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Primary Colors (film)
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The film was directed by Mike Nichols and scripted by Elaine May, it starred John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Maura Tierney, Larry Hagman, and Adrian Lester. Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance, Henry is impressed by Stantons genuine warmth and empathy with people. In addition its revealed that Stanton called a U. S. senator to help him get released then Stanton persuaded the mayor of Chicago to have his record expunged. The team becomes worried that Stanton’s past indiscretions may be used against him by the press, one of Stantons mistresses and Susans hairdresser, Cashmere McLeod, produces secret taped conversations between them to prove they had an affair. Henry discovers that the tapes have been doctored, so Libby tracks down the man responsible for the tapes and forces him at gunpoint to confess his guilt in a letter to the American public. Henry and Howard tell Willie he must allow his daughter to undergo an amniocentesis to determine paternity, although they convince Willie to remain silent on the issue, Henry is nonetheless sickened and disillusioned with the experience. Realizing the campaign is falling behind in the polls, Stantons team adopt a new strategy, Stanton begins going on the offensive by attacking his nearest rival, Senator Lawrence Harris for casting anti-Israel votes and favoring cuts in Social Security and Medicare. Harris confronts Stanton during a talk show in Florida but suffers two heart attacks after the encounter. He suffers a setback, subsequently withdraws from the race. Pickers wholesome, straight-talking image proves a threat to the Stanton campaign. Jack and Susan send Henry and Libby on a research mission on Pickers past. They discover from his ex-brother-in-law, Eduardo Reyes, that Picker had an addiction as governor. They also meet with Pickers cocaine supplier Lorenzo Delgado, with whom Picker had a homosexual affair. Not expecting the information to ever be used, Libby and Henry share their findings with Jack and Susan, Libby says that if Jack does so, she will reveal that he tampered with the results of the paternity test, proving that he slept with Willies daughter. Libby commits suicide after she realizes she spent her life idealizing Jack, racked with guilt over Libbys death, Stanton takes the incriminating information to Picker, and apologizes for seeking it out. Picker admits to his past indiscretions, and agrees to withdraw from the race, Henry intends to quit the campaign, admitting he has become deeply disillusioned with the whole political process. Stanton begs Henry to reconsider, persuading him that the two of them can make history, months later, President Stanton is dancing at the Inaugural Ball with First Lady, Susan. He shakes the hands of all his staff, the last of whom is Henry
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Promotional film poster
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Godzilla (1998 film)
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Godzilla is a 1998 American monster film directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich that is a reimagining of Tohos Godzilla franchise. It is the 23rd film in the Godzilla franchise and the first Godzilla film to be produced by a Hollywood studio. It stars Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn, Arabella Field, Michael Lerner and it also marks the only time that producer Devlin and director Emmerich worked on an intellectual property they did not own. The film is dedicated to the memory of Godzilla franchise producer and creator Tomoyuki Tanaka, despite turning in a profit, it was considered a box office disappointment. The film swept the Golden Raspberry Awards in 1999, with two wins for Worst Remake or Sequel and Worst Supporting Actress and was nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Director, two planned sequels were abandoned and an animated series, Godzilla, The Series, was produced instead. The character has appeared in other media as Zilla. Following a nuclear test in French Polynesia back between the 1940s and 1950s, the fallout irradiates a lizards nest, decades later, an enormous sea creature suddenly attacks a Japanese fishing vessel in the South Pacific, leaving only one fisherman alive. Dr. Niko Nick Tatopoulos, an NRC biologist, is sent to Panama and Jamaica, where a village, footprints. Nick collects skin samples that lead him to believe the creature is a mutant created by nuclear testing. It travels to New York City during the rainiest week of the season, the city is evacuated before the military attempts to kill it but fails in an initial attempt. Nick later collects a sample, and after performing a pregnancy test. Aspiring journalist and ex-girlfriend of Nicks, Audrey Timmonds, uncovers a tape in his possession containing classified information about the creature, with the classified information now released, Nick is removed from the operation, and abandons Audrey. Soon, he is kidnapped by Philippe Roaché, a guy he met before coming to Manhattan. Suspecting a nest somewhere in the city, they cooperate with Nick to trace, following the militarys second attempt to kill Godzilla, the creature dives into the Hudson River to escape. Attacked by US Navy submarines, including USS Utah, it sinks to the river bed, meanwhile, Nick and Philippes strike team, followed by Audrey and her cameraman Victor Animal Palotti, find the nest inside Madison Square Garden and locate over 200 eggs. Before the French can succeed in destroying them, the eggs suddenly hatch, Nick, Animal, Audrey and Philippe take refuge in the Gardens broadcast booth and send out a live news-report to alert the military of what will happen if the offspring escape. A prompt response involving an airstrike is initiated as the four escape moments before Air Force jets bomb the arena, Audrey and Nick reunite, before the adult Godzilla, having survived, emerges from the Gardens ruins. It chases the four across Manhattan, believing them responsible for the deaths of its young, after a taxi chase, they manage to trap Godzilla within the Brooklyn Bridge where the returning Air Force jets manage to shoot it down
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Theatrical release poster
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Stan Winston created a design for de Bont that was faithful to Toho's Godzilla, but was later scrapped by Emmerich.
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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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Panorama of the waterfront
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Boulevard de la Croisette along the waterfront.
