 2004 and received favorable reviews. Eternal Sunshine utilizes many of the image manipulation techniques that Gondry had experimented with in his music videos, Gondry won an Academy Award alongside Kaufman and Pierre Bismuth for the screenplay of Eternal Sunshine. The style of Gondrys music videos often relies on videography and camera tricks which play with frames of reference and his following film, The Science of Sleep, hit theaters in September 2006. This film stars Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, and marked a return to the fantastical, surreal techniques he employed in Eternal Sunshine, according to the Guinness World Records 2004, Michel Gondrys Levis 501 Jeans Drugstore spot holds the record for Most awards won by a TV commercial. The commercial was never aired in North America because of the suggestive content involving purchasing latex condoms. He was asked by French comic duet Éric and Ramzy to direct Seuls Two, in September 2006, Gondry made his debut as an installation artist at Deitch Projects in New York Citys SoHo gallery district. A leitmotif of the film is a Disastrology calendar, Gondry commissioned the painter Baptiste Ibar to draw harrowing images of natural and human disasters. His brother Olivier Twist Gondry is also a commercial and music video director creating videos for bands such as The Stills, Hot Hot Heat, Daft Punk
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Gondry at the
Deauville American Film Festival in 2012
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Gondry in 2008
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Gondry participating with
The 1 Second Film in 2008
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James Toback
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James Lee Toback is an American screenwriter and film director, as well as non-fiction writer, and essayist. Toback was born in New York City and his mother, Selma Judith, was a president of The League of Women Voters and a moderator of political debates on NBC. His father, Irwin Lionel Toback, was a stockbroker and former president of Dreyfus & Company. He graduated from The Fieldston School in 1963 and from Harvard College, magna cum laude, while attending Harvard College, Toback took, what he claims to be half-seriously, the largest single dose of LSD of all time. He remained under the influence of the drug for eight days before being administered an antidote by neuropsychiatrist Max Rinkel, according to Toback, he lost all fear of death due to this experience. After graduating from Harvard, Toback worked as a journalist and it was after Toback grew tired of his hedonistic lifestyle in Browns house that he came to the decision to make movies for a living. Toback wrote a book about his experiences with Brown entitled Jim, in the early 1970s Toback taught creative writing at the City College of New York. He drew on this experience when he wrote the screenplay for The Gambler, in 1974, Tobacks screenplay The Gambler was produced. Much of the film was shot at City College and his directorial début was the 1978 film Fingers, remade 28 years later by Jacques Audiard as The Beat That My Heart Skipped. Toback followed Fingers with Love and Money in 1982, Toback wrote and directed Exposed in 1983, and in 1989, Toback directed the documentary The Big Bang. Toback wrote the screenplay for Bugsy, which won the Golden Globe for Best Picture and was nominated for ten Academy Awards. Toback won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Original Screenplay, in 1997, Toback wrote and directed the comedy Two Girls and a Guy, and in 1999, he wrote and directed Black and White in collaboration with members of Wu-Tang Clan. He then wrote and directed Harvard Man starring Adrian Grenier in 2001, in 2004, Toback wrote and directed When Will I Be Loved and in 2008, Toback directed Tyson, a documentary about boxer Mike Tyson. In an August 2011 interview, Toback gave the story of the background and development of The Gambler. Toback teamed with Alec Baldwin in 2013 to create and release a movie called Seduced and Abandoned. Toback refers to the documentary film as a cinematic romp. The HBO film shows Toback and Baldwin at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival searching for funding for a movie, in 2015 Toback confirmed that his next film would be entitled Circle of Deceit, and would star James Franco, Sienna Miller, and Bobby Cannavale. Toback was married to Consuelo Sarah Churchill Vanderbilt Russell, the granddaughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough and he is currently married to Stephanie Kempf, with whom he has one son
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Toback on April 28, 2009
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Andreas Dresen
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Andreas Dresen is a German film director. His directing credits include Cloud 9, Summer in Berlin, Grill Point and his film Stopped on Track premiered at the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize of Un Certain Regard. Dresen is known for his style, which gives his films a semi-documentary feel. He works very teamoriented and heavily uses improvisation, in 2013 he was a member of the jury at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival
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Andreas Dresen
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The Chaser (film)
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The Chaser is a 2008 South Korean film starring Kim Yoon-seok and Ha Jung-woo. It was directed by Na Hong-jin in his directorial debut, inspired by real-life Korean serial killer Yoo Young-chul, the film was shot on location around Mangwon-dong in the Mapo District, Seoul. Eom Joong-ho is a dishonest ex-detective turned pimp who is in trouble because two of his girls have gone missing. One night he sends Mi-jin, one of his few remaining girls and he then realizes that this is the same person who was the last to see his missing girls. Believing that this man is reselling his women, he goes to look for Mi-jin, but they cannot assist because the mayor of Seoul, whom they are guarding, has just been attacked. The police are now preoccupied with a storm because they have suffered humiliation for failing to protect the mayor. Mi-jin awakes tied up in a bathroom and her customer, Je Yeong-min, calmly informs her that a previous victim had her tongue cut out for screaming too much. He tries to torture her, but she resists and Je Yeong-min hurts his hand, moments later, callers from the local church arrive, inquiring about its owner, Mr. Park. Yeong-min has no time to finish off Mi-jin so he invites the couple in. While trying to ditch the car, he collides with Joong-hos vehicle. Joong-ho senses that the man is hiding something, and calls the customers cellphone, Yeong-min tries to run away but is caught and badly beaten by Joong-ho. Both men are arrested by a local cop. At the station, Yeong-min casually admits that he has killed up to nine people, a fracas starts when competing divisions all want to investigate the high-profile unsolved murders in the area. Despite his confession, the police have no evidence, so they cannot detain Yeong-min. To get evidence, Joong-ho goes to Mi-jins apartment to collect DNA samples, in the apartment, he discovers Eun-ji, Mi-jins daughter, home alone. Reluctantly he takes her with him while he follows up a lead in Yeong-mins home town, there, he learns the suspect had been sent to prison for three years for lobotomizing his own nephew. Joong-ho finds a room where Yeong-min had once lived. On the walls are a host of religious drawings, Eun-ji wanders off, following a woman who looks like her mother
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Theatrical poster
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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
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The Good, the Bad, the Weird is a 2008 South Korean action western film, directed by Kim Jee-woon, starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, and Jung Woo-sung. It was inspired by Sergio Leones The Good, the Bad, the film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and had a limited release in the U. S. on April 23,2010. It received positive reviews with critics praising the action, the cinematography, in the desert wilderness of Manchuria 1939, months before World War II, Park Chang-yi, The Bad —a bandit and hitman—is hired to acquire a treasure map from a Japanese official traveling by train. Before he can get it however, Yoon Tae-goo, The Weird —a thief—steals the map and is caught up in The Bads derailment of the train and this involves the slaughter of the Japanese and Manchurian guards, and various civilians. Park Do-won, The Good —an eagle-eyed bounty hunter—appears on the scene to claim the bounty on The Bad, meanwhile, The Weird escapes, eluding his Good and Bad pursuers. A fourth force—a group of Manchurian bandits—also want the map to sell to the Ghost Market, the Weird hopes to uncover the maps secrets and recover what he believes is gold and riches buried by the Qing Dynasty just before the collapse of their government. As the story continues, a battle for the map occurs, with bounties placed on heads. After a series of shootouts and chases, a final battle erupts in which the Japanese army, Manchurian bandits, The Good, The Bad. The Japanese army kills most of the bandits, the Good kills many Japanese soldiers and sets off an explosion that drives them away. The Bads gang is killed off and he kills those that attempt to leave the chase. Only the Bad, the Weird and the Good make it to the treasure, however, they find that it is nothing more than a boarded-over hole in the desert. The Bad recognizes The Weird as the Finger Chopper—a criminal that cut off his finger in a knife fight five years ago—and the man that the Good had thought the Bad to be. Turning on each other in an act of vengeance for the slights they suffered. The three lie in the sand, dying and alone, as the hole that they fought. The Good does survive along with the Weird, with a newly raised bounty on the Weird, a new chase begins as he flees across the Manchurian desert. The Korean theatrical cut is 136 minutes long and the cut is 129 minutes long. The Korean ending is more up-beat than the version, including several more minutes of footage. In the alternate ending, The Weird, Tae-goo, gets up and he reveals the thick metal sheet he hid under his quilted jacket and limps over to demolish the corpse of Chang-yi, The Bad
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Theatrical poster
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Steven Spielberg
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Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE, OMRI is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the pioneers of the New Hollywood era. He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios, in a career spanning more than four decades, Spielbergs films have spanned many themes and genres. His other films include Jurassic Park, A. I, artificial Intelligence, and War of the Worlds. Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindlers List and Saving Private Ryan, three of Spielbergs films—Jaws, E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park—achieved box office records, originated and came to epitomize the blockbuster film. The unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $9 billion worldwide and his personal net worth is estimated to be more than $3 billion. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to an Orthodox Jewish family and his mother, Leah Posner, was a restaurateur and concert pianist, and his father, Arnold Spielberg, was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers. His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine who settled in Cincinnati in the first decade of the 1900s, in 1950, his family moved to Haddon Township, New Jersey when his father took a job with RCA. Three years later, the moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Spielberg attended Hebrew school from 1953 to 1957, in classes taught by Rabbi Albert L. Lewis, as a child, Spielberg faced difficulty reconciling being an Orthodox Jew with the perception of him by other children he played with. It isnt something I enjoy admitting, he said, but when I was seven, eight, nine years old, God forgive me. I was embarrassed by the perception of my parents Jewish practices. I was never really ashamed to be Jewish, but I was uneasy at times, Spielberg also said he suffered from acts of anti-Semitic prejudice and bullying, In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. His first home movie was of a wreck involving his toy Lionel trains. Throughout his early teens, and after entering school, Spielberg continued to make amateur 8 mm adventure films. In 1958, he became a Boy Scout and fulfilled a requirement for the merit badge by making a nine-minute 8 mm film entitled The Last Gunfight. Years later, Spielberg recalled to an interviewer, My dads still-camera was broken. He said yes, and I got an idea to do a Western, I made it and got my merit badge
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Spielberg at the
2013 Cannes Film Festival
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Steven Spielberg and
Chandran Rutnam on a location in Sri Lanka during the filming of
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
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Spielberg in March 1990
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Spielberg in 2011, at the Paris premiere of
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a 2008 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film was shot in Spain in Barcelona, Avilés and Oviedo, Cruz won both the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Altogether, the film won 25 out of 56 nominations, Vicky and Cristina visit Barcelona for the summer, staying with Vickys distant relative Judy and her husband Mark. At an art exhibition, Cristina is intrigued by artist Juan Antonio, Cristina is won over by the offer almost at once, but Vicky is unimpressed and reluctant, she however eventually decides to accompany her friend anyway, mainly to watch over her. At the end of their first day, Vicky refuses to join Juan Antonio in his room, citing her fidelity to Doug. Before the love-making starts, Cristina suddenly falls ill with digestive complaints, Vicky and Juan Antonio proceed to spend the weekend together alone while they wait for Cristina to recuperate. Vicky gradually changes her opinion of Juan Antonio as he tells her about his tumultuous relationship with his former wife, Vicky accompanies him to visit his father, an old poet, and then becomes deeply moved by a Spanish guitar performance later that evening. She finally succumbs to Juan Antonios advances as they walk through a grove of trees in the dark, the next day, with Cristina recovered, the three of them fly back to Barcelona. Feeling guilty, Vicky does not mention the incident to Cristina, Vicky starts throwing herself into her studies while Cristina and Juan Antonio take up a relationship. Cristina then moves in with Juan Antonio and begins to more about his past. After learning that María Elena attempted to kill herself, Juan Antonio brings her to his home, after some defiance, the two women grow fond of each other. Cristina realizes that the ex-spouses are still in love, and María Elena suggests that Cristina may be the element that can give balance, all three become romantically involved with one another. In the meantime, Vicky is joined in Spain by an enthusiastic Doug, learning that Judy is similarly unhappy in her marriage, she confides to her, and Judy, who sees her younger self in Vicky, decides to bring Juan Antonio and Vicky together. Meanwhile, Cristina becomes restless and at some point decides to leave Juan Antonio and María Elena, without her, as the summer winds to a close, Judy arranges for Juan Antonio and Vicky to meet at a party. Juan Antonio begs Vicky to meet him again privately before leaving Spain, at his home, Juan Antonio seduces and wins Vicky over again, but they are interrupted by María Elena who bursts in with a gun, firing wildly as Juan Antonio tries to calm her. Vicky gets shot in the hand in the process, and leaves, shouting they are insane and she confesses the entire story to Cristina, who never realized how Vicky felt about Juan Antonio, and wishes she could have helped her. This was the third time Johansson and Allen worked together, following Match Point and this film also marked the second time Johansson and Hall worked together, the first time being in The Prestige. The movie featured several paintings by the Catalan artist Agustí Puig, as of July 2009, the film grossed $96 million worldwide, in relation to its $15 million budget, it is one of Allens most profitable films
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Theatrical release poster
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Woody Allen
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Heywood Woody Allen is an American actor, writer, director, comedian, playwright, and musician whose career spans more than six decades. He worked as a writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television. In the early 1960s, Allen began performing as a stand-up comedian, as a comedian, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen in fourth place on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians and he is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s. Allen often stars in his films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup, some of the best-known of his over 40 films are Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Hannah and Her Sisters. In 2007 he said Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, critic Roger Ebert described Allen as a treasure of the cinema. Allen won four Academy Awards, three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director and he also won nine British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. His screenplay for Annie Hall was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the 101 Funniest Screenplays, in 2011, PBS televised the film biography Woody Allen, A Documentary on the American Masters TV series. Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg in Brooklyn, New York and he and his sister, Letty, were raised in Midwood, Brooklyn. He is the son of Nettie, a bookkeeper at her familys delicatessen, and Martin Konigsberg and his family was Jewish, his grandparents immigrated from Russia and Austria, and spoke Yiddish, Hebrew, and German. His parents were born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His childhood was not particularly happy, his parents did not get along, Allen spoke German quite a bit in his early years. He would later joke that when he was young he was sent to inter-faith summer camps. While attending Hebrew school for eight years, he went to Public School 99 and to Midwood High School, at that time, he lived in an apartment at 968 East 14th Street. Unlike his comic persona, he was interested in baseball than school. He impressed students with his talent at card and magic tricks. To raise money, he wrote jokes for agent David O. Alber, at the age of 17, he legally changed his name to Heywood Allen and later began to call himself Woody Allen. According to Allen, his first published joke read, Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O. P. S and he was then earning more than both parents combined
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Allen in the 1970s
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Allen as a high school senior, 1953
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Allen with the Broadway cast of Play It Again, Sam (1969).
