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Score: A Hockey Musical
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Score, A Hockey Musical is a 2010 Canadian musical film written and directed by Michael McGowan. Seventeen-year-old Farley Gordon has led a life, home-schooled and isolated by his parents. His closest friend is Eve, their next door neighbour, when his skill at hockey is realised, Farley is signed to a major hockey league and achieves instant fame and success. But pressure from his coach and teammates and a relationship with Eve begin to create intense strain in Farleys life. The soundtrack to Score, A Hockey Musical contains 21 songs, O Hockey Canada by The Canadian Childrens Opera Company Written by Marco DiFelice, Jonathan Goldsmith, but it’s as true a crowd-pleaser, one that doesnt require season tickets to the Maple Leafs to appreciate. He does so by creating a playful satire of musicals, while somehow - this is the hard part - capturing the charm that made song and dance movies so popular. Greig Dymond of CBC said the film is marred by lyrics, even weaker melodies. Will Sloan of Exclaim. said the film fails resoundingly on every level, the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9,2010 as part of its Opening Night Gala. It was released in theatres in Canada on October 22, the DVD was released on January 18,2011. Score, A Hockey Musical at AllMovie Score, A Hockey Musical at the Internet Movie Database Score, A Hockey Musical at Rotten Tomatoes
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Theatrical film poster
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Last Night (2010 film)
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Last Night is a 2010 drama romance film written and directed by Massy Tadjedin. It stars Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes, the films official trailer was released on November 6,2010. It was released both in theaters and video-on-demand on May 6,2011 in the United States, the film centers on Joanna and Michael Reed, a successful and happy couple. They are moving along in their lives together until Joanna meets Laura, while Michael is away with Laura on a business trip, Joanna runs into an old but never quite forgotten love, Alex. As the night progresses and temptation increases, each must confront who they really are, Joanna is a writer who is married to Michael, a commercial real estate agent. The film begins with Joanna and Michael attending a party with Michaels colleagues, Joanna notices Michael spending most of his time chatting with the beautiful Laura, one of his colleagues, whom he has never mentioned to her before. She suspects him of having an affair and confronts him when they return home and they argue but reconcile later in the night. Michael leaves for Philadelphia the next morning with associates Laura and Andy for a business trip, Joanna goes out for coffee and bumps into Alex, an old love. They meet later that day for a drink, eventually ending up having dinner with Sandra and Truman, in the conversations while having dinner, the film then reveals the history behind Joanna and Alex and the nature of her relationship with Michael. Joanna met Alex four years ago in Paris while she was working on a story and she has never told Michael about Alex. Joanna and Alex return to friend Andys apartment, where they discuss their previous romance and it is revealed that they were together during the period Joanna and Michael briefly broke off their relationship. Joanna then goes out to walk Andys dog Lucy, Alex forgets the keys when he comes down to greet her and they then go to a party where Sandra and Truman are at, with the dog. There, they grow closer and passionately kiss in the elevator. They return to Alexs hotel room after the party, Joanna refuses to have sex with Alex. Instead, they spend the night together embracing in bed, Joanna and Alexs night together is interspersed with scenes of Michael and Laura on their business trip. After dinner with their client, Laura invites Michael out for more drinks and their conversations at the hotel bar reveal that Michael has never cheated on his wife. They then proceed to the pool, where they swim in their underwear. They continue to talk about infidelity, which further tempts Michael and they return to her room and have passionate sex all night long
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Theatrical release poster
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Toronto
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Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. With a population of 2,731,571, Toronto is the fourth most populous city in North America after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture. Aboriginal peoples have inhabited the area now known as Toronto for thousands of years, the city itself is situated on the southern terminus of an ancient Aboriginal trail leading north to Lake Simcoe, used by the Wyandot, Iroquois, and the Mississauga. Permanent European settlement began in the 1790s, after the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase of 1787, the British established the town of York, and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York, York was renamed and incorporated as the city of Toronto in 1834, and became the capital of the province of Ontario during the Canadian Confederation in 1867. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities at various times in its history to its current area of 630.2 km2. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canadas major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Toronto is well known for its skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, the name Toronto is likely derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto, meaning place where trees stand in the water. This refers to the end of what is now Lake Simcoe. A portage route from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron running through this point, in the 1660s, the Iroquois established two villages within what is today Toronto, Ganatsekwyagon on the banks of the Rouge River and Teiaiagonon the banks of the Humber River. By 1701, the Mississauga had displaced the Iroquois, who abandoned the Toronto area at the end of the Beaver Wars, French traders founded Fort Rouillé on the current Exhibition grounds in 1750, but abandoned it in 1759. During the American Revolutionary War, the region saw an influx of British settlers as United Empire Loyalists fled for the British-controlled lands north of Lake Ontario, the new province of Upper Canada was in the process of creation and needed a capital. Dorchester intended the location to be named Toronto, in 1793, Governor John Graves Simcoe established the town of York on the Toronto Purchase lands, instead naming it after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Simcoe decided to move the Upper Canada capital from Newark to York, the York garrison was constructed at the entrance of the towns natural harbour, sheltered by a long sandbar peninsula. The towns settlement formed at the end of the harbour behind the peninsula, near the present-day intersection of Parliament Street. In 1813, as part of the War of 1812, the Battle of York ended in the towns capture, the surrender of the town was negotiated by John Strachan. US soldiers destroyed much of the garrison and set fire to the parliament buildings during their five-day occupation, the sacking of York was a primary motivation for the Burning of Washington by British troops later in the war
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From top left:
Downtown Toronto featuring the
CN Tower and
Financial District from the
Toronto Harbour,
City Hall, the
Ontario Legislative Building,
Casa Loma,
Prince Edward Viaduct, and the
Scarborough Bluffs
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Coat of arms
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Map of Toronto, 1894
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Yonge Street in 1900
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Toronto International Film Festival
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The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Year-round, TIFF Bell Lightbox offers screenings, lectures, discussions, festivals, workshops, industry support, TIFF Bell Lightbox is located on the north west corner of King Street and John Street in downtown Toronto. In 2015,397 films from 71 countries were screened at 28 screens in downtown Toronto venues, welcoming an estimated 480,000 attendees, TIFF starts the Thursday night after Labour Day and lasts for eleven days. Founded in 1976, TIFF is now one of the most prestigious events of its kind in the world, in 1998, Variety magazine acknowledged that TIFF is second only to Cannes in terms of high-profile pics, stars and market activity. In 2007, TIME noted that TIFF had grown from its place as the most influential film festival to the most influential film festival. This is partially the result of TIFFs ability and reputation for generating Oscar buzz, the Toronto International Festival’s Grolsch People’s Choice Award — which is based on popular vote by Festival filmgoers — has emerged as a beacon of awards-season success. Founded by Bill Marshall, Dusty Cohl and Henk Van der Kolk and that first year,35,000 filmgoers watched 127 films from 30 countries presented in ten programmes. Piers Handling has been the director and CEO since 1994. TIFF was once centred on the Yorkville neighbourhood, but the Toronto Entertainment District later gained a level of prominence. TIFF is known for the celebrity buzz it brings to the area with international media setting up near its restaurants and stores for photos and interviews with the stars. In 2010, TIFF opened its permanent headquarters, TIFF Bell Lightbox, TIFF has grown, steadily adding initiatives throughout the years. TIFF Cinematheque and the Film Reference Library opened in 1990, the TIFF Kids International Film Festival launched in 1998. Film Circuit began exhibiting independent and Canadian films in under-serviced cities across Canada in 1994, the festival was founded in 1976 at the Windsor Arms Hotel by Bill Marshall, Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl. Beginning as a collection of the films from film festivals around the world. Ironically, however, Hollywood studios withdrew their submissions from TIFF due to concerns that Toronto audiences would be too parochial for their products, in 1994, the decision was made to replace the name Festival of Festivals with Toronto International Film Festival. From 1994 to 2009, the organization running TIFF was named Toronto International Film Festival Group. In 2009, the umbrella organization TIFFG was renamed to TIFF, in 2001, Perspective Canada, the programme that had focused on Canadian films since 1984, was replaced by two programmes, Canada First. A forum for Canadian filmmakers presenting their first feature-length work, featuring eight to 15 films, and Short Cuts Canada, in 2004, TIFF was featured as the site of murder mystery in the film Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, a comedy film starring Martin Short
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The festival is headquartered at TIFF Bell Lightbox, which opened in 2010.
