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Ryszard Horowitz
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Ryszard Horowitz is a Polish photographer. He is recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography that predates digital imaging, Horowitz was born in Kraków, Poland on May 5,1939. Four months later, Ryszards entire family were forced into concentration camps following the German invasion of Poland, from September 1944 he was imprisoned at Auschwitz and later became known as being among the youngest known people to survive Auschwitz concentration camp and to be listed on Schindlers list. At the wars end, five-year old Ryszard was reunited with his family after his mother found him in an orphanage, Horowitz began taking pictures at the age of fourteen. For a brief period of time during his childhood he grew up alongside Roman Polański with whom he created his first photographic enlarger from cardboard. In 1956, the Polish government began awarding subsidies to encourage new and original art forms and Kraków suddenly emerged as a center of jazz, painting, theater. For two years, beginning in 1959, Ryszard studied art at the High School of Fine Arts in Kraków and it was at this time that he became interested in photography, particularly the work of American photographers. Jazz music was of particular interest to Horowitz as a photography student and he photo documented the birth of Polish Jazz and in 1958 photographed jazz legends such as Dave Brubeck, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Sonny Rollins at the Newport Jazz Festival. Ryszard immigrated to the United States in 1959 and enrolled at New Yorks Pratt Institute in the commercial, here he encountered his mentors, Richard Avedon and Alexey Brodovitch. Horowitz took part in seminars led by Brodovitch and worked as an assistant for Avedon in 1963. After graduating from Pratt in 1962, Horowitz began working in film and television and graphic design companies, in 1967 he opened his own photography studio in New York City. Early in his career, to such effects he used a multitude of photographic techniques such as darkroom retouching, multiple film exposures. According to IMDB, he appeared in an uncredited role in the film as a mourner during the final scene. Horowitzs photographs appear on the cover of both Dot Hackers 2014 Hows Your Process albums, in 1974, Horowitz married Anna Bogusz, an architect. They have two sons, Daniel and Emil. pl
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The City of Lost Children
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The City of Lost Children is a 1995 science fantasy drama film directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Jeunet and Gilles Adrien, and starring Ron Perlman. An international co-production of companies from France, Germany, and Spain, the music score was composed by Angelo Badalamenti. It was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, Krank, a demented scientist, kidnaps children from a port city to steal their dreams, as he is incapable of having his own. Among them is Denree, the little brother of carnival strongman and former whaler One. Assisting him is a girl named Miette, a member of a thieves guild of orphaned children. They delve into the world of a cult and discover the connection between Krank and Denree. Krank is both aided and hindered by his family, a group of bioengineered beings created by an absent genius and they support themselves by supplying prosthetic eyes and ears to the cult, which believes the items can help them see a deeper reality. In return, the cult abducts children to be subjects for Kranks experiments, Krank uses a machine to steal childrens dreams for himself. However, he does not understand that by kidnapping the children, he frightens them and causes them to have only nightmares, miettes guild hires One to help them steal a large safe. The theft is successful but the safe is lost in the harbor when One is distracted by seeing Denrees kidnappers, the guild orders circus performer Marcello to return One to them. Marcello allows Miette to fall in the harbor and drown while rescuing One from the cult, Miette is rescued by an amnesiac diver living beneath the harbor, who bears resemblance to a group of clones in Kranks family. After an accident revives Miette, she takes some valuables from the stolen safe and she finds One and Marcello both drowning their sorrows in a bar. Upon seeing Miette alive, the remorseful Marcello lets One leave with her and they all converge on the rig, the diver to destroy it and the duo to rescue Denree. Miette is almost killed by the duplicitous Martha before the diver arrives, in the dream world, Miette meets Krank and makes a deal with him to replace Denree as the source of the dream, Krank fears a trap but plays along, believing himself to be in control. Miette then uses her imagination to control the dream and turn it into an infinite loop, the film is widely regarded as a steampunk film as the typical stylistic features of arcane machinery are pervasive throughout. A video game based on the film was released in the United States and in parts of Europe for the PC first, players take on the role of Miette and confront puzzles in an adventure game format. On GameRankings the PC version holds a score of 60%, while the PlayStation version holds a score of 54. 50%
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French release poster
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The Quick and the Dead (1995 film)
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The Quick and the Dead is a 1995 American western film directed by Sam Raimi, and starring Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. The screenplay was written by Simon Moore but includes contributions from Joss Whedon, the story focuses on The Lady, a gunfighter who rides into the frontier town of Redemption, controlled by John Herod. The Lady joins a deadly dueling competition in an attempt to revenge for her fathers death. Simon Moores script was purchased by Sony Pictures Entertainment in May 1993, development was fast tracked after director Sam Raimis hiring, and principal photography began in Old Tucson Studios in Arizona on November 21,1993. The film was distributed by TriStar Pictures and was released in the US on February 10,1995 to a box office performance. This was Russell Crowes American film debut and this was Woody Strodes final performance, as well as the last theatrical release of Roberts Blossom who died in 2011. The phrase the quick and the dead is from the Book of Common Prayer and its version of the Apostles Creed, the plot of this film bears no resemblance to that of the 1987 film of the same name, which was based on a western novel by Louis LAmour. While there she meets Cort, a former Herod henchman turned preacher whom Herod has captured and forced to enter the contest, during her first night in town, The Lady saves Corts life by shooting through the rope Herods men had used to hang him. She also meets The Kid, a young man who runs the general store. The Kid believes Herod is his father and that he can earn his fathers respect by entering and winning the contest. In the first round of duels The Kid defeats a Swedish quick-draw champion while Herod kills a braggart named Ace Hanlon, the Lady defeats an enemy she had previously left shackled to a wagon. Cort, who has renounced violence and doesnt have a weapon, is taken to the general store, Herod buys Cort a gun and decrees that Cort can only have one bullet at a time so that he doesnt shoot his way out of town. Despite telling everyone he wouldnt fight, Cort winds up drawing his gun, during a rainstorm Herod meets with Clay Cantrell, a professional gunfighter hired by the townspeople to kill Herod. Before they duel, Herod changes the rules and proclaims that all contests are now to the death, after killing Cantrell, Herod angrily addresses the townspeople and informs them that he will continue to raise his taxes on them until they understand that he is in charge of everything. During a rainstorm that evening The Lady faces off with Eugene Dred after Dred rapes a girl at the saloon. She defeats him but spares his life and returns to the bar, the next day, Cort is slated to fight Spotted Horse, an American Indian who claims he cannot be killed by bullets. The Lady, still upset over killing Dred the night before, saddles up, Cort narrowly beats Spotted Horse after having to beg for a second bullet. The Lady is found at a cemetery by Doc Wallace
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Theatrical release poster
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Actor Gene Hackman who portrayed gunslinger John Herod.
