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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 Promenade de la Croisette and the port
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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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Palme d'Or
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The Palme dOr is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee, from 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film. In 1964, it was replaced again by the Grand Prix du Festival before being reintroduced in 1974 as the Palme dOr again. In 1954, the Jury of the Festival de Cannes suggested giving an award titled the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival with a new design each year from a contemporary artist. At the end of 1954, the Festivals Board of Directors invited several jewellers to submit designs for a palm, in tribute to the coat of arms of the City of Cannes. The original design by the jeweller Lucienne Lazon had the lower extremity of the stalk forming a heart. In 1955, the first Palme dOr was awarded to Delbert Mann for Marty, and it remained the highest award until 1964, as of 2015, Jane Campion is the only female director to have won the Palme dOr, for The Piano. These choices were due to a Cannes policy that forbids the Palme dOr-winning film from receiving any additional awards, according to Spielberg, Had the casting been 3% wrong, it wouldnt have worked like it did for us. Since its reintroduction, the prize has been redesigned several times, at the beginning of the 1980s, the rounded shape of the pedestal, bearing the palm, gradually transformed to become pyramidal in 1984. In 1992 Thierry de Bourqueney redesigned the Palme and its pedestal in hand-cut crystal, the current design, first presented in 1997, is by Caroline Scheufele from Chopard. A single piece of cut crystal forms a cushion for the 24-carat gold palm, the winner of the 2014 Palme dOr, Winter Sleep—a Turkish film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan—occurred during the same year as the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema. Note, The Palme dOr for Union Pacific was awarded in retrospect at the 2002 festival, the festivals debut was to take place in 1939, but it was cancelled due to World War II. The organisers of the 2002 festival presented part of the original 1939 selection to a jury of six members. The films were, Goodbye Mr. Chips, La Piste du Nord, Lenin in 1918, The Four Feathers, The Wizard of Oz, Union Pacific, and Boefje. In 2011 the festival announced that the award would be given out annually, however plans for this fell through, american director Woody Allen was the inaugural recipient while pioneering French filmmaker Agnès Varda was the first woman to receive the award in 2015. In 2016 Jean-Pierre Léaud became the first person to be awarded solely for acting. com Cannes Film Festival IMDB
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Palme d'Or awarded to Apocalypse Now at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 American action adventure film. It is the installment in the Indiana Jones series created by George Lucas. Released nineteen years after the film, the film acknowledges the age of its star Harrison Ford by being set in 1957. It pays tribute to the science fiction B-movies of the era, Indiana is aided by his former lover, Marion Ravenwood, and their son, Mutt Williams. Ray Winstone, John Hurt and Jim Broadbent are also part of the supporting cast, screenwriters Jeb Stuart, Jeffrey Boam, Frank Darabont, and Jeff Nathanson wrote drafts before David Koepps script satisfied the producers. Shooting began on June 18,2007, at locations in New Mexico, New Haven, Connecticut, Hawaii. The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on May 18,2008, there was significant praise for the performances, action scenes, John Williams musical score, and the costume design. Criticism, however, focused on the dialogue, storyline, pacing, marketing relied heavily on the publics nostalgia for the series, with products taking inspiration from all four films. In 1957, Indiana Jones and his partner George Mac McHale are kidnapped in New Mexico by Soviet agents under Colonel Dr. Irina Spalko, the Soviets infiltrate a warehouse labeled Warehouse 51 and force Jones to locate a mummified alien corpse, recovered ten years earlier. Upon its discovery, Mac reveals he is an agent working for the Soviets. Jones escapes and unsuccessfully attempts to retrieve the body and his leaving also causes the deans resignation to keep Indianas job at the college. Jones is approached by greaser Mutt Williams, who tells him that Harold Oxley had found a skull in Peru. Jones tells Mutt about the legend of crystal skulls found in Akator, Mutt gives Jones a letter from his mother, who is also held captive, containing a riddle written by Oxley in an ancient South American language. KGB agents attempt to capture them, but Jones and Mutt evade them, at the local psychiatric hospital, Oxleys scribbles on the walls and floor of his cell lead them to the grave of Francisco de Orellana, a Conquistador who has searched for Akator. They discover the skull at the grave, with Jones reasoning that Oxley had returned it there. Spalko believes that the crystal skull belongs to a life form and holds great psychic power. Spalko uses the skull on Jones to enable him to understand Oxley, Jones and his four allies escape with the skull, but Marion and Jones get caught into a dry sandpit, to be recaptured by the Soviets. On their way to Akator, Mac tells Jones he is a CIA double-agent to regain Jones trust, Jones and his allies survive three waterfalls in an amphibious vehicle, while many of the Soviets fall from a cliff while trying to pursue them
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Theatrical release poster designed by Drew Struzan
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Harrison Ford during the filming of the movie
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The production crew converts a storefront in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, to be used in a scene set in the 1950s.
