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Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Famous for playing comic dumb blonde characters, she one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s. Although she was an actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962. She continues to be considered a popular culture icon. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes, while working in a factory in 1944 as part of the war effort, she was introduced to a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and began a successful pin-up modeling career. The work led to short-lived film contracts with Twentieth Century-Fox and Columbia Pictures, after a series of minor film roles, she signed a new contract with Fox in 1951. Over the next two years, she became an actress with roles in several comedies, including As Young as You Feel and Monkey Business. Monroe faced a scandal when it was revealed that she had posed for photos before becoming a star, but rather than damaging her career. Although she played a significant role in the creation and management of her public image throughout her career, she was disappointed at being typecast and underpaid by the studio. She was briefly suspended in early 1954 for refusing a film project, when the studio was still reluctant to change her contract, Monroe founded a film production company in late 1954, she named it Marilyn Monroe Productions. She dedicated 1955 to building her company and began studying acting at the Actors Studio. In late 1955, Fox awarded her a new contract, which gave her more control and a larger salary. After a critically acclaimed performance in Bus Stop and acting in the first independent production of MMP, The Prince and her last completed film was the drama The Misfits. Monroes troubled private life received much attention and she struggled with substance abuse, depression, and anxiety. She had two highly publicized marriages, to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, both of which ended in divorce and she died at the age of 36 on August 5,1962, from an overdose of barbiturates at her home in Los Angeles. Although Monroes death was ruled a suicide, several conspiracy theories have been proposed in the decades following her death. Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson at the Los Angeles County Hospital on June 1,1926, Gladys, the daughter of two poor Midwestern migrants to California, was a flapper and worked as a film negative cutter at Consolidated Film Industries. When she was fifteen, Gladys married a man nine years her senior, John Newton Baker and she filed for divorce in 1921, and Baker took the children with him to his native Kentucky
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Studio publicity photograph
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A 1955 copy of Monroe's birth certificate, listing her name as Norma Jeane Mortenson
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Monroe photographed by
David Conover while she was still working at the Radioplane factory in late 1944
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Monroe as gangster's moll Angela in
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950), one of her first performances to be noted by the critics
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Moonrise Kingdom
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Moonrise Kingdom is a 2012 American coming-of-age film directed by Wes Anderson, written by Anderson and Roman Coppola, and described as an eccentric, pubescent love story. It features newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward in the main roles, filming took place in Rhode Island from April to June 2011. Worldwide rights to the independently produced film were acquired by Focus Features, while preparing the script for Moonrise Kingdom, director Wes Anderson viewed films about young love for inspiration, such as Black Jack, Small Change, A Little Romance, and Melody. The film received acclaim, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In September 1965, on the New England island called New Penzance, 12-year-old orphan Sam Shakusky is attending Camp Ivanhoe, a Khaki Scout summer camp led by Scoutmaster Randy Ward. Suzy Bishop, also 12, lives on the island with her parents, Walt and Laura, both attorneys, and her three younger brothers in a house called Summers End. Sam and Suzy, both introverted, intelligent and mature for their age, met in the summer of 1964 during a performance of Noyes Fludde and have been pen pals since then. Their relationship having become romantic over the course of their correspondence, they have made a pact to reunite. Sam brings camping equipment, and Suzy brings her binoculars, six books, her kitten and they hike, camp, and fish together in the wilderness with the goal of reaching a secluded cove on the island. Meanwhile, the Khaki Scouts have become aware of Sams absence, Scoutmaster Ward tells the Khaki Scouts to use their skills to create a search party and find Sam. The Scouts flee and Sam and Suzy hike to the cove which they name Moonrise Kingdom and they set up camp and go swimming. Later, while drying off, they begin dancing to Françoise Hardy in their underwear, as the romantic tension between them grows, they kiss repeatedly. Suzys parents, Scoutmaster Ward, the Scouts from Camp Ivanhoe, Suzys parents take her home and when Sharp contacts the foster parents he is told that they no longer wish to house Sam. The Camp Ivanhoe Scouts have a change of heart and decide to help the couple, together, they paddle to a neighboring St. Jack Wood Island to seek out the help of Cousin Ben, an older relative of one of the Scouts. Ben works at Fort Lebanon, a larger Khaki Scout summer camp located on St. Jack Wood Island and run by Commander Pierce, who is Wards boss. Sam and Suzy never make it onto the boat, and instead are pursued by Suzys parents, Captain Sharp, Social Services. The steeple is destroyed by lightning, but everyone survives, during the storm, Sharp decides to become Sams legal guardian, thus saving Sam from the orphanage, as well as allowing him to remain on New Penzance Island and maintain contact with Suzy. At Summers End, Sam is painting a landscape of Moonrise Kingdom, Suzy and her brothers are called to dinner
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Theatrical release poster
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Director and stars at the
2012 Cannes Film Festival.
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Cannes
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Cannes is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune of France located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, the city is known for its association with the rich and famous, its luxury hotels and restaurants, and for several conferences. On 3 November 2011 it also played host to the G20 organisation of industrialised nations, by the 2nd century BC, the Ligurian Oxybii established a settlement here known as Aegitna. Historians are unsure what the name means, the area was a fishing village used as a port of call between the Lérins Islands. In 69 AD, it became the scene of violent conflict between the troops of Otho and Vitellius, in the 10th century, the town was known as Canua. The name may derive from canna, a reed, Canua was probably the site of a small Ligurian port, and later a Roman outpost on Le Suquet hill, suggested by Roman tombs discovered here. Le Suquet housed an 11th-century tower which overlooked swamps where the city now stands, most of the ancient activity, especially protection, was on the Lérins Islands and the history of Cannes is closely tied to the history of the islands. An attack by the Saracens in 891, who remained until the end of the 10th century, the insecurity of the Lérins islands forced the monks to settle on the mainland, at the Suquet. Construction of a castle in 1035 fortified the city by then known as Cannes, one took a century to build. Around 1530, Cannes detached from the monks who had controlled the city for hundreds of years, during the 18th century, both the Spanish and British tried to gain control of the Lérins Islands but were chased away by the French. The islands were controlled by many, such as Jean-Honoré Alziary. They had many different purposes, at the end of the 19th century, henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux bought land at the Croix des Gardes and constructed the villa Eleonore-Louise. His work to improve living conditions attracted the English aristocracy, who built winter residences. At the end of the 19th century, several railways were completed, in Cannes, projects such as the Boulevard Carnot and the rue dAntibes were carried out. After the closure of the Casino des Fleurs, an establishment was built for the rich winter clientele. This casino was demolished and replaced by the new Palace in 1979, in the 20th century, new luxury hotels such as the Carlton, Majestic, Martinez, and JW Marriott Cannes were built. The city was modernised with a centre, a post office. There were fewer British and German tourists after the First World War, winter tourism gave way to summer tourism and the summer casino at the Palm Beach was constructed
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The
Promenade de la Croisette and the port
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Cannes seen from Spot Satellite
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Panorama of the waterfront
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Boulevard de la Croisette along the waterfront.
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Amour (2012 film)
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Amour is a 2012 French-language romantic drama film written and directed by the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on a couple, Anne and Georges. Anne suffers a stroke which paralyses her on the side of her body. The film is a co-production among the French, German, and Austrian companies Les Films du Losange, X-Filme Creative Pool, Amour was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme dOr. At the age of 85, Emmanuelle Riva is the oldest nominee for Best Actress in a Leading Role, at the 25th European Film Awards, Amour was nominated in six categories, winning in four, including Best Film and Best Director. At the 47th National Society of Film Critics Awards it won the awards for Best Film, Best Director, at the 66th British Academy Film Awards it was nominated in four categories, winning for Best Leading Actress and Best Film Not in the English Language. Emmanuelle Riva became the oldest person to win a BAFTA, at the 38th César Awards it was nominated in ten categories, winning in five, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress. They return home to find someone has unsuccessfully tried to break into their apartment. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, Anne silently suffers a stroke and she sits in a catatonic state, not responding to Georges. She comes around as Georges is about to get help, Georges thinks she was playing a prank on him. Anne is unable to pour herself a drink, Anne undergoes surgery on a blocked carotid artery, but the surgery goes wrong, leaving her paralyzed on her right side and confined to a wheelchair. She makes Georges promise not to send her back to the hospital or into a nursing home, Georges becomes Annes dutiful, though slightly irritated, caretaker. One day, Anne tells Georges that she doesnt want to go on living, however, she soon suffers a second stroke that leaves her demented and incapable of coherent speech. Georges continues to look after Anne, despite the strain it puts on him, Georges begins employing a nurse three days a week. Their daughter, Eva, wants her mother to go into care and he employs a second nurse, but fires her after he discovers she is mistreating his wife. One day, Georges sits next to Annes bedside and tells her a story of his childhood, as he reaches the storys conclusion, he picks up a pillow and smothers her. Georges returns home with bundles of flowers in his hands, which he proceeds to wash and he picks out a dress from Annes wardrobe and writes a long letter. He tapes the bedroom door shut and catches a pigeon which has flown in from the window, in the letter, Georges explains that he has released the pigeon
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French release poster
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Un Certain Regard
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Un Certain Regard (French pronunciation, is a section of the Cannes Film Festivals official selection. It is run at the salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme dOr and this section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The name literally means a certain glance, but is understood by French speakers to mean from another point of view, here it means films with various types of visions and styles, which tell their stories in nontraditional ways. This section presents 20 original and different works which seek international recognition, since 2005, the prize consists of €30,000 financed by the Groupama GAN Foundation. * Denotes first win for a country
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Main winners [edit]
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Cannes Film Festival
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Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+ Pierre Lescure took over as President of the festival, the Board of Directors also appointed Gilles Jacob as Honorary President of the festival. The 2016 Cannes Film Festival took place between 11 and 22 May 2016, australian film director George Miller was the President of the Jury. I, Daniel Blake, directed by British director Ken Loach, in 2017, The Festival de Cannes will celebrate its 70th anniversary edition from May 17 to 28. In 1947, the festival was held as the Festival du film de Cannes, at that time the principle of equality was introduced, with a jury made up of only one representative per country. The festival is now held at the Palais des Festivals, expressly constructed for the occasion, although for its 1949 inaugural the roof was unfinished, the festival was not held in 1948 and 1950 on account of budgetary problems. Although its origins may be attributed in part to the French desire to compete with Autumns Venice Film Festival, in 1955, the Palme dOr was created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival which had been given until that year. In 1957, Dolores del Rio was the first female member of the jury as a Sélection officielle – Member, in 1959, the Marché du Film was founded, giving the festival a commercial character and facilitating exchanges between sellers and buyers in the film industry. Today it has become the first international platform for film commerce, in 1962, the International Critics Week was born, created by the French Union of Film Critics as the first parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. Its goal was to showcase first and second works by directors all over the world. In 1965, an hommage was paid to Jean Cocteau after his death, the next year, Olivia de Havilland was named the first female president of the festival. The 1968 festival was halted on 19 May, some directors, such as Carlos Saura and Miloš Forman, had withdrawn their films from the competition. The filmmakers achieved the reinstatement of the President, and they founded the Film Directors Society that same year, during the 1970s, important changes occurred in the Festival. In 1972, Robert Favre Le Bret was named the new President and he immediately introduced an important change in the selection of the participating films. Until that date, the different countries chose which films would represent them in the festival, Bessy created one committee to select French films, and another for foreign films. In 1978, Gilles Jacob assumed the President position, introducing the Caméra dOr award, in 1983, a new, much bigger Palais des Festivals et des Congrès was built to host the Festival. It was nicknamed The Bunker and provoked many reactions against it, in 1984, Pierre Viot replaced Robert Favre Le Bret as President of the Festival. It was not until 1995 that Gilles Jacob created the last section of the Official Selection and its aim was to support the creation of works of cinema in the world and to contribute to the entry of the new scenario writers in the circle of the celebrities
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Stars posing for photographers are a part of Cannes folklore.
