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Hollywood Ending
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Hollywood Ending is a 2002 American comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen, who also plays the principal character. It tells the story of a film director who suffers hysterical blindness due to the intense pressure of directing. Val Waxman is a prestigious film director lately reduced to overseeing cheesy television commercials in order to pay his bills and support his current live-in girlfriend. When he is thrown off his latest effort, he seeks a real movie project. Out of the blue, Val receives an offer to direct a blockbuster movie to be set in New York City. However, the offer comes from his wife, Ellie, and her current boyfriend, Hal. Pushed by his agent Al Hack, Val agrees to the project, with Als encouragement and aid, Val keeps his blindness a secret from the cast and studio head. The movie plays out with an aging director struggling to regain his vision, in the end, Vals project costs $60 million—and flops. Nevertheless, Val enjoys a Hollywood ending of his own—his movie is a hit in France, after winning Ellie back, he happily proclaims, Thank God the French exist. Téa Leoni - Ellie George Hamilton - Ed Treat Williams - Hal Woody Allen - Val Waxman Debra Messing - Lori Neal Huff - Commercial A. D. Wedigo von Schultzendorff replaced Wexler, the film received mixed reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that the film received 47% positive reviews, Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 46 out of 100, based on 37 reviews. The film was a failure in American theaters, with ticket sales under $5 million, with a worldwide gross of only $14.8 million. It was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, in the United Kingdom, it was the first of Allens films not to receive a theatrical release. Film critic Bryant Frazer thought that it suffered from poor editing and he wrote, Whats most frustrating is the sense that Hollywood Ending could have been quite a bit better than it actually is. At 114 minutes, its decisively lacking in the brevity that used to characterize Allens pictures—even the super-serious, I ran to the Internet Movie Database to investigate, and discovered what may be the problem—Susan Morse is gone. In 2016 film critics Robbie Collin and Tim Robey ranked Hollywood Ending as the worst movie by Woody Allen, Hollywood Ending Hollywood Ending at the Internet Movie Database Hollywood Ending at AllMovie Hollywood Ending at Rotten Tomatoes Hollywood Ending at Metacritic Hollywood Ending at Box Office Mojo
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And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen
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Ladies and Gentlemen is a thriller film released in 2002. It is directed by Claude Lelouch and stars Jeremy Irons and French singer Patricia Kaas, Patricia Kaas also released a song with the same title on her 2002 album Piano Bar. Tracks from the album, which according to the notes were inspired by the film, were used in the movie. It was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, ladies and Gentlemen at Rotten Tomatoes
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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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Palme d'Or
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The Palme dOr is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee, from 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film. In 1964, it was replaced again by the Grand Prix du Festival before being reintroduced in 1974 as the Palme dOr again. In 1954, the Jury of the Festival de Cannes suggested giving an award titled the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival with a new design each year from a contemporary artist. At the end of 1954, the Festivals Board of Directors invited several jewellers to submit designs for a palm, in tribute to the coat of arms of the City of Cannes. The original design by the jeweller Lucienne Lazon had the lower extremity of the stalk forming a heart. In 1955, the first Palme dOr was awarded to Delbert Mann for Marty, and it remained the highest award until 1964, as of 2015, Jane Campion is the only female director to have won the Palme dOr, for The Piano. These choices were due to a Cannes policy that forbids the Palme dOr-winning film from receiving any additional awards, according to Spielberg, Had the casting been 3% wrong, it wouldnt have worked like it did for us. Since its reintroduction, the prize has been redesigned several times, at the beginning of the 1980s, the rounded shape of the pedestal, bearing the palm, gradually transformed to become pyramidal in 1984. In 1992 Thierry de Bourqueney redesigned the Palme and its pedestal in hand-cut crystal, the current design, first presented in 1997, is by Caroline Scheufele from Chopard. A single piece of cut crystal forms a cushion for the 24-carat gold palm, the winner of the 2014 Palme dOr, Winter Sleep—a Turkish film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan—occurred during the same year as the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema. Note, The Palme dOr for Union Pacific was awarded in retrospect at the 2002 festival, the festivals debut was to take place in 1939, but it was cancelled due to World War II. The organisers of the 2002 festival presented part of the original 1939 selection to a jury of six members. The films were, Goodbye Mr. Chips, La Piste du Nord, Lenin in 1918, The Four Feathers, The Wizard of Oz, Union Pacific, and Boefje. In 2011 the festival announced that the award would be given out annually, however plans for this fell through, american director Woody Allen was the inaugural recipient while pioneering French filmmaker Agnès Varda was the first woman to receive the award in 2015. In 2016 Jean-Pierre Léaud became the first person to be awarded solely for acting. com Cannes Film Festival IMDB
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The Pianist (2002 film)
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The Pianist is a 2002 historical drama film co-produced and directed by Roman Polanski, scripted by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody. It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist, a World War II memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist, the film was a co-production between France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Poland. The Pianist met with significant critical praise and received multiple awards and it was awarded the Palme dOr at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film and BAFTA Award for Best Direction in 2003 and seven French Césars including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Brody. In September 1939, Władysław Szpilman, a Polish-Jewish pianist, is playing live on the radio in Warsaw when the station is bombed during Nazi Germanys invasion of Poland. Hoping for a victory, Szpilman rejoices with his family at home when learning that Britain. But the promised aid does not come, fighting lasts for just over a month, with both the German and Soviet armies invading Poland at the same time on different fronts. Warsaw becomes part of the Nazi-controlled General Government, Jews are soon prevented from working or owning businesses, and are also made to wear blue Star of David armbands. By November 1940, Szpilman and his family are forced from their home into the overcrowded Warsaw Ghetto, people starve, the guards are brutal, and starving children are abandoned in the streets. On one occasion, the Szpilmans witness the SS kill a family in an apartment across the street during a round-up. On 16 August 1942, Szpilman and his family are transported to Treblinka extermination camp as part of Operation Reinhard, but a friend in the Jewish Ghetto Police recognises Władysław at the Umschlagplatz and separates him from his family. He becomes a slave labourer and learns of a coming Jewish revolt and he helps the resistance by smuggling weapons into the ghetto, on one occasion narrowly avoiding a suspicious guard. Szpilman eventually manages to escape and goes into hiding with help from a friend, Andrzej Bogucki. In April 1943, Szpilman watches from his window as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, after a neighbor discovers Szpilman in the flat, he is forced to flee to a second hiding place. The new room has a piano in it but he is compelled to keep quiet while beginning to suffer from jaundice, in August 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising, the Armia Krajowa attacks a German building across the street from Szpilmans hideout. Tank shells hit the apartment forcing him to flee, over the course of the following months, Warsaw is destroyed. Szpilman is left alone to search desperately for shelter and supplies among the ruins and he eventually makes his way to a house where he finds a can of pickles. While trying to open it he is discovered by Wehrmacht officer Wilm Hosenfeld who learns that Szpilman is a pianist and he asks Szpilman to play on a grand piano in the house
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Virginie Ledoyen
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Virginie Fernandez, known by her stage name Virginie Ledoyen, is a French actress. Born in Aubervilliers, the daughter of Olga, a restaurateur, and Bernard Fernandez and she was a print model from the age of two and later took on the stage name Ledoyen after the maiden name of her maternal grandmother, who was a stage actress. Her film breakthrough came with La Fille seule, for which she was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress, also she received two César Award nominations for Les marmottes and Leau froide. Outside France, her role is alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach. In the fall of 2000, she signed a contract as a spokesmodel with the cosmetics company LOréal and she was featured alongside two models, Laetitia Casta and Noémie Lenoir. She portrayed the character Cosette from the 2000 adaption of Les Misérables, on 29 September 2001, she gave birth to her first child, a girl named Lila, with production designer Louis Soubrier, whom she met on the set of A Single Girl in 1995. She was in a marriage with Iain Rogers, a film director. From 2007 to 2015, she was in a relationship with actor Arie Elmaleh, Ledoyen and Arie Elmaleh have a son, Isaac, born in July 2010, and a daughter, Amalia, born in April 2014. In 2013 she was named as a member of the jury at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, saint-Germain des Prés, narrator—an audio walking-tour of the Paris neighborhood. Created by Soundwalk 1998, Prix Suzanne Bianchetti Virginie Ledoyen at the Internet Movie Database Virginie Ledoyen at the Fashion Model Directory Virginie Ledoyen at AllMovie
