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From the Sky Down
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From the Sky Down is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about rock band U2 and the production of their 1991 album Achtung Baby. The film documents the difficult recording period, the band members relationships. Guggenheim, who was commissioned by U2 to create the film to commemorate the records 20th anniversary, the band were filmed during a return visit to Hansa Studios in Berlin where parts of the album were recorded, and during rehearsals in Winnipeg for the Glastonbury Festival 2011. The film contains unreleased scenes from the groups 1988 motion picture Rattle and Hum, along with archival footage, development of the albums emblematic song One is recounted through the replaying of old recording tapes. The film premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8,2011, beginning in October, a series of television broadcasts commenced, including showings on BBC Television, Showtime, and Super Channel. The film was bundled with the editions of Achtung Babys 20th anniversary reissue and was later released as standalone copies on Blu-ray. Reviews from critics were mixed, many found the insight into the creative process informative. From the Sky Down was nominated for the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video, after the commercial and critical success of their 1987 album The Joshua Tree, U2 produced a motion picture and companion album titled Rattle and Hum that was subject to a critical backlash. The bands exploration of American music for the project was labelled as pretentious and misguided. The groups high exposure and their reputation for being overly serious led to accusations of grandiosity, towards the end of the Lovetown Tour in 1989, Bono announced onstage that it was the end of something for U2, and that we have to go away and. The sessions were fraught with conflict, as the band argued over their musical direction, weeks of tension and slow progress nearly took their toll, the group considered breaking up, but they made a breakthrough with the improvised writing of the song One. With improved morale, the completed the album in Dublin in 1991. In November, Achtung Baby was released to critical acclaim, musically, it incorporated influences from the alternative rock, electronic dance music, and industrial music of the time. Thematically, it was an introspective and personal record, it was darker. Achtung Baby has been one of the groups most commercially successful records, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Achtung Babys original release, U2 reissued the record in several formats in October 2011. Leading up to the anniversary, the band was unsure how much attention to pay to a past album while still writing and recording new material. Guitarist The Edge said, How big a deal do we make of an anniversary when were in the middle of what were doing now and we had a hard time figuring that out. But this record was so pivotal that we felt it was OK to revisit it, director Davis Guggenheim was subsequently commissioned by the band to make a film about Achtung Baby in six months
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Film poster featuring
Larry Mullen, Jr.
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Director
Davis Guggenheim was allowed access to the band's archives for the film, and despite the group's reservations, he was given final say over the film's content.
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One segment of the documentary depicts U2 returning to
Hansa Studios to revisit Achtung Baby.
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Page Eight
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Page Eight is a 2011 British political thriller/action drama, written and directed for the BBC by the British writer David Hare, his first film as director since the 1989 film Strapless. The cast includes Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon, Tom Hughes, Ralph Fiennes, the film was followed by Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield, which were broadcast on BBC Two in March 2014. The three films are known as The Worricker Trilogy. Johnny Worricker is a long-serving MI5 officer and his best friend and superior, Director General Benedict Baron, summons Johnny to a meeting with MI5 agent Jill Tankard and Home Secretary Anthea Catcheside regarding a potentially explosive report. If true, Beasley did not share any intelligence gained with the security services, at the same time, Johnny begins spending time with his neighbour Nancy Pierpan, a Syrian-born political activist whose brother was killed by Israeli forces. Johnny shares his love of art and jazz with Nancy but, wondering if she aims to exploit his connections, asks friend. Meanwhile, Baron dies of an attack at his country home before he can make the report public. Beasley orders the report to be buried and tells Johnny of his plans to replace MI5 with a U. S. -style Homeland Security organisation, catchesides silence is bought by naming her Deputy Prime Minister. Johnny sells a painting from his small but valuable art collection to obtain traveling cash and he learns that an acquaintance of Nancys, seen loitering around the apartment building, is Tankards son and has been paid to monitor him. Johnny realizes that Beasley and Tankard are running a politicised cowboy intelligence operation, Johnny gives Nancy a copy of the secret file on her brothers death but points out that he would be implicated if its existence were to be revealed by her. Johnny ends up making a deal with Tankard to keep quiet about the report, in return for Johnnys silence, Tankard agrees to kill the reorganisation of the intelligence services as well as leak the file on Nancys brothers murder to the BBC. The fallout forces Johnny to disappear for his safety, Johnny gives Nancy a Christopher Wood painting from his collection. On seeing the report of her brothers murder on the news. At London Stansted Airport, Johnny dumps the original report incriminating Beasley in a rubbish bin, as Johnny looks at the departure screen, Nancy looks closely at Johnnys painting and sees a church near a beach. Parts were filmed in Jesus College, Cambridge, in which undergraduates, the film had its world premiere on 18 June 2011 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and closed the 36th Toronto International Film Festival on 17 September 2011. It was broadcast on BBC Two and BBC HD on 28 August 2011 in the United Kingdom and it was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 5 September 2013 by Universal Pictures. At the 2011 Satellite Awards, Page Eight was nominated for Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television, Bill Nighy received a nomination for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards. Martin Ruhe, Page Eights Director of Photography, won Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Motion Picture/Miniseries Television at the 26th American Society of Cinematographers Awards, Page Eight received a nomination nod for Best TV Movie at the 2012 Rose d’Or TV Festival
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UK DVD cover
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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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Ontario
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Ontario, one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada, is located in east-central Canada. It is Canadas most populous province by a margin, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all Canadians. Ontario is fourth-largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and it is home to the nations capital city, Ottawa, and the nations most populous city, Toronto. There is only about 1 km of land made up of portages including Height of Land Portage on the Minnesota border. Ontario is sometimes divided into two regions, Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario. The great majority of Ontarios population and arable land is located in the south, in contrast, the larger, northern part of Ontario is sparsely populated with cold winters and is heavily forested. The province is named after Lake Ontario, a thought to be derived from Ontarí, io, a Huron word meaning great lake, or possibly skanadario. Ontario has about 250,000 freshwater lakes, the province consists of three main geographical regions, The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions, which comprises over half the land area of Ontario. Although this area mostly does not support agriculture, it is rich in minerals and in part covered by the Central and Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, studded with lakes, Northern Ontario is subdivided into two sub-regions, Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Ontario. The virtually unpopulated Hudson Bay Lowlands in the north and northeast, mainly swampy. Southern Ontario which is further sub-divided into four regions, Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, Golden Horseshoe, the highest point is Ishpatina Ridge at 693 metres above sea level located in Temagami, Northeastern Ontario. In the south, elevations of over 500 m are surpassed near Collingwood, above the Blue Mountains in the Dundalk Highlands, the Carolinian forest zone covers most of the southwestern region of the province. A well-known geographic feature is Niagara Falls, part of the Niagara Escarpment, the Saint Lawrence Seaway allows navigation to and from the Atlantic Ocean as far inland as Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario. Northern Ontario occupies roughly 87 percent of the area of the province. Point Pelee is a peninsula of Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario that is the southernmost extent of Canadas mainland, Pelee Island and Middle Island in Lake Erie extend slightly farther. All are south of 42°N – slightly farther south than the border of California. The climate of Ontario varies by season and location, the effects of these major air masses on temperature and precipitation depend mainly on latitude, proximity to major bodies of water and to a small extent, terrain relief. In general, most of Ontarios climate is classified as humid continental, Ontario has three main climatic regions
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Algonquin Provincial Park, Cache Lake
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Flag
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Summer at
Sandbanks Provincial Park on Lake Ontario.