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Allen candid from 2006
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Wong Kar-wai
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His film In the Mood for Love, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung, notably garnered widespread critical acclaim. Wong Kar-wai was born on 17 July 1958 in Shanghai, the youngest of three siblings and his father was a sailor and his mother was a housewife. By the time Wong was five years old, the seeds of the Cultural Revolution were beginning to take effect in China and his parents decided to relocate to British-ruled Hong Kong. The two older children were meant to them later, but the borders closed before they had a chance. In Hong Kong, the family settled in the Tsim Sha Tsui district, as a youth, Wong was frequently taken to the cinema by his mother and exposed to a variety of films. He later said, The only hobby I had as a child was watching movies, at school he was interested in graphic design, and earned a diploma in the subject from Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1980. After graduating, Wong was accepted onto a course with the TVB television network. He soon began a career, firstly with TV series and soap operas, such as Dont Look Now. He worked as part of a team, contributing to a variety of genres including romance, comedy, thriller and he is credited with ten screenplays between 1982 and 1987, but claims to have worked on about fifty more without official credit. Wong spent two years co-writing the screenplay for Patrick Tams action film Final Victory, for which he was nominated at the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards, by 1987 the Hong Kong film industry was at a peak, enjoying a considerable level of prosperity and productivity. Gangster films were popular at the time, in the wake of John Woos highly-successful A Better Tomorrow, specifically, unlike Hong Kongs other crime films, he chose to focus on young gangsters. The film, named As Tears Go By, tells the story of a youth who has to watch over his hot-headed friend. Because he was acquainted with the producer, Alan Tang, Wong was given considerable freedom in the making of As Tears Go By. His cast included what he considered some of the hottest young idols in Hong Kong, singer Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, as Tears Go By was released in June 1988 and was popular with audiences. It was also a success, as several journalists named Wong among the Hong Kong New Wave. While it was a crime film, critic David Bordwell said that Wong out from his peers by abandoning the kinetics of comedies. As Tears Go By received no attention from Western critics upon its initial release, for his follow-up film, Wong decided to move away from the crime trend in Hong Kong cinema, to which he felt indifferent. He was eager to make something unusual, and the success of As Tears Go By made this possible
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Wong at the
2013 Berlin Film Festival
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Hong Kong in 1965, shortly after Wong's family emigrated there from
Shanghai
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Andy Lau starred in Wong's debut, the crime film
As Tears Go By (1988)
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Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Wong's frequent leading man
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Marco Berger
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Marco Berger is an Argentine film director and screenwriter born December 8,1977. He studied at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and made his debut in 2007 with the short films Última voluntad. His first feature film was Plan B, which was presented on a number of film festivals, a unique combination of homoerotic desire, suspense and dramatic tension. Marco Berger at the Internet Movie Database
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Marco Berger at the 65th
Berlinale in February 2015
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Sam Taylor-Wood
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Samantha Louise Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE is an English filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. Her directorial feature film came in 2009 with Nowhere Boy. She is one of a group of known as the Young British Artists. She was born Samantha Taylor-Wood in Croydon, London and her father, David, left the family when she was nine. Her mother, Geraldine, is a teacher and astrologer. She has one younger sister Ashley, and a maternal half-brother, Taylor-Johnson grew up near Streatham Common in south London until her parents divorce. The family then moved and lived in an old house in Jarvis Brook in East Sussex. Taylor-Wood began exhibiting fine art photography in the early 1990s, in 1994, she exhibited a multi-screen video work titled Killing Time, in which four people mimed to an opera score. From that point multi-screen video works became the focus of Taylor-Johnsons work. Beginning with the video works Travesty of a Mockery and Pent-Up in 1996, one of Taylor-Johnsons first United Kingdom solo shows was held at the Chisenhale Gallery, east London, in September–October 1996. Taylor-Johnson was nominated for the annual Turner Prize in 1998, and she won the Illy Café Prize for Most Promising Young Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale. The poses of the figures referenced famous works of art from the past, in 2002, Taylor-Johnson was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to make a video portrait of David Beckham—whom she depicted sleeping. She is perhaps best known for her work entitled Crying Men which features many of Hollywoods glitterati crying, including Robin Williams, Sean Penn, Laurence Fishburne, in 2006, Taylor-Johnson had a survey exhibition at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom. 2014 saw a new exhibition by Taylor-Johnson, of the private apartment of Mademoiselle Chanel at The Saatchi Gallery. Entitled ‘Second Floor’, the series of 34 photographs captured the private rooms of Coco Chanel at 31 Rue Cambon in Paris, in August 2008, Taylor-Johnson was chosen to direct Nowhere Boy, a biopic about the childhood of The Beatles singer, John Lennon. I got into the car and said, I just have to call these producers, I got into the car and I put the key into the ignition and Lennons voice came straight out of the radio and it was Starting Over. It was one of those moments where I thought it was a sign, the 53rd annual London Film Festival screened the film as its closing presentation on 29 October 2009. The film was released in the UK on Boxing Day,2009. to positive reviews, Taylor-Johnson was nominated for a BAFTA award on 21 January 2010, but lost out to Duncan Jones
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Sam Taylor-Johnson with her husband, September 2010
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26 October 1993 by
Henry Bond and Sam Taylor-Wood (1993)
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Claude Lelouch
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Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch was born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Charlotte and his father was born to an Algerian Jewish family and his mother was a convert to Judaism. His father gave him a camera to him a fresh start after his failure in the baccalaureat. He started his career with reportage – one of the first to film life in the Soviet Union. He also filmed sporting events like the 24 Hours of Le Mans and his first full-length film as director, Le Propre de lhomme, was decried by the critics – Claude Lelouch, remember this name well, because you will not hear it again – Cahiers du cinéma said. La femme spectacle, following prostitutes, women shopping, going for nose-jobs, was censored for its misogynist tendency, a Man and a Woman changed his fortunes and was met with favour even by the Cahiers group. The 1981 musical epic Les Uns et les Autres is widely considered as his masterpiece and his 1976 film, Cétait un rendez-vous, purportedly features a Ferrari 275 GTB being driven at extreme speed through the streets of Paris at dawn. The entire short is shot from the point of view of the car, legend has it that Lelouch was arrested after it was first shown publicly. In a 2006 interview, Lelouch stated that he drove his own Mercedes-Benz 450SEL6.9 in the film and he has collaborated more than two dozen times with composer Francis Lai. They scored a hit with the piece chabadabada for the film A Man and a Woman sung by Nicole Croisille and Pierre Barouh. He is the father of 7 children, in 1993 he was the President of the Jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. 2016, Commander in the Order of the Crown, lelouchs A Man and a Woman won the Palme dOr at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, as well as two Oscars including Best Foreign Language Film. His 1967 film, Vivre pour vivre, was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, in 1971, he won the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Directing for Le Voyou. Media related to Claude Lelouch at Wikimedia Commons Claude Lelouch at the Internet Movie Database
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Claude Lelouch at the
2012 Cannes Film Festival
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Claude Lelouch in 1970.
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Claude Lelouch 1966
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The Big Snooze
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The Big Snooze is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by an uncredited Bob Clampett, his theatrical cartoon for Warner. Its title was inspired by the 1939 book The Big Sleep, the Big Snooze features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, voiced as usual by Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. In this cartoon-within-a-cartoon, Bugs and Elmer are in the midst of their usual hunting-chasing scenario. He tears up his Warner Bros. cartoon contract and walks off the set to devote his life to fishing, stunning Bugs, during a relaxing fishing trip, Elmer falls asleep. Symbolic of his plight, Elmer appears nearly nude, wearing only his derby hat. Elmers dream is invaded by ziwwions and twiwwions of wabbits dancing on his head, hooray. in a parody of the Pink Elephants on Parade sequence from the 1941 Disney film Dumbo with Bugs Bunny literally multiplying them from an adding machine. Looking for another way to torment Elmer, Bugs consults the book A Thousand and One Arabian Nightmares, exclaiming, Oh, before peeking over the book to cheerfully tell the audience, But Ill do it. Elmer realizes what Bugs has in mind, pleading No, no, not that, pwease. as Bugs ties him to railroad tracks, just as the Superchief crosses over Elmers head. Elmers anger at a failed pursuit through the landscape, down connected rabbit holes, is promptly used against him by Bugs who inquires Whats the matter doc. Before Elmer can protest, Bugs dresses him like a woman by wrapping his body with green material from the right, slapping a wig on him, and applying lipstick. Bugs inspects his handiwork, then lifts the backdrop to reveal a trio of literal wolves, lounging by the sign at Hollywood, when the trio notice Elmer, one wolf hollers Hooooow old is she. Right before another wolf begins flirting with Elmer, Bugs enjoys watching the male wolves hit on Elmer, who yells Gwacious. Before he grabs the hem of his gown and flees from the wolves, in an attempt to help, Bugs persuades Elmer to follow a mad dash towards stage right, as Bugs plays the old gag run this way. Putting Elmer through a series of steps which include running on his feet, flipping upside down to run on his hair, hopping like a frog. Elmer dashes back to the original set, pieces his Warner contract back together. The chase through the log begins anew, Bugs faces the audience in a closeup, closing with the catchphrase from the Beulah character on the radio show Fibber McGee and Molly, Ah love dat man. The Big Snooze is available in a restored, uncensored version on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 2 DVD set, a Salute to Bugs Bunny on Volume 3
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Elmer talks to the audience in "The Big Snooze"
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Fritz Freleng
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Isadore Friz Freleng, often credited as I. Freleng, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He introduced and/or developed several of the studios biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, and Speedy Gonzales. The nickname Friz came from his friend, Hugh Harman, who nicknamed him Congressman Frizby after a fictional senator who appeared in satirical pieces in the Los Angeles Examiner. Over time, this shortened to Friz, Freleng was born in Kansas City, Missouri, where he began his career in animation at United Film Ad Service. There, he made the acquaintance of fellow animators Hugh Harman, in 1923, Iwerks friend, Walt Disney, moved to Hollywood and put out a call for his Kansas City colleagues to join him. Freleng, however, held out until 1927, when he moved to California. He worked alongside other former Kansas City animators, including Iwerks, Harman, Carmen Maxwell, while at Disney, Freleng worked on the Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons for producers Margaret Winkler and Charles Mintz. Freleng soon teamed up with Harman and Ising to try to create their own studio, the trio produced a pilot film starring a new Mickey Mouse-like character named Bosko. Freleng was very unhappy living in New York and made the best of it until another opportunity opened for him, Bosko was finally sold to Leon Schlesinger, who would produce the series for Warner Bros. At first Freleng was reluctant to return to California when Harman-Ising asked him to work on the series, at the insistence of his sister Jean, Freleng soon moved back to California to work on Looney Tunes. Harman and Ising left Schlesingers studio over disputes about budgets in 1933, Schlesinger was left with no experienced directors, and therefore lured Freleng away from Harman-Ising to successfully fix cartoons directed by Tom Palmer which Warner Bros rejected. The young animator became Schlesingers top director, and he introduced the studios first true star, Porky Pig, in the film. Porky was a character, unlike Bosko or his replacement. As a director, Freleng gained the reputation of a tough taskmaster and his unit, however, consistently produced high-quality animated shorts under his direction. In 1937, Freleng left Schlesingers after accepting an increase in salary to direct for the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio headed by Fred Quimby. To Frelengs chagrin, he found he would be working on The Captain, the series failed to achieve much success, much as Freleng had predicted. Though skillfully animated, the characters could not compete with the animals that prevailed at the time
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Crypt of Friz Freleng at Hillside Memorial Park, featuring many of the beloved characters he helped create.
