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Marlene Dietrich
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Marie Magdalene Marlene Dietrich was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship. Throughout her unusually long career, which spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s, in the 1920s in Berlin, Dietrich acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel brought her international fame, Dietrich starred in Hollywood films such as Morocco, Shanghai Express, and Desire. She successfully traded on her glamorous persona and exotic looks, throughout World War II, she was a high-profile entertainer in the United States. Although she still made occasional films after the war, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a marquee live-show performer. Dietrich was noted for her efforts during the war, housing German and French exiles, providing financial support. For her work on improving morale on the front lines during the war, she received honors from the United States, France, Belgium. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema, Dietrich was born on 27 December 1901 on Leberstraße 65 in the neighborhood of Rote Insel in Schöneberg, now a district of Berlin. She was the younger of two daughters of Wilhelmina Elisabeth Josephine and Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, who married in December 1898, Dietrichs mother was from an affluent Berlin family who owned a jewelry and clock making firm. Her father was a lieutenant who died in 1907. Von Losch never officially adopted the Dietrich girls, so Dietrichs surname was never von Losch, Dietrichs family nicknamed her Lena and Lene. Around age 11, she contracted her two first names to form the name Marlene, Dietrich attended the Auguste-Viktoria Girls School from 1907 to 1917 and graduated from the Victoria-Luise-Schule in 1918. She studied the violin and became interested in theater and poetry as a teenager. Her dreams of becoming a concert violinist were curtailed by a wrist injury and she was fired after only four weeks. Her earliest professional stage appearances were as a girl on tour with Guido Thielschers Girl-Kabarett vaudeville-style entertainments. She did not attract any attention at first. She made her film debut playing a bit part in the film The Little Napoleon and she met her future husband, Rudolf Sieber, on the set of Tragödie der Liebe in 1923. Dietrich and Sieber were married in a ceremony in Berlin on 17 May 1923
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Dietrich in her breakthrough role, Lola-Lola in
Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel)
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Dietrich in 1951
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Marlene Dietrich signing a soldier's cast in
Belgium, 1944.
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Dietrich often performed parts of her show in
top hat and tails. Caricature by Hans Georg Pfannmüller showing Dietrich during a cabaret performance in 1954.
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Basic Instinct
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Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. The film follows a detective, Nick Curran, who is investigating the brutal murder of a wealthy rock star. During the investigation Curran becomes involved in a torrid and intense relationship with the suspect, Catherine Tramell. Even before its release, Basic Instinct generated heated controversy due to its overt sexuality and it was strongly opposed by gay rights activists, who criticized the films depiction of homosexual relationships and the portrayal of a bisexual woman as a murderous narcissistic psychopath. In a 2006 interview, Stone alleged that the infamous leg-crossing scene in which her vulva was exposed was filmed without her knowledge, despite initial critical negativity and public protest, Basic Instinct became one of the most financially successful films of the 1990s, grossing $352 million worldwide. Several versions of the film have been released on videocassette, DVD, a 2006 sequel, Basic Instinct 2 starring Stone was made without Verhoevens involvement, but received negative reviews from critics and was unsuccessful at the box office. A retired rock star, Johnny Boz, is stabbed to death with an ice pick during sex by a blonde woman at his apartment. Homicide detective Nick Curran investigates, and the suspect is Catherine Tramell, Bozs bisexual girlfriend. It is concluded that either Catherine herself did it or someone trying to frame her out of spite, Tramell is uncooperative and taunting in the investigation, smoking in the interrogation room and exposing her bare genitalia in front of the officers. She presents alibis and passes a lie detector test, Nick, who accidentally shot two tourists while high on cocaine, attends counseling sessions with police psychologist Dr. Beth Garner, with whom he has had a sexual affair. Nick discovers that Catherine plans on using him as a detective in her latest book. Catherine becomes aware of Nicks past after paying Lt. Nielsen to look into Nicks psychiatric file, Nick publicly assaults Nielsen in his office and later becomes a prime suspect after Nielsen is killed. Nick suspects Catherine, and when he joins in her behavior in front of his co-workers, a torrid affair between Nick and Catherine begins with the air of a cat-and-mouse game. Nick shows up at a club and witnesses her sniffing coke in a stall along with Roxy. Nick and Catherine begin to dance and make out at a club, later, observed by Roxy, they have sex in a bed. Roxy, jealous of Nick, attempts to run him over with Catherines car, Nick identifies the girl as Beth Garner, who acknowledges the encounter, but claims Catherine was the one who became obsessed. Nick discovers the pages of Catherines new book in which the fictional detective finds his partner lying dead with his legs protruding between the doors of an elevator. Catherine breaks off their affair, Nick becomes upset and suspicious, Nick later meets his partner Gus, who has arranged to meet with Catherines college roommate at an office building to find out what really went on between Catherine and Beth
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Theatrical release poster
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Basic Instinct (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Director, producer and stars