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The
Niagara Escarpment on the
Bruce Peninsula.
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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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Buenos Aires
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Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata. The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Provinces capital, rather, in 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores, the 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Its citizens first elected a chief of government in 1996, previously, Buenos Aires is considered an alpha city by the study GaWC5. Buenos Aires quality of life was ranked 81st in the world and one of the best in Latin America in 2012 and it is the most visited city in South America, and the second-most visited city of Latin America. Buenos Aires is a top tourist destination, and is known for its preserved Spanish/European-style architecture, Buenos Aires held the 1st Pan American Games in 1951 as well as hosting two venues in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. Buenos Aires will host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and the 2018 G20 summit, Buenos Aires is a multicultural city, being home to multiple ethnic and religious groups. Several languages are spoken in the city in addition to Spanish, contributing to its culture, the hill was known to them as Buen Ayre, as it was free of the foul smell prevalent in the old city, which is adjacent to swampland. During the siege of Cagliari, the Aragonese built a sanctuary to the Virgin Mary on top of the hill, in 1335, King Alfonso the Gentle donated the church to the Mercedarians, who built an abbey that stands to this day. In the years after that, a story circulated, claiming that a statue of the Virgin Mary was retrieved from the sea after it miraculously helped to calm a storm in the Mediterranean Sea, the statue was placed in the abbey. Spanish sailors, especially Andalusians, venerated this image and frequently invoked the Fair Winds to aid them in their navigation, a sanctuary to the Virgin of Buen Ayre would be later erected in Seville. Pedro de Mendoza called the city Holy Mary of the Fair Winds, mendoza’s settlement soon came under attack by indigenous people, and was abandoned in 1541. For many years, the name was attributed to a Sancho del Campo, a second settlement was established in 1580 by Juan de Garay, who sailed down the Paraná River from Asunción. Garay preserved the name chosen by Mendoza, calling the city Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María del Buen Aire. The short form Buenos Aires became the common usage during the 17th century, the usual abbreviation for Buenos Aires in Spanish is Bs. As. It is common as well to refer to it as B. A. or BA /ˌbiːˈeɪ/ bee-AY), while BA is used more by expats residing in the city, the locals more often use the abbreviation Baires, in one word. Seaman Juan Díaz de Solís, navigating in the name of Spain, was the first European to reach the Río de la Plata in 1516 and his expedition was cut short when he was killed during an attack by the native Charrúa tribe in what is now Uruguay
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From the top, left to right:
Central Business District skyline, the
Palace of the Argentine National Congress,
Puente de la Mujer, Tango dancers in
San Telmo,
Casa Rosada, the
Metropolitan Cathedral,
Cabildo, the
Obelisco,
Teatro Colón,
La Recoleta Cemetery, the
Planetario within
Parque Tres de Febrero, and
Caminito.
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Aldus verthoont hem de stadt Buenos Ayrros geleegen in Rio de la Plata, painting by a Dutch sailor who anchored at the port around 1628.
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Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires.
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Depiction of
Juan de Garay and the second founding of Buenos Aires, 1580
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Argentina
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Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a federal republic in the southern half of South America. With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2, Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the second largest in Latin America, and the largest Spanish-speaking one. The country is subdivided into provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system, Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The earliest recorded presence in the area of modern-day Argentina dates back to the Paleolithic period. The country has its roots in Spanish colonization of the region during the 16th century, Argentina rose as the successor state of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, a Spanish overseas viceroyalty founded in 1776. The country thereafter enjoyed relative peace and stability, with waves of European immigration radically reshaping its cultural. The almost-unparalleled increase in prosperity led to Argentina becoming the seventh wealthiest developed nation in the world by the early 20th century, Argentina retains its historic status as a middle power in international affairs, and is a prominent regional power in the Southern Cone and Latin America. Argentina has the second largest economy in South America, the third-largest in Latin America and is a member of the G-15 and it is the country with the second highest Human Development Index in Latin America with a rating of very high. Because of its stability, market size and growing high-tech sector, the description of the country by the word Argentina has to be found on a Venice map in 1536. In English the name Argentina probably comes from the Spanish language, however the naming itself is not Spanish, Argentina means in Italian of silver, silver coloured, probably borrowed from the Old French adjective argentine of silver > silver coloured already mentioned in the 12th century. The French word argentine is the form of argentin and derives of argent silver with the suffix -in. The Italian naming Argentina for the country implies Argentina Terra land of silver or Argentina costa coast of silver, in Italian, the adjective or the proper noun is often used in an autonomous way as a substantive and replaces it and it is said lArgentina. The name Argentina was probably first given by the Venitian and Genoese navigators, in Spanish and Portuguese, the words for silver are respectively plata and prata and of silver is said plateado and prateado. Argentina was first associated with the silver mountains legend, widespread among the first European explorers of the La Plata Basin. The first written use of the name in Spanish can be traced to La Argentina, a 1602 poem by Martín del Barco Centenera describing the region, the 1826 constitution included the first use of the name Argentine Republic in legal documents. The name Argentine Confederation was also used and was formalized in the Argentine Constitution of 1853. In 1860 a presidential decree settled the name as Argentine Republic
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The
Cave of the Hands in
Santa Cruz province, with indigenous artwork dating from 13,000–9,000 years ago
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The surrender of Beresford to
Santiago de Liniers during the
British invasions of the Río de la Plata
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Portrait of General
José de San Martin,
Libertador of Argentina,
Chile and
Peru
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U2
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U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, initially rooted in post-punk, U2s sound grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music, yet has maintained an anthemic sound. Their lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal themes, popular for their live performances, the group has staged several ambitious and elaborate tours over their career. The band formed at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency, within four years, they signed with Island Records and released their debut album Boy. Subsequent work such as their first UK number-one album War, by the mid-1980s, they had become renowned globally for their live act, highlighted by their performance at Live Aid in 1985. The groups fifth album, The Joshua Tree, made them international superstars and was their greatest critical and commercial success. Topping music charts around the world, it produced their only number-one singles in the US, With or Without You, facing a backlash and creative stagnation, U2 reinvented themselves in the 1990s through a new musical direction and public image. This experimentation continued through their album, Pop, and the PopMart Tour. U2 regained critical and commercial favour with the records All That You Cant Leave Behind and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and their U2 360° Tour of 2009–2011 is the highest-attended and highest-grossing concert tour in history. The groups thirteenth album, Songs of Innocence, was released at no cost through the iTunes Store, U2 have released 13 studio albums and are one of the worlds best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 170 million records worldwide. They have won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band, Rolling Stone ranked U2 at number 22 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The band formed in Dublin on 25 September 1976, Larry Mullen Jr. then a 14-year-old student at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, posted a note on the schools notice board in search of musicians for a new band—six people responded. Mullen later described it as The Larry Mullen Band for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge. Martin, who had brought his guitar and amplifier to the first practice but could not play, did not remain with the group, the group settled on the name Feedback because it was one of the few technical terms they knew. Most of their material consisted of cover songs, which the band admitted was not their forte. Some of the earliest influences on the band were emerging punk rock acts, such as the Jam, the Clash, Buzzcocks, the popularity of punk rock convinced the group that musical proficiency was not a prerequisite to being successful. In April 1977, Feedback played their first gig for an audience at St. Fintans High School. Shortly after, the changed their name to The Hype
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U2 performing at
Madison Square Garden in November 2005, from left to right: The Edge; Larry Mullen, Jr. (drumming); Bono; Adam Clayton
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Bono performs in Norway during the
War Tour in 1983.