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Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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TIFF box office at the
Manulife Centre in 2006
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TIFF Bell Lightbox
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TIFF Bell Lightbox is a cultural centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the first five floors of the Bell Lightbox and Festival Tower on the north west corner of King Street and John Street. It is the headquarters for the Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF Bell Lightbox opened in 2010. It is the headquarters for the Toronto International Film Festival, the entrance for the structures 46-storey tower of condominiums is on John Street, set back from the much smaller 19th-century buildings along King Street. TIFF Bell Lightbox cinema complex, the Toronto International Film Festival offices, a ground-floor restaurant, TIFF Bell Lightbox is a five-storey structure that features five cinemas, two restaurants, major exhibitions and galleries, a gift shop, rooftop terrace, and learning studios. The five-screen cinema complex also includes a reference library, galleries. During construction, crews found artifacts belonging to York General Hospital which was located on the site in 1829, the podium is a five-storey complex that forms the base of the Bell Lightbox and Festival Tower. The theatres present specially-curated programming, as well as new releases. Some of the films presented tie-in with exhibitions, and retrospectives of actors or filmmakers, the extensive reference library and archives of film, which is open to the public, includes publications and archival movies, as well as research and study space. Since 2010, TIFF Bell Lightbox has been the home of the festival, future plans include a Cinema Tower on the north side on the block, which will contain five additional theatres. The area also includes prominent venues for the festival, such as Roy Thomson Hall, the complex opened officially on September 12,2010 with a block party. Bruce McDonalds Trigger was the first film screened at the theatre, the galleries host exhibitions related to film and art history. The fourth floor gallery is free to the public, while the main gallery on the first level hosts large paid exhibitions. TIFF is a organization that generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. Festival Tower was developed by The Daniels Corporation and designed by Toronto-based architectural firm Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, TIFF Bell Lightbox is the home of the Toronto International Film Festival, while Festival Tower contains condominium residences. The project was conceived in partnership by the Toronto International Film Festival Group, List of tallest buildings in Toronto List of tallest buildings in Canada Official website
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Building detail
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TIFF Bell Lightbox at night
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TIFF Bell Lightbox entrance with TTC streetcar at right
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High Cost of Living (film)
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The High Cost Of Living is a 2010 indie drama film set in Montreal, Canada, starring Zach Braff, Isabelle Blais and Aimee Lee. Written and directed by Deborah Chow and set in Montreal, the film centers on a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. The film made its debut at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and it won TIFFs award for Best Canadian First Feature Film. The story tells of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit, as her life unravels, Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But Henry is not quite an angel, and she struggles to come to terms with the loss, Nathalie begins to rely on Henry, and even begin to love him. However, it becomes apparent to Nathalie that he is a drug dealer, later, as Nathalie and the police are trying to find the man that hit her, it is revealed to be Henry. He then goes to her telling he will turn himself in because that is all he can give her since she cannot forgive him, to prove that he will he calls the detective and leaves his number. Earlier in the movie she asked him if he would accompany her when she gives birth to her stillborn, after the OR doors shut on him, the police return his call. Zach Braff as Henry Welles Isabelle Blais as Nathalie Patrick Labbe as Michael Julian Lo as Johnny Kyle Switzer as Eli Official website The High Cost of Living at the Internet Movie Database
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Theatrical release poster
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Incendies (film)
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Incendies is a 2010 Canadian mystery-drama film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawads play of the name, Incendies stars Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette. The story concerns Canadian twins who travel to their mothers native country in the Middle East to uncover her hidden past, although the country is unnamed, the events in the film are heavily influenced by the Lebanese Civil War and in particular the story of prisoner Souha Bechara. The film was mainly in Montreal, with a few days spent in Jordan. It premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals in September 2010 and was released in Quebec on 17 September 2010 and it met with critical acclaim in Canada, Quebec and abroad and won numerous awards. In 2011, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Incendies also won eight Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture. Following the death of Nawal Marwan, a Canadian immigrant, her two children, fraternal twins Jeanne and Simon, meet with French Canadian notary Jean Lebel, a friend of their mother. Her family murders her lover and nearly shoots her as a killing, but her grandmother spares her, tattoos the baby and abandons him. While at school, a war and war crimes break out as Christian nationalists attack Muslims and refugees. Her sons orphanage in Kfar Khout is destroyed by the nationalists, and unknown to her, her son has been rescued by a Muslim warlord, Chamseddine, seeking revenge for the loss of her son, Nawal joins the Muslim fighters and shoots a nationalist leader. Afterwards, she is imprisoned in Kfar Ryat and raped by torturer Abou Tareq and she consequently gives birth to the twins. After travelling to her mothers country, Jeanne uncovers this past, and persuades Simon. With help from Lebel, they learn their brothers name is Nihad of May and track down Chamseddine. Simon meets with him personally, and he reveals the war-mad Nihad was captured by the nationalists, joined their army, Nihad had immigrated to Canada and Nawal only learned his true identity after recognizing him at a Canadian swimming pool and seeing his tattoo. The twins find Nihad in Canada and deliver Nawals letters to him speaking to him. Nawal gets a gravestone, which Nihad visits, parts of the story were based on the life of Souha Bechara. The story is based on events that happened during the Lebanese Civil War of 1975 to 1990, Director Denis Villeneuve first saw Wajdi Mouawads play Incendies at Théâtre de QuatSous in Montreal in 2004, commenting I had this strong intuition that I was in front of a masterpiece. Villeneuve acknowledged unfamiliarity with Arab culture, but was drawn to Incendies as a story with a sort of Greek tragedy element
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Theatrical poster
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Denis Villeneuve
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Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and writer. He is a winner of the Genie Award for Best Direction, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2010. All three films won the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Motion Picture. Villeneuve was born on October 3,1967 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec and he studied at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He is married to cultural reporter Tanya Lapointe and has three children from a relationship with French-Canadian actress Macha Grenon. He is the brother of filmmaker Martin Villeneuve. Villeneuve began his career making short films and won the Radio-Canadas youth film competition La Course Europe-Asie in 1990–91, Villeneuve first caught attention for his 2001 film Maelström which screened at festivals worldwide, winning eight Jutra Awards and Best Canadian Film from the Toronto International Film Festival. He followed that up with the controversial, but critically acclaimed film Polytechnique about the shootings occurred at the Montreal university. Villeneuves Incendies received critical acclaim after it premiered at the Venice, Incendies was subsequently chosen to represent Canada at the 83rd Academy Awards in the category of Best Foreign Language Film and was eventually nominated for the award. Incendies was named by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Films of 2011, in January 2011, he was selected by Variety as one of the top ten filmmakers to watch. Also in 2011, Villeneuves work was recognized at the Governor Generals Performing Arts Awards, Canadas highest honor in the performing arts, Villeneuve followed Incendies with the popular film Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. The film screened at festivals across the globe and won awards and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 2014. Prisoners is currently ranked No.220 on IMDbs Top 250 Films of All Time list, following the success of Incendies and Prisoners, Villeneuve won Best Director for his next film, the mind thriller Enemy, at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards. The film also won the $100,000 cash prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association for Best Canadian Film of the Year in 2015, Villeneuve directed the crime thriller film Sicario, scripted by Taylor Sheridan, and starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin. The film competed for the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and it screened to positive reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 and went on to become a commercial success, grossing nearly $80 million worldwide. Villeneuve next directed the film Arrival, based on the short story Story of Your Life by author Ted Chiang, from a script by Eric Heisserer, with Amy Adams. Principal photography began on June 7,2015 in Montreal, in February 2015, it was announced that Villeneuve would direct the sequel to Blade Runner. Harrison Ford will reprise his role, and it will take several decades after the original
