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Brussels, Belgium
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Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the region of Flanders or Wallonia. The region has a population of 1.2 million and an area with a population of over 1.8 million. Brussels is the de facto capital of the European Union as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions, the secretariat of the Benelux and the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are also located in Brussels. Today, it is considered an Alpha global city, historically a Dutch-speaking city, Brussels has seen a language shift to French from the late 19th century onwards. Today, the majority language is French, and the Brussels-Capital Region is a bilingual enclave within the Flemish Region. All road signs, street names, and many advertisements and services are shown in both languages, Brussels is increasingly becoming multilingual with increasing numbers of migrants, expatriates and minority groups speaking their own languages. The most common theory of the origin of Brussels name is that it derives from the Old Dutch Broekzele or Broeksel, meaning marsh, Saint Vindicianus, the bishop of Cambrai made the first recorded reference to the place Brosella in 695 when it was still a hamlet. The origin of the settlement that was to become Brussels lies in Saint Gaugericus construction of a chapel on an island in the river Senne around 580. The official founding of Brussels is usually situated around 979, when Duke Charles of Lower Lotharingia transferred the relics of Saint Gudula from Moorsel to the Saint Gaugericus chapel, Charles would construct the first permanent fortification in the city, doing so on that same island. Lambert I of Leuven, Count of Leuven gained the County of Brussels around 1000 by marrying Charles daughter, as it grew to a population of around 30,000, the surrounding marshes were drained to allow for further expansion. The Counts of Leuven became Dukes of Brabant at about this time, in the 13th century, the city got its first walls. After the construction of the city walls in the early 13th century, to let the city expand, a second set of walls was erected between 1356 and 1383. Today, traces of it can still be seen, mostly because the small ring, Brabant had lost its independence, but Brussels became the Princely Capital of the prosperous Low Countries, and flourished. In 1516 Charles V, who had been heir of the Low Countries since 1506, was declared King of Spain in St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral in Brussels. Upon the death of his grandfather, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in 1519 and it was in the Palace complex at Coudenberg that Charles V abdicated in 1555. This impressive palace, famous all over Europe, had expanded since it had first become the seat of the Dukes of Brabant. In 1695, during the Nine Years War, King Louis XIV of France sent troops to bombard Brussels with artillery, together with the resulting fire, it was the most destructive event in the entire history of Brussels
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A
collage with several views of Brussels, Top: View of the
Northern Quarter business district, 2nd left: Floral carpet event in the
Grand Place, 2nd right:
Brussels City Hall and
Mont des Arts area, 3rd:
Cinquantenaire Park, 4th left:
Manneken Pis, 4th middle:
St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral, 4th right:
Congress Column, Bottom:
Royal Palace of Brussels
Brussels, Belgium
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Charles of Lorraine founded what would become Brussels c. 979
Brussels, Belgium
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Grand Place after
the 1695 bombardment by the French army
Brussels, Belgium
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Episode of the
Belgian Revolution of 1830,
Wappers (1834)
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French language
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French is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages, French has evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues doïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to Frances past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, a French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is a language in 29 countries, most of which are members of la francophonie. As of 2015, 40% of the population is in Europe, 35% in sub-Saharan Africa, 15% in North Africa and the Middle East, 8% in the Americas. French is the fourth-most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union, 1/5 of Europeans who do not have French as a mother tongue speak French as a second language. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 17th and 18th century onward, French was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, most second-language speakers reside in Francophone Africa, in particular Gabon, Algeria, Mauritius, Senegal and Ivory Coast. In 2015, French was estimated to have 77 to 110 million native speakers, approximately 274 million people are able to speak the language. The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie estimates 700 million by 2050, in 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked French the third most useful language for business, after English and Standard Mandarin Chinese. Under the Constitution of France, French has been the language of the Republic since 1992. France mandates the use of French in official government publications, public education except in specific cases, French is one of the four official languages of Switzerland and is spoken in the western part of Switzerland called Romandie, of which Geneva is the largest city. French is the language of about 23% of the Swiss population. French is also a language of Luxembourg, Monaco, and Aosta Valley, while French dialects remain spoken by minorities on the Channel Islands. A plurality of the worlds French-speaking population lives in Africa and this number does not include the people living in non-Francophone African countries who have learned French as a foreign language. Due to the rise of French in Africa, the total French-speaking population worldwide is expected to reach 700 million people in 2050, French is the fastest growing language on the continent. French is mostly a language in Africa, but it has become a first language in some urban areas, such as the region of Abidjan, Ivory Coast and in Libreville. There is not a single African French, but multiple forms that diverged through contact with various indigenous African languages, sub-Saharan Africa is the region where the French language is most likely to expand, because of the expansion of education and rapid population growth
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The
"arrêt" signs (French for "stop") are used in
Canada while the international stop, which is also a valid French word, is used in France as well as other French-speaking countries and regions.
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Regions where French is the main language
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Town sign in
Standard Arabic and French at the entrance of
Rechmaya in
Lebanon.
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An obsolete 100
Lebanese pound note with the French language inscriptions "Banque du Liban" and "Cent livres".
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Dutch language
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It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after English and German. Dutch is one of the closest relatives of both German and English and is said to be roughly in between them, Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and incorporates more Romance loans than German but far fewer than English. In both Belgium and the Netherlands, the official name for Dutch is Nederlands, and its dialects have their own names, e. g. Hollands, West-Vlaams. The use of the word Vlaams to describe Standard Dutch for the variations prevalent in Flanders and used there, however, is common in the Netherlands, the Dutch language has been known under a variety of names. It derived from the Old Germanic word theudisk, one of the first names used for the non-Romance languages of Western Europe. It literarily means the language of the people, that is. The term was used as opposed to Latin, the language of writing. In the first text in which it is found, dating from 784, later, theudisca appeared also in the Oaths of Strasbourg to refer to the Germanic portion of the oath. This led inevitably to confusion since similar terms referred to different languages, owing to Dutch commercial and colonial rivalry in the 16th and 17th centuries, the English term came to refer exclusively to the Dutch. A notable exception is Pennsylvania Dutch, which is a West Central German variety called Deitsch by its speakers, Jersey Dutch, on the other hand, as spoken until the 1950s in New Jersey, is a Dutch-based creole. In Dutch itself, Diets went out of common use - although Platdiets is still used for the transitional Limburgish-Ripuarian Low Dietsch dialects in northeast Belgium, Nederlands, the official Dutch word for Dutch, did not become firmly established until the 19th century. This designation had been in use as far back as the end of the 15th century, one of them was it reflected a distinction with Hoogduits, High Dutch, meaning the language spoken in Germany. The Hoog was later dropped, and thus, Duits narrowed down in meaning to refer to the German language. g, in English, too, Netherlandic is regarded as a more accurate term for the Dutch language, but is hardly ever used. Old Dutch branched off more or less around the same time Old English, Old High German, Old Frisian and Old Saxon did. During that period, it forced Old Frisian back from the western coast to the north of the Low Countries, on the other hand, Dutch has been replaced in adjacent lands in nowadays France and Germany. The division in Old, Middle and Modern Dutch is mostly conventional, one of the few moments linguists can detect somewhat of a revolution is when the Dutch standard language emerged and quickly established itself. This is assumed to have taken place in approximately the mid-first millennium BCE in the pre-Roman Northern European Iron Age, the Germanic languages are traditionally divided into three groups, East, West, and North Germanic. They remained mutually intelligible throughout the Migration Period, Dutch is part of the West Germanic group, which also includes English, Scots, Frisian, Low German and High German
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The Utrecht baptismal vow Forsachistu diobolae...
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Distribution of the Dutch language and its dialects in
Western Europe
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Second edition of this column decorated with a title of
Charles V 's portrait, with archaic Dutch inscriptions
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Dutch language street sign in the Netherlands
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Horror film
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Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears. Inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres, Horror films often deal with viewers nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event. Another of his projects was 1898s La Caverne maudite. Japan made early forays into the genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei. The era featured a slew of literary adaptations, with the works of Poe and Dante, in 1908, Selig Polyscope Company produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first filmed version of Frankenstein, the macabre nature of the source materials used made the films synonymous with the horror film genre. Before and during the Weimar Republic era, German Expressionist filmmakers would significantly influence later productions, the first vampire-themed movie, Nosferatu, was made during this period, though it was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula. Other European countries also, contributed to the genre during this period, though the word horror to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930s, earlier American productions often relied on horror themes. Some notable examples include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cat and the Canary, The Unknown, and The Man Who Laughs. Many of these films were considered dark melodramas because of their stock characters and emotion-heavy plots that focused on romance, violence, suspense. The trend of inserting an element of macabre into American pre-horror melodramas continued into the 1920s, directors known for relying on macabre in their films during the 1920s were Maurice Tourneur, Rex Ingram, and Tod Browning. Ingrams The Magician contains one of the first examples of a mad doctor and is said to have had a influence on James Whales version of Frankenstein. The Unholy Three is an example of Brownings use of macabre and unique style of morbidity, he remade the film in 1930 as a talkie, during the early period of talking pictures, Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Brownings Dracula was quickly followed by James Whales Frankenstein and The Old Dark House, some of these films blended science fiction with Gothic horror, such as Whales The Invisible Man and featured a mad scientist, mirroring earlier German films. Frankenstein was the first in a series of remakes which lasted for years, the Mummy introduced Egyptology as a theme, Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the iconic image of the monster, and others in the series. Universals horror cycle continued into the 1940s with B-movies including The Wolf Man, the once controversial Freaks, based on the short story Spurs, was made by MGM, though the studio disowned the completed film, and it remained banned, in the UK, for thirty years
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A famous scene from one of the first notable horror films,
Nosferatu (1922)
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Lon Chaney, Sr. in
The Phantom of the Opera.