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Mia aioniotita kai mia mera
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Eternity and a Day is a 1998 Greek film starring Bruno Ganz, and directed by Theo Angelopoulos. The film won the Palme dOr and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, the film was selected as the Greek entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Alexander, a poet, leaves his seaside apartment in Thessaloniki after learning he has a terminal illness. He is trying to get his affairs in order and find a new master for his dog, Alexander saves a six- or seven-year-old boy who is a vagrant window washer from a band of policemen who are chasing down similar boys. He pays a visit to his daughter, and musing on his likely dead wife, Anna. At his daughter’s apartment, he not tell her of his diagnosis, instead hands her letters written by his wife. He learns that his daughter and her lover have sold his apartment for demolition without telling him. The boy is trying to leave Greece but the way to Albania is not exactly an easy one, as the pair wait for the gate to open, they have a change of mind about crossing, when the boy admits has been lying about his life in Albania. The two of them escape a border sentry who chases them and make it back to Alexanders automobile. The old poet and the boy are connected by fear and he pays a visit to his housekeeper, Urania. She is manifestly smitten with him, but is in the middle of a wedding party, the scene plays on until Alexander interrupts. He leaves the dog, and then the dance and music, the boy goes to the ruins of a hospital, mourning another young boy, Selim, via a candlelight vigil, with dozens of other youths. The pair take a bus trip and encounter all sorts of people and they also look out the window as a trio of people on bicycles pedal by them, oddly dressed in bright yellow raincoats. The boy departs in the middle of the night, stowing aboard a huge and he looks about, exits out the back door, and into the sunny past where Anna and other friends are singing. They stop, ask him to them, then they all dance. Then, she pulls away, and he claims his hearing is gone. He also cannot see her, it seems and he calls out and asks how long tomorrow will be, after he had told her he refuses to go into the hospital, as planned. She tells him tomorrow will last eternity and a day
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Isabelle Huppert
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Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in more than 100 films and television productions since her debut in 1971. She is the most nominated actress for the César Award, with 16 nominations and she twice won the César Award for Best Actress, for La Cérémonie and for Elle. Huppert was made Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1994 and was promoted to Officier in 2005 and she was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1999 and was promoted to Officer in 2009. Hupperts first César nomination was for the 1975 film Aloïse, in 1978, she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for The Lacemaker. Her other films in France include Loulou, La Séparation,8 Women, Gabrielle, Amour, among international films most prolific actresses, Huppert has worked in Italy, Russia, Central Europe, and on the Asian continent. Her English-language films include, Heavens Gate, I Heart Huckabees, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, and Louder Than Bombs. In 2016, Huppert garnered international acclaim for her work in Elle, for which she won a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won Best Actress awards from the National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, Huppert is the most nominated actress for the Molière Award, with 7 nominations. She made her London stage debut in the role of the play Mary Stuart in 1996. She returned to the New York stage in 2009 to perform in Heiner Müllers Quartett, Huppert was born in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, the daughter of Annick, an English teacher, and Raymond Huppert, a safe manufacturer. She has a brother and three sisters, including filmmaker Caroline Huppert and her father was Jewish, his family is from Prešov and Alsace-Lorraine. Huppert was raised in her mothers Catholic faith, Huppert was encouraged by her mother to begin acting at a young age, and became a teenage star in Paris. She later attended Versailles Conservatoire, where she won a prize for her acting and she is also an alumna of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris, CNSAD. Huppert made her debut in 1971 with Le Prussien. Her later appearance in the controversial Les Valseuses made her increasingly recognized by the public and her international breakthrough came with La Dentelliere, for which she won a BAFTA award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. In 1994, Huppert collaborated with American director Hal Hartley on Amateur and she also appeared in Michael Hanekes The Piano Teacher, which is based on a novel of the same name by Austrian author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, Elfriede Jelinek. In this film, she played a teacher named Erika Kohut. Regarded as one of her most impressive turns, her performance netted the 2001 Best Actress prize in Cannes, in 2004, she starred in Christophe Honorés Ma Mère as Hélène with Louis Garrel
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Huppert at the
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Huppert poses with Special Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to the world cinema at 44th
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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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Martin Scorsese
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Martin Charles Scorsese is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years. Scorseses body of work addresses such themes as Sicilian-American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, faith, machismo, modern crime, many of his films are also known for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity. Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking, he is regarded as one of the most significant. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, an organization dedicated to film preservation. Their third film together, The Departed, won Scorsese the Academy Award for Best Director in addition to the winning the award for Best Picture. Their collaborations have resulted in numerous Academy Award nominations for both as well as winning several other prestigious awards. His work in television includes the episode of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the crime drama The Departed, with eight Best Director nominations, he is the most nominated living director and is tied with Billy Wilder for the second most nominations overall. Scorsese was born in Queens, New York and his family moved to Little Italy, Manhattan before he started school. His father, Charles Scorsese, and mother, Catherine Scorsese and his father was a clothes presser and an actor, and his mother was a seamstress and an actress. His fathers parents emigrated from Polizzi Generosa, in the province of Palermo, Sicily, Scorsese was raised in a devoutly Catholic environment. As a teenager in the Bronx, Scorsese frequently rented Powell, Scorsese was one of only two people who regularly rented that reel. The other was future Night Of The Living Dead director George A. Romero, Scorsese has cited Sabu and Victor Mature as his favorite actors during his youth. He has also spoken of the influence of the 1947 Powell and Pressburger film Black Narcissus, whose innovative techniques later impacted his filmmaking. Enamored of historical epics in his adolescence, at least two films of the genre, Land of the Pharaohs and El Cid, appear to have had a deep, Scorsese also developed an admiration for neorealist cinema at this time. He acknowledges owing a debt to the French New Wave and has stated that the French New Wave has influenced all filmmakers who have worked since. He has also cited filmmakers including Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni and he went on to earn his M. F. A. from NYUs School of the Arts in 1966, a year after the school was founded. Scorsese attended New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts making the short films Whats a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This. and Its Not Just You, Murray
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Scorsese at the 2010
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Martin Scorsese at the 65th Annual Peabody Awards
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Cinema of Greece
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The Cinema of Greece has a long and rich history. Though hampered at times by war or political instability, the Greek film industry dominates the market and has experienced international success. Characteristics of Greek cinema include a dynamic plot, strong character development, two Greek films, Missing and Eternity and a Day, have won the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival. Five Greek films have received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, though Greek cinema took root in the early 1900s, the first mature films werent produced until the 1920s, after the end of the Greco-Turkish War. Films during this period, such as Astero by Dimitris Gaziadis and Maria Pentagiotissa by Ahilleas Madras, Orestis Laskoss Daphnis and Chloe, one of the first Greek films to be shown abroad, contained the first voyeuristic nude scene in a European film. During the Axis occupation, the Greek film industry struggled as it was forced to relocate overseas, following the Greek Civil War, Greek cinema experienced a revival. Inspired by Italian neorealism, directors such as Grigoris Grigoriou and Stelios Tatasopoulos created works during this period shot on location using non-professional actors, during the 1950s and 1960s, Greek cinema experienced a golden age, starting with Michael Cacoyanniss Stella, which was screened at Cannes. The 1960 film Never on Sunday was nominated for five Academy Awards, Cacoyanniss Zorba the Greek won three Academy Awards. Censorship policies of the 1967 junta and rising foreign competition led to a decline in Greek cinema, after the restoration of democracy in the mid-1970s, the Greek film industry again flourished, led by director Theo Angelopoulos, whose films frequently captured international awards. The drift toward art-house cinema in the 1980s led to a decline in audiences, in the 1990s, younger Greek filmmakers began experimenting with iconographic motifs. In the spring of 1897, the Greeks of Athens watched the first cinematic ventures, in 1906 Greek Cinema was born when the Manakis brothers started recording in Macedonia, and the French filmmaker Leons produced the first Newscast from the midi-Olympic games of Athens. The first cine-theater of Athens opened about a later and other special projection rooms begun their activity. In 1910-11 the first short comic movies were produced by director Spiros Dimitrakopoulos, in 1911 Kostas Bachatoris presented Golfo, a well known traditional love story, considered the first Greek feature film. In 1912 was founded the first film company and in 1916 the Asty Film, during the First World War, production was limited to documentaries and newscasts only. Directors like George Prokopiou and Dimitris Gaziadis are distinguished for filming scenes from the battlefield and later, during the Greco-Turkish War, the first commercially successful Greek film was Villar in the Womens Baths of Faliro, written, directed by and starring comedian Villar and Nitsa Philosofou. In 1924, Michael Michael, a Greek comedian, presented some short film comedies, in 1926, Gaziadis founded Dag Films and tried to produce the first speaking movies. This company presented its first movie, Love and Waves, in 1927, the company mainly produced historical movies, usually adaptations of novels. In 1930, Dag produced a movie, Apaches of Athens
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Olympion Cinema in
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Manakis brothers.