Sharon Stone,
Jeanne Tripplehorn and
Michael Douglas at the
1992 Cannes Film Festival.
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Far and Away
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Far and Away is a 1992 American romantic adventure drama film directed by Ron Howard from a script by Howard and Bob Dolman. It stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, the cinematographer was Mikael Salomon, and the music score was done by John Williams. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, Cruise and Kidman play Irish immigrants seeking their fortune in 1890s America, eventually taking part in the Land Run of 1893. This was Cyril Cusacks final film before his death the following year, in Ireland in 1892, Joseph Donnellys family home is burned down by his landlord Daniel Christies men led by Stephen Chase because of unpaid rent. Vowing revenge, Joseph unsuccessfully attempts to kill Daniel, Joseph meets the landlords daughter Shannon, who has rebelled against family tradition and made plans to claim free land in America. She offers to take Joseph with her as her servant so she, at first Joseph doesnt agree, he is planning to pistol fight with Stephen Chase who burned his fathers house at dawn. Daniel meets Joseph during the fight, and tells him that he had nothing do with his familys eviction or any of the tenant farmers since the land is managed by Stephen. Dawn arrives and Stephen is very close to shooting Joseph in their duel, on a ship bound for America, Shannon meets Mr McGuire who tells them about Americas free land, convincing them both of its arability. He tells them it is in Oklahoma, informing them that once they get there, they must race to claim it like everyone else. She explains that her collection of silver spoons will cover all expenses to get the pair to Oklahoma. On arriving in Boston, McGuire is shot and Shannons spoons fall out of his clothing, Joseph rescues her but not the spoons. A worker for Ward Boss Mike Kelly, a leader of the Irish immigrant community, Kelly finds them lodging and jobs, but only one room, which they must share. To avoid scandal, Joseph says shes his sister, because they are working class people, it would be dangerous for their fellow Irish immigrants to find out she is of a privileged background. As the pair continue to share a room, Joseph and Shannon become attracted to each other, one night Joseph rushes out to Boss Kellys club, where a bare-knuckle boxing match is underway. Joseph challenges the winner, knocks him out and soon becomes a regular at the club, back in Ireland, the Christies house is burned down by angry tenants in the Irish Land War, so the Christies decide to emigrate to America, hoping also to find their daughter. Joseph is told Shannon is at Kellys club, rushing to the club, he discovers Shannon on stage as a burlesque dancer. He tries to cover her with his jacket, demanding that she stop dancing, the Irish men surrounding the couple beg him to fight and offer him a small fortune. Shannon, who previously scorned boxing, urges him to fight, Joseph agrees and is winning until he notices one of his backers groping Shannon on his lap
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Theatrical release poster
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Cannes
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Cannes is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune of France located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, the city is known for its association with the rich and famous, its luxury hotels and restaurants, and for several conferences. On 3 November 2011 it also played host to the G20 organisation of industrialised nations, by the 2nd century BC, the Ligurian Oxybii established a settlement here known as Aegitna. Historians are unsure what the name means, the area was a fishing village used as a port of call between the Lérins Islands. In 69 AD, it became the scene of violent conflict between the troops of Otho and Vitellius, in the 10th century, the town was known as Canua. The name may derive from canna, a reed, Canua was probably the site of a small Ligurian port, and later a Roman outpost on Le Suquet hill, suggested by Roman tombs discovered here. Le Suquet housed an 11th-century tower which overlooked swamps where the city now stands, most of the ancient activity, especially protection, was on the Lérins Islands and the history of Cannes is closely tied to the history of the islands. An attack by the Saracens in 891, who remained until the end of the 10th century, the insecurity of the Lérins islands forced the monks to settle on the mainland, at the Suquet. Construction of a castle in 1035 fortified the city by then known as Cannes, one took a century to build. Around 1530, Cannes detached from the monks who had controlled the city for hundreds of years, during the 18th century, both the Spanish and British tried to gain control of the Lérins Islands but were chased away by the French. The islands were controlled by many, such as Jean-Honoré Alziary. They had many different purposes, at the end of the 19th century, henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux bought land at the Croix des Gardes and constructed the villa Eleonore-Louise. His work to improve living conditions attracted the English aristocracy, who built winter residences. At the end of the 19th century, several railways were completed, in Cannes, projects such as the Boulevard Carnot and the rue dAntibes were carried out. After the closure of the Casino des Fleurs, an establishment was built for the rich winter clientele. This casino was demolished and replaced by the new Palace in 1979, in the 20th century, new luxury hotels such as the Carlton, Majestic, Martinez, and JW Marriott Cannes were built. The city was modernised with a centre, a post office. There were fewer British and German tourists after the First World War, winter tourism gave way to summer tourism and the summer casino at the Palm Beach was constructed
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The
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Cannes seen from Spot Satellite
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Panorama of the waterfront
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Boulevard de la Croisette along the waterfront.