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Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster in
Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
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Christopher Lee starred in several British horror films of the era, shown here in 1958's
Dracula.
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Thriller (genre)
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Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation, successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the edge of their seats as the plot builds towards a climax, the cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, and cliffhangers are used extensively, a thriller is usually a villain-driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. Homers Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the Western world and is regarded as a prototype of the thriller. Thrillers may be defined by the mood that they elicit. In short, if it thrills, it is a thriller, as the introduction to a major anthology explains, Suspense is a crucial characteristic of the thriller genre. It gives the viewer a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, anticipation and tension and these develop from unpredictable, mysterious and rousing events during the narrative, which make the viewer or reader think about the outcome of certain actions. Suspense builds in order to make those final moments, no matter how short, the suspense in a story keeps the person hooked to reading or watching more until the climax is reached. In terms of expectations, it may be contrasted with curiosity. The objective is to deliver a story with sustained tension, surprise, the second type of suspense is the. anticipation wherein we either know or else are fairly certain about what is going to happen but are still aroused in anticipation of its actual occurrence. According to Greek philosopher Aristotle in his book Poetics, suspense is an important building block of literature, common methods and themes in crime and action thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. Common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique, common elements in dramatic and psychological thrillers include plot twists, psychology, obsession and mind games. Common in horror thrillers are serial killers, stalking, deathtraps, elements such as fringe theories, false accusations and paranoia are common in paranoid thrillers. Threats to entire countries, spies, espionage, conspiracies, assassins, the themes frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with other or with outside forces. The protagonist of these films is set against a problem, no matter what subgenre a thriller film falls into, it will emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces. While protagonists of thrillers have traditionally been men, women characters are increasingly common
Thriller (genre)
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A common theme in thrillers involves innocent victims dealing with deranged adversaries, as seen in Hitchcock's film
Rebecca (1940), where Mrs. Danvers tries to persuade Mrs. De Winter to leap to her death.
Thriller (genre)
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A common occurrence in thrillers is characters being taken as
hostages and with a
ransom in need. (Hostages, 1896 painting by
Jean-Paul Laurens, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon)
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Little Red Riding Hood is an early example of a psychotic stalker story, a common convention in the thriller genre (art by
Gustave Doré).
Thriller (genre)
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Rear Window is considered to be one of Hitchcock's best and one of the
greatest movies ever made. The film received four
Academy Award nominations.
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Science fiction film
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Science fiction films have often been used to focus on political or social issues, and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition. The genre has existed since the years of silent cinema. The next major example in the genre was the film Metropolis - being the first feature length science fiction movie, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the genre consisted mainly of low-budget B movies. After Stanley Kubricks landmark 2001, A Space Odyssey, the fiction film genre was taken more seriously. This definition suggests a continuum between empiricism and transcendentalism, with science fiction film on the side of empiricism, and horror film, however, there are numerous well-known examples of science fiction horror films, epitomized by such pictures as Frankenstein and Alien. The visual style of fiction film can be characterized by a clash between alien and familiar images. This clash is implemented when alien images become familiar, as in A Clockwork Orange, as well, familiar images become alien, as in the films Repo Man and Liquid Sky. For example, in Dr. Strangelove, the, distortion of the make the familiar images seem more alien. Finally, alien and familiar images are juxtaposed, as in The Deadly Mantis, Science fiction films appeared early in the silent film era, typically as short films shot in black and white, sometimes with colour tinting. They usually had a theme and were often intended to be humorous. In 1902, Georges Méliès released Le Voyage dans la Lune, generally considered the first science fiction film, several early films merged the science fiction and horror genres. Examples of this are Frankenstein, a adaptation of Mary Shelleys novel. Taking a more adventurous tack,20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a based on Jules Verne’s famous novel of a wondrous submarine. In the 1920s, European filmmakers tended to use science fiction for prediction and social commentary, as can be seen in German films such as Metropolis and Frau im Mond. In the 1930s, there were big budget science fiction films, notably Just Imagine, King Kong, Things to Come. Starting in 1936, a number of science fiction comic strips were adapted as serials, notably Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers and these serials, and the comic strips they were based on, were very popular with the general public. Other notable science fiction films of the 1930s include Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Doctor X, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, F. P. The 1940s brought us Before I Hang, Black Friday, Dr. Cyclops, The Devil Commands, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Man Made Monster, It Happened Tomorrow, It Happens Every Spring and The Perfect Woman
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1927's
Metropolis by
Fritz Lang was one of the first feature length science fiction films in history. It was produced at
Studio Babelsberg, Germany. (Photo shows the statue of the film figure Maria at Filmpark Babelsberg)
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Science fiction films
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Peter Sellers as the title character from
Dr. Strangelove
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Transformers characters at
Universal Studios Hollywood
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Brussels
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Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the region of Flanders or Wallonia. The region has a population of 1.2 million and an area with a population of over 1.8 million. Brussels is the de facto capital of the European Union as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions, the secretariat of the Benelux and the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are also located in Brussels. Today, it is considered an Alpha global city, historically a Dutch-speaking city, Brussels has seen a language shift to French from the late 19th century onwards. Today, the majority language is French, and the Brussels-Capital Region is a bilingual enclave within the Flemish Region. All road signs, street names, and many advertisements and services are shown in both languages, Brussels is increasingly becoming multilingual with increasing numbers of migrants, expatriates and minority groups speaking their own languages. The most common theory of the origin of Brussels name is that it derives from the Old Dutch Broekzele or Broeksel, meaning marsh, Saint Vindicianus, the bishop of Cambrai made the first recorded reference to the place Brosella in 695 when it was still a hamlet. The origin of the settlement that was to become Brussels lies in Saint Gaugericus construction of a chapel on an island in the river Senne around 580. The official founding of Brussels is usually situated around 979, when Duke Charles of Lower Lotharingia transferred the relics of Saint Gudula from Moorsel to the Saint Gaugericus chapel, Charles would construct the first permanent fortification in the city, doing so on that same island. Lambert I of Leuven, Count of Leuven gained the County of Brussels around 1000 by marrying Charles daughter, as it grew to a population of around 30,000, the surrounding marshes were drained to allow for further expansion. The Counts of Leuven became Dukes of Brabant at about this time, in the 13th century, the city got its first walls. After the construction of the city walls in the early 13th century, to let the city expand, a second set of walls was erected between 1356 and 1383. Today, traces of it can still be seen, mostly because the small ring, Brabant had lost its independence, but Brussels became the Princely Capital of the prosperous Low Countries, and flourished. In 1516 Charles V, who had been heir of the Low Countries since 1506, was declared King of Spain in St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral in Brussels. Upon the death of his grandfather, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in 1519 and it was in the Palace complex at Coudenberg that Charles V abdicated in 1555. This impressive palace, famous all over Europe, had expanded since it had first become the seat of the Dukes of Brabant. In 1695, during the Nine Years War, King Louis XIV of France sent troops to bombard Brussels with artillery, together with the resulting fire, it was the most destructive event in the entire history of Brussels
Brussels
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A
collage with several views of Brussels, Top: View of the
Northern Quarter business district, 2nd left: Floral carpet event in the
Grand Place, 2nd right:
Brussels City Hall and
Mont des Arts area, 3rd:
Cinquantenaire Park, 4th left:
Manneken Pis, 4th middle:
St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral, 4th right:
Congress Column, Bottom:
Royal Palace of Brussels
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Charles of Lorraine founded what would become Brussels c. 979
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Grand Place after
the 1695 bombardment by the French army
Brussels
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Episode of the
Belgian Revolution of 1830,
Wappers (1834)
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FIAPF
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The FIAPF based in Paris, created in 1933, is an organization composed with 36 member associations from 30 of the leading audiovisual production countries. FIAPF is also in charge of regulating international film festivals, including some of the worlds most important ones. z. w, the FIAPF categorizes the film festivals as Competitive, Competitive Specialised, Non-Competitive and Documentary/Short Film. The following film festivals have been given competitive status by the FIAPF, Toronto / Toronto International Film Festival Vienna / Vienna International Film Festival The following film festivals are for documentary and short films
FIAPF
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9.