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Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf's stunt doubles during filming in 2007 in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Fernando Meirelles
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Fernando Ferreira Meirelles is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. His best known film is City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U. S. by Miramax Films, for his work in the film, he was eventually nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director in 2005 for The Constant Gardener and he also directed the 2008 adaptation of José Saramagos novel Blindness, and the 2011 film 360. His mother, Sônia Junqueira Ferreira Meirelles, is the daughter of farmers and worked with landscape architecture, Fernando is the second youngest of four children. He saw his brother, José Marcos, die in a car-bike accident when he was only 4 years old. His two sisters, Márcia and Silvinha, graduated in theater and psychology, respectively, Fernando grew up in Alto dos Pinheiros, district of the West Zone of São Paulo, and spent every vacation on the farms of relatives from both sides of his family. I dont know why I bought it and his first experience with cinema was with his father, who often directed 8 mm films during his job at the university. He produced mostly western and thriller parodies, using his relatives, at 11, in 1967, Fernando spent a year in the United States in California, where he had contact with the hippie movement, which impressed him. At 13, with a borrowed Super 8 camera, Meirelles started producing small films and he studied at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo during the 1980s. His graduation work was done in the form of a film, instead of the designs of the other students, he went to Japan. He presented it and graduated with the minimum acceptable grade, while studying architecture at the University of São Paulo, Meirelles became involved in experimental film-making. After several years in independent television, he became an advertisement film director and he is still one of the partners of O2 Filmes, the biggest Brazilian advertisement firm, which has produced City of God, Domésticas and Viva Voz. Along with four friends, Meirelles began his career with experimental films, eventually, they formed an independent production company Olhar Eletrônico. Subsequently, new friends joined the group, Renato Barbiere, Agilson Araujo, Toniko, in 1982 the company aired TV programs on current affairs, as well as the children series Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum, with 180 episodes. In addition to obtaining high ratings, they introduced a refreshing humorous informality in news reporting. By the end of the 1980s, he became interested on the advertising market. In 1990, Meirelles and friends closed down Olhar Eletrônico, opening an advertising business, one decade was enough for him to become one of the most important and sought-after advertising producers. In 1997, Meirelles read the book Paulo Linss City of God and he decided to adapt it to film, which was done in 2002, and decided that the actors in it would be selected among the inhabitants of slums
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At the Austrian premiere of 360
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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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Atom Egoyan
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Atom Egoyan, CC is a Canadian director, writer, producer and former actor. Egoyan made his breakthrough with Exotica, a film set primarily in. Egoyans most critically acclaimed film is the drama The Sweet Hereafter and his work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures. Egoyans films often follow non-linear plot structures, in events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information. In 2008, Egoyan received the Dan David Prize for Creative Rendering of the Past, Egoyan later received the Governor Generals Performing Arts Award, Canadas highest royal honour in the performing arts, in 2015. Egoyan was born Atom Yeghoyan in Cairo, Egypt, the son of Shushan and Joseph Yeghoyan and his parents were Armenian-Egyptians, and he was named Atom to mark the completion of Egypts first nuclear reactor. In 1962, however, his parents left Egypt for Canada, Atom and his sister, Eve, now a concert pianist based in Toronto, were raised by their parents in British Columbia. As a boy, Egoyan wished for assimilation into Canadian society, however, years later, when he attended the University of Toronto, he began to study Armenian history. As a teenager, he interested in reading and writing plays. Significant influences included Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, in that interview, he said, It gave me an incredible respect for the medium and its possibilities. To me, Persona marries a pure form and a profound vision with absolute conviction. I felt that it was able to open a door that wasn’t there before and he graduated from Trinity College at the University of Toronto. It was at Trinity College that Egoyan came into contact with Harold Nahabedian, in interviews Egoyan credited Nahabedian for introducing him to the language and history of his ethnic heritage. Egoyan also wrote for the University of Torontos independent weekly, The Newspaper, Egoyan has directed 15 full-length films, several television episodes, and a few shorter pieces. His early work was based on his own material, in 1984, his debut film Next of Kin world-premiered at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg and won a major prize. His commercial breakthrough came with the film Exotica and he received the Grand Prix in Brussels. The film Ararat generated much publicity for Egoyan, after Henri Verneuils French-language film Mayrig, it was the first major motion picture to deal directly with the Armenian Genocide. Ararat later won the Best Picture prize at the Genie Awards, in 2004, Egoyan opened Camera Bar, a 50-seat cinema-lounge on Queen Street West in Toronto
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Egoyan at the Third Golden Apricot Film Festival, February 11, 2007
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Clint Eastwood
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Clinton Clint Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring icon of masculinity. For his work in the Western film Unforgiven and the sports drama Million Dollar Baby, Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor. Eastwoods greatest commercial successes have been the adventure comedy Every Which Way But Loose and its sequel, the war drama biopic American Sniper set box office records for the largest January release ever and was also the largest opening ever for an Eastwood film. Eastwood received considerable praise in France for several films, including some that were not well received in the United States. Eastwood has been awarded two of Frances highest honors, in 1994 he became a recipient of the Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, in 2000, Eastwood was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Since 1967, Eastwood has run his own company, Malpaso. Starting in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, a non-partisan office, Eastwood was born Clinton Eastwood Jr. May 31,1930, in San Francisco, California, the son of Clinton Eastwood Sr. and he has one younger sister, Jeanne Bernhardt. Eastwood is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry and he is descended from Mayflower passenger William Bradford, and through this line is the 12th generation of his family born in North America and the 13th generation to live in North America. His family moved often as his father worked at jobs along the West Coast, settled in Piedmont, California, the Eastwoods lived in a very wealthy part of town, had a swimming pool, belonged to the country club, and each parent drove their own car. Clint attended Piedmont Junior High School, shortly before he was to enter Piedmont High School, he rode his bike on the schools sports field and tore up the wet turf, this resulted in his being asked not to enroll. Clint graduated from the airplane shop, I think that was his major, joked classmate Don Kincaid. Another high school friend, Don Loomis, echoed I dont think he was spending much time at school because he was having a pretty good time elsewhere. I think what happened is he just went off and started having a good time, I just dont think he finished high school, explained Fritz Manes, a boyhood friend two years younger than Eastwood, who remained associated with him until their falling out in the mid-1980s. Biographer Patrick McGilligan notes that high school records are a matter of strict legal confidentiality. Eastwood worked at a number of jobs, including lifeguard, paper carrier, grocery clerk, forest firefighter, Eastwood has said that he tried to enroll at Seattle University but was then drafted into the United States Army during the Korean War. He always dropped the Korean War reference, hoping everyone would conclude that he was in combat, actually, hed been a lifeguard at Fort Ord in northern California for his entire stint in the military, commented Eastwoods former longtime companion, Sondra Locke