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Blazing Saddles
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Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, the film was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergmans story and draft. The film received positive reviews from critics and audiences, was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No.6 on the American Film Institutes 100 Years.100 Laughs list. Brooks appears in two supporting roles, Governor William J. Le Petomane and a Yiddish-speaking Indian chief, he also dubs lines for one of Lili von Shtupps backing troupe. The supporting cast includes Slim Pickens, Alex Karras, and David Huddleston, as well as Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, bandleader Count Basie has a cameo as himself. The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, in the American Old West of 1874, construction on a new railroad will soon be going through Rock Ridge, a frontier town inhabited exclusively by white people with the surname Johnson. The conniving State Attorney General Hedley Lamarr wants to force Rock Ridges residents to abandon their town, Lamarr persuades the dim-witted Le Petomane to appoint Bart, a black railroad worker who was about to be hanged. A black sheriff, he reasons, will offend the townspeople, create chaos, with his quick wits and the assistance of recovering alcoholic gunslinger Jim, the Waco Kid, Bart works to overcome the townspeoples hostile reception. He subdues Mongo, an strong, dim-witted, but philosophical henchman sent to kill him. Lamarr, furious that his schemes have backfired, hatches a plan involving a recruited army of thugs, including common criminals, Ku Klux Klansmen. They labor all night to build a replica of their town, as a diversion. Once through the tollbooth, the attack the fake town populated with dummies. After Jim detonates the bombs with his sharpshooting, launching bad guys and horses skyward, Film lot into the streets of Burbank. Lamarr, realizing he has been beaten again, hails a taxi and he ducks into Graumans Chinese Theatre, which is playing the premiere of Blazing Saddles. As he settles into his seat, he sees Bart arriving on horseback outside the theatre, Bart blocks Lamarrs escape, and then, in a spoof of a classic cinematic gunfight, shoots him in the groin. Bart and Jim then go into Graumans to watch the end of the film, in which Bart announces to the townspeople that he is moving on, riding out of town, he finds Jim, and invites him along to nowhere special. The two friends ride off into the sunset—in a chauffeured stretch limousine, cast notes Count Basie had a cameo appearance with his band, playing April in Paris in the middle of the desert as Bart rides toward Rock Ridge to assume the post of sheriff. The idea for the film came from an outline written by Andrew Bergman that he originally intended to develop
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Bonnie And Clyde
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Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow a. k. a. Clyde Champion Barrow were American criminals who traveled the central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, robbing people and killing when cornered or confronted. At times, the gang included his older brother Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche, Raymond Hamilton, W. D. Jones, Joe Palmer, Ralph Fults and their exploits captured the attention of the American public during the Public Enemy Era, between 1931 and 1935. Though known today for their bank robberies, the two preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. The gang is believed to have killed at least nine police officers, the couple were eventually ambushed and killed by law officers near the town of Sailes, in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Their reputation was revived and cemented in American pop folklore by Arthur Penns 1967 film Bonnie, even during their lifetimes, their depiction in the press was at considerable odds with the hardscrabble reality of their life on the road, especially for Bonnie Parker. Gang member W. D. Jones later testified he could not recall ever having seen her shoot at a law officer, Bonnies reputation as a cigar-smoking gun moll grew out of a playful snapshot police found at an abandoned hideout. It was released to the press and published nationwide, while Parker did chain smoke Camel cigarettes, she never smoked cigars. According to historian Jeff Guinn, the photos led to Parkers glamorization. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were wild and young, and undoubtedly slept together, Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born in Rowena, Texas, the second of three children. Her father, Charles Robert Parker, was a bricklayer who died when Bonnie was four and her mother, Emma Parker moved her family to her parents home in Cement City, an industrial suburb now known as West Dallas, where she worked as a seamstress. As an adult, Bonnie found expression writing poems such as The Story of Suicide Sal, in her second year in high school, Parker met Roy Thornton. They dropped out of school and were married on September 25,1926 and their marriage, marked by his frequent absences and brushes with the law, was short-lived. After January 1929, their paths never crossed again, however, they never divorced, and Bonnie was wearing Thorntons wedding ring when she died. Thornton was still in prison when he heard of her death and he commented, Im glad they went out like they did. Its much better than being caught, in 1929, after the breakdown of her marriage, Parker lived with her mother and worked as a waitress in Dallas. One of her customers in the café was postal worker Ted Hinton. As a posse member in 1934, he would participate in her ambush, in the diary she kept briefly early in 1929, Parker wrote of her loneliness, her impatience with life in provincial Dallas, and her love of talking pictures
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Bonnie and Clyde in March 1933 in a photo found by police at the
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Parker with 1932
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Clyde Barrow in 1926, aged 16
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Parker poses with cigar and is branded by newspapers as "cigar smoking gun moll" based on film found at Joplin apartment
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Michael Curtiz
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Michael Curtiz was a Hungarian-born American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history. He directed classic films from the silent era and numerous others during Hollywoods Golden Age, Curtiz was already a well-known director in Europe when Warner Bros. invited him to Hollywood in 1926, when he was 38 years of age. He had already directed 64 films in Europe, and soon helped Warner Bros. become the movie studio. He directed 102 films during his Hollywood career, mostly at Warners, James Cagney and Joan Crawford won their only Academy Awards under Curtizs direction. He put Doris Day and John Garfield on screen for the first time, and he made stars of Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Bette Davis. He himself was nominated five times and won twice, once for Best Short Subject for Sons of Liberty and he introduced to Hollywood a unique visual style using artistic lighting, extensive and fluid camera movement, high crane shots, and unusual camera angles. He was versatile and could handle any kind of picture, melodrama, comedy, love story, film noir, musical, war story, Western, or historical epic. He always paid attention to the human interest aspect of story, stating that the human. Curtiz helped popularize the swashbuckler with films such as Captain Blood. He directed many dramas which today are considered classics, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Sea Wolf, Casablanca. He directed leading musicals, including Yankee Doodle Dandy, This Is the Army and White Christmas, Curtiz was born Mihaly Kertesz to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary in 1886, where his father was a carpenter and his mother an opera singer. Curtiz had a lower to middle-class upbringing and he recalled during an interview that his familys home was a cramped apartment, where he had to share a small room with his two brothers and a sister. Many times we are hungry, he added, after graduating high school, he studied at Markoszy University, followed by the Royal Academy of Theater and Art, in Budapest, before beginning his career. Curtiz became attracted to the theater when he was a child in Hungary and he built a little theater in the cellar of his house when he was 8 years old, where he and five of his friends reenacted plays. They set up the stage, with scenery and props, after he graduated college at age 19, he took a job as an actor with a traveling theater company where he began working as one their traveling players. From that job, he became a pantomimist with a circus for a while and they played Ibsen and Shakespeare in various languages, depending on what country they were in. They performed throughout Europe, including France, Hungary, Italy and Germany and he had various responsibilities, We had to do everything—make bill posters, print programs, set scenery, mend wardrobe, sometimes even arrange chairs in the auditoriums. Sometimes we traveled in trains, sometimes in stage coaches, sometimes on horseback, sometimes we played in town halls, sometimes in little restaurants with no scenery at all
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Don Siegel
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Donald Siegel was an American film director and producer. His name variously appeared in the credits of his films as both Don Siegel and Donald Siegel, born to a Jewish family in Chicago, he attended schools in New York and later graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge in England. For a short time he studied at Beaux Arts in Paris, France, in 1945 two shorts he directed, Star in the Night and Hitler Lives, won Academy Awards, which launched his career as a feature director. He directed whatever material came his way, often transcending the limitations of budget and script to produce interesting and he made the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1956. He directed two episodes of The Twilight Zone, The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross and Uncle Simon and he was a considerable influence on Eastwoods own career as a director, and Eastwoods film Unforgiven is dedicated for Don and Sergio. He had a collaboration with composer Lalo Schifrin, who scored five of his films, Coogans Bluff, The Beguiled, Dirty Harry, Charley Varrick. Schifrin composed and recorded what would have been his sixth score for Siegel on Jinxed, but it was rejected by the studio despite Siegels objections. This was one of several fights Siegel had on this, his last film, Siegel was also important to the career of director Sam Peckinpah. In 1954, Peckinpah was hired as a coach for Riot in Cell Block 11. His job entailed acting as an assistant to the director, Siegel, the film was shot on location at Folsom Prison. Siegels location work and his use of prisoners as extras in the film made a lasting impression on Peckinpah. He worked as a coach on four additional Siegel films, Private Hell 36, An Annapolis Story, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 25 years later, Peckinpah was all but banished from the due to his troubled film productions. Siegel gave the director a chance to return to filmmaking and he asked Peckinpah if he would be interested in directing 12 days of second unit work on Jinxed. Peckinpah immediately accepted, and his earnest collaboration with his friend was noted within the industry. While Peckinpahs work was uncredited, it would lead to his hiring as the director of his final film The Osterman Weekend. He has a role as a bartender in Eastwoods Play Misty for Me, and in Philip Kaufmans 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In Charley Varrick starring Walter Matthau, he has a cameo as a ping-pong player, from 1948 to 1953 he was married to actress Viveca Lindfors, with whom he had a son, Kristoffer Tabori
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Charles M. Jones
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Charles Martin Chuck Jones was an American animator, filmmaker, cartoonist, author, artist, and screenwriter, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts and he later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Enterprises, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works. Jones was nominated for an Academy Award eight times and won three times, receiving awards for the cartoons For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 for his work in the animation industry. Film historian Leonard Maltin has praised Jones work at Warner Bros and he also said that the feud that there may have been between Jones and colleague Bob Clampett was mainly because they were so different from each other. In Jerry Becks The 50 Greatest Cartoons, ten of the entries were directed by Jones, Jones was born on September 21,1912, in Spokane, Washington, the son of Mabel McQuiddy and Charles Adams Jones. He later moved with his parents and three siblings to the Los Angeles, California area, in his autobiography, Chuck Amuck, Jones credits his artistic bent to circumstances surrounding his father, who was an unsuccessful businessman in California in the 1920s. His father, Jones recounts, would start new business venture by purchasing new stationery. When the business failed, his father would quietly turn the huge stacks of useless stationery and pencils over to his children, armed with an endless supply of high-quality paper and pencils, the children drew constantly. Jones recounted years later that this pronouncement came as a relief to him, as he was well past the 200,000 mark. Jones and several of his siblings went on to artistic careers, during his artistic education, he worked part-time as a janitor. After graduating from Chouinard Art Institute, Jones got a call from a friend named Fred Kopietz. He worked his way up in the industry, starting as a cell washer, then I moved up to become a painter in black and white. Then I went on to take animators drawings and traced them onto the celluloid, then I became what they call an in-betweener, which is the guy that does the drawing between the drawings the animator makes. While at Iwerks, he met a cel painter named Dorothy Webster, Jones joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, the independent studio that produced Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies for Warner Bros. in 1933 as an assistant animator. In 1935, he was promoted to animator, and assigned to work with new Schlesinger director Tex Avery, Jones became a director himself in 1938 when Frank Tashlin left the studio. He was actively involved in efforts to unionize the staff of Leon Schlesinger Studios and he was responsible for recruiting animators, layout men, and background people. Almost all animators joined, in reaction to salary cuts imposed by Leon Schlesinger, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio had already signed a union contract, encouraging their counterparts under Schlesinger. In a meeting with his staff, Schlesinger talked for a few minutes and his insulting manner had a unifying effect on the staff
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Jones in 1978
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Gamperaliya (film)
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Gamperaliya is a 1963 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Lester James Peries, it was adapted from the novel Gamperaliya by Martin Wickramasinghe. The film was groundbreaking in Sinhala cinema shot entirely outside of a studio using one lamp, the movie exemplifies Periess use of family tensions to symbolize wider issues. The film was acclaimed, receiving the Golden Peacock at the International Film Festival of India. The film won the Best Director and Best Film awards at the 1965 Sarasaviya Film Festival and it was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival. It was shown in Cannes Film festival in May 2008 under the French title Changement au village, subsequently it went out on general release in French cinemas. Piyal is a young teacher who is hired to teach English to Nanda. They fall in love, but cant elope because Piyal is of a lower class, nandas parents instead push her into a marriage with Jinadasa, who is of the same class as them. With economic downturn in Sri Lanka, both lose their status and Jinadasa leaves to try to make a better life for himself, he never achieves his goal. Piyal and Nanda can now come together. They have changed however, and the earlier idylic nature of their relationship is not recaptured, Lester James Peries admired Martin Wickramsinghes work and was inspired to attempt an adaption of Wickramasinghes novel Gamperaliya into a movie in 1964. Wickremasinghe was initially reluctant thinking it wouldnt make a good movie, scholar Regie Siriwardene was asked to script the film. Playwright Ediriweera Sarachchandra championed the film writing At last a Sinhalese film has been made which we could show the world without having to hide our heads in shame, I want to say a great film has been made of a great novel. British director Lindsay Anderson hailed its elegiac, near-Chekhovian grace, Gamperaliya at the Internet Movie Database Gamperaliya at AllMovie
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DVD Cover
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Lester James Peries
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Sri Lankabhimanya Lester James Peiris is an internationally acclaimed Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1949, Peries has been involved in over 28 films, including shorts and he has received critical acclaim for directing Rekava, Gamperaliya, Nidhanaya, Golu Hadawatha, Kaliyugaya, Awaragira and Yuganthaya. His movie Wekande Walauwa, starring Ravindra Randeniya and Malini Fonseka, was Sri Lankas first ever submission for the Academy Awards, peiriss films often deal with Sri Lankan family life in rural settings and conflicted characters. He helped create an expression of Sinhala Cinema. Lester James Peiris was born on 5 April 1919 in Dehiwela, Colombo, Lesters father Dr. James Francis Peiris had studied medicine in Scotland and also was a former cricketer for a Scottish club. His mother Ann Gertrude Winifred Jayasuria was a graduate of St. Bridgets Convent in Colombo, jayasuriya notably was the first student to pass the Senior Cambridge exam at the school. Lester had three siblings, Erica, Ivan and Noel, the Peiris family was a staunch Roman Catholic family that had become Anglicised. Growing up Lester only spoke English at home and celebrated Christian traditions and his only link to Sinhala culture was his grandmother who always didnt trust Western medicine and spoke proper Sinhalese. At the age of eleven Lester was given a 8mm Kodascope projector by his father as a gift, at that time, his only interest in films was when he and his brother Ivan would haunt the cinema to watch foreign film serials which ran day after day. Lester was never involved in drama productions, and had no idea he was going to be a film director especially since British Ceylon did not have its own national film industry at that time. He attended St. Peters College- one of the leading Catholic schools in Colombo- as a teenager and he found his first work with the Daily News writing for the blue pages which was an arts supplementation. In 1939 he joined The Times of Ceylon working under Indian editor Frank Moraes and he also reviewed books on Radio Ceylon for a short period. Peiris first real work with production came when he joined a group called Drama Circle. This was a group of like minded individuals which regularly produced modern English plays, here Lester was engaged in all aspects of the productions other than acting. In 1947 Peiris travelled to England on his mothers advice to join his brother Ivan Peries who was there on an art scholarship, moreas suggested writing a column from the country to be published in the Times which became Letter on the Arts from England. During that time, film-making was taking off in the UK with about 400 amateur film clubs around the country, in addition, Lesters passion for the cinema was developing and he met another Sri Lankan with similar interests, Hereword Jansz. The two youngsters decided to make a film together despite Hereword having his doubts about competing with established, well-funded clubs and they began with Lester writing the script and directing while Hereword did the filming with their limited camera equipment. Their first effort Soliloquy, a film, won the Mini Cinema Cup for displaying the best technical proficiency
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Lester James Peiris
54.