Army of Darkness
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Army of Darkness is a 1992 American horror comedy film directed and co-written by Sam Raimi, co-produced by Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell and co-written by Ivan Raimi. It stars Campbell and Embeth Davidtz and it is the third installment in the Evil Dead franchise, and continuing from Evil Dead II, Ash Williams is trapped in the Middle Ages and battles the undead in his quest to return to the present. The film was produced as part of a deal with Universal Studios after the financial success of Darkman. Filming took place in California in 1991, Army of Darkness premiered on October 9,1992 at the Sitges Film Festival, and was released in the United States on February 19,1993. It grossed $21.5 million total over a $11 million budget, since its video release it has acquired a massive cult following, along with the other two films in the trilogy. The film was dedicated to Irvin Shapiro, who died during the production in 1989 on New Years Day. Being transported to the Middle Ages, Ash Williams is captured by Lord Arthurs men and he is enslaved along with the captured Henry, his gun and chainsaw confiscated, and is taken to a castle. Ash is thrown in a pit where he kills a Deadite, after demanding Henry and his men be set free, as he knew it was a witch hunt, and killing a Deadite publicly, Ash is celebrated as a hero. He grows attracted to Sheila, the sister of one of Arthurs fallen knights, according to the Wise Man, the only way Ash can return to his time is through the magical Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. Ash then starts his search for the Necronomicon, as he enters a haunted forest, an unseen force pursues Ash into a windmill, crashing into a mirror. Small reflections of Ash in the mirror shards come to life, with one becoming a life-sized clone, after which Ash kills, when he arrives at the Necronomicons location, he finds three books instead of one and determines which is the actual book. Attempting to say the phrase that will allow him to remove the book safely – Klaatu barada nikto, he forgets and tries to unsuccessfully mumble and he then grabs it and rushes back, while the dead and his evil copy resurrect, uniting into the Army of Darkness. Upon return, Ash demands to be returned to his own time, however, Sheila is captured by a Flying Deadite, and later transformed into one. Ash becomes determined to lead the humans against the Army and the people reluctantly agree, the Wise Men return him to the present by giving him a potion after reciting the phrase. Back in the present, Ash recounts his story to an employee at his job. As he talks to a girl who is interested in his story, Ash kills it using a Winchester rifle from the Sporting Goods department, finally ending the threat. The original ending, preferred by Raimi and Campbell themselves, is one in which Ash is shown being placed in a cave, echoing his experience in botching the recovery of the Necronomicon, Ash mishandles the specific instructions for the potion, accidentally taking an extra dose. Ash awakes and arises from his cave to find himself in a post-apocalyptic future, the original ending was restored to the film for the UK VHS release, which also had the S-Mart ending put in as a post-credit extra
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Theatrical release poster
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Radioactive Dreams
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Radioactive Dreams is a 1985 post-apocalyptic science fiction-comedy film. The film was directed by Albert Pyun, and stars George Kennedy, Michael Dudikoff, Don Murray, the two main characters are named after a combination of noir detective fiction icons, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler and Mike Hammer. The film has recently revival cult status as it screened as part of several cult screenings programs around the world, a nuclear war breaks out in 1996, expending the worlds entire nuclear arsenal, except for one missile. Two children, Philip Chandler and Marlowe Hammer, are abandoned by their fathers in a fallout shelter cut into the side of a wooded mountain, the pair grow up in the shelter, with 1950s detective fiction and swing music as the guiding force in their learning. Fifteen years later Marlowe succeeds in digging out the cave entrance, the pair give each other haircuts, dress in suits, and go to rejoin the world. Philip narrates their adventure on their first day out, My names Philip, about the day we got out of this shelter and went off into the post-nuclear world. Now, as excited as we were leaving the shelter. I mean, it was the only world wed ever known, where I practiced my magic, Marlowe, his dancing, where we both dreamed of becoming private eyes, just like the ones wed read about. Marlowe hopes to find their fathers, but Philip is disgruntled that they never returned, the mountain is now devoid of trees. The first people they find are a trio of radiation burned mutants chasing a beautiful woman and they rescue Miles, who kisses Marlowe as a distraction and steals his gun. This backfires, as she drops the keys to the last nuclear missile. Miles leaves, and the pair are attacked by a biker gang of bald women in red wigs. Afterwards the boys discover the keys, which bears their fathers names. This excites Marlowe, but disturbs Philip and they rescue another young woman, Rusty Mars, from a group of armed children Philip nicknames disco mutants. She takes a liking to Philip, and leads the two of them to Edge City which is plagued by gang warfare, Rusty takes them to a dance club, where they are captured by cannibals. They want the keys, and to eat the young men. Although Rusty helps them escape and apologises, Philip doesnt trust her, just after they part ways the pair meets up with a friend of Miles who also wants the keys. After he is dispatched Miles shows up and takes them to her hideout, there she tells them about the purpose of the keys
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Theatrical release poster
11.
Dog Soldiers (film)
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Dog Soldiers is a 2002 British action horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall, and starring Kevin McKidd, Sean Pertwee and Liam Cunningham. A British production, set in the highlands of Scotland, it was filmed almost entirely in Luxembourg, in the U. S. it premiered as a Sci Fi Pictures telefilm on the Sci Fi Channel. A couple is camping in the Scottish Highlands, the woman gives the man a silver letter opener as a present, shortly afterwards they are killed in their tent by an unseen assailant. Meanwhile, Private Cooper is seen running through a forest in North Wales and he attacks his pursuers but is overwhelmed and wrestled to the ground. It turns out Cooper is trying to join a special forces unit and he is returned to his unit by Captain Richard Ryan. Four weeks later a squad of six regular British Army soldiers, including Cooper, is dropped into the Scottish Highlands, expecting to carry out a training mission against a Special Air Service unit, they only find their savaged remains. A badly-wounded Captain Ryan, the survivor, makes cryptic references to what attacked them. While retreating, Bruce is impaled on a branch, killing him. He is rescued by Cooper and carried to a rural roadside where the group encounters Megan, the soldiers who remain are Wells, Cooper, Spoon, Joe and Terry. As dark falls, the house is surrounded by the attackers, to the soldiers incredulity and they go to get in the Land Rover but it has been destroyed by the werewolves. The soldiers maintain a defence against the werewolves, believing that if they can make it to sunrise. Cooper and Megan then treat Wells wounds, after Terry is abducted and ammunition runs short, they realise that they will not last and decide to try to escape. Spoon creates a diversion while Joe steals a Land Rover from the garage, when he gets in, he sees Terry in the garage being eaten alive by a werewolf, which rips off Terrys head and throws it at the windscreen. Joe drives up to the door, then realizes that a werewolf was hiding in the back seat. Under interrogation, Ryan then reveals that the government had sent him on a mission to capture a live werewolf so that it can be studied and exploited as a weapon, Coopers squad was the bait. An enraged Wells and Cooper attempt to kill Ryan, but he transforms into a due to his wounds and escapes out a window. It is then revealed that the family of the house are the werewolves. The soldiers try blowing up the barn - where Megan tells them the werewolves must be hiding - with petrol, gas canisters, matches and she also reveals that she unlocked the back door to the house, allowing the werewolves inside
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British quad poster for Dog Soldiers
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Nightmares (1983 film)
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Nightmares is a 1983 American horror anthology film directed by Joseph Sargent, and starring Emilio Estevez, Lance Henriksen, Cristina Raines, Veronica Cartwright, and Richard Masur. During a traffic stop at night, a cop is stabbed to death by someone leaping from the bushes, a killer is terrorizing a local California area and the TV and radio are reporting that the cop is his fifth victim. After Lisa puts her children to bed, she discovers shes out of cigarettes. Her husband forbids her to go to the store, but she sneaks out anyway, Lisa gets the cigarettes and begins home only to realize that shes almost out of gas. All the gas stations appear to be closed, finally, she stops at an out of the way station and out comes an attendant, who just happens to perfectly match the killers description on the radio. She gets increasingly alarmed as the attendant, who seems to be studying her car and its occupant and he drags her out of the car, draws a pistol and fires – to protect her from the real murderer, who was hiding in her back seat. Cooney is a video game wizard and arcade game hustler with help from his bespectacled friend Zock, after an argument about J. J. s obsession with video games, they split up for the day, and J. J. He repeatedly tries and fails to make it to the level until the owner forces him to leave at closing time. J. J. s parents, concerned about his performance in school and that night, he sneaks out and breaks into the arcade to finally finish the game. However, when he reaches the 13th level, the game collapses with the enemies flying out, J. J. flees to the parking lot, but the Bishop of Battle appears drawing closer and closer to the terrified J. J. The scene cuts to the morning, where his friends and family see J. J. s image on screen of the arcade machine for a few seconds before it turns into the player. Lance Henriksen plays a priest serving at a parish and is facing a crisis of faith brought on by the violent death of a young boy. He explains to his bishop that hes lost his belief in the concepts of good and he finally leaves the ministry with some blessed water which he now deems as purely tap water, and takes off across the desert in his car. Out of nowhere he encounters a black Chevrolet C20 Fleetside, at first, it just cuts him off and takes off. However, it keeps reappearing, forcing him off the road, with nowhere left to run, the former priest hurls the water at the pickup truck, which is vaporized at the impact. The short ends as the police later on the scene. In her home, housewife Claire has been dealing with a recent rat problem as she can hear the rats in the walls and attic, but her husband Steven ignores it. Soon enough, Claire calls an exterminator who discovers that the creature has gnawed huge holes behind various cabinets and has also chewed on the power cables, Steven comes home, criticizes his wife, and tells the exterminator to leave
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Theatrical poster designed by Design Projects, Inc.