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Eastwood at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
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Publicity photo for Rawhide, 1961
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Eastwood as the Man with No Name in A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
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Eastwood directing William Holden in Breezy (1973)
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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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Il Divo (film)
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Il Divo is a 2008 Italian biographical drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It is based on the figure of former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and it competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, where it was awarded the Jury Prize. The film also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup, as the film opens, Giulio Andreotti gives an inner monologue observing how he has managed to survive his tumultuous political career while his various detractors have died. The story of Giulio Andreotti, a prime minister of Italy notorious for his alleged ties to the Mafia. The narration spans the period from Andreottis seventh election in 1992, to his bid for the presidency of the Italian Republic, to the Tangentopoli bribe scandal. Toni Servillo as Giulio Andreotti Anna Bonaiuto as Livia Danese, Giulio Andreottis wife Flavio Bucci as Franco Evangelisti Carlo Buccirosso as Paolo Cirino Pomicino Piera Degli Esposti as Mrs, the soundtrack has not been released locally in North America or the United Kingdom and is only available by import. Fissa lo sguardo – Teho Teardo Sono ancora qui – Teho Teardo I miei vecchi elettori – Teho Teardo Toop Toop – Cassius Che cosa ricordare di lei, allegro Flute concerto in D major – Antonio Vivaldi Pavane, Op. However in the movie, Andreotti does not seem to emphasize any specific policies nor even campaign, through the portrayal of Andreotti, the movie displays how political actors are able to maintain their power/position with little to no explanation as to how they did so. Also, the inability to distinguish whether Andreotti was or was not affiliated with the mafia murders conveys the lack of clarity in the mechanics of Italys government. Andreotti’s incumbency reveals pentopartito, which consisted of five parties ranging from the wing to center-right parties. This coalition formed essentially to prevent a majority and was able to maintain a majority by strategic methods of give. Il Divo received mostly positive reviews from critics, as of 14 December 2009, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported 44 positive reviews and 4 negative, giving the film a 92% critical approval rating. In Peter Brunettes review for The Hollywood Reporter, he praises the movie, pointing out the capacity of entertaining, the brilliant acting and he notes that the movie will probably not have a great success outside Italy. The same elements emerge from the review of Jay Weissberg from Variety, Andreotti himself walked out of the movie and dismissed the film, stating that it was too much and that he would be, in the end, judged on his record. Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano were nominated for Best Achievement in Makeup for the 82nd Academy Awards, the film was nominated for the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Surveillance (2008 film)
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Surveillance is a 2008 American independent thriller film co-written and directed by Jennifer Lynch and starring Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Michael Ironside and French Stewart. The story is set in the Nebraska plains of United States, the film premiered out of competition and appeared in a midnight slot at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Surveillance is Lynchs second feature film, following a break after Boxing Helena. A series of violent deaths and the disappearance of a young woman bring FBI agents Hallaway and they meet the three survivors of a mysterious bloodbath, the young Stephanie, the cocaine-addicted Bobbi, and the foul-mouthed police officer Bennett Kent Harper. They do so to one young couple then let them go, a bit later, Stephanie, traveling on vacation with her family, sees a car with blood on it and tells it to her oblivious mother. Bobbi, using drugs with her boyfriend Johnny, is in a car right behind them, at a rest stop, both girls learn a pair of killers are responsible for a string of murders and likely the womans disappearance. Stephanies stepfather Steven supposedly speeds and their cars tire is shot by Bennett, Bobbi and Johnny are about to offer help, but the officers arrive and harass all of them, making Steven put Conrads gun in his mouth and making Bobbi swear at Johnny. After all of this, Stephanie tells the officers about the car she saw earlier. Steven gets to work changing the tire, and Bobbi gets out to talk with Stephanies family, simultaneously, after passing a white van, Bennett and Conrad find the car Stephanie described further down the road, with evidence of an altercation, and race back towards the van. The van plows into the back of Johnnys car, killing him, a dead man is at the wheel, and a live person, covered in a black bag, is sitting in the passenger seat of the van, whom Bobbi tries to save. Bennett and Conrad arrive back at the scene, in the chaos, Conrad is killed and persons emerge from the van wearing rubber masks, kill Stephanies mother and brother, and knock Bennett unconscious. Stephanie and Bobbi take refuge in the police car, presently, Hallaway and Anderson are trying to figure things out when bodies are discovered in a motel nearby. Anderson takes Wright and Degrasso to the scene, leaving Hallaway with Bobbi, Billings, Bennet, and Stephanie, Hallaway talks with the three others, while Degrasso discovers nude pictures of Anderson and Hallaway. Leafing through them in Andersons backseat, Degrasso is shocked to see the agents with the body of a dead woman, before he can react, Anderson shoots both Degrasso and Wright dead, then dumps both bodies by the roadside. Hallaway, meanwhile, reveals that he was at the bloodbath earlier, Hallaway kills Billings, and when Anderson returns Bennett and Bobbi are also murdered. A phone message left at the station reveals the bodies at the motel are those of the missing woman. As Anderson and Hallaway drive away they see Stephanie standing out in a field by the side of the road, Hallaway relates to Anderson that the little girl was on to them all along so he let her go free. Anderson tells Hallaway, I think thats the most romantic thing in the whole world, Stephanie watches their vehicle disappear into the distance
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Abel Ferrara
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Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content in his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. A long-time independent filmmaker, some of his best known films include Ms.45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, Ferrara was born in the Bronx of Italian and Irish descent. He was raised Catholic, which had an effect on much of his work. At 15 he moved to Peekskill in Westchester, New York and he attended the film conservatory at SUNY Purchase, where he directed several short films, most of which are all available on The Short Films of Abel Ferrara collection. Soon finding himself out of work, he directed a film titled 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy in 1976. Ferrara first drew an audience with his grindhouse movie The Driller Killer. He followed it with Ms.45, a revenge film starring Zoë Tamerlis. Ferrara was next hired to direct Fear City, starring Tom Berenger, Melanie Griffith, Billy Dee Williams, Rae Dawn Chong, true to form, it depicted a seedy Times Square strip club, where a kung fu slasher stalks and murders the girls after work. Berenger portrayed a boxer who has to use his fighting skills to defeat the killer. The cast included Wesley Snipes and David Caruso, as with most of Ferraras films, the screenplay was written by Nicholas St. John. Ferrara next directed Harvey Keitel in a performance as the titular Bad Lieutenant. Keitel plays a foul-mouthed, sex-addicted drug-using cop who wrestles with guilt, the script was co-written by Ms.45 star Zoë Tamerlis. Both Ferrara and Keitel were nominated for Spirit Awards and, despite its controversial content, director Martin Scorsese also named it one of his top 10 films of the 1990s. In the mid-1990s Ferrara returned to independent filmmaking, directing two well-received movies, The Addiction and The Funeral, the film also features Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, Paul Calderon, Kathryn Erbe and Michael Imperioli. It was also co-produced by Russell Simmons, the Funeral starred Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Isabella Rossellini, Benicio del Toro, Vincent Gallo and others. In 1996 he directed a video for French singer Mylène Farmers song California. After making The Blackout with Matthew Modine and Dennis Hopper, he contributed to the omnibus HBO–television movie Subway Stories, Ferrara then made New Rose Hotel, which reunited him with Christopher Walken. Ferrara returned three years later with R Xmas, which starred Drea de Matteo and Ice-T, the multi-plot film concerns an actress who stars in a Passion of the Christ-like movie about Jesus, where she plays Mary Magdalene, with whom she subsequently becomes obsessed