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The Best Intentions
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The Best Intentions is a 1992 Swedish dramatic film directed by Bille August and written by Ingmar Bergman. The film documents the courtship and the early years of their marriage, until the point when Anna becomes pregnant with their second son. At the time, it was one of the most expensive Swedish films ever made, the film is a condensed version of a four-part Swedish television miniseries that aired in December 1991. It won the Palme dOr at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, in the early 20th century, Henrik Bergman is studying to be a parish minister under the Church of Sweden. A poor man, he meets the wealthy Anna Åkerblom through his friend, Anna is vain and stubborn, and in Henriks belief she is elitist, yet she is also attractive and capable of enjoying pleasure. Although Henrik lives in a relationship with Frida, a waitress, Anna seduces him. As Henrik and Anna begin to see more of each other, while speaking with Annas mother Karin, Henrik confesses that he feels unwelcome among the Åkerbloms. Karin tells him frankly that she feels Anna needs a man who can nurture her. Karin also tells Anna that Henrik is still living with Frida, Henrik and Anna stop seeing each other until Frida appeals to Anna to take Henrik back, citing his misery. While Anna is treated for tuberculosis in Switzerland, a brother is sent to tell Henrik that she no longer wishes to speak to him. However, unknown to her parents, Anna sends a letter to Ernst to be forwarded to Henrik and her parents receive the letter and Annas father Johan opens it, after which Karin reads it and burns it. After Johan dies, Karin confesses the act to Anna, who angrily seeks Henrik, by then, Henrik is planning to go to Forsboda, a remote village in northern Sweden, to work in a parish whose head minister is aged and ailing. Anna resolves to go with him, and they marry despite their class conflicts, the Bergmans have their first son, Dag, but Henrik becomes embroiled in the local strike action, as he refuses to endorse poor working conditions and lends his church for a socialist meeting. This displeases Nordenson, who also dislikes Bergmans manner of instruction of Nordensons daughters, as Nordenson refuses to kneel with his wife, in the meantime, the Bergmans take in Petrus, a troubled orphaned boy. During the meeting, Victoria asks him if he believes suffering is sent by God and he replies suffering is useless and God views the world with horror, and leaves the palace fuming at having to flatter the Queen. The Bergmans decline the position, but the villagers are upset they did not hear of the offer except through rumours, upset, and expecting her second child, Anna insists on sending Petrus away, saying she did not agree to a permanent adoption and she dislikes the boy. Petrus overhears the conversation, and furious, kidnaps Dag and carries him to an icy river, the Bergmans see them and give chase, with Henrik saving Dag and slapping down Petrus, after which the boy leaves. In despair, Anna decides she can no longer live in Forsboda and takes Dag to the Åkerblom house and he finally accepts the position in Stockholm and asks Anna to come with him, and she replies this is all she wants
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Theatrical release poster
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Un Certain Regard
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Un Certain Regard (French pronunciation, is a section of the Cannes Film Festivals official selection. It is run at the salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme dOr and this section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The name literally means a certain glance, but is understood by French speakers to mean from another point of view, here it means films with various types of visions and styles, which tell their stories in nontraditional ways. This section presents 20 original and different works which seek international recognition, since 2005, the prize consists of €30,000 financed by the Groupama GAN Foundation. * Denotes first win for a country
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Main winners [edit]
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Cannes Film Festival
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Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+ Pierre Lescure took over as President of the festival, the Board of Directors also appointed Gilles Jacob as Honorary President of the festival. The 2016 Cannes Film Festival took place between 11 and 22 May 2016, australian film director George Miller was the President of the Jury. I, Daniel Blake, directed by British director Ken Loach, in 2017, The Festival de Cannes will celebrate its 70th anniversary edition from May 17 to 28. In 1947, the festival was held as the Festival du film de Cannes, at that time the principle of equality was introduced, with a jury made up of only one representative per country. The festival is now held at the Palais des Festivals, expressly constructed for the occasion, although for its 1949 inaugural the roof was unfinished, the festival was not held in 1948 and 1950 on account of budgetary problems. Although its origins may be attributed in part to the French desire to compete with Autumns Venice Film Festival, in 1955, the Palme dOr was created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival which had been given until that year. In 1957, Dolores del Rio was the first female member of the jury as a Sélection officielle – Member, in 1959, the Marché du Film was founded, giving the festival a commercial character and facilitating exchanges between sellers and buyers in the film industry. Today it has become the first international platform for film commerce, in 1962, the International Critics Week was born, created by the French Union of Film Critics as the first parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. Its goal was to showcase first and second works by directors all over the world. In 1965, an hommage was paid to Jean Cocteau after his death, the next year, Olivia de Havilland was named the first female president of the festival. The 1968 festival was halted on 19 May, some directors, such as Carlos Saura and Miloš Forman, had withdrawn their films from the competition. The filmmakers achieved the reinstatement of the President, and they founded the Film Directors Society that same year, during the 1970s, important changes occurred in the Festival. In 1972, Robert Favre Le Bret was named the new President and he immediately introduced an important change in the selection of the participating films. Until that date, the different countries chose which films would represent them in the festival, Bessy created one committee to select French films, and another for foreign films. In 1978, Gilles Jacob assumed the President position, introducing the Caméra dOr award, in 1983, a new, much bigger Palais des Festivals et des Congrès was built to host the Festival. It was nicknamed The Bunker and provoked many reactions against it, in 1984, Pierre Viot replaced Robert Favre Le Bret as President of the Festival. It was not until 1995 that Gilles Jacob created the last section of the Official Selection and its aim was to support the creation of works of cinema in the world and to contribute to the entry of the new scenario writers in the circle of the celebrities
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Stars posing for photographers are a part of Cannes folklore.