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Emilio Estevez in "Bishop of Battle."
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Joseph Sargent
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Joseph Sargent was an American film director. His most popular film was subway thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Sargent won four Emmy Awards over his career and he is the father of anime dubbing voice actress Lia Sargent. Sargent was born as Giuseppe Danielle Sorgente in Jersey City, New Jersey, Sargent began his career as an actor, appearing in numerous films and television programs. He appeared in a role as a soldier in the film From Here to Eternity where he also meet his first wife Mary Carver on the set. In the mid 1950s Sargent switched to directing, over the next 15 years his directing credits would include episodes of television series Lassie, The Invaders, The Man from U. N. C. L. E. and Star Trek. In 1969, he directed his first feature, science fiction thriller Colossus, The Forbin Project, and in 1972 The Man, starring James Earl Jones and he alternated between television movies and feature films during the 1970s. In 1974, he won his first Directors Guild of America Award for The Marcus-Nelson Murders, in the 1980s, Sargent directed mini-series Manions of America, which featured Pierce Brosnan, and Space. In 1987 he directed Jaws, The Revenge, the sequel to Steven Spielbergs 1975 classic. The film received negative reviews. Roger Ebert called his directing of the climactic sequence incompetent, joseph Sargent and his wife Carolyn Nelson Sargent laid the groundwork for Deaf West Theatre. Sargent spent time as the Senior Filmmaker-in-Residence for the Directing program at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles, Sargent died of complications from heart disease at his home in Malibu, California, on December 22,2014. Sargent was nominated for several Emmy awards and his first nomination came for his direction of TV movie Tribes. His second nomination, for Kojak pilot The Marcus-Nelson Murders, resulted in his first Emmy win and he also won Emmys for Love Is Never Silent, Caroline. Sargent was also nominated for Amber Waves, A Lesson Before Dying, Something the Lord Made and Warm Springs, early in his career, he won a Directors Guild of America award for the Kojak pilot. Sargent was nominated for eight DGA awards for movies, more than any other director in this category. In 2005 he won the DGA Outstanding Directorial Achievement award for Something the LORD Made, joseph Sargent at the Internet Movie Database Biography at Hollywood. com at Archive. is Includes details of awards. Joseph Sargent interview video at the Archive of American Television
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Dreamscape (1984 film)
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Dreamscape is a 1984 American science-fiction adventure horror film directed by Joseph Ruben and written by David Loughery, with Chuck Russell and Ruben co-writing. Alex Gardner is a psychic who has been using his talents solely for personal gain, when he was 19 years old, Alex had been the prime subject of a scientific research project documenting his psychic ability, but in the midst of the study, he disappeared. At the institution, Alex is reunited with his former mentor Dr. Paul Novotny who is now involved in government-funded psychic research. Novotny equates the original idea for the project to the practice of the Senoi natives of Malaysia. The project was intended for use to diagnose and treat sleep disorders, particularly nightmares, but it has been hijacked by Bob Blair. Novotny convinces Alex to join the program in order to investigate Blairs intentions, buddys nightmare involves a large sinister snakeman. A subplot involving Alex and Jane’s growing infatuation culminates with him sneaking into Janes dream to have sex with her and he does this without technological aid, something no one else has been able to achieve. With the help of novelist Charlie Prince, who has been investigating the project for a new book. Blair murders Prince and Novotny to silence them, Blair considers the Presidents nightmares about nuclear holocaust a sign of political weakness, a liability in the upcoming negotiations for nuclear disarmament. Alex and Jane manage to get enough to the President’s room for Alex to project himself into the Presidents dream. The President is grateful to Alex but reluctant to confront Blair, to protect himself and Jane, Alex enters Blair’s dream and murders him before Blair can retaliate. The film ends with Jane and Alex boarding a train to Louisville, Kentucky and they are surprised to meet the ticket collector from Janes dream. He was not involved in the project after 20th Century Fox bought his outline, because he did not write the film treatment or the script, his name does not appear in the credits, assertions that he removed his name from the credits are unfounded. Dreamscape was released on August 15,1984 and this was the second film released to movie theaters that was rated PG-13 under then new MPAA ratings guidelines following Red Dawn, which had come out five days prior. The film was released on DVD on June 6,2000, January 4,2005, Dreamscape has a 75% Fresh rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes from 28 critics. The RT consensus is Dreamscape mixes several genres — horror, sci-fi, action — and always maintains a sense of adventure, the film is ranked #93 on Rotten Tomatoes Journey Through Sci-Fi
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Tommy Ray Glatman, dream assassin.
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Bigas Luna
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Josep Joan Bigas i Luna, known artistically as Bigas Luna, was a Spanish film director, designer and artist. His films are characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food. His work often explores and parodies clichés of Spanish identity, but he had a career and has made films in the Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French. He began his career working in interior and industrial design. His designs during the 1960s showed a great interest in conceptual art and he won the Gold Delta Award ADI/FAD1970. He moved into movie making in the 1970s, making low-budget shorts with erotic themes, in 1976 he shot his first feature film, Tattoo, achieving notoriety in 1978 with the sexually explicit Bilbao, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. In 1986 he retired to Tarragona in order to devote his time to painting and he and his wife Celia ran an organic farm which produced wine, ham and other organic products. Luna enjoyed the life of a bon vivant, without abandoning his dedication to painting and photography, reflected in numerous exhibitions, he began the well-known Iberian Trilogy with Jamón Jamón, Huevos de Oro and La teta y la luna. These films explored the darkest depths of eroticism and stereotypical Spanish machismo, Jamón Jamón, which launched the careers of both Javier Bardem and the 16-year-old Penélope Cruz was a major international success and won the Silver Lion at Venice in 1992. Cruz returned in Volavérunt, a film about the relationship between Francisco Goya and the Duchess of Alba. The experience in the Taller introduced them to the world of new technologies and in 2002 they promoted PLATAFORM BL, dedicated to the creation and promotion of innovative projects, Bigas Lunas varied career as a filmmaker, painter and designer made him a very singular and interdisciplinary artist. An example of that is his project called Microcosmos, an evolution of the earlier Cares de lÀnima which was exhibited in the Galería Metropolitana de Barcelona in 1990. It can now be found on a web site, where the visitor can modify and select the works and become, in this way, the creator. Bigas Luna directed and produced a multimedia installation for the Spain Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010, named Origins. The installation fused live Flamenco dance, sculpture and videos on more than 20 projectors, from 2008 to 2012, Bigas took on the art direction of the oldest musical café in Europe, El Plata, in Zaragoza. He died of leukemia on 5 April 2013, while working on the adaptation of Manuel de Pedrolos novel Mecanoscrit del segon origen
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Bigas Luna in 2005
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Paperhouse (film)
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Paperhouse is a 1988 British dark fantasy film directed by Bernard Rose. It was based on the novel Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr, the film stars Ben Cross, Glenne Headly and Gemma Jones. The original novel was the basis of a six-episode British TV series for children in the early 1970s which was titled Escape Into Night, while suffering from glandular fever, 11-year-old Anna Madden draws a house. When she falls asleep, she has disturbing dreams in which she finds herself inside the house she has drawn, after she draws a face at the window, in her next dream she finds a disabled boy named Marc living in the house. She learns from her doctor that Marc is a real person, Anna and Marc defeat the monster and shortly afterward Anna recovers, although the doctor reveals that Marcs condition is deteriorating. Annas father returns home and both seem determined to get over their marital difficulties. The family goes on holiday by the sea, where Anna finds an epilogue to her dream, Paperhouse is notable for being the only film to date in which Charlotte Burke has had a major leading role. Elliott Spiers, who played Marc, made one more film. A dream movie that uses images so real and so concrete and he also commented how effective the soundtrack was. He said that Paperhouse showed that director Bernard Rose was extremely talented, gene Siskel gave the film a marginal Thumbs Down, but he agreed that Bernard Rose was very talented and said, for about two-thirds of the way I was fascinated by this film. He also commented on how well the dream scenes were handled and said and he stated that when the film got more explicit. I thought the film went over-the-top with imagery and I got a little tired of it, until then, I was fascinated by it. The critics who have submitted their reviews to Rotten Tomatoes have given Paperhouse a fresh rating of 100%, Paperhouse was initially released on VHS format not long following its theatrical exhibition in the United Kingdom. The film was first made available on DVD on 24 September 2001 via Columbia TriStar Entertainment in its widescreen aspect ratio of 1.66,1. Lionsgate Home Entertainment released a re-issue of the film to DVD on 24 September 2007.0 and it features an aspect ratio of 1.78,1. Paperhouse at the Internet Movie Database Paperhouse at AllMovie