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Filopimin Finos, founder of
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Ellie Lambeti
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Theo Angelopoulos
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Theodoros Theo Angelopoulos was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. An acclaimed and multi-awarded film director who dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and he started making films in 1967. In the 1970s he made a series of films about modern Greece. In 2000 he was the President of the Jury at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival, the life of Theo Angelopoulos, his work, and his passion were the subject of a documentary directed in 2008 by Elodie Lelu. Theodoros Angelopoulos was born in Athens on 27 April 1935 and he studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques before returning to Greece. There, he worked as a journalist and film critic, Angelopoulos began making films after the 1967 coup that began the Greek military dictatorship known as the Regime of the Colonels. He made his first short film in 1968 and in the 1970s he began making a series of feature films about modern Greece, Days of 36, The Travelling Players. In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival and he quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous narrative structures as well as long takes. These takes often include meticulously choreographed and complicated scenes involving many actors, the sad state of contemporary Greece is built against Angelopoulos’ poignant poetry of images. In Landscape in the Mist the social-realist air merges into surrealism as the director takes his audience once again through misty towns and his lifelong tendency to amalgamate Greek myths and history into current political events was revealed once again in his oedipal drama Trilogy, The Weeping Meadow. His regular collaborators include the cinematographer Giorgos Arvanitis, the screenwriter Tonino Guerra, one of the recurring themes of his work is immigration, the flight from homeland and the return, as well as the history of 20th century Greece. Angelopoulos was considered by British film critics Derek Malcolm and David Thomson as one of the worlds greatest directors, Angelopoulos died late on Tuesday,24 January 2012, several hours after being involved in an accident while shooting his latest film, The Other Sea in Athens. The filmmaker had been with his crew in the area of Drapetsona, near Piraeus when he was hit by a motorcycle driven by an off-duty police officer, the accident occurred when Angelopoulos,76, attempted to cross a busy road. He was taken to the hospital, where he was treated in an intensive care unit, before expiring, Angelopoulos suffered at least one heart attack. Angelopoulos won numerous awards, including the Palme dOr at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 for Eternity and his films have been shown at the most important film festivals around the world. Theodoros Angelopoulos was also the recipient of awards for his long standing career. Books Journals, magazines, and web Official website Acquarello, Theo Angelopoulos at the Internet Movie Database Theo Angelopoulos in musicolog
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Angelopoulos presenting his film The Dust of Time in 2009 in Athens, Greece
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Mike Nichols
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Mike Nichols was an American film and theatre director, producer, actor and comedian. He was noted for his ability to work across a range of genres, Nichols began his career in the 1950s with the comedy improvisational troupe, The Compass Players, predecessor of The Second City, in Chicago. He then teamed up with his partner, Elaine May, to form the comedy duo Nichols. Their live improv acts were a hit on Broadway resulting in three albums, with their debut album winning a Grammy Award, after Nichols and May disbanded their act in 1961, Nichols began directing plays. He soon earned a reputation as a skilled Broadway director with a flair for creating innovative productions and his debut Broadway play was Neil Simons Barefoot in the Park in 1963, with Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley. He next directed Luv in 1964 and in 1965 directed another Neil Simon play, Nichols received a Tony Award for each of those plays. Nearly five decades later, he won his sixth Tony Award as best director with a revival of Death of a Salesman in 2012, during his career, he directed or produced over twenty-five Broadway plays. In 1966, Warner Brothers invited Nichols to direct his first film, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. starring Elizabeth Taylor, the groundbreaking and acclaimed film led critics to declare Nichols the new Orson Welles. The film garnered 13 Academy Award nominations, winning five and it was also a box office hit and became the number 1 film of 1966. His next film was The Graduate in 1967, starring then unknown actor Dustin Hoffman, alongside Anne Bancroft, the film was another critical and financial success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1967 and receiving seven Academy Award nominations, winning Nichols the Academy Award for Best Directing. Among the other films he directed were Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Silkwood, Working Girl, Wolf, The Birdcage, Closer, along with an Academy Award, Nichols won a Grammy Award, four Emmy Awards and nine Tony Awards. He was also a three-time BAFTA Award winner and his other honors included the Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 1999, the National Medal of Arts in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2003 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2010. His films garnered a total of 42 Academy Award nominations and seven wins, Mike Nichols was born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Germany, the son of Brigitte and Pavel Peschkowsky, a physician. His father was born in Vienna, Austria, to a Russian Jewish immigrant family, Nichols fathers family had been wealthy and lived in Siberia, leaving after the Russian Revolution, and settling in Germany around 1920. Nichols mothers family were German Jews and his maternal grandparents were anarchist Gustav Landauer and author Hedwig Lachmann. Nichols is a cousin twice removed of scientist Albert Einstein. His mother eventually joined the family, escaping through Italy in 1940, the family moved to New York City on April 28,1939. His father, whose original Russian name was Pavel Nikolaevich Peschkowsky and he had a successful medical practice in Manhattan, enabling the family to live near Central Park
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c. 1970
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Nichols and May, c. 1960
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Roland Emmerich
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Roland Emmerich is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer, widely known for his disaster films. He began his work in the industry by directing the film The Noahs Ark Principle as part of his university thesis. He is a collector of art and a campaigner for the LGBT community. He is also a campaigner for awareness of global warming and human rights, Emmerich was born in Stuttgart, West Germany, and grew up in the nearby town of Sindelfingen. As a youth, he traveled extensively throughout Europe and North America on vacations financed by his father, Hans, in 1977, he began attending University of Television and Film Munich with the intention of studying to become a production designer. After watching Star Wars, he decided to enroll in the schools film director program. In 1985, he founded Centropolis Film Productions in partnership with his sister, producer Ute Emmerich, and directed his film debut. He subsequently directed the 1987 comedy Hollywood-Monster and the 1990 science-fiction film Moon 44 and this subsequently resulted in Moon 44 being released direct-to-video in the U. S. in early 1991. Joey and Hollywood-Monster eventually also saw video releases in the U. S. once Emmerich achieved more prominence in America. Producer Mario Kassar invited Emmerich to come to the United States to direct an action film entitled Isobar. Dean Devlin, who appeared in Moon 44, soon joined Emmerich as his writing and producing partner, Emmerich subsequently refused the offer to direct after producers rejected Devlins re-write of the script, and the Isobar project was eventually scrapped. Instead, Emmerich was hired to replace director Andrew Davis for the action movie Universal Soldier, the film was released in 1992, and has since been followed by two direct-to-video sequels, a theatrical sequel, and another sequel released in 2010. Emmerich next helmed the 1994 science-fiction film Stargate, at the time, it set a record for the highest-grossing opening weekend for a film released in the month of October. It became more successful than most film industry insiders had anticipated. Emmerich and Devlin then created the television series The Visitor, which aired on the Fox Network during 1997–1998 before being cancelled after one season and his next film, Godzilla, opened in 1998. An extensive advertising and marketing campaign generated significant hype during the leading up to the films release. The film was a box office success but was met with reviews from critics. It has only a 16% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, taking a short break from science-fiction, Emmerich next directed the American Revolutionary War epic The Patriot