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Director Sam Raimi
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The Quick and the Dead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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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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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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Underground (1995 film)
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Underground, is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Emir Kusturica, with a screenplay co-written by the director and Dušan Kovačević. It is also known by the subtitle Once Upon a Time There Was One Country, the film uses the epic story of two friends to portray a Yugoslav history from the beginning of World War II until the beginning of Yugoslav Wars. The film was an international co-production with companies from Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Czech Republic, the theatrical version is 163 minutes long. In interviews, Kusturica stated that his original version ran for over 320 minutes, Underground won the Palme dOr at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. It was Kusturicas second such award after When Father Was Away on Business, the film was selected as the Serbian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Underground depicts the life of two friends throughout World War II, Cold War, and the Yugoslav Wars, riding atop a horse carriage while tailed and serenaded by a brass orchestra, theyre drunkenly singing and shooting their way through the citys downtown. They pass through Kalemegdan and shout salutes to Markos brother Ivan whos an animal keeper in the Belgrade Zoo. A stutterer with a leg, Ivan is already up to feed the animals. As the drunk duo pulls up in front of Blackys home, Blacky goes into the house while Marko proceeds on and picks up a street prostitute before disappearing into his house with her. Suddenly, the roar of the planes is heard, and Nazi bombs begin falling on Belgrade, in the ensuing chaos, as people run for cover, unflinching Blacky and Marko show no signs of panic. After the air raid is over, Blacky goes out against the wishes of his wife, encountering building ruins and escaped wild animals from the zoo, he also runs into disconsolate Ivan carrying a baby chimp named Soni. Blackys parting piece of advice to his best friends brother is a stern and you want the Germans to see you like that and laugh at you. Before giving him money to buy milk for the monkey. Royal Yugoslav Armys resistance is broken, and Nazis soon occupy. Blacky starts operating clandestinely as a communist activist along with Marko and their activism mostly consists of stealing German weapons shipments as well as jewellery and other valuables from the citys elite. Blacky occasionally visits his mistress Natalija Zovkov whos been assigned to a special actors labour brigade thats helping the rebuilding effort under German occupational control. Meanwhile, Marko has set up weapons storage and hideaway spot in the cellar of his grandfathers house, following their interception of a large trainload of weapons, Marko and Blacky are mentioned by name and identified as dangerous bandits in Nazi radio bulletins. While Blacky is off hiding in the woods as Germans are intensifying door-to-door raids in the city, Marko takes Vera, Ivan, Vera is due any minute and gets contractions immediately upon entering the cellar
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Carole Bouquet
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Carole Bouquet is a French actress and fashion model, who has appeared in more than 50 films since 1977. She played Bond girl Melina Havelock in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only, in 1990, she was awarded the César Award for Best Actress for her role in Too Beautiful for You. Bouquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, also she received a César Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Rive droite, rive gauche. Bouquet was a model for Chanel in the 1980s–1990s and she was the companion of producer Jean-Pierre Rassam with whom she had a son, Dimitri Rassam, also a producer. In 1987, she gave birth to a son, Louis and she married immunologist Jacques Liebowitch in 1992, they divorced in 1996. In 1999 she was a member of the jury of the 4th Shanghai International Film Festival, in 2014 she was a member of the main competition jury of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007, Carole Bouquet at the Internet Movie Database Carole Bouquet at AllMovie Carole Bouquet at AlloCiné
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Bouquet in 2013
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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
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Emir Kusturica
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Emir Kusturica is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician. He has been recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films, as well as his projects in town-building and he has competed at the Cannes Film Festival on five occasions and won the Palme dOr twice, as well as the Best Director prize for Time of the Gypsies. He has also won a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Arizona Dream, in addition he was also named Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Since the mid-2000s, Kusturicas primary residence has been in Drvengrad and he had portions of the historic village reconstructed for the film. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska since 9 November 2011, a lively youth, young Emir was by his own admission a borderline delinquent while growing up in the Sarajevo neighbourhood of Gorica. After graduating from FAMU, Kusturica began directing short films in Yugoslavia. He made his film debut in 1981 with Do You Remember Dolly Bell. A coming-of-age drama that won the prestigious Silver Lion for Best First Work at that years Venice Film Festival, the same year, at the age of 27, he became lecturer at the newly established Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, a job that he performed until 1988. He was also art director of Open Stage Obala, Kusturica wrote the screenplays for both Do You Remember Dolly Bell. and When Father Was Away on Business. In 1989 Kusturica earned more accolades for Time of the Gypsies, a film about Romani culture, in 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. Kusturica continued to highly regarded films into the next decade, including his American debut. He won the Palme dOr for his black comedy epic, Underground, based upon a scenario of Dušan Kovačević and he also taught Film Directing at Columbia Universitys Graduate Film Division. In 1998, he won the Venice Film Festivals Silver Lion for Best Direction for Black Cat, White Cat, the music for the film was composed by the Belgrade-based band No Smoking Orchestra. In 2001, Kusturica directed Super 8 Stories, a road and concert movie about The No Smoking Orchestra. He was appointed President of the Jury of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and his film, Maradona, a documentary on Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona, was released in Italy in May 2007. It premiered in France during the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 and his film Promise Me This premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In June 2007, Kusturica directed the video to Manu Chaos single Rainin in Paradize. On 8 September 2007, Kusturica was appointed a UNICEF National Ambassador for Serbia, alongside Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Janković, since January 2008 he has organized the annual private Küstendorf Film Festival
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Mayor of
Guadalajara Alfonso Petersen presents Kusturica with the keys to the city at
Telmex Auditorium in March 2009