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The tree pictured on
The Joshua Tree album sleeve.
Adam Clayton said, "The desert was immensely inspirational to us as a mental image for this record."
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The Zoo TV Tour was a multimedia-intensive event, featuring a stage that used dozens of video screens.
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Davis Guggenheim
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Philip Davis Guggenheim is an American film and television director and producer. His credits include NYPD Blue, ER,24, Alias, The Shield, Deadwood, since 2006, Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different documentaries that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time. He was born Philip Davis Guggenheim in St. Louis, Missouri, United States and his father was Jewish and his mother was Episcopalian. He graduated from the Potomac School, from Sidwell Friends School, Guggenheim joined the HBO Western drama Deadwood as a producer and director for the first season in 2004. The series was created by David Milch and focused on a town in the American West. Guggenheim directed the episodes Deep Water, Reconnoitering the Rim, Plague, Guggenheim left the crew at the end of Season 1. The pilot episode of The Unit was directed by Guggenheim, the documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, was produced and directed by Davis Guggenheim. An Inconvenient Truth won the Academy Award in 2007 for Best Documentary Feature, the film, released in 2006, featured Former U. S. Vice President Al Gore and his international slideshow on global warming, guggenheims goal was to shine a bright light a subject that critics brushed off as nothing more than an exaggeration or a hoax. Then-Candidate for President Barack Obamas biographical film, which aired during the Democratic National Convention in August 2008, was directed by Guggenheim. The Guggenheim-directed Obama infomercial, which was broadcast on October 29,2008, was executed with high standards of cinematography, in 2012, he released The Road Weve Traveled, a 17-minute short film on the president. Davis Guggenheim directed and was a producer of the 2009 pilot for Melrose Place. His brother-in-law Andrew Shue starred on the 1990s version of the series, in 2008, he released It Might Get Loud, a documentary that glimpses into the lives of guitarists Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White. Guggenheims 2010 documentary Waiting for Superman, a film about the failures of American public education sparked controversy, Guggenheim knew his film would lead to this and said, I know people will say this movie is anti-this or pro-that. But it really is all about trying to find great schools. This film received the Audience Award for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and its public release was in September 2010. A documentary film about the band U2 directed by Guggenheim titled From the Sky Down opened the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival in September, in 2013, he directed a 30-minute documentary The Dream is Now. It tells the stories of undocumented youth and their families who are desperate to earn their citizenship in the country theyve ever called home
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Davis Guggenheim
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Nadine Labaki
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Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese actress and director. In 1998, she attended a workshop in acting at the Cours Florent in Paris and she went on to direct advertisements and music videos for renowned Middle Eastern singers, for which she won several awards. In 2005, Labaki took part in the Cannes Film Festival Residence in order to write Caramel, in 2006, she went on to direct and play one of the lead roles in Caramel, which showcases a Beirut that most people are not familiar with. The film premiered at the Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and was a success in the summer of that same year. In 2008 the French Ministry of Culture and Communication gave her the insignia of Chevalier in the Order of Arts, in 2010, Labaki directed and starred in her second feature film, Where Do We Go Now. Which tackles with humor a delicate subject about a village in which church and mosque stand side by side, the film also premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category in 2011. It was a success and won the Cadillac people’s choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival. It also collected many awards in festivals around the world, like Cannes Film Festival, San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film was nominated for best foreign film at the Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles. Labaki announced she was prepping her third film Capernaum in 2016 and she was selected to be on the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. As an actor, Labaki starred in Stray Bullet directed by Georges Hachem in 2010 and she appears in the Moroccan production Rock The Casbah directed by Laila Marrakchi alongside actors Hiam Abbas and Lubna Azabal. Nadine Labaki was a candidate on the list of the new political movement Beirut Madinati for the capital’s May 2016 local election, Labaki is multilingual, fluent in Arabic, French, English and Italian. In 2007, she married musician and composer Khaled Mouzanar, in 2009, Nadine Labaki gave birth to her first boy Walid. In 2016, Labaki received a degree from the American University of Beirut and was the speaker at the 150th Commencement Ceremony. Premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, released and premiered as part of the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. - plays Amale Rock The Casbah Mea Culpa Rio, I Love You - plays herself La Rançon de la gloire The Idol Official website Official fan page Nadine Labaki at the Internet Movie Database
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Nadine Labaki
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The Island President
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The Island President is a 2011 documentary film about the efforts of then-President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed to tackle rising sea levels resulting from climate change. Produced by Actual Films, an Oscar- and Emmy-winning American documentary film based in San Francisco, and directed by Jon Shenk. At the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, The Island President won the Cadillac Peoples Choice Documentary Award, US rights to The Island President were acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films. The film opened in New York City on March 28,2012, followed by releases in other US cities, like Los Angeles, “That might be the single most important thing that the movie can do. It’s now clear that this new government is not democratic, that the people who run the ministries are the people who were there under the dictator. ”The Island President received positive reviews from critics. The film has a score of 72 out of 100 at Metacritic, Nasheed or to believe that he will fail. Club gave the film a B-, praising the energy and conclusiveness of its opening sections, but writing that the movie stalls a bit during the sections of international diplomacy
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The Island President
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The Raid (2011 film)