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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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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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Roman Polanski
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Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor. Born in Paris, his Polish-Jewish parents moved the back to Poland in 1937. Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany a few later, in 1939. Polanskis first feature-length film, Knife in the Water, made in Poland, was nominated for a United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, along with two BAFTAs, four Césars, a Golden Globe Award and the Palme dOr of the Cannes Film Festival in France, in the United Kingdom he directed three films, beginning with Repulsion. In 1968 he moved to the United States and cemented his status by directing the horror film Rosemarys Baby. A turning point in his life took place in 1969, when his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, following her death, Polanski returned to Europe and eventually continued directing. He made Macbeth in England and back in Hollywood, Chinatown, in 1977, Polanski was arrested and charged with the rape of a 13-year-old model during a photo session. He subsequently pled guilty to the charge of statutory rape and he was released from prison after serving 42 days, and as part of an apparent plea bargain, was to be put on probation. When he learned that the judge changed his mind and planned to reject the plea bargain, in Europe, Polanski continued to make films, including Tess, starring aspiring actress, Nastassja Kinski. It won Frances César Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and he later produced and directed The Pianist, starring Adrien Brody, in a World War II true story drama about a Jewish-Polish musician. The film won three Academy Awards including Best Director, along with numerous international awards and he also directed Oliver Twist, a story which parallels his own life as a young boy attempting to triumph over adversity. Polanski was born in Paris, the son of Bula and Ryszard Polański, a painter and manufacturer of sculptures and his mother had a daughter, Annette, by her previous husband. Annette managed to survive Auschwitz, where her mother died, Polańskis father was Jewish and originally from Poland, Polańskis mother, born in Russia, had been raised Roman Catholic and was of half-Jewish ancestry. Polański, influenced by his education in the Peoples Republic of Poland, said Im an atheist in an interview about his film, Rosemarys Baby. The Polański family moved back to the Polish city of Kraków in 1936, Kraków was soon occupied by the German forces, and Nazi racial purity laws made the Polańskis targets of persecution, forcing them into the Kraków Ghetto, along with thousands of the citys Jews. Around the age of six, he attended school for only a few weeks, until all the Jewish children were abruptly expelled. That initiative was followed by requiring all Jewish children over the age of twelve to wear white armbands with a blue Star of David imprinted for visual identification
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Woody Allen
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Heywood Woody Allen is an American actor, writer, director, comedian, playwright, and musician whose career spans more than six decades. He worked as a writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television. In the early 1960s, Allen began performing as a stand-up comedian, as a comedian, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen in fourth place on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians and he is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s. Allen often stars in his films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup, some of the best-known of his over 40 films are Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Hannah and Her Sisters. In 2007 he said Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, critic Roger Ebert described Allen as a treasure of the cinema. Allen won four Academy Awards, three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director and he also won nine British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. His screenplay for Annie Hall was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the 101 Funniest Screenplays, in 2011, PBS televised the film biography Woody Allen, A Documentary on the American Masters TV series. Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg in Brooklyn, New York and he and his sister, Letty, were raised in Midwood, Brooklyn. He is the son of Nettie, a bookkeeper at her familys delicatessen, and Martin Konigsberg and his family was Jewish, his grandparents immigrated from Russia and Austria, and spoke Yiddish, Hebrew, and German. His parents were born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His childhood was not particularly happy, his parents did not get along, Allen spoke German quite a bit in his early years. He would later joke that when he was young he was sent to inter-faith summer camps. While attending Hebrew school for eight years, he went to Public School 99 and to Midwood High School, at that time, he lived in an apartment at 968 East 14th Street. Unlike his comic persona, he was interested in baseball than school. He impressed students with his talent at card and magic tricks. To raise money, he wrote jokes for agent David O. Alber, at the age of 17, he legally changed his name to Heywood Allen and later began to call himself Woody Allen. According to Allen, his first published joke read, Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O. P. S and he was then earning more than both parents combined
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Claude Lelouch
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Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch was born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Charlotte and his father was born to an Algerian Jewish family and his mother was a convert to Judaism. His father gave him a camera to him a fresh start after his failure in the baccalaureat. He started his career with reportage – one of the first to film life in the Soviet Union. He also filmed sporting events like the 24 Hours of Le Mans and his first full-length film as director, Le Propre de lhomme, was decried by the critics – Claude Lelouch, remember this name well, because you will not hear it again – Cahiers du cinéma said. La femme spectacle, following prostitutes, women shopping, going for nose-jobs, was censored for its misogynist tendency, a Man and a Woman changed his fortunes and was met with favour even by the Cahiers group. The 1981 musical epic Les Uns et les Autres is widely considered as his masterpiece and his 1976 film, Cétait un rendez-vous, purportedly features a Ferrari 275 GTB being driven at extreme speed through the streets of Paris at dawn. The entire short is shot from the point of view of the car, legend has it that Lelouch was arrested after it was first shown publicly. In a 2006 interview, Lelouch stated that he drove his own Mercedes-Benz 450SEL6.9 in the film and he has collaborated more than two dozen times with composer Francis Lai. They scored a hit with the piece chabadabada for the film A Man and a Woman sung by Nicole Croisille and Pierre Barouh. He is the father of 7 children, in 1993 he was the President of the Jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. 2016, Commander in the Order of the Crown, lelouchs A Man and a Woman won the Palme dOr at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, as well as two Oscars including Best Foreign Language Film. His 1967 film, Vivre pour vivre, was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, in 1971, he won the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Directing for Le Voyou. Media related to Claude Lelouch at Wikimedia Commons Claude Lelouch at the Internet Movie Database
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David Lynch
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David Keith Lynch is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, and photographer. He has been described by The Guardian as the most important director of this era, allMovie called him the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking, while the success of his films has led to him being labelled the first popular Surrealist. He moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, meanwhile, Lynch embraced the Internet as a medium, producing several web-based shows, such as the animated DumbLand and the surreal sitcom Rabbits. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director and a nomination for best screenplay. He has won Frances César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, the French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the countrys top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007. Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are widely considered by critics to be among the greatest films of their respective decades, Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana on January 20,1946. His father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Lynchs maternal great-grandparents were Finnish, and had immigrated to the United States from Finland in the 19th century. The Lynch family often moved around according to where the USDA assigned Donald and it was here that Lynchs sister Martha was born. The family then moved to Durham, North Carolina, then Boise, Idaho, Lynch found this transitory early life relatively easy to adjust to, noting that he found it fairly easy to meet new friends whenever he started attending a new school. Commenting on much of his life, Lynch has remarked, Alongside his schooling, Lynch joined the Boy Scouts, although he would later note that he only became so I could quit. He rose to the highest rank of Eagle Scout and it was through being an Eagle Scout that he was present with other Boy Scouts outside of the White House at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, which took place on Lynchs birthday in 1961. They had some hopes that in Europe they could train with the expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka at his school. Upon reaching Salzburg, however, they found that he was not available and, Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he stayed with his friend Toby Keeler for a while. He decided to move to the city of Philadelphia and enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, after advice from Jack Fisk and it was here that he began a relationship with a fellow student, Peggy Reavey, and they were married in 1967. The following year, Peggy gave birth to their daughter Jennifer, later describing this situation, Peggy stated that definitely was a reluctant father, but a very loving one. Hey, I was pregnant when we got married, later describing living there, Lynch stated that We lived cheap, but the city was full of fear. A kid was shot to death down the street and we were robbed twice, had windows shot out and a car stolen. The house was first broken into three days after we moved in