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a French film director and screenwriter known for the films Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien, Resurrection and Amélie. Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France and he bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his collaborator and co-director. They met at a festival in Annecy in the 1970s. Together, Jeunet and Caro directed award-winning animations and their first live action film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots, a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world. Jeunet also directed numerous advertisements and music videos, such as Jean Michel Jarres Zoolook and they next made The City of Lost Children, a dark, multi-layered fantasy film about a mad scientist who steals childrens dreams so that he can live indefinitely. The success of The City of Lost Children led to an invitation to direct the film in the Alien series, Alien. Caro ended up assisting for a few weeks, with costumes and set design but afterwards, decided to work on a career in illustration. Jeunet directed Amélie, starring Audrey Tautou, for this film, Jeunet also gained a European Film Award for Best Director. In 2004, Jeunet released A Very Long Engagement, an adaptation of the novel by Sébastien Japrisot, the film, starring Audrey Tautou and Jodie Foster, chronicled a womans search for her missing lover after World War I. In 2009, he released Micmacs which was about man and his friends who come up with an intricate, Jeunet has also directed numerous commercials including a 225 film for Chanel N°5 featuring his frequent collaborator Audrey Tautou. In 2013, Jeunet released The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet an adaptation of Reif Larsens book, the film was shot in English at various locations in Canada and in Washington, D. C
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Jeunet at Deauville, 2009
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Sam Raimi
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His most recent work is the 2013 Disney fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful. Raimi has also produced several television series and founded his own production company, Renaissance Pictures. Recently, he worked as the producer of The Possession, Raimi was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. He is the fourth of five born to Celia Barbara and Leonard Ronald Raimi. He was raised in Conservative Judaism, his ancestors emigrated from Russia, Raimi graduated from Groves High School and later went on to attend Michigan State University, where he majored in English but left after three semesters to film The Evil Dead. Raimi became fascinated with making films when his father brought a movie camera home one day and he began to make Super 8 movies with childhood friend Bruce Campbell. In college, he teamed up with his brothers roommate Robert Tapert and Campbell to shoot Within the Woods and he began work on his third film Crimewave, intended as a live-action comic book—the film was not successful, due in part to unwanted studio intervention. Raimi then returned to the genre with the seminal Evil Dead II. With his brother Ivan Raimi, Sam Raimi also wrote Easy Wheels, a long-time comic book buff, he then attempted to adapt The Shadow into a movie, but was unable to secure the rights, so he created his own super-hero, Darkman. Army of Darkness, the movie in the Evil Dead trilogy, was a box office flop. Raimi achieved great critical and commercial success with the blockbuster Spider-Man, the movie has grossed over US$800 million worldwide, spawning two sequels, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3, both directed by Raimi and both grossing roughly $800 million each. After the completion of the third Spider-Man film, he planned on producing two more sequels but could not find a satisfactory script, Raimi frequently collaborates with Joel and Ethan Coen, beginning when Joel was one of the editors of Evil Dead. The Coens co-wrote Crimewave and The Hudsucker Proxy with Raimi in the mid-1980s, Raimi made cameo appearances in Millers Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, and with Joel Coen in Spies Like Us. The Coen brothers gave Raimi advice on shooting in snow for A Simple Plan, the film was written by his childhood friend writer-director Mike Binder and shot at the camp that they both attended when they were younger. Raimi also produced the entire The Grudge franchise, according to Entertainment Weekly, Raimi had expressed an interest in directing a film version of The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 2008, Guillermo del Toro was selected as the director, Raimi may direct By Any Means Necessary, the next film based on the Jack Ryan CIA character created by Tom Clancy for Paramount Pictures. Disney also approached him to direct W. I. T. C. H, the Movie, based on the popular comic. Blizzard Entertainment announced on July 22,2009 that Sam Raimi will be directing a Warcraft film, however at Comic-Con International 2012, it was revealed that he would not be the one directing the World of Warcraft adaptation
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Sam Raimi at the 2014
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Enki Bilal
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Enki Bilal is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director. Born Enes Bilalović in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, to a Slovak mother, at age 14, he met René Goscinny and with his encouragement applied his talent to comics. He produced work for Goscinnys Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote in the 1970s, publishing his first story, Le Bal Maudit, in 1975, Bilal began working with script writer Pierre Christin on a series of dark and surreal tales, resulting in the body of work titled Légendes dAujourdhui. He is best known for the Nikopol trilogy, which more than a decade to complete. Bilal wrote the script and did the artwork, the final chapter, Froid Équateur, was chosen book of the year by the magazine Lire and is acknowledged by the inventor of chess boxing, Iepe Rubingh as the inspiration for the sport. The last book in the Hatzfeld tetralogy, deals with the breakup of Yugoslavia from a future viewpoint, the first installment came in 1998 in the shape of Le Sommeil du Monstre opening with the main character, Nike, remembering the war in a series of traumatic flashbacks. The third chapter of the tetralogy is Rendez-vous à Paris, which was the fifth best selling new comic of 2006 and his cinematic career was revived with the expensive Immortel, his first attempt to adapt his books to the screen. The film divided critics, some panning the use of CGI characters but others seeing it as a faithful reinterpretation of the books, on May 13,2008 a video game based on the Nikopol trilogy was announced titled Nikopol, Secrets of the Immortals. In 2012, Bilal was featured in an exhibition at The Louvre. The exhibition, titled The Ghosts of the Louvre, ran from December 20,2012 to March 18,2013, the exhibition was organized by Fabrice Douar, and featured a series of paintings of Ghosts, done atop photographs that Bilal took of the Louvres collection. La Foire aux immortels La Femme piège Froid Équateur Le Sommeil du monstre 32 Décembre Rendez-vous à Paris Quatre, many famous Bilal comics made their English debut in this period of the magazine. Although shorter stories appeared later in the Nineties, Heavy Metal readers had to wait until 2012 for another graphic novel feature from Bilal, graphic novels Short stories Since the late seventies publishers like NBM, Catalan Communications, Humanoids publishing have released several albums by Bilal. The Call of the Stars A collection of short stories
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Enki Bilal in March 2010
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Jeanne Moreau
