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Cillian Murphy
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Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor of stage and screen. A native of Cork, Murphy began his career as a rock musician. After turning down a deal, he made his professional acting debut in the play Disco Pigs in 1996. While continuing with work he also began appearing in independent films. For his performance as a woman in Breakfast on Pluto. In 2006, Murphy played the role in Ken Loachs Palme dOr-winning film The Wind That Shakes the Barley. He teamed up again with Boyle for the science-fiction film Sunshine, since 2013, Murphy has played the lead in the BBC gangster series Peaky Blinders. He has continued to work on stage, and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for Misterman in 2011, Murphy lives with his wife and two children in Monkstown, Dublin. In 2011 Murphy became patron of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at the National University of Ireland Galway and he is closely associated with the work of Professor Pat Dolan Director UCFRC and UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement. Murphy was born in Douglas and raised in Ballintemple, two suburbs of Cork and his father, Brendan, works for the Irish Department of Education, and his mother is a French teacher. Not only are his parents educators, but his aunts and uncles are also teachers, musicianship also runs in the family, and Murphy started playing music and writing songs at the age of 10. Not keen on sport, a part of life at PBC. Still, it was there that he got his first taste of performing, when he participated in a drama module presented by Pat Kiernan, Murphy later described the experience as a huge high and a fully alive feeling that he set out to chase. His English teacher, the poet and novelist William Wall, encouraged him to pursue acting, in his late teens and early twenties, Murphy worked towards a career as a rock musician, playing guitar in several bands alongside his brother Páidi. The Beatles-obsessed pair named their most successful band The Sons of Mr. Greengenes, after a 1969 song by another idol, Murphy sang and played guitar in the band, which he has said specialised in wacky lyrics and endless guitar solos. In 1996, The Sons of Mr. Murphy confessed that Im very glad in retrospect that we didnt sign because you kind of sign away your life to a label and the whole of your music. Also in 1996, Murphy began studying law at University College Cork, not only was he busy with his band, but he has said that he knew within days after starting at UCC that law was not what he wanted to do. After seeing Corcadorcas stage production of A Clockwork Orange, directed by Kiernan and his first major role was in the UCC Drama Societys amateur production of Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, also starring Irish American comedian, Des Bishop
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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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Odesa International Film Festival
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The Odessa International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in the middle of the July in Odessa, Ukraine. It was held for the first time 16 –24 July 2010, however, the organizers set before themselves a rather ambitious goal, to develop it into one of the leading film forums in Eastern Europe – The Cannes of Eastern Europe. The President of the festival is Viktoriya Tigipko, the first Odessa International Film Festival was held from the 16th to 24 July 2010. It offered to its audiences a competition program of 16 films, the Rodina theater served as the main venue for the festival as well as the festival center. It screened all films in the program as well as hosting special festival events. Other screening took place all around Odessa in many city theaters, one of the most outstanding architectural monuments in all of Ukraine, the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater, served as the venue for the opening and closing festival ceremonies. The first festival was attended by over 40 thousand audience members, in the following year, this number increased almost by a factor of 2 – over 70 thousand viewers attended and over 5 thousand guests graced the festival with their presence. Over 450 journalists from Ukraine, Russia, Germany, United States, Romania, Italy, the festival also includes a dynamic special project entitled Summer Film School), a series of master-classes, taught by noted festival guests to film students and general film fans. New opportunities for film professionals also arose in the year of the Odessa Film Festivals – a film market. The third OIFF was held during 13–21 July 2012, the latest OIFF was held the second week of July 2014. During which a fundraiser was held for, Ukrainian director imprisoned in Russia on terrorism charges, the festival competition includes 14 feature-length films. The films chosen for the competition are ones which were filmed since 1 January of the previous year, all pictures are submitted on 35mm film or DCP. Films