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Palme d'Or awarded to
Apocalypse Now at the
1979 Cannes Film Festival
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Nanni Moretti
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Giovanni Nanni Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. The Palme dOr winner in 2001, in 2012 he was the President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival, Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol, Italy, to Roman parents who were both teachers. His father was the late epigraphist Luigi Moretti, an influential Greek teacher at Sapienza University of Rome, while growing up he discovered his two passions, the cinema and water polo. Having finished his studies he pursued a career as a producer and his brother is the renowned literary scholar Franco Moretti. In 1976, Giovannis first feature film Io sono un autarchico was released, in 1978 he produced the movie Ecce Bombo, which tells the story of a student having problems with his entourage. It was screened at the Cannes Festival, Sogni doro won the Silver Lion at the 38th Venice International Film Festival. La messa è finita won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival and he may be best known for his films Caro diario and La stanza del figlio, the latter of which won the Palme dOr at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Moretti has used certain actors several times in his films, generally playing minor roles and his father Luigi appears in 6 films, Dario Cantarelli and Mauro Fabretti in 5, Antonio Petrocelli in 4. Actors he has used in major roles include Silvio Orlando, who appears in 5 films and Laura Morante. Having played waterpolo in the B division of the Italian championship and his other work has not been widely seen outside Europe, but within his country Moretti is known as a maker of wryly humorous and eccentric films, usually starring himself. His most recent role was in the film Mia Madre Moretti is also an outspoken political leftist, Il caimano is in part about Berlusconis controversies, in one of the three portraits of the Italian prime minister Moretti himself plays Berlusconi. Aprile also deals with Italys political situation and Morettis views on it and his 2011 film We Have a Pope screened In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He lives in Rome, having been resident since birth, where he is co-owner of a movie theater. The short film, Il Giorno della prima di Close Up, shows Moretti at his theatre attempting to encourage patrons to attend the day of Abbas Kiarostamis film. In his words, I remember the shirts that said Thank God Im an atheist, Im not a believer and Im sorry. His 2015 film Mia Madre was selected to compete for the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. I. C. A, conversations avec Nanni Moretti, Paris,2008, Editions des Cahiers du cinéma. The Cinema of Nanni Moretti, Wallflower,2004, interview with Nanni Moretti with his own thoughts on his films, filmlinc. com, accessed 12 December 2014. Nanni Moretti at the Internet Movie Database
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Nanni Moretti at the
2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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Tim Roth
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Timothy Simon Tim Roth is an English actor and director. He made his role in the 1982 television film Made in Britain. He garnered critical acclaim for his role as Myron in the 1984 film The Hit, Roth gained more attention for his performances in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Vincent & Theo and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. He later earned international recognition for appearing in Quentin Tarantinos films, such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms and The Hateful Eight. For the historical drama Rob Roy, Roth won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and he made his directorial debut with The War Zone, for which he received numerous accolades. Roth attended the Strand School in Tulse Hill, as a young man, he wanted to be a sculptor and studied at Londons Camberwell College of Art. Roth made his acting début at the age of 21, playing a white power skinhead named Trevor in a 1982 TV film titled Made in Britain. He played an East End character in King of the Ghetto and he played a shy young man in the 1984 Mike Leigh film Meantime. In 1985, he appeared in the television film Murder with Mirrors and he played an apprentice hitman in Stephen Frears The Hit, earning an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer. In 1989 he had a role as the buffoonish lackey Mitchell in Peter Greenaways The Cook. In 1990, he starred as Vincent van Gogh in Robert Altmans Vincent & Theo, Roth and other young British actors of the time, such as Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bruce Payne, and Paul McGann, were dubbed the Brit Pack. Roth was cast as Mr. Orange in Quentin Tarantinos 1992 film Reservoir Dogs, in 1994, Tarantino cast him as a robber in Pulp Fiction. They also collaborated in the 1995 film Four Rooms, where he played Ted and his role as Archibald Cunningham in Rob Roy earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, a Golden Globe nomination. In 1996, he starred in Woody Allens musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You and he also starred as Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900 in The Legend of 1900, and in the same year and he made his directorial debut in 1999 with The War Zone, a film version of Alexander Stuarts novel. In 2001, he portrayed General Thade in Tim Burtons Planet of the Apes, Roth was the original choice for the role of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, but he turned it down for Planet of the Apes. He was considered for the part of Hannibal Lecter in the 2001 film Hannibal before Anthony Hopkins returned to reclaim the role and he appeared in Francis Ford Coppolas Youth Without Youth and Michael Hanekes Funny Games, then starred as Emil Blonsky / Abomination in The Incredible Hulk. From 2009 to 2011, he starred in a series on Fox called Lie To Me and he played Dr. Cal Lightman, an expert on body language who assists local and federal law organisations in the investigations of crimes
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Roth at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Roth at the
Cannes film festival in 2012
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Wes Anderson
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Wesley Wales Wes Anderson is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, and actor. His films are known for their visual and narrative style. He received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Director and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014 and he also received the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2015. His films are produced under his American Empirical Pictures banner, Anderson is regarded by many as a modern-day example of the auteur. Wesley Wales Anderson was born on May 1,1969, in Houston, Texas, the son of Texas Ann, a realtor and archaeologist, and Melver Leonard Anderson and he is the second of three boys, his parents divorced when he was eight. His elder brother, Mel, is a physician, and his brother, Eric Chase Anderson, is a writer and artist whose paintings. Anderson is of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry and he graduated from St. Johns School in Houston in 1987, which he later used as a prominent location throughout Rushmore. As a child, Anderson made silent films on his fathers Super 8 camera, starring his brothers and friends, Anderson attended college while working part-time as a cinema projectionist. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in philosophy in 1990, Andersons first film was Bottle Rocket, based on a short film that he made with Luke and Owen Wilson. It was a crime caper about a group of young Texans aspiring to achieve major heists and it was well reviewed but performed poorly at the box office. Andersons next film was Rushmore, a comedy about a high school students crush on an elementary school teacher starring Bill Murray. Murray has since appeared in every Anderson film to date, in 2000, filmmaker Martin Scorsese praised Bottle Rocket and Rushmore. The Royal Tenenbaums was Andersons next comedy-drama film, about a successful artistic New York City family and it represented his greatest success until Moonrise Kingdom in 2012, earning more than $50 million in domestic box office receipts. The Royal Tenenbaums was nominated for an Academy Award and ranked by an Empire poll as the 159th greatest film ever made, Andersons next feature was The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou about a Jacques Cousteau-esque documentary filmmaker played by Bill Murray. It serves as a example of Andersons style, but its critical reception was less favorable than his previous films. They offered Anderson their soundtrack services for his The Darjeeling Limited, the Darjeeling Limited was about three emotionally distant brothers traveling together on a train in India. It reflected the dramatic tone of The Royal Tenenbaums but faced criticisms similar to The Life Aquatic. Anderson has acknowledged that he went to India to film the 2007 movie, the film starred Anderson staples Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson in addition to Adrien Brody, and the script was co-written by Anderson, Schwartzman, and Roman Coppola
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Anderson in 2012
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Claude Miller
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Claude Miller was a French film director, producer and screenwriter. Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family, a student at Paris IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de lArmée. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of Frances major directors, including Robert Bresson, Miller received César nominations for best director and writing for this film. His subsequent films can also be perceived as homages to Truffaut, the following year he made Dites-lui que je laime, for which he received a second César nomination for Best Director. He won a César Award for Best Writing in 1981 for Garde à vue, in 1983 he directed Mortelle randonnée. The latter film was an international success, and solidified Millers status as one of Frances major film-makers. On French television, Miller directed dozens of commercials and the six-part miniseries Traits de Mémoire, after a four-year absence, Claude Miller returned to active filmmaking with The Accompanist and The Smile. He had to wait until 1998 for his major success, La Classe de Neige, the chilling story of a lonely boy on a school skiing holiday. At the time of his death he was working on an adaptation of François Mauriacs Thérèse Desqueyroux, the film was selected to close the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