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Palme d'Or awarded to
Apocalypse Now at the
1979 Cannes Film Festival
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Bille August
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Bille August is a Danish Academy Award-winning film and television director. His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won the Palme dOr, Academy Award and he is one of only eight directors to win the Palme dOr twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1992 for The Best Intentions, based on the autobiographical script by Ingmar Bergman. He was married to Swedish actress Pernilla August from 1991 to 1997 and his son Anders August is a screenwriter. Tianpeng Media is a new company established in 2010. The company so far has produced two films, The Women Knight of Mirror and The Years of Qi Xiao Fu, which will be released later this year, bille is the first foreign director to be hired by the Chinese film company. Recently, August also accepted the invitation from the Hangzhou government to serve as a consultant for the city. His 2013 film Night Train to Lisbon premiered out of competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival and he is attached to direct a Gianni Versace biopic with Antonio Banderas as Versace. Honning måne Entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival, verden er så stor, så stor TV Movie Maj TV Movie Zappa based on the book by Danish writer Bjarne Reuter. Screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival and the 13th Moscow International Film Festival, busters verden based on the book by Danish writer Bjarne Reuter Tro, håb og kærlighed. Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival, den goda viljan script by Ingmar Bergman. won the Golden Palm at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. The House of the Spirits based on a novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende, the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Two episodes Vienna, November 1908 Northern Italy, June 1918 Jerusalem based on a novel by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. Smillas Sense of Snow based on the novel Miss Smillas Feeling for Snow by Danish author Peter Høeg, nominated for the Golden Bear at Berlin Les Misérables based on the novel of the same name by French author Victor Hugo
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Paul Verhoeven
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Paul Verhoeven is a Dutch film director, film producer, television director, television producer, and screenwriter. Verhoeven is active in both the Netherlands and Hollywood, explicit violent and/or sexual content and social satire are trademarks of both his drama and science fiction films. He is best known for directing the films RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Starship Troopers, Verhoevens film Turkish Delight received the award for Best Dutch Film of the Century at the Netherlands Film Festival. His films altogether received a total of nine Academy Award nominations, mainly for editing, Verhoeven won the Saturn Award for Best Director for Robocop. His Dutch war film Black Book was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and was voted the best Dutch film ever by the Dutch public in 2008. In contrast, he won the Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Director for Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven was born on 18 July 1938 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is the son of school teacher Wim Verhoeven and hat maker Nel van Schaardenburg, although he was born in Amsterdam, the family lived in the village of Slikkerveer. In 1943 the family moved to The Hague, the location of the German headquarters in the Netherlands during World War II, the Verhoeven house was near a German military base with V1 and V2-rocket launchers, which was repeatedly bombed by allied forces. Their neighbours house was hit and Verhoevens parents were almost killed when bombs fell on a street crossing, from this period, Verhoeven mentioned in interviews, he remembers images of violence, burning houses, dead bodies on the street, and continuous danger. As a small child he experienced the war as an adventure and compares himself with the character Bill Rowan in Hope. Verhoevens father Wim Verhoeven became head teacher at the Van Heutszschool in The Hague, sometimes they watched informative films at home with the schools film projector. Paul Verhoeven and his father liked to see American films that were in the cinema after the liberation. They went as many as ten times to see The War of the Worlds, Paul Verhoeven was a fan of the Dutch comic Dick Bos. The character Dick Bos is a detective who fights crime using jujutsu. Verhoeven himself liked comic drawing, he created The Killer, a character in a detailed story full of revenge. Other fiction he liked were Frankenstein and the Rice Burroughs Barsoom series, Verhoeven attended public secondary school Gymnasium Haganum in The Hague. Later, beginning in 1955, he studied at Leiden University, Verhoeven graduated with a doctorandus with a double major, in mathematics and physics. Verhoeven made his first film A Lizzard Too Much for the anniversary of his students corps in 1960, in his last years at university Verhoeven also attended classes at the Netherlands Film Academy
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Paul Verhoeven in 2006
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Presentation of the film Basic Instinct at the
1992 Cannes Film Festival. Left to right:
Jeanne Tripplehorn,
Michael Douglas, Martine Tours (Verhoeven's wife), Paul Verhoeven,
Sharon Stone and
Mario Kassar
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Ron Howard