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Bernard Rose (director)
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Bernard Rose is an English film director most famous for his direction of the 1992 horror film Candyman and the 1994 historical romance film Immortal Beloved. He began making super 8 films when he was 9, by 1975, he won an amateur film competition hosted by BBC which led to the broadcasting of his works. He worked for Jim Henson on the last season of The Muppet Show and he attended National Film and Television School and graduated in 1982 with a Masters in Filmmaking. After this, he moved on to directing videos for MTV. Shortly after his production of videos, he moved on to direct British TV films such as Prospects and then finally in 1988 directed his first major full-length film. Rose got his big break into American cinema with 1992s Candyman, subsequently Rose both wrote and directed Immortal Beloved, about the life and loves of Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as a remake of Leo Tolstoys Anna Karenina
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Jesus Garay
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Jesús Garay Vecino was a Spanish footballer who played as a central defender. He amassed La Liga totals of 341 games and ten goals over the course of 16 seasons, representing mainly in the competition Athletic Bilbao, Garay appeared for Spain at the 1962 World Cup. Born in Bilbao, Biscay, Garay joined local Athletic Bilbao in 1950 from neighbouring SD Erandio Club, Garay earned 29 caps for the Spanish national team for eight 1/2 years, making his debut on 19 March 1953 in a 3–1 friendly win with Belgium in Barcelona
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Timescape
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Timescape is a 1980 novel by science fiction writer Gregory Benford. It won the 1980 Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards, pocket Books used the title of this book for their science fiction imprint. The story is written from two viewpoints, equidistant from the publication in 1980. The first thread is set in a 1998 ravaged by ecological disasters such as algal blooms, various other events are mentioned in passing, such as student riots and an event of nuclear terrorism against New York City which took place before the events of the novel. Given the faster-than-light nature of the tachyon, these messages will effectively reach the past and these efforts are led by John Renfrew, an Englishman, and Gregory Markham, an American most likely modeled on Benford himself. He and his student assistant, Albert Cooper, discover that the noise is coming in bursts timed to form Morse code, the resulting message is made of staccato sentence fragments and jumbled letters, due to the 1998 teams efforts to avoid a grandfather paradox. Their aim is to give the past researchers enough information to start efforts on solving the pending ecological crisis, due to the biological nature of the message, Professor Bernstein shares the message with a professor of biology, Michael Ramsey. Since the message also gives astronomical coordinates, he shares it with Saul Shriffer. Initially, these fail to understand the true meaning of the message. Ramsey believes it to be an intercepted military dispatch hinting at Soviet bioterrorism, Shriffer goes public with this theory, mentioning Bernstein in his findings. However, Bernsteins overseer, Isaac Lakin, is skeptical of the messages and wants Bernstein to keep working on his original project, as a result of this interruption in their experimentation, Bernstein is denied a promotion and Cooper fails a candidacy examination. The signal also exacerbates difficulties in Bernsteins relationship with his girlfriend, in 1998, Ian Peterson recovers a safe deposit box in La Jolla containing a piece of paper indicating that the messages were received. Meanwhile, it is clear that the nature of the algal bloom is spreading it faster. Flying to the United States, Markham is killed in a crash when the pilots fly too close to one of the clouds. In the past storyline, now advanced into 1963, Bernstein refuses to give up on the signals and he is rewarded when the signal noise is also observed in a laboratory at Columbia University. Using hints in the message, Ramsey replicates the conditions of the bloom in a controlled experiment, Bernstein finds out that the astronomical coordinates given in the message represent where the Earth will be in 1998 due to the solar apex. He also receives a more coherent, despairing message from the future, having built a solid case, Bernstein goes public and publishes his results. On November 22, a school student in Dallas is sent by his physics teacher to the Texas School Book Depository to get a copy of Bernsteins findings
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Cover of first edition (hardcover)
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Sam Raimi
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His most recent work is the 2013 Disney fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful. Raimi has also produced several television series and founded his own production company, Renaissance Pictures. Recently, he worked as the producer of The Possession, Raimi was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. He is the fourth of five born to Celia Barbara and Leonard Ronald Raimi. He was raised in Conservative Judaism, his ancestors emigrated from Russia, Raimi graduated from Groves High School and later went on to attend Michigan State University, where he majored in English but left after three semesters to film The Evil Dead. Raimi became fascinated with making films when his father brought a movie camera home one day and he began to make Super 8 movies with childhood friend Bruce Campbell. In college, he teamed up with his brothers roommate Robert Tapert and Campbell to shoot Within the Woods and he began work on his third film Crimewave, intended as a live-action comic book—the film was not successful, due in part to unwanted studio intervention. Raimi then returned to the genre with the seminal Evil Dead II. With his brother Ivan Raimi, Sam Raimi also wrote Easy Wheels, a long-time comic book buff, he then attempted to adapt The Shadow into a movie, but was unable to secure the rights, so he created his own super-hero, Darkman. Army of Darkness, the movie in the Evil Dead trilogy, was a box office flop. Raimi achieved great critical and commercial success with the blockbuster Spider-Man, the movie has grossed over US$800 million worldwide, spawning two sequels, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3, both directed by Raimi and both grossing roughly $800 million each. After the completion of the third Spider-Man film, he planned on producing two more sequels but could not find a satisfactory script, Raimi frequently collaborates with Joel and Ethan Coen, beginning when Joel was one of the editors of Evil Dead. The Coens co-wrote Crimewave and The Hudsucker Proxy with Raimi in the mid-1980s, Raimi made cameo appearances in Millers Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, and with Joel Coen in Spies Like Us. The Coen brothers gave Raimi advice on shooting in snow for A Simple Plan, the film was written by his childhood friend writer-director Mike Binder and shot at the camp that they both attended when they were younger. Raimi also produced the entire The Grudge franchise, according to Entertainment Weekly, Raimi had expressed an interest in directing a film version of The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 2008, Guillermo del Toro was selected as the director, Raimi may direct By Any Means Necessary, the next film based on the Jack Ryan CIA character created by Tom Clancy for Paramount Pictures. Disney also approached him to direct W. I. T. C. H, the Movie, based on the popular comic. Blizzard Entertainment announced on July 22,2009 that Sam Raimi will be directing a Warcraft film, however at Comic-Con International 2012, it was revealed that he would not be the one directing the World of Warcraft adaptation
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Sam Raimi at the 2014
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Raimi in Los Angeles, March 2013
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Stephan Elliott
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Stephan Elliott is an Australian film director and screenwriter. His best-known film internationally is The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Elliott began his career as an assistant director working in the boom of the Australian film industry of the 1980s. For a time during 1982/83, Stephan and Troy Tempest presented The Blues Brothers, every Friday night for over a year, dressed as Jake and Elwood, Stephan and Troy appeared on TV several times, along with their Bluesmobile. In 2004, Elliott was involved in an accident which saw him hospitalised for several months. He credits the accident with rediscovering his sense of humour and this may go part way to explaining why, in 2007 Elliott worked with Fred Nassiri to create one of the most expensive music videos of all time. Shot in over 15 countries, with seven directors the song Love Sees No Colour aspires to spread a message of peace and his film Easy Virtue, was written with co-writer Sheridan Jobbins, and is based on the Noël Coward play of the same name. It stars Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jessica Biel and it was produced by Barnaby Thompson for Ealing Studios in the UK, and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2008. It has also screened in the Rio Film Festival, Rome Film Festival and his next film, A Few Best Men starring Xavier Samuel and Olivia Newton-John was released in 2012. Other writing credits include the script for the play of Priscilla which premiered in 2007 at Sydneys Lyric Theatre in Star City to excellent reviews. Later in the year it moved The Regent Theatre in Melbourne and in May 2008 to Aucklands The Civic theatre in New Zealand, Elliott came out as gay during his presentation at the inaugural AACTA Awards in Sydney on 31 January 2012. He has been in a relationship with his partner, Wil Bevolley and they had a civil partnership ceremony in London in 2008
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Stephan Elliott and Olivia Newton-John at the premiere of his film A Few Best Men, Sydney, 2012
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Accumulator 1