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Villeneuve at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
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Tom Hooper (director)
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Thomas George Hooper is a British film and television director of English and Australian background. Hooper began making short films as a teenager, and had his first professional short, Painted Faces, at Oxford University Hooper directed plays and television commercials. After graduating, he directed episodes of Quayside, Byker Grove, EastEnders, in the 2000s, Hooper directed the major BBC costume dramas Love in a Cold Climate and Daniel Deronda, and was selected to helm the 2003 revival of ITVs Prime Suspect series, starring Helen Mirren. He continued working for HBO on the television film Longford and in John Adams, Hooper returned to features with The Damned United, a fact-based film about the English football manager Brian Clough. The following year saw the release of the historical drama The Kings Speech, starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, Hoopers next film was Les Misérables, which featured an all-star cast led by Hugh Jackman. His 2015 film, The Danish Girl, was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film, the Kings Speech won multiple awards, including Best Director wins for Hooper from the Directors Guild of America and the Academy Awards, and a Best Director nomination from BAFTA. Tom Hooper was born in 1972 in London, England, the son of Meredith Jean, Meredith was an Australian author and academic and Richard was an English media businessman. Hooper was educated at Highgate School and Westminster School and his initial interest in drama was triggered by his English and drama teacher at Highgate, former Royal Shakespeare Company actor Roger Mortimer, who produced an annual school play. At the age of 12, Hooper read a book entitled How to Make Film and Television, for the next year Hooper researched filmmaking from publications such as On Camera by Harris Watts. Aged 13, he made his first film, entitled Runaway Dog, Hooper said, The clockwork would run out after thirty seconds, so the maximum shot length was thirty seconds. I could only afford a hundred feet of Kodachrome reversal film, which cost about twenty-five, I could only make silent movies, because sound was too expensive and complicated. He slowed down the rate of the camera so he could maximise what little film stock he had. Hooper classified the short, about a dog which kept running away from its owner, as a comedy, when Hooper was 14, his film Bomber Jacket came runner-up in a BBC younger filmmakers competition. The short starred Hoopers brother as a boy who discovers a bomber jacket, another of Hoopers short films, entitled Countryside, depicts a nuclear holocaust. Hooper finished school aged 16, then wrote the script for his first professional short film and he spent the next two years raising capital for the short by courting advertisement directors, whose financial dominance during the late 1980s was noticed by Hooper. Director Paul Weiland invested in the short, which provided Hooper with the equipment he needed, after two years of financing and production, Painted Faces was completed. Hooper wrote, produced, directed and edited it and it was sold to Channel 4 and broadcast on the channels First Frame strand in 1992, had a screening at the 35th London Film Festival and had a limited theatrical release. After taking a gap year to finance Painted Faces, Hooper read English at University College and he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society, where he directed Kate Beckinsale in A View From the Bridge and Emily Mortimer in The Trial
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Hooper at the
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
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Hooper at the 2010
Hamptons International Film Festival
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Hooper directing
The King's Speech on location in 2010
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Hooper directing the
second unit of
Les Misérables on location in Winchester, April 2012
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Stake Land
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Stake Land is a 2010 American vampire horror film in the zombie apocalypse vein directed by Jim Mickle and starring Nick Damici, who cowrote the script with Mickle. It also stars Connor Paolo, Danielle Harris and Kelly McGillis, the plot revolves around an orphaned young man being taken under the wing of a vampire hunter known only as Mister, and the battle for survival in their quest for a safe haven. When a pandemic of vampirism strikes, humans find themselves on the run from vicious, large cities are left as tombs and survivors cling together in rural pockets, fearing nightfall. When his family is slaughtered, young Martin is taken under the wing of a grizzled, wayward vampire hunter, called Mister. Along the way, they are joined by fellow travellers, the first being a nun known only as Sister, the group is then captured by The Brotherhood and it is revealed that one of the rapists killed by Mister was Lovens son. As punishment, Mister is left at the mercy of a group of vampires, while Sister is taken as a sex slave, Martin promptly escapes the Brotherhood camp and discovers that Mister has survived the vampire attack and they drive off together, unable to help Sister. Coming across a survivors roadhouse, they pick up another traveler, the pregnant Belle, later, they also pick up Willie, a Marine, who is found hiding in a workmens toilet having been abandoned as vampire bait by The Brotherhood. Willie informs the group that American forces were withdrawn from the Middle East to help contain the outbreak, and that there is no Middle East to fight over anymore. He goes on to say that The Brotherhood was partially responsible for the fall of America, ramming cars filled with vampires through blockades, the four decide to go after Jebedia, whom they successfully ambush, then tie to a tree and leave for the vampires. The group next encounters a settlement and discover that Sister also escaped. The same night, celebrations are interrupted when The Brotherhood, using helicopters, drops vampires into town, though invited to stay and help rebuild the settlement, the group decides to move on towards the north again. Midway, their car breaks down and they have to continue their journey on foot and they manage to avoid dangerous areas for some time but, while sleeping at an abandoned auto junk yard, they are attacked by berserkers, the oldest and strongest kind of vampire. They run into a field, and Sister diverts the chase away from the others. After several days of walking through the wilderness, they shelter in a broken-down school bus turned camper. The three search for him, first finding his blanket then finding Willie killed and strung up in a tree, Mister notes he has never encountered a thinking vampire before and warns the others to stay alert. Despite their best efforts, Belle is taken from their campsite during the night and Mister and Martin find her in an abandoned silo the following day, wrapped in barbed wire and bitten. Jebedia Loven, now a vampire thanks to having given himself willingly to the vampires that attacked him, reveals himself and attacks Martin. Martin manages to impale Jebedia, and an injured Mister is successful in finishing him off, Martin mercy kills the dying Belle, saving her from becoming a vampire
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Steven Silver (film director)
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Not to be confused with American science fiction editor and published Steven H Silver or with American cinematographer Steven V Silver Steven Silver is a media entrepreneur, producer, and director. Steven is the CEO of Kew Media Group Inc. a newly formed Special Purpose Acquisition Company that focuses on acquiring companies in the media and entertainment industry in Canada, Kew Media is a joint venture with media industry veteran Peter Sussman. With Neil Tabatznik, Steven is also Partner and Co-Founder of Toronto-based Blue Ice Group Capital, in 2005, the duo bought into Barna Alper productions, at which Steven served as President from 2005 to 2009, when it was sold to eOne Entertainment Inc. After the sale, Steven spent a year as head of factual entertainment division. In 2010, the Blue Ice Group partnered with Echo Lake Entertainment to form the Blue Lake Media Fund, the fund provides financing for mid- to large-budget independent films and television series. In 2011, the Blue Ice Group acquired the South African production company Out of Africa, prior to his executive work, Steven was a filmmaker. He started his career in and later in Canada writing and co-producing a feature-length 1997 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary Gerrie & Louise that earned him an International Emmy award. He cooperated with Barna-Alper Productions with Box Car Rebellion, Doctors Strike, The Last Just Man, The Anglo Boer War, the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival