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Ronald William Ron Howard is an American actor and filmmaker. Howard is best known for playing two roles in television sitcoms in his youth and directing a number of successful feature films later in his career. Howard first came to prominence playing young Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, in 1980, Howard left Happy Days to focus on directing. His films include, the science-fiction/fantasy film Cocoon, the historical docudrama Apollo 13, the biographical drama A Beautiful Mind, in 2002, Howard narrated the Fox comedy series, Arrested Development, on which he would also serve as producer and play a semi-fictionalized version of himself. In 2003, Howard was awarded the National Medal of Arts, asteroid 12561 Howard is named after him. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2013, Howard has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions in the television and motion pictures industries. Howard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, the son of Jean Speegle Howard, an actress, and Rance Howard, a director, a writer. He has German, English, Scottish, Irish, and Dutch ancestry and his father was born with the surname Beckenholdt, and had taken the stage name Howard by 1948, for his acting career. Rance Howard was serving three years in the United States Air Force at the time of Rons birth, the family moved to Hollywood in 1958, the year before the birth of his younger brother, Clint Howard. They rented a house on the south of the Desilu Studios. They lived in Hollywood for at least three years, before moving to Burbank, Howard was tutored at Desilu Studios in his younger years, and graduated from John Burroughs High School. He later attended the University of Southern Californias School of Cinematic Arts, Howard has said he knew from a young age he might want to go into directing thanks to his early experience as an actor. In 1959, Howard had his first credited role, in The Journey. Howard played Timmy in Counterfeit Gun, Season 4, Episode 2 of the TV series, in 1960, Howard was cast as Opie Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show. Credited as Ronny Howard, he portrayed the son of the character for all eight seasons of the show. He and Griffith remained close until Griffiths death nearly 45 years later, in the 1962 film version of The Music Man, Howard played Winthrop Paroo, the child with the lisp, the film starred Robert Preston and Shirley Jones. He also starred in the 1963 film The Courtship of Eddies Father and he appeared as Barry Stewart on The Eleventh Hour, in the episode Is Mr. Martian Coming Back. In the 1970s, he appeared in at least one episode of The Bold Ones, Howard appeared on the 1969 Disneyland Records album The Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion
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Howard in 2011
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Andy Griffith and Howard in
The Andy Griffith Show, circa 1961
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With
Cara Williams in
Pete and Gladys in 1960
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Richie (Ron Howard) takes a turn on Fonzie's motorcycle in a scene from
Happy Days
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John Boorman
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He has directed a total of 22 films and has received five Academy Award nominations. Boorman was born in Shepperton, Surrey, England, the son of Ivy and he was educated at the Salesian School in Chertsey, Surrey, even though his family was not Roman Catholic. Boorman first began by working as a drycleaner and journalist in the late 1950s and he ran the newsrooms at Southern Television in Southampton and Dover before moving into TV documentary filmmaking, eventually becoming the head of the BBCs Bristol-based Documentary Unit in 1962. While not as successful commercially as Lesters film, it drew good reviews from distinguished critics such as Pauline Kael and Dilys Powell, Lee Marvin gave the then-unknown director his full support, telling MGM he deferred all his approvals on the project to Boorman. Returning to the United Kingdom, he made Leo the Last and this film exhibited the influence of Federico Fellini and even starred Fellini regular Marcello Mastroianni, and won him a Best Director award at Cannes. This film became Boormans first true box office success, earning him several award nominations, at the beginning of the 1970s, Boorman was planning to film The Lord of the Rings and corresponded about his plans with the author, J. R. R. Tolkien. Ultimately the production proved too costly, though elements and themes can be seen in Excalibur. A wide variety of films followed, zardoz, starring Sean Connery, was a post-apocalyptic science fiction piece, set in the 24th century. Boorman was selected as director for Exorcist II, The Heretic, a move that surprised the industry given his antipathy to the original film. Boorman declared, Not only did I not want to do the original film and it was based on Chardins intoxicating Idea that biological evolution was the first step In Gods plan, starting with inert rock, and culminating In humankind. Despite Boormans continued rewriting throughout shooting, the film was rendered incomprehensible, the film, released in June 1977, was a critical and box office disaster. Boorman was denounced by author William Peter Blatty, the author of the original novel The Exorcist, Boorman later admitted that his approach to the film was a mistake. The Heretic is often considered not just the worst film of The Exorcist series, Excalibur, a long-held dream project of Boormans, is a retelling of the Arthurian legend, based on Le Morte DArthur. The production was based in the Republic of Ireland, where Boorman had relocated, for the film he employed all of his children as actors and crew and several of Boormans later films have been family business productions. The film, one of the first to be produced by Orion Films, was a moderate success, Hope and Glory is his most autobiographical movie to date, a retelling of his childhood in London during The Blitz. Produced by Goldcrest Films, with Hollywood financing the film, it proved a box office hit in the US, receiving numerous Oscar, BAFTA, however, his 1990 US-produced comedy about a dysfunctional family, Where the Heart Is, was a major flop. Rospo Pallenbergs original screenplay was adapted into a book of the name by award-winning author Robert Holdstock. When his friend David Lean died in 1991, Boorman was announced to be taking over direction of Leans long-planned adaptation of Nostromo, beyond Rangoon and The Tailor of Panama both explore unique worlds with alien characters stranded and desperate
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Boorman at the
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Jamie Lee Curtis