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Accumulator 1 is a 1994 film directed by Jan Svěrák. The film won the Grand Prize at the 7th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1996, judges at the festival that year included actress Kim Novak and actor-director Mario Van Peebles. It won the award at the Tromsø International Film Festival in 1996. Accumulator 1 at the Internet Movie Database
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Jan Sverak
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Jan Svěrák is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák and he studied documentary filmmaking at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He and his films have received awards including the Academy Award, Crystal Globe, Golden Globe, and Tokyo Grand Prix
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Lawn Dogs
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Lawn Dogs is a 1997 British-American fantasy-drama film directed by John Duigan and starring Mischa Barton and Sam Rockwell. The film tells the story of a young girl from a gated community who befriends a landscape worker. Written by Naomi Wallace, the film was released by Rank Organisation, the film uses the folktale of Baba Yaga as a prominent plot device. Although filmed in Louisville and Danville, Kentucky in the United States, Lawn Dogs won numerous film awards at film festivals in Europe and met with critical acclaim, in particular for Bartons performance. Recently having recovered from heart surgery, Devon is encouraged by her parents to make friends. An imaginative child, Devon imagines her life to be like the fable of Baba Yaga, during a family barbecue, Devon explores her fathers car in their garage. She finds her fathers handgun in the compartment of his SUV. Brett discovers her and with the gun and attempts to molest Devon in the garage. She tells her parents about the incident, but then insists that Brett was only trying to tickle her, clare begins to notice Devons apparent friendship with Trent when he comes to do lawn work at their house, and becomes alarmed. Meanwhile, Brett and Sean terrorize Trent by pouring sugar in the tank of his lawnmower. Devon and Trents friendship continues to grow, and the two go to visit Trents mother and his father, a Korean War veteran who is dying of a lung disease, after leaving Trents parents house, Trent and Devon go for a drive in the country. While stopped in a field, Devon insists that since the two are best friends, she can show him her surgical scar on her chest. She asks him to touch it to his reluctance, and then demands that he show her his abdominal scar which he sustained in a shooting, after showing each other their scars, the two see Seans dog running through the field, having escaped. While trying to chase the dog down in the truck, they run him over. Trent kills the injured dog in spite of Devons pleas for him not to. Assuming that Trent molested her, Morton drives out to Trents property with Devon, assisted by Sean, the three men confront Trent while Devon sits in the car. Morton and Sean take turns beating Trent, and Morton accuses him of raping Devon. Morton attacks Trent with a piece of wood, beating him to the ground, and hands it to Sean, as Sean bleeds on the ground, Devon urges Trent to leave, and they say their goodbyes. Time Out praised Duigan in that he maintains an atmosphere where dream is a step from nightmare
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Ring (film)
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Ring is a 1998 Japanese psychological horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, adapted from the novel Ring by Kôji Suzuki, which in turn draws on the Japanese folk tale Banchō Sarayashiki. The film stars Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Rikiya Ōtaka, the film is centered around a reporter who is on the run to investigate the mystery behind a cursed videotape that kills the viewer 7 days after watching it. Ring and its sequel Rasen were released in Japan at the same time, after its release, Ring inspired numerous follow-ups within the Ring franchise and triggered a trend of Western remakes, starting with the 2002 American film The Ring. Two teenagers, Masami and Tomoko, talk about a videotape recorded by a boy in Izu which is fabled to bear a curse that kills the viewer seven days after watching. Tomoko reveals that a week ago, she and three of her friends watched a tape and received a call after watching. Tomoko goes downstairs and witnesses her TV turn on by itself and she later hears startling noises and turns around, only to be killed by an unseen force. She also discovers that Masami became insane from witnessing Tomokos death and is institutionalised in a mental hospital, after stumbling upon Tomokos photos from the past week, Reiko finds that the four teenagers stayed in a rental cabin in Izu. Reiko goes to Izu and arrives at the cabin, where she finds an unlabeled tape in the reception room of the teenagers rental cottage. Watching the tape, Reiko sees a series of seemingly unrelated disturbing images, as soon as the tape is over, Reiko sees a mysterious reflection in the television and receives a phone call containing the screeching sounds from the tape. Reiko enlists the help of her ex-husband, Ryūji Takayama and they take a picture of Reiko and find her face blurred in the photograph. Ryūji then watches the tape, against Reikos objections, a day later, Reiko creates a copy for Ryūji for them to study. They find a hidden message embedded within the tape saying frolic in brine, the message is in a form of dialect from Izu Ōshima Island. That night, Reiko catches her young son Yoichi watching the videotape, Reiko also has a sudden flashback of a young Sadako psychically killing a reporter who labelled her mother a fraud during a demonstration. The two go back to Izu with the assumption that Sadako is dead and her vengeful spirit killed the teenagers and they uncover a well underneath the cabin and through a vision see the circumstances of Sadakos murder by her father. They try to find Sadakos body in an attempt to appease her spirit, minutes before her seven days are up, Reiko finds Sadakos corpse, and they believe that the curse is broken. The next day Ryūji is at home and his TV switches on by itself, the ghost of Sadako crawls out of the well, out of Ryūjis TV set, and frightens him into a state of shock, killing him via cardiac arrest. Before dying, he manages to dial Reikos number, she hears his last minutes over the phone, desperate to save her son, Reiko realizes that copying the tape and showing it to someone else saved her. Critics have discussed Ring’s preoccupations with Japanese tradition’s collision with modernity, colette Balmain identifies, “In the figure of Sadako, Ring vengeful yūrei archetype of conventional Japanese horror”
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Hideo Nakata
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Hideo Nakata is a Japanese filmmaker. Nakata was born in Okayama, Japan and he is most familiar to Western audiences for his work on Japanese horror films such as Ring, Ring 2 and Dark Water. Several of these were remade in America as The Ring, Dark Water, Nakata was scheduled to make his English-language debut with True Believers, but later pulled out. He was later offered by DreamWorks to direct the movie The Ring Two, Nakata made his initial breakthrough into film with Ghost Actress. Although failing to attain any large-scale success, the film was responsible for leading to his directing of Ring, other Nakata films include Sleeping Bride, Curse, Death and Spirit, and Chaos. He directed the psychological thriller The Incite Mill which premiered on 16 October 2010 in Japan and he has now completed a Japanese ghost story, Kaidan. Nakata is currently working on Hearn, which is about the life of Lafcadio Hearn who wrote Kwaidan and he is represented by United Talent Agency. His film Chatroom, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival
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The Nameless
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The Nameless is a song by American metal band Slipknot. The song was released as the single from their first live album,9.0, Live, while it is also included on their third studio album. A music video was released for the single in late 2005, the Nameless is 4 minutes and 28 seconds long. The song begins with a guitar riff, with mixed in samples, leading to the guitar notes getting lower. This eventually leads to low noted riffs with minor scales associated in, the song has a basic minor-key riff, along with thrash riffs, and interludes that are much softer. The chorus is slow, emotional and epic, the song is in B minor, like many other Slipknot songs. The accompanying music video was directed by band member Shawn Crahan, the video was featured on their video album Voliminal, Inside the Nine. The music video depicts Slipknot performing live on their headline tour The Subliminal Verses World Tour. The videos features various clips and shots of their fans during the concert, many of the photos featured in 9.0, Live are seen in the video. At the end of the video, a caption says Dedicated to all the Maggots everywhere, before the 9.0, Lives release, a sample from the live recording of The Nameless was made available on the Internet through the bands record label. A music video featuring the recording of The Nameless was created to promote the album. Blender commented that Relief from Prelude arrives quickly in the basic minor-key riffs, dan Silver from NME said The Nameless intercuts thrash riffs with softly-strummed interludes. Robert Cherry of Rolling Stone said it splices a cooing boy-band chorus onto a speed metal verse. Yahoo. s Chris Heath said the song confusingly stitches both extremes together – the ludicrously vicous and ridiculously placid – into one track that simply feels awkward, the Nameless was featured in the album Promo only, Modern Rock Radio in 2005. The album is by various artists including System of a Down, OK Go, Fall Out Boy and it was also track number 8 on Radioactive, Mainstream & Rock series in December 2005. The album features various artists that include many of the featured on Promo only. The song also appeared on The Scorched Earth Orchestra Performs Slipknot, with nine other tracks, the tribute album released by Vitamin Records and includes covers of tracks from Slipknots first three studio albums. The labels website enthuse that The Scorched Earth Orchestra expand on Slipknots marching-band-from-hell framework with booming percussion, in-your-face horns string sections that rip at your flesh
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Screenshot of "The Nameless" music video.