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Emmerich in
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Lulu on the Bridge
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Lulu on the Bridge is a 1998 American romantic-mystery drama film written and directed by author Paul Auster and starring Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Willem Dafoe. The film is about a jazz saxophone player whose life is transformed after being shot, after discovering a mysterious stone, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful aspiring actress, but their happiness is cut short by a series of strange, dreamlike events. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, jazz saxophone player Izzy Maurer is shot in the chest during a performance at a jazz club by a deranged man. Izzy survives the operation, but loses his left lung, ending his music career. A young aspiring actress named Celia Burns walks into the Chez Pierre restaurant in New York City where she works as a waitress and she and her boss talk about the shooting. Later she purchases Izzys latest CD, following his recovery, Izzy stays to himself and avoids his friends. Gradually he ventures outside and adapts to his new life and his former girlfriend Hannah invites him to a dinner attended by a retired famous actress, Catherine Moore, who is now a successful film director, and her film producer friend, Philip Kleinman. For the first time in a time he has a good time. Catherine is looking for an actress to play the part of Lula in her upcoming film version of Pandoras Box. Walking home that night Izzy discovers a body, finds a bag lying nearby. Later he examines the contents of the bag and finds a box containing a stone with a red mark. As he examines the stone he hears voices speaking in foreign tongues and that night, as he lay awake in bed, the stone emits a strange blue light and elevates above the nightstand. The next morning he calls the number written on a napkin he found in the bag and he asks to meet, and she invites him over. When he arrives he demands to know what she knows about the man, Stanley Mar. He turns out the lights and shows her the mysterious blue light. Drawn to the rock, Celia touches it and encourages him to touch it too and its the best thing, it really is. Its like nothing else, she says and they feel elated by the experience, which makes them feel more connected to everything around them. He tells her, The way I feel now, I could spend the rest of my life with you, after he leaves, Celia runs after him and invites him back to her apartment where they make love
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Theatrical release poster
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Paul Auster
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His books have been translated into more than forty languages. Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle-class parents of Polish descent, Queenie and he is the older cousin of conservative columnist Lawrence Auster. He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and Newark, after graduating from Columbia University in 1970, he moved to Paris, France where he earned a living translating French literature. Since returning to the U. S. in 1974, he has published poems, essays and these books are not conventional detective stories organized around a mystery and a series of clues. Rather, he uses the form to address existential issues and questions of identity, space, language. Comparing the two works, Auster said, I believe the world is filled with strange events, reality is a great deal more mysterious than we ever give it credit for. In that sense, the Trilogy grows directly out of The Invention of Solitude, Austers heroes often find themselves obliged to work as part of someone elses inscrutable and larger-than-life schemes. In 1995, Auster wrote and co-directed the films Smoke and Blue in the Face, Austers more recent works, Oracle Night, The Brooklyn Follies, and the novella Travels in the Scriptorium, have also met critical acclaim. He was on the PEN American Center Board of Trustees from 2004-2009, I guess I’m getting to the point where I tell myself if I can’t write another book it’s not a tragedy. Does it matter if I publish 16 or 17 novels, unless it’s absolutely urgent, there’s no point in writing. In 2012, Auster was quoted as saying in an interview that he would not visit Turkey to protest its treatment of journalists, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan replied, As if we need you. Who cares if you come or not, lacans theory declares that we enter the world through words, that we observe the world through our senses, but the world we sense is structured in our mind through language. Thus our unconscious also is structured as a language and this leaves us with a sense of anomaly, we can only perceive the world through language, but we have the feeling that something is missing. This is the sense of being outside language, the world can only be constructed through language, but it always leaves something uncovered, something that cannot be told or be thought of, and may only be sensed. This is one of the themes of Paul Austers writing. Lacan is considered to be one of the key figures of French poststructuralism, the common factor of both ideas is the question of the meaning of symbols for human beings. Austers protagonists are often writers who establish meaning in their lives through writing, edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Beckett and Herman Melville have also had a strong influence on Austers writing. Not only do their characters reappear in Austers work, Auster also uses variations on the themes of these writers and he writes, This idea of contrasts, contradictions, paradox, I think, gets very much to the heart of what novel writing is for me
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Auster at the 2010
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Auster greeting Israeli President
Shimon Peres with
Salman Rushdie and Caro Llewellyn in 2008
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Auster with
John Ashbery at the
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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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Alain Corneau
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Alain Corneau was a French film director and writer. Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret and he directed Gérard Depardieu in the screen adaptation of Tous les matins du monde in 1991. Corneau died in Paris on 30 August 2010 from cancer, aged 67 and was interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery
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Chiara Mastroianni