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Abel Ferrara at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival
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Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
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Roman Polanski, Wanted and Desired is a 2008 documentary film directed by Marina Zenovich. It concerns film director Roman Polanski and his sexual abuse case and it examines the events that led to Polanski fleeing the United States after being embroiled in a controversial trial, and his unstable reunion with his adopted country. Metacritic rates Roman Polanski, Wanted and Desired a score of 78/100 based on 16 reviews, rotten Tomatoes scores the film at 89% positive reviews based on 46 reviews. The hopping boy finally escapes his tormentor by scurrying and tumbling across a field, the wordless scene may last less than a minute in Marina Zenovichs documentary, but it sticks with you, and it echoes another clip in her film. This one is from a television interview Polanski did decades later where he says he felt like a mouse with which a cat was making sport. The cat in question was Los Angeles Judge Laurence J. Rittenband, the moment is actually played for laughs, with interspersed shots of a worried Mia Farrow using the phone in a scene from Rosemarys Baby — that, too, about a horrifically abused woman. But the scene isnt used to illustrate the victims story -- its about poor Roman, hes the person making the desperate phone call. Its an odd juxtaposition when you think about it, Roman Polanski, Wanted and Desired was nominated for five primetime Emmy Awards and won two, Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures awarded it the title of one of the top 5 documentaries of 2008. It won the Editing Award Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival It was also listed as one of ten films in the Hall of Shame of the 2008 Women Film Critics Circle Awards, I know I shouldn’t have done it, but I did. The director of the documentary told me it would never air in the States, I thought it made a better story if I said I’d told the judge what to do. Since June of 2008, the film has been visible on U. S. television via HBO, in theaters and on DVD. Zenovich said that the day she filmed Mr. Wells at the Malibu Courthouse and he signed a release like all my other interviewees, giving me permission to use his interview in the documentary worldwide, she said. At no time did I tell him that the film would not air in the United States and she went on to say she is astonished that Wells has changed his story. Mr. Wells was always friendly and open with me, she said, at no point in the four years since our interview has he ever raised any issues about its content. In fact, in a July 2008 story in The New York Times, michael Ceply commented on the affair in the New York Times, The incident points to the power and the limitations of the documentary art. But even an on-camera account like that of Mr. Wells, there wasn’t a witness to the conversations with Rittenband, she said. Since Mr. Polanski’s arrest, Ms. Zenovich said, a public reaction against his misdeeds in the original case seem to have overridden concerns about any misdeeds in the courts
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Singeetam Srinivasa Rao
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The octogenarian is widely regarded as one of the versatile directors of India. He is credited with having revolutionised the South Indian cinema with experimental films and he has garnered two National Film Awards, seven state Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awards South, and three Karnataka State Film Awards. In 2010, Srinivasa Rao headed the Jury of the Indian Panorama at the 8th Chennai International Film Festival, in 2011, Rao received the Life Achievement Award from the Film Federation of India at the 4th Global Film Festival. Rao was also the Guest of honor alongside Barrie Osbourne at the Media and Entertainment Business Conclave 2012 hosted by FICCI, in 2012, Rao served as one of the selection committee member for the Sundance Institutes screenwriters lab. The 2003 animation film, Son of Aladdin had 1100 shots and 125 characters, the film won Special Mention in the Competition section at the 2003 International Children’s Film Festival Hyderabad, and was subsequently premiered at the 37th International Film Festival of India. Rao served as the director for the 1970 Kannada film, Samskara which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film. He made his Telugu directorial debut with Neethi Nijayithi, the 1988 silent film, Pushpaka Vimana gained international acclaim, including 1988 Cannes Film Festival premiere in the International Critics Week. The film has received the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment and he graduated with a Physics Degree from University of Madras. In 1972, subsequently Rao ventured into direction, and directed about sixty films in languages including Hindi. Rao was the director of the 1970 Kannada movie Samskara directed by Pattabhirama Reddy. It won the Presidents gold medal for National Film Award for Best Feature Film and he was also the script-writer of Belliyappa Bangarappa. The Kannada Film Journalists Association has honoured Srinivasa Rao with a Special Biography, Rao received three Karnataka State Film Awards, including two for Best Screenplay. A disciple of legendary composer S. Rajeswara Rao, he composed music for 2 Kannada movies - Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma. He has the distinction of having directed Rajkumar and all his 3 sons - the first director to do so and he directed Rajkumar in 7 movies including his 200th movie Devatha Manushya. He was also the director of movies of Rajkumar sons - Shiva Rajkumars Anand. He also directed Puneeth Rajkumar in a role as a child artist in Eradu Nakshatragalu in which he had played a dual role. He composed lyrics for films like Bhairava Dweepam, and sound tracks for few Kannada films and he edited many magazines in Telugu such as Bharati, and scripted plays like Brahma, Antya Ghattam, and Chitrārjuna. Chitrārjuna was also translated into English, and was telecasted in American Television, the film was later remade into Hindi as Naache Mayuri
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Sarkar Raj
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Sarkar Raj is a 2008 Indian political crime thriller film directed by Ram Gopal Varma. The film is a sequel to the 2005 film Sarkar and the installment of Sarkar film series. The film was premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, the New York Asian Film Festival, the film was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library. The primary cast features Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and new entrant Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, supriya Pathak, Tanisha Mukherjee and Ravi Kale also reappeared in their respective roles from Sarkar. The film released on 6 June 2008 and was critically and commercially successful, the sequel is chronologically set two years after the original film. Qazi states that this project will be due to possible political entanglements. They aprroach Sarkar with the idea of this project who at first refutes but agrees when Shankar convinces him of the benefits of the project to whole Maharashtra, Shankar advises Anita to stay away from Qazi, as he is not trustworthy. Qazi joins hands with Kaanga, who wants to become the C. M. of Maharashtra, sanjay Somji, leader of farmers association is shown to be protesting the Nagres. Shankar replaces Bala as head over Chander, and asks him to find out about the attack. Kantilal Vohra come to Sarkar requesting him to shift the project to Gujarat, as Sarkar refuses, Vohra, Kaanga, Qazi, are shown together hatching a plan. Chander calls up Shankar telling Qazi was behind the blast, Shankar shoots Qazi in his house, Vohra and Kaanga now hire a hit-man to kill Shankar for 5-Crore. As Shankar and Anita are in a garden with Anita warning Shankar, the hitman shoots Shankar 6 bullets, a furious Subash suspecting Vohra kidnaps him. Sarkar tells Anita that his men have killed-Kaanga, Chander, Vohra and he also tells her that these people were just pawns and the mastermind behind all this was his own Guru, who wanted his grandson Somji to take over Shankar. His guru comes to home to pay tributes to Shankar, where Sarkar shows him his dead grandson, the film ends with Sarkar wanting his grandson Chiku to return to join the business. Critic Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama gave the four stars out of five and noted Besides its strong content. Amitabh Bachchan, expectedly, comes up with a terrific performance, hes as ferocious as a wounded tiger in the finale and takes the film to great heights. Abhishek Bachchan is cast opposite the finest actor of this country, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is fabulous and delivers her career-best performance. Sify gave a rating and said, The only reason you might want to catch this is the performance level