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The Isle
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The Isle is a 2000 South Korean film written and directed by Kim Ki-duk, his fifth film, and the first to receive wide international acclaim for his now recognizable style. The film has gained notoriety for gruesome scenes that some viewers to vomit or faint when the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The Isle stars Suh Jung and Kim Yu-seok as a couple who develop a love for each other despite their unusual circumstances. She also dispassionately takes care of her customers needs by selling supplies, however, when a man running from the law, Hyun-shik, comes to the resort, a bond starts to form between them. At the start of the film, Hyun-shik arrives at the resort and is ferried to his float by Hee-jin, there is nothing unusual about their business relationship from the onset, but eventually Hee-jin is intrigued by Hyun-shiks obviously troubled past. When visiting his float one time, Hee-jin still resists Hyun-shiks forceful advances but does call in a prostitute to service him, Hyun-shik, however, only wants companionship from the prostitute and a relationship starts to form between them. The two developing relationships between Hyun-shik and the prostitute and Hyun-shik and Hee-jin move the plot, Hee-jin looks after Hyun-shik, even saving him from two suicide attempts, the second one accomplished gruesomely by swallowing a string of fish hooks. The prostitute continues to more and more time off her schedule to visit Hyun-shik, oblivious to his troubles. During one visit, Hee-jin ferries the prostitute to an empty float instead of Hyun-shiks, ties her up and duct tapes her mouth shut, the next morning Hee-jin finds her drowned and submerges her body tied to her motorbike. The prostitutes pimp, who comes to find out whats happening, Hee-jin appears in the water and kills the pimp. He is then submerged near the prostitute, after the murders, Hyun-shiks and Hee-jins relationship stalls. Hyun-shik wants to leave the resort, but Hee-jin, who controls the only boat wont let him, when he attempts to swim out, Hee-jin has to save him and take him back to his float. Hyun-shik takes the boat and is set to leave, Hee-jin apparently attempts suicide in an effort to stop him by stuffing fish hooks into her vagina and falling into the water. This time its Hyun-shiks turn to save her, by reeling her in with the still attached hooks, Hyun-shik and Hee-jin continue their troubled relationship. A prostitute accidentally kicks a mans Rolex into the water, infuriating him and he calls divers to have them retrieve the watch. The divers discover the bodies of the prostitute and the pimp while Hee-jin, the film concludes in enigmatic fashion. Like most of the director Kim Ki-duks films, The Isle wasnt well received in his native country, however, the film and its controversial elements caused some stir in the film festivals it appeared in, causing it to be picked up by others in the process. The film was one of the first Korean films to be presented in the category of the Venice Film Festival, following Im Kwon-taeks Surrogate Woman
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Dog Soldiers
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The Dog Soldiers or Dog Men are historically one of six military societies of the Cheyenne Indians. After the deaths of half the Southern Cheyenne in the cholera epidemic of 1849. It effectively became a band, occupying territory between the Northern and Southern Cheyenne. Its members often opposed policies of peace such as Black Kettle. In 1869, most of the band were killed by United States Army forces in the Battle of Summit Springs, the surviving societies became much smaller and more secretive in their operations. In the 21st-century, there has been a revival of the Dog Soldiers society in areas as the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana and among the Cheyenne. The two central institutions of traditional Cheyenne tribal governance are the Council of Forty-Four and the military societies, historically, Dog Soldiers have been regarded as both highly aggressive and effective combatants. In 1837, while raiding the Kiowa horse herds along the North Fork of the Red River, Porcupine Bear, chief of the Dog Soldiers, took up the war pipe of the Cheyenne. He carried it to the various Cheyenne and Arapaho camps to drum up support for revenge against the Kiowa and he reached a Northern Cheyenne camp along the South Platte River just after it had traded for liquor from American Fur Company men at Fort Laramie. Porcupine Bear joined in the drinking and he sat and sang Dog Soldier war songs. Two of his cousins, Little Creek and Around, became caught up in a drunken fight and he forced Around to finish off Little Creek. By the rules governing military societies, a man who murdered or accidentally killed another member had blood on his hands and was prohibited from joining a society. A society member who committed such a crime was expelled and outlawed, Porcupine Bear was expelled from the Dog Soldiers, and he and his relatives had to camp apart from the rest of the Cheyenne. The Dog Soldiers were disgraced by Porcupine Bears act, the other chiefs forbade them from leading war against the Kiowa. Wolf reformed the Bowstring Society, which had been nearly annihilated in the fight with the Kiowa and it took over leading warfare against the Kiowa. Though outlawed by the body of the Cheyenne, Porcupine Bear led the Dog Soldiers into battle against the Kiowa. He and his warriors were reportedly the first to strike the enemy, considered an honor but, due to their outlaw status, their feat was not celebrated. The outlawing of Porcupine Bear, his relatives, and his followers led to the transformation of the Dog Soldiers from a society into a separate division of the tribe
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A modern Dog Soldier headdress at a
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Neil Marshall
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Neil Marshall is an English film director, editor and screenwriter. Marshall began his career in editing and in 2002 directed his first feature film Dog Soldiers and he followed up with the critically acclaimed horror film The Descent in 2005. Marshall also directed Doomsday in 2008, and wrote and directed Centurion in 2010, Marshall was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England. He was first inspired to become a director when he saw Raiders of the Lost Ark at the age of eleven. He began making movies using Super 8 mm film, and in 1989. In the next eight years, he worked as a film editor. In 1995, he was hired to co-write and edit for director Bharat Nalluris first film, Killing Time. Marshall continued to write and develop his own projects, directing his first film in 2002, Dog Soldiers, a film that became a cult film in the United Kingdom. In 2005, he followed up with a horror film. With his direction of The Descent, he was identified as a member of the Splat Pack and his next film, Doomsday, is a 2008 science fiction action film he wrote and directed. The film takes place in the future in Scotland, which has been quarantined because of a deadly virus, when the virus is found in London, political leaders send a team led by Major Eden Sinclair to Scotland to find a possible cure. Sinclairs team runs two types of survivors, marauders and medieval knights. Doomsday was conceived by Marshall based on the idea of futuristic soldiers facing medieval knights, in producing the film, he drew inspiration from various movies, including Mad Max, Escape from New York and 28 Days Later. Marshall had a three times the size of his previous two films. The director filmed the larger-scale Doomsday in Scotland and South Africa, the film was released on 14 March 2008 in the United States and Canada and in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2008. Doomsday did not perform well at the box office, and critics gave the mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 49% of critics gave the film positive write-ups, based on a sample of 69, at Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 51, based on 14 reviews. Marshall won the British Independent Film Award for Best Director of a British Independent Film for The Descent, the horror film also won a Saturn Award for Best Horror Film
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Neil Marshall promoting The Descent at Comic Con 2006
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Cypher (film)
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Cypher, is a 2002 science fiction thriller film starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu. It was written by Brian King and directed by Vincenzo Natali, Jeremy Northam plays an accountant whose hope for a career in corporate espionage takes an unexpected turn. The film was shown in limited release in theaters in the US and Australia, the film received mixed reviews, and Northam received the Best Actor award at the Sitges Film Festival. Morgan Sullivan, an unemployed accountant, is bored with his suburban life. Pressured by his wife to take a job with her fathers company, Digicorps Head of Security, Finster, inducts Morgan and assigns him a new identity. As Jack Thursby, he is sent to conventions to secretly record presentations, Sullivan is soon haunted by recurring nightmares and neck pain. When he meets Rita Foster from a corporation, his life starts to become complicated. Rita gives him pills to cure his pain and nightmares and tells him not to transmit at the next convention, after the convention, Digicorp confirms the receipt of his transmission, though Morgan had sent nothing. Sure that something strange is going on, Morgan takes the pills Rita gave him, confused by what is going on, and intrigued by Rita, he arranges to meet with her again. At the meeting, she tells him about Digicorps deception and offers him an antidote – a green liquid in a large syringe and she warns him that no matter what happens at the next convention he must not react. Morgan discovers that all the attendees are spies like him. While they are drugged from the drinks, plastic-clad scientists probe, inject. Individual headsets reinforce their new identities, preparing them to be used, Morgan manages to convince Digicorp that he believes his new identity. He is then recruited by Sunway Systems, a rival of Digicorp, sunways Head of Security, Callaway, encourages Morgan to act as a double agent, feeding corrupted data to Digicorp. Morgan calls Rita, who warns him that Sunway is equally ruthless, Morgan manages to steal the required information from Sunway Systems vault, escaping with Ritas help. Rita ultimately takes him to meet Rooks, when she temporarily leaves the room, a nervous Morgan calls Finster, and becomes even more distressed. He accidentally shoots Rita, who encourages him to ignore her, Morgan finds the room filled with objects which appear to be personal to him, including a photograph of him and Rita together. Realising that he is apparently Rooks, he turns to Rita in disbelief, before Rita can convince him, the apartment is invaded by armed men
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Vincenzo Natali
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Vincenzo Natali is an American-Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for writing and directing science fiction films such as Cube, Cypher, Nothing, and Splice. Natali was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a nursery school teacher/painter mother and he is of Italian and English descent. He moved to Toronto, along with his family, at the age of one, during his time in high school, Natali befriended British-born Canadian actor David Hewlett who has appeared in the majority of films that Natali has directed. Natali also attended the programme at Ryerson University. He was eventually hired as a storyboard artist at the Nelvana Animation Studios and his cinematic influences included Samuel Beckett, David Cronenberg, and Terry Gilliam. Natalis directing debut came in 1997, when he was approached to direct Cube, the film became a success worldwide, especially in Japan and France, grossing $15 million in France, and breaking box office records for a Canadian film. At the 19th Genie Awards, the film received five nominations, after this success, Natali went on to direct Cypher and Nothing. Natali is nominated for the 4th Annual Splatcademy Awards under the category Best Director presented by Cadaver Lab for his work Splice, in 2013 his series Darknet, an adaptation of the Japanese series Tori Hada, began airing on Super Channel in Canada. In 2015, he directed the second episode of the first season of the American supernatural drama television series The Returned. In 2016, he is set to direct the episode of the new HBO series. Vincenzo Natali at the Internet Movie Database Podcast interview with Vincenzo Natali about Splice
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Natali at
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Save the Green Planet!