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Chiara Charlotte Mastroianni is a French-Italian actress and singer. She is the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, Mastroianni earned a César Award nomination for her first feature film appearance in André Téchinés My Favorite Season, starring her mother in the lead role. The next year she appeared in Robert Altmans Prêt-à-Porter and her first starring role came in 1995, opposite Melvil Poupaud in Le Journal du séducteur, a romantic comedy inspired by The Seducers Diary chapter from Søren Kierkegaards first major text Either/Or. She worked with Poupaud again in Three Lives and Only One Death, playing the daughter to her real-life father, along with a few supporting performances in French films, she appeared in Gregg Arakis Nowhere and took time off to have her first child with sculptor Pierre Thoretton. She returned to filmmaking to star in the role of Manoel de Oliveiras The Letter. In 2003, she starred in the comedy drama Il est plus facile pour un chameau, in July 2016 she was named as a member of the main competition jury for the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. Mastroiannis two children are son Milo with ex-boyfriend Pierre Thoretton and daughter Anna from her marriage to musician Benjamin Biolay. Chiara Mastroianni at the Internet Movie Database
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Chiara Mastroianni in 2013
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Chen Kaige
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Chen Kaige is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. His films are known for their flair and epic storytelling. Chen won the Palme dOr at 1993 Cannes Film Festival and the International Federation of Film Critics Award in 1993, Chen Kaige was born in Beijing, China into a family of Fuzhou Changle origin, and grew up with fellow Fifth Generation alumnus Tian Zhuangzhuang as a childhood friend. During the Cultural Revolution, Chen joined the Red Guards and his father, Chen Huaiai was a well-known director in his own right. As a teenage member of the Red Guards, Chen, like other youths, denounced his own father. With the end of the Cultural Revolution, Chen, in 1978 joined the Beijing Film Academy, upon graduating, Chen was assigned to the inland studio at Guangxi, along with fellow graduate, Zhang Yimou. The Big Parade and King of the Children expanded on his filmic repertoire, in 1987, he was awarded a fellowship by the Asian Cultural Council and served as a visiting scholar at the New York University Film School. Early in 1989, he did further experimenting in a video for the song Do You Believe In Shame by Duran Duran. Later that year, he made Life on a String, a highly esoteric movie which uses mythical allegory and lush scenery to tell the story of a blind sanxian musician, in the same year, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. Chen followed up the success of Farewell My Concubine with Temptress Moon. Though it was received by most critics, it did not achieve the accolades that Concubine did. Almost as famous is his The Emperor and the Assassin, an epic involving the legendary King of Qin and his more recent Together is an intimate film about a young violinist and his father. In 2005, he directed The Promise, a fantasy wuxia picture, the Promise saw Chen shifting to a more commercial mindset, a shift regarded by some as a radical stylistic turn from his previous works. In 2006 he was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival, in 2008 Chen directed the semi-biography Forever Enthralled which is a return for him in the sense of directing a film based on Chinese opera. He later went on to direct Sacrifice, which is a re-imagine of the famous play The Orphan of Zhao, the film was a box-office hit and many critics saw it as his return to form. Chen has also acted in films, including Bertoluccis The Last Emperor and his own The Emperor. His 2012 film Caught in the Web was selected as the Chinese entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. Chens first wife was Sun Jialin, whom he met while working at the Beijing Film Factory and he later married Hong Huang, the daughter of Zhang Hanzhi, a diplomat who had worked as an English translator for Mao Zedong
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Lena Olin
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Lena Maria Jonna Olin is a Swedish actress. She has been nominated for acting awards, including a Golden Globe for The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Other well-known films in which she has appeared include Chocolat, directed by her husband Lasse Hallström, Queen of the Damned, Casanova, Olin was also a main cast member in the second season of the television series Alias. Olin starred in the Swedish sitcom Welcome to Sweden, Olin, the youngest of three children, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe. She is the daughter of actress Britta Holmberg and director Stig Olin and she studied acting at Swedens National Academy of Dramatic Art. In October 1974, at age 19, Olin was crowned Miss Scandinavia 1974 in Helsinki, Olin worked both as a substitute teacher and as a hospital nurse before becoming an actress. Ingmar Bergman cast Olin in Face to Face, in 1980, Olin was one of the earliest winners of the Ingmar Bergman Award, initiated in 1978 by the director himself, who was also one of the two judges. Olins international debut in a role on film was in Bergmans After the Rehearsal. Two years earlier, she had appeared in a role in the same directors Fanny. In 1989, Olin earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Enemies, A Love Story, Olin and director Lasse Hallström collaborated on the film Chocolat, which received five Academy Award nominations, and on Casanova. From 2002 to 2006, Olin appeared opposite Jennifer Garner in her first American television role ever, for her work on the series, Olin received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2003. She left the show after her first and only season, this was, however, in 2005, Olin returned to Sweden for a brief period of filming and starred in a supporting role in Danish director Simon Stahos film Bang Bang Orangutang. An upcoming project is said to be Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, from the mid 1970s through the end of the 1980s, Olin was for many years the partner of Swedish actor and Royal Dramatic Theatre colleague Örjan Ramberg. They had a son, Auguste Rahmberg, the relationship ended in the late 1980s. In 1992, Olin met film director Lasse Hallström in Sweden, two years later, in 1994, they married in Hedvig Eleonora Church in Stockholm. Olin lives in New York City with her husband and children, Alias Lena Olin at the Internet Movie Database Lena Olin at the TCM Movie Database
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Olin in 2015
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Olin and husband Lasse Hallström in 2013
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MC Solaar
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Claude MBarali better known by his stage name MC Solaar (French pronunciation, is a French hip hop and rap artist with Senegalese and Chadian origins. He is one of Frances most internationally popular and influential hip hop artists, MC Solaar is known for his complex lyrics, which rely on word play, lyricism, and inquiry. He has since released seven records and one live album. Claude MBarali was born in Dakar, Senegal, to parents from Chad, when he was six months old, his parents emigrated to France where they settled in the Parisian suburbs, initially in Saint-Denis, subsequently Maisons-Alfort and finally Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. At twelve he went to live with an uncle in Cairo, Egypt for nine months where he discovered the Zulu Nation, upon his return he passed the baccalauréat. It has been said that his constant support from his mother was one of the reasons that he was able to pass the baccalauréat and he coined the stage name MC Solaar in his teens from his graffiti tags SOAR and SOLAAR. He studied languages at the Jussieu university campus and was a post-graduate in philosophy and he released his first single in 1990. MC Solaar went to Paris in the summer of 1991 with his friend Jimmy Jay in hopes of succeeding in the music industry, success came quickly when his first single, Bouge de là, based on a sample from Cymandes song The Message became a hit in early 1990s. Many rappers who came out of Africa at the time spoke a lot about slavery, nevertheless, the song went platinum in France and ascended to number five on the national charts. After the success of Bouge de là, Solaar went on to support the famous American rap group De La Soul when they performed at the Olympia in Paris in September 1991. At the close of 1991 Solaar released Qui Sème le Vent Récolte le Tempo which went on to sell over 400,000 copies in France, with the success of his début album in France, the