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Jamie Lee Curtis, Lady Haden-Guest is an American actress and author. She made her debut in 1978 by starring as Laurie Strode in John Carpenters Halloween. Curtis other notable films include Blue Steel and Freaky Friday, for which she received her third Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress - Musical or Comedy. For her role in the television series Anything But Love, Curtis received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. Curtis received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her performance in the television film, Curtis currently stars in the comedy horror series Scream Queens on FOX. Curtis is the daughter of the actress Janet Leigh and actor Tony Curtis and she is married to actor, screenwriter, and director Christopher Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest. Her 1998 book Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day made the best-seller list in The New York Times and she has appeared in advertisements and is a blogger for The Huffington Post. Curtis was born in Santa Monica, California, to actor Tony Curtis and her paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants and two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish. Curtiss parents divorced in 1962, after which her mother married Robert Brandt, Curtis has an older sister, Kelly Curtis, who is also an actress, and several half-siblings, Alexandra, Allegra, Benjamin, and Nicholas Curtis. Curtis attended Westlake School in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills High School, returning to California in 1976, she attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She considered majoring in social work, but quit after one semester to pursue an acting career, curtiss film debut occurred in the 1978 horror film Halloween, in which she played the role of Laurie Strode. The film was a success and was considered the highest grossing independent film of its time. Curtis was subsequently cast in several films, garnering her the title. Her next film was the horror film The Fog, which was helmed by Halloween director John Carpenter, the film opened in February 1980 to mixed reviews but strong box office, starting Curtis as a horror film starlet. Her next film, Prom Night, was a low-budget Canadian slasher film released in July 1980 and that year, Curtis also starred in Terror Train, which opened in October and was met with negative reviews akin to Prom Night. Both films performed well at the box office. Curtis had a function in both films - the main character whose friends are murdered, and is practically the only protagonist to survive. Curtis later appeared in Halloween II, Halloween H20,20 Years Later and Halloween, Resurrection, as well as giving a voice role in Halloween III
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Jamie Lee Curtis at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Curtis at the 1989
Emmy Awards
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Curtis in 2011
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Lester James Peries
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Sri Lankabhimanya Lester James Peiris is an internationally acclaimed Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1949, Peries has been involved in over 28 films, including shorts and he has received critical acclaim for directing Rekava, Gamperaliya, Nidhanaya, Golu Hadawatha, Kaliyugaya, Awaragira and Yuganthaya. His movie Wekande Walauwa, starring Ravindra Randeniya and Malini Fonseka, was Sri Lankas first ever submission for the Academy Awards, peiriss films often deal with Sri Lankan family life in rural settings and conflicted characters. He helped create an expression of Sinhala Cinema. Lester James Peiris was born on 5 April 1919 in Dehiwela, Colombo, Lesters father Dr. James Francis Peiris had studied medicine in Scotland and also was a former cricketer for a Scottish club. His mother Ann Gertrude Winifred Jayasuria was a graduate of St. Bridgets Convent in Colombo, jayasuriya notably was the first student to pass the Senior Cambridge exam at the school. Lester had three siblings, Erica, Ivan and Noel, the Peiris family was a staunch Roman Catholic family that had become Anglicised. Growing up Lester only spoke English at home and celebrated Christian traditions and his only link to Sinhala culture was his grandmother who always didnt trust Western medicine and spoke proper Sinhalese. At the age of eleven Lester was given a 8mm Kodascope projector by his father as a gift, at that time, his only interest in films was when he and his brother Ivan would haunt the cinema to watch foreign film serials which ran day after day. Lester was never involved in drama productions, and had no idea he was going to be a film director especially since British Ceylon did not have its own national film industry at that time. He attended St. Peters College- one of the leading Catholic schools in Colombo- as a teenager and he found his first work with the Daily News writing for the blue pages which was an arts supplementation. In 1939 he joined The Times of Ceylon working under Indian editor Frank Moraes and he also reviewed books on Radio Ceylon for a short period. Peiris first real work with production came when he joined a group called Drama Circle. This was a group of like minded individuals which regularly produced modern English plays, here Lester was engaged in all aspects of the productions other than acting. In 1947 Peiris travelled to England on his mothers advice to join his brother Ivan Peries who was there on an art scholarship, moreas suggested writing a column from the country to be published in the Times which became Letter on the Arts from England. During that time, film-making was taking off in the UK with about 400 amateur film clubs around the country, in addition, Lesters passion for the cinema was developing and he met another Sri Lankan with similar interests, Hereword Jansz. The two youngsters decided to make a film together despite Hereword having his doubts about competing with established, well-funded clubs and they began with Lester writing the script and directing while Hereword did the filming with their limited camera equipment. Their first effort Soliloquy, a film, won the Mini Cinema Cup for displaying the best technical proficiency
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Nana Djordjadze
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Nana Jorjadze is a Georgian film director, scriptwriter and actress. Jorjadze was born in Tbilisi, and graduated first from a musical school. Having worked as an architect in the years 1968-74, she enrolled in the Tbilisi State Theatre Institute which she completed in 1980 and she debuted as an actress with the film Some Interviews on Personal Matters in 1977, and as a director with A Journey to Sopot in 1979. Her 1987 work Robinsonada or My English Grandfather was a breakthrough which won her the Caméra dOr at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, and both critical and popular acclaim. She moved to France early in the 1990s and directed films including A Chef in Love which became the first. She is married to fellow Georgian writer and director Irakli Kvirikadze, as director Prime Meridian of Wine Géorgie My Mermaid, My Lorelei Moskva, ya lyublyu tebya. Nana Jorjadze at the Internet Movie Database Nana Djordjadze, geocinema. Org. Ge, Retrieved on December 9,2007