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Claude Miller at the
2003 Cannes Film Festival.
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Michael Haneke
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Michael Haneke is an Austrian film director and screenwriter best known for films such as Funny Games, Caché, The White Ribbon and Amour. His work often examines social issues, and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society, Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. Besides working as a filmmaker, Haneke also teaches film direction at the Film Academy Vienna. At the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, his film The White Ribbon won the Palme dOr, in 2012, his film Amour premiered and competed at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and it won in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. Haneke has made films in French, German and in English, in 2013 Haneke won the Prince of Asturias Award for the arts. Haneke was born in Munich, Germany, the son of the German actor and director Fritz Haneke and his stepfather, the composer Alexander Steinbrecher, had later married the mother of actor Christoph Waltz. After graduating, he became a critic and from 1967 to 1970 he worked as editor. He made his debut as a director in 1974. Hanekes feature film debut was 1989s The Seventh Continent, which served to trace out the violent, three years later, the controversial Bennys Video put Hanekes name on the map. Haneke achieved great success in 2001 with the critically successful French film The Piano Teacher and it won the prestigious Grand Prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and also won its stars, Benoît Magimel and Isabelle Huppert, the Best Actor and Actress awards. He has worked with Juliette Binoche, after she expressed interest in working with him, Haneke frequently worked with real-life couple Ulrich Mühe and Susanne Lothar – thrice each. His film, The White Ribbon, premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, in 2012, his film Amour also won the Palme dOr. Haneke says that films should offer more space for imagination and self-reflection. Films that have too much detail and moral clarity, Haneke says, are used for consumption by their viewers. It is often difficult for people to ascertain Hanekes philosophy and the messages he wishes to illustrate in his works. His 2012 film Amour won the Best Foreign Language Oscar and was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, in 2013 he was the subject of the documentary film Michael H – Profession, Director. Haneke has directed a number of productions in German, which include works by Strindberg, Goethe
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Haneke at the
2009 Cannes Film Festival
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The White Ribbon
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The White Ribbon is a 2009 black-and-white German-language drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke. Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I and, whether it’s religious or political terrorism, it’s the same thing. The film also received two nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards in 2009, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography, the memories of an unnamed elderly tailor form a parable from the distant year he worked as a village schoolteacher and met his fiancée Eva, a nanny. The puritanical pastor leads confirmation classes and gives his pubescent children a guilty conscience over apparently small transgressions and he has them wear white ribbons as a reminder of the innocence and purity from which they have strayed. When his son confesses to impure touching, the pastor has the boy’s hands tied to his bed each night. The doctor, a widower, treats the village children kindly, the baron, who is the lord of the manor, underwrites harvest festivities for the villagers, many of them his farm workers. A wire is stretched between two trees causing the doctor a terrible fall from his horse, the farmers wife dies at the sawmill when rotten floorboards give way, her grieving husband later hangs himself. The baron’s young son Sigi goes missing on the day of the harvest festival and is found the following morning in the sawmill, bound, a retarded boy goes missing and and is found nearly blinded. A barn at the manor burns down, the baroness tells her husband that she is in love with another man. The steward at the barons estate thrashes his son for stealing a flute from Sigi. The midwife urgently commandeers a bicycle from the schoolteacher to go to the police in town and she and her son are not seen again, and the doctor and his family have also suddenly disappeared, leaving a note on the door indicating his practice is closed. Offended, the pastor threatens to report the schoolteacher to the authorities if he repeats his accusations, the film ends at the time of the declaration of war on Serbia by Austria–Hungary, with the conclusion occuring in church on the day of a visit from the narrators prospective father-in-law. Disquiet remains in the village, with no explanation of the violent events, the narrator left Eichwald, never to return. Michael Haneke has said the project was in development for more than ten years, eventually revived as a feature film, the production was led by the Austrian company Wega Film. It was also co-produced by X Filme, Les Films Du Losange, the film received financial support from the Austrian Film Institute, various local funds in Germany, the French CNC and the Council of Europes film fund Eurimages. It had a budget of around 12 million Euro. More than 7,000 children were interviewed during the casting period. For most of the roles, Haneke selected actors with whom he had worked before and therefore knew they were suitable for the roles
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Theatrical release poster
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Cast and crew at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of the film
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Matteo Garrone
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Matteo Garrone is an Italian filmmaker. He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for Gomorrah and his film Reality competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix. His latest film Tale of Tales was selected to compete for the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, tutto il cinema di Matteo Garrone, Rome, Edizioni Sabinae,2008. The Films of Matteo Garrone, Italian Cinema Is Not Embalmed in William Hope Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Press,2010, pp. 175–187
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Matteo Garrone in
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Reality (2012 film)
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Reality is a 2012 Italian drama film directed by Matteo Garrone and stars Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, and Claudia Gerini. The narrative is set in the world of reality television, and follows a Neapolitan fishmonger who participates in Grande Fratello, the film won the Grand Prix award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Grande Fratello is a reality television program about boys who live in a house with their day to day actions filmed. Luciano, a young fishmonger married with children who lives in Naples, is attracted to this show that is famous in Italy, the program is superficial and silly but well-liked by the public, especially Luciano, the protagonist of the film. After a festive and vulgar marriage between relatives, Luciano returns to his life selling fish in the city. Lucianos friends, who are ignorant and dishonest, decide to persuade Luciano to audition for a part as one of the boys in Big Brother, naively, Luciano is convinced and decides to go to Cinecittà in Rome to audition. At the audition the committee finds Luciano pleasant, though insignificant, however, when Luciano returns to his neighborhood in Naples, he begins going crazy while waiting to hear from the assistant director. He believes he is being watched by cameras from the television program he loves so much and is really happy about them. His wife and other relatives despair and believe that Luciano is out of his mind and his wife is especially worried and bursts into tears when she meets a friend of Luciano. She asks him why her husband has become so strange and, although he feels a deep sorrow for Lucianos tearful wife, Luciano continues to get worse and is seen laughing for no reason. Finally, he makes a pilgrimage to Rome, and becomes obsessed with studying for his part in Big Brother, the screenplay for Reality is based on a true story. Garrone describes it as a simple, working-class tale, not intended as a political treatise, however, it did develop into a darker film than originally planned, and Garrone has expressed doubt as to whether the finished version can be described as a comedy. The film was produced by Fandango and the directors company Archimede and it received co-production support from Rai Cinema and Frances Le Pacte. It also received backing from Garance Capital. The 11-week recording began on 5 May 2011, filming took place in Naples and Rome. The film had the production title Big House, actor Aniello Arena, who plays the protagonist, is a convicted former member of the Camorra who was discovered by director Garrone at a theater play staged by the inmates of the Volterra prison. He has served life in prison for murder since 1991, Garrone sought special permission for him to appear in Gomorrah and was denied, but kept him in mind and insisted for this film. The film was selected for the competition of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
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Theatrical release poster
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Ken Loach
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Kenneth Charles Ken Loach is an English director of television and independent film. He is known for his socially critical directing style and for his socialist ideals, Loachs film Kes was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and I, Daniel Blake received the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, Loach was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the son of Vivien and John Loach. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and went on to law at St Peters College. Loachs ten contributions to the BBCs Wednesday Play anthology series include the docudramas Up the Junction, Cathy Come Home and they portray working-class people in conflict with the authorities above them. Three of his plays are believed to be lost films. His 1965 play Three Clear Sundays dealt with capital punishment, and was broadcast at a time when the debate was at a height in the United Kingdom, in Two Minds, written by David Mercer, concerns a young schizophrenic womans experiences of the mental health system. Tony Garnett began to work as his producer in this period, during this period, he also directed the absurdist comedy The End of Arthurs Marriage, about which he later said that he was the wrong man for the job. Coinciding with his work for The Wednesday Play, Loach began to feature films for the cinema, with Poor Cow. The latter recounts the story of a boy and his kestrel. The British Film Institute named it No 7 in its list of best British films of the twentieth century, during the 1970s and 1980s, Loachs films were less successful, often suffering from poor distribution, lack of interest and political censorship. His documentary The Save the Children Fund Film was commissioned by the charity and it was only screened publicly for the first time on 1 September 2011, at the BFI Southbank. At the end of the 1980s, he directed some television advertisements for Tennents Lager to earn money, frank Chapple, leader of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union, walked out of the interview and made a complaint to the Independent Broadcasting Authority. A separate complaint was made by Terry Duffy of the Amalgamated Engineering, the series was due to be broadcast during the Trade Union Congress conference in 1983, but Channel 4 decided against broadcasting the series following the complaints. The film was transmitted on Channel 4, but only after it won a prize at an Italian film festival. Three weeks after the end of the strike, the film End of the Battle, was broadcast by Channel 4 in its Diverse Strands series. This film argued that the Conservative Party had planned the destruction of the National Union of Mineworkers political power from the late 1970s. The play was due to run at the Royal Court Theatre in 1987 and he directed the Courtroom Drama reconstructions in the docu-film McLibel, concerning the longest libel trial in English history
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Ken Loach at the
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Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)
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The Jury Prize is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival, chosen by the Jury from the official section of movies at the festival. Initially the award signified the second best film in competition, though now it is now considered the third-most prestigious prize at the festival, after the Palme dOr. From 1951 until 1966 the name Special Jury Prize was used for the second-most important award of the festival, in 1967 the second place was renamed Grand Prize of the Jury, and the Special Jury Prize title was withdrawn. Then, in 1969, the Jury Prize was created separately from the Grand Prize, the Special Jury Prize reappeared twice in the 1990s, and one International Jury Prize was awarded in 1946. UK director Andrea Arnold and UK director Ken Loach are tied for the record for most Jury Prizes. As of 2016 Arnold was awarded the prize for her films Red Road, Fish Tank, and American Honey, while Loach was awarded the prize for his films Hidden Agenda, Raining Stones, and The Angels Share. Michelangelo Antonioni, René Clément, Masaki Kobayashi, and Samira Makhmalbaf have each won the award twice, Palme dOr Grand Prix Cannes Film Festival official website Cannes Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database
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Hiam Abbass