French rapper embarked upon extensive tours of Poland and Russia. In December 1992 he performed in countries in West Africa. MC Solaar returned to the studio in 1994, recording the album Prose Combat and it sold 100,000 copies in the first week of its release and became a bestseller in 20 other countries. He was rewarded for his efforts when in February 1995 he received an award for Best Male Singer of the Year at the 10th edition of the French Victoires de la Musique awards. Also in 1994, MC Solaar appeared on the Red Hot Organizations compilation album, Stolen Moments, the album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African American community, was heralded as Album of the Year by Time. Solaar went back to the studio in 1997 with longtime friend and producer Jimmy Jay to record his third album, the album was another success, which led to an extensive European tour starting on 9 January 1998 at the Zénith in Paris. His talents led to international interest from such as Germany in Europe and all the way to Japan. He was even included as a guest on American rapper Gurus Jazzmatazz project, early on in MC Solaars career it was important for him to share the struggles and the different hardships for Black people that migrated to France and tried to make a living
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Michael Winterbottom
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Not to be confused with the classical scholar Michael Winterbottom. Michael Winterbottom is an English filmmaker and he began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films—Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People—have competed for the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, Winterbottom was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. Winterbottoms television directing career began with a documentary about Ingmar Bergman, in 1991 he directed episodes of various British TV shows, including the 4-part childrens series Time Riders and an episode of Boon. In 1992 he directed the television film Under the Sun about a young British woman traveling in Greece and he next directed the 1994 mini-series Family, written by Roddy Doyle. Each of four episodes focused on one member of a working-class Dublin family and it was this series that first brought Winterbottom to the attention of filmgoers, when it was edited down into a feature and shown at festivals. His final early television project was a 1995 episode of the documentary series Cinema Europe, The Other Hollywood, butterfly Kiss Winterbottoms 1995 cinematic debut firmly established his intense visual sense, naturalistic style and compelling use of pop songs to reinforce narrative. The story of a mentally unbalanced lesbian serial killer and her submissive lover/accomplice falling in love as they slaughter their way across the motorways of Northern England and it found only a limited release. Go Now That same year, he reunited with Jimmy McGovern for the BBC television film Go Now, focusing on the turmoil this causes the couple, the film was given a theatrical release in many countries, including the United States. It was not Winterbottoms first time approaching the work, having filmed the pig slaughter sequence at film school. Starring Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet, Jude brought Winterbottom wider recognition, his first screening at Cannes and numerous Hollywood offers, all of which he eventually turned down. The film is based on the story of a British reporter, Michael Nicholson. I Want You Winterbottoms next two films both had difficulties and were not widely seen. I Want You is a neo-noir sex thriller set in a decaying British seaside resort town, starring Rachel Weisz and Alessandro Nivola, it was shot in bold primary colors by the Polish cinematographer Slawomir Idziak and was inspired by the Elvis Costello song of the same name. Idziak won an Honourable Mention award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival for his work on the film, Wonderland 1999s Wonderland marked a decided shift in style for Winterbottom, with its loose, handheld photography and naturalistic, often improvised dialogue which drew comparisons to Robert Altman. Featuring Gina McKee, Shirley Henderson, John Simm, Ian Hart and Stuart Townsend, the disparate elements are tied together by an orchestral score by minimalist composer Michael Nyman, who would become a frequent collaborator with Winterbottom. The Claim Winterbottom followed that project up with his biggest budgeted film, The Claim, shot with a budget of $20 million in the wilds of Canada, it was not a financial success and proved an ordeal to make, with Winterbottom himself getting frostbite. The production had previously been ready to shoot in Spain, with sets already built, as much an ode to the city of Manchester as the story of the contemporary musical world, the film stars Steve Coogan as broadcaster/music-mogul Tony Wilson
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Michael Winterbottom, 2009
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Sigourney Weaver
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Susan Alexandra Sigourney Weaver is an American actress and film producer. Following her film debut as a character in Annie Hall. She reprised the role in three sequels, Aliens, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, Alien 3 and she is also known for her starring roles in the box-office hits Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, and Avatar. Weaver was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for the 1980 Off-Broadway play Das Lusitania Songspiel and she also received Academy Award nominations for both films. For her role in the 1997 film The Ice Storm, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, additionally, she has received three Emmy Award nominations and won two Saturn Awards. Weaver acquired the nickname of the Sci-Fi Queen for her numerous contributions to film history. Other popular works she has appeared in include Galaxy Quest, Futurama, WALL-E, Paul, The Cabin in the Woods, Finding Dory and she returned to Broadway in 2013 to star in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Weaver was born in Manhattan, New York City, the daughter of Elizabeth Inglis, an actress, and her uncle, Doodles Weaver, was a comedian and actor. Her mother was English, from Colchester, Essex, and her father, who was American, had English, Scottish, Weaver began using the name Sigourney Weaver in 1963 after a minor character in Chapter 3 of F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby. Weaver attended the Ethel Walker School, a preparatory school in Simsbury. She also attended The Chapin School and The Brearley School, Sigourney was reportedly 5 10½ tall by the age of 14, although she only grew another inch during her teens to her adult height of 5 11½. In 1967, at the age of 18, Weaver visited Israel, Weaver later acted in original plays by her friend and classmate Christopher Durang. She later appeared in an Off-Broadway production of Durangs comedy Beyond Therapy in 1981, weavers first role is often said to be in Woody Allens 1977 comedy Annie Hall playing a minor role opposite Allen. She reprised the role in the three sequels of the Alien movie franchise, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien, Resurrection. Ty Burr of The Boston Globe states, One of the pleasures of Alien is to watch the emergence of both Ellen Ripley as a character and Sigourney Weaver as a star. She followed the success of Alien appearing opposite Mel Gibson in The Year of Living Dangerously released to critical acclaim, by the end of the decade, Weaver appeared in two of her most memorable and critically acclaimed performances. In 1988, she starred as Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist, the same year she appeared opposite Harrison Ford in a supporting role as Katharine Parker in the film Working Girl. Weaver won Golden Globe awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for her two roles that year and she gave birth to her daughter Charlotte Simpson taking a few years break from the movie business and focusing on her family
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Sigourney Weaver in September 2011
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Weaver with her father
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Sigourney Weaver at the 2008
Tribeca Film Festival premiere of
Baby Mama; she played a role in the film.