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Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days, Seven Nights, the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria. and the César Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea. She has also been the recipient of several awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship in 1996. Moreau made her debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. She began playing roles in films in 1949, impressing in a Fernandel vehicle Meutres. in 1950. She achieved prominence as the star of Elevator to the Gallows, directed by Louis Malle, most prolific during the 1960s, Moreau continued to appear in films into her eighties. Moreau was born in Paris the daughter of Katherine, a dancer who performed at the Folies Bergère, and Anatole-Désiré Moreau, moreaus father was French, her mother was English, a native of Lancashire in England, and of part-Irish descent. Moreaus father was Catholic and her mother, originally a Protestant, when a young girl, the family moved south to Vichy, spending vacations at the ancestral village of Mazirat, a town of 30 houses in a valley in the Allier. It was wonderful there, Moreau said, every tombstone in the cemetery was for a Moreau. During the war, the family was split and Moreau lived with her mother in Paris, Moreau ultimately lost interest in school at age 16 and, after attending Jean Anouilhs Antigone, found her calling as an actor. She later studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and her parents separated permanently while Moreau was at the conservatory and her mother, after 24 difficult years in France, returned to England with Jeannes younger sister, Michelle. In 1947, Moreau made her debut at the Avignon Festival. She debuted at the Comédie-Française in Ivan Turgenevs A Month in the Country and, from the late 1950s, after appearing in several successful films, she began to work with the emerging generation of French film-makers. Elevator to the Gallows with first-time director Louis Malle was followed by Malles The Lovers, the latter film, controversial in its day, led the media to tag her The New Bardot. Largely thanks to those films, Moreau went on to work many of the best known New Wave. François Truffauts New Wave film Jules et Jim, her biggest success internationally, is centred on her starring role. In 1983 she was head of the jury at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival, in 2005, she was awarded with the Stanislavsky Award at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. Moreau has had success as a vocalist and she has released several albums and once performed with Frank Sinatra at Carnegie Hall
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at the
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Jeanne Moreau as depicted on the poster for Jules et Jim, 1962
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Jeanne Moreau and
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Gianni Amelio
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Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director. Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro and his father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother, the absence of a paternal figures will be a constant in Amelios future works. During his university studies of philosophy in Messina, Amelio got interested in cinema, in 1965 he moved to Rome, where he worked as operator and assistant director for figures such as Liliana Cavani and Vittorio De Seta. He also worked for television, directing documentaries and advertisements, Amelios first important work is the TV film La città del sole, directed in 1973 for RAI TV and inspired to Tommaso Campanellas work. This was followed by Bertolucci secondo il cinema a documentary about 1900 shooting, two years later he directed the mystery La morte al lavoro, which won prizes at Locarno and Hyères festivals. Il piccolo Archimede of 1979 was also critically acclaimed, in 1982 he debuted for cinema proper with Colpire al cuore, about Italian terrorism, presented at the Venice Film Festival. 1989s Porte aperte, featuring Gian Maria Volontè, confirmed Amelios status as one of Italys best film directors, the film received also 4 Felix,2 Silver Ribbon,4 David di Donatello and 3 Golden Globes awards. Also successful was Il ladro di bambini in 1992, which won the Special Prize of Jury at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival plus two Silver Ribbon and 5 David di Donatello. In 1994 Lamerica, about Albanian immigration in Italy, repeated the fate, four years later, Così ridevano won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Amelio gained another Silver Ribbon as best director for Le chiavi di casa, inspired to a novel by Giuseppe Pontiggia, Amelio was a member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. In 2006 he released his eighth film, La stella che non cè
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Amelio at the
49th Venice International Film Festival (1992)
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Jean-Claude Brialy
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Jean-Claude Brialy was a French actor and director. Brialy was born in Aumale, French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army, Brialy moved to mainland France with his family in 1942, moved to Paris in 1954, and appeared in his first film in 1955. He became a star in the late 1950s when he was one of the most prolific actors of the French nouvelle vague and he was also a director of a number of films, including Églantine. In his autobiographies, Le Ruisseau des singes and Jai oublié de vous dire and he revealed that he was bisexual. He was an alumnus of the Prytanée National Militaire and he owned a restaurant, LOrangerie, on the Île Saint-Louis, worked as a TV presenter, a singer and a radio host. Monaco, Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit Églantine Les volets clos Loiseau rare Un amour de pluie Le Ruisseau des singes Jai oublié de vous dire, Jean-Claude Brialy at the Internet Movie Database Jean-Claude Brialy at Find a Grave
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Jean-Claude Brialy
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Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of great benefit to humanity. Gordimers writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa, under that regime, works such as Burgers Daughter and Julys People were banned. She was also active in HIV/AIDS causes, Gordimer was born near Springs, Gauteng, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish immigrant watchmaker from Žagarė and her mother was from an assimilated family of Jewish origins, Gordimer was raised in a secular household. Gordimers early interest in racial and economic inequality in South Africa was shaped in part by her parents. Conversely, Gordimer saw activism by her mother, whose concern about the poverty, Gordimer also witnessed government repression first-hand as a teenager, the police raided her family home, confiscating letters and diaries from a servants room. Gordimer was educated at a Catholic convent school, but was largely home-bound as a child because her mother, for reasons of her own. Home-bound and often isolated, she began writing at an early age, at the age of 16, she had her first adult fiction published. Gordimer studied for a year at the University of the Witwatersrand and she also became involved in the Sophiatown renaissance. She did not complete her degree, but moved to Johannesburg in 1948, while taking classes in Johannesburg, she continued to write, publishing mostly in local South African magazines. She collected many of early stories in Face to Face. In 1951, the New Yorker accepted Gordimers story A Watcher of the Dead, beginning a long relationship, Gordimer, who said she believed the short story was the literary form for our age, continued to publish short stories in the New Yorker and other prominent literary journals. Gordimers first novel, The Lying Days, was published in 1953, Gordimer had a daughter, Oriane, by her first marriage in 1949 to Gerald Gavron, a local dentist, from whom she was divorced within three years. Their son, Hugo, was born in 1955, and is a filmmaker in New York, Hugo Cassirer later married Sarah Buttrick, and had three children. The arrest of her best friend, Bettie du Toit, in 1960, thereafter, she quickly became active in South African politics, and was close friends with Nelson Mandelas defence attorneys during his 1962 trial. She also helped Mandela edit his famous speech I Am Prepared to Die, when Mandela was released from prison in 1990, she was one of the first people he wanted to see. During the 1960s and 1970s, she continued to live in Johannesburg and she had begun to achieve international literary recognition, receiving her first major award in 1961
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Gordimer at the Göteborg Book Fair, 2010
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John Waters (filmmaker)