for the competition are chosen by a committee headed by the festival program director. The central focus of the festival, as set forth by the committee, is the presence in all chosen films of a strong, unique. The Jury of the Odessa International Film Festival is made up of noted figures in areas of culture, the numbers and makeup of the jury is decided by the board of directors of the festival. In 2011, a number of parallel juries functioned alongside the international jury. The jury presents prizes in the categories, • Grand Prix of the festival for the winning film – The Golden Duke • Best Director – monetary award of 10,000 US dollars to the director. • Best Actor/Actress - award of 10,000 US dollars to the actor/actress, the films screened include the latest hits of world festivals, retrospectives and exclusive premieres of the more noteworthy works of film art shown in the category of “Special Screenings
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Billy Elliot
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Billy Elliot is a 2000 British dance drama film about a boy becoming a professional ballet dancer, set in north-eastern England during the 1984–85 coal miners strike. The film was released on 29 September 2000 by Universal Pictures. The film received reviews from critics and it earned £72,853,509 on a £3 million budget. In 2001, author Melvin Burgess was commissioned to write the novelisation of the based on Lee Halls screenplay. The story was adapted for the West End stage as Billy Elliot the Musical in 2005, it opened in Australia in 2007 and on Broadway in 2008. In 1984, Billy Elliot, an 11-year-old from the fictional Everington Village in County Durham, England, Billys father sends him to the gym to learn boxing, but Billy dislikes the sport. He happens upon a class that is using the gym while their usual basement studio is temporarily being used as a soup kitchen for the striking miners. Unknown to Jackie, Billy joins the ballet class, when Jackie discovers this, he forbids Billy to take any more ballet. But, passionate about dancing, Billy secretly continues lessons with the help of his dance teacher, Sandra Wilkinson. Mrs. Wilkinson believes Billy is talented enough to study at the Royal Ballet School in London, over Christmas, Billy learns his best friend, Michael, is gay. Although Billy is not, he is supportive of his friend, later, Jackie catches Billy dancing in the gym and realises his son is truly gifted, he resolves to do whatever it takes to help Billy attain his dream. Mrs. Wilkinson tries to persuade Jackie to let her pay for the audition, Jackie attempts to cross the picket line to pay for the trip to London, but Tony stops him. Instead, his fellow miners and the neighbourhood raise some money and Jackie pawns Billys mothers jewelry to cover the cost, and Jackie takes him to London to audition. Although very nervous, Billy performs well, but he punches another boy in frustration at the audition and he is sternly rebuked by the review board, but when asked what it feels like when he is dancing, he describes it as being like electricity. Seemingly rejected, Billy returns home with his father, sometime later, the Royal Ballet School sends him a letter telling him he has been accepted, and he leaves home to attend. Fourteen years later, Billy takes the stage to perform the Swan in Matthew Bournes Swan Lake, as Jackie, Tony and he was heavily influenced by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinens book Step by Step, about a dancing school in nearby North Shields. Writing in 2009, Hall said that almost every frame of Billy Elliot was influenced by Step by Step. as every member of the team carried around their own copy. Due to Easington Collierys pit closure in 1993, the scenes were filmed at the Ellington and Lynemouth Colliery in Northumberland, with some filming in Dawdon
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The King's Speech
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The Kings Speech is a 2010 British biographical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, Seidler read about George VIs life after overcoming a stuttering condition he endured during his youth. He later rewrote his screenplay for the stage to focus on the relationship between the two protagonists. Nine weeks before filming began, Logues notebooks were discovered and quotations from them were incorporated into the script, principal photography took place in London and around Britain from November 2009 to January 2010. The opening scenes were filmed at Elland Road, Leeds, and Odsal Stadium, Bradford, for indoor scenes, Lancaster House substituted for Buckingham Palace, and Ely Cathedral stood in for Westminster Abbey, while the weaving mill scene was filmed at the Queen Street Mill in Burnley. A third technique Hooper employed was the framing of characters, in his first consultation with Logue. Released in the United Kingdom on 7 January 2011, The Kings Speech was a box office. On a budget of £8 million, it earned over £250 million internationally and it was widely praised by film critics for its visual style, art direction, and acting. Other commentators discussed the representation