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Sharon Stone
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Sharon Vonne Stone is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She received further acclaim and Golden Globe Award nominations for her roles in the 1998 drama The Mighty, in 2004, Stone won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in The Practice. In 2005, she was named Officer of the Order of Arts, Sharon Yvonne Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, to Dorothy Marie, an accountant, and Joseph William Stone II, a tool and die manufacturer and factory worker. She has a sister, Kelly, and two brothers, Michael and Patrick Stone, Stone was considered academically gifted as a child and entered the second grade when she was five years old. She graduated from Saegertown High School in Saegertown, Pennsylvania in 1975, while attending Edinboro University, Stone won the title of Miss Crawford County, Pennsylvania and was a candidate for Miss Pennsylvania. One of the pageant judges told her to school and move to New York City to become a fashion model. In 1977, Stone left Meadville, moving in with an aunt in New Jersey and she was signed by Ford Modeling Agency in New York City. Stone later moved to Europe and while living there, she decided to quit modeling, so I packed my bags, moved back to New York, and stood in line to be an extra in a Woody Allen movie, she later recalled. Stone was cast for a role in Allens Stardust Memories. French director Claude Lelouch cast her in Les Uns et les Autres and she was on screen for two minutes and did not appear in the credits. In 1983, she appeared in the short-lived sports-themed television series Bay City Blues, playing Cathy St. Marie and her next film role was in Irreconcilable Differences, starring Ryan ONeal, Shelley Long, and a young Drew Barrymore. Stone played a starlet who breaks up the marriage of a successful director, in 1984, she appeared in Echoes of the Mind, a two-part episode of Magnum, P. I. playing identical twins, one a love interest of Tom Sellecks character. Through the remainder of the 1980s, she had roles in films as King Solomons Mines and Allan Quatermain. In 1988, she played Janice Henry for the filming of the miniseries War and her appearance in Dutch film director Paul Verhoevens sci-fi action film Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger gave Stones career a boost. To coincide with the release, she posed nude for Playboy. In 1999, she was rated among the 25 sexiest stars of the century by Playboy, in another Verhoeven film was the role that made her a star, playing Catherine Tramell, a brilliant, bisexual, alleged serial killer, in Basic Instinct. Several actresses at the time turned down the role, mostly because of the nudity required, in the films most notorious scene, Tramell is being questioned by the police, and she crosses and uncrosses her legs, exposing her vulva, which is not covered by underwear. Later, when I saw it in the screening I was shocked, I think seeing it in a room full of strangers was so disrespectful and so shocking, so I went into the booth and slapped him and left
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Michelle Yeoh
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Tan Sri Dato Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a Chinese Malaysian actress, best known for performing her own stunts in the Hong Kong action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s. Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, she was chosen by People as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1997, in 2008, the film critic website Rotten Tomatoes ranked her the greatest action heroine of all time. In 2009, she was listed by People – as the only Asian actress – as one of the 35 All-Time Screen Beauties and she is credited as Michelle Khan in some of her earlier films. This alias was chosen by the D&B studio who thought it might be more marketable to international, Yeoh later preferred using her real name. Yeoh was born in Ipoh, Malaysia, to an ethnic Chinese family of mixed Cantonese and her parents are Janet Yeoh and Yeoh Kian Teik, a lawyer and MCA politician. She was keen on dance from an age, beginning ballet at the age of four. At the age of 15, she moved with her parents to the United Kingdom, Yeoh later studied at the Royal Academy of Dance in London, majoring in ballet. However, an injury prevented her from becoming a professional ballet dancer. She later received a B. A. degree in Creative Arts with a minor in Drama, in 1983, at the age of 20, Yeoh won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant. She represented Malaysia at the Queen of the Pacific 1983 beauty pageant which was held in Australia and she was also Malaysias representative at the Miss World 1983 pageant in London. From there, she appeared in a commercial with Jackie Chan which caught the attention of a fledgling Hong Kong film production company. Yeoh started her career acting in action and martial arts films such as Yes, Madam in 1985. The D&B Group in Hong Kong was run by Dickson Poon, Yeoh married Poon in 1987 and retired from acting. After the couple divorced in 1992, Yeoh returned to acting, yeohs performance in Police Story 3, Super Cop marked her comeback. She acted in The Heroic Trio in 1993, and the Yuen Woo-ping films Tai Chi Master, Yeoh learned English and Malay before Cantonese. She learned the Mandarin lines for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon phonetically and she played Wai Lin in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. Brosnan was impressed, describing her as an actress who was serious. He referred to her as a female James Bond in reference to her combat abilities and she wanted again to perform her own stunts but was prevented because director Roger Spottiswoode considered it too dangerous
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Christine Hakim
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Herlina Christine Natalia Hakim, also known by the popular name Christine Hakim, is an Indonesian actress, film producer, and activist. Born to a devout Muslim family of a background in Jambi, she grew up in Yogyakarta. This changed after she was discovered by Teguh Karya for his 1973 movie Cinta Pertama, since then, she has starred in numerous films, including 1977s Badai Pasti Berlalu and 1988s Tjoet Nja Dhien, she also had a minor role in the 2010 Hollywood movie Eat Pray Love. Beginning in 2008, she has served as Indonesias goodwill ambassador to UNESCO, Hakim was born in Kuala Tungkal, Jambi on 25 December 1956, but grew up in Yogyakarta. She is of mixed descent, with her relatives coming from Padang, Aceh, Banten, Pekalongan, Madiun, and the Middle East, despite being devout Muslims, her parents named her Christine and Natalia because she was born on Christmas Day. Originally, Hakim did not intend to be an actress, and she later described Karya as having reeled in, slowly, slowly, like a fisherma, and considered leaving acting after wrapping up filming. Her work in Cinta Pertama garnered her a Citra Award for Best Actress, the following year, Hakim starred in another Karya-directed film, Kawin Lari. The experience gave her an understanding of acting, causing her to see life from a different perspective in studying character. It was followed by a role in 1976s Sesuatu yang Indah, Sesuatu yang Indah was the first film in which Hakim used her own voice, her voice had been dubbed by Titi Qadarsih in previous movies, Hakims own voice had been considered too heavy. The next year, she starred in Badai Pasti Berlalu, appearing on the poster, Hakim presented 14 Indonesian films at the Nantes Three Continents Festival in November 1983, she had acted in half of them. Two years later she became an observer at the Cannes Film Festival, striking up a relationship with Pierre Risient. One of these was Eros Djarots 1988 film Tjoet Nja Dhien and it won the 1989 Cannes Film Festival award for Best International Film, being screened in Le Semaine de Critique. Hakim later described the role as an honour and very challenging. The film later became Indonesias submission to the 62nd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Hakim screened her first work as a producer, Daun di Atas Bantal during Un Certain Regard at Cannes ten years later. When producing the film, she chose young director Garin Nugroho, during production, she made a mistake that required the reshooting of all footage. Another production, 2001s Pasir Berbisik, went more smoothly, the film, which Hakim co-produced and played the leading role, was screened at the Deauville Asian Film Festival. The following year she was appointed to the jury of the Cannes Film Festival, in 2005 she received a special tribute during the opening ceremony of the 7th Deauville Asian Film Festival. In 2003, Hakim began work with RCTI and Metro TV on the TV show Untukmu Guru, Hakims first Hollywood experience came in 2010, Hakim played Wayan, a Balinese jamu seller, alongside Julia Roberts in Eat Pray Love
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Bille August