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Weaver in December 2009
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Winona Ryder
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Winona Ryder is an American actress. One of the most profitable and iconic actresses of the 1990s, as Lydia Deetz, a goth teenager in Tim Burtons Beetlejuice, she won critical acclaim and widespread recognition. She later appeared in the Generation X hit Reality Bites, Alien, Resurrection, the Woody Allen comedy Celebrity, and Girl, Interrupted, in 2000, Ryder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, honoring her legacy in the film industry. Ryders personal life has attracted significant media attention and her relationship with Johnny Depp in the early 1990s and a 2001 arrest for shoplifting were constant subjects of tabloid journalism. She has been open about her struggles with anxiety and depression. In 2002, she appeared in the box office hit Mr. Deeds alongside Adam Sandler, in 2006, Ryder returned to the screen after a brief hiatus, appearing in high-profile films such as Star Trek. In 2010, she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards, as the actress in When Love Is Not Enough, The Lois Wilson Story. She also reunited with Burton for Frankenweenie, since 2016, she has starred as Joyce Byers in the Netflix supernatural-horror series Stranger Things, for which she has garnered Golden Globe and SAG nominations. Ryder was born Winona Laura Horowitz in a farmhouse near Winona, Minnesota and her mother is an author, video producer, and editor. Her father is an author, editor, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller and he also worked as an archivist for psychedelic guru Dr. Timothy Leary. Many members of her fathers family perished in the Holocaust and her fathers family was originally named Tomchin but took the surname Horowitz when they immigrated to the United States. Named after the city of Winona, she was given her middle name, Laura, because of her parents friendship with Laura Huxley. Her stage name derives from Mitch Ryder, a soul and rock singer of whom her father was a fan. Ryders father is an atheist and her mother is a Buddhist, they encouraged their children to take the best part of other religions and use them to make their own belief systems. Ryder has one sibling, a younger brother, Uri. Ryders family friends are her godfather, Timothy Leary, the Beat Movement poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick. As the remote property had no electricity or television sets, Ryder began to devote her time to reading and she developed an interest in acting after her mother showed her a few movies on a screen in the family barn. At age 10, Ryder and her family moved on again, during her first week at Kenilworth Junior High, she was bullied by a group of her peers who mistook her for an effeminate, scrawny boy
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Ryder at a press conference for
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Ryder received a star on the
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Ryder at the 2009 Giffoni Film Festival
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Ryder at the
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Jaco Van Dormael
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Jaco Van Dormael is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and playwright. His complex and critically acclaimed films are noted for their respectful. Van Dormaels feature debut, Toto le héros, was an immediate hit and his third feature film, Mr. Nobody, received further critical acclaim and many accolades, winning six Magritte Awards, including Best Film and Best Director. Jaco Van Dormael was born in Ixelles, Belgium, on 9 February 1957 to a Belgian couple. Van Dormael was raised in Germany until age seven, when his family returned to Belgium, at his birth, he had nearly been strangled by the umbilical cord and received an insufficient supply of oxygen. It was feared that he may end up mentally impaired and this trauma accounts for the recurring themes in his films, which explore the worlds of people with mental and physical disabilities. He delighted in working with children and for a while pursued a career as a circus clown and he became a producer of childrens entertainment with the Theatre de Galafronie, Theatre Isocele and Theatre de la Guimbarde. After developing an interest in filmmaking, he enrolled at the INSAS in Brussels, as a childrens entertainer, childhood and innocence would become strong themes throughout his work. In the 1980s, Van Dormael produced a number of films that aroused considerable critical interest. While he was a student at the INSAS, he wrote, the short film was praised by critics and received the Honorary Foreign Film Award at the 1981 Student Academy Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The following year Van Dormael directed Stade 81, a short film about the Paralympic Games. He later directed the short films Les voisins, Limitateur, Sortie de secours. His most famous short of the period is È pericoloso sporgersi which won the Grand Prix in international competition at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Toto le héros was ten years in the making as Van Dormael rewrote the script at least eight times. Van Dormael premiered Toto le héros at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, the film was released to the public later that year to critical acclaim and was a financial success. It won five Joseph Plateau Awards, the César Award for Best Foreign Film, four European Film Awards, the André Cavens Award, and received a BAFTA nomination. Pierre Van Dormaels soundtrack for the film was also well-regarded, and since their first collaboration in 1980, Toto le héros propelled Van Dormael into the international spotlight as both a writer and director. In the wake of success, Van Dormael participated in the 1995 critically acclaimed project Lumière et compagnie. This work is actually an anthology of short works contributed by international film directors in which each used the original Auguste
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Jaco Van Dormael in November 2011
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Van Dormael and De Mey
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Van Dormael with the cast of Mr. Nobody at the 2009
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Arnaud Desplechin
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Arnaud Desplechin is a French film director and screenwriter. He is the son of Robert and Mado Desplechin, and grew up in the Nord department and he has a brother named Fabrice who has acted in several of his films, and two sisters, novelist Marie Desplechin and screenwriter Raphaëlle Desplechin. Arnaud Desplechin studied film directing at the University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle then at the IDHEC and he made three short films inspired by the work of the Belgian novelist Jean Ray. During the late 1980s, Desplechin worked as a director of photography on several films, the 54-minute-long film won the Jean Vigo Prize for Short Films, and was shown at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Desplechins 1996 film My Sex Life, or How I Got Into an Argument was critically successful. In 2000, Desplechin made his first English-language film, Esther Kahn, adapted from a story by Arthur Symons. The film was seen as a homage to François Truffauts work because it deals with coming of age, the next year, he directed Kings and Queen, which mixed comedy and tragedy to tell the story of two ex-lovers played by Amalric and Devos. The film also starred Catherine Deneuve in the role of a psychiatrist, Kings and Queen was nominated for several awards and Amalric won the César Award for Best Actor. However, controversy arose when actress Marianne Denicourt, Desplechins ex-girlfriend, accused him of revealing elements of her life in the screenplay of Kings. In 2005, she published Mauvais génie, describing her relationship with a film director called Arnold Duplancher. In 2006 she unsuccessfully sued Desplechin, in 2007, Desplechin filmed LAimée, a documentary showing his father, his brother, and his nephews in the family house in Roubaix just before it was to be sold. That same year, he filmed the family drama A Christmas Tale, starring Deneuve, Amalric, Devos and this film was screened in competition at Cannes in 2008. His 2013 film Jimmy Picard was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival constituting his fifth film selected in the main competition, in 2014 he adapted Alexander Ostrovskys play The Forest. For the drama film My Golden Days, which he directed and co-wrote, Desplechin won the César Award and Lumières Award for Best Director, in 2016, he was a member of the main competition jury of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. La Vie des morts La Sentinelle My Sex Life, how I Got Into An Argument at The Auteurs Ryland Walker Knight on My Sex Life. and Kings and Queen at The House Next Door