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Silver at the 2011
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The Bang Bang Club
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Black Swan (film)
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The plot revolves around a production of Tchaikovskys Swan Lake ballet by a prestigious New York City company. Nina is overwhelmed by a feeling of pressure when she finds herself competing for the part, causing her to lose her tenuous grip on reality. Aronofsky cites Fyodor Dostoyevskys The Double as another inspiration for the film, the director also considered Black Swan a companion piece to his 2008 film The Wrestler, with both films involving demanding performances for different kinds of art. He and Portman first discussed the project in 2000, and after an attachment to Universal Studios. Portman and Kunis trained in ballet for several months prior to filming, the film premiered as the opening film for the 67th Venice International Film Festival on September 1,2010. It had a release in the United States starting December 3,2010. Black Swan received critical praise upon its release, particularly for Portmans performance and Aronofskys direction, the film received five Academy Award nominations and Portman won Best Actress for the film, as well as many other Best Actress awards in several guilds and festivals. In addition, Aronofsky was nominated for Best Director and the film was nominated for Best Picture. It is the horror film to be nominated in the Best Picture category, following The Exorcist in 1973, Jaws in 1975, The Silence of the Lambs in 1991. Nina Sayers is a dancer in a New York ballet company. Nina lives in New York City with her mother, Erica. The company is preparing to open the season with Swan Lake, the director, Thomas Leroy, is looking for a new principal dancer after forcing Beth Macintyre into retirement. Thomas wants the ballerina to portray the innocent, fragile White Swan as well as her mysterious, sensual twin. Nina auditions for the part, performing flawlessly as the White Swan, upset, Nina approaches Thomas and asks him to reconsider her as the lead role. Thomas forcibly kisses Nina, and she displays a change of character and bites him, Nina begins to witness strange happenings, and her mother finds scratches on Ninas back. An intoxicated Beth angrily confronts Thomas and Nina, Nina is worried that Beths fate will eventually befall her, too, but she stays quiet. Thomas tells Nina she needs to give herself to the sensuality of the Black Swan and he tells her to go home and masturbate, which she does. The next day, Nina finds out that Beth was seriously injured in a car accident, Nina realizes Beth will never dance again, and tearfully unpacks her belongings in Beths former dressing room
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Theatrical release poster
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Scene from the ballet Swan Lake in which the Black Swan (Odile) tricks and seduces the Prince
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Mila Kunis was first approached to perform in Black Swan in 2008.
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Part of the filming took place at the
State University of New York at Purchase Performing Arts Center
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Darren Aronofsky
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Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and environmentalist. He has received acclaim, and generated controversy for his often surreal, Aronofsky attended Harvard University, where he studied film and social anthropology, and the American Film Institute where he studied directing. He won several awards after completing his senior thesis film, Supermarket Sweep. Aronofskys feature debut, the surrealist psychological thriller Pi, was shot in November 1997, Aronofskys followup, the psychological drama Requiem for a Dream, was based on the novel of the same name by Hubert Selby, Jr. The film garnered strong reviews and received an Academy Award nomination for Ellen Burstyns performance, after writing the World War II horror film Below, Aronofsky began production on his third film, the romantic fantasy sci-fi drama The Fountain. The film received mixed reviews and performed poorly at the box-office and his fourth film, the sports drama The Wrestler, was released to critical acclaim and both of the films stars, Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei, received Academy Award nominations. Aronofsky received nominations for Best Director at the Golden Globes, Aronofskys sixth film, the biblically inspired epic Noah, was released in theaters on March 28,2014. Noah grossed over $43.7 million during its box office weekend, becoming Aronofskys highest opening weekend. The film was an hit, eventually grossing over $362,000,000 worldwide. Aronofsky was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1969 and he grew up in the boroughs Manhattan Beach neighborhood, where he was raised culturally Jewish, but there was very little spiritual attendance in temple. It was a cultural thing—celebrating the holidays, knowing where you came from, knowing your history and he graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School. He has one sister, Patti, who attended a ballet school through high school. His parents would take him to Broadway theater performances, which sparked his keen interest in show business. During his youth, he trained as a field biologist with The School for Field Studies in Kenya in 1985 and he attended school in Kenya to pursue an interest in learning about ungulates. He later said, he School for Field Studies changed the way I perceived the world, Aronofskys interest in the outdoors led him to backpack his way through Europe and the Middle East. In 1987, he entered Harvard University, where he majored in anthropology and studied filmmaking. He became seriously interested in film while attending Harvard after befriending Dan Schrecker, an animator, and Sean Gullette. His cinematic influences included Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, Terry Gilliam, Shinya Tsukamoto, Hubert Selby, Aronofskys senior thesis film, Supermarket Sweep, was a finalist in the 1991 Student Academy Awards
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Aronofsky at XVI Guanajuato International Film Festival (July 27, 2013)
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Aronofsky with the cast and crew of Black Swan
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Aronofsky with frequent collaborators Matthew Libatique and Andrew Weisblum
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Casino Jack
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Casino Jack is a 2010 action thriller comedy film directed by George Hickenlooper and starring Kevin Spacey. Abramoff was convicted of fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion in 2006, Abramoff served three and a half years of a six-year sentence in federal prison, and was then assigned to a halfway house. He was released on December 3,2010, Spacey was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Abramoff, eventually losing to Paul Giamatti for his role in Barneys Version. A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder. Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff Kelly Preston as Pam Abramoff Rachelle Lefevre as Emily J. Miller Barry Pepper as Michael Scanlon Jon Lovitz as Adam Kidan John David Whalen as Kevin A, the film was scheduled for release in December 2010 and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. He died on October 29,2010, seven weeks before its scheduled December 17,2010, Casino Jack received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 36%, based on 95 reviews, the sites critical consensus reads, Kevin Spacey turns in one of his stronger performances, but Casino Jack is a disappointingly uneven fictionalized account of a fascinating true story. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 51 out of 100, based on 24 critics, roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, stating that Casino Jack is so forthright, it is stunning
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Director
George Hickenlooper at the film's screening during the 18th Annual
Hamptons International Film Festival on October 8, 2010 in
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George Hickenlooper