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The Raid is a 2011 Indonesian martial arts action survival film written and directed by Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans and starring Iko Uwais. This is the collaboration of Evans and Uwais after their first action film, Merantau. Both films showcase the traditional Indonesian martial art Pencak Silat, with choreography by Uwais and Yayan Ruhian. The U. S. release of the features music by Mike Shinoda. After its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, The Raid received positive reviews from critics and it was released in the United States on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 14 August 2012. A sequel, The Raid 2, was released in 2014 to positive reviews, another sequel is planned for release in 2018 or 2019. Indonesian special tactics officer Rama prays, practices silat and bids goodbye to his father and wife and he cryptically promises his father he will bring him home. Rama joins a heavily armed 20-man elite police squad, including Officers Bowo and Dagu, Sergeant Jaka, Tama calls down reinforcements and the SWAT team are brutally attacked. Thugs snipe two officers guarding the perimeter, eliminate two more in the SWAT van, and ambush several officers patrolling the first five floors. Cutting the lights, Tama announces over the PA system that the police are trapped on the sixth-floor stairwell, in the darkness, the remaining team members are ambushed by shooters from above and behind, and the team is almost completely wiped out. Prior to the gunfight, Lt. Wahyu confesses to Jaka he has staged the mission so he can eliminate Tama, the mission is not officially sanctioned by the police command, nobody at HQ knows their location and thus there is no hope for reinforcements. The remaining officers retreat into an empty apartment only to be cornered by more armed henchmen, to create an escape route, Rama uses an axe to cut a hole in the floor so that the team can descend to the lower level. Dropping to the room below, the SWAT team once again struggles to fend off Tamas horde of thugs, four machete-wielding thugs arrive and ransack the mans apartment, but fail to find Rama and Bowo. After tending to Bowos wounds, Rama leaves him with the couple so that he can focus on searching for Jakas group, however, he crosses paths again with the machete gang. Rama manages to defeat the group, including their leader, whom he uses to smash through a window and he then continues his search, only to be confronted by Andi, who has just murdered two of Tamas thugs in the elevator. Rama and Andi are revealed to be estranged brothers, and Rama signed up for the mission to search for him, Rama refuses to leave the building without his comrades, and Andi refuses to abandon his auspicious criminal life. Rama reluctantly accepts Andis decision and parts with him in order to search for his team members. Meanwhile, Mad Dog and a squad of his thugs discover where Jaka, a brief scuffle occurs which ends up splitting the SWAT team even further—the thugs pursue Lt. Wahyu and Dagu while Jaka is left at Mad Dogs gunpoint
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Gareth Evans (director)
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Gareth Huw Evans is a Welsh film director, screenwriter, film editor and action choreographer. He is best known for bringing the Indonesian martial art pencak silat into world cinema through his films Merantau, The Raid, Evans was born and raised in Hirwaun, Cynon Valley. He graduated from the University of Glamorgan with an MA in screenwriting, after directing a small-budget film called Footsteps, Evans was hired as a freelance director for a documentary about the Indonesian martial art pencak silat. He became fascinated with it, and discovered Indonesian martial artist Iko Uwais, Evans cast Uwais in his 2009 film Merantau, which became a cult hit. He planned to produce an action film, but scaled the production budget down. After the success of The Raid, the action film eventually became the basis for its sequel, The Raid 2. In late 2016 Evans started working on his film, Apostle. The director confirmed on his Instagram that filming will begin on April 3,2017 and he lived in Jakarta with his wife, Maya, and their daughter, Sophie, until the family moved back to Wales in 2015. He is also friends with documentary director Joshua Oppenheimer, as Josh has given thanks to him for his award nominated documentaries of Indonesian life. In November 2011, The Raid won the Midnight Madness Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011, Gareth Evans at the Internet Movie Database Gareth Evans on Instagram
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Monsieur Lazhar
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Monsieur Lazhar is a 2011 Canadian French-language drama film directed by Philippe Falardeau and starring Mohamed Saïd Fellag, Sophie Nélisse and Danielle Proulx. Falardeau opted to film the story for the Canadian company micro_scope, de la Cheneliere advised Falardeau and recommended casting Algerian comedian Fellag. After premiering at the Locarno International Film Festival, it received critical acclaim, the film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards and won six Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture. In Montreal, a school teacher hangs herself. Bashir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant, then offers his services to replace her, desperate to fill the position, the principal takes him at his word and gives him the job. He gets to know his students despite the culture gap evident from the very first day of class, as the children try to move on from their former teachers suicide, nobody at the school is aware of Bashirs painful past, or his precarious status as a refugee. His wife, who was a teacher and writer, died along with the couples daughter and son in an arson attack. The murderers were angered by her last book, in which she pointed a finger at those responsible for the countrys reconciliation, the film goes on to explore Bashirs relationships with the students and faculty, and how the students come to grips with their former teachers suicide. One student, Alice, writes an assignment on the death of their teacher, revealing the deep pain, Bashir eventually comes to be loved and respected by the students he is teaching, but the teachers death still haunts the students. During a school dance, a student named Simon is found to have a photo of his former teacher and it is revealed that he tried to get her into trouble after she tried to help him through his family struggles. Bashir eventually gets the students to open up about the death, especially Simon, eventually, some parents discover that Bashir has no teaching qualification, previously, he had run a restaurant. He is then fired from the school and he asks the principal to be able to teach one more day, convincing her by noting that the old teacher never got to say goodbye to her students. On his last day, Bashir has his students correct a fable he wrote which is a metaphor of his tragic past life in Algeria, before he leaves, one of his students, Alice gives him a tearful hug goodbye. The source material Bachir Lazhar is a play, making it a challenge to adapt for the screen. However, producers Luc Dery and Kim McCraw attended a performance with director Philippe Falardeau, Falardeau said he continuously consulted de la Cheneliere, allowing her to review screenplay drafts. It was shot in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montreal, there were 28 days of shooting, about an average time for a film to be shot in Quebec. The principal filming occurred in the summer so the production could use the school, four of the shooting days occurred in the winter. Child actress Sophie Nélisse turned 10 shortly before shooting began, Monsieur Lazhar debuted at the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2011, followed by a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2011
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Philippe Falardeau
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Philippe Falardeau is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His first feature film, The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge won Best Canadian First Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival, Falardeau also received the Claude Jutra Award at the Canadian Genies in 2001 for this film. Falardeaus Congorama won him a Genie Award in 2007 for Best Original Screenplay and his 2011 film Monsieur Lazhar was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards. The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge Congorama Its Not Me, I Swear, Monsieur Lazhar In the Name of the Son The Good Lie My Internship in Canada Chuck Northern Stars entry for Philippe Falardeau Philippe Falardeau at the Internet Movie Database
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Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