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Arnaud Desplechin in 2015
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Anh Hung Tran
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Trần Anh Hùng is a Vietnamese-born French film director. Trần was born in Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam, and immigrated to France when he was 12 following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Trần has been at the forefront of a wave of acclaimed overseas Vietnamese cinema over the past two decades and his films have received international fame and acclaim, and his first three features were varied meditations on life in his home country Vietnam. Trầns Oscar-nominated debut was The Scent of Green Papaya, which won two top prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. His follow-up Cyclo, won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, the Vertical Ray of the Sun, released in 2000, was the third film in his Vietnam trilogy. After a sabbatical Trần returned with the psychological thriller I Come with the Rain. It was announced in July 2008 that Trần would direct an adaptation of Haruki Murakamis novel Norwegian Wood, the film was released in Japan in December 2010. In France, Trần studied at the film school Louis Lumière College. For his graduation project in 1987 he wrote and directed a short film Người thiếu phụ Nam Xương, following this Trần made another short film, Hòn vọng phu, before launching the feature film The Scent of Green Papaya. The Scent of Green Papaya was acclaimed for its style and its images of Vietnamese life. To date, the film is the representative of Vietnamese cinema to be nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The success of Papaya helped Trần gain funding for the next film, the film tells stories of poor people living in Saigon, and was filmed on location there. Cyclo won the Golden Lion at 52nd Venice International Film Festival, having depicted life in Ho Chi Minh City, Trần turned his attention to Hanoi in The Vertical Ray of the Sun. The main characters of the film are three sisters who idolize their parents life, before the truth is revealed after the mothers death. All three feature films were financed by Christophe Rossignon, the stories are based on Trầns knowledge about Vietnamese language and culture and his first-hand experience gained from trips to the country. Trần is strongly influenced by French cinema and from some European and Japanese filmmakers, namely Bergman, Bresson, Kurosawa, Tarkovsky, Trầns style of filmmaking is expressed through the claim, Art is the truth wearing mask. Trần Anh Hùng at the Internet Movie Database Dan Bloom, Norwei no mori goes to Hollywood RushPRnews
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April (1998 film)
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April is a 1998 Italian semi-autobiographical film directed by Nanni Moretti. Moretti also played the character, a filmmaker who has to deal with Italys political situation, his own goals as an artist. He wants to make a comedy but he cant get started. So instead he talks about his life, his new baby, his desires, finally in the very last scene he begins. Morettis wife, son and mother appear as themselves, two years pass, another election is held, and Moretti has still made no progress with his documentary. His son Pietro is born, and the centre-left coalition Ulivo wins the election, Moretti continues to try to shoot his documentary in Venice and Apulia, but the film is never finished. On his forty-fourth birthday he realises that he must stop hesitating and he finally begins shooting his musical in earnest
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Nanni Moretti
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Giovanni Nanni Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. The Palme dOr winner in 2001, in 2012 he was the President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival, Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol, Italy, to Roman parents who were both teachers. His father was the late epigraphist Luigi Moretti, an influential Greek teacher at Sapienza University of Rome, while growing up he discovered his two passions, the cinema and water polo. Having finished his studies he pursued a career as a producer and his brother is the renowned literary scholar Franco Moretti. In 1976, Giovannis first feature film Io sono un autarchico was released, in 1978 he produced the movie Ecce Bombo, which tells the story of a student having problems with his entourage. It was screened at the Cannes Festival, Sogni doro won the Silver Lion at the 38th Venice International Film Festival. La messa è finita won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival and he may be best known for his films Caro diario and La stanza del figlio, the latter of which won the Palme dOr at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Moretti has used certain actors several times in his films, generally playing minor roles and his father Luigi appears in 6 films, Dario Cantarelli and Mauro Fabretti in 5, Antonio Petrocelli in 4. Actors he has used in major roles include Silvio Orlando, who appears in 5 films and Laura Morante. Having played waterpolo in the B division of the Italian championship and his other work has not been widely seen outside Europe, but within his country Moretti is known as a maker of wryly humorous and eccentric films, usually starring himself. His most recent role was in the film Mia Madre Moretti is also an outspoken political leftist, Il caimano is in part about Berlusconis controversies, in one of the three portraits of the Italian prime minister Moretti himself plays Berlusconi. Aprile also deals with Italys political situation and Morettis views on it and his 2011 film We Have a Pope screened In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He lives in Rome, having been resident since birth, where he is co-owner of a movie theater. The short film, Il Giorno della prima di Close Up, shows Moretti at his theatre attempting to encourage patrons to attend the day of Abbas Kiarostamis film. In his words, I remember the shirts that said Thank God Im an atheist, Im not a believer and Im sorry. His 2015 film Mia Madre was selected to compete for the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. I. C. A, conversations avec Nanni Moretti, Paris,2008, Editions des Cahiers du cinéma. The Cinema of Nanni Moretti, Wallflower,2004, interview with Nanni Moretti with his own thoughts on his films, filmlinc. com, accessed 12 December 2014. Nanni Moretti at the Internet Movie Database
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Nanni Moretti at the
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