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George Loening Hickenlooper III was an American narrative and documentary filmmaker. Hickenlooper was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Barbara Jo Wenger, a worker and stage actress. He was also the nephew of British-born conductor Leopold Stokowski through marriage to his great aunt. He attended high school at St. Louis University High, where he was part of a group of teenage filmmakers he informally called the Splicers and his first feature-length documentary, Hearts of Darkness, A Filmmakers Apocalypse, explored the making of Apocalypse Now. Hickenlooper himself won an Emmy for direction, George Hickenloopers cousin, John Hickenlooper, made a cameo appearance as a fictional senator in Georges 2010 film Casino Jack. John was the mayor of Denver at the time, and has become the Governor of Colorado. In addition to his films, Hickenlooper authored a book in 1991, Hickenlooper died in his sleep on October 29,2010. Despite initial reports that Hickenlooper had suffered an attack, the coroner ruled that his death was the result of accidental painkiller overdose. Sleep apnea and an enlarged heart were contributing factors. He is survived by his wife Suzanne, son Charles, a younger brother, Reel Conversations, Candid Interviews With Films Foremost Directors and Critics
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Hickenlooper in October 2010
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The Conspirator
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The Conspirator is a 2010 American mystery historical drama film directed by Robert Redford based on an original screenplay by James D. Solomon. It is the film of the American Film Company. The film tells the story of Mary Surratt, the only female conspirator charged in the Abraham Lincoln assassination and the first woman to be executed by the United States federal government. It stars James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Justin Long, Evan Rachel Wood, Jonathan Groff, Tom Wilkinson, Alexis Bledel, Kevin Kline, John Cullum, Toby Kebbell, and James Badge Dale. Another premiere screening was held on April 10,2011 at Fords Theatre in Washington, the United States theatrical release took place on April 15,2011, the 146th anniversary of the death of President Lincoln. The film was released in Canada on April 29,2011 and was released in the UK on July 1,2011, Lionsgate Home Entertainment released the DVD and Blu-ray on August 16,2011. Later that same night, Southerner Lewis Payne unsuccessfully attempts to kill Secretary of State William Seward, german immigrant and carriage repair business owner George Atzerodt is assigned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson but becomes afraid and runs away. Meanwhile, actor John Wilkes Booth enters Fords Theatre and sees his target, Booth sneaks into the Presidents box and shoots Lincoln, mortally wounding him. Booth stabs diplomat and military officer Henry Rathbone who was a guest in Lincolns box, a crowd, including Aiken, Hamilton and Baker, watch in horror as the unconscious President is taken to a nearby boarding house where he dies early the next morning. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton orders all suspects, including Mary Surratt, Booth and David Herold manage to evade capture for some days, but Union soldiers find a barn where they suspect the conspirators are hiding and set it on fire. Herold is arrested, while Booth is shot and killed by sergeant Boston Corbett, Maryland Senator Reverdy Johnson is Mary Surratts lawyer. Her son, John Surratt, had escaped with hundreds of agents looking for him, feeling unable to defend Surratt because hes a Southerner, Reverdy asks Aiken, a Northerner, to take over, but he tries to refuse. He is ordered to defend her and tells Sarah and his friends, Aiken visits Mary in her cell to question her. Mary asks Aiken to look in on her daughter Anna, Aiken does so and searches the boarding house for clues. He finds a ticket with the initials LJW, at the court, Weichman - a seminary friend of Marys son John, is the first witness and describes John Surratts meetings with Booth. Aiken incriminates Weichman, making him appear as guilty as the rest of the conspirators, Aiken again tries to give up defending Mary, believing her guilty. He meets with her, intending to get evidence of her guilt and she explains that John and the others conspired to kidnap Lincoln, not to kill him. They were about to attack a carriage but were stopped by Booth who reported that Lincoln was elsewhere and she says John left town and went into hiding after this, two weeks before the assassination
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Robert Redford
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Charles Robert Redford Jr. is an American actor, director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, and philanthropist. Redford is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Redfords career began in 1960 as a guest star on numerous TV shows, including, The Untouchables, Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and The Twilight Zone, among others. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont and his greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in Neil Simons Barefoot in the Park. Redford made his debut in War Hunt. His role in Inside Daisy Clover won him a Golden Globe for best new star and he starred in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which was a huge success and made him a major star. The popular and acclaimed All the Presidents Men was a film for Redford. The first film that Redford directed, Ordinary People, was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars, and in the same year, he starred in Brubaker. He starred in Out of Africa, which was a critical and box office success. He released his film as a director, A River Runs Through It. Redford won the 1980 Academy Award for Best Director in 1981 for directing Ordinary People and he was previously nominated for Best Actor in 1974 for his performance in The Sting, and went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. He won a second Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002, in 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion dHonneur. He has won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, in April 2014, Time Magazine included Redford in their annual TIME100 as one of the Most Influential People in the World, declaring him the Godfather of Indie Film. In 2016, President Barack Obama honored Redford with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, Redford was born on August 18,1936, in Santa Monica, California to Martha W. and Charles Robert Redford, Sr. a milkman-turned-accountant. He has a stepbrother, William, from his fathers remarriage, Redford is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish ancestry. Redfords family moved to Van Nuys, California, while his father worked in El Segundo and he attended Van Nuys High School, where he was classmates with baseball pitcher Don Drysdale. He has described himself as having been a bad student, finding inspiration outside the classroom and he hit tennis balls with Pancho Gonzales at the Los Angeles Tennis Club to warm him up. After graduating from school in 1954, he attended the University of Colorado in Boulder for a year and a half. While there, he worked at the restaurant/bar The Sink, a painting of his likeness is prominent in the bars murals, while at Colorado, Redford began drinking heavily, and as a result lost his half-scholarship and was kicked out of school
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Robert Redford in 2012
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Redford in
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Redford at the
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Redford with
Melanie Griffith and
Sônia Braga, promoting
The Milagro Beanfield War at the
1988 Cannes Film Festival
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The Debt (2011 film)
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It stars Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Marton Csokas and Jesper Christensen. It didnt see a release until it was released in France on 15 June 2011, followed by Kazakhstan and Russia in July 2011. In 1965, a young Mossad agent Rachel Singer on her first field assignment arrives in East Berlin to meet with more experienced agents David Peretz and Stefan Gold. Rachel and David present themselves as an ethnic German married couple from Argentina and Rachel plants herself as a patient at Vogels obstetrics, both Stefan and David are instantly attracted to Rachel. Rachel is attracted to David, yet sleeps with Stefan shortly after David reluctantly refuses her advances, Rachel, as a part of her cover, receives fertility treatments at the clinic and her tryst results in Rachel becoming pregnant. At her final appointment, Rachel injects Vogel with a sedative during an examination. Stefan and David arrive dressed as paramedics and make off with the unconscious Vogel in a faux ambulance, barely ahead of the real ambulance team. Under cover of night, the trio attempt their exfiltration at Wollankstrasse Station, on a line along the sector boundary between East and West Berlin, and next to a mail depot. As they prepare to load Vogel onto the train he suddenly awakens and sounds the horn of the stolen mail van where he is being held. In the ensuing shootout, David sacrifices his chance to escape in order to save the compromised Rachel, the agents are left with no choice but to bring Vogel to their apartment and plan a new extraction. The agents take turns monitoring and feeding Vogel while leaving him chained to the wall heater and he attempts to psychologically humiliate and intimidate them to the point they must gag him. During his shift, David becomes violently enraged after Vogel explains his beliefs that Jews have many weaknesses, such as selfishness, David smashes a glass plate over Vogels head and repeatedly beats him, only to be stopped and restrained by Stefan. Injured, she manages to shoot the escaping doctor and sees him crumble to the ground after being hit. However, when they go to get rid of his body they discover he has escaped into the night, panicking and hoping to save face for both himself and for Israel, Stefan convinces Rachel and David to go along with the fiction that Vogel was killed. They agree to lie and use the story that Rachel shot. In the following years, the agents become venerated as heroes for their roles in the mission. David admits his intention to leave Mossad and the country, imploring Rachel to come with him, Rachel cannot bring herself to abandon her daughter and she and David part ways. In 1997, Rachel is honoured by her daughter Sarah during a party in Tel Aviv for Sarahs book based on the account Rachel, Stefan