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Citizen Gangster is a 2011 Canadian drama film directed and written by Nathan Morlando. Scott Speedman stars as Canadian gangster and folk hero Edwin Alonzo Boyd, the film originally premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival under the title Edwin Boyd but was retitled Citizen Gangster in general release. A veteran of World War II, Edwin Boyd is disillusioned, with his wife Doreen, whom he met in England during the war, and two young children to support, he finds it increasingly difficult to make ends meet. Adding to his dissatisfaction, Boyd has deep, unfulfilled dreams of making it as a star in Hollywood, cox’s portrayal shows a man who disapproves of his son’s life and terrible decisions but is made more poignant by his sad attempts to maintain a father-son relationship. Boyd forms a gang, which includes Lenny Jackson, Ann Roberts, Jackson is also a veteran of WWII, and with his muscular build is the picture of the hardened criminal. There is a relationship between him and Boyd, given the attention lavished on the latter by the media, yet the two of them, both war vets, have a deep, unspoken brotherly bond. Durand’s portrayal is of a man whose vulnerability is cloaked by a gruff, practical-minded exterior, one of only two women in the group, Ann reveals the human side of Lenny, behind the ruthless criminal in the headlines and on the radio. Val Kozak is in a bind as Boyd, with a young wife. Boyd’s theatrical air and showmanship captivated attention, he would fling his arms wide open like a maestro upon entering the bank, a “welcome to the show” gesture. One smiling teller whispers to Boyd as she’s emptying her till into a bag, “You know, some of the girls, a sombre family man who takes his work seriously, Rhys is the face of law enforcement in the movie, constantly on the gang’s trail. Despite the fact that Boyd’s initial motivation was a bid to provide for his family and prove himself as a man. Whenever a siren screams past their window, all activities are dropped while they wait tensely to see if it will stop outside their apartment, notably, the Boyd gang’s breakout of the Don Jail forms the very first news story of then-fledgling television broadcast network, CBC. Edwin Boyd, Citizen Gangster premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, IFC Films distributed it in the United States. Rotten Tomatoes, an aggregator, reports that 50% of 14 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review. Metacritic rated it 56/100 based on 9 reviews, linda Barnard of the Toronto Star rated it 3/4 stars called it a carefully crafted, sympathetic examination of Canadas most notorious bank robber. Joe Leydon of Variety called it generally low-key but sporadically exciting, jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote, Citizen Gangster is a good-looking but passionless affair that remains stubbornly aloof from its audience. Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times called it a stylish, the film won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. The film garnered three Genie Award nominations at the 2012 Genie Awards, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Edwin Boyd, Citizen Gangster at the Internet Movie Database Citizen Gangster at Rotten Tomatoes Edwin Boyd, Citizen Gangster at Metacritic
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Gianni Amelio
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Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director. Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro and his father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother, the absence of a paternal figures will be a constant in Amelios future works. During his university studies of philosophy in Messina, Amelio got interested in cinema, in 1965 he moved to Rome, where he worked as operator and assistant director for figures such as Liliana Cavani and Vittorio De Seta. He also worked for television, directing documentaries and advertisements, Amelios first important work is the TV film La città del sole, directed in 1973 for RAI TV and inspired to Tommaso Campanellas work. This was followed by Bertolucci secondo il cinema a documentary about 1900 shooting, two years later he directed the mystery La morte al lavoro, which won prizes at Locarno and Hyères festivals. Il piccolo Archimede of 1979 was also critically acclaimed, in 1982 he debuted for cinema proper with Colpire al cuore, about Italian terrorism, presented at the Venice Film Festival. 1989s Porte aperte, featuring Gian Maria Volontè, confirmed Amelios status as one of Italys best film directors, the film received also 4 Felix,2 Silver Ribbon,4 David di Donatello and 3 Golden Globes awards. Also successful was Il ladro di bambini in 1992, which won the Special Prize of Jury at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival plus two Silver Ribbon and 5 David di Donatello. In 1994 Lamerica, about Albanian immigration in Italy, repeated the fate, four years later, Così ridevano won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Amelio gained another Silver Ribbon as best director for Le chiavi di casa, inspired to a novel by Giuseppe Pontiggia, Amelio was a member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. In 2006 he released his eighth film, La stella che non cè
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Albert Nobbs
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Albert Nobbs is a 2011 British-Irish drama film directed by Rodrigo García and starring Glenn Close. The screenplay, by Close, John Banville, and Gabriella Prekop, is based on a novella by George Moore and they also received Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup. The novella had been adapted as a play titled The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs in which Close starred Off-Broadway in 1982. Albert Nobbs works with extreme dedication as a butler in 19th-century Ireland. Assigned as female at birth, and initially raised as a girl, Albert has been secretly saving money to buy a tobacco shop to gain some measure of freedom and independence. Meanwhile, recently unemployed Joe Mackins arrives at the hotel to repair the boiler, flirtatious maid Helen Dawes is attracted to him, and they become lovers. However, Joe soon shows himself to be an alcoholic bully, at this time, a Mr. Hubert Page, who was tasked with painting the hotel, discovers Alberts secret, only to reveal that he is keeping the very same secret about himself. Albert visits Hubert at his home and meets Cathleen, who lives with him as his wife. Albert tells Hubert the story of his life, born a bastard and then abandoned, Albert was raised and educated in a convent before being kicked out after the death of Mrs Nobbs, Alberts mother. One night, aged 14 and still presenting as female, Albert was brutally gang-raped, immediately afterwards, after hearing there was a need for waiters, Albert bought a suit, was interviewed and was hired, and began his life with a male identity. Alberts former name is not revealed, believing Helen may be the ideal wife to run a shop with, Albert asks her to walk out. She refuses, but Joe, believing that Albert will give Helen money that could help the pair emigrate to America and she agrees to this approach, allowing Albert to buy her expensive gifts. Helen is uncomfortable with Albert and the arrangement that Joe forced her to make, Albert tells Helen about long-kept plans to buy a shop, though she only wants to leave Ireland for America. A typhoid epidemic breaks out in Dublin, and when some staff fall ill, customers avoid the hotel, Albert becomes infected but recovers, while Helen discovers she is pregnant with Joes child. Joe is terrified, fearing he will become like his abusive father, Albert goes to Huberts home and learns that Cathleen died, leaving Hubert devastated. As a tribute to her, Albert and Hubert don dresses Cathleen made, though both at first are extremely uncomfortable, they eventually enjoy spending the day together dressed as women. They take a walk along the beach where Albert, feeling free, but a stumble and fall bring Albert back to reality
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The Awakening (2011 film)
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The Awakening is a 2011 British horror film directed and co-written by Nick Murphy, starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Isaac Hempstead-Wright and Imelda Staunton. In 1921, Florence Cathcart is an author who works with the police to debunk supernatural hoaxes. It is revealed that she lost her lover in the war, and she receives a visit from Robert Mallory, a teacher from a boys boarding school in Cumbria which had been a private home until twenty years earlier. Robert explains that there have been sightings of the ghost of a child at the school, although Florence initially refuses to help Robert investigate, his concern for the orphaned kids at the school causes her to change her mind, since she is an orphan herself. At the school she meets Maud, the housekeeper, who tells Florence that she has read her books, the school then closes for half-term with the only occupants being Florence, Robert, Maud, and Tom, a pupil whose parents live in India. Her job done, Florence prepares to leave, down at the lake she drops her cigarette case, which belonged to her lover. As she reaches for it, a hand reaches for her from the water and she steadies herself, but then allows herself to fall into the lake. Robert rescues her, although Florence assures them it was an accident, he, indeed, Florence decides to remain at the school. After chasing what she believes to be the ghost, she sees an apparition of a man with a shotgun, who appears to shoot her. She also hears a child calling Mowa Zee, which she tells Tom was the nickname some Africans gave to her after she was rescued from the lion that orphaned her as a child, after growing closer, Florence and Robert have sex. But Edward Judd, the keeper who has a grudge against Robert for being a war hero, becomes jealous. Assisted by an apparition, she kills Judd in self-defence. She then returns to the school and tells Robert, who leaves to bury Judd, Florence asks Robert not to tell Tom what happened, but Robert tells her that there are no children at the school. Florence then realizes that Tom is the ghost that is haunting the school, buried memories begin to surface, and she remembers that her family lived at the boarding school when it was a home. As a child, she watched her father murder her mother with a shotgun before he attempted to kill her too, Florence hid inside the walls of the house as her father pursued her, calling out for his little Mousy. Aiming for her, her father instead killed Tom, who is revealed to have been his illegitimate son and her father then killed himself while Florence watched. Traumatized, Florence had replaced these memories with memories of a childhood in Africa. Back in the present, Florence learns that Robert can see the ghosts of his friends who died in the war and she also learns that Maud was her nanny as a child, as well as the mother of Tom