of historical detail, especially the reversal of Winston Churchills opposition to abdication. The film received awards and nominations, particularly for Colin Firths performance. The Kings Speech won seven British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, the film also won four Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay. Prince Albert, Duke of York, the son of King George V. The Duke has given up hope of a cure, but his wife Elizabeth persuades him to see Lionel Logue, during their first private session, Logue insists on being called Lionel by his patient. In addition, breaching royal etiquette, Logue calls the Prince Bertie, Prince Albert leaves in anger but Logue offers him the recording as a keepsake. His attempt to do so is a failure, later, the Duke plays Logues recording and hears himself reciting unhesitatingly. He therefore returns to Logue, where he and his wife both insist that Logue focus only on physical exercises, not therapy, Logue teaches his patient muscle relaxation and breath control but continues to probe gently and persistently at the psychological roots of the stutter. Albert eventually reveals some of the pressures of his childhood and the two men start to become friends. It is pointed out that Edward, as head of the Church of England, cannot marry her, even if she receives her second divorce, when Logue insists that Albert could be a good king instead, the latter labels such a suggestion as treason and dismisses Logue
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Slumdog Millionaire
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Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and produced by Christian Colson. Set and filmed in India, it is a adaptation of the novel Q & A by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup, telling the story of Jamal Malik, age 18. As a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, who is able to answer every stage correctly, he is accused of cheating. Jamal recounts his history, illustrating how he is able to each question. Regarded as a hit, Slumdog Millionaire was widely acclaimed, being praised for its plot, soundtrack. It was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight—the most for any 2008 film—including Best Picture, Best Director and it won seven BAFTA Awards including Best Film, five Critics Choice Awards and four Golden Globes. 18-year-old Jamal Malik, an Indian Muslim from the Juhu slum, is a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. and is one question away from the grand prize. Jamal recounts, through flashbacks, the incidents in his life which provided him with each answer, as they flee the riot, they meet Latika, a girl from their slum. Salim is reluctant to take her in, but Jamal suggests that she could be the third musketeer, the three are found by Maman—a gangster who tricks and then trains street children into becoming beggars. When Salim discovers Maman is blinding the children in order to them more effective beggars, he flees with Jamal. Latika fails to board the train as Salim purposefully lets go of her hand and this resulted in her being recaptured by Maman. At Jamals insistence, they return to Mumbai to find Latika, discovering that she is being raised by Maman to be a prostitute, to him soon a high price. The brothers rescue her, and while escaping Maman they shoot him to death, Salim then manages to get a job with Javed—Mamans rival crime lord. Back at their room, Salim orders Jamal to leave him, when Jamal refuses, Salim draws a gun on him, whereas Latika persuades Jamal to obey his brother and go away. Years later, Jamal, now a tea-boy in an Indian call centre, searches the database for Salim. He fails in finding Latika, while succeeding in finding Salim, Jamal reproaches Salim, who then pleads for forgiveness, and offers him to stay in his luxurious apartment. Jamal later bluffs his way into Javeds residence to reunite with Latika but as he professes his love for her, Jamal nevertheless promises to wait for her every day at five oclock at the VT station. Latika attempts to him there, but is recaptured by Javeds men, led by Salim, and once Javed moves to another house, outside Mumbai
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Wild Bunch (company)
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Wild Bunch AG is a film distribution and international sales company, originally created in 1979 as Senator Film Verleih GmbH, which later became Senator Entertainment AG. The name Wild Bunch comes from the French company Wild Bunch S. A. created in 2002, Senator Entertainment AG renamed itself Wild Bunch AG in July 2015. Wild Bunch is also the international seller of Studio Ghiblis works, originally a division of StudioCanal, Wild Bunch S. A. was established as an independent company in 2002 by former employees of StudioCanal. In July 2014, the German film distributor Senator Entertainment and Wild Bunch announced their intention to join forces to launch an independent film distribution and production group, in February 2015, Senator Entertainment and Wild Bunch completed their merger. Senator Entertainment AG subsequently renamed themselves to Wild Bunch AG