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Hiam Abbass, also Hiyam Abbas, is a Palestinian actress and film director Hiam Abbass was born into a Muslim family in Nazareth, Israel. She was raised in the Arab village of Deir Hanna, during the filming of the Steven Spielberg film Munich, Abbass lived in a hotel with the Arab and Israeli actors for three months. During that time, they had many discussions that helped both sides grow closer. In an interview in 2006, Abbass said, I still remember how difficult it was for the Arab actors to manhandle the Israeli actors in the first scene where the Israeli national team is taken hostage. Abbass is known for her roles in Satin Rouge, Haifa, Paradise Now, The Syrian Bride, Free Zone, Dawn of the World, The Visitor, Lemon Tree, Every Day is a Holiday and Amreeka. In Spielbergs film, depicting the response to the Munich Massacre, she served as a dialect. She directed two films, Le Pain, and La Danse éternelle. She portrays humanitarian Hind al-Husseini in Julian Schnabels film Miral, based on the life of Husseini, in 2002, she appeared in Satin Rouge by Raja Amari, a film about the self-discovery of a middle aged Tunisian widow. She also a role in The Syrian Bride, about a Druze woman eager to break down barriers. Abbass appeared in the French films Le sac de farine and Le temps de la balle, in 2008, she played the mother of an illegal Syrian immigrant in Tom McCarthys movie The Visitor, and the mother of an Iraqi soldier in Abbas Fahdels film Dawn of the World. Also in 2008, she played the role in Israeli director Eran Rikliss film Lemon Tree. For this role, she won Best Performance by an Actress at the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, there he will see what life really is. Abbass also appears in A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, a French-Québéecois-Israeli film produced by Thierry Binisti and it is based upon the young adult novel Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza by Valérie Zenatti. She plays the role of Naïms mother, in 2012, she was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. She made her feature film debut with The Inheritance in 2012. List of Israeli actors List of Arab citizens of Israel Hiam Abbass at the Internet Movie Database G21 Interview, Hiam Abbass, by Brad Balfour Photos of Hiam Abbass at Berlin Film Festival 2008
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Hiam Abbass at the
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Andrea Arnold
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Andrea Arnold, OBE is an English filmmaker and former actress. Most recently, she directed three episodes of the Emmy-winning series Transparent, Arnold was born in Erith Kent, the eldest of four children. She was born when her mother was only 16 years old and her father was 17 and her mother had to bring up all four children alone, which is reminiscent of Arnolds own directorial debuted short, Wasp. When people are asked if the story is in any way biographical, Arnold replies I grew up in a working class family, as a young girl, she was writing dark stories about human experience. All the other kids would just bung on some pop music, I remember the examiners sitting there looking at me, perplexed. Arnold left high school when she was 16, when she was drawn to becoming an actress, when Arnold was 18 years old she began working as a host and actress for a childrens TV show called No.73. She worked in TV for the next 10 years, while writing on the side. Arnold realised she could turn her stories into films, so she studied at the American Film Institute of Los Angeles where she gained experience in the film industry, after finishing school and returning to Britain she had her daughter, Coral and began making short films for TV. After leaving school in the late 1970s, Arnold got her first TV jobs as a dancer on shows that included Top of the Pops. She first came to prominence as an actress and television presenter alongside Sandi Toksvig, Nick Staverson and Neil Buchanan in the 1980s childrens television show No.73. In addition to parts, the show had the usual mix of music. After a couple of years of experience in front of the camera, Arnold realised, Television was great fun and I went along for the ride, but I never felt that comfortable in front of the camera. In 1988 No.73 had morphed into 7T3, with the set being moved from the Maidstone house to that of a theme park. This revamp would only last the season, but Arnold would be seen for two years in the same timeslot as part of the Motormouth presenting team. In 1990 she presented and wrote for the environmental awareness show for teens and this also featured Benjamin Zephaniah and gave exposure to The Yes/No People of Stomp fame. After retiring from her career as a presenter, Arnold studied directing at the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles. Her early short films included Milk and Dog and she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Wasp, in 2004. She was named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow, also in 2003, she directed an episode of the Channel 4 series Coming Up titled Bed Bugs, though she is sometimes erroneously credited as Andrew Arnold for the work
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Arnold at the
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Emmanuelle Devos
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Emmanuelle Devos is a French actress. She is the daughter of actress Marie Henriau and she won the César Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Sur mes lèvres, directed by Jacques Audiard. She has also been nominated three times for the award. She was a member of the Jury for the Main Competition section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Emmanuelle Devos at the Internet Movie Database Emmanuelle Devos - uniFrance Emmanuelle Devos at AlloCiné
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Emmanuelle Devos in 2013
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Jean Paul Gaultier
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Jean-Paul Gaultier is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. Gaultier was the director of Hermès from 2003 to 2010. Jean-Paul Gaultier co-presented the popular television series Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes, Gaultier grew up in the suburb of Paris. His mother was a clerk and his father an accountant and it was his maternal grandmother, Marie Garrabe, who introduced him to the world of fashion. He never received training as a designer. Instead, he started sending sketches to famous couture stylists at an early age, Pierre Cardin was impressed by his talent and hired him as an assistant in 1970. Afterwards he worked with Jacques Esterel in 1971 and Jean Patou later that year and his first individual collection was released in 1976, and his characteristic irreverent style dating from 1981 has led to his being known as the enfant terrible of French fashion. In 1985, he introduced man-skirts and promoted their use, especially kilts, in mens wardrobe, Gaultier has also worked in close collaboration with Wolford Hosiery. This earned him criticism and enormous popularity. At the end of the 1980s, Gaultier suffered some losses, including his boyfriend and business partner Francis Menuge. In 1988 Gaultier released a single titled How To Do That on Fontana records from which came one of the first ever single title remix albums Aow Tou Dou Zat on Mercury records. The album includes mixes by Norman Cook, J. J. Jeczalik, George Shilling, Mark Saunders, Latin Rascals, David Dorrell, Tim Atkins, Carl Atkins, co-written & produced by Tony Mansfield, video directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. The album also featured a collaboration with accordion player Yvette Horner, starting in 1993, he co-hosted the Channel 4s program Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes. Gaultier hosted the show until 1997, Gaultier was the creative director of Hermès from 2003 to 2010, where he succeeded Martin Margiela. He also designed furniture for the French furniture brand Roche Bobois. The exhibition in Paris, which took place from April to August 2015, was the subject of a documentary called Jean Paul Gaultier at the Grand Palais aired exclusively on Eurochannel. The Granny Gray hair color trend is attributed to Gualtier, whose Autumn/Winter 2011 show featured models in grey Beehives, in Spring 2015, his catwalk show at Paris Fashion Week featuring silver haired models again, as did the shows of other fashion designers, Chanel and Gareth Pugh. The trend soon took off among celebrities and the general public, in 2012, he was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
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Corset with cone bra from the exhibition at the
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Gaultier at the
2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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Le Male
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Diane Kruger
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Diane Kruger is a German-American actress and former fashion model. She also starred as Detective Sonya Cross in the FX crime drama series The Bridge and she was brought up Roman Catholic and attended Catholic school. She has stated one of her grandmothers was Polish. She was brought up in Germany with her brother, Stefan. Her mother sent her to student exchange programmes when she was a teenager to improve her English, as a child, Kruger wanted to become a ballerina and successfully auditioned for the Royal Ballet School in London. After an injury ended her career prematurely, Kruger moved to Paris. Kruger is fluent in German, English and French and she is a permanent resident of the United States and divides her time among Paris, Vancouver and Los Angeles. She is a friend of fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, in 1999, she dated the French actor and director Guillaume Canet. They were married on 1 September 2001 and they acted together in Joyeux Noël and divorced in 2006. Kruger said that the marriage was not successful because their careers had kept them in different parts of the world and she started dating actor Joshua Jackson in 2006. During an interview with magazine Glamour, she said, Without sounding pessimistic, I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. Theres no paper that make you stay. A guy friend of mine said, and it made a lot of sense, Jackson has expanded on this point by saying in an interview that one of the reasons that they had not married is that neither were religious. They ended their relationship in 2016, in 1992, Kruger represented Germany in the Elite Model Look and started modelling afterwards. She gradually stopped modelling after deciding to pursue a career in acting, Kruger became interested in acting and took lessons at the Cours Florent. She made her debut in 2002, opposite Dennis Hopper and Christopher Lambert in The Piano Player. Her first major acting role was the year when she starred in her then husbands directorial début Mon Idole. She played Julie Wood in 2003s Michel Valliant and Lisa in Wicker Park, alongside Josh Hartnett, one of her more high-profile roles to date is her portrayal of Helen of Sparta in Wolfgang Petersens epic Troy
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Kruger at the
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Kruger at the press conference of
Goodbye Bafana Berlin.
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Kruger at the 2009
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Kruger at the 2012
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Ewan McGregor
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Ewan Gordon McGregor OBE is a Scottish actor. His first professional role was in 1993, when he won a role in the Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar. Camerlengo Father Patrick McKenna in Angels and Demons, Dr. Alfred Jones in the romantic comedy-drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, and Lumière in an adaptation of Beauty. He received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy for both Moulin Rouge, and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. McGregor has also starred in productions of Guys and Dolls. He was ranked number 36 on Empire magazines The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list in 1997, in a 2004 poll for the BBC, McGregor was named the fourth most influential person in British culture. He has been involved in charity work and has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 2004, in 2016, he received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award. McGregor was born in Perth, Scotland and brought up in Crieff and his mother, Carol Diane, is a retired teacher of Crieff High School and latterly deputy head teacher of Kingspark School in Dundee. His father, James Charles Stewart Jim McGregor, is a physical education teacher and careers master of Morrisons Academy. He has a brother, Colin, who is a former Tornado GR4 pilot in the Royal Air Force. He is the nephew of actor Denis Lawson and actress Sheila Gish, McGregor attended the independent Morrisons Academy in Crieff. In 1993, six months prior to his graduation from Guildhall, the same year, he starred in the BBC adaptation of Scarlet and Black with a young Rachel Weisz, and made his film debut in Bill Forsyths Being Human. In 1994, McGregor performed in the thriller Shallow Grave, for which he won an Empire Award, and his international breakthrough followed in 1996 with the role of heroin addict Mark Renton in Boyles Trainspotting, an adaptation of Irvine Welshs novel of the same name. McGregor played the romantic lead role in the 1998 British film Little Voice. While the prequels received criticism from Star Wars fans, McGregors performance was widely acclaimed and his uncle, Denis Lawson, had played Wedge Antilles in the original trilogy. In 2001, he starred in Moulin Rouge, as the young poet Christian, who falls in love with the terminally-ill courtesan Satine, played by Nicole Kidman. McGregor reprised his role of Obi-Wan Kenobi for the subsequent prequel Star Wars, in 2003, he starred alongside Renée Zellweger in Down With Love. He also portrayed the younger Edward Bloom in the acclaimed film Big Fish alongside Albert Finney, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman
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McGregor in 2012
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McGregor at the premiere of
The Men Who Stare at Goats at the
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Alexander Payne