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A Stranger Among Us
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A Stranger Among Us is a 1992 film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Melanie Griffith. It tells the story of a police officers experiences in a Hasidic community. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival and it is often cited as one of Lumets two failures of the 1990s, the other being Guilty as Sin. Despite the poor reviews suffered by both these films, Lumet received the 1993 D. W. Griffith Award of the Directors Guild of America, the film was also the first credited role for actor James Gandolfini. Some aspects of the plot recall the 1977 murder of diamond dealer Pinchos Jaroslawicz, Emily Eden, a hardened New York City homicide detective, goes undercover to investigate the murder of a Hasidic diamond-cutter. To do so, she lives with the family of the Hasidic rebbe and he says to her, You and I have something in common, We are both intimately familiar with evil. It does something to your soul, while living with the rebbes family, she takes a liking to his son, Ariel, a young man who works as a diamond-cutter but teaches in the yeshiva and is expected to follow his father as the next rebbe. In addition to keeping all 613 Mitzvot, he is waiting for his intended, or basherte and they are the subjects of an arranged marriage, but he believes that she is his soul mate, chosen by God. He is also studying the Kabbalah, which is regarded as daring for a man under 40. Its discussion of sexual intimacy is restrained but specific, as well as a metaphor for the relationship between Man and God. This is all Emily needs to solve the case and arrest Mara as an accessory to murder, after Emily attempts to negotiate, Mara knocks her out, and Ariel shoots Mara with Emilys gun. Ariel comments that sometimes an evil deed has a good result. The film ends with the wedding of Ariel and his basherte, Shayna Singer, oliver Rena Sofer - Shayna A Stranger Among Us received negative reviews from critics. It currently holds a 23% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 39 reviews, some of the criticism of A Stranger Among Us is based on comparisons with the Academy Award-winning film Witness, which has a superficially similar plot. Similarly, Lumets earlier film Fail-Safe was unfavorably compared to Dr. Strangelove, griffiths performance in the lead role has also been heavily criticized, for which her role won her the Razzie Award for Worst Actress, while Tracy Pollan was nominated for Worst Supporting Actress. A Stranger Among Us at the Internet Movie Database A Stranger Among Us at AllMovie A Stranger Among Us at Rotten Tomatoes A Stranger Among Us at Box Office Mojo
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Sidney Lumet
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Sidney Arthur Lumet was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, and The Verdict. The Encyclopedia of Hollywood states that Lumet was one of the most prolific filmmakers of the modern era and he was noted by Turner Classic Movies for his strong direction of actors, vigorous storytelling and the social realism in his best work. Film critic Roger Ebert described him as having one of the finest craftsmen. Lumet was also known as an director, having worked with the best of them during his career. Sean Connery, who acted in five of his films, considered him one of his directors. A member of the cohort of New Yorks Actors Studio, Lumet began his directorial career in Off-Broadway productions. His first movie was typical of his best work, a well-acted, tightly written, as a result of directing 12 Angry Men, he was also responsible for leading the first wave of directors who made a successful transition from TV to movies. In 2005, Lumet received an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement for his brilliant services to screenwriters, performers, two years later, he concluded his career with the acclaimed drama Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead. A few months after Lumets death in April 2011, a celebration of his work was held at New Yorks Lincoln Center with the appearance of numerous speakers. In 2015, Nancy Buirski directed By Sidney Lumet, a documentary about his career, Lumet was born in Philadelphia to parents of Jewish descent. He studied theater acting at the Professional Childrens School of New York, Lumets parents, Baruch and Eugenia Lumet, were both veterans of the Yiddish theatre. His father, who was an actor, director, producer and writer, was a Polish Jewish emigrant to the United States who was born in Warsaw, Lumets mother, who was a dancer, died when he was a child. He made his debut on radio at age four and stage debut at the Yiddish Art Theatre at age five. As a child he appeared in many Broadway plays, including 1935s Dead End. In 1935, aged 11, he appeared in a Henry Lynn short film, Papirossen, the film was shown in a theatrical play with the same title, based on a hit song, Papirosn. The play and short film appeared in the Bronx McKinley Square Theatre, in 1939, he made his only feature-length film appearance, at age 15, in. One Third of a Nation. In 1939, World War II interrupted his acting career
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Lumet in the 1940 play, Journey to Jerusalem
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Dream of Light
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Dream of Light, also known as The Quince Tree Sun, is a 1992 Spanish narrative/documentary film directed by Victor Erice. The film centers on Spanish painter Antonio López García and his attempt to paint the eponymous quince tree, López struggles to capture a perfect, fleeting moment of beauty on canvas, and the film meticulously chronicles his work. The film begins by showing Antonio López García as a meticulous painter. He drives in pegs to mark his stance, hangs a weight and uses strings to determine the symmetry and his first attempt starts out peacefully but he soon encounters problems due to the weather and the size of his canvas. Garcías future attempts are much more rushed and frantic as he struggles to compete with the weather, the fleeting sun, at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival the film won the Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize. Dream of Light at the Internet Movie Database Dream of Light at AllMovie