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Afterschool
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Afterschool is a 2008 drama film filmed, written, and directed by Antonio Campos. Filmed at the Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut, Afterschool premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival in the program Un Certain Regard. The film gained an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award nomination for Campos, while doing a film project at a private school, internet-video obsessed teenager Robert catches two twins dying due to drugs contaminated with rat poison. Confused, Robert does not call for help but rather simply walks over to the girls and sits on the floor with them, pulling one into his lap as she dies. This scene, caught on security camera and by student on a cell phone, is repeatedly shown. The viewer cannot see her death but only hear her cries slowly subside and this is all caught on a video camera Robert was using for a school project. An atmosphere of paranoia and unease sets in among students and teachers, the school claims that the drugs were bought outside the school and enforces a new, much harsher, drug policy wherein bags are searched and students are expelled. Robert and another student, Amy, are assigned to make a memorial video, the school is not happy with the result and has it re-edited, to make a smoother version. While making the video, Robert and Amy begin a romantic relationship, however, it is later hinted that their roommate may be involved romantically, as well. He fights with his roommate, who sold the drugs to the twins, the school questions him about this accusation, and is relieved that Robert says it was not substantiated. Robert is asked to take a leave of absence from the school, toward the end of the film, we are finally shown the scene of the girls deaths from the front and see Robert pressing his hand over her mouth and nose, smothering her. Later, Robert is shown at the nurse, taking a daily dose of pills. The film ends as a person with a cell phone videos him while he looks at two pictures of the deceased twins
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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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O' Horten
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O Horten is a 2007 Norwegian film directed by Bent Hamer. The films title character Odd Horten is a train driver. On the day of his retirement he ends up in an unexpected situation, as in other films by Hamer, the themes are loneliness and old age, and the courage to take chances. O Horten has been described as a film without a plot or a clear chronology. The films main cast consists mainly of senior Danish and Norwegian actors, including Bård Owe, Espen Skjønberg, there are also several cameos from various well-known Norwegians, such as ski jumper Anette Sagen in her first film role. The music was composed by John Erik Kaada, generally well received by critics, it was chosen for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. Skjønberg was awarded an Amanda Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Odd Horten is an overcautious 67-year-old man about to retire after forty years as a train driver on the route between Oslo and Bergen. As he awakes, he goes through a daily routine. When he gets there, he makes small talk with Svea, who owns the house where he stays when there. Back in Oslo, his colleagues throw him a farewell party, as the party moves to a co-workers apartment, he ends up getting accidentally locked out. He climbs up a scaffold, trying to reach the apartment window, the boy asks him to stay and wait for him to fall asleep, but Odd falls asleep first. He oversleeps in the room and arrives too late for the train he was to drive on his final working day. He is left standing on the platform without any fixed points in his life, with nothing, a number of scenes then follow whose exact sequence is unclear. While Odd is at a restaurant, police come in and arrest the cook, at the shop where he normally buys his pipe tobacco, he learns that the owner has died. He decides to sell his boat, leading to misadventures when the buyer, Odd goes to the local swimming pool, but his shoes were removed when the facility closed, as he is leaving, he finds a pair of red high-heeled boots and walks away in them. By chance he then runs into another man his age, the far more spontaneous Trygve Sissener, the two spend the evening in conversation over a few drinks at Sisseners house, and Odd is led to realisations about his own life. It emerges that his mother—a free-spirited woman—was a ski jumper, and he now feels as if he has let her down, by never having the courage to seize the day and try new things. In the early morning Sissener suggests the two go driving blindfolded, the stunt goes surprisingly well, but as Sissener pulls over the car, he dies
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Leos Carax
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Alex Christophe Dupont, best known as Leos Carax, is a French film director, critic, and writer. Carax is noted for his style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl, and his works include Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. His professional name is an anagram of his name, Alex. Leos Carax was born Alex Christophe Dupont in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine and his mother is American and his father French. He began his career with a series of short films. That piece established Caraxs reputation for a visual style. It also saw the first grouping of Carax with Denis Lavant, the work was clearly an homage to French New Wave cinema, and his use of such actresses as Juliette Binoche proved a touching tribute to his influences, especially Jean-Luc Godard. The film was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival and his initial reaction to the problems of filming on a public bridge had been to construct a model of the bridge in the community of Lansargues, in Southern France. However, on the first day of filming Denis Lavant injured his thumb severely, subsequent financial difficulties further pushed filming over a much longer period than intended. The movie was released to acclaim and opened the door for Carax to enter more experimental waters with his fourth feature. That film, released in 1999, was an adaptation of Herman Melvilles tale of incest, Pierre, or, Carax film in 2012, titled Holy Motors stars his regular collaborator, Denis Lavant. The film competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Carax is set to direct Annette, a music-filled drama feature film written by Sparks and starring Adam Driver. Director Strangulation Blues - Short Boy Meets Girl Mauvais Sang Les Amants du Pont-Neuf Sans Titre - Short Pola X Tokyo, - Segment Merde Holy Motors Actor King Lear The House The Process 977 Mister Lonely Holy Motors Leos Carax by Fergus Daly and Garin Dowd. Published by Manchester University Press,2003, ISBN 0-7190-6315-9, interview with Carax on funding for Pola X at YouTube. Caraxs 1997 short film Sans Titre at YouTube, Caraxs my last minute, a short film at YouTube. Foco - Revista de Cinema, special edition devoted to Leos Carax
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Carax at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. He is best known for his contributions to the Japanese horror genre. Born in Kobe on July 19,1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is not related to director Akira Kurosawa. In the early 1990s, Kurosawa won a scholarship to the Sundance Institute and was able to study filmmaking in the United States, Kurosawa first achieved international acclaim with his 1997 crime thriller film Cure. Also that year, he experimented by filming two thrillers back-to-back, Serpents Path and Eyes of the Spider, both of which shared the same premise and lead actor but spun entirely different stories. Kurosawa followed up Cure with a semi-sequel in 1999 with Charisma, in 2000, Seance, Kurosawas adaptation of the novel Seance on a Wet Afternoon by Mark McShane, premiered on Kansai TV. It also starred Yakusho, as well as Jun Fubuki, in 2001, he directed the horror film Pulse. Kurosawa released Bright Future, starring Tadanobu Asano, Joe Odagiri and Tatsuya Fuji and he followed this with another digital feature, Doppelganger, later the same year. In 2005, Kurosawa returned with Loft, his first love story since Seance, another horror film, Retribution, followed in the next year. With his 2008 film, Tokyo Sonata, Kurosawa was considered to step out of his usual horror genre and he has written a novelization of his own film Pulse, as well as a history of horror cinema with Makoto