Guide (film)
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Guide is a 1965 romantic drama film starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman. It was directed by Vijay Anand, who contributed to the screenplay, the film is based on the novel The Guide, by R. K. Narayan. The film was a box office hit upon release, the movie proved memorable for its award-winning performances by the lead actors and memorable music by S. D. Burman. Time magazine listed it at Number Four on its list of Best Bollywood Classics, a 120-minute U. S. version was written by Pearl S. Buck, and directed and produced by Tad Danielewski. The film was screened at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival,42 years after its release, the movie starts with Raju being released from jail. Raju was a guide, who earned his living by taking tourists to historic sites. One day, a wealthy and aging archaeologist, Marco comes to the city with his young wife Rosie, Marco wants to do some research on the caves outside the city and hires Raju as his guide. While Marco devotes himself to the discovery of the cave, Raju takes Rosie on a tour and appreciates her dancing ability and he learns about Rosies background as a daughter of a prostitute and how Rosie has achieved respectability as the wife of Marco but at a terrible cost. She had to give up her passion of dancing since it was unacceptable to Marco, meanwhile, Rosie tries to commit suicide by consuming poison. Marco, upon learning of the incident, returns from the caves to see Rosie and is furious with Rosie after seeing her alive. He tells her that her act of committing suicide was a drama, upon returning to the caves which were discovered, Rosie learns that Marco is spending time and enjoying the company of a native tribal girl. She is enraged at Marco and both indulge in a heated discussion, which concludes with Rosie leaving the caves. Raju calms her down by saying that suicide is a sin. She finally says good-bye to the relation of being the wife of Marco, now she needs support and a home. Rosie is considered a prostitute by Rajus community, which leads to many problems, Raju refuses and his mother leaves him. His friend and driver also falls out with him over Rosie, Raju loses his business and the entire town turns against him. Undeterred by these setbacks, Raju helps Rosie embark on a singing and dancing career, as she rises as a star, Raju becomes dissolute — gambling and drinking. Marco comes back on the scene, trying to win Rosie back, he brings flowers and has his agent ask Rosie to release some jewelry which is in a safe deposit box
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Kim Ki-young
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Kim Ki-young was a South Korean film director, known for his intensely psychosexual and melodramatic horror films, often focusing on the psychology of their female characters. Kim was born in Seoul during the period, raised in Pyongyang. In Korea after the end of World War II, he studied dentistry while becoming involved in the theater, during the Korean War, he made propaganda films for the United States Information Service. In 1955, he used discarded movie equipments to produce his first two films, with the success of these two films Kim formed his own production company and produced popular melodramas for the rest of the decade. Kim Ki-youngs first expression of his style was in his The Housemaid. It is widely considered to be one of the best Korean films of all time, after a Golden Age during the 1960s, the 1970s were a low-point in the history of Korean cinema because of governmental censorship and a decrease in audience attendance. Nevertheless, working independently, Kim produced some of his most eccentric cinematic creations in this era, by the 1980s, Kims popularity had gone into decline, and his output decreased in the second half of the decade. Neglected by the mainstream during much of the 1990s, Kim became a figure in South Korean film Internet forums in the early 1990s. Widespread international interest in his work was stimulated by a retrospective at the 1997 Pusan International Film Festival. Kims films, previously little-known or totally unknown outside South Korea, were shown and gained enthusiastic new audiences in the United States, Germany, France and he was preparing a come-back film when he and his wife were killed in a house fire in 1998. The Berlin International Film Festival gave Kim a posthumous retrospective in 1998, through the efforts of the Korean Film Council, previously lost films by Kim Ki-young continue to be rediscovered and restored. Many current prominent South Korean filmmakers, including directors Im Sang-soo, Kim Ki-duk, Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook, Kim Ki-young was born in the Gyo-dong neighborhood of Seoul—now part of Gyeongun-dong in Jongno-gu—on October 10,1922. His family had lived in Seoul for several generations, and his grandfather was a guard at Gwanghwamun, Kims family was well-educated and artistically inclined. His father, Kim Seok-jin, was an English teacher, and his mother, Han Jin-cho, was also a teacher, the family had two daughters, and Kim Ki-young was their only son. One of his sisters graduated as an art major from Seoul National University, and his sisters encouraged the young Kim to develop his own creativity. The family moved to Pyongyang in 1930, where stayed for the next 10 years. At Pyongyang National High School, Kim showed exceptional talent in music, painting and writing, while still a student, one of Kims poems was published in a Japanese newspaper, and he was awarded first prize in a painting competition. Despite his artistic talents, Kims main interest was medicine, when he failed to gain admittance, Kim moved to Japan, planning to study and save up money to reapply for medical school
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Kim Ki-young during a 1997 interview by the Korean Film Archive
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Theatrical poster to
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I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is an American Pre-Code crime-drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni as a wrongfully convicted convict on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago. It was released in November 10,1932, the film received positive reviews and three Academy Award Nominations. The true life story was recreated in the television movie. In 1991, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, sergeant James Allen returns to civilian life after World War I but his war experience makes him restless. His family feels he should be grateful for a job as an office clerk. He leaves home to work on any sort of project. Wandering and sinking into poverty, he becomes caught up in a robbery and is sentenced to ten years on a brutal Southern chain gang. He escapes and makes his way to Chicago, where he becomes a success in the construction business and he becomes involved with the proprietor of his boardinghouse, Marie Woods, who discovers his secret and blackmails him into an unhappy marriage. He then meets and falls in love with Helen, when he asks his wife for a divorce, she betrays him to the authorities. He is offered a pardon if he turn himself in, Allen accepts. In the end, Allen visits Helen in the shadows on the street and she asks, Cant you tell me where youre going. James repeatedly shakes his head in answer as he backs away, finally Helen says, But you must, Jim. James face is seen in the surrounding darkness, and he replies, I steal
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Film poster
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in a scene from the trailer for the film
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I Love to Singa
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I Love to Singa is a Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Tex Avery, produced by Leon Schlesinger, and released to theaters on July 18,1936, by Warner Bros. and Vitaphone. As with many early Warners cartoons, it is in a sense a music video designed to push a song from the Warners library. The song in question, I Love to Singa, was first written by Harold Arlen and it is performed three times in the film, first by Al Jolson and Cab Calloway, then by the Yacht Club Boys and Jolson, and finally again by Calloway and Jolson. During this period, it was customary for Warners to have their production partner, Leon Schlesinger Productions. The cartoon has, in recent years, taken on something of a cult following, the short, one of the earliest Merrie Melodies produced in Technicolors 3-strip process, is recognized as one of Averys early masterpieces. I Love to Singa depicts the story of a young owlet who wants to sing jazz, the plot is a lighthearted tribute to Al Jolsons film The Jazz Singer. The first owlet hatched sang the opening bars of Chi mi frena in tal momento, translated in Italian is Who is holding me back at this time. The second owlet to hatch played the beginning of Träumerei by Robert Schumann on the violin, the third owlet, a flautist, played the first notes of Spring Song by Felix Mendelssohn from his work Songs without Words. Owl Jolson is made to sing Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, whenever Mama had to pause playing her piano to turn the sheet music page, Jolson reverted to I Love to Singa. The first known reject in the contest played a few bars of Listen to the Mocking Bird on the harmonica, the blackbird in the blue jacket played a few bars of Nola, composed by Felix Arndt, on the saxophone. The bird with the accordion briefly played Turkey in the Straw, the dark, operatic bird sang a line from the silent film Laugh, Clown, Laugh, even though the lyrics to the theme song dont have those actual words. The overweight bird got only a few notes of Im Forever Blowing Bubbles sung before being rejected, the country bumpkin bird stuttered through the first and almost all of the second verse of the nursery rhyme Simple Simon before rejecting himself. I Love to Singa was reissued with Blue Ribbon opening titles in 1944, the short was later restored with original titles for DVD release and included in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol.2 DVD box set, released in 2004. It is also included as a feature on the Warner Bros. DVD releases of the 1927 Al Jolson film The Jazz Singer and it also included on the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection, Volume 1 Blu-Ray and DVD. I Love to Singa at The Big Cartoon DataBase I Love to Singa at the Internet Movie Database I Love to Singa on the Internet Archive
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A still from I Love to Singa.