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Bille August is a Danish Academy Award-winning film and television director. His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won the Palme dOr, Academy Award and he is one of only eight directors to win the Palme dOr twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1992 for The Best Intentions, based on the autobiographical script by Ingmar Bergman. He was married to Swedish actress Pernilla August from 1991 to 1997 and his son Anders August is a screenwriter. Tianpeng Media is a new company established in 2010. The company so far has produced two films, The Women Knight of Mirror and The Years of Qi Xiao Fu, which will be released later this year, bille is the first foreign director to be hired by the Chinese film company. Recently, August also accepted the invitation from the Hangzhou government to serve as a consultant for the city. His 2013 film Night Train to Lisbon premiered out of competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival and he is attached to direct a Gianni Versace biopic with Antonio Banderas as Versace. Honning måne Entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival, verden er så stor, så stor TV Movie Maj TV Movie Zappa based on the book by Danish writer Bjarne Reuter. Screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival and the 13th Moscow International Film Festival, busters verden based on the book by Danish writer Bjarne Reuter Tro, håb og kærlighed. Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival, den goda viljan script by Ingmar Bergman. won the Golden Palm at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. The House of the Spirits based on a novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende, the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Two episodes Vienna, November 1908 Northern Italy, June 1918 Jerusalem based on a novel by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. Smillas Sense of Snow based on the novel Miss Smillas Feeling for Snow by Danish author Peter Høeg, nominated for the Golden Bear at Berlin Les Misérables based on the novel of the same name by French author Victor Hugo
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Claude Miller
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Claude Miller was a French film director, producer and screenwriter. Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family, a student at Paris IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de lArmée. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of Frances major directors, including Robert Bresson, Miller received César nominations for best director and writing for this film. His subsequent films can also be perceived as homages to Truffaut, the following year he made Dites-lui que je laime, for which he received a second César nomination for Best Director. He won a César Award for Best Writing in 1981 for Garde à vue, in 1983 he directed Mortelle randonnée. The latter film was an international success, and solidified Millers status as one of Frances major film-makers. On French television, Miller directed dozens of commercials and the six-part miniseries Traits de Mémoire, after a four-year absence, Claude Miller returned to active filmmaking with The Accompanist and The Smile. He had to wait until 1998 for his major success, La Classe de Neige, the chilling story of a lonely boy on a school skiing holiday. At the time of his death he was working on an adaptation of François Mauriacs Thérèse Desqueyroux, the film was selected to close the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
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Walter Salles
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Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence. Salles attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and he is the son of Brazilian banker, politician and philanthropist Walter Moreira Salles. Salless first notable film was Terra Estrangeira, released in Brazil in 1995, locally, it was widely acclaimed by film critics and a minor box-office hit, and it was selected by over 40 film festivals worldwide. In 1998 he released Central do Brasil to widespread international acclaim, Salles won a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, becoming the first Brazilian to win a Golden Globe. In 2001, Abril Despedaçado, starring Rodrigo Santoro, was nominated for the Best Foreign Film Golden Globes, both films were produced by veteran Arthur Cohn and had worldwide distribution. In 2003, Salles was voted one of the 40 Best Directors in the World by The Guardian and his biggest international success has been Diarios de Motocicleta, a 2004 film about the life of young Ernesto Guevara, who later became known as Che Guevara. It was Salless first foray as director of a film in a other than his native Portuguese and quickly became a box-office hit in Latin America. In 2005, Salles released his first Hollywood film, Dark Water and he also helped to produce the Argentine picture Hermanas which was a major success. In 2006, Salles wrote and directed a segment in the French film Paris, the film is a collection of 18 shorter segments made by different 21 directors and set in different arrondissements of Paris. Salles segment called Loin du 16e and took place in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, in 2007, Salles took part in a similar project called To Each His Own Cinema in the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival. He made a 3-minute segment called A8944 km de Cannes, in 2008, Salles wrote and directed the film Linha de Passe also with Daniela Thomas. It is a story about four brothers from a family who need to fight to follow their dreams. He was nominated for the Golden Palm and Sandra Corveloni won the best actress award for her role in film in Cannes Film Festival in 2008. In 2012 Salles released José Riveras screenplay adaptation of Jack Kerouacs On the Road, the film was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. com Walter Salles interviewed by Michael Ordoña for the San Francisco Chronicle
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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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Abbas Kiarostami
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Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy, Close-Up, Taste of Cherry – which was awarded the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival that year – and The Wind Will Carry Us. In his later works, Certified Copy and Like Someone in Love, he filmed for the first time outside Iran, in Italy and Japan, Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material. He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator and these filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues. He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue, titles, Kiarostamis films contain a notable degree of ambiguity, an unusual mixture of simplicity and complexity, and often a mix of fictional and documentary elements. The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death and he majored in painting and graphic design, and supported his studies by working as a traffic policeman. As a painter, designer, and illustrator, Kiarostami worked in advertising in the 1960s, designing posters, between 1962 and 1966, he shot around 150 advertisements for Iranian television. In the late 1960s, he began creating credit titles for films and its debut production and Kiarostamis first film was the twelve-minute The Bread and Alley, a neo-realistic short film about a schoolboys confrontation with an aggressive dog. The department became one of Irans most noted film studios, producing not only Kiarostamis films, but acclaimed Persian films such as The Runner and Bashu, in the 1970s, Kiarostami pursued an individualistic style of film making. When discussing his first film, he stated, Bread and Alley was my first experience in cinema, I had to work with a very young child, a dog, and an unprofessional crew except for the cinematographer, who was nagging and complaining all the time. Well, the cinematographer, in a sense, was right because I did not follow the conventions of film making that he had become accustomed to, following The Experience, Kiarostami released The Traveler in 1974. The Traveler tells the story of Qassem Julayi, a troubled and troublesome boy from a small Iranian city. Intent on attending a match in far-off Tehran, he scams his friends and neighbors to raise money. In addressing the boys determination to reach his goal, alongside his indifference to the effects of his actions, the film examined human behavior. It furthered Kiarostamis reputation for realism, diegetic simplicity, and stylistic complexity, in 1975, Kiarostami directed two short films So Can I and Two Solutions for One Problem. In early 1976, he released Colors, followed by the fifty-four-minute film A Wedding Suit, Kiarostamis first feature film was the 112-minute Report. It revolved around the life of a tax collector accused of accepting bribes, in 1979, he produced and directed First Case, Second Case
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Tilda Swinton
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Katherine Matilda Tilda Swinton is a British actress, performance artist, model, and fashion muse, known for her roles in independent and Hollywood films. She is the recipient of two BAFTA Awards, one BIFA Award, an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and has received three nominations for a Golden Globe Award. She began her career in films directed by Derek Jarman, starting with Caravaggio, followed by The Last of England, War Requiem, Swinton won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance as Isabella of France in Edward II. She next starred in Sally Potters Orlando, and was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actress, Swinton was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deep End. She followed this with appearances in Vanilla Sky, Adaptation, Young Adam and she then starred in the crime drama Julia, I Am Love, and the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Swinton later starred in the romantic fantasy drama, Only Lovers Left Alive. She is also known for her performances as the White Witch in the Chronicles of Narnia series, Swinton won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as lawyer Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton. In 2005, Swinton was given the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry, in 2013 she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art. Swinton was born in London, the daughter of Judith Balfour and her father is a retired major general in the British Army, and was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire from 1989 to 2000. Her paternal great-grandfather was a Scottish politician and herald, George Swinton, the Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scots family that can trace its lineage to the Middle Ages. The family is one of three families that can trace their unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest. Swinton attended three independent schools, Queens Gate School in London, the West Heath Girls School and also Fettes College for a brief period, West Heath was an expensive boarding school where she was a classmate and friend of Princess Diana. Children need their parents and the parents can provide. Swinton went to volunteer in Kenya during a break from college with a charity called Project Trust. In 1983, Swinton graduated from New Hall at the University of Cambridge with a degree in Social and Political Sciences, while at Cambridge, she joined the Communist Party, she later joined the Scottish Socialist Party. It was in college that Swinton began performing on stage, Swinton joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, appearing in Measure for Measure. She also worked with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, starring in Mann ist Mann by Manfred Karge in 1987, on television, she appeared as Julia in the 1986 mini-series Zastrozzi, A Romance based on the Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her first film was Caravaggio in 1986, directed by Derek Jarman, Swinton also played the title role in Orlando, Sally Potters film version of the novel by Virginia Woolf