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The Beloved (2011 film)
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The story is set in the 1960s through the 2000s in Paris, Rheims, Montreal, Prague and London. While not a musical, the characters use musical narration and dialogues throughout the film, the film is produced by Why Not Productions. The project received 228,000 euro in support from the Ile-de-France Regional Support Fund for Technical Film, apart from the French investment, 20% of the 6. 8-million-euro budget came from the United Kingdom and 10% from the Czech Republic. Filming started on 18 October 2010, the film closed the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The French release was 17 August 2011 through Le Pacte and it also premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2011. Beloved at the Internet Movie Database
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Butter (2011 film)
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It was released on October 5,2012 in the United States and Canada by The Weinstein Company. The film is said to be a satire of the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, Butter received mixed reviews from critics who questioned Smiths direction of the films script in terms of humor and satire and the performances from the ensemble cast. Destiny is a foster child in Iowa who gets placed with Ethan. Bob had won the fairs butter-sculpture contest for the past 15 years straight, because of his dominance, Bobs wife Laura, overly competitive and socially ambitious, goes to the home of the competitions organizer to protest. Bob goes to a club and solicits stripper Brooke for sex in his minivan. Laura discovers them and T-bones the van with her SUV, Laura decides to enter the countys preliminary sculpture competition herself because of the social status that comes with winning. Destiny decides to enter as well, as does Brooke, who just wants to harass the Picklers because Bob owes her $600, despite practice, Laura comes in second to Destiny. When Brooke appears at the Picklers seeking her money, Bobs daughter Kaitlin admits her, after talking a bit, Kaitlin challenges Brooke to a game of truth-or-dare which escalates to them having sex. Kaitlin is drawn to Brookes alternative style and attitude, Brooke just wants the money, while this is going on, Kaitlins stepmom Laura is hooking up with Boyd Bolton, an old high-school boyfriend who is now a used-car salesman. Shes seducing him to get him to testify to county officials that Ethan paid him to help Destiny in the competition. Laura suggests a rematch at the state fair, Destiny agrees, everyone else is disgruntled. Brooke gets her money from infatuated Kaitlin, meets Destiny after school, when Destiny gets home, a social worker informs her that her biological mother has died. At the state fair, Laura carves a replica of John F and that night before the judging, Boyd sneaks into the butter-sculpture room and defaces Destinys sculpture with a blowtorch. Destiny, disappointed and expecting to lose now, encounters Laura in the restroom, Laura tells Destiny that winning the butter-sculpting contest means more to her than the little girl can comprehend. Laura feels she has little opportunity to distinguish herself otherwise, while Destiny has talent, despite the damage, Destinys sculpture wins. The sabotage of the piece is recognized as higher art, as the judges believe the melted face lends the butter sculpture a greater depth. Destiny goes on to win in the competition, where judges give a positive critique on her piece. Upon her victory, Destiny assures Laura that the butter-carving contest is not all that you have, Laura kneels down to Destiny and hugs her, understanding that she must move on to greater triumphs that are her own
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Jim Field Smith
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Jim Field Smith is an English film and television director, writer and producer. Field Smith got his break in Hollywood through directing short films such as Where Have I Been All Your Life. and he directed the second season of Episodes for BBC and Showtime, starring Matt LeBlanc, gaining BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Comedy. Field Smith is the director/producer of the 2013 BBC Two comedy-thriller The Wrong Mans written by James Corden, Mathew Baynton, the show, a co-production between BBC and Hulu, is about a pair of lowly office workers who become unwittingly embroiled in a deadly criminal conspiracy. He has directed a number of commercials, including campaigns for Cow & Gate, Heinz, Burger King, Smirnoff and he is the co-founder of Idiotlamp Productions, a film and TV production company which he established with old school friend and collaborator George Kay. Field Smith directed, co-wrote and co-produced the 2016 BBC Two comedy-thriller Stag, the series, set in the Scottish Highlands, is about a group of young men on a stag weekend and their fight to escape a mystery killer. Field Smith will direct Virgins America, which is an American adaptation of The Inbetweeners Movie for Paramount and he is represented by production company Little Minx. Jim was a member of the British sketch comedy group Dutch Elm Conservatoire, the show transferred to the West End, and toured the UK. The following year, the group returned for a year to the Edinburgh fringe. He co-wrote and starred in the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Deep Trouble with Ben Willbond, as an actor, he appeared in various British TV comedies such as Coupling, Snuffbox and My Life in Film, and numerous commercials both on screen and as a voiceover artist. He also wrote episodes of the MTV puppet sitcom Fur TV. Official website Jim Field Smith at the Internet Movie Database Idiotlamp Productions Ltd
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A Dangerous Method
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A Dangerous Method is a 2011 German-Canadian-American-British historical film directed by David Cronenberg and starring Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, and Vincent Cassel. The film marks the third collaboration between Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen. This is also the third Cronenberg film made with British film producer Jeremy Thomas, after completing together the William Burroughs adaptation Naked Lunch, a Dangerous Method was a German/Canadian co-production. The film premiered at the 68th Venice Film Festival and was featured at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. Among the films many honors, Mortensen was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his portrayal of Freud. Sabina Spielrein arrives at the Burghölzli, the pre-eminent psychiatric hospital in Zurich, suffering from hysteria and begins a new course of treatment with the young Swiss doctor, Carl Jung. Jung and chief of medicine Eugen Bleuler recognize Spielreins intelligence and energy and she measures the physical reactions of subjects during word association, to provide empirical data as a scientific basis for psychoanalysis. She soon learns that much of this new science is founded on the observations of themselves, each other. The doctors correspond at length before they meet, and begin sharing their dreams and analysing each other, Jung finds in Spielrein a kindred spirit, and their attraction deepens due to transference. Gross decries monogamy in general and suggests that resistance to transference is symptomatic of the repression of normal, healthy sexual impulses, Jung finally begins an affair with Spelrein, including rudimentary bondage and spanking. Things become even more tangled as he becomes her advisor to her dissertation, he not only his studies of her as a patient. Spelrein wants to conceive a child with Jung, but he refuses, Jung and Freud journey to America. However, cracks appear in their friendship as they begin to more frequently on matters of psychoanalysis. Jung and Spielrein meet to work on her dissertation in Switzerland, however, after Jung refuses to leave his wife for her, Spelrein decides to go to Vienna. She meets Freud, and says that although she sides with him, she believes he, following Freuds collapse at an academic conference, he and Jung continue correspondence via letters. They decide to end their relationship after increasing hostilities and accusations regarding the differences in their conceptualisation of psychoanalysis, Spielrein marries a Russian doctor and, while pregnant, visits Jung and his wife. They discuss psychoanalysis and Jungs new mistress, Jung confides that his love for Spielrein made him a better person. The films footnote reveals the fates of the four analysts