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Bruce Weber (photographer)
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Bruce Weber is an American fashion photographer and occasional filmmaker. Webers fashion photography first appeared in the late 1970s in GQ magazine, Nan Bush, his longtime companion and agent, was able to secure a contract with Federated Department Stores to shoot the 1978 Bloomingdales mail catalog. He came to the attention of the public in the late 1980s and early 1990s with his advertising images for Calvin Klein. His photograph for Calvin Klein of Olympic athlete Tom Hintnaus in white briefs is an iconic image and he photographed the winter 2006 Ralph Lauren Collection. Some of Webers other earliest fashion photography appeared in the SoHo Weekly News, the photos became the center of controversy and Weber was told by some that he would never find work as a fashion photographer again. This reputation stuck with him, as he says, I don’t really work editorially in a number of magazines because a lot of magazines don’t want my kind of photographs. After doing photo shoots for and of people, Weber made short films of teenage boxers, his beloved pet dogs, and later. He directed Lets Get Lost, a 1988 documentary about jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, Webers photographs are occasionally in color, however, most are in black and white or toned shades. They are gathered in limited edition books, including A House is Not a Home and Bear Pond, Weber began collaborating with crooner Chris Isaak in the mid-1980s, photographing Isaak in 1986 for his second album, Chris Isaak. In 1988, Weber photographed a shirtless Isaak in bed for a spread in Rolling Stone. Isaak appeared in Lets Get Lost and Weber has directed a video for Isaak. Weber photographed Harry Connick, Jr. for his 1991 album Blue Light, in 1993, Weber photographed singer-songwriter Jackson Browne for his 1993 album Im Alive. Weber is married to Nan Bush, with whom he sometimes collaborates and he has lived in Miami since 1998. Weber created the fashion label Weberbilt in 2003, his first line, eat, swim, sex, sleep, went on sale in boutiques in London and Miami Beach, Florida, in 1990, Weber directed the music video for the Pet Shop Boys single Being Boring. He filmed a party with a group of models. The video was filmed in one day by two crews in a house on Long Island. Content including male and female nudity prevented the video from being played on MTV in the United States, in 1996 he directed the video for the Pet Shop Boys single Se a vida é on location in a Wet n Wild, a water park near Orlando, Florida. In 2002, he directed a Pet Shop Boys video
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Weber in September 2011
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A Weber photograph in the background on display at an
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Bruce Weber at Condé Nast publishing house in Milan, photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto
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The Matrix
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The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction film written and directed by The Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. Computer programmer Neo learns this truth and is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, the film is an example of the cyberpunk science fiction genre. The Matrix was first released in the United States on March 31,1999 and it was generally well-received by critics, and won four Academy Awards as well as other accolades including BAFTA Awards and Saturn Awards. Reviewers praised The Matrix for its visual effects, cinematography. The films premise was both criticized for being derivative of earlier science fiction works, and praised for being intriguing, the action also polarized critics, some describing it as impressive, but others dismissing it as a trite distraction from an interesting premise. The film has appeared in lists of the greatest science fiction films. The success of the led to the release of two feature film sequels, both written and directed by the Wachowskis, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. The Matrix franchise was expanded through the production of comic books, video games. Trinity, a hacker, is cornered by police in an abandoned hotel. She overpowers them with superhuman abilities, but a group of sinister superhuman black-suited Agents lead the police in a rooftop pursuit and she answers a ringing public telephone and vanishes. Thomas Anderson is a programmer living a double life under the hacker alias Neo. He believes something is wrong with the world and is puzzled by repeated online encounters with the phrase the Matrix. Trinity contacts him, saying that a man named Morpheus can explain its meaning, however, the Agents, led by Agent Smith, apprehend Neo at his office. Undeterred, Neo meets Morpheus, who offers him a choice between a red pill that will allow him to learn the truth about the Matrix, and a blue pill that will return him to his old life. Swallowing the red pill, Neos reality disintegrates and he awakens, naked and weak, in a liquid-filled pod and he is rescued and brought aboard Morpheuss hovercraft, the Nebuchadnezzar. Morpheus explains that, in the 21st century, intelligent machines waged a war against the humans that created them, when humans blocked the machines access to solar energy, the machines began to harvest the humans bioelectricity for power. The Matrix is a simulation of the world as it was in 1999 in which the minds of the harvested humans are trapped and pacified. Morpheus and his crew belong to a group of rebels who hack into the Matrix and unplug enslaved humans, the rebels understanding of the simulated reality allows them to bend its physical laws, granting them superhuman abilities
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One Froggy Evening
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One Froggy Evening is an approximately seven-minute long Technicolor animated short film written by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones, with musical direction by Milt Franklyn. The short, partly inspired by a 1944 Cary Grant film entitled Once Upon a Time involving a dancing caterpillar in a small box and this popular short contained a wide variety of musical entertainment, with songs ranging from Hello. Ma Baby and Im Just Wild About Harry, two Tin Pan Alley classics, to Largo al Factotum, Figaros aria from the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the short was released on December 31,1955 as part of Warner Bros. Steven Spielberg, in the PBS Chuck Jones biography Extremes & Inbetweens, A Life In Animation, in 1994 it was voted #5 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. In 2003 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film culturally significant, a mid-1950s construction worker involved in the demolition of the J. C. Wilber Building finds a box inside a cornerstone. He opens it to find a document dated April 16,1892. Inside is also a singing, dancing frog, complete with top hat, after the frog suddenly performs a musical number there on the spot, the man tries exploiting the frogs talents for money. However, the frog refuses to perform for any other than its owner. After these failed attempts to profit from the frog, the man becomes destitute and is living on a park bench, where the frog still performs only for him. A policeman overhears this and approaches the man for disturbing the peace, but when the man out the frog as having done the singing. He is committed to a hospital along with the frog. The timeline then jumps to 2056, the cartoon has no spoken dialogue, in fact no vocals at all except by the Frog, otherwise relying on pantomime and other visuals, sound effects, and music. The songs include ragtime and Tin Pan Alley hits with a dash of opera, the singer was uncredited, and for years his identity was shrouded in some degree of mystery. Various names were proposed in the past, but the Looney Tunes Golden Collection unequivocally credits the vocals to baritone Bill Roberts, a Los Angeles nightclub entertainer in the 1950s. The Frog had no name when the cartoon was made, but Chuck Jones later named him Michigan J. Frog after the song The Michigan Rag, the character became the mascot of The WB television network in the 1990s. In a clip shown in the DVD specials for the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, during an interview with writer Jay Cocks, Jones decided to adopt J as the Frogs middle initial, after the interviewers name. The DVD points out that the names of the buildings in the picture, a plate-glass window likewise is adorned with the layout artists name. The date on the cornerstone in which the Frog was sealed predates most of the songs he sings, papers found in the box with him state that it was sealed in 1892, but Hello
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Carlos Saura
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Carlos Saura Atarés is a Spanish film director, photographer and writer from Aragon. His name, with those of Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar forms a triad of Spain’s most renowned filmmakers and he has a long and prolific career that spans over half a century. A great numbers of his films have won international awards. Saura began his career in 1955 making documentaries shorts and he quickly gained international prominence when his first feature length film premiered at Cannes in 1960. Although he started filming as a neo-realist, Saura quickly switched to films encoded with metaphors, in 1966, he was thrust into the international spotlight when his film La caza won the Silver Bear at Berlin. In the following years he forged a reputation for his cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions. By the 1970s, Saura was the best known filmmaker working in Spain and his film employed complex narrative devices and were frequently controversial. He won Special Jury Awards for La prima Angélica and Cría cuervos in Cannes, in the 1980s he was in the spotlight for his Flamenco trilogy – Blood wedding, Carmen, and Love Bewitched. He continued to appear in world wide competitions earning numerous awards and he received Oscar nominations for Carmen and Tango. His films are sophisticated expression of time and space fusing reality with fantasy, past with present, in the last two decades, Saura has concentrated in works uniting music, dance and images. Saura was born in Huesca, Aragón, Spain on 4 January 1932 and his father, Antonio Saura Pacheco, who came from Murcia, was an attorney and civil servant. His mother, Fermina Atares Torrente, was a concert pianist, the second of their four children, Carlos had two younger sisters Pilar and Angeles and an older brother Antonio Saura, who became a well known abstract expressionist painter. From their parents, the four received a liberal understanding education. Because his father was working for the ministry of interior, the Saura family moved to Barcelona, Valencia, saura’s childhood was marked by the Spanish Civil War, during which Franco and his allies rebelled against the established republican government. He was taught to read by a priest – a relative whom his parents sheltered from anticlerical extremist, at the war’s end Saura was separated from his parents and sent back to live with his maternal grandmother and aunts in Huesca. He described these relatives as “right wings and very religious” who imposed in the child the very antithesis of the kind of education he had received in the republican zone. In 1957-1958, Saura created his first film, in 1962 his film Los Golfos was recognized for its strong sociological impact in the betterment of the Spanish youth by tackling juvenile delinquency in Madrids poorest districts. Four years later, he was honored at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival, in 1967, his film Peppermint Frappé also received the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival
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Carlos Saura in
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Saura in 2002.
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The Hunt (1965)
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La prima Angélica (1973)
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Rabbit of Seville
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Rabbit of Seville is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released in 1950 and it was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. In 1994 it was voted #12 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field, the cartoon opens with people filing in to see The Barber of Seville in an amphitheatre. In the back of the theater, Bugs is chased by Elmer, who is shooting his gun, Elmer, now on stage behind the curtain, does not see it rise when Bugs raises the curtain. The conductor, after a confused look at his watch, shrugs, then starts the orchestra. After recovering, Elmer starts the chase again, but is stopped by Bugs dressed as a temptress, singing, cant you see that Im much sweeter. Youre my type of guy, let me straighten your tie and he then ties Elmers shotgun into a bowtie and snips off Elmers pants suspender buttons. After being thoroughly embarrassed when his pants fall down, Elmer sees through Bugs disguise, he tries shooting him, Bugs has another go with Elmers scalp, beginning with a scalp massage with his hands and feet, turning his head into a fruit salad bowl. Elmer chases Bugs again, but Bugs plays a snake charmer to get an electric shaver to chase Elmer, Elmer disables the shaver with a shotgun blast and chases Bugs back to the barbers chairs. Bugs and Elmer raise their chairs to dizzying heights, and Bugs cuts loose a stage sandbag which bonks Elmer, causing Elmers chair to drop back down into the barbershop while spinning around. After receiving the traditional barbers gratuity from the dazed Elmer, Bugs then throws him in a door to further daze him. Before Bugs third go-round with Elmers scalp, he one of his feet a pedicure with a can opener, hedge clippers, file. That is followed by growing a beard on Elmers face and shaving it with a miniature mower, then its back to the scalp as Bugs massages it with hair tonic first, then adds Figaro Fertilizer, causing hair to grow from Elmers head which sprouts into flowers. A short arms chase ensues as a result where Bugs and Elmer chase each other across, finally, Bugs ends the chase by offering flowers, chocolates, and a ring to Elmer, who ducks offstage and comes back as the blushing bride. Bugs then looks at the camera, smirks, and breaking the fourth wall says in the way as his catchphrase, Eh. In one shot of the scene where Bugs massages Elmers head in time to the piano melody, lawrence Van Gelder, With That Wascally Wabbit, Thats Not All, Folks, NY Times, October 22,1999 Richard Freedman, Whats Opera, Doc. Adante Magazine, March 2002 Rabbit of Seville at The Big Cartoon DataBase Rabbit of Seville at the Internet Movie Database