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Bahman Ghobadi
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Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian film director, producer and writer of Kurdish ethnicity. He was born on February 1,1969 in Chovar, Ilam, Ghobadi belongs to the new wave of Iranian cinema. He was born in Chovar, a Kurdish city in Iran and he belongs to the Malekshahi tribe. His family moved to Sanandaj in 1981, Ghobadi received a Bachelor of Arts in film directing from Iran Broadcasting College. After a brief career in photography, Ghobadi began making short 8 mm films. His documentary Life In Fog won numerous awards, bahman Ghobadi was assistant director on Abbas Kiarostamis The Wind Will Carry Us. Bahman Ghobadi founded Mij Film in 2000, a company with the aim of production of films in Iran about its different ethnic groups and his first feature film was A Time for Drunken Horses, the first Kurdish film produced in Iran. The film won the Caméra dOr at the Cannes Film Festival and his second feature was Marooned in Iraq, which brought him the Gold Plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival. In 2006, Ghobadis Half Moon won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, Irans renowned actors Golshifteh Farahani, Hassan Poorshirazi and Hedyeh Tehrani acted in this movie. The music of the movie was made by Irans musician Hossein Alizadeh, the film, which was a collaborative project by Iran, France, Austria and Iraq, was shot fully in Iranian Kurdistan. However, it narrates the story of a group of Iranian Kurdish musicians who would like to travel to Iraqi Kurdistan, in 2006, Index on Censorship gave Ghobadi an Index Film Award for making a significant contribution to freedom of expression through his film Turtles Can Fly. In May 2009, his film No One Knows About Persian Cats won an Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize ex-aequo when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and this film chronicles the hardships facing young Iranian musicians seeking to evade censorship
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Marthe Keller
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Marthe Keller is a Swiss actress and opera director. Marthe studied ballet as a child, but stopped after an accident at age 16. She changed to acting, and worked in Berlin at the Schiller Theatre, kellers earliest film appearances were in Funeral in Berlin and the German film Wilder Reiter GmbH. She appeared in a series of French films in the 1970s, including Un cave, La raison du plus fou and she also acted alongside William Holden in Billy Wilders 1978 romantic drama Fedora. After 1978, Keller worked more steadily in European cinema compared to American movies and her later films include Dark Eyes, with Marcello Mastroianni. In April 2016, she was announced as the President of the Jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and she was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for this performance. In addition to her work in film and theatre, Keller has developed a career in music as a speaker. She has performed the role of Joan of Arc in Arthur Honeggers oratorio Jeanne dArc au Bûcher on several occasions, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa. She has recorded the role for Deutsche Grammophon with Ozawa, Keller has also recited the spoken part in Igor Stravinskys Perséphone. She has performed classical music melodramas for speaker and piano in recital, the Swiss composer Michael Jarrell wrote the melodrama Cassandre, after the novel of Christa Wolf, for Keller, who gave the world premiere in 1994. Kellers first production as a director was Dialogues des Carmélites. This production subsequently received a performance in London that year. She has also directed Lucia di Lammermoor for Washington National Opera and her directorial debut at the Metropolitan Opera was in a 2004 production of Don Giovanni. Keller has one son, Alexandre, from her relationship with director Philippe de Broca, Marthe Keller at the Internet Movie Database Yahoo. Movies biography of Marthe Keller Marthe Keller at AllMovie
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24 Hour Party People
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24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British comedy-drama film about Manchesters popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom, the film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. It begins with the rock era of the late 1970s and moves through the 1980s into the Madchester scene of the late 1980s. The main character is Tony Wilson, a reporter for Granada Television. The narrative largely follows his career, while covering the major Factory artists, especially Joy Division and New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column. The film is a based on a combination of real events, rumours, urban legends. The fourth wall is broken, with Wilson frequently commenting on events directly to camera as they occur, at one point declaring that he is being postmodern. The actors are often intercut with real contemporary concert footage, including the Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall, in 1976 television presenter Tony Wilson sees the Sex Pistols perform at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall for the first time. Inspired, Wilson starts a series of punk rock shows at a Manchester club. Wilson founds a record label, Factory Records, and signs Joy Division as the first band and he hires irascible producer Martin Hannett to record Joy Division, and soon the band and label have a hit record. In 1980, just before Joy Division is to tour the United States, Joy Division rename themselves New Order and record a hit single, Blue Monday. Wilson opens a nightclub, The Haçienda, business is slow at first, Wilson signs another hit band, Happy Mondays, led by Shaun Ryder, and the ecstasy-fuelled rave culture is born. Despite the apparent success, Factory Records is losing money, every copy of Blue Monday sold loses five pence, as the intricately designed packaging by Peter Saville costs more than the singles sale price. Wilson pays for New Order to record a new album in Ibiza and he pays for the Happy Mondays to record their fourth studio album in Barbados, but Ryder spends all the recording money on drugs. When Wilson finally receives the finished album, he finds that Ryder has refused to record vocals, at the Haçienda, ecstasy use is curbing alcohol sales and attracting gang violence. While smoking marijuana on the roof of Haçienda after its closing night, the film holds a Metacritic score of 85/100. Roger Ebert gave it four out of four stars, the film was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. The soundtrack to 24 Hour Party People features songs by artists associated with Factory Records who were depicted in the film
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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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About Schmidt
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The film also stars Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney and Kathy Bates. It is very loosely based on the 1996 novel of the title by Louis Begley. About Schmidt was theatrically released on December 13,2002 by New Line Cinema, the film was both a commercial and a critical success and it earned $105,834,556 on a $30 million budget. About Schmidt was released on DVD and VHS formats and it was released on Blu-ray for the first time on February 3,2015. Warren Schmidt is retiring from his position as an actuary with Woodmen of the World, after a retirement dinner, Schmidt finds it hard to adjust to his new life, feeling useless. He sees an advertisement about a foster program for African children, Plan USA. He soon receives a package with a photo of his foster child. Schmidt visits his young successor to offer his help, but the offer is politely declined, as he leaves the building, Schmidt sees the contents and files of his office, the sum of his entire career, set out for garbage collectors. He describes to Ndugu his longtime alienation from Helen, his wife, Jeannie, his only daughter, and her fiancé Randall Hertzel arrive from Denver. They console him at the funeral, but Jeannie later berates him for taking his wife for granted, such as by refusing to pay for the Winnebago. He asks her to back to take care of him. Meanwhile, Randall tries to him into a pyramid scheme. Schmidt feels his daughter could do better than Randall, a waterbed salesman, after the couple leaves, Schmidt is overcome by loneliness. He stops showering, sleeps in front of the television, in his wifes closet he discovers some hidden love letters disclosing her long-ago affair with Ray, a mutual friend, whom Schmidt angrily confronts. He decides to take a journey alone in his new Winnebago to visit his daughter and he tells Jeannie hes leaving early for the wedding, but she makes it clear she doesnt want him there until right before the ceremony. Schmidt decides to visit places from his past, including his college campus and fraternity at University of Kansas and his childhood home has been replaced by a tire shop. While at a campground, he is invited to dinner by a friendly. When the man leaves to buy beer, Schmidt makes a pass at the wife