Shinozaki. In September 2012, it was announced that he will direct 1905, in February 2013, it was announced that production of the film had been cancelled before filming could start. Kurosawa directed a 2012 five-part television drama Penance, Beautiful 2013, an anthology film featuring Kurosawas Beautiful New Bay Area Project, screened at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2013. Kurosawas next feature film Real, which stars Takeru Sato and Haruka Ayase, was released in 2013 and he won the Best Director award at the 8th Rome Film Festival for Seventh Code later that year. His 2015 film Journey to the Shore was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where he won the prize for Best Director, in 2016, his thriller Creepy premiered at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. The film marked Kurosawas first cinematic return to the genre since 2006. Kurosawas directing style has been compared to that of Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky and he also expressed admiration for American film directors such as Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah, Robert Aldrich, Richard Fleischer, and Tobe Hooper. In a 2009 interview with IFC, Kurosawa talked about the reason why he has cast the actor Koji Yakusho in many of his films, that’s a big reason why I enjoy working with him on the set. According to Tim Palmer, Kurosawas films occupy a position between the materials of mass genre, on the one hand, and esoteric or intellectual abstraction, on the other
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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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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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Jeanne Balibar
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Jeanne Balibar is a French actress and singer. She began her career on the stage, in Don Juan at the Festival dAvignon. Her first film role was in Arnaud Desplechins 1992 film The Sentinel and she continues to perform in both spheres. Recently she starred in Ne change rien directed by Pedro Costa and she is the daughter of Étienne Balibar, French Marxist philosopher and physicist Françoise Balibar
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Jeanne Balibar at the opening night of The Duchess of Langeais at the Berlin International Film Festival 2007
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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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Alexandra Maria Lara
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Alexandra Maria Lara is a Romanian-German actress best known for her roles in Downfall, Control, Youth Without Youth, The Reader, and Rush. Born in Bucharest, Lara is the child of Valentin Plătăreanu, a Bucharest actor. When she was four her family decided to flee to West Germany to escape Nicolae Ceauşescus regime in Communist Romania, although the family had originally planned to emigrate to Canada, they settled down in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, before eventually moving to Berlin. After graduating at the Französisches Gymnasium Berlin in 1997, Lara went on to acting under the management of her father, co-founder of the Theaterwerkstatt Charlottenburg. By sixteen, she was playing lead roles in various television dramas, since then her career has developed. In 2007 she also appeared as journalist Annik Honoré in the film Control, in 2008, she served as a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury. She played a role in Greek director Theo Angelopouloss 2008 film The Dust of Time, opposite Irène Jacob. She has also appeared in several French productions, including Napoléon, more recently, she appeared in The Reader and Der Baader Meinhof Komplex which were both nominated for the 81st Academy Awards. In August 2009, Lara married English actor Sam Riley, with whom she acted in the films Control, in January 2014, she gave birth to their first child, a boy. In addition to her native Romanian, Lara is fluent in German, English, official website Alexandra Maria Lara at the Internet Movie Database Interview
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Lara at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
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Natalie Portman
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Natalie Portman is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was in the 1994 action thriller Léon, The Professional and she was later cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Born in Jerusalem to an Israeli father and American mother, Portman grew up in the eastern United States from the age of three. She studied dancing and acting in New York, and starred in Star Wars, in 1999, Portman enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology, alongside her work as an actress, she completed a bachelors degree in 2003. During her studies she starred in a second Star Wars film and she played leading roles in the historical dramas Goyas Ghosts and The Other Boleyn Girl, and also appeared in Thor and its 2013 sequel. In 2010, Portman starred in the thriller film Black Swan. Her performance received critical acclaim and she earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress, her second Golden Globe Award, the SAG Award, the BAFTA Award. In 2016, she portrayed First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the biographical drama Jackie and she was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and won the BFCA for Best Actress. In May 2008, Portman served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury, the same year she directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You. Her first feature film as a director, A Tale of Love, Portman was born on June 9,1981 in Jerusalem. Her original given name was Neta-Lee, a Hebrew name and she is the only child of Shelley, an American homemaker who works as Portmans agent, and Avner Hershlag, an Israeli fertility specialist and gynecologist. Her maternal grandparents, Bernice and Arthur Stevens, were from Jewish families who moved to the United States from Austria and Russia, Natalies paternal grandparents, Mania and Zvi Yehuda Hershlag, were Jewish immigrants to Israel. Zvi, born in Poland in 1914, moved to what was then Mandatory Palestine in 1938 and eventually became an economics professor, One of Natalies paternal great-grandmothers was born in Romania and was a spy for British Intelligence during World War II. Portmans parents met at a Jewish student center at Ohio State University and they corresponded after her father returned to Israel and were married when her mother visited a few years later. In 1984, when Portman was three years old, the moved to the United States, where her father received his medical training. Portman, a citizen of the United States and Israel, has said that although she really love the States. Thats where I feel at home, Portman and her family first lived in Washington, D. C. but relocated to Connecticut in 1988 and then moved to Jericho, New York, on Long Island, in 1990. While living in the Washington, D. C. area, Portman attended Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland
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Portman at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
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Natalie Portman on the set of Free Zone, 2005
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Natalie Portman at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
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Natalie Portman at the premiere of Black Swan during the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
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Anupama Chopra
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Anupama Chopra is an Indian author, journalist and film critic. She has written books on Indian cinema and has been a film critic for NDTV, India Today. She also hosted a film review show The Front Row With Anupama Chopra. She won the 2000 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema for her first book Sholay, born as Anupama Chandra in Calcutta, India to Chandra Parshad family, She has also lived in Badayun, a city in Uttar Pradesh. Chopra grew up with her brother and sister in Mumbai, where her family lived in Nepean Sea Road and her sister Tanuja Chandra is a Bollywood director and screenwriter, and her brother Vikram Chandra is a novelist, who splits his time between California and India. She also lived in Hong Kong for several years as a teenager, in 1987, she graduated from St. Xaviers College, Mumbai with a BA in English Literature. Later, she earned her MA in journalism from Northwestern Universitys Medill School of Journalism and she won the Harrington Award for magazine journalism while at Medill. She later said, Film journalism was untouchable at the time, everybody was ashamed and nobody wanted to admit that I worked for Movie. After her education Chopra started her career as a film journalist and critic and over the years has several books of films. Her first book Sholay, The Making of a Classic won the 2001 