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The Housemaid (2010 film)
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The Housemaid is a 2010 South Korean melodramatic thriller film directed by Im Sang-soo. The story focuses on Eun-yi, played by Jeon Do-yeon, who involved in a destructive love triangle while working as a housemaid for an upper-class family. Other cast members include Lee Jung-jae, Seo Woo and Youn Yuh-jung, the film is a remake of Kim Ki-youngs 1960 film The Housemaid. It competed for the Palme dOr at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, the film opens with a bustling city street, where a young woman commits suicide by jumping from a building ledge to her death. The next morning, a woman by the name of Byeong-sik visits her small apartment. Eun-yi is hired as an au pair for Hae-ra and her rich husband Hoon, Eun-yis primary task is watching the couples young daughter, Nami. Eun-yi is eager to connect to Nami, who gradually warms to her, Hoon begins to secretly flirt with Eun-yi, enticing her with glasses of wine and his piano playing, and they eventually begin a sexual relationship. Despite the affair, Eun-yi is still warm and friendly to Hoons oblivious wife, Hae-ra, she even expresses enthusiasm, Byeong-sik, aka Miss Cho witnesses Eun-yi and Hoon having sex. She tries to subtly pry details from Eun-yi, but Eun-yi brushes her off casually, later, Miss Cho reveals her suspicion to Hae-ras mother that Eun-yi is pregnant. Hae-ras mother then visits the family and stages an accident, resulting in Eun-yi falling from a ladder positioned at the top of a set of stairs, dangling from a chandelier, Eun-yi begs Hae-ras mother to pull her over the railing. Hae-ras mother does not oblige, and Eun-yi falls, suffering only a concussion, Eun-yi spends the night in the hospital. During her stay, she learns that she is pregnant and contemplates abortion, meanwhile, the affair is revealed to Hae-ra. Hae-ras mother, Mi-hee, instructs Hae-ra to ignore the affair, she insists that all wealthy husbands will eventually cheat, later that night, Hae-ra stands over Eun-yis bed with a golf club but is unable to strike the sleeping woman. The next day, Hae-ra and her mother confront Eun-yi, offering her $100,000 to have an abortion and leave. Hae-ra knows that Eun-yi would not abort her child for all the money in the world, Hae-ra goes to the hospital and delivers her twin sons. Hoon visits the hospital, where Hae-ra makes her ill will toward him known, furious, he returns home alone and finds Eun-yi in his bathtub. She reveals that she is pregnant and plans on keeping the baby, Eun-yi succumbs to the effects of the poison, and Mi-hee arranges an abortion without Eun-yis consent. After the abortion, Miss Cho reveals that she told Mi-hee about Eun-yis pregnancy, Eun-yi is angry, but forgives Miss Cho and vows to get revenge on the family
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Im Sang-soo
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Im Sang-soo is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He has twice been invited to compete for the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, with The Housemaid in 2010 and he studied sociology at Yonsei University in Seoul before making a move to the Korean Academy of Film Arts in 1989. He began working in film that year, landing his first job as Park Jeong-wons assistant director on Kuro Arirang. Following graduation from KAFA, Im worked as an assistant director under Kim Young-bin on Kims War, in 1995 Im wrote the screenplay for The Eternal Empire, and also the screenplay A Noteworthy Film, which won him the Creation Prix at the Korean Motion Picture Promotion Scenario Competition. In 1998 Im landed his first directorial gig, girls Night Out, a drama about three women in Korea, caused a controversy upon release due to the frank and sexually driven dialogue and has received mixed, almost polarized, reviews. Tears, a drama about the lives of four runaway teenagers in Seoul. Im spent five months in the Garibong-dong district of Seoul amongst homeless runaway teens before writing the script for the film and this film was shot in 2000 on miniDV to save the budget. To achieve greater realism, Im opted to use non-actors, 2003s Good Lawyers Wife was Ims first film to reach #1 at the South Korean box office, thanks in large part to the suggestive poster and trailer campaign centered on star Moon So-ri. This film was screened in the main competition program at the 2003 Venice International Film Festival. Next in Ims string of films was 2005s Presidents Last Bang. The controversy started before it was released to the public, with President Parks family suing MK Pictures over the films content, the Old Garden, Ims fifth film, was released theatrically in fall 2006. It debuted at the 2006 San Sebastian Film Festival and his 2010 film, The Housemaid, competed for the Palme dOr at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. In 2012 The Taste of Money competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Actress Youn Yuh-jung, a constant collaborator, has noted that many actors shy away from working with him because he is provocative and daring, but that is how he views the world. In 2005 a South Korean court ordered the removal of 3 minutes and 50 seconds of the film before it could be shown to the public, the offending scenes were made up of documentary footage, part of which showed President Parks funeral. In August 2006 this ruling was overturned, with the court confirming the right of free expression concerning the depiction of historical figures. The court has also ordered MK Pictures, the company that had financed the film. The film has released in South Korea and America on DVD in 2005
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Im Sang-soo, 2004
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Janie Jones (film)
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Janie Jones is a 2010 American drama film by writer/director David M. Rosenthal. It stars Alessandro Nivola, Elisabeth Shue, Brittany Snow, the film makes extensive use of original music created by Gemma Hayes and Eef Barzelay and sung and played by Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 17,2010, the songs on the album are performed by Abigail Breslin, Aleesandro Nivola, William Fitzsimmons and Gemma Hayes. Janie Jones garnered mixed reviews from critics, on Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 53% rating based on 30 reviews with an average score of 5.3 out of 10. Metacritic gave the film a 52 out of 100 rating, based on 16 reviews, Janie Jones at the Internet Movie Database Official Janie Jones Website Janie Jones Soundtracks
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David M. Rosenthal (director)
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David Mitchell Rosenthal is an American screenwriter, film director and producer. He is best known for his films Janie Jones, Falling Up, Rosenthal was born in New York City, New York, the son of Dr. Mitchell S. Rosenthal, founder and Chairman of Phoenix House, and cookbook author Ellen Wright. Rosenthals career with film began with writing and photography at a young age, growing up in New York City, he began shooting and studying photography in high school, and started writing soon after. He earned a Masters in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and subsequently began publishing poetry in literary magazines as The Paris Review. Davids first book of poetry was published in 2000, in the same year he became a member of The Actors Studio playwrights unit with Mark Rydell. Rosenthals love of writing and film soon led him to the American Film Institute, a year after graduating, his first short film, Absence was bought and distributed to networks around the world including Canal+, HBO Latin America, PBS, Encore, and Starz. Rosenthals first feature film, See This Movie, which he directed and co-wrote and it was the first feature produced by Depth of Field, a production company operated by Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz. See This Movie, which starred Seth Meyers and John Cho, in 2008 Rosenthal directed the independent romantic comedy Falling Up, which was released by Anchor Bay and Starz in early 2010. In October 2009 Rosenthal finished principal photography on his film Janie Jones, the film is inspired by his experience of meeting his daughter for the first time when she was eleven and he was thirty. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 17,2010, IFC News called it arguably the best music film since Walk the Line. A Single Shot, starring Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, time Out New York called it, a searingly evocative morality tale. Absorbing, and impressively dark through to the very end, Feature films See This Movie Falling Up Janie Jones A Single Shot The Perfect Guy Jacobs Ladder David M. Rosenthal at the Internet Movie Database
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Rosenthal in 2013 at the
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Rosenthal on location in New York City (photo taken by Joe Gallacher).