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Alexander Payne
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Alexander Payne is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer, known for the films Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, The Descendants, and Nebraska. His films are noted for their humor and satirical depictions of contemporary American society. Payne is a winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Payne was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Peggy and George Payne, Payne is the youngest of three sons and grew up in what is now known as the Dundee-Happy Hollow Historic District, the same neighborhood as billionaire Warren Buffett. His father is of Greek and German descent, and his mother is of Greek ancestry and his paternal grandfather, Nicholas Nick Payne, anglicized the last name from Papadopoulos. His family comes from three areas in Greece, the island of Syros, Livadia, and Aegio, Paynes family was part of the fabric of Omaha, which he references as part of his upbringing. His grandfather was a founder of The Virginia Cafe, with Paynes father taking over the restaurant, Payne went there regularly as a child. The restaurant was destroyed in a fire in 1969, the W. Dale Clark Library is now located on the site, Paynes paternal grandmother, Clara Payne, was from a German Nebraska family from Lincoln, Nebraska. In Omaha, Payne attended Brownell-Talbot School, Dundee Elementary School and he graduated from Creighton Prep for high school in 1979. At Prep, Payne wrote a column for his high school newspaper and was the editor of the high school yearbook. Payne then attended Stanford University, where he majored in Spanish. Payne got his MFA in 1990 from the UCLA Film School, in the 1960s, Paynes father received a Super 8mm projector from Kraft Foods as a loyalty reward, and eventually passed it on to his son when Alexander was about 14 years old. The ensuing screenplay, which was turned down, would ultimately become About Schmidt and he says that he cleared about $60,000, which was enough to fund his simple lifestyle at the time for about five years. Payne sees his talent as being one of learned economy and he refers to the essay written by Tennessee Williams on The Catastrophe of Success. Payne worked in various capacities on films and television before he co-wrote and directed his first full-length film, Payne was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Election. In 2003 he received a Golden Globe for his screenplay for About Schmidt, to the surprise of many who kept track of Hollywood news, Payne and his writing partner Jim Taylor were not nominated for an Oscar for the About Schmidt screenplay. He won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe in 2005 for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sideways, while the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. In total, Sideways received five Academy Award nominations, Payne returned to directing in 2011 after a seven-year hiatus with the film The Descendants, starring George Clooney
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Nicole Garcia
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Nicole Garcia is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. Her film Charlie Says was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and her film Going Away was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. She was the President of the Jury for the Caméra dOr section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and her eldest son, Frédéric Bélier-Garcia, is a theatre director and writer. From her relationship with Jean Rochefort, she has a second son, nicole Garcia at the Internet Movie Database
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All or Nothing (film)
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All or Nothing is a 2002 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. Typical of Leighs work, the film is set in present-day London, the film begins with a day nearing end. Rachel, the daughter in the first family, is working in a nursing home. Phil, her father, is driving people around in his minicab. Penny, Rachels mother, is working as a cashier at Safeway store alongside Maureen. When Penny leaves work, she cycles home to find her eighteen-year-old son Rory in a fight with a boy for taking his football. Rory is a lazy, obese, ill-mannered teenager who stays home all day, the second family consists of Maureen, another cashier at Safeway, and her daughter Donna, a waitress at a cafe. A brief storyline involves a dispute with Donnas boyfriend, Jason, Donna finds herself pregnant, despite being on the pill, and this leads to a heated argument between the three characters. The third family consists of Ron, who is a minicab driver along with Phil, his teenage daughter Samantha, and his wife Carol. The film does not have one single storyline, but several, All are leading up to the climax, when Rory suffers a heart attack, leading to a relationship crisis in the first family. Simon Griffith Gary McDonald as Neville Dorothy Atkinson as A Silent Passenger Dungeness in Kent was used as a location for the scene where Phil visits the coast to contemplate his problems. It was well received by critics and audiences alike, receiving an 83% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 89 reviews, the critical consensus states that All or Nothings depiction of the working-class can be depressingly bleak, but the performances are wonderfully true to life. The film holds an average B+ grade on Yahoo, the film won the London Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Film of the Year, and Mike Leigh was nominated for Best Director at the European Film Awards. The film was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. All or Nothing at the Internet Movie Database All or Nothing at Rotten Tomatoes All or Nothing at BFI Screenonline
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Mike Leigh
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Mike Leigh OBE is an English writer and director of film and theatre. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before honing his skills at East 15 Acting School and further at the Camberwell School of Art. He began as a director and playwright in the mid-1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s his career moved between theatre work and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterised by a gritty kitchen sink realism style. His well-known films include the comedy-dramas Life is Sweet and Career Girls, the Gilbert and Sullivan biographical film Topsy-Turvy, some of his notable stage plays include Smelling A Rat, Its A Great Big Shame, Greek Tragedy, Goose-Pimples, Ecstasy, and Abigails Party. Leigh is known for his lengthy rehearsal and improvisation techniques with actors to build characters and his purpose is to capture reality and present emotional, subjective, intuitive, instinctive, vulnerable films. His aesthetic has been compared to the sensibility of the Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu. Ian Buruma, writing in The New York Review of Books in January 1994, noted, like other wholly original artists, he has staked out his own territory. Leighs London is as distinctive as Fellinis Rome or Ozus Tokyo, Leigh was the son of Phyllis Pauline and Alfred Abraham Leigh, a doctor. Leigh was brought up in Broughton, Salford and he is from a Jewish immigrant family whose surname, originally Lieberman, had been anglicised in 1939 for obvious reasons. When the war ended Leighs father began his career as a practitioner in Higher Broughton, the epicentre of Leighs youngest years. Leigh went to Salford Grammar School, as did the director Les Blair, his friend, there was a strong tradition of drama in the all-boys school, and an English master, called Mr Nutter, supplied the library with newly published plays. Outside of school, Leigh thrived in the Manchester branch of Habonim and he attended summer camps and winter activities over the Christmas break all round the country in the late 1950s. Throughout this time, the most important part of his artistic consumption was the cinema, in 1960, to his utter astonishment, he won a scholarship to RADA. Initially trained as an actor at RADA, Leigh went on to start honing his skills at East 15 Acting School where he met the actress Alison Steadman. Leigh responded negatively to RADAs agenda, found himself being taught how to laugh, cry and snog for weekly rep purposes and so became a sullen student. He later attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the visual worlds of Ronald Searle, George Grosz, Picasso, and William Hogarth exerted another kind of influence. He played small roles in several British films in the early 1960s, in 1964–65 he teamed up with David Halliwell, and designed and directed the first production of Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs at the Unity Theatre
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Bowling for Columbine
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Bowling for Columbine is a 2002 American documentary film written, produced, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore. The film explores what Moore suggests are the causes for the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. Moore focuses on the background and environment in which the massacre took place, the film also looks into the nature of violence in the United States. It is now considered one of the greatest documentaries of all time, later investigations showed that this was based on mistaken recollections, and Glenn Moore of the Golden Police Department concluded that they were absent from school on the day of the attack. Moore incorporates the concept of bowling into the film in other ways as well, for example, the Michigan Militia use bowling pins for their target practice. When interviewing former classmates of the two boys, Moore notes that the students took a class in place of physical education. Moore questions whether the system is responding to the real needs of students or if they are reinforcing fear. Moore also interviews two young residents of Oscoda, Michigan, Moore suggests a culture of fear created by the government and the media leads Americans to arm themselves, to the advantage of gun-making companies. Moore suggests that bowling could have been just as responsible for the attacks on the school as Marilyn Manson, or even President Bill Clinton, who launched bombing attacks on Serbia at the time. An early scene depicts a bank in Michigan that gives customers a free hunting rifle when they make a deposit of a certain size into a deposit account. Just before leaving the bank, Moore asks, Do you think its a little dangerous handing out guns at a bank. In Michael Wilsons documentary Michael Moore Hates America, bank employees from the branch at which Moore is handed a free hunting rifle assert that they were misled during filming of the segment. Moore denied that this sequence was staged but acknowledged the timing of events was compressed for production reasons, budd Dwyer A1993 murder where Emilio Nuñez shot and killed his ex-wife Maritza Martin during an interview on the Telemundo program Ocurrió Así The suicide of Daniel V. It is implied that the presence of this facility within the community, whats the difference between that mass destruction and the mass destruction over at Columbine High School. Of Defense and commercial customers, including DirecTV and EchoStar, erik Möller argues that Moores question was not limited to the Littleton-area Lockheed Martin facility, First, note the word our in Moores question. Moore is not from Colorado -- his question is generic, not meant to specifically to the Lockheed Martin plant in question. Of course, critics have ignored the fact that Lockheed Martin does supply weapons of mass destruction to the US military. The film cuts to a montage of American foreign policy decisions and this montage is set to the song What a Wonderful World, performed by Louis Armstrong