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky is a Chilean-French film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, author, poet, producer, composer, musician, comics writer, and spiritual guru. Born to Jewish-Ukrainian and Polish parents in Chile, Jodorowsky experienced an unhappy and alienated childhood, dropping out of college, he became involved in theater and in particular mime, working as a clown before founding his own theater troupe, the Teatro Mimico, in 1947. Moving to Paris in the early 1950s, Jodorowsky studied mime under Étienne Decroux before turning to cinema, from 1960 he divided his time between Paris and Mexico City, in the former becoming a founding member of the anarchistic avant-garde Panic Movement of performance artists. In 1966 he created his first comic strip, Anibal 5, while in 1967 he directed his first feature film, the surrealist Fando y Lis, the result was The Holy Mountain, a surrealist exploration of western esotericism. His son Cristóbal has followed his teachings on psychoshamanism, this work is captured in the feature documentary Quantum Men, directed by Carlos Serrano Azcona. Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in the town of Tocopilla, Chile, to parents who were Jewish immigrants from Yekaterinoslav, Elisavetgrad. His father, Jaime Jodorowsky Groismann, was a merchant, who was abusive to his wife Sara Felicidad Prullansky Arcavi. Angered, he beat and raped her, getting her pregnant. Because of this conception, Sara both hated her husband and disliked her son, telling him that I cannot love you. It was this treatment at the hands of Americans that led to his condemnation of American imperialism and neo-colonialism in Latin America in several of his films. Nonetheless he liked his local area, and was unhappy when he was forced to leave it aged nine years old. His family subsequently moved to the city of Santiago, Chile, becoming interested in the political ideology of anarchism, he began attending college, studying psychology and philosophy, but stayed for only two years. After dropping out, and having an interest in theatre and particularly mime, he took up employment as a clown in a circus and began a career as a theatre director. Meanwhile, in 1947 he founded his own troupe, the Teatro Mimico, which by 1952 had fifty members. Nonetheless, Jodorowsky felt that there was little for him left in Chile and it was while in Paris that Jodorowsky began studying mime with Étienne Decroux and joined the troupe of one of Decrouxs students, Marcel Marceau. It was with Marceaus troupe that he went on a world tour, after this, he returned to theatre directing, working on the music hall comeback of Maurice Chevalier in Paris. In 1957, Jodorowsky turned his hand to filmmaking, creating Les têtes interverties and it consisted almost entirely of mime, and told the surreal story of a head-swapping merchant who helps a young man find courtship success. The director Jean Cocteau admired the film, and wrote an introduction for it and it was considered lost until a print of the film was discovered in 2006
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At the 2011
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Alejandro Jodorowsky and Spanish writer Diego Moldes, Paris, 2008
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Jodorowsky in
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Jodorowsky at the 2008 Japan Expo in Paris
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Sidney Meyers
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Sidney Meyers, also known by the pen name Robert Stebbins was an American film director and editor. Sidney Meyers was born in New York City on March 9,1906 and grew up in East Harlem and he was the eldest child of Abraham and Ida Meyers, who had immigrated from Poland to the United States around the start of the 20th century. Abraham, a paper-hanger and activist in the Painters and Paper-hangers Union, District Council 9, of the AFL, supported the family as best he could. It was noticed early on that Sidney loved music, a Jewish charitable womens organization arranged for him to have the use of a violin, during his years at De Witt Clinton High School Meyers played in the schools award-winning orchestra and joined the American Orchestral Society. While at the City College of New York, majoring in English literature, he continued to play the violin, on completing his studies he spent some three years as a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, then conducted by Maestro Fritz Reiner. As was the case with many sons and daughters of immigrant families during the seemingly-endless Great Depression, using the pen-name of Robert Stebbins he wrote on the cinema for the left-wing arts magazine New Theatre. Meyers worked for the Federal Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration, during World War II Meyers served first as the chief American film editor for the British Ministry of Information and later worked as a film editor for the US Office of War Information. After the end of the War Meyers established a career as a film editor. He collaborated with directors, producers and other artists, all of whom felt that his contribution was not limited to editing. Indeed he is best remembered for those films which he directed and wrote, the Quiet One, which Meyers directed and scripted, established him as one of the leaders in the genre of documentary drama. Meyers collaborated with Ben Maddow and Joseph Strick in the production of The Savage Eye and his contribution to Edge of the City was vital. Meyers continued to work until his death from cancer in 1969, he served as consultant for The Queen. Shortly before his death he completed the editing of Joseph Stricks The Tropic of Cancer, shortly after his death, the Sidney Meyers Memorial Scholarship Fund was established at the City College of New York. Until well after Meyerss death the main tool of film editing was the Moviola, a machine in which film was viewed, cut, I work quickly, long lengths of film flying through my white-gloved right hand. I stop, mark the film with a pencil, fly on, make another mark, cut, splice together the desired portions. … Five film barrels crowd the cutting room, with long trims hanging into them from an overhead rod, theres a lot of film on the floor—not rejected film, as the cliché has it, but film thats in the process of being reviewed or edited or wound. Meyers is arguably best remembered for The Quiet One, a documentary which he directed, the documentary tells the story of the rehabilitation of a young, emotionally disturbed African-American boy, it contains text written by James Agee and narrated by Gary Merrill. The still photographer Helen Levitt was one of the films cinematographers and writers, Ulysses Kay wrote the score for the film
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Touki Bouki
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Touki Bouki is a 1973 Senegalese drama film, directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty. It was shown at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and the 8th Moscow International Film Festival, the film was restored in 2008 at Cineteca di Bologna / L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory by the World Cinema Foundation. Mory, a cowherd who drives a motorcycle mounted with a bull-horned skull, and Anta. Alienated and tired of life in Senegal, they dream of going to Paris, Mory eventually contrives to steal the money, and much clothing, from the household of a wealthy homosexual while the latter is taking a shower. Anta and Mory can finally buy tickets for the ship to France, the film is written in French and Wolof, with English subtitles. Though influenced by French New Wave, Touki Bouki displays a style all its own and its camerawork and soundtrack have a frenetic rhythm uncharacteristic of most African films – known for their often deliberately slow-paced, linearly evolving narratives. The Hyenas Last Laugh - A conversation with Djibril Diop Mambety, Touki Bouki at AllMovie Touki Bouki at the Internet Movie Database Touki Bouki at Rotten Tomatoes Touki-Bouki at the TCM Movie Database African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT
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Chuck Jones
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Charles Martin Chuck Jones was an American animator, filmmaker, cartoonist, author, artist, and screenwriter, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts and he later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Enterprises, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works. Jones was nominated for an Academy Award eight times and won three times, receiving awards for the cartoons For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 for his work in the animation industry. Film historian Leonard Maltin has praised Jones work at Warner Bros and he also said that the feud that there may have been between Jones and colleague Bob Clampett was mainly because they were so different from each other. In Jerry Becks The 50 Greatest Cartoons, ten of the entries were directed by Jones, Jones was born on September 21,1912, in Spokane, Washington, the son of Mabel McQuiddy and Charles Adams Jones. He later moved with his parents and three siblings to the Los Angeles, California area, in his autobiography, Chuck Amuck, Jones credits his artistic bent to circumstances surrounding his father, who was an unsuccessful businessman in California in the 1920s. His father, Jones recounts, would start new business venture by purchasing new stationery. When the business failed, his father would quietly turn the huge stacks of useless stationery and pencils over to his children, armed with an endless supply of high-quality paper and pencils, the children drew constantly. Jones recounted years later that this pronouncement came as a relief to him, as he was well past the 200,000 mark. Jones and several of his siblings went on to artistic careers, during his artistic education, he worked part-time as a janitor. After graduating from Chouinard Art Institute, Jones got a call from a friend named Fred Kopietz. He worked his way up in the industry, starting as a cell washer, then I moved up to become a painter in black and white. Then I went on to take animators drawings and traced them onto the celluloid, then I became what they call an in-betweener, which is the guy that does the drawing between the drawings the animator makes. While at Iwerks, he met a cel painter named Dorothy Webster, Jones joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, the independent studio that produced Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies for Warner Bros. in 1933 as an assistant animator. In 1935, he was promoted to animator, and assigned to work with new Schlesinger director Tex Avery, Jones became a director himself in 1938 when Frank Tashlin left the studio. He was actively involved in efforts to unionize the staff of Leon Schlesinger Studios and he was responsible for recruiting animators, layout men, and background people. Almost all animators joined, in reaction to salary cuts imposed by Leon Schlesinger, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio had already signed a union contract, encouraging their counterparts under Schlesinger. In a meeting with his staff, Schlesinger talked for a few minutes and his insulting manner had a unifying effect on the staff
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Jones in 1978
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67.
Zigeunerweisen (film)
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Zigeunerweisen is a 1980 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and based on Hyakken Uchidas novel, Disk of Sarasate. It takes its title from a recording of Pablo de Sarasates violin composition, Zigeunerweisen. All three were produced by Genjiro Arato, when exhibitors declined to screen the film, Arato screened it himself in an inflatable, mobile tent to great success. Vacationing in a seaside village, Aochi, a professor of German, runs into Nakasago. Nakasago is being pursued by a mob for allegedly seducing and killing a fishermans wife. Police intervene and Aochi vouches for his friend, preventing his arrest, the two catch up over dinner where they are entertained by and become smitten with the mourning geisha Koine. Six months later, Aochi visits his friend and is shocked to find that he has settled down and is having a child with Sono, Nakasago plays him a recording of Zigeunerweisen and they discuss inaudible mumbling on the record. Nakasago suddenly takes to the road again with Koine, leaving Sono to birth their child alone, both men enter affairs with the others wife. Sono later dies of the flu and is replaced by Koine as a surrogate mother, Nakasago takes to the road yet again. Aochi learns of Nakasagos death in a landslide, Koine visits Aochi and requests the return of the Zigeunerweisen record but he is sure he never borrowed it. In the proceeding years he met frequently with his crew at his home in developing ideas for new projects and this resulted in Zigeunerweisen and Kagero-za—the first two films in what would become Suzukis Taishō Roman Trilogy. Suzuki felt that action films were falling out of favour and wanted to create a new type of film, writer Yōzō Tanaka lived close by and visited Suzuki regularly where they infrequently discussed the film during games of Go. The story was based on Hyakken Uchidas novel, Disk of Sarasate and it was felt to be too short and was expanded from their conversations. For example, when Tanakas uncle died during that time, he noticed that his bones were pink. This was incorporated into the screenplay, Suzukis de facto blacklisting ended with the release of his critically and commercially unsuccessful 1977 film A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness. The money to finance Zigeunerweisen only became available in 1979 when Suzuki met then–theatre producer Genjiro Arato, thus it became their first fully independently produced film. It was shot on location in Japan, Zigeunerweisen is a departure from director Suzuki Seijuns Nikkatsu films in many ways. He presents, comments on and challenges the conceptions of the Taishō era, specifically the introduction and assimilation of Western culture into Japan
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Zigeunerweisen
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Seijun Suzuki
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Seijun Suzuki, born Seitaro Suzuki, was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre, Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that. As an independent filmmaker, he won acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō Trilogy, Zigeunerweisen, Kagero-za. Suzuki continued making films, albeit sporadically, in Japan, he is more commonly recognized as an actor for his numerous roles in Japanese films and television. Suzuki was born during the Taishō period, and three months before the Great Kantō earthquake, in the Nihonbashi Ward in Tokyo and his younger brother, Kenji Suzuki, was born six years his junior. His family was in the textile trade, after earning a degree at a Tokyo Trade School in 1941, Suzuki applied to the college of the Ministry of Agriculture, but failed the entrance exam due to poor marks in chemistry and physics. A year later he enrolled in a Hirosaki college. In 1943, he was recruited by the Imperial Japanese Army during the national student mobilization to serve in World War II, sent to East Abiko, Chiba, he was assigned the rank of Private Second Class. He was shipwrecked twice throughout his service, first the cargo ship that was to take him to the front was destroyed by an American submarine. Later, the freighter that took him to Taiwan sank after an attack by the American air force, in 1946, having attained the rank of Second Lieutenant in the Meteorological Corps, he returned to Hirosaki and completed his studies. I went to the Philippines, where the war took a turn for us. Then I was transferred to Taiwan, where I was stationed at an airport at the foot of a mountain. Our wages were divided into thirteen parts, as in a perfect communist system. This isnt a very edifying story, but I cant help it, I spent most of my money on booze and women, ian Buruma writes, The humour of these situations might escape one who was not there. But Suzuki assures us that it was funny, but war is very funny, you know. When youre in the middle of it, you cant help laughing, of course its different when youre facing the enemy. I was thrown into the sea during a bombing raid, as I was drifting, I got the giggles
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Valeriya Gai Germanika
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Valeriya Gai Alexandrovna Germanika is a Russian film director dedicated to the topics of coming-of-age. She was awarded multiple awards for the feature film Everybody Dies But Me, Valeriya Gai Germanika was born and registered Valeriya, named after Lucius Cornelius Sullas wife Valeria, and later legally changed her given name, patronymic and family name upon her adolescence. Born to a Bohemian Moscow family and trained at the Internews Cinema and Television School and her second film The Girls and subsequent The Birthday of the Infanta appeared at the Kinotavr film festival. In the beginning of 2010, Channel One aired Valeriya Gai Germanikas 69-episode TV-series School portraying teenagers life in an ordinary Moscow school, Valeriya has been the creative director for MTV Russia in 2010. Я снимаю кино о человеческих отношениях» Gai Germanikas 2010 interview for Argumenty i Fakty Школа - School TV series official page at Channel One web site
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Valeriya Gai Germanika in 2009.