and will use Senator as a brand, in May 2015, Wild Bunch announce the founding of a new LA-based company, Insiders, to handle international sales of independent films. In February 2016, The Hollywood Reporter reported that a majority stake in this outfit has since sold to Bliss Media. Wild Bunch is a sales company and also a pan-European film distributor. In France, Wild Bunch is a distributor and also a video distributor through its subsidiary Wild Side. Wild Bunch also positioned itself on the distribution market through its VoD/SVoD subsidiary Filmo TV. Apart from its international activities, Wild Bunch is also a direct distributor in Italy, in Germany. Wild Bunch manages more than 1700 titles, the Kings Speech by Tom Hooper in 2011, Best Feature, Best Director for Tom Hooper, Best Actor in a leading role for Colin Firth and Best Original Screenplay. Pans Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro in 2007, Best Art Direction, march of the Penguins by Luc Jacquet in 2006, Best Documentary. Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki in 2003, Best Animated Feature, the Kid with a Bike by Dardenne brothers in 2011, Grand Prix The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius en 2011, Best Actor for Jean Dujardin Poliss by Maïwenn in 2011, Prix du Jury. Nobody by Jaco Van Dormael in 2009, Golden Osella The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky in 2008, Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese in 2006, Silver Lion. Mary by Abel Ferrara in 2005, Special Jury Prize, the Magdalene Sisters by Peter Mullan in 2002, Golden Lion. The Wayward Cloud by Tsai Ming-liang in 2005, Siver Bear of Outstanding Artistic Achievement, spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki in 2002, Golden Bear. Official website Wild Bunch at the Internet Movie Database
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Control (2007 film)
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Control is a 2007 British biographical film about the life of Ian Curtis, singer of the late-1970s English post-punk band Joy Division. It is the first feature directed by Anton Corbijn, who had worked with Joy Division as a photographer. The screenplay by Matt Greenhalgh was based on the biography Touching from a Distance by Curtis widow Deborah, Tony Wilson, who released Joy Divisions records through his Factory Records label, also served as a co-producer. Curtis bandmates Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Stephen Morris provided incidental music for the soundtrack via their post-Joy Division incarnation New Order. Control was filmed partly on location in Nottingham, Manchester, and Macclesfield, including areas where Curtis lived, alexandra Maria Lara plays Honoré, while James Anthony Pearson, Joe Anderson, and Harry Treadaway play Sumner, Hook, and Morris, respectively. The film also features Toby Kebbell as band manager Rob Gretton and it went on to win five British Independent Film Awards including Best Film, Best Director for Corbijn, Most Promising Newcomer for Riley, and Best Supporting Actor for Kebbell. Ian Curtis and Debbie Woodruff marry in 1975 in their town of Macclesfield at ages 19 and 18. Ian retreats from domestic life, preferring to write poetry in solitude, on June 4,1976 they attend a Sex Pistols concert with Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Terry Mason, who are starting a band. Mesmerized by the concert, Ian volunteers to be their singer and they name themselves Warsaw, and Terry moves into a managerial role with the addition of drummer Stephen Morris. The band debuts 19 May 1977 and soon rename themselves Joy Division, Ian and Debbie finance their first EP, An Ideal for Living. During his job as an employment agent, Ian witnesses a seizure suffered by Corinne Lewis, unsatisfied with the brief mention Joy Division receives from television host Tony Wilson, Ian demands that he put the band on his programme. In April 1978 Joy Division plays a battle of bands, impressing Tony and Rob Gretton and they perform Transmission on Tonys programme and sign to his Factory Records label, Tony signs the contract using his own blood. In December 1978 Ian suffers a seizure on the way back from the bands first London gig, He is diagnosed with epilepsy and prescribed medications that leave him drowsy, learning that Corinne Lewis has died of a seizure, he pens Shes Lost Control about her. He begins to neglect Debbie, who gives birth to their daughter Natalie in April 1979, Ian quits his job to go on tour, leaving Debbie to work and care for the baby. Ian admits to Belgian journalist Annik Honoré that he is miserable at home, the two begin having an affair during Joy Divisions January 1980 European tour. On returning home, Ian tells Debbie he is if he still loves her. During the rehearsing of Love Will Tear Us Apart, Rob informs the band that they will be departing 19 May for a tour of the United States, Debbie finds evidence of Ians infidelity and confronts him. He promises that the affair is over, but continues to see Annik during the recording of Closer in Islington, Ian suffers a seizure mid-performance and is comforted by Annik, who admits she is falling in love with him