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David Cronenberg
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David Paul Cronenberg, CC OOnt FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, actor and author. Cronenberg is one of the originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or visceral horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores peoples fears of bodily transformation and infection, in his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction and his films have won numerous awards, including the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Crash. The Village Voice called him the most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world, born in Toronto, Ontario, Cronenberg is the son of Esther, a musician, and Milton Cronenberg, a writer and editor. He was raised in a middle-class progressive Jewish family and his father was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and his mother was born in Toronto, all of his grandparents were from Lithuania. He began writing as a child and wrote constantly and he attended high school at Harbord Collegiate Institute and North Toronto Collegiate Institute. Cronenbergs fascination with the film Winter Kept Us Warm, by classmate David Secter and he began frequenting film camera rental houses, learning the art of filmmaking, and made two 16mm films. Inspired by the New York underground film scene, he founded the Toronto Film Co-op with Iain Ewing, after taking a year off to travel in Europe, he returned to Canada in 1967 and graduated from University College at the top of his class. After two short films and two short art-house features Cronenberg went into partnership with Ivan Reitman. The Canadian government provided financing for his films throughout the 1970s and he alternated his signature body horror films such as Shivers with projects reflecting his interest in car racing and bike gangs. Rabid exploited the unexpected acting talents of pornographic actress Marilyn Chambers, Rabid was a breakthrough with international distributors and his next two horror features gained stronger support. Cronenbergs films follow a progression, a movement from the social world to the inner life. In his early films, scientists modify human bodies, which results in the breakdown of social order, in his middle period, the chaos wrought by the scientist is more personal. In the later period, the scientist himself is altered by his experiment and this trajectory culminates in Dead Ringers in which a twin pair of gynecologists spiral into codependency and drug addiction. His later films tend more to the psychological, often contrasting subjective and objective realities, Cronenberg has cited William S. Burroughs and Vladimir Nabokov as influences. The novel was considered unfilmable, and Cronenberg acknowledged that a translation into film would cost 400 million dollars. Some of the moments are presented in this manner within the film
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Hysteria (2011 film)
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Hysteria is a 2011 British period romantic comedy film directed by Tanya Wexler. It stars Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal, with Felicity Jones, Jonathan Pryce, the film, set in the Victorian era, shows how the medical management of hysteria led to the invention of the vibrator. The films title refers to the medical diagnosis of female hysteria. Set at the end of 1880, the film depicts the invention of the vibrator, Dr. Mortimer Granville is a young physician who has difficulty with his occupation due to constant arguments over modern medicine. He gets a job assisting Dr. Dalrymple, whose practice specializes in the treatment of hysteria, Granville meets Dr. Dalrymples daughters, Emily, and her older sister Charlotte, a premodern feminist who runs a settlement house in a poor section of London. Granville seems to be good at massaging, getting a following, while at the same time Dr. Dalrymple suggests he might eventually take over the business. One night after work, Charlotte comes in with her friend Fannie who has broken her ankle, after he helps treat her, Dalrymple forbids Granville from offering any future assistance to Charlotte, hoping to dissuade her from her work in the slums. Meanwhile, the clientele at the practice is hard on Granville, and his hand musculature is unable to keep up with the task. After successfully using it on the Dalrymples maid Molly, he persuades Dr. Dalrymple to try the device on his patients, Mortimer and Emily then become engaged, while Charlotte struggles with supporting the welfare house. At the engagement party, Charlotte is arrested while protecting Fannie from a police officer, Emily and Dr. Dalrymple urge Granville to testify at her trial that she is hysterical in order to prevent her from being sent to prison. During the trial, the prosecutor recommends that Charlotte be sent to a sanatorium, the judge agrees with Mortimers argument, and Charlotte is sentenced to just thirty days in prison for her assault on the policeman. Emily decides to end her engagement to Granville, after realising her only motive was to please her father, the vibrator now enters the stage as a medical device for the treatment of the condition, reducing treatment time while greatly increasing customer satisfaction. The royalties from its result in independent wealth for Granville. Pledging to use some of his wealth to establish a clinic at her settlement house, he proposes marriage to Charlotte, Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville filed the first patent for an electromechanical vibrator termed Granvilles Hammer in about 1883. Granville, however, did not apply his invention in the treatment of hysteria, rather, other physicians started to apply the vibrator for the treatment of hysteria. The film received mixed reviews, garnering a score of 53 out of 100 at Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes reported a score of 58% based on 118 reviews and a consensus of Hysteria has an amusing subject but its winking, vaguely sarcastic tone doesnt do the movie any favors. Official website Hysteria on Facebook Hysteria at the Internet Movie Database Hysteria at Rotten Tomatoes Hysteria at Metacritic Hysteria at Box Office Mojo
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Tanya Wexler
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Tanya Wexler is an American film director. She is best known for her 2011 comedy Hysteria, Wexler is the daughter of Chicago real estate developer Jerrold Wexler, and his second wife, Susan Jeanne. She is the niece of cinematographer Haskell Wexler and her mother has two other daughters, Daryl Hannah and Page Hannah, as well as a son, Donald, from a previous marriage. She attended Yale University where she was roommates with actress Bellamy Young, Wexler also holds an MFA from Columbia University. Wexler has directed three films, Finding North, Ball in the House and Hysteria, Wexler met her future wife, Amy Zimmerman, while they were both students at Yale University. Wexler and Zimmerman married on May 19,2004 in Massachusetts and they have four children, son Jerry Zimmerman-Wexler and daughters Ella, Ruby, and Violet Zimmerman-Wexler. Finding North Ball in the House Hysteria Tanya Wexler at the Internet Movie Database
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The Ides of March (film)