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema, dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge was published by the British Film Institute as part of their Modern Classics Series. Her book, King of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema, was featured on the annual Editors Choice list of the New York Times Book Review. Her 2011 book First Day First Show, Writings from the Bollywood Trenches, is a compilation of her articles on Hindi cinema over two decades, published by Penguin India, chopras work has been published in India Today, Indias largest English-language magazine. She has also written about Bollywood for various publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Variety. She hosted film review show, Picture This on NDTV 24X7 news channel, in 2012, she started her weekly review show called The Front Row with Anupama Chopra, on Star World, which ran till June 2014. In 2013, she released two books, Freeze Frame based on the interviews with filmmakers and actors on the TV show, currently she hosts Film Companion on YouTube which replaced The Front Row With Anupama Chopra where she critiques Bollywood movies. She is also involved in works related to film festivals happening in India. In November 2014, Chopra replaced Shyam Benegal to become the chairperson of the Mumbai Film Festival organized by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image and she is married to Vidhu Vinod Chopra, a Bollywood producer and director. Her daughter Zuni Chopra is young writer of three including a novel and two books in poetry
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Anupama Chopra at the launch of her book King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan, 2007
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Bruno Dumont
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Bruno Dumont is a French film director and screenwriter. To date, he has directed seven films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumonts films have won the Grand Prix award, both LHumanité and Flandres, Dumonts Hadewijch won the 2009 Prize of the International Critics for Special Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival. Dumont has a background of Greek and German philosophy, and of corporate video and his films often show the ugliness of extreme violence and provocative sexual behavior, and are usually classified as art films. Dumont has himself likened his films to visual arts, and he uses long takes, close-ups of peoples bodies. Dumont does not write scripts for his films. Instead, he writes complete novels which are then the basis for his filmmaking and he says that some of his favorite filmmakers are Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, and Abbas Kiarostami. He is frequently considered an heir to Robert Bresson. According to Tim Palmer, this includes a focus on states of corporeality in and of themselves. In a more pejorative vein, James Quandt has also talked of some of this group of filmmakers and his 2011 film Hors Satan premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. His 2013 film Camille Claudel 1915 premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival
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Bruno Dumont at the London Film Festival circa 2010
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Susanne Bier
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Susanne Bier is a Danish film director best known for her feature films Brothers, After the Wedding, the Academy Award-winning In a Better World and the TV miniseries The Night Manager. She is the first female director to win a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, Susanne Bier was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. De Saliges, Biers graduation film, won first prize at the Munich film school festival and was distributed by Channel Four. Finding immediate success in Denmark with her features Freud Flytter Hjemmefra, Det Bli’r i Familien, Pensionat Oscar and Sekten, her first large success was The One. A romantic comedy about the fragility of life, the film won a clutch of Danish Film Academy awards, the film remains one of the most successful domestic films ever released in Denmark. A sidestep from the easy going charm of Livet är en schlager, Elsker dig for evigt brought Biers work to wider international attention. Acutely observed and beautifully written by Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen, made under Dogme 95 regulations, the film also marked a move towards a more minimalist aesthetic. After her first American film, Things We Lost in the Fire starring Benicio del Toro and Halle Berry, in 2012, she returned to romantic comedy with local Danish smash-hit Den skaldede frisør starring Trine Dyrholm and Pierce Brosnan. Also a maker of shorts, music videos and commercials, Biers films typically meditate on pain, tragedy, in 2013 she was a member of the jury at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. Bier has been praised as being a capable of making films that appeal to an international market. This is reflected by the fact that After the Wedding was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and not least the international TV miniseries The Night Manager produced by BBC and AMC which received worldwide acclaim upon its premiere. It went on to receive 12 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, winning one for Susanne Biers directing efforts and four Golden Globe-nominations, Bier has two children, Gabriel and Alice Esther. She lives with theatre producer and composer Jesper Winge Leisner. I. C. A. E, talking Movies, Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview. Susanne Bier at the Internet Movie Database Susanne Bier in the Danish Film Database
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Susanne Bier, 2013
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Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)
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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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Catherine Deneuve
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Catherine Deneuve is a French actress as well as an occasional singer, model and producer. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof, mysterious beauties for various directors, including Luis Buñuel, Francois Truffaut, in 1985, she succeeded Mireille Mathieu as the official face of Marianne, Frances national symbol of liberty. A 14-time César Award nominee, she won for her performances in Truffauts The Last Metro and she is also noted for her support for a variety of liberal causes. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for Belle de Jour, and she also won the 1998 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Place Vendôme. Other films include Scene of the Crime, My Favourite Season,8 Women and her English-language films include The April Fools, Hustle, The Hunger and Dancer in the Dark. In 2015, she starred in The Brand New Testament and Standing Tall, Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac in Paris, France, the daughter of French stage actors Maurice Dorléac and Renée Simonot. Deneuve was her mothers name, which she chose for her stage name. Her work for Buñuel would be her most famous, further prominent films from this early time in her career included Jean-Paul Rappeneaus A Matter of Resistance, and Demys musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. Her starring roles at the time were featured in films as A Slightly Pregnant Man with Marcello Mastroianni. She made her film as a producer in 1988, Drôle dendroit pour une rencontre. In 1997, Deneuve was the protagonist in the video for the song NOubliez Jamais sung by Joe Cocker. In 1998 she won acclaim and the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Place Vendôme. In the late 1990s, Deneuve continued to appear in a number of films such as 1999s five films Est-Ouest, Le temps retrouvé, Pola X, Belle maman. In 2000, Deneuves part in Lars von Triers musical drama Dancer in the Dark alongside Icelandic singer Björk was subject to critical scrutiny. The film was selected for the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival and she made another foray into Hollywood the following year, starring in The Musketeer for Peter Hyams. In 2002, she shared the Silver Bear Award for Best Ensemble Cast at the Berlin International Film Festival for her performance in 8 Women. In 2005, Deneuve published her diary A lombre de moi-meme, in it she writes about her experiences shooting the films Indochine and she also provided the voice role of Marjane Satrapis mother in Satrapis animated autobiographical film Persepolis, based on the graphic novel of the same name. In 2008, she appeared in her 100th film, Un conte de Noël, during an interview at the Cannes Film Festival with Ali Naderzad, Deneuve was asked which was her own favorite film
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Deneuve at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival
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Deneuve in 1968
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Deneuve at the 2011 César Awards.