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Waterss 1970s and early 1980s films feature his regular troupe of actors known as the Dreamlanders—among them Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Edith Massey. Starting with Desperate Living, Waters began casting real-life convicted criminals, Waters dabbled in mainstream filmmaking with Hairspray, which introduced Ricki Lake and earned a modest gross of US$8 million in the United States market. In 2002, Hairspray was adapted to a long-running Broadway musical, Waters was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Patricia Ann and John Samuel Waters, who was a manufacturer of fire-protection equipment. His family were upper-middle class Roman Catholics, Waters grew up in Lutherville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. His boyhood friend and muse Glenn Milstead, later known as Divine, the film Lili inspired an interest in puppets in the seven-year-old Waters, who proceeded to stage violent versions of Punch and Judy for childrens birthday parties. Biographer Robrt L. Pela says that Waters mother believes the puppets in Lili had the greatest influence on Waters subsequent career, Waters was privately educated at the Calvert School in Baltimore. High School in Towson, Maryland, and Calvert Hall College High School in nearby Towson, in 1962, for his 16th birthday, Waters received an 8mm movie camera from his maternal grandmother, Stella Whitaker. Waters first short film was Hag in a Black Leather Jacket, according to Waters, the film was shown only once in a beatnik coffee house in Baltimore, although in later years he has included it in his traveling photography exhibit. Waters enrolled at New York University, the school, however, was not what Waters had in mind, NYU. I was there for about five minutes. I dont know what I was thinking about, I went to one class and they kept talking about Potemkin and that isnt what I wanted to talk about. I had just gone to see Olgas House of Shame and that was what I was more into. Extremely influential to his mind, Waters tells Robert K. Elder in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life, was The Wizard of Oz. I was always drawn to forbidden subject matter in the very, very beginning, the Wizard of Oz opened me up because it was one of the first movies I ever saw. It opened me up to villainy, to screenwriting, to costumes, I think the witch has great, great dialogue. Waters has further credited his influences as, among others, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Federico Fellini, William Castle and he has stated that he takes an equal amount of joy and influence from high-brow art films and sleazy exploitation films. In January 1966, Waters and some friends were caught smoking marijuana on the grounds of NYU, Waters returned to Baltimore, where he completed his next two short films Roman Candles and Eat Your Makeup. These were followed by the feature-length films Mondo Trasho and Multiple Maniacs, Waters films would become Divines primary star vehicles. All of Waters early films were shot in the Baltimore area with his company of local actors, in addition to Divine, the group included Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Susan Walsh, and others
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Waters at Pen America/Free Expression Literature, May 2014.
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Waters in New York City
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (film)
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a 1995 Belgian-French drama film directed by Marion Hänsel. It was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, the plot is based on the short story titled Li, by the Greek poet and sailor Nikos Kavvadias. Nikos, a sailor, learns that the company that runs his ship has gone bankrupt, for the few weeks it will take to sell the ship he is on, the ship remains off the coast of Hong Kong. It is boarded by a beggar girl Li, who offers to take care of him in exchange for food for her and her baby brother. Though he claims to have no use for her, Nikos reluctantly agrees to the deal, Nikos struggles with an opium addiction and regret over abandoning his girlfriend and their child. He warms to Li and her brother, treating them as surrogate children, when his final paycheck comes through he decides to return to Europe but not before bringing Li ashore for a day where he meets both her mother and father. Before they part Li and Nikos talk about luck and good fortune, as he boards a new ship to return home he sees that Li has given him a gold dragon embroidered on Shantung silk, the symbol Li had previously told Nikos represented luck
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Beyond Rangoon
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Beyond Rangoon is a 1995 drama film directed by John Boorman about Laura Bowman, an American tourist who vacations in Burma in 1988, the year in which the 8888 Uprising takes place. The film was filmed in Malaysia, and, though a work of fiction, was inspired by real people. Bowman joins, albeit unintentionally, political rallies with university students protesting for democracy. There, they see the brutality of the dictators of the State Law and Order Restoration Council. The film was a selection at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. The film may have had an impact beyond movie screens, however, only weeks into its European run, the Burmese military junta freed Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi after several years under strict house arrest. The celebrated democracy leader thanked the filmmakers in her first interview with the BBC, andy Bowman persuades her sister Laura to go on a trip to Burma after Laura’s husband and son are killed in a home invasion and Laura had gone into a deep depression. One night, unable to sleep because of nightmares, Laura leaves her hotel in Rangoon and she is very impressed by the bravery of Aung San Suu Kyi. When her tour group leaves the country, Laura cannot leave them as her passport was stolen the previous night. While staying behind waiting for her new passport, she meets U Aung Ko and he takes Laura out into the countryside to a Buddhist monastery. The car develops problems, but fortunately they are able to coast to the house of some of Ko’s friends, Laura learns that Ko used to be a college professor, who was banned from teaching for supporting anti-government activity led by his former student Min Han. She has a breakdown and tells Ko what happened to her family, the next morning they learn that the 8888 uprising began the previous day. Ko takes Laura to a station to get back to Rangoon. She sneaks on board, but the soldiers start beating Ko, Laura gets Ko into the car and they leave, pursued by the soldiers, but Ko is shot and wounded. They end up crashing into the Irrawaddy river, but get away from the soldiers and they get on a raft taking bamboo to Rangoon. Laura, who is a doctor operates on Ko to remove the bullet, the next day the raft stops at a village. Laura goes to find drugs to treat Ko and she reluctantly accepts a pistol from one of the crew. At a clinic Laura finds the drugs she needs, but has to shoot a soldier to keep from being raped, when they arrive in Rangoon, the city is in the throes of a full-scale revolt
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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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Carrington (film)
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Carrington is a 1995 British biographical film written and directed by Christopher Hampton about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington, who was known simply as Carrington. The screenplay is based on biographies of writer and critic Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd, the film is divided into 6 chapters. Lytton & Carrington 1915, During the Great War, Lytton Strachey is travelling to the country, there he meets Carrington for the first time but confuses her with a boy and does not hide his disappointment. Lytton is due to face a hearing with the due to his open opposition to the war. While taking a hike through the countryside, he tries to kiss Carrington, early in the morning, she walks into his bedroom with the intent of cutting his beard off, but stops at the last minute in contemplation of him sleeping and falls in love with him. Gertler 1916–1918, Mark Gertler tries to have sex with Carrington, Gertler turns to Lytton for aid in wooing her, while trying to help him she falls more deeply in love with him and although he does not fully requite her, he does have feelings for her. While on a trip to Wales he proposes that they together, acting on this, Carrington searches for a house and finds. When