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Fernando Solanas
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Fernando Ezequiel Pino Solanas is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and politician. His films include La hora de los hornos, Tangos, el exilio de Gardel, Sur, El viaje, La nube and Memorias del saqueo, Solanas studied theatre, music and law. The film won international awards and was screened around the world. Solanas has won the Special Jury Award and the Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival, in 1999 he was the President of the Jury at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival. He was awarded a special Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival and he collaborated with tango composer and musician Ástor Piazzolla on the soundtracks for various movies. Solanas was at the forefront of the Grupo Cine Liberación that shook Argentine cinema in the 1970s, developing its social conscience and he was active in the campaign to support Perón. Threatened by right-wing forces in the 1970s, one of his actors was assassinated, together with Octavio Getino, Solanas wrote the manifesto Toward a Third Cinema. The idea of a political Third Cinema, opposed to Hollywood cinema and European auteur cinema, Solanas went into exile in Paris in 1976, only returning to Argentina with the arrival of democracy in 1983. He continued to make films and was an outspoken critic of Carlos Menem. Three days after such a criticism, on 21 May 1991. Despite dealing with the attack and disability, Solanas became even more involved in politics and stood to be a Senator for Buenos Aires, a year later he was elected a National Deputy for the Frente Grande list, although he left the party after a year. Solanas continues to write and direct, including the 2005 film La Dignidad de los Nadies and his son, Juan Solanas, is also a noted film director. In October 2007, Solanas was a candidate in the Argentine general election,2007 for the Authentic Socialist Party. He became the 5th most voted candidate, with 1. 58% of the vote, and no one can become a total filmmaker without being a film technician, without being capable of handling the production. Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, Towards a Third Cinema in, Movies, an Anthology, edited by Bill Nichols, University of Arizona Press 1976, pp 44–64 Jessica Stites Mor. Transition Cinema, Political Filmmaking and the Argentine Left since 1968, official website Fernando Solanas at the Internet Movie Database Towards a Third Cinema Manifesto Interview. Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo 2009, Santander, Spain on YouTube
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Film maker Fernando Pino Solanas on the set of Tangos: el exilio de Gardel (1985).
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Solanas accepting a Silver Mayahuel award at the
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Howards End (film)
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Howards End is a 1992 British romantic drama film based upon the novel of the same name by E. M. Forster, a story of class relations in turn-of-the-20th-century England. The film—produced by Merchant Ivory Productions as their third adaptation of a Forster novel —was the first film to be released by Sony Pictures Classics, the screenplay was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. Howards End was entered as Official selection for Cannes International Film Festival, in 1993, the film received nine Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture for Ismail Merchant and Best Director for James Ivory. The film won three awards, including for Best Art Direction, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala earned her second Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, while Emma Thompson won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Actress. The film asks the question Who will inherit England, and answers it through the ownership of the house, Howards End, as it passes from person to person. The younger sister, Helen Schlegel, briefly engaged to the younger Wilcox son. They realise their mistake and break it off by mutual consent, Ruth is descended from English yeoman stock and it is through her family that the Wilcoxes have come to own Howards End, a house she loves dearly. It stands symbolically above class distinction, representing rural England, the tapestry of its manifold traditions. Over the course of the few months, the two women become very good friends, and Ruth eventually regards Margaret as a kindred spirit. Hearing that the lease on the Schlegels London house is due to expire and this causes great consternation to the Wilcoxes, who refuse to believe that Ruth was in her right mind or could possibly have intended her home to go to a relative stranger. The Wilcoxes burn the piece of paper on which Ruths bequest is written, Henry Wilcox is aware, as Margaret is not, that he has prevented the Schlegels from finding a home at Howards End. Therefore, he offers to help Margaret look for a new place to live, as a result, they get to know each other quite well. Some time before this the Schlegels had befriended a young, poor, yet highly intellectual clerk, both sisters find him remarkable, infused with a spirit of romantic ambition as Margaret puts it. Wishing to improve his lot, they pass along advice from Henry to the effect that Leonard must leave his post, Leonard acts on this advice in good faith, but finds himself in a far worse position, indeed he is unable to find any employment. The two plot lines converge unexpectedly at the scene of the wedding party of Evie Wilcox. Helen has found the Basts destitute, on the verge of starvation, and brings them from London to Shropshire, where she storms into the garden party, jacky Bast overeats and gets drunk, Margaret approaches her with Henry trying to resolve the situation. Jacky recognises Henry immediately and Margaret learns that years previously. Humiliated and suspicious, Henry breaks off the engagement, nevertheless, he and Margaret make their peace with each other the same evening, and she forgives his moral transgression, valiantly determining, this is not going to trouble us
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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