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The Ides of March is a 2011 American political drama film directed by George Clooney from a screenplay written by Clooney, along with Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon. The film is an adaptation of Willimons 2008 play Farragut North and it stars Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti, and Jeffrey Wright. It received a theatrical release on October 7,2011. After a debate at Miami University, Meyers is asked by Pullmans campaign manager, Tom Duffy, Meyers calls his boss, senior campaign manager Paul Zara, who doesnt answer. Meyers decides to meet with Duffy, who offers Meyers a position in Pullmans campaign, Zara calls Meyers back and asks what was important, but Meyers says it was nothing to worry about. Meanwhile, Meyers starts a relationship with Molly Stearns, an attractive intern for Morris campaign, and daughter of Jack Stearns. Meyers admits to an angry Zara that he met with Duffy, Zara and Meyers discuss the matter with Morris, saying they must make the same offer to Thompson to secure his endorsement and his delegates votes. Morris refuses on principle, as he disagrees with Thompson and his policies. Late one night when Molly is sleeping, Meyers discovers that Morris is trying to call her after he picks up her phone by mistake. Meyers finds out that Molly and Morris had a sexual liaison at a campaign stop in Iowa several weeks previously, and Molly is now pregnant by the Governor. Molly needs $900 for an abortion, but cannot tell her father because her family is Catholic, Meyers helps her with the money but warns her not to tell anybody, and fires her from the campaign to make the problem go away. Ida Horowicz, a reporter for the New York Times, reveals to Meyers that an anonymous source leaked his encounter with Duffy to her and she also knows the Morris campaign has talked to Thompson. She says she will publish an article on the Duffy meet unless Meyers gives her all of the details about the Thompson meeting, Meyers comes to Zara for help, believing the story would damage him, Zara, and the campaign. Zara reveals that he leaked the meeting to Ida with Morris approval in order to justify firing Meyers and he states that he did this because Meyers was disloyal and traitorous for meeting with Duffy. Zara makes it clear that he holds no animosity against Meyers and values him. Duffy apologizes for using him, saying that he wanted to help Meyers, and advises him to quit politics. Meyers offers to sell out Morris completely but Duffy declines, thinking that Meyers cannot hurt him, Meyers takes Molly to an abortion clinic and then callously abandons her there with an unfulfilled promise to come back when its over. Alone in a room, and having been equipped with pills from the clinic
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George Clooney
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George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, filmmaker, and activist. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting in Syriana and the other for co-producing Argo, in 1999, he took the lead role in Three Kings, a well-received war satire set during the Gulf War. In 2001, Clooneys fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, the heist comedy remake Oceans Eleven, in 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo. He is the person who has been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. In 2009, Clooney was included in Times annual Time 100 as one of the Most Influential People in the World and he is also noted for his political activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31,2008. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Clooney was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce, was a beauty queen and city councilwoman and his father, Nick Clooney, is a former anchorman and game show host who hosted AMC for five years in the late 1990s. Clooney has Irish, German, and English ancestry and his maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln. Clooney has a sister named Adelia. His aunt was the cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney. Through Rosemary, his cousins include actors Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer, and Gabriel Ferrer, Clooney was raised a strict Roman Catholic, but said in 2006 that he does not know if he believes in Heaven, or even God. He has said, Yes, we were Catholic, big time, whole family and he began his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He attended St. Michaels School in Columbus, Ohio, then Western Row Elementary School in Mason, Ohio, from 1968 to 1974, and St. Susanna School in Mason, the Clooneys moved back to Kentucky when George was midway through the seventh grade. In middle school, Clooney developed Bells palsy, a condition that partially paralyzes the face, the malady went away within a year. In an interview with Larry King, he stated that yes and it takes about nine months to go away. It was the first year of school, which was a bad time for having half your face paralyzed. After his parents moved to Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney attended Augusta High School and he has stated that he earned all As and a B in school, and was an enthusiastic baseball and basketball player. He tried out to professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977
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Clooney at a ceremony for
John Wells in January 2012
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George Clooney cast his hands and shoes in the
Grauman's Chinese Theatre in 2007.
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George Clooney at the premiere of
The Men Who Stare at Goats in the
2009 Toronto International Film Festival
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Clooney in
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Killer Elite (film)
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Killer Elite is a 2011 British-Australian action thriller film starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro. The film is based on the 1991 novel The Feather Men by Sir Ranulph Fiennes and is directed by Gary McKendry, in 1980, mercenaries Danny Bryce, Hunter, Davies, and Meier are in Mexico to assassinate a man. Danny unwittingly kills him in front of his child, then is injured during the getaway. Affected by this outcome, Danny retires and returns to his native Australia, the following year, Danny is summoned to Oman where Hunter is being held captive. He meets with an agent who arranges missions for assassins and learns that Hunter accepted a $6 million job, if Danny doesnt complete Hunters mission, Hunter will be executed. Danny must videotape their confessions and make their deaths look like accidents and this will allow the Sheikhs fourth son, Bakhait, to regain control of the desert region his father had ruled. If Danny fails, Hunter will be killed, Danny reunites with Davies and Meier. They agree to him in exchange for a share of the money. As Danny and Meier sneak into the house of their first target, Steven Harris, in Oman, Davies, in England and this is reported to the Feathermen, a secret society of former operatives protecting their own. Their head enforcer, Spike Logan, is sent to investigate, after Harris has confessed on videotape, Danny and Meier take him to the bathroom. They plan to him by hitting him over the head with a hammer made from a bathroom tile, then leave the body to look like Harris slipped. In the process, Harris girlfriend arrives, knocking on the door, while Harris and Meier are distracted waiting for her to leave, Harris attempts to break free, causing Meier to kill him hastily in a struggle. Back in London, Davies discovers the target, Steven Cregg. Davies creates a diversion, posing as a civilian having car problems outside the bases fence, inside, he drugs Creggs coffee, causing him to go into shock and die of hypothermia during the march. Danny, in uniform, follows Cregg on the march, and their last target, Simon McCann, currently works as a mercenary, after being discharged from the SAS following a car bombing that made him mentally unstable. Their plan is to rig a truck to respond to remote control, with the help of a new and inexperienced team member, Jake, Meier successfully kills McCann, however, Logan and his men were watching over McCann. A gun fight in the docks ensues, and Meier is accidentally killed by the inexperienced Jake, Danny and Davies decide that the case is over, and they part ways. Soon after, Davies is tracked down by Logans men, and is hit by a truck, Danny returns to Oman and gives the Sheikh the last taped confession, which he has faked
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From left:
Dominic Purcell,
Jason Statham,
Yvonne Strahovski and
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.
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