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Little White Lies (2010 film)
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The original French title is Les petits mouchoirs, which means the small handkerchiefs. The film was released in France on 20 October 2010, in a Parisian nightclub, party man Ludo takes off late at night on his scooter, where hes blindsided by a truck. Lying between life and death in the hospital, Ludo is visited by his band of longtime pals, both are married, and Max clearly isnt game, so when they arrive later with their families at his pristine seaside cottage, tensions are sky-high. The groups stress level is further goosed by pot-smoking rebel Marie, lovesick actor Eric, the cast lived for three days in May at the house which would be used as a principal filming location, so it would feel familiar to them when they returned in the summer. The film began production in August 2009 and ended in October, the shooting took place in Paris and Cap Ferret. The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and it was released in France on 20 October 2010 through EuropaCorp Distribution, who launched it on over 550 screens. The reception of the film had mixed reviews, the current IMDB score is 7.1, whereas Rotten Tomatoes scores it at 41%. What he says was waiting for someone to say, joel Dupuch says it so well I hope he acts again. There are times when Little White Lies seems to meander, until we realize it knows exactly where it is going, the film was panned by Philippe Azoury of Libération, who thought it was too long, strangely cast, and that all of its female characters were stereotypes. Le Parisiens Marie Sauvion was more ambivalent and divided the review in a pros, the pros were that she found the genre in itself sympathetic, and how the film manages to use individual scenes to give the viewer a feeling of participation and shared enjoyment. On the negative side, she thought it was too unsubtle and predictable, the film won Londons Favourite French Film award in 2011. The music in the film is mainly American with English lyrics, Little White Lies at the Internet Movie Database
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Marion Cotillard at the Toronto International Film Festival for the premiere of the film.
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Guillaume Canet
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Guillaume Canet is a French actor, film director and screenwriter and show jumper. Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film and he starred in several films like Joyeux Noël, Love Me If You Dare and The Beach. In 2006, he turned to writing and directing with Tell No One, Canet has also received attention because of his personal life. He was formerly married to actress Diane Kruger, after they divorced in 2006, Canet had relationships with Carla Bruni and Élodie Navarre. Since 2007, he has been in a relationship with Marion Cotillard, guillaume Canet was born in Boulogne-Billancourt on 10 April 1973 to a family of horse breeders. Canet intended to become a show jumper and performed with the junior French National Equestrian Team, however, after a fall from his horse at age 18 he turned to acting and enrolled in the Cours Florent drama school. In 1994, he appeared in the Théâtre Hébertot production of La Ville dont le prince est un enfant with Christophe Malavoy, after working in various television shows and commercials, Canet made his film debut in the short film Fils unique. In 1997, he appeared in the thriller film Barracuda for which he won a prix dinterprétation at the Festival Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1999, the same year he was nominated for a César Award for his role as Vincent Mazet in the comedy film En plein cœur. He then traveled abroad to film Danny Boyles The Beach, after completing The Beach, Canet starred opposite Sophie Marceau in La fidélité and in Jerry Schatzbergs The Day the Ponies Come Back. In 2002, Canet starred with Gérard Depardieu in the fiction film Vidocq. He also directed and wrote his first feature film the year, Mon Idole. In 2003, he appeared opposite Marion Cotillard in Yann Samuells Love Me If You Dare which became a sleeper hit, Canet next appeared in the international production Joyeux Noël which tells the story of the World War I Christmas cease fire. The film—which also featured Kruger—was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Canet released his second feature film in 2006, Tell No One, an adaptation of Harlan Cobens novel of the same name. Tell No One was the top grossing French film of 2006 and went on to win four César awards. His film Blood Ties was selected to be screened Out of Competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, in 1999, he started a relationship with German-born model and actress Diane Kruger. They were married on 1 September 2001, in January 2006, Canet and Kruger filed for divorce. Kruger later said that the marriage was not successful because their careers had kept them occupied in different parts of the world, after his divorce, he had a relationship with Carla Bruni that was widely reported by the French media and then with Élodie Navarre. Canet has been involved with actress Marion Cotillard since October 2007
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Guillaume Canet at the Nominee Luncheon for the 2015 César Awards
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Peep World
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Peep World is a 2010 American comedy-drama film directed by Barry W. Blaustein and starring an ensemble cast, including Ron Rifkin, Lesley Ann Warren, Ben Schwartz, Michael C. Hall, Sarah Silverman, Rainn Wilson, Kate Mara, Judy Greer, Stephen Tobolowsky, Taraji P. Henson, the story revolves around the Meyerwitz family causing trouble to each other after the youngest member reveals each others secrets in his novel. Peep World garnered a negative reception from critics, the story takes place over the course of a single day. Jack, an architect, is stressed about the well-being of his wife. Cheri, an actress, wants to sue Nathan for damages since she is unable to get work, joel, an incompetent divorce lawyer, juggles mounting financial troubles while maintaining a relationship with his client Mary. Nathan finds little happiness with his success due to the ongoing turmoil, jacks pregnant wife Laura discovers him masturbating in an adult video store. Cheri continues to rant about the book and upcoming movie, after being given a shot for premature ejaculation issues, Nathan causes a scene during his book signing with an unwanted erection. After his publicist Meg helps him relieve his problem, she accompanies him to his fathers birthday dinner. The four siblings meet at the restaurant along with their mother Marilyn, everyone is surprised when their father introduces his new girlfriend Amy, who is not only half his age, but also the actress playing Cheri in the film adaptation of the book. Henry deems his children ungrateful and reveals that Amy is pregnant, Marilyn claims the children always blame someone else for their problems. The dinner ends abruptly when Henry chokes on a piece of food, jack performs CPR, and the family rushes him to the hospital. While waiting, Cheri asks, What do we do if he dies, a doctor appears to give the family news. A narrator then explains that Henry finally got his family together, deborah Pratt as Cassandra Williamson Leslie Speight as Wizdom Raja Fenske as Rajeev Peep World received negative reviews, only garnering 20% on Rotten Tomatoes. On Metacritic, which uses an average of reviews, the film holds a 27/100. He gave the film a 1 out of 4 stars, sheri Linden of the Los Angeles Times said the script falters with excruciating humor and affection among the characters feeling false than touching. Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News said that the cast manage to raise the script, singling out Greer and she gave the film 3 out of 5 stars. Peep World at the Internet Movie Database Peep World at AllMovie Peep World at Box Office Mojo Peep World at Rotten Tomatoes Peep World at Metacritic
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Potiche
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Potiche is a 2010 French-Belgian comedy film directed by François Ozon, based on the play of the same name by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy. It stars Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche, set in 1977, the film tells the story of a submissive wife who gets to run her husbands umbrella factory, after the employees rebel against their tyrannical manager. In French, a potiche is a vase, but by extension means window dressing or, roughly. The film competed at the 67th Venice International Film Festival and received two Magritte Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for Jérémie Renier. While writing the screenplay, Ozon regularly met with Barillet, who approved the tweaks made in order to enhance the storys relevance for contemporary society. The political career of Suzanne was entirely Ozons own addition to the story, the project was led by Mandarin Cinéma, with co-production support from Production Services Belgium. Principal photography took place in Belgium from 26 October 2009 and lasted eight weeks, the film was deliberately given a theatrical look in order to create distance and give the audience a constant awareness of watching a work of fiction. An important influence for the style was the cinema of Jacques Demy. The soundtrack includes Michèle Torr with Emmène-moi danser ce soir, Il était une fois with Viens faire un tour sous la pluie, the film premiered on 4 September 2010 in competition at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. It was released in France and Belgium on 10 November, launched in 440 prints through Mars Distribution, Potiche had 875,000 admissions during its first week in French theatres. At its peak the film was playing in 542 venues, when the theatrical run ended, the total number of tickets sold in France had reached 2,318,221. As of 28 June 2011, Box Office Mojo reported that the worldwide revenues of the film corresponded to 23,157,170 US dollars. A subtitled version in English is due to out on DVD in October 2011. Clips from the film were used in trailers subtitled by Orange, with all the dialogue reworded to be about mobile phones, official website Potiche at the Internet Movie Database Potiche at Rotten Tomatoes