Gertler finds out that Carrington and Lytton are moving in together he attacks the couple, Partridge 1918–1921, Carrington later meets and falls in love with Ralph Partridge, who has come back from the war. On their first dinner together, Ralph expresses his rather one-sided points of view which are contrary to Lyttons, Lytton goes on vacation to Italy, Ralph has made very clear his intent of marrying Carrington or leaving altogether to Bolivia to run a sheep farm. Knowing that if Ralph is no longer with him, Lytton will move out of Mill House, she marries Ralph, Ralph introduces his friend Gerald Brenan to Lytton and Carrington. Brenan is planning to leave for Spain in order to improve his education and takes a liking to Carrington, Lytton is successful in the publication of Eminent Victorians and manages to become a man of means. Brenan 1921–1923, Although he tries to be loyal to his friend Ralph, Gerald, Gerald leaves for Spain insisting that Carrington run off with him. She refuses but they continue the relationship until they get caught by Ralph, Lytton manages to avoid the break-up, Ham Spray House 1924–1931, Lytton buys Ham Spray and Carrington, he and Ralph move in. Carrington becomes pregnant by Beacus but has an abortion, Lytton takes an apartment in London where he intends to live with Roger, but it becomes clear that the relationship shall not be long-lived. Lytton 1931–1932, Roger and Lytton break up, during a tea party Lytton suddenly becomes ill, Carrington initially is optimistic but afterwards it becomes evident that he will not recover. Carrington tries to suicide by locking herself in the garage with the car motor running but is rescued by Ralph. When Lytton finally dies, surrounded by Ralph, Carrington and Gerald, he states If this is dying and it was primarily based upon his String Quartet No.3, with which Hampton created a temp track, and wanted as a leitmotif for Lytton Strachey. The score is based on Schuberts String Quintet in C, D.956
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Dead Man
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Dead Man is a 1995 American Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Michael Wincott, Lance Henriksen, Gabriel Byrne, the film, dubbed a Psychedelic Western by its director, includes twisted and surreal elements of the Western genre. The film is entirely in black-and-white. Neil Young composed the soundtrack with portions he improvised while watching the movie footage. It has been considered by many to be a premier postmodern Western, like much of Jarmuschs work, it has acquired status as a cult film. William Blake, an accountant from Cleveland, Ohio, rides by train to the company town of Machine to assume a promised job as an accountant in the towns metal works. During the trip, the train Fireman warns Blake against the enterprise while passengers shoot buffalo from the train windows. Arriving in town, Blake discovers that the position has already filled, and he is driven from the workplace at gunpoint by John Dickinson. Jobless and without money or prospects, Blake meets Thel Russell and he lets her take him home. Thels ex-boyfriend Charlie surprises them in bed and shoots at Blake, a wounded Blake shoots and kills Charlie with Thels gun before climbing dazedly out the window and fleeing Machine on a stolen horse. Company-owner Dickinson just happens to be Charlies father, and he hires three legendary frontier killers, Cole Wilson, Conway Twill, and Johnny The Kid Pickett to bring Blake back dead or alive. Blake awakens to find a large Native American attempting to dislodge the bullet from his chest, the Native American, calling himself Nobody, reveals that the bullet is too close to Blakes heart to remove, and Blake is effectively walking dead. When he learns Blakes full name, Nobody decides Blake is a reincarnation of William Blake, Nobody resolves to escort Blake to the Pacific Ocean to return him to his proper place in the spirit-world. Blake and Nobody travel west, leaving a trail of dead and he was briefly educated and learned of the proper William Blakes art and poetry before returning home, where his stories of the white man and his culture were laughed off by fellow Native Americans. He gained his name, Nobody, at point, the literal translation of which is revealed to be He who talks loud. Nobody leaves Blake alone in the wild when he decides Blake must undergo a vision quest. On his quest, Blake kills two U. S. Marshals, experiences visions of spirits, and grieves over the remains of a dead fawn that was killed accidentally by his pursuers. He paints his face with the blood and rejoins Nobody on their journey
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Johnny Depp and
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1995 Cannes Film Festival.
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Jim Jarmusch
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James Robert Jim Jarmusch is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer. Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002, as a musician, Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released two albums with Jozef van Wissem. Jarmusch was born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, the middle of three children of middle-class suburbanites. F, the first adult film he recalls seeing was the 1958 cult classic Thunder Road, the violence and darkness of which left an impression on the seven-year-old Jarmusch. Another B-movie influence from his childhood was Ghoulardi, an eccentric Cleveland television show which featured horror films, despite his enthusiasm for film, Jarmusch was an avid reader in his youth and had a greater interest in literature, which was encouraged by his grandmother. At one point, he took an apprenticeship with a commercial photographer and he later remarked, Growing up in Ohio was just planning to get out. After graduating from school in 1971, Jarmusch moved to Chicago. At Columbia, he studied English and American literature under professors including New York School avant garde poets Kenneth Koch, at Columbia, he began to write short semi-narrative abstract pieces and edited the undergraduate literary journal The Columbia Review. During his final year at Columbia, Jarmusch moved to Paris for what was initially a summer semester on an exchange program, there, he worked as a delivery driver for an art gallery, and spent most of his time at the Cinémathèque Française. Thats where I saw things I had only read about and heard about – films by many of the good Japanese directors, like Imamura, Ozu, Mizoguchi. When I came back from Paris, I was still writing, Jarmusch graduated from Columbia University in 1975. Broke and working as a musician in New York City after returning from Paris in 1976, despite his lack of experience in filmmaking, his submission of a collection of photographs and an essay about film secured his acceptance into the program. He studied there for four years, meeting fellow students and future collaborators Sara Driver, Tom DiCillo, Howard Brookner, during the late 1970s in New York City, Jarmusch and his contemporaries were part of an alternative culture scene centered on the CBGB music club. In his final year at New York University, Jarmusch worked as an assistant to the film noir director Nicholas Ray. On Jarmuschs return with the script, Ray reacted favourably to his students dissent. Jarmusch was the only person Ray brought to work – as his personal assistant – on Lightning Over Water, Ray died in 1979 after a long fight with cancer. The university, unimpressed with Jarmuschs use of his funding as well as the project itself, Jarmuschs final year university project was completed in 1980 as Permanent Vacation, his first feature film. It had its premiere at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg and won the Josef von Sternberg Award and it was made on a shoestring budget of around $12,000 in misdirected scholarship funds and shot by cinematographer Tom DiCillo on 16 mm film. The 75 minute quasi-autobiographical feature follows an adolescent drifter as he wanders around downtown Manhattan, the film was not released theatrically, and did not attract the sort of adulation from critics that greeted his later work
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Jarmusch (left) and
Isaach de Bankolé (right) promoting
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San Sebastian International Film Festival in September 2009.