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Alexander Payne is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer, known for the films Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, The Descendants, and Nebraska. His films are noted for their humor and satirical depictions of contemporary American society. Payne is a winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Payne was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Peggy and George Payne, Payne is the youngest of three sons and grew up in what is now known as the Dundee-Happy Hollow Historic District, the same neighborhood as billionaire Warren Buffett. His father is of Greek and German descent, and his mother is of Greek ancestry and his paternal grandfather, Nicholas Nick Payne, anglicized the last name from Papadopoulos. His family comes from three areas in Greece, the island of Syros, Livadia, and Aegio, Paynes family was part of the fabric of Omaha, which he references as part of his upbringing. His grandfather was a founder of The Virginia Cafe, with Paynes father taking over the restaurant, Payne went there regularly as a child. The restaurant was destroyed in a fire in 1969, the W. Dale Clark Library is now located on the site, Paynes paternal grandmother, Clara Payne, was from a German Nebraska family from Lincoln, Nebraska. In Omaha, Payne attended Brownell-Talbot School, Dundee Elementary School and he graduated from Creighton Prep for high school in 1979. At Prep, Payne wrote a column for his high school newspaper and was the editor of the high school yearbook. Payne then attended Stanford University, where he majored in Spanish. Payne got his MFA in 1990 from the UCLA Film School, in the 1960s, Paynes father received a Super 8mm projector from Kraft Foods as a loyalty reward, and eventually passed it on to his son when Alexander was about 14 years old. The ensuing screenplay, which was turned down, would ultimately become About Schmidt and he says that he cleared about $60,000, which was enough to fund his simple lifestyle at the time for about five years. Payne sees his talent as being one of learned economy and he refers to the essay written by Tennessee Williams on The Catastrophe of Success. Payne worked in various capacities on films and television before he co-wrote and directed his first full-length film, Payne was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Election. In 2003 he received a Golden Globe for his screenplay for About Schmidt, to the surprise of many who kept track of Hollywood news, Payne and his writing partner Jim Taylor were not nominated for an Oscar for the About Schmidt screenplay. He won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe in 2005 for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sideways, while the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. In total, Sideways received five Academy Award nominations, Payne returned to directing in 2011 after a seven-year hiatus with the film The Descendants, starring George Clooney
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Payne in
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Raoul Peck
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Raoul Peck is a Haitian filmmaker, of both documentary and feature films, and a political activist. From March 1996 to September 1997, he was Haitis Minister of Culture and his film I Am Not Your Negro about the life of James Baldwin was nominated for an Oscar in January 2017. Peck was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at the age of eight, Peck and his family fled the Duvalier dictatorship and joined his father in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. His mother, Giselle, would serve as aide and secretary to mayors of Kinshasa for many years, the family resided in DRC for the next 24 years. Peck attended schools in the DRC, in the United States and he spent a year as a New York City taxi driver and worked as a journalist and photographer before earning a film degree from the German Film and Television Academy Berlin in West Berlin. In 1986 Peck created the production company Velvet Film in Germany. Peck initially developed short experimental works and socio-political documentaries, before moving on to feature films and his feature L’Homme sur les quais was the first Haitian film to be released in theatres in the United States. It was also selected for competition at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival and he detailed his experiences in this position in a book, Monsieur le Ministre… jusquau bout de la patience. Prime Minister Smarth wrote an afterword for the book, and Russell Banks wrote the preface to the first edition, on the books re-release in 2015, Radio Metropole Haïti reviewed it as a portrait of a formidable democratic movement that profoundly changed the country. Peck received international attention for Lumumba, his 2000 fiction feature film about Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, a book of screenplays and images from four of Pecks major features and documentary films, called Stolen Images, was published in February 2012 by Seven Stories Press. He is president of La Fémis, the French state film school, in 2012, he was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. He won the Best Documentary prize at the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival in 2013 for Fatal Assistance, the Belgian segment of the shoot for his upcoming film Le Jeune Karl Marx resumed in October 2015. The film is about the friendship between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of the Communist Manifesto, during their youth. In 2016, Pecks documentary film I Am Not Your Negro premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, shortly after, Magnolia Pictures and Amazon Studios acquired distribution rights to the film. It was released in the US for an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run on December 9,2016 and it received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature for the 89th Academy Awards but the award ultimately went to director Ezra Edelman for OJ Simpson, Made in America. I Am Not Your Negro received positive reviews from critics, on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 97% based on 78 reviews, with an average rating of 9/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 96 out of 100, based on 30 critics, Peck divides his time between Voorhees Township, New Jersey, USA, Paris, France, and Port-à-Piment, Haiti. com, July 2010
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Raoul Peck 2014
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Cannes Film Festival 2012 Jury (Raoul Pecks sixth from left)
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Tonie Marshall
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Tonie Marshall is an actress, screenwriter, and film director. She explains how “in a practical sense, it’s complicated to have abandon into an arms and, at the same time. Marshall is the daughter of American actor William Marshall and French actress Micheline Presle, in 1994, her film Pas très catholique was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Venus Beauty Institute won the 2000 César Award for Best Film, in 2002 her film Au plus près du paradis was nominated for the Golden Lion Award as best film at the Venice Film Festival. Marshall is a signatory of the Free Roman Polanski Petition, Tonie Marshall at the Internet Movie Database Tonie Marshall at Allocine
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Tonie Marshall in 2012
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Dardenne brothers
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Brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne are a Belgian filmmaking duo. They write, produce and direct their films together, the Dardennes began making narrative and documentary films in the late 1970s. They came to attention in the mid-1990s with La Promesse. They won their first major international film prize when Rosetta won the Palme dOr at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, in 2002, Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at Cannes for the Dardennes Le Fils. In 2005, they won the Palme dOr a second time for their film L’Enfant, putting them in a club, at the time. Their film, Le Silence de Lorna, won Best Screenplay at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was released in Europe in the fall. Their film The Kid with a Bike won the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, received one Golden Globe nomination, Jean-Pierre was the jury president for the Cinéfoundation and Short Films sections of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, their film Deux jours, une nuit received nine Magritte Award nominations, creators of intensely naturalistic films about working class life in Belgium, brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have created a notable body of work since 1996. With La Promesse, Rosetta, Le Fils, and LEnfant, the Dardennes’ films show young people at the fringes of society – immigrants, the unemployed, the inhabitants of shelters. Both Rosetta and LEnfant were awarded the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, the Dardennes were born and raised in Seraing in Liege, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium. Jean-Pierre studied drama while Luc studied philosophy, in 1975 they established Derives, the production company that produced the roughly sixty documentary films they made before branching into feature films. These films covered such topics as Polish immigration, World War II resistance and their first two feature films, however, are rarely seen today, Falsch and Je pense a vous, which Luc would later describe as an unfortunate adventure. The Dardennes had their first international success with La Promesse in 1996, with Rosetta the Dardennes turned their focus to the burdens – philosophical, spiritual, psychological – of unemployment. Rosetta was the first Belgian film ever to win the Palme dOr at Cannes, coming in ahead of films by David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Takeshi Kitano, the film provided some impetus for a labor law designed to protect young workers like Rosetta shortly after the films release. ’t was pure chance, ’ Jean-Pierre insists, ‘There was already a bill going through, and the minister took advantage of our award to call it the Rosetta Law. But we never intended to get laws changed. ’ Luc adds, ‘Of course, we hope our films will speak to people, disturb them. Crimes and occupations again figure prominently in the Dardennes’ fourth film, the film earned the Dardennes the Palme dOr from Cannes, their second in seven years. LEnfant won the André Cavens Award in 2005, making directors Jean-Pierre, the Dardenne brothers have a regular stable of collaborators, including cinematographer Alain Marcoen and editor Marie-Hélène Dozo
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Luc (left) and Jean-Pierre Dardenne at the
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The Dardenne Brothers at the
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Bertrand Bonello
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Bertrand Bonello is a French film director, screenwriter, producer and composer. His background is in music, and he lives between Paris and Montreal. His work has also associated with the New French Extremity. His film The Pornographer won the FIPRESCI prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, tiresia was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. His film House of Tolerance, a depiction of life in a fin-de-siècle Parisian bordello. His 2014 film Saint Laurent competed for the Palme dOr in the competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as Frances submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards. Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters Bernard Stiegler, Tirésias et la guerre du temps, Autour dun film de Bertrand Bonello, De la misère symbolique, Bertrand Bonello at the Internet Movie Database
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Bonello in 2015
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The Daily Californian
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The Daily Californian is an independent, student-run newspaper that serves the University of California, Berkeley campus and its surrounding community. It publishes a print edition four days a week on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday during the academic year, and twice a week during the summer. Established in 1871, The Daily Californian is one of the oldest newspapers on the West Coast, current circulation is about 10,000 for a campus of roughly 35,000 students. The Daily Californian became independent from UC Berkeley in 1971 after the administration fired three senior editors over an editorial that encouraged readers to take back Peoples Park. The paper licenses its name from the Regents of the University of California. On November 24,1982, three days after the November 20th Big Game, early morning readers of the Daily Cal were chagrined to find in the headline of the front page, NCAA Awards Big Game to Stanford. Hundreds of copies of the Daily Cal with this fake headline had been strewn about campus in the wee hours and this was in fact a hoax perpetrated by aggrieved Stanford fans. The Daily Californian has a history of publishing spirited editorials, in 2002, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates agreed to pay restitution after admitting to having thrown away a thousand copies of The Daily Californian after it endorsed his opponent, then-Mayor Shirley Dean. In May 2003, nearly 5,000 papers were stolen by students protesting coverage of the arrest of a Cal football player, the largest act of theft took place in November 1996 when the papers senior editorial board endorsed Proposition 209. Nearly 23,000 papers were stolen on Election Day 1996, on October 16,2006, the Daily Cal launched its first blog, The Daily Clog, a student-life blog that accumulates various tidbits about Berkeley and college life. On August 25,2008, the Daily Cal announced that it would not print a paper version of the newspaper on Wednesdays amidst a decline in advertising revenues, more than 400 former The Daily Californian staffers have joined The Daily Californian Alumni Association since its resurrection in August 1996. A unit of The Daily Californian Education Foundation, the DCAA exists to bring alumni of the newspaper together as well as to provide mentorship, the DCAA is one of the largest and most active alumni associations of any college newspaper. A chartered club of the California Alumni Association, the Daily Californian Alumni Association holds regular reunions and receptions across the country, membership is open to all former staff members of The Daily Californian or student publications office staff. Reunions are held every October during homecoming weekend on the Berkeley campus and offer a chance for alums to mingle and trade stories with students on the current staff