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The Town (2010 film)
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The Town is a 2010 American crime drama film co-written, directed by and starring Ben Affleck, adapted from Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves. The film premiered on September 8,2010 at the Venice Film Festival before being released in the United States on September 17,2010 to positive reviews. Renner was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, four lifelong friends from the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, Douglas Doug MacRay, James Jem Coughlin, Albert Gloansy MacGloan, and Desmond Dez Elden, rob a bank. They take the manager, Claire Keesey, hostage, but release her unharmed. When they find out Claire lives in their neighborhood, Doug begins to follow her to find out how much she has told the authorities, soon a romance grows between them, which Doug hides from the gang. As they grow closer, Doug tells Claire of his search for his long-lost mother and he also recounts his chance to be a professional hockey player which he threw away for a life of crime, following in his fathers footsteps. She in turn tells Doug that she saw a tattoo on one of the robbers and he knows that Jem will kill her if he discovers the truth, so he persuades her that the authorities cannot protect her, and she decides not to tell the police. After Claire tells Doug about being harassed and her car vandalized by Alex, a thug, Doug enlists Jem for a favor. Doug and Jem don hockey masks and violently assault the offenders without Jem knowing the reason for the favor is to protect Claire. FBI Agent Adam Frawley surveils the gang and recognizes their ties to crime lord Fergus Fergie Colm. During a visit to his father Stephen in prison, Doug reveals his plans to leave Boston, the gangs next robbery in the North End goes awry, and the gang barely escapes. The gang is interrogated by Frawley, but he fails to get any confessions and is forced to release them, Doug asks Claire if she will go away with him, and she agrees. When Frawley learns that Claire quit her job, he wiretaps her phone, shocked to discover that her lover was one of her assailants, she is forced to cooperate with the FBI and breaks up with Doug. Meanwhile, Fergie and Jem are pressuring Doug about the next heist, Fergie threatens to kill Claire if Doug does not go through with the job, and reveals to Doug how he controlled his father by making his mother an addict, which led to her suicide. Doug gives in but swears that he will kill Fergie if anything happens to Claire, at Fenway Park, Doug and Jem enter disguised as Boston police officers, steal $3,500,000 in gate cash, and prepare to escape in an ambulance disguised as paramedics. Dougs ex-girlfriend and Jems sister Krista, threatened by Frawley and heartbroken by Dougs going away without her, the gang is caught in a firefight with FBI SWAT, and Dez and Gloansy are killed. Frawley spots Jem and they exchange gunfire, Jem, determined not to go back to prison and out of ammunition, commits suicide by cop by running out of cover with his guns unloaded and is killed. Knowing that Claire is in danger and that he will never escape as long as Fergie is alive, Doug murders Fergie and his bodyguard and calls Claire
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The exterior of a former
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Jon Hamm and
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Ben Affleck
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Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt is an American actor and filmmaker. Born in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he acting as a child. He later appeared in the independent coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused and various Kevin Smith films including Chasing Amy, Affleck gained recognition when he and childhood friend Matt Damon won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting. He then established himself as a man in studio films including the disaster drama Armageddon, the war epic Pearl Harbor. After a career downturn, during which he appeared in Daredevil and Gigli, Afflecks directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, which he also co-wrote, was well received. He then directed, co-wrote, and starred in the crime drama The Town. For the political thriller Argo, which he directed and starred in, Affleck won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Director, and the Golden Globe, BAFTA and he starred in the psychological thriller Gone Girl. In 2016, Affleck began playing Batman in the DC Extended Universe, Affleck is the co-founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, a grantmaking and advocacy-based nonprofit organization. He is also a member of the Democratic Party. His younger brother is actor Casey Affleck, with whom he has worked on films including Good Will Hunting. Following high-profile relationships with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez, Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005, Affleck and Garner have three children together, and announced their separation in 2015. Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15,1972 in Berkeley and his family moved to Massachusetts when he was two, living in Falmouth, where his brother Casey was born, before settling in Cambridge. His mother, Christopher Anne Chris, was a Radcliffe College- and his father, Timothy Byers Affleck, worked sporadically as an auto mechanic, a carpenter, a bookie, an electrician, a bartender, and a janitor at Harvard University. In the mid-1960s, he had been an actor and stage manager with the Theater Company of Boston, during Afflecks childhood, his father had a self-described severe, chronic problem with alcoholism and Affleck has recalled him drinking all day, every day. His parents divorced when he was 12, and he and his brother lived with their mother. In the following years, his fathers life hit the skids, when Affleck was 16, his father moved to Indio, California to enter a rehabilitation facility and, after gaining sobriety, worked as an addiction counselor at the facility for many years. Affleck was raised in an active, liberal household. He and his brother were surrounded by people who worked in the arts, were taken to the theater by their mother
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Affleck at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Affleck visiting the
USS Enterprise (CVN‑65) in
Manama, Bahrain in 2003
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Affleck on the set of
The Town in 2010
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West Is West (2010 film)
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West Is West is a 2010 British comedy-drama film, which is a sequel to the 1999 comedy East Is East. It stars Aqib Khan, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Ila Arun and Jimi Mistry, is written by Ayub Khan-Din, directed by Andy DeEmmony, the film was first shown on 12 September 2010 at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. It premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on 19 October 2010, followed by UK, the first US showing was on 2 November 2010 at the South Asian International Film Festival, followed by several other US festivals. While it was released in Canada on 25 March 2011, it never received a US release, the film is set in the year 1976, five years after the original film East is East. Little is known about most of the Khan children, except that they communicate with their parents. After Sajid is caught shoplifting, his father George, who has retained his bullying nature. Furious, George blames his family in England, but Maneer reminds him that he himself is at fault, when Tavnir explains to Sajid that he will not tolerate any trouble, he is abruptly told to fuck off. Sajid is taken to the school for enrolment, where he meets spiritual teacher Pir Naseem and local boy Zaid who Sajid loathes at first. Zaid, who can speak basic English as he is being taught by Pir Naseem, advises him, Zaid teaches him Pakistani ways and Pir Naseem promises George that he will discipline his son when he misbehaves. Sajid gradually appreciates his culture and new surroundings which pleases George and she also plans to take Sajid back to England with her, and is shocked when her son refuses to leave. Maneer and Neelam soon marry, and George for the first time in years begins to appreciate Ella as a wife who stood by him during hard times. The film ends with George and his England-based family returning home and Sajid finally proud of his Asian background, zita Sattar who plays Neelam was Meena, George and Ellas only daughter, in the original stage production of East is East. The songs were recorded in Purple Rain studio, in Mumbai, rob Lane joined Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy to compose music for the film. They used several Indian classical instruments like Jaltarang, Santoor, Flute, the renowned Jaltarang player Milind Tulnkar was roped in to play the instrument for ten to twelve sequences. The film received mixed reviews, scoring 68% on Rotten Tomatoes with 15 fresh and 7 rotten reviews, several reviewers noted that while the film still had the sense of humour of East is East, it did not reach the level attained in the original. In his review for the Globe and Mail, Rick Groen noted the sudden leaps into unabashed melodrama, saying that When they fail, but when they succeed, the result can be genuinely touching. Sukhdev Sandhu of The Daily Telegraph in his review described the soundtrack as delightful, rediff reviewer Shaikh Ayaz, in his review, stated The music is beautifully cherry-picked, mixing Sufi tunes with Punjabi folk music. Nikhat Kazmi of Times of India, in her review, said that the music of the movie was memorable
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Canadian release poster