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Denis Villeneuve
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Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and writer. He is a winner of the Genie Award for Best Direction, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2010. All three films won the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Motion Picture. Villeneuve was born on October 3,1967 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec and he studied at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He is married to cultural reporter Tanya Lapointe and has three children from a relationship with French-Canadian actress Macha Grenon. He is the brother of filmmaker Martin Villeneuve. Villeneuve began his career making short films and won the Radio-Canadas youth film competition La Course Europe-Asie in 1990–91, Villeneuve first caught attention for his 2001 film Maelström which screened at festivals worldwide, winning eight Jutra Awards and Best Canadian Film from the Toronto International Film Festival. He followed that up with the controversial, but critically acclaimed film Polytechnique about the shootings occurred at the Montreal university. Villeneuves Incendies received critical acclaim after it premiered at the Venice, Incendies was subsequently chosen to represent Canada at the 83rd Academy Awards in the category of Best Foreign Language Film and was eventually nominated for the award. Incendies was named by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Films of 2011, in January 2011, he was selected by Variety as one of the top ten filmmakers to watch. Also in 2011, Villeneuves work was recognized at the Governor Generals Performing Arts Awards, Canadas highest honor in the performing arts, Villeneuve followed Incendies with the popular film Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. The film screened at festivals across the globe and won awards and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 2014. Prisoners is currently ranked No.220 on IMDbs Top 250 Films of All Time list, following the success of Incendies and Prisoners, Villeneuve won Best Director for his next film, the mind thriller Enemy, at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards. The film also won the $100,000 cash prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association for Best Canadian Film of the Year in 2015, Villeneuve directed the crime thriller film Sicario, scripted by Taylor Sheridan, and starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin. The film competed for the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and it screened to positive reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 and went on to become a commercial success, grossing nearly $80 million worldwide. Villeneuve next directed the film Arrival, based on the short story Story of Your Life by author Ted Chiang, from a script by Eric Heisserer, with Amy Adams. Principal photography began on June 7,2015 in Montreal, in February 2015, it was announced that Villeneuve would direct the sequel to Blade Runner. Harrison Ford will reprise his role, and it will take several decades after the original
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Villeneuve at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
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Ronit Elkabetz
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Ronit Elkabetz was an Israeli actress and filmmaker. She worked in both Israeli and French cinema and she won three Ophir Awards and received a total of seven nominations. Elkabetz was born in Beersheba in 1964 to a religious Moroccan Jewish family originally from Essaouira and her mother spoke French and Arabic, but her father insisted on speaking only Hebrew. Elkabetz was the oldest of four children, with three siblings who were all brothers. Her younger brother Shlomi became a director whom she worked with on their trilogy on the life of Viviane Amsalem and she never studied acting and started her career as a model. She divided her time between her homes in Paris and Tel Aviv and she married architect Avner Yashar on 25 June 2010. In 2015 she was selected to be the President of the Jury for the International Critics Week section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Elkabetz succumbed to cancer on 19 April 2016 after a long struggle with the disease. Her first film appearance was in The Intended next to Shuli Rand and they both starred in Gidi Dars Eddie King in 1992. In 1994 she starred in ShChur, for which she won the Israeli Film Academy Award, in 1995 she wrote with her partner, Haim Buzaglo, the script for Scar, in which she also starred, and for which she learned French. In 1996 she starred in Amos Gitais Metamorphosis of a Melody, in 1997 she moved to Paris to study in Ariane Mnouchkines Théâtre du Soleil. During that period, she supported herself as a waitress and she did a one-woman show on the life of the choreographer Martha Graham at the Avignon Festival. In 2001 she starred in the French film Origine contrôlée, in 2003 she teamed again with Gitai on Alila. In 2004 she was nominated for an Ophir Award for Or, in 2004 she wrote, directed and starred in the semi-autobiographic film To Take a Wife, for which she was again nominated for an Ophir Award. In 2006 she also starred in the Israeli drama series Parashat HaShavua, in 2007 she starred in Eran Kolirins The Bands Visit, for which she won her third Ophir Award. In 2008 she and Shlomi finished their second film, Shiva, in 2009 she starred alongside Catherine Deneuve in André Téchinés La Fille du Rer. Her other recent French projects have included Ashes and Blood, Turks Head, in 2010 she received an Ophir Award nomination for Best Actress for her work in Mabul. She was recently the subject of Nir Bergmans documentary A Stranger in Paris and her 2014 film Gett – The Trial of Viviane Amsallem was selected to be screened as part of the Directors Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Israeli film critic Uri Klein wrote, Moviegoers can admire Ronit Elkabetz or recoil from her, or admire, ignoring her is not an option
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Ronit Elkabetz in "Jaffa" film, 2009
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Home (2008 film)
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Home is a 2008 Swiss drama film directed by Ursula Meier and starring Isabelle Huppert and Olivier Gourmet. The film was the official Swiss submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, marthe and Michel live with their three children in a house next to an uncompleted highway. They use the road as an extension to their property. For example, they have a swimming pool and the son as well as his friends use the highway to ride their bicycles. They have been living for ten years close to the highway, one day without warning, construction workers begin to upgrade the road and the highway becomes open to traffic. Instead of leaving the house, the continue to live there. It used to be the case that the father would walk across the highway in order to use his car to get to work. This becomes more complicated as the highway becomes increasingly used by motorists and he and his children eventually have to use a tunnel in order to gain access to the outside world. Their younger daughter, Marion, becomes obsessed about the quality, the elder daughter, Judith, continues to lead her life of sunbathing out on the front lawn in her bikini, despite attracting unwanted attention from passing motorists. One day she decides to leave the house and does not return, meanwhile, the remaining family start to sound-proof their house by bricking themselves into the home. This includes blocking up all the windows and sealing all the points so no sound can get in. Confined in their own home, the pressure begins to take its toll on the family, the road itself was already under construction and they then built the house next to the then-unused road. Meier wrote the script specifically for Isabelle Huppert before she was cast, Huppert was given the script while she was in Belgium, working on Joachim Lafosses film Private Property. Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, reported an average score of 67, based on 12 reviews. Isabelle Huppert on screen and stage Home at the Internet Movie Database
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The Desert Within
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The Desert Within is a 2008 Spanish language religion themed drama film, written and directed by Uruguayan-born Mexican film-maker Rodrigo Plá. The film was inspired by the diaries of the Christian existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and it won seven awards at the 2008 Guadalajara International Film Festival. The film incorporates animation and art as bookends to each series of events in the film, the title of the film is drawn from Nietzsches epigraph about acknowledging uncertainty, The desert grows, and woe to him who conceals the desert within him. The film is set against the backdrop of Mexicos Cristero War, clergy are separated from their congregations and worship is forbidden. Elias, the character of the film, follows his wifes wishes by seeking out a priest to perform the last rites on their unborn son. Upon finding one, he manages to persuade the priest to return him to the village to perform the last rites. The Federales follow the pair and kill every man, woman, Eliass family are able to escape, although his wife dies while giving birth to their son. Captured, Elias realises he is responsible for the deaths of his entire community, the priests says he is unable to do so and curses Eliass bloodline. Elias escapes and becomes obsessed with the concept of atoning for his sin and he moves his remaining seven children to the desert where they begin to build a monument to God. Kierkegaards father lived with the conviction that God would punish him by taking away their children prematurely for a sin he had committed, the existence of Kierkegaard was marked by the guilt and the image of a vengeful and wrathful God. This essence is preserved in the film, but we decided to change the context, Protestant and Danish, to Mexican. The completion of the script was a long process, where it was severely restructured, one to contextualize the story in Mexico. The Cristiada topic is very interesting and seductive, but that was not our subject, our story was of that family, that guilt, that punishment, the Cristero War within the film works more as a backdrop to the theme itself. Religion, or more specifically religious fanaticism, it is one of the themes of the film, atheists or believers, all in some point in life we stand before God, the existence of God. Moreover, religion is a cultural determinant which also flows through us, like it or not, we live in a Judeo-Christian society, the notions of our sin and guilt touch everyone in varying degrees. Religion is a controversial and difficult subject, precisely because it is human. For us the Desert Within is a film about men, not God, there may be other interpretations, hopefully they exist, if there are different readings then the movie provides good entertainment. Even if that idea is put forward as something good for everyone
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De la guerre
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On War is a 2008 French comedy-drama film directed by Bertrand Bonello and starring Mathieu Amalric, Laurent Lucas, Guillaume Depardieu, Asia Argento, Michel Piccoli and Léa Seydoux. It follows a man in the middle of a crisis as he gets drawn into a strange pleasure-obsessed cult. The films title refers to the treatise On War, by Carl von Clausewitz. Bertrand, a director, is conducting research for his latest film. Bertrand cannot resist getting into a coffin, and accidentally knocks the lid down, when he’s released the following morning, it’s clear he’s been profoundly affected by the experience. That night, he considers hiring his regular prostitute, but cancels after a film on TV—David Cronenbergs eXistenZ – grabs his attention. The next day—still ignoring his girlfriend, Louise—Bertrand encounters a group of policeman on the street and is confused when he’s unable to find a specific reason why they’re there. In the evening, he returns to the parlour, where a strange man, Charles. After asking Bertrand to describe his experience in the coffin, the man takes him to a countryside mansion. Book I – The Nature of War The cult’s leader, Uma, after the group spend a long evening dancing in the woods, Bertrand watches a woman in a Venetian mask strip naked and drift into the river. Unable to swim, he sits on the bank and watches, unable to re-adjust, however, he quickly decides to drop his film and return to the cult, now more committed to its cause than ever. Book IV – Commitment Things grow weirder as Uma introduces Bertrand to a room of sculptures resembling skinless bodies, around this time, he also starts to move in and out of a dream-state, imagining that hes a soldier in a trench fighting against an unseen enemy. His beautiful performance in the trenches earns him Umas praise, louise visits the mansion but, unable to understand the cult, simply ends up wandering its grounds. Shortly after, a friend of Bertrands visits but is promptly expelled by him for suggesting that he leave the cult. Meanwhile, a man, Pierre, who was being groomed by Charles to “carry the sword” as a lieutenant in the organisation. Uma, distraught, consults with an older man, Le Grand Hou. After reminding her that she’s a good warrior, he asks her if she’d ever hoped that the sky would rend before her eyes. Book VII – Attack In his dream-state, Bertrand is now a lieutenant, hunting through the forest for animals, he tells us in a voice-over that his task now is to kill Colonel Kurtz, which is the same task given to Martin Sheen’s character in Apocalypse Now
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Theatrical release poster
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Best Screenplay Award (Cannes Film Festival)
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The Best Screenplay Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the section of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1949, ^1 This year the award received the name Prix du scénario original. ^2 This year the award received the name Prix du scénario et des dialogues au Festival International du Film, ^3 This year the award received the name Prix du meilleur scénario original. Romanian New Wave Cannes Film Festival Official Website Cannes Film Festival at IMDB
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Benicio del Toro
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Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez is a Puerto Rican actor. He won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award and he has also portrayed the Collector in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Del Toro was born on February 19,1967, in San Germán, Puerto Rico, to Gustavo Adolfo Del Toro Bermúdez and Fausta Genoveva Sánchez Rivera, many of del Toros relatives are involved in Puerto Ricos legal system. He has a brother, Gustavo, who is the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. He had a Catalan paternal great-grandfather and a Basque maternal great-grandmother and he spent most of his infancy in Santurce, a barrio within San Juan. Del Toro, whose childhood nicknames were Skinny Benny and Beno, was raised a Roman Catholic and attended Academia del Perpetuo Socorro, when del Toro was nine years old, his mother died of hepatitis. At age 12, he moved with his father and brother to Mercersburg, Pennsylvania and he spent his adolescence and attended high school there. After graduation, del Toro followed the advice of his father and pursued a degree at the University of California. Del Toro began to surface in small roles during the late 1980s, playing mostly thugs and drug dealers on programs such as Miami Vice. He appeared in Madonnas 1987 music video La Isla Bonita as a background character sitting on a car, Del Toro continued to appear in movies including The Indian Runner, China Moon, Christopher Columbus, The Discovery, Money for Nothing, Fearless and Swimming with Sharks. His career gained momentum in 1995 with his performance in The Usual Suspects. The role won him an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male, Del Toro also shared the screen with Robert De Niro in the big budget thriller The Fan, in which he played Juan Primo, a charismatic Puerto Rican baseball star. He subsequently starred opposite Alicia Silverstone in Excess Baggage, which Silverstone produced. For Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the 1998 film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompsons famous book, he gained more than 40 lbs. to play Dr. Gonzo, Thompsons lawyer and drug-fiend cohort. The surrealistic film, directed by Terry Gilliam, has earned a following over the years. Returning from a hiatus after Fear and Loathing, del Toro gained a mainstream audience in 2000 with a string of performances in four high-profile films. First up was The Way of the Gun, a yarn that reunited him with The Usual Suspects screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie. A few months later, he stood out among an ensemble cast in Steven Soderberghs Traffic
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Del Toro at the
Guardians of the Galaxy premiere in July 2014
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del Toro at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International
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del Toro at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival
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Del Toro as revolutionary
Che Guevara in
Che (2008)
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Jury Prize (Cannes Festival)
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The Jury Prize is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival, chosen by the Jury from the official section of movies at the festival. Initially the award signified the second best film in competition, though now it is now considered the third-most prestigious prize at the festival, after the Palme dOr. From 1951 until 1966 the name Special Jury Prize was used for the second-most important award of the festival, in 1967 the second place was renamed Grand Prize of the Jury, and the Special Jury Prize title was withdrawn. Then, in 1969, the Jury Prize was created separately from the Grand Prize, the Special Jury Prize reappeared twice in the 1990s, and one International Jury Prize was awarded in 1946. UK director Andrea Arnold and UK director Ken Loach are tied for the record for most Jury Prizes. As of 2016 Arnold was awarded the prize for her films Red Road, Fish Tank, and American Honey, while Loach was awarded the prize for his films Hidden Agenda, Raining Stones, and The Angels Share. Michelangelo Antonioni, René Clément, Masaki Kobayashi, and Samira Makhmalbaf have each won the award twice, Palme dOr Grand Prix Cannes Film Festival official website Cannes Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database
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Vulcan Award
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The Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist is an independent film award created in 2003. It rewards the work of a technician for his or hers collaboration in the creation of a film from the selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It is awarded by a jury, appointed by the Superior Technical Commission of Image. In 1951, the CST created the Technical Grand Prize of the CST, in 2003, Pierre-William Glenn, president of the CST, struggled to once again have a prize awarded to a technician during the Cannes Film Festival. Thus the Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist was born as a part of the festival roster, the actual trophy is awarded to the winner in Paris, during a special evening following the festival. It is inspired by an image from Jean-Luc Godards movie Le Mépris and represents a movie camera with analog, Award Winners list on the CST Website Official Website of the CST Cannes Film Festivals Official Website
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The Vulcan Award trophy
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Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
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The Prize of the Ecumenical Jury is an independent film award for feature films at major international film festivals since 1973. The award was created by Christian film makers, film critics, the ecumenical jury can be composed out of 8,6,5,4 or 3 members, who are nominated by SIGNIS for the Catholics and Interfilm for the Protestants. Films from diverse countries have won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival, most films having won the award are from European countries, with Italy, Germany and Poland dominating. Andrei Tarkovsky is the director to have won three times. Other countries that are not predominantly Christian that have won the award are Japan, at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival the ecumenical jury gave its award to Ken Loachs Looking for Eric and not to Lars von Triers film Antichrist which was a rumor. Archived from the original on 2008-05-02, specific Official webpage of the jury Official webpage of the Cannes Film Festival SIGNIS Interfilm
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Logo of the Jury œcuménique
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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress
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The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the films in competition at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946, the ceremony was cancelled in 1948,1950, and 1968. No awards were given to actresses in 1947, on four occasions, the jury has awarded multiple women the prize from one film. The four films were A World Apart, Brink of Life, A Big Family, the jury also on occasion cites actresses with a special citation that is separate from the main award. From 1979 to 1981 the festival awarded a Best Supporting Actress prize. Isabelle Adjani is the actress to ever win the award for two films in one festival, which she did in 1981. The award can be for lead or supporting roles, barbara Hershey won the award consecutively in 1987 and 1988. ‡ - indicates the performance was nominated for an Academy Award 2 wins Vanessa Redgrave – Morgan
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Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)
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The Jury Prize is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival, chosen by the Jury from the official section of movies at the festival. Initially the award signified the second best film in competition, though now it is now considered the third-most prestigious prize at the festival, after the Palme dOr. From 1951 until 1966 the name Special Jury Prize was used for the second-most important award of the festival, in 1967 the second place was renamed Grand Prize of the Jury, and the Special Jury Prize title was withdrawn. Then, in 1969, the Jury Prize was created separately from the Grand Prize, the Special Jury Prize reappeared twice in the 1990s, and one International Jury Prize was awarded in 1946. UK director Andrea Arnold and UK director Ken Loach are tied for the record for most Jury Prizes. As of 2016 Arnold was awarded the prize for her films Red Road, Fish Tank, and American Honey, while Loach was awarded the prize for his films Hidden Agenda, Raining Stones, and The Angels Share. Michelangelo Antonioni, René Clément, Masaki Kobayashi, and Samira Makhmalbaf have each won the award twice, Palme dOr Grand Prix Cannes Film Festival official website Cannes Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database
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1952 Cannes Film Festival
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The 5th Cannes Film Festival was held from April 23 to May 10,1952. The Grand Prize of the Festival went to the Two Cents Worth of Hope by Renato Castellani, the festival opened with An American in Paris by Vincente Minnelli. The jury at this festival was all French
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Official poster of the 5th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Piva.