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Beyond the Hills
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Beyond the Hills is a 2012 Romanian drama film directed by Cristian Mungiu, starring Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan. The narrative follows two women at an Orthodox convent in Romania. The film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where Mungiu won the award for Best Screenplay and it was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, making the January shortlist. In their previous life they were roommates at a home and had shared a physical relationship. It soon becomes clear that Alina wishes for this relationship to continue, Alina falls ill and is hospitalised and Voichița begs the priest to allow her to stay along with the nuns at the convent. The priest acquiesces to Voichițas demands, on the condition that she will be responsible should anything happen and he insists that Alina remain faithful to God and undertake confession for her sins. Alina seeks to convince Voichița to break free of the Orthodox environment and come, Voichița, for her part, tries to convince Alina to take God into her heart, in the hope that this will finally give her peace. The nuns agree to care for Alina, as they can find no place for her to stay. The film production was made through the company, Mobra Films. It also received support from Belgium and France. It received €273,100 from Romanias National Centre for Cinema, filming took place from November 2011 to February 2012. The film premiered in the competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, Mungiu won the award for Best Screenplay, while Cristina Flutur, the film also won the Golden Astor for Best Film at the 2012 Mar del Plata International Film Festival. But it will not pass unnoticed. Sight & Sound film magazine listed the film at #8 on its list of best films of 2012, mark Kermode named it his second best film of 2013 so far
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Cast and crew at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
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Cristian Mungiu
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Cristian Mungiu is a Romanian filmmaker, winner of the Palme dOr in 2007. After studying English literature at the University of Iaşi, he worked for a few years as a teacher, after that, he enrolled at the University of Film in Bucharest to study film directing. After graduating in 1998, Mungiu made several short films, in 2002, he debuted with his first feature film, Occident. Occident enjoyed critical success, winning prizes in film festivals. In 2007 Mungiu wrote and directed his feature,4 Months,3 Weeks and 2 Days. Mungiu has said that early Miloš Forman and Robert Altman are important filmmakers who influenced him and he also respects the realism of Bicycle Thieves, among other famous realistic films. Mungiu is the brother of political analyst Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, the film was also selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, making the January shortlist. In 2013 he produced the film of Nae Caranfil 6.9 on Richter In April 2013 he was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. After Beyond the Hills Cristian Mungius new project will deal with parenting, the producer/writer/director hopes to shoot it in 2015 ideally while there are still leaves on the trees. net
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Cosmopolis (film)
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It is based on the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. On 25 May 2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the film was released in Canada on 8 June 2012, and began a limited release in the United States on 17 August 2012 by eOne Films. It is Cronenbergs first foray into script writing since 1999s eXistenZ, various visitors discuss the meaning of life and inconsequential trivia. The traffic jams are caused by a visit of the President of the United States and the funeral of Erics favorite musician, despite devastating currency speculation losses over the course of the day, Packer fantasizes about buying the Rothko Chapel. He meets his wife, Elise, in her taxi, for coffee, in a bookstore, Packer has sex with two other women. When after a day of poor trading he destroys a large part of his wealth, anti-capitalist activists demonstrate on the street. They wave rats and declare A spectre is haunting the world and they spray-paint Packers limo and later one subjects him to a pieing. Packer learns that an assassin is out to him. In his car, his doctor performs his daily medical checkup, Eric worries about the doctors finding that he has an asymmetrical prostate. As the currency speculation wipes out most of his fortune, Erics world begins to disintegrate, at the destination, the barber, who knew his father, cuts Erics hair on one side. The barber and limo driver discuss their respective careers driving cabs, the barber gives Eric his gun because he had thrown away the bodyguards gun. Eric follows a path of further self-destruction, visiting his potential murderer, former employee Richard Sheets a. k. a, Eric seems ready to commit suicide, but instead deliberately shoots himself in the hand. The film ends with the potential murderer holding a gun to Erics head threatening to kill him, Brancos Alfama Films is producing the film about a day in the life of a young billionaire financier who, over the course of a traumatic day, loses all his wealth. A director will be named shortly and DeLillo is on board to collaborate, on 26 July 2009, it was announced that Canadian director David Cronenberg had become involved in the project and would now bring the novel to the screen. The film was scheduled to begin filming in 2010, with Paulo Brancos Paris-based production house Alfama Films co-producing with Cronenbergs Toronto Antenna Ltd. On 3 September 2009, Paulo Branco officially confirmed to Screendaily. com that Cronenberg has now finished his screenplay and is now looking to cast the film. On 13 January 2010, it was reported that Cronenberg was still committed to the film, although a cast, Cronenberg said that everyone was happy with the script and he was very fond of the project. Principal photography took place in Toronto and was completed in July 2011, colin Farrell was initially cast in the main role but left due to scheduling difficulties with Total Recall
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David Cronenberg,
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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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Cronenberg at the 2012
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Cronenberg at the 2011
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Holy Motors
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Holy Motors is a 2012 French-German fantasy drama film written and directed by Leos Carax, starring Denis Lavant and Édith Scob. Lavant plays Mr. Oscar, a man not unlike an actor who inhabits several roles and it is Caraxs first feature film since 1999. The film competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, after waking up one morning, a man called The Sleeper locates and opens a secret door in his apartment. He enters, wandering into a movie house, while a young child. Meanwhile, a man called Oscar rides to work in a limousine, driven by his close friend. The rest of the film is set in Paris, at his first appointment, Oscar masquerades as an old woman beggar in the street. At the next, Oscar wears a motion capture suit and performs an action sequence, at Oscars third appointment, he plays the role of Monsieur Merde, an eccentric and violent red-haired man who kidnaps a beautiful model from her photo-shoot in a cemetery. The next scene finds Oscar as a father picking up his daughter from a party in an old red car, the two argue when the daughter reveals that she had spent the party crying in the bathroom instead of socializing. Céline continues to drive Oscar to his appointments, in a little interlude, Oscar performs a short musical piece on accordion with a group of other musicians in a church. In the fifth scene he assumes the role of a Chinese gangster assigned to murder a man who looks identical to him. After he has stabbed the man in the neck and carved scars into his face that match his own, Oscar manages to limp his way back to the limousine, seemingly injured before being seen sitting comfortably inside the limo removing his makeup. A man with a stain on one side of his face is sitting in the limo and discusses Oscars work with him. Oscar admits that his business is changing, and that he misses the days when he was aware of cameras and he remains in his profession, though, for the beauty of the act. Later, in turns out to be the sixth sequence, Oscar abruptly runs from the limo, dons a balaclava. Céline rushes to him, urging him towards his next appointment, in the seventh sequence, Oscars character is an old man on his deathbed. A young woman named Léa referring to Oscar as uncle keeps him company, Oscar then pretends to die as Léa cries, before he leaves the bed and excuses himself to go to another appointment. Léa reveals her name to be Élise, and she tells Oscar that she too has another appointment. When Céline stops the limousine beside an identical limo in what turns out to be the sequence, Oscar recognizes the woman inside
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Leos Carax
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Alex Christophe Dupont, best known as Leos Carax, is a French film director, critic, and writer. Carax is noted for his style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl, and his works include Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. His professional name is an anagram of his name, Alex. Leos Carax was born Alex Christophe Dupont in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine and his mother is American and his father French. He began his career with a series of short films. That piece established Caraxs reputation for a visual style. It also saw the first grouping of Carax with Denis Lavant, the work was clearly an homage to French New Wave cinema, and his use of such actresses as Juliette Binoche proved a touching tribute to his influences, especially Jean-Luc Godard. The film was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival and his initial reaction to the problems of filming on a public bridge had been to construct a model of the bridge in the community of Lansargues, in Southern France. However, on the first day of filming Denis Lavant injured his thumb severely, subsequent financial difficulties further pushed filming over a much longer period than intended. The movie was released to acclaim and opened the door for Carax to enter more experimental waters with his fourth feature. That film, released in 1999, was an adaptation of Herman Melvilles tale of incest, Pierre, or, Carax film in 2012, titled Holy Motors stars his regular collaborator, Denis Lavant. The film competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Carax is set to direct Annette, a music-filled drama feature film written by Sparks and starring Adam Driver. Director Strangulation Blues - Short Boy Meets Girl Mauvais Sang Les Amants du Pont-Neuf Sans Titre - Short Pola X Tokyo, - Segment Merde Holy Motors Actor King Lear The House The Process 977 Mister Lonely Holy Motors Leos Carax by Fergus Daly and Garin Dowd. Published by Manchester University Press,2003, ISBN 0-7190-6315-9, interview with Carax on funding for Pola X at YouTube. Caraxs 1997 short film Sans Titre at YouTube, Caraxs my last minute, a short film at YouTube. Foco - Revista de Cinema, special edition devoted to Leos Carax
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Carax at the
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The Hunt (2012 film)
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The Hunt is a 2012 Danish drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Mads Mikkelsen. The film was screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and it also won the 2013 Nordic Council Film Prize. The film was selected as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards and it was nominated in the same category at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards. Lucas is a kindergarten teacher in a close-knit Danish community. Divorced, he struggles to maintain a relationship with his son, who lives with his ex-wife. Lucas coworker Nadja makes advances towards him and eventually becomes his girlfriend, one of Lucas students is Klara, the daughter of his best friend Theo. She has a crush on Lucas, and one day she puts a heart-shaped ornament into his coat pocket, after Lucas rebuffs the kiss, Klaras feelings are hurt. Drawing on a memory of a picture her older brother showed her. The director asks Klara leading questions, and the girl gives unclear testimony against Lucas, the adults in the community believe the directors story of abuse, dismissing Klaras later contradictions as denial. Lucas is shunned by the community as a pedophile and sexual predator and his friendship with Theo and his relationship with Nadja are destroyed, and his son is publicly ostracised. The kindergarten staff ask leading questions of the children, who also say they were abused. However, the childrens accounts involve Lucas abusing them in his basement, after a hearing, he is released without charge. The community is still suspicious of Lucas, however, and the turns to violence. Someone kills his dog, Fanny, while another assailant throws a stone through his window, when he goes grocery shopping, the grocery store employees attack him. On Christmas Eve, Lucas confronts Theo during a church service. Later, Theo overhears Klara apologizing to Lucas as she drifts off to sleep and he realizes that Lucas is innocent, and he visits him on Christmas Day with food and alcohol as a peace offering. A year later, tensions in the community have lessened, Lucas and Nadja are in a relationship again, and Lucas son is accepted into the local hunting society as an adult. On a hunting expedition to commemorate the event, an unseen person shoots at Lucas
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Alexandra Rapaport and Thomas Vinterberg at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