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Xavier Beauvois
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Xavier Beauvois is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His film Dont Forget Youre Going to Die was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize and his film Of Gods and Men received the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as Frances submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. His 2014 film La Rançon de la gloire was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival and he is married to film editor Marie-Julie Maille. They have two sons, Arthur, who was born in August 1992, and Antoine, born May 1996, xavier Beauvois at the Internet Movie Database
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Xavier Beauvois in February 2011
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Ed Wood (film)
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Ed Wood is a 1994 American biographical period comedy-drama film directed and produced by Tim Burton, and starring Johnny Depp as cult filmmaker Ed Wood. The film concerns the period in Woods life when he made his films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi. Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie, the film was conceived by writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski when they were students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Due to scheduling conflicts with Airheads, Lehmann had to vacate the directors position, Ed Wood was originally in development at Columbia Pictures, but the studio put the film in turnaround over Burtons decision to shoot in black-and-white. Ed Wood was taken to the Walt Disney Studios, which produced the film through the studios Touchstone Pictures division, the film was released to critical acclaim, but was a box office bomb, making only $5.9 million against an $18 million budget. It won two Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actor for Landau and Best Makeup for Rick Baker, Ve Neill, in 1952, Ed Wood is struggling to join the film industry. Upon hearing of an announcement in Variety magazine that producer George Weiss is trying to purchase Christine Jorgensens life story, Weiss explains that Varietys announcement was a news leak, and it is impossible to purchase Jorgensens rights. The producer decides to fictionalize the film, titled I Changed My Sex, Ed tries to convince Weiss that he is perfect to direct the film because he is a transvestite, but is unsuccessful since Weiss wants a director with experience. Ed meets his longtime idol Bela Lugosi and the two become friends, wanting to restart his fading career, Lugosi expresses interest in being part of the film. Wood persuades Weiss to let him direct the film by convincing him that having a star in the film would sell tickets, and they could sign Bela for a low price. Ed and Weiss argue over the title and subject matter, Weiss has the poster printed. Weiss allows Ed to shoot whatever he wants as long as the film meets the required length, Ed takes to film production with an unusual approach, shooting only one take per scene, giving actors very little direction and using stock footage to fill in gaps. The movie is released to critical and commercial failure, angering Weiss, because of this, Ed is unsuccessful in getting a job at Screen Classics, but Eds girlfriend, Dolores Fuller, tells him that he should try financing his next film independently. Ed is unsuccessful in finding money for Bride of the Atom, Ed meets Loretta King, who he thinks has enough money to fund Bride of the Atom and ends up casting her as the lead instead of Dolores as planned. Filming begins, but is halted when it is revealed that Loretta is actually poor, and Ed has no money to continue production. Ed convinces meat packing industry tycoon Don McCoy to take over funding the film, who agrees as long as the film stars his son Tony as the leading man and the film ends with an explosion. The filming finishes with the title being changed to Bride of the Monster, but Dolores breaks up with Ed after the party because of his circle of friends, his work. Bela attempts to conduct a double suicide with Ed after the government cuts off his unemployment, Bela checks himself into rehab, and Ed meets Kathy OHara, who is visiting her father there
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Tim Burton
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Timothy Walter Tim Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, writer and animator. Burton has worked repeatedly with Johnny Depp, who has become a friend of Burton since their first film together. He has also worked with musician Danny Elfman, who has composed scores for all, actress Helena Bonham Carter, Burtons former domestic partner, has appeared in many of his films. Both compilations were published by Steeles Publishing, as a preteen, Burton would make short films in his backyard on Evergreen Street using crude stop motion animation techniques or shoot them on 8 mm film without sound. Burton studied at Burbank High School, but he was not a good student. He was a very introspective person, and found his pleasure in painting, drawing and watching films and his future work would be heavily influenced by the works of such childhood heroes as Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl. After graduating from Burbank High School with Jeff Riekenberg, Burton attended the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, as a student at CalArts, Burton made the shorts Stalk of the Celery Monster and King and Octopus. Stalk of the Celery Monster attracted the attention of Walt Disney Productions animation division and he worked as an animator, storyboard artist and concept artist on films such as The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron and Tron. His concept art never made it into the finished films, the film was produced by Rick Heinrichs, whom Burton had befriended while working in the concept art department at Disney. The film was shown at the Chicago Film Festival and released, alongside the teen drama Tex, for two weeks in one Los Angeles cinema. Having aired once in 1983 at 10,30 pm on Halloween and promptly shelved, prints of the film are difficult to locate. The short would finally go on display in 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art. It was again shown at the Seoul Museum of Art in 2012, Burtons next live-action short, Frankenweenie, was released in 1984. It tells the story of a boy who tries to revive his dog after it is run over by a car. Filmed in black-and-white, it stars Barret Oliver, Shelley Duvall, after Frankenweenie was completed, Disney fired Burton, under the pretext of him spending the companys resources on doing a film that would be too dark and scary for children to see. Pursuing then an opportunity to make a film, he was approached by Griffin Dunne to direct the black comedy film After Hours. However, after Martin Scorseses project The Last Temptation of Christ was cancelled, not long after, actor Paul Reubens saw Vincent and chose Burton to direct the cinematic spin-off of his popular character Pee-wee Herman. Pee-wee Herman gained mainstream popularity with a stage show at The Groundlings
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Burton at the 2012
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Tim Burton at the
64th Venice Film Festival
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Tim Burton (right) and
Pedro Almodóvar (left) at the première of
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in
Madrid, in 2007
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Tim Burton speaking about
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Comic-Con, 2009.