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are based on Lees observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama in 1936. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the issues of rape. The narrators father, Atticus Finch, has served as a hero for many readers. As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman, the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice. Scholars have noted that Lee also addresses issues of class, courage, compassion, the book is widely taught in schools in the United States with lessons that emphasize tolerance and decry prejudice. Despite its themes, To Kill a Mockingbird has been subject to campaigns for removal from public classrooms, reaction to the novel varied widely upon publication. Despite the number of sold and its widespread use in education. Author Mary McDonough Murphy, who collected individual impressions of To Kill a Mockingbird by several authors and public figures, in 2006, British librarians ranked the book ahead of the Bible as one every adult should read before they die. It was adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 1962 by director Robert Mulligan, since 1990, a play based on the novel has been performed annually in Harper Lees hometown. To Kill a Mockingbird was Lees only published book until Go Set a Watchman, Lee continued to respond to her works impact until her death in February 2016, although she had refused any personal publicity for herself or the novel since 1964. Born in 1926, Harper Lee grew up in the Southern town of Monroeville, Alabama and she attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery, and then studied law at the University of Alabama. While attending college, she wrote for literary magazines, Huntress at Huntingdon. At both colleges, she wrote stories and other works about racial injustice, a rarely mentioned topic on such campuses at the time. Hoping to be published, Lee presented her writing in 1957 to a literary agent recommended by Capote, Lippincott, who bought the manuscript, advised her to quit the airline and concentrate on writing. Donations from friends allowed her to write uninterrupted for a year, “he spark of the true writer flashed in every line, ” she would later recount in a corporate history of Lippincott. But as Hohoff saw it, the manuscript was by no means fit for publication
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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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Moon (film)
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Moon is a 2009 British science fiction drama film co-written and directed by Duncan Jones. The film follows Sam Bell, a man who experiences a crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Moon. It was the debut of director Duncan Jones. Kevin Spacey voices Sams robot companion, GERTY, Moon premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was released in selected cinemas in New York and Los Angeles on 12 June 2009. The release was expanded to additional theatres in the United States, Moon was modestly budgeted and grossed just under $10 million worldwide but was well received by critics. Rockwells performance found praise as did the scientific realism and plausibility. It won numerous film critic and film awards and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. In 2035, Lunar Industries has made a fortune after an oil crisis by building Sarang Station, the facility is fully automated, requiring only a single human to maintain operations, oversee the harvesters, and launch canisters bound for Earth containing the extracted helium-3. Currently, Sam Bell nears the end of his work contract at Sarang Station. Chronic communication problems have disabled his live feed from Earth and limit him to occasional recorded messages from his wife Tess and his only companion is an artificial intelligence named GERTY, who assists with the bases automation and provides comfort for him. Two weeks before his return to Earth, Sam suffers from hallucinations of a teenage girl, one such image distracts him while he is out recovering a helium-3 canister from a harvester, causing him to crash his lunar rover into the harvester. Rapidly losing cabin air from the crash, Sam falls unconscious in the rover, Sam awakes in the base infirmary with no memory of the accident. He overhears GERTY receiving instructions from Lunar Industries to prevent him leaving the base. His suspicions aroused, he manufactures a fake problem to persuade GERTY to let him outside and he travels to the crashed rover, where he finds his unconscious doppelgänger. He brings the double back to the base and tends to his injuries, the two Sams start to wonder if one is a clone of the other. After a heated argument and physical altercation, they together coerce GERTY into revealing that they are clones of the original Sam Bell. GERTY activated the newest clone after the crash, and convinced him that he was at the beginning of his three-year contract. The two Sams search the facility, discovering a vault containing hundreds of hibernating clones
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