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Thomas Vinterberg
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Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production. Vinterberg was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark and that year Vinterberg made his first TV drama for DR TV and his short fiction film The Boy Who Walked Backwards, produced by Birgitte Hald at Nimbus Film. His first feature film was The Biggest Heroes, a movie that received acclaim in his native Denmark. In 1995, Vinterberg formed the Dogme 95 movement with Lars von Trier, Kristian Levring, following that dogma in 1998, he conceived, wrote and directed the first of the Dogme movies, The Celebration. As per the rules of the Dogme manifesto, he did not take a directorial credit, however, he and the film won numerous nominations and awards, including the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. In 2003 he directed the science fiction love story Its All About Love. This movie was entirely in English and featured, among others, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, the movie did not do well, as critics and audiences found it idiosyncratic and somewhat incomprehensible. His next film, the English-language Dear Wendy, scripted by Lars von Trier, also flopped, however he won the Silver George for Best Director at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. Vinterberg then tried to retrace his roots with a smaller Danish-language production, En mand kommer hjem and he directed the music video for The Day That Never Comes, the first single off Metallicas album Death Magnetic. His 2010 film Submarino was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, in 2012, his film The Hunt competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 86th Academy Awards. In 2015, he directed Far From The Madding Crowd, an adaptation of the acclaimed Thomas Hardy novel, starring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Vinterberg will reunite with Matthias Schoenaerts in Kursk, a film about the Kursk submarine disaster that happened in 2000. In April 2016, the French government appointed Vinterberg a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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Thomas Vinterberg in February 2010
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In Another Country (film)
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In Another Country is a 2012 South Korean comedy-drama film written and directed by Hong Sang-soo. Set in a town, the film consists of three parts that tell the story of three different women, all named Anne and all played by French actress Isabelle Huppert. The film competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the film was selected as part of the 2013 Hong Kong International Film Festival. The framing story has young film student, Won-joo and her mother Park Sook hiding from their debtors in Mohang, issues of infidelity are present in each story, as is a dim but muscular lifeguard whom Anne meets while strolling on the beach and looking for a mini-lighthouse. She says, I think the idea was already in his head, perhaps, Huppert’s photo exhibition La femme aux portraits had just been unveiled and her film Copacabana was released in theaters. The actress came to Korea for the occasion and had meetings with the directors she had always wanted to meet—namely Park Chan-wook, Lee Chang-dong, Bong Joon-ho, Im Sang-soo and of course. According to Hong, Huppert’s casting happened when they were drinking makgeolli at a restaurant in Seoul, not expecting much, and in a casual tone that may have even sounded like a joke, he spoke to Huppert. I’m about to start a new film, nothing about it has been decided yet. Would you like to be in it, then came an astonishing reaction from her, Yes. Huppert replied without even a second of hesitation, the film came to be what it is now when Isabelle decided to join it, says Hong. At the end of June, she came to Korea by herself to begin filming, Huppert let herself be transported by a project without a script and was delighted to play the game, traveling to a beach town, Mohang, South Korea, in a very rainy season. I don’t know all his films, but I think he works the same way. He starts with the place, finds the people, and only then, so it gives an enigmatic cast to everything — and to the way we work. He has a curious, atypical relationship to his film, he’s very exacting, and precise, and there are lots of takes, he’s not ever in a rush, Huppert said. She said she adored working in countries, and the cast and crew all spoke Korean, and English was the only language I could speak with them. In Korea, I was really alone, and it felt good and it was a very intimate shoot. He’s a director who likes to shoot close up, only a few weeks of shooting, but he works both fast and slow, in the sense that there are a lot of takes. Each filmmaker has his own rhythm, yet I had the impression that he was very surefooted and he filmed me in profile or from the back, like a figure in the landscape
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Hong Sang-soo
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Hong Sang-soo is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Hong made his directorial debut at age 35 with The Day a Pig Fell into the Well in 1996. Praised by South Korean critics for its originality, the film received several awards domestically and internationally, many of Hongs films have received critical acclaim for the director/screenwriters portrayal and depictions of everyday human relationships. In June 2016, Hong was reported to be having an affair with actress Kim Min-hee who appeared in the 2015 film Right Now. At the Seoul premiere of On the Beach at Night Alone, Hong openly admitted his affair with the actress, new Korean Cinema Auteurs, Too Early/Too Late, Temporality and Repetition in Hong Sang-sus Films. Durham and London, Duke University Press, Hong Sang-soo at the Internet Movie Database Hong Sangsoos Unsexy Sex at The Film Journal Where are the Snows of Yesteryear. Hong Sang-soo Searches for Lost Time in Woman is the Future of Man at Senses of Cinema Lets Not Turn Into Monsters, the Films of Hong Sang-soo at Stylus Magazine Okis Movie by Hong Sang-Soo at Thought Catalog
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Hong Sang-soo on the set of
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In the Fog
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In the Fog is a 2012 drama film directed by Sergei Loznitsa. The film competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Golden Apricot at the 2012 Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenia, for Best Feature Film. The film is an adaptation from Vasil’ Bykaws short story, the action is set in 1942 on the territory of Belarus occupied by the German army. The Germans face strong resistance from the Partisans and hatred of local people, the Partisans suspect Sushenya, a track-walker, of collaboration with the Nazis because he was first arrested and then suddenly released after they had blown up a German train. Two of them capture Sushenya and lead him to the forest where they are going to him as a traitor. They fall into a set by the Germans who severely wound one of the partisans. Sushenya attempts to save his executioners life by carrying the wounded Partisan on his back to the nearest village and he laments that he was a well-respected and trustworthy village resident, raising a family in peace, however the war changed that forever. On Rotten Tomatoes the film is certified fresh with 86% of critics giving the movie favorable reviews. The consensus on the states, While it treads familiar narrative ground -- and is a mite predictable at times -- In the Fog proves a smart. Writing for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw said it was an intense, slow-burning and haunting drama
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Sergei Loznitsa
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Sergei Loznitsa is a Ukrainian director known for his documentary as well as dramatic films. Loznitsa was born on 5 September 1964 in the city of Baranovichi, at that time Belarus was part of the Soviet Union. Later the Loznitsa family moved to Kyiv, Ukraine, where Loznitsa finished high school, in 1987 he graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute as a mathematician. Between 1987 and 1991 he worked in the Institute of Cybernetics and he developed expert systems, systems of design-making and work on artificial intelligence. At the same time he worked as a translator from the Japanese, in 1991 he entered Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, in the department of directing of play-movies in the workshop of Nana Djordjadze. In 1997 he graduated with honors, since 2000 he has worked as a documentary film director in Saint Petersburg. In 2001 he and his moved to Germany. In 2010 his film My Joy was selected for the competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. His 2012 film In the Fog competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Maidan had its world premiere in a special screening at Cannes in May 2014, a record of the 2013-14 popular protests in Kyiv and their violent suppression. 2010 Щастя моє / My Joy 2012 У тумані / In the Fog 2014 Майдан / Maidan 2015 Подія / The Event 2016 Austerlitz Sergei Loznitsa at the Internet Movie Database
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Killing Them Softly
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Killing Them Softly is a 2012 American neo-noir crime film directed by Andrew Dominik and starring Brad Pitt, based on the 1974 novel Cogans Trade by George V. Higgins. On May 22,2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, receiving positive early reviews. The film is about three small-time crooks who rob a Mob-protected illegal gambling operation, which prompts the Mob to send in two hitmen, Jackie and Mickey to deal with the perpetrators. In the fall of 2008, during both the American financial crisis and the election campaign, an older man named Johnny Squirrel Amato plans to rob an illegal poker game. He enlists two younger men to do the robbery, Frankie, a business associate, and Russell. Markie Trattman, the proprietor of the ring, is revealed to have previously orchestrated an inside job by paying two men to rob his own illegal poker room. He holds up under questioning by the hitman Dillon, though later he openly admits his involvement to various criminals who laugh it off. Squirrel anticipates that the Mafia will automatically blame Markie for the heist, Frankie and Russell, though obviously amateurs, do the holdup and leave with the money. However, Driver, an emissary for the Mob, discusses the recent robbery with an acquaintance of Dillon, although Jackie understands Markie was uninvolved in the recent heist, he believes Markie should be murdered in order to restore the mobsters confidence in the local illegal gambling scene. Upon completing the crime, Russell travels to Florida to sell the dogs, while in Florida, he inadvertently informs a man named Kenny Gill of his involvement in the heist while trying to recruit him as a drug dealer. Kenny informs Jackie, who deduces that Russell, Frankie, Jackie carries out the hit on Markie himself, killing him in his car, but brings in another older hitman, Mickey Fallon, who is on parole in New York, to kill Squirrel. Mickey postpones going through with his hit, instead indulging in drunkenness. During conversation with Jackie, Mickey also reveals that he has violated his parole and it becomes clear to Jackie that the respected hitman has lost his nerve and ability to do his job. Jackie eventually decides to out the hit on Squirrel himself. He convinces Driver to arrange Mickeys arrest before the job has been completed, Russell is arrested on a drug possession charge and deported, meanwhile, Jackie confronts Frankie and convinces him to trade Squirrels whereabouts for his life. Jackie has Frankie drive him to Squirrel, upon reaching Squirrels apartment complex, after confirming Squirrel is dead, Jackie has Frankie drive him to get his car several hours away. Frankie becomes very nervous and begins speeding, unable to get Frankie to slow down, Jackie takes over driving. Once they arrive at the garage, Jackie shoots Frankie in the head without warning
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Andrew Dominik
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Andrew Dominik is a New Zealand-born Australian film director and screenwriter. He has directed the crime film Chopper, the Western drama film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Dominik has lived in Australia since he was two years old and graduated from Melbournes Swinburne Film School in 1988. His career in began in 2000 when he directed Chopper based on notorious Australian criminal Mark Brandon Chopper Read, starring Eric Bana. Chopper received generally positive reviews, and Bana in particular was praised for his intense portrayal of Chopper. The Australian Film Institute awarded the film with Best Director, Best Actor, the film explores the peculiar relationship between Jesse James and his eventual assassin Robert Ford. Pitt was a big fan of Dominiks first feature Chopper, and had hoped to collaborate with the filmmaker in the future, especially when Pitt had the chance to work with Chopper star Eric Bana in Troy. Pitt contacted the director, and with a big star interested to lead his new film, principal shooting in Canada was completed in 2005, though The Assassinations 2006 release was delayed to a fall 2007 release, largely due to studio interference with the films editing process. Dominik and Pitt were pulling for a less quick-paced and more contemplative cut of the film while the studio wanted less contemplation and more action. There were reportedly more than a dozen edited versions of the film at one time fighting to be the final cut, the disputes during post-production lasted for over a year before a final version was settled upon. Over an hour of scenes were deleted for the theatrical version, the film garnered two Academy Award nominations, Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actor. Dominik reteamed with Brad Pitt in their collaboration in a thriller/dark comedy based on George V. Higgins Boston-set crime novel Cogans Trade. The film was renamed Killing Them Softly, shooting began in January 2011 and wrapped in May 2011. The film competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and was released through the Weinstein Company. In 2016, Dominik completed One More Time with Feeling, a documentary about his friend Nick Cave, the film premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. The critical aggregator website Metacritic awarded the film a score of 91, Dominik had also written an adapted screenplay for The Killer Inside Me, an acclaimed noir novel by Jim Thompson, and was at one point considered to direct it, but dropped out. Michael Winterbottom eventually directed the film, jessica Chastain is in talks to play Monroe. Dominik penned a script for an American remake of the 2006 French thriller Tell No One and it is unclear if he will direct the film. In a 2008 interview, Dominik stated that he has interest in adapting Jim Thompsons Pop, cormac McCarthys Cities of the Plain is in development with James Franco starring