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Orson Welles, one of the winner of the
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1970 Cannes Film Festival
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The 1970 Cannes Film Festival was the 23rd competition. This year, Robert Favre LeBret, the founder of the festival, decided not to include any films from Russia and he was tired of the Slavic spectacles and Japanese samurai flicks. The Russians took back their juror Sergei Obraztsov and left the panel with only eight members. The Palme dOr went to the MASH by Robert Altman, the festival opened with Les Choses de la vie, directed by Claude Sautet and closed with Le Bal du Comte dOrgel, directed by Marc Allégret
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Official poster of the 23rd Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by French artist René Ferracci.
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Miguel Ángel Asturias, Jury President
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Robert Altman, winner of the
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1977 Cannes Film Festival
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The 30th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 13–27. The Palme dOr went to the Padre Padrone by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, a new non-competitive section, Le Passé composé, is held at this festival only and focuses on compilations. The festival opened with The Bishops Bedroom, directed by Dino Risi and closed with Slap Shot, roberto Rossellini NSougan Agblemagnon Anatole Dauman Jacques Demy Carlos Fuentes Benoîte Groult Pauline Kael Marthe Keller Yuri Ozerov 3 Women by Robert Altman Bang. A. A. A. Martin photographe by Jean Beaudin 1977 Cannes Film Festival Cannes Film Festival 1977 Cannes Film Festival,1977 at Internet Movie Database
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Official poster of the 30th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Polish painter
Wojciech Siudmak.
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Roberto Rossellini, Jury President
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Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, winners of the
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2005 Cannes Film Festival
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The 2005 Cannes Film Festival started on May 11 and ran until May 22. Twenty movies from 13 countries were selected to compete, the awards were announced on May 21. The Palme dOr went to the Belgian film LEnfant by Dardenne brothers, the festival opened with Lemming, directed by Dominik Moll and closed with Chromophobia, directed by Martha Fiennes. Lazarescu by Cristi Puiu Delwende by S. by Shinji Aoyama One Night by Niki Karimi Sleeper by Benjamin Heisenberg Time to Leave by François Ozon Yellow Fella by Ivan Sen Zim and Co
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Official poster of the 58th Cannes Film Festival featuring an original illustration by Frédéric Menant and Tim Garcia.
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Emir Kusturica, Jury President
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Javier Bardem, Jury member
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Un Certain Regard poster featuring
James Dean 's portrait by Floyd McCarty from
Rebel Without a Cause.
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2011 Cannes Film Festival
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The 64th annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 11 to 22 May 2011. American actor Robert De Niro served as the president of the jury for the main competition, south Korean film director Bong Joon-ho was the head of the jury for the Caméra dOr prize, which is awarded to the best first-time filmmaker. Midnight in Paris, written and directed by Woody Allen, opened the festival, mélanie Laurent hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci was presented with the third Honorary Palme dOr Award at the ceremony of the festival. Though the award had been given out sporadically in the past the Honorary Palme dOr was supposed to presented annually after 2011, however it was not given again until the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Gus Van Sants Restless opened the Un Certain Regard section, jailed Iranian film directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof were honoured at the festival. Goodbye by Rasoulof and Panahis This Is Not a Film was screened at the festival, four female directors featured in the main competition, Australian Julia Leigh, Japans Naomi Kawase, Scottish director Lynne Ramsay and Frances own Maïwenn Le Besco. Danish film director Lars von Trier caused controversy with comments he made at the conference of his film Melancholia. When he was asked about the relation between the influences of German Romanticism in the film and his own German heritage, the director made jokes about Jews and Nazis. He said he understood Adolf Hitler and admired the work of architect Albert Speer, the Palme dOr was won by the American film The Tree of Life directed by Terrence Malick. Two of the producers, Bill Pohlad and Sarah Green. The Tree of Life is the first American film to win the Palme dOr since Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004, head of the jury, Robert De Niro, said it was difficult to choose a winner, but The Tree of Life ultimately fit the bill. De Niro explained, It had the size, the importance, the intention, whatever you want to call it, that seemed to fit the prize. Declaration of War, directed by Valérie Donzelli, and Bachelor Days Are Over, feature films Special screenings Short films The following films were selected to be screened in the Cannes Classics section
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Official poster of the 64th Cannes Film Festival featuring a 1970 photo of American actress
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Robert De Niro, president of the jury, during the festival.
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Cast and crew of
The Source at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of the film
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The jury for the International competition. From left to right:
Johnnie To,
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun,
Nansun Shi,
Martina Gusman,
Robert De Niro,
Linn Ullmann,
Jude Law,
Uma Thurman and
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2012 Cannes Film Festival
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The 65th annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 16 to 27 May 2012. Italian film director Nanni Moretti was the President of the Jury for the main competition, french actress Bérénice Bejo hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. The festival opened with the US film Moonrise Kingdom, directed by Wes Anderson, the main announcement of the line-up took place on 19 April. The official poster of the festival features Marilyn Monroe, to mark the 50th anniversary of her death, the Palme dOr was awarded to Austrian director Michael Haneke for his film Amour. Haneke previously won the Palme dOr in 2009 for The White Ribbon, the jury gave the Grand Prize to Matteo Garrones Reality, while Ken Loachs The Angels Share was awarded the Jury Prize. The official selection was announced on 19 April at Grand Hôtel in Paris, the festivals artistic leader Thierry Frémaux responded that people should not focus only on the competition films, The selection is an ensemble, you have to consider the whole package. The following entries were selected, out of more than 1,700 submissions from 320 different schools, the following films were selected, Feature films Short films The line-up for the International Critics’ Week was announced on 23 April at the sections website. The following films were selected, Feature films Short and medium length films Special Screenings The following films were screened in the Cannes Classics section. The Hungarian montage film Final Cut, Ladies and Gentlemen, directed by György Pálfi, was selected as the film for the Cannes Classics section. Haneke previously won the award for The White Ribbon in 2009, Love tells the story of an elderly couple preparing for death. During his acceptance speech, the director said A very, very big thanks to my actors who have made this film and they are the essence of this film. Moretti said that none of the winners had been selected unanimously and he revealed that Holy Motors, Paradise, Love and Post Tenebras Lux were the entries that most had divided the jury
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Official poster of the 65th Cannes Film Festival featuring a photo of American actress
Marilyn Monroe
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The main competition jury; from left to right: Alexander Payne, Andrea Arnold, Jean Paul Gaultier, Hiam Abbass, Emmanuelle Devos, Raoul Peck, Diane Kruger, Nanni Moretti, Ewan McGregor, and festival president Gilles Jacob
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Nanni Moretti, head of the main competition jury
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2013 Cannes Film Festival
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The 66th annual Cannes Film Festival took place in Cannes, France, from 15 to 26 May 2013. Steven Spielberg was the head of the jury for the main competition, new Zealand film director Jane Campion was the head of the jury for the Cinéfondation and Short Film sections. French actress Audrey Tautou hosted the opening and closing ceremonies, Actress Kim Novak was named guest of honour and introduced a new restored version of Alfred Hitchcocks Vertigo. The festival opened with The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann and closed with Zulu, the film poster for the festival featured Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward. The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola, opened the Un Certain Regard section, the French film Blue Is the Warmest Colour won the Palme dOr. In an unprecedented move, along with the director, the Jury decided to take the step of awarding the films two main actresses, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, with the Palme dOr. On the occasion of 100 Years of Indian Cinema, India was the Official Guest Country at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, seven Indian feature films were premiered among various sections on the festival. Actress Vidya Balan was one of the official Jury of the festival, the first Incredible India Exhibition, a joint participation of the Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Republic of India was inaugurated by Indian delegate Chiranjeevi. The Cinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools, the following 18 entries were selected, out of 1,550 submissions from 277 different schools. One-third of the films selected represented schools competing for the first time and it was also the first time for a Chilean film to be selected in Cinéfondation. The line-up for the Directors Fortnight was announced at a conference on 23 April with the following films being selected. Feature films The line-up for the International Critics’ Week was announced on 22 April at the sections website, in a first for the competition, the jury decided to award the Palme dOr to Kechiche and the actresses who star in the film, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux. Blue Is the Warmest Colour is a film that tells the story of a lesbian relationship between a 15-year-old girl and an older woman. It has shocked critics with its graphic and controversial sex scenes. A reporter for the Radio France Internationale stated that Kechiche paid tribute to the Tunisian revolution, the Grand Prix was won by the Coen brotherss Inside Llewyn Davis, while Bruce Dern and Bérénice Bejo were awarded Best Actor and Best Actress respectively
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Official poster of the 66th Cannes Film Festival featuring a photo of
Paul Newman and
Joanne Woodward during the shooting of the film
A New Kind of Love
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The main competition jury.
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Steven Spielberg, president of the jury
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Registration and accreditation tent for the 2013 Festival
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2015 Cannes Film Festival
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The 68th annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 May 2015. Joel and Ethan Coen were the Presidents of the Jury for the main competition and it was the first time that two people chaired the jury. Since the Coen brothers each received a vote, they were joined by seven other jurors to form the customary nine-juror panel. French actor Lambert Wilson was the host for the opening and closing ceremonies, the Palme dOr was awarded to the French film Dheepan directed by Jacques Audiard. On winning the award Audiard said To receive a prize from the Coen brothers is something pretty exceptional, the festival poster featured Hollywood star and Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, photographed by David Seymour. The poster was chosen to pay tribute to Bergman for her contributions to films, as part of the tribute to Bergman, the Swedish documentary Ingrid Bergman, In Her Own Words was screened in the Cannes Classics section. Standing Tall, directed by Emmanuelle Bercot, was the opening film. This was the opening film in the festivals history to have been directed by a woman. Ice and the Sky, directed by Luc Jacquet, was the closing film. French film director Agnès Varda was presented with the honorary Palme dOr at the closing ceremony. She is also the first female filmmaker to receive the award. The Official Selection of films for the 2015 festival, including the line-up for the Main Competition, was announced on 16 April 2015, the films competing for the Palme dOr were announced at a press conference on 16 April 2015. Two films were added to the main competition line-up on 23 April 2015, Valley of Love, directed by Guillaume Nicloux, the following films competed in the Un Certain Regard section. Lamb, the first feature directed by Yared Zeleke, is also the first Ethiopian film to be included in the Official Selection. Sweet Red Bean Paste, directed by Naomi Kawase, was announced as the film for the Un Certain Regard section. The following films were selected to screen out of competition, Midnight screenings Special screenings Out of 4,550 entries, the Cinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools. The following 18 entries were selected out of 1,600 submissions, more than one-third of the films selected represent schools participating in Cinéfondation for the first time. It is also the first time that a film representing a Spanish film school had been selected, the full selection for the International Critics Week section was announced on 20 April 2015, at the sections website
2015 Cannes Film Festival
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Official poster of the 68th Cannes Film Festival featuring a photo of
Ingrid Bergman by
David Seymour
2015 Cannes Film Festival
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Director, producer and stars of
Mad Max: Fury Road.