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Michael Moore
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Michael Francis Moore is an American documentary filmmaker and author. His film Bowling for Columbine, which examines the causes of the Columbine High School massacre, both Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko, which examines health care in the United States, are among the top ten highest-grossing documentaries. In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising and he has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation, a satirical newsmagazine television series, and The Awful Truth, a satirical show. In 2005, Time magazine named Moore one of the worlds 100 most influential people. Michael Moore was born in Flint, Michigan, and raised in Davison, a suburb of Flint, by parents Helen Veronica, a secretary, and Francis Richard Frank Moore, an automotive assembly-line worker. At that time, the city of Flint was home to many General Motors factories and his uncle LaVerne was one of the founders of the United Automobile Workers labor union and participated in the Flint Sit-Down Strike. Moore was brought up Catholic, and has Irish, Scottish and he attended parochial St. Johns Elementary School for primary school and later attended St. Pauls Seminary in Saginaw, Michigan, for a year. He then attended Davison High School, where he was active in drama and debate, graduating in 1972. As a member of the Boy Scouts of America, he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, at the age of 18, he was elected to the Davison school board. At the time he was the youngest person elected to office in the U. S. as the age to hold public office had just been lowered to 18. Moore dropped out of the University of Michigan–Flint following his first year, at 22 he founded the alternative weekly magazine The Flint Voice, which soon changed its name to The Michigan Voice as it expanded to cover the entire state. In 1986, when Moore became the editor of Mother Jones, a political magazine. Matt Labash of The Weekly Standard reported this was for refusing to print an article by Paul Berman that was critical of the Sandinista human rights record in Nicaragua, Moore refused to run the article, believing it to be inaccurate. The article was flatly wrong and the worst kind of patronizing bullshit and you would scarcely know from it that the United States had been at war with Nicaragua for the last five years. Moore believes that Mother Jones fired him because of the refusal to allow him to cover a story on the GM plant closings in his hometown of Flint. He responded by putting laid-off GM worker Ben Hamper on the magazines cover, Moore sued for wrongful dismissal, and settled out of court for $58,000, providing him with seed money for his first film, Roger & Me. Since then Moore has become known as a critic of the view of globalization. Smith, former CEO and President of General Motors, harlan Jacobson, editor of Film Comment magazine, said that Moore muddled the chronology in Roger & Me to make it seem that events that took place before G. M. ’s layoffs were a consequence of them
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Chi-hwa-seon
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Chi-hwa-seon or Chwi-hwa-seon, is a 2002 South Korean drama film directed by Im Kwon-taek about Jang Seung-up, a nineteenth-century Korean painter who changed the direction of Korean art. It begins with the Korean artist being suspicious of a Japanese art-lover who values his work, the story then goes back to his mans early years. Beginning as a vagabond with a talent for drawing, he has a talent for imitating other peoples art and this process is painful and he often behaves very badly, getting drunk and being hostile to those who care about him and try to help him. These events are set against the struggle for reform within Korea, 5th Festival of Korean Cinema in Italy. LeMarie, Yannick, Michel Ciment, Hubert Niogret, chihwaseon Drunk on Women and Poetry. Rushes, the picture, portrait of the artist. Chihwaseon at the Internet Movie Database Review at koreanfilm. org
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Im Kwon-taek
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Im Kwon-taek is one of South Koreas most renowned film directors. As of spring 2015, he has directed 102 films, Im Kwon-taek was born in Jangseong, Jeollanam-do and grew up in Gwangju. After the Korean War, he moved to Busan in search of work and he then moved to Seoul in 1956, where Jeong Chang-hwa, director of Five Fingers of Death, offered him room and board for work as a production assistant. Jeong recommended him for directing in 1961, Ims directorial premiere was with the 1962 film, Farewell to the Duman River. His desire to make more artistically satisfying films began to show itself with his 1978 film Jokbo, from this point his films have been regarded as art-house cinema, and have been regularly shown at international film festivals, and have won numerous awards. Im has continued to explore themes from Koreas past while also focusing on the Korean cultural identity in modern times, among Ims most notable recent films are Sopyonje and Chunhyang, both of which concentrate on the traditional Korean musical art of pansori. The latter film was based on a traditional Korean legend. Apart from being a success, Sopyonje was also a success at the box office. Chihwaseon was also a success, earning him Koreas first Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival. Im Kwon-taek was awarded an honorary Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2005, Im Kwon-taeks status, brought on by the critical success of his films, overlapped with a period of the film movement called New Korean Cinema or Korean New Wave. In April 2007, Im released his 100th film Beyond the Years, in November 2007 the French government announced that it would make Im a knight of the French Legion of Honor. In 2013, a museum dedictated to Im opened in Busan, a documentary on Im, Im Kwon-taek Project by well-known film critic-turned-director Jung Sung-il, is expected to be released in the second half of 2017. He married the actress Chae Ryeong, who appeared in several of his films and their two sons Im Dong-joon and Im Dong-jae are also active in the film industry. Cinema of Korea List of Korea-related topics Beech, Hannah, the Unbearable Sadness of Being Korean. Page about the Korean New Wave at asianinfo. org Biography and interview at cinekorea. com Crow, Im Kwon-taek at the Internet Movie Database Interview, Reflection In A Mirror at asianfilms. org James, David E. Kim Kyung-hyun, eds. Im Kwon-Taek, The Making of a Korean National Cinema, naver Cast - Im Kwon-taek Doosan Encyclopedia - Im Kwon-taek
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Demonlover
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Demonlover is a 2002 neo-noir thriller film by French writer/director Olivier Assayas. The film stars Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny and it premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, although it was more widely released several months later. The story focuses on the entanglement between various national corporations vying over the control of interactive 3-D anime pornography. The film contains themes, including desensitization to violence and the problematic nature of globalization. Upon its theatrical release in the United States, it was rated R for strong violence, sexual content and it was released in both R-rated and unrated directors cut versions on DVD. The film is primarily in French, with scenes in English. It is considered an example of New French Extremity by some journalists, in recent years the film has gained a cult following. To facilitate the acquisition, she eliminates her superior, Karen, and assumes control of her portfolio, her business partner Hervé, Elise, however, despises Diane and works to frustrate her negotiations at every opportunity. Diane and Hervé travel to Japan to close the deal, and they enjoy a sexual flirtation which is unfulfilled at that time and seem to grow to like one another. Having acquired the rights, the Volf Corporation attempts to enter into a deal for distribution with an American Internet company called Demonlover, represented by Elaine Si Gibril. Diane, however, has actually been a spy all along for Demonlovers main competition, Mangatronics, meanwhile, Diane discovers that Elaines company is a front for a website called the Hellfire Club, an interactive torture web site dealing with extreme sadomasochism broadcast in real-time. When confronted with these charges, Demonlover praises Hellfire Club but claims no ties to it whatsoever, in order to seal the deal for Mangatronics, Diane is sent by her handler to steal data from the computer in Elaines hotel room. Before Diane can download the information, Elaine enters the hotel room and they struggle, eventually culminating in the suffocation of Elaine. Diane checks to see if she can make an escape, Elaine, who was not dead, uses the last of her strength to club Diane over the head. Diane is knocked unconscious, and Elaine passes out due to blood loss sustained from injuries in the struggle, when Diane awakens, she is in Elaines hotel room, and everything is completely cleaned up. There is no evidence of a murder, burglary, or struggle, at this point, the narrative structure of the film more or less breaks down, although we do learn a great deal more about the characters. It is revealed that Demonlover does indeed own the Hellfire Club and it is also revealed that Elise, who it is suggested is a spy for Demonlover, actually works for Hervé, who is also likely associated with Demonlover and by extension the Hellfire Club. Hervé admits as much on a date with Diane later in the film, the two become intimate in bed, but Hervé goes too far and rapes Diane