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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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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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1949 Cannes Film Festival
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The 3rd Cannes Film Festival was held from September 2 to 17, film|. No festival was held in 1948 or 1950, the Grand Prize of the Festival went to The Third Man by Carol Reed. The festival opened with LArroseur Arrosé by Louis Lumière, a 1895 French comedy short-film, the entire jury for this festival were French
1949 Cannes Film Festival
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Official poster of the 3rd Cannes Film Festival illustrated by G.C. Chavane.
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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 Grand Prize of the Festival at the event.
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1961 Cannes Film Festival
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The 14th Cannes Film Festival was held on 3-18 May 1961. The Palme dOr went to the Une aussi longue absence, directed by Henri Colpi and Viridiana, the festival opened with Che gioia vivere, directed by René Clément. The festival also screened Shirley Clarkes debut film The Connection due to the efforts of the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, the success of the film caused the festival to create International Critics Week the following year. C
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Official poster of the 14th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by A.M. Rodicq.
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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
1970 Cannes Film Festival
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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 Palme d'Or at the event.
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1973 Cannes Film Festival
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The 26th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 10–25,1973. The Grand Prix went to the The Hireling by Alan Bridges, at this festival two new non-competitive sections were added, Étude et documents and Perspectives du Cinéma Français. The festival opened with Godspell, directed by David Greene and closed with Lady Sings the Blues, swastika, a documentary by Philippe Mora, got negative reactions and caused disturbance among audience by showing Adolf Hitlers daily and social life. The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky, created controversy at the due to its depiction of extreme violence
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Official poster of the 26th Cannes Film Festival
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Ingrid Bergman, Jury President
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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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2005 Un Certain Regard poster featuring James Dean 's portrait by Floyd McCarty from Rebel Without a Cause.
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2007 Cannes Film Festival
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The 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the sixtieth, ran from 16 to 27 May 2007. Wong Kar-wais My Blueberry Nights opened the festival, and Denys Arcands The Age of Ignorance closed, the President of the Official Jury was British director Stephen Frears. Le Clézio, French writer Dominik Moll, German director Deborah Nadoolman, American costume designer Tous Les Cinemas du Monde began in 2005 to showcase films from a variety of different countries. From 19 May to 25 May 2007, films were screened from India, Lebanon, Poland, Kenya, Guinea, Angola, Slovenia, the first two days of this program were devoted entirely to the cinema of India and included films in a number of different languages. The Hindi film, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, which screened on 19 May, was well received. In addition, a Maniratnam film, Guru, was also a critical success. Other films included the Hindi film Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal starring John Abraham and Bipasha Basu, Dharm, the Malayalam film Saira, Missed Call, the Tamil film Veyil, another Tamil language Indian film, Mozhi was shown in the non-prize category at a later date. Labaki not only directed and co-wrote the film but plays the lead as well, the rest of the cast is composed mostly of unprofessional actors, all of whom deliver very convincing performances and add a lot of color and depth to the film. The film proved to be a sleeper at the festival and was distributed in well over 40 countries, becoming an international hit
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Official poster of the 60th Cannes Film Festival featuring Pedro Almodóvar, Juliette Binoche, Jane Campion, Souleymane Cissé, Penélope Cruz, Gérard Depardieu, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and Wong Kar Wai and photographed by Alex Majoli.
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U2 perform at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, prior to the screening of U2 3D
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2007 Un Certain Regard poster by Italian comics artist Enrico Marini.
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Olivier Assayas
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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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2014 Cannes Film Festival
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The 67th annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 25 May 2014. New Zealand film director Jane Campion was the head of the jury for the competition section. The Palme dOr was awarded to the Turkish film Winter Sleep directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the festival opened with the long delayed Grace of Monaco, directed by Olivier Dahan and starring Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly, which played out of competition. The restored 4K version of Sergio Leones 1964 western A Fistful of Dollars, served as the closing night film. Due to European Parliament elections taking place on 25 May 2014, the winner of the Palme dOr was announced on 24 May, the Official Selection of films for the 2014 festival, including the line-up for the Main Competition, was announced on 17 April 2014. French actor Lambert Wilson hosted the opening and closing ceremonies, the films announced to compete for the Palme dOr were named at the Cannes press conference on 17 April 2014. Party Girl, directed by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis, was selected as the film in the Un Certain Regard section. Italian film A passo duomo by Giovanni Aloi was removed from the selection because Aloi broke the regulations for the selection, the Cinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools. The following 16 entries were selected, out of more than 1,631 submissions from 320 different schools, half of the films selected have been directed by women. The line-up for the International Critics Week was announced on 21 April at the sections website, FLA, directed by Djinn Carrénard, and Hippocrate, directed by Thomas Lilti, were selected as the opening and closing films of the Semaine de la Critique section. Feature films Special Screenings Shorts selection The line-up for the Directors Fortnight was announced on 22 April, girlhood, directed by Céline Sciamma, and Pride, directed by Matthew Warchus, were selected as the opening and closing films of the Directors Fortnight section. Feature films Special screenings Shorts selection The line-up for the Cannes Classics section was announced on 4 April 2014, italian actress Sophia Loren was announced as the guest of honour. Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan called the win a surprise for me and dedicated the win to the youth of Turkey as the country undergoes political turmoil. Prior to the start of Cannes, Winter Sleep was considered the favorite to win the Palme dOr, some found it to be too long and difficult to finish, while others called it a great revelation. The jury, however, loved the film, Jury president Jane Campion said If I had the guts to be as honest about his characters as this director is, Id be very proud of myself. Winter Sleep is the story of Mr. Aydin, an actor who now runs mountaintop hotel. Aydin sees himself as the regions kind ruler, intervening in the business of the people below the mountain. In reality, almost everyone, including his wife, dislikes Aydin and he has a pompous column in the local newspaper and is writing a book on history of the Turkish theatre
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Official poster of the 67th Cannes Film Festival featuring a photo of Marcello Mastroianni from Federico Fellini 's 1963 film 8½
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Jane Campion, Jury President
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The main competition jury.
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2008 Cannes Film Festival
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The 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 25 May 2008. The festival opened with Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles and closed with What Just Happened, directed by Barry Levinson, the film poster for the festival featured model Anouk Marguerite and photographed by Pierre Collier. Hunger, directed by Steve McQueen, opened the Un Certain Regard section
2008 Cannes Film Festival
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Official poster of the 61st Cannes Film Festival featuring a photo of model Anouk Marguerite and photographed by Pierre Collier.
2008 Cannes Film Festival
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Director Clint Eastwood at the festival promoting Changeling