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Good Men, Good Women
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Good Men, Good Women is a 1995 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, starring Annie Shizuka Inoh, Lim Giong, and Jack Kao. It is the last installment in the trilogy began with A City of Sadness. Like its predecessors, it deals with the issues of Taiwanese history. The film depicts the story of Chiang Bi-Yu. In the 1940s, she and her husband, Chung Hao-Tung. During the war, she is forced to give her baby up for adoption, after the war they return to Taiwan, as Chung is to distribute a communist paper called The Enlightenment. However, as the Korean War deepens, Chiang Kai-sheks Kuomintang regime intensifies the White Terror, hitchcock With a Chinese Face, Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and Chinas Moral Voice. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, Good Men, Good Women at the Internet Movie Database Good Men, Good Women at AllMovie
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Stories from the Kronen
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Stories from the Kronen is a 1995 Spanish drama film directed by Montxo Armendáriz. Starring Juan Diego Botto and Jordi Mollà, the film is an adaptation of José Angel Mañas eponymous novel and it was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Carlos, Roberto, Pedro and Manolo form a group of friends in their early twenties with a lot of time on their hands during their summer vacation. The point of encounter for the group of friends is a bar called the Kronen, where Manolo, Carlos is the leader of the pack. He is handsome, selfish, amoral and hedonistic and he is in into a restless pursuing of pleasure, drinking, using heavy drugs, partying and having sex. At Kronen Carlos rekindles a relationship with Amalia, an ex-girlfriend whose current boyfriend is out of town. Amalia joins the group attracted by Carlos good looks and charm, Roberto is Carlos best friend and sidekick. He plays the drums in the band where Manolo sings, more serious and more scrupulous than Carlos, Roberto has repressed homosexual feeling towards his best friend. When they go to see Roberto’s favorite film, Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer, Pedro is the weakest member of the group. He has serious issues, he lost a kidney and is a diabetic, being the most vulnerable, Carlos takes advantage of him and bullies him constantly. An argument at Kronen between Pedro and a stranger is resolved by trying between them who can stand for more time to be hanging dangerously from a bridge over a highway, the incident is stopped by the police and Carlos and Pedro are detained. Carlos’s father is a lawyer and he gets the two out of jail soon. Family relationships are not important for Carlos, during his parents wedding anniversary Carlos’s sister despair with her brother lack of interest for family relationships and wild behavior, sleeping by day and partying heavily by night. Carlos relates only to his old an ailing grandfather, who had served as something of a mentor to him, but he dies. To celebrate his birthday, Pedro invites his friends to his house for a party, ISBN 0-313-29474-7 Stories from the Kronen at the Internet Movie Database
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Jefferson in Paris
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Jefferson in Paris is a 1995 Franco-American historical drama film, directed by James Ivory, and previously entitled Head and Heart. It was the first portrayal in film of Sally Hemings, set in the period 1784–1789, the film portrays Jefferson when he was US minister to France at Versailles before the French Revolution. French liberals and intellectuals hope he will lead them away from the corruption of the court of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, although deploring the poverty of the common people, he embraces the riches of French culture and civilization. It is his first time abroad, and he takes advantage of the opportunity to extend his knowledge of liberal arts, a lonely widower, Jefferson develops a close friendship with Maria Cosway, a beautiful Anglo-Italian painter and musician. He becomes attracted to Sally Hemings, the maid and companion of his younger daughter Polly. Three-quarters white in ancestry, she is his late wifes half-sister and their father had taken Sallys slave mother as a concubine after he was widowed for the third time, Sally is the sixth of their children. Sallys enslaved brother James Hemings is also in Paris, learning to be a French chef for Jefferson at Monticello, when George Washington offers Jefferson the post of Secretary of State, he accepts and prepares to sail home with his family. But James, having enjoyed his freedom in Paris, is unwilling to return to the United States and urges Sally to remain with him. It is only when Jefferson promises he will give James and Sally, the film was shot on location in Paris, at the Desert de Retz and the Palace of Versailles. The scenes at the Desert reenact the actual visit made by Jefferson, many of French supporting cast are members of Comédie-Française. It premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, antonio Sacchinis opera Dardanus appears in the film. Also Marc-Antoine Charpentier Leçons de ténèbres, performed by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants with Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Sandrine Piau, Sophie Daneman, arcangelo Corellis La Folia is performed by Nolte, Scacchi, and Paltrow, however, the soundtrack CD is re-dubbed by others. Although Gwyneth Paltrow studied harpsichord for the film, her playing is dubbed by Jory Vinikour, including pieces by Jacques Duphly, scacchis performance of Maria Cosways song, Mormora, was dubbed. The film was budgeted at $14 million and it grossed $2,473,668 in the US. George Washington de Lafayette Jean-Pierre Aumont, reporter In her review in the New York Times, Janet Maslin called the film an extraordinary spectacle. The rare contemporary film thats both an entertainment and an education, despite some glaring misimpressions that are sure to spark heated debate, the biggest problem with is at the basic editing level, with such abrupt jumps between diverse scenes that the films momentum remains choppy. Overshadowed by its own ambition and not-quite-ironic pageantry, Jefferson in Paris doesnt quite come to life, casting Nick Nolte as a Founding Father may sound like this films riskiest choice, but in fact it makes solid sense. Beyond having the physical stature for the imposing, sandy-haired Jefferson, Mr. Nolte captures the mans vigor
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Kids (film)
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Kids is a 1995 American independent coming-of-age film written by Harmony Korine and directed by Larry Clark. It stars Chloë Sevigny, Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Rosario Dawson, the film generated a massive controversy upon its release in 1995, and caused much public debate over its artistic merit, even receiving an NC-17 rating from the MPAA. It was later released without a rating, the film opens with Telly and a 12-year-old girl making out on a bed. With no adults around, Telly, who is older, persuades the girl. Afterwards, he meets his friend, Casper, and they talk about his sexual experience very crudely, Telly has taken to only having sex with virgins. They go inside a store, where Casper shoplifts a bottle of malt liquor as Telly distracts the cashier. Looking for drugs, food and a place to hang out, they head to their friend Pauls apartment and they arrive at Pauls house, talk about sex and smoke marijuana while watching a skate video. Casper inhales nitrous oxide out of balloons, which Telly considers dangerous, the scene intercuts with a group of girls, among them Ruby and Jennie, talking about sex—each gender contradicting what the other gender says, especially about oral sex. Ruby and Jennie mention that they were tested for STDs at Rubys request. Rubys test is negative, though she has had sexual encounters. She says she has had sex once, with Telly. Jennie spends the rest of the film trying to find Telly, Telly and Casper walk to Tellys house and steal money from Tellys mother, who is preoccupied with taking care of her new baby. They go to Washington Square Park and buy a bag of marijuana from a Rastafari. They then meet up with a few friends to talk and smoke, as they do, Casper and many others taunt a gay couple passing through the park. On the side, Telly briefly talks to Misha, a girl who strongly dislikes Casper, as Casper rides on a skateboard, he carelessly bumps into a man, who furiously threatens him. He pushes Casper, but is struck in the back of the head with a skateboard by Harold, a friend of Telly and Caspers, causing him to collapse. A number of other skaters join in, beating, stomping and he convinces her to go with them to a pool. The other girls engage in kissing and flirtation, but Darcy is restrained
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