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Olivier Assayas
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Olivier Assayas is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas was born in Paris, France, the son of French director/screenwriter Raymond Assayas, alias Jacques Rémy and his father was of Italian Jewish origin and his mother was of Protestant Hungarian origin. Assayas started his career in the industry by helping his father and he ghostwrote episodes for TV shows his father was working on when his health failed. In a 2010 interview, Assayas stated that his political influences when growing up were Guy Debord. Speaking of the 1968 May uprising to overthrow General de Gaulle, Assayas in the same interview stated, I was defined by the politics of May 68, but for me May 68 was an anti-totalitarian uprising. People seemed to forget that at the occupied Odéon theater, you had crossed flags-black and red and he made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma. Assayass film Cold Water was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. His biggest hit to date has been Irma Vep, starring Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung, while working at Cahiers du cinéma, Assayas wrote lovingly about European film directors he admires but also about Asian directors. One of his films, HHH, A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, is a documentary about Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien and he married Hong Kong movie actress Maggie Cheung in 1998. They divorced in 2001, but their relationship remained amicable, and they met when Hansen-Løve, seventeen at the time, starred in Assayass 1998 feature Late August, Early September, but didnt get together until was 20. He directed and co-wrote the acclaimed 2010 French television miniseries Carlos, venezuelan actor Édgar Ramírez won the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2011 for his performance as Carlos. In April 2011, it was announced that he would be a member of the jury for the competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. His 2012 film, Something in the Air, was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, Assayas won the Osella for Best Screenplay at Venice. His 2014 film Clouds of Sils Maria was selected to compete for the Palme dOr in the competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Sils Maria won the Louis Delluc Prize and garnered six César Award nominations including Best Film, Best Director, the film won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress for American actress Kristen Stewart
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Divine Intervention (film)
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Divine Intervention is a 2002 film by the Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, which may be described as a surreal black comedy. One lyrical section features a beautiful sunglasses-clad Palestinian woman whose passing by not only distracts all eyes, the director features prominently as the films silent, expressionless protagonist in an performance that has been compared to the work of Buster Keaton, Jim Jarmusch and Jacques Tati. The film is noted for its use of dialogue, its slow pace. Manal Khader as The Woman Denis Sandler Sapoznikov as Israeli soldier on Palestinian-Israeli border, in Nazareth, Santa Claus runs away from children as gifts fall from his basket. Hes been stabbed and leans against a tree, a Palestinian couple meets in a car. A tourist asks an Israeli policeman for directions, unable to help her himself, the policeman brings out a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner from the back of his van. The Palestinian tells her three different possible routes, the couple is in the car again. The man blows up a red balloon with the face of Yasser Arafat drawn on it and he releases it near an Israeli checkpoint. An Israeli soldier is about to shoot it down but his comrade stops him, in the confusion, the couple are able to drive through the checkpoint together. The balloon floats across Jerusalem, eventually settling against the Dome of the Rock, at night, the couple again in a car. The next morning, five Israeli men practice an elaborate sequence of dance-like moves, armed with guns, they repeatedly fire at targets painted like a Palestinian woman under the direction of a choreographer-officer. When one of the targets fails to fall to the ground, the officer instructs his men to fire at her. In a supernatural feat, she gathers their bullets in the air around her, the bullets form a crown of thorns around her head until she lets them fall to the ground. She then uses crescent-adorned stars and rocks to kill all but the officer, a helicopter appears to reinforce the Israelis, which the woman also easily destroys. The dance choreographer watches helplessly and the woman disappear, the film ends with a man and his mother watching their dinner cook in a pressure cooker. According to Balsan, the answer was no, because Palestine is not a state we recognize in our rules, however, spokesperson John Pavlik states that the Academy had never made a decision on that issue because Suleiman had never submitted his film. Critics like The Electronic Intifada and others, claim that the Academy did make a decision, and that it was based on political considerations. The film was considered for an Oscar the following year, Pavlik told Variety The committee decided to treat Palestine as an exception in the way we treat Hong Kong as an exception
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Kedma (film)
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Kedma is a 2002 Israeli film directed by Amos Gitai and starring Andrei Kashkar and Helena Yaralova. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, the film is a historical tragedy set during the opening stages of Israels 1948 War of Independence. The film follows the fate of a group of refugees from the Holocaust who are brought to Israel by the Palmach. When they arrive, they are chased by British soldiers, once they escape, they are immediately drafted into the war, and take part in a grueling battle against Arab irregulars. Gitai intended the film to be a more realistic answer to the depiction of the war in Otto Premingers Exodus. The final shot of Kedma is identical to the shot of Premingers film. Kedma at the Internet Movie Database Kedmas review from The Jewish Channel
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The Man Without a Past
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The Man Without a Past is a 2002 Finnish comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. Starring Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen and Juhani Niemelä, it is the installment in Kaurismäkis Finland trilogy. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002, the film begins with an unnamed man arriving by train to Helsinki. After falling asleep in Kaisaniemi Park, he is mugged and beaten by hoodlums and is injured in the head. He awakes and wanders back to the station and collapses in its bathroom. He awakes the second time in a hospital and finds that he has lost his memory and he starts his life from scratch, living in container dwellings, finding clothes with help from the Salvation Army and making friends with the poor. The film received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 98%, based on 95 critics, the sites critical consensus reads, Kaurismäki delivers another droll comedy full of his trademark humor. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 84 out of 100, based on 29 critics, roger Ebert awarded the film three-and-a-half stars out of 4, saying he felt a deep but indefinable contentment. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter said the film contains not one false note and it is the work of an artist fully in control of his art. Barbara Scharres of the Chicago Reader said that Kaurismäki perfects his trademark formula of deadpan humor and arctic circle pathos in this brilliantly ironic 2002 comedy
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My Mother's Smile
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My Mothers Smile is a 2002 Italian film directed by Marco Bellocchio. The original Italian title is Lora di religione, the film tells the story of a man whose martyred mother is in the process of canonization. She had been killed by her son, Egidio, while she slept. The story is told from the perspective of her son Ernesto, a well-known painter, the film portrays a colorful fresco so hypocritical to Catholicism today, showing how hard it still creeps into our lives, even against our will. He often remembers for the delivery of a blasphemy explicit narrative tension at maximum, Ernesto Picciafuoco, painter and illustrator of childrens tales, is a part of a very important but impoverished family, which wants to regain its stature by having a member canonized. The late mother of the protagonist seems to be the true religious person in the weak. Two of the rebels are now in the 40s and are completely detached from the hypocrisy of religion. One of them pretends to be religious, to get back his job. The other, the protagonist, is uncertain, beset by moral doubts, the film is a journey through the absurd and surreal episodes. Ernesto, the protagonist, is contacted by a cardinal who wants to question him about the process of sanctification of the mother. Then the child goes to school for the hearings with teachers, where he meets a young and charming, religious teacher, to whom he is attracted, but that will be an impossibility. Ernesto is then challenged to a duel, for petty reasons, from a dream of an improbable restoration of the monarchy. Meanwhile, the wife of Ernesto administers a sort of baptism to the child sleeping, anxious to repair the previous no