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Lawless (2012 film)
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Lawless is a 2012 American crime drama film directed by John Hillcoat. The screenplay by Australian singer-screenwriter Nick Cave is based on Matt Bondurants historical novel The Wettest County in the World, the film stars Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, and Guy Pearce. The film was in development for three years before being produced. It screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and was released on August 29,2012. In 1931, the Bondurant brothers — Forrest, Howard, the brothers use their gas station and restaurant as a front for their illegal manufacturing business with the assistance of Jacks disabled friend and engineer, Cricket. Jack witnesses infamous mobster Floyd Banner shoot dead a rival in broad daylight, Jack returns to the gas station, where Forrest hires dancer Maggie as a waitress. Shortly afterward, the gas station is visited by newly arrived U. S, marshal Charley Rakes, accompanied by the Virginia states attorney Mason Wardell, the sheriff, and the sheriffs deputy. Rakes demands a cut of profits from all bootleggers within the county, including Forrest, Forrest implores his fellow bootleggers to unite against Rakes, but they refuse. Meanwhile, Jack lusts after Bertha, daughter of the local Brethren preacher and he attends their church service drunk, embarrassing himself but piquing her interest. Jack walks in on a visit from Rakes to Crickets house and that night, Forrest beats and throws out two customers who had been harassing and threatening Maggie. After Maggie resigns and leaves, Forrest is ambushed by the two men, who slit his throat, Maggie returns looking for Forrest but is beaten and raped by the men. She decides to keep the assault from Forrest, while Forrest recovers at a hospital, Jack decides to cross the county line with Cricket to sell their remaining liquor. They too are ambushed by the mobsters, led by Banner, but are spared when Jack reveals he is a Bondurant, Banner reveals to Jack the address of his brothers assailants, who were previous employees of his and currently work for Rakes. Forrest and Howard later find, torture and kill the men, Banner becomes a regular client of the brothers, who have expanded their operation with multiple large stills deep in the woods, increasing its profitability. Maggie decides to return to Chicago, but Forrest convinces her to stay, on a day trip, Jack decides to show Bertha the brothers secret operation, but they are followed and ambushed by Rakes and his men. Howard, Jack, Cricket and Bertha all flee, the police take Bertha home but leave Cricket to Rakes, who murders him. Jack speeds off in Crickets car to confront Rakes, Howard and Forrest quickly follow to provide backup for Jack, to Maggies chagrin. She reveals she had delivered him to hospital after the attack, Jack arrives at the bridge but is wounded by Rakes
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From left: Pearce, DeHaan, Wasikowska, Clarke, Cave, Hillcoat, Hardy, Chastain, and LaBeouf at the film's 2012 Cannes Film Festival screening
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John Hillcoat
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John Hillcoat is an Australian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, and music video director. Hillcoat was born in Queensland, Australia, and was raised in Hamilton, Ontario, as a child, his paintings were featured in the Art Gallery of Hamilton. He attended St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School and was active with the McMaster University Film Board most notably producing a short titled The Finger. Hillcoat has repeatedly worked with Nick Cave and also the band Depeche Mode and he has also featured actor Guy Pearce multiple times in his works. His film The Road, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival and his 2012 film, Lawless, competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Hillcoats film, Triple 9 was released in 2016, john Hillcoat at the Internet Movie Database
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John Hillcoat at the
2009 Venice Film Festival for the premiere of The Road
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Like Someone in Love (film)
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Like Someone in Love is a French-Japanese drama, the final film written and directed by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, starring Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno and Ryō Kase. The France-Japan co-production competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, in Tokyo, sociology student Akiko moonlights as a high-end prostitute. Her jealous boyfriend, Noriaki is suspicious, but does not know about her work, one night, she is assigned to Takashi, an elderly former university professor who is more interested in making her dinner than having sex. The morning after their night, Takashi drives Akiko to school for her exams. While waiting in the car for her, he encounters Noriaki, Takashi does not correct Noriakis assumption and assures him he isnt ready for marriage. After Akikos test, the three drive toward a bookstore, Noriaki diagnoses a problem with the car, and convinces Takashi to drive it to the garage he owns, where he replaces a fan belt. There they encounter one of Takashis former students, Akiko worries he will reveal the truth to Noriaki, Takashi drops Akiko at the bookstore and returns home. Soon afterwards, he receives a phone call from Akiko. Her mouth is bloodied, but she does not say why, Takashi takes Akiko to his apartment. Noriaki arrives, threatening them over the intercom and banging on the door, Takashi peers out his window to see what Noriaki is doing. An object is thrown through the window and Takashi falls to the floor and it had a budget of $4.8 million. Filming was originally planned for April 2011, but had to be rescheduled because of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the film was eventually shot over eight weeks in October 2011. Filming was done in Tokyo and Yokohama, the film had the production title The End. It was Kiarostamis second fiction feature made outside his native Iran, following Certified Copy, the film received mostly positive reviews by critics. It holds an 82% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 88 reviews, the websites consensus reads, In his second film outside his native Iran, director Abbas Kiarostami maintains the mysterious, reflective mood of previous triumphs. David Denby of The New Yorker writes, This story, driven by undercurrents and he adds, The cinematography is clear and hard-focussed, and the editing produces long, flowing passages. This exquisitely made, elusive film has a rhythm and a melancholy charm. Like Someone in Love at the Internet Movie Database Like Someone in Love at Rotten Tomatoes Like Someone in Love at AllMovie
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Abbas Kiarostami
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Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy, Close-Up, Taste of Cherry – which was awarded the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival that year – and The Wind Will Carry Us. In his later works, Certified Copy and Like Someone in Love, he filmed for the first time outside Iran, in Italy and Japan, Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material. He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator and these filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues. He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue, titles, Kiarostamis films contain a notable degree of ambiguity, an unusual mixture of simplicity and complexity, and often a mix of fictional and documentary elements. The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death and he majored in painting and graphic design, and supported his studies by working as a traffic policeman. As a painter, designer, and illustrator, Kiarostami worked in advertising in the 1960s, designing posters, between 1962 and 1966, he shot around 150 advertisements for Iranian television. In the late 1960s, he began creating credit titles for films and its debut production and Kiarostamis first film was the twelve-minute The Bread and Alley, a neo-realistic short film about a schoolboys confrontation with an aggressive dog. The department became one of Irans most noted film studios, producing not only Kiarostamis films, but acclaimed Persian films such as The Runner and Bashu, in the 1970s, Kiarostami pursued an individualistic style of film making. When discussing his first film, he stated, Bread and Alley was my first experience in cinema, I had to work with a very young child, a dog, and an unprofessional crew except for the cinematographer, who was nagging and complaining all the time. Well, the cinematographer, in a sense, was right because I did not follow the conventions of film making that he had become accustomed to, following The Experience, Kiarostami released The Traveler in 1974. The Traveler tells the story of Qassem Julayi, a troubled and troublesome boy from a small Iranian city. Intent on attending a match in far-off Tehran, he scams his friends and neighbors to raise money. In addressing the boys determination to reach his goal, alongside his indifference to the effects of his actions, the film examined human behavior. It furthered Kiarostamis reputation for realism, diegetic simplicity, and stylistic complexity, in 1975, Kiarostami directed two short films So Can I and Two Solutions for One Problem. In early 1976, he released Colors, followed by the fifty-four-minute film A Wedding Suit, Kiarostamis first feature film was the 112-minute Report. It revolved around the life of a tax collector accused of accepting bribes, in 1979, he produced and directed First Case, Second Case
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Kiarostami majored in painting and graphic design at the
University of Tehran College of
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Kiarostami speaking ahead of 65th
Venice Film Festival
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Kiarostami (left) at the Estoril Film Festival in 2010
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Mud (2012 film)
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Mud is a 2012 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Jeff Nichols. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Sam Shepard, the film competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. It was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013, the film opened on April 26,2013 with a limited release in select theaters, before having a wide release on May 10,2013. Two 14-year-old boys in De Witt, Arkansas, Ellis and Neckbone, have found a boat stuck high in a tree on an island in the Mississippi River. They want to claim it for themselves but discover someone is living in it and they meet him, a strange man named Mud, who claims to have grown up nearby. He tells the boys that he needs food and promises to them the boat if they help him while he stays on the island. The boys return with food and ask Mud why he is hiding out, he says he is waiting for his old girlfriend, Juniper and they later spot her grocery shopping in town. Ellis falls for an older girl named May Pearl. Ellis learns from his father that his parents are heading for divorce and this threatens their old river houseboat. Once no longer used as a residence by the owner, it will be removed, later, Ellis and his mother are stopped at a police roadblock. He then learns that Mud is a fugitive and tells the police that he has not seen that man, Ellis and Neckbone rush back to Mud and ask why the police are hunting him. Mud explains that he killed a man who had gotten Juniper pregnant and pushed her down a flight of stairs, the boys decide to help Mud in exchange for his pistol. Mud sends Ellis to Tom Blankenship, a father figure from his childhood. Tom lives across the river from Ellis and agrees to talk to Mud but is disturbed to hear that Mud is in trouble over Juniper again. After his plea for help is rejected by Tom, Mud gives the boys a note for Juniper and they find her motel room where another man is abusing her. Ellis charges at the man but is quickly overpowered, Neckbone and Ellis tell Mud about the man. Mud realizes that the family of the man he killed has arrived to kill him. King Carver, the father of the man Mud murdered, and his son with a handful of bounty hunters talk about staking out Junipers motel and have paid off the local
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Theatrical release poster
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Jeff Nichols
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Jeff Nichols is an American film director and screenwriter from Little Rock, Arkansas. He studied filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Nichols has directed Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud and Midnight Special. Most recently, he directed the drama Loving, a film about the landmark U. S. civil rights court case Loving v. Virginia, which was released on November 4,2016. In his review of Midnight Special, Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers said the Arkansas-born Nichols,37, 2007s Shotgun Stories, Nichols debut feature film starring Michael Shannon, was shot on a budget of only $250,000. In 2012, he became the President of the Jury of the 7th Rome Film Festival and his 2016 sci-fi drama film Midnight Special competed for the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. Nichols notes Mark Twains influence on him, Nichols was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is the brother of Lucero guitarist and singer Ben Nichols, jeff Nichols at the Internet Movie Database
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