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Save the Green Planet. is a South Korean film, written and directed by Jang Joon-hwan, released on 4 April 2003. The movie mixes elements of genres, including comedy, science fiction, horror. The basic story begins when the character, Lee Byeong-gu, kidnaps another man. The films main character is Byeong-gu, a man who believes that aliens from Andromeda are about to attack Earth, after imprisoning the man in his basement workshop, Byeong-gu proceeds to torture him. It soon appears that the executives company poisoned Byeong-gus mother in a pharmaceuticals test, when a detective comes calling to investigate the disappearance, the executive tries to escape but is thwarted by the psychotic Byeong-gu. The detective at first finds nothing unusual but on his way out sees Byeong-gus dog gnawing on the bones of his masters past victims, after contacting a partner in the police force he is killed by Byeong-gus bees, is hacked up and fed to the dog. Byeong-gu then crucifies the executive and breaks his leg with the back of his axe, in a desperate move, the executive convinces Byeong-gu that the bottle of benzene in his car trunk is the antidote for his comatose mother. As Byeong-gu races to the hospital to deliver the antidote, the executive frees himself by pulling his hands through the nails and he then travels deeper into his captor’s lair, finding evidence of his grim research. Photos of mutilated corpses are littered with blood scrawled notebooks, while hands, the child was beaten in school and was a victim of the sadistic whims of his cruel teachers. He showed early signs of violence, such as stabbing a fellow school mate with a kitchen knife and his mother was then poisoned in the aforementioned incident and at a protest his former girlfriend was beaten to death. He slowly went mad from the violence that surrounded him, as this is happening, the dead detectives partner arrives and finds the frantic executive. And Byeong-gu, after rushing to the hospital to give the antidote to his comatose mother, killing her. He returns home to kill the alien, only to find the detective there as well, after a brief struggle and a bizarre turn of events, he captures both of them and plans on killing them both. He also agrees, in what appears to be a time-buying move, Byeong-gu leaves the detective all his notes, saying that if he does not make it, he will have the responsibility of saving the planet. At the factory, the executive triggers a computer controlled robotic arm to kill Byeong-gus girlfriend, when the police arrive, they shoot Byeong-gu, and as he bleeds to death he wonders aloud, Now who will save the earth. When the aliens do arrive and beam up the executive aboard their ship, disgusted and angered by the torture and corruption and evils of the world, he deems Earth a failed experiment and blasts it from creation. As the credits roll still photographs recap the entire journey of Byeong-gus life, focusing instead on the beautiful, happy moments of a boy and man with his father and mother. Jang first conceived of the idea for Save the Green Planet, later, Jang stumbled across a crank website accusing actor Leonardo DiCaprio of being an alien who wanted to conquer Earth by seducing all of its women, and he decided to combine the two concepts
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The Host (2006 film)
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The Host is a 2006 South Korean monster film, directed by Bong Joon-ho and starring Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doona and Go Ah-sung. The film concerns a kidnapping a mans daughter, and his attempts to rescue her. According to the director, his inspiration came from an article about a deformed fish with an S-shaped spine caught in the Han River. The Host had set a new Korean box office record by reaching 10 million tickets in just 21 days, in addition, it was ranked one of the top films of 2007 on Metacritic with a score of 85. In November 2008, it was announced that Universal Studios would be remaking The Host, following the success of the directors work Memories of Murder, The Host was highly anticipated by many. It was released on a number of screens in its home country on July 27,2006. By the end of its run on November 8,13 million tickets had been sold, the film was released on a limited basis in the United States on March 9,2007, and on DVD, Blu-ray, and HD DVD formats on July 24,2007. It won several awards including Best Film at the Asian Film Awards, in 2002, an American military pathologist orders his Korean assistant to dump 200 bottles of formaldehyde down a drain leading into the Han River. Over the next four years, there are sightings of an amphibious creature in the waterway. A suicidal man, just before jumping into the river, sees something moving in the water. In 2006, a young man named Park Gang-du runs a small snack-bar in a park near the River with his father. Other family members are Gang-dus daughter, Hyun-seo, his sister Nam-joo, a national medalist archer, and his brother, Nam-il, while Gang-du is delivering food to some customers, a huge creature emerges from the Han River and begins attacking people. Gang-du sees his daughter in the crowd and tries to grab her, as he realizes he grabbed on the wrong girl, he sees the creature snatching Hyun-seo and diving back into the river. After a mass funeral for the victims, government representatives and the American military arrive and quarantine people who had contact with the creature, including Gang-du and it is announced that the creature is not only a direct danger, but also the host of a deadly, unknown virus. Gang-du is in a hospital when he receives a call from Hyun-seo. She is on the phone long enough to explain that she is trapped somewhere in the sewers with the creature, Gang-du tries to explain this to others, but his claims go ignored by all except his family. The four of them escape the hospital, Hee-bong buys a truck, weapons, and a map of the sewers to look for Hyun-seo. They find a bar, have a meal and rest
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Bong Joon-Ho
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Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His films include South Korean hits Memories of Murder, based on a serial murder case, monster movie The Host. Korean film industry insiders have nicknamed him Bong Tae-il, which, pronounced in Korean, though he displays a fascination for strong subject matter, his films are filled with humor and sudden mood shifts. Bong Joon-ho was born in Daegu in 1969 and decided to become a filmmaker while in middle school and his father was a designer and his grandfather was a noted author. He majored in sociology in Yonsei University in the late 1980s and was a member of the club there. He was then a fan of Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, in the early 1990s, he completed a two-year program at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. While there, he made many 16mm short films and his graduation films Memory Within the Frame and Incoherence were invited to screen at the Vancouver and Hong Kong international film festivals. He also collaborated on works with his classmates — most notably as cinematographer on highly acclaimed short 2001 Imagine. Aside from cinematography on Hur Jae-youngs short A Hat, Bong was also lighting director on an early short Sounds From Heaven and Earth by Choi Equan, after graduating, he spent the next five years contributing in various capacities to works by other directors. Shortly afterwards Bong began shooting his first feature Barking Dogs Never Bite under producer Cha Seung-jae, the film, about a low-ranking university lecturer who abducts a neighbors dog, was shot in the same apartment complex where Bong had lived after getting married. Although now remembered fondly, at the time of its release in February 2000 it did not stir up much interest among audiences, response from critics was positive but slightly muted. Nonetheless, the film was invited to the section of Spains prestigious San Sebastian International Film Festival. Bongs second film, Memories of Murder, a much larger-scale project, was adapted from a stage play centered on a real-life serial killer who terrorized a rural town in the 1980s. Production of the film was a long and arduous process, but with the weather providing unexpected help with some stunning skyscapes and it was released in April 2003 and proved an immediate critical and popular success. Although passed over by the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals, the film received its international premiere at San Sebastian. The film also received a strong critical reception on its release in foreign territories such as France. Following this, Bong took some time to short films to two omnibus projects. Influenza is a disturbing 30-minute work acted out entirely in front of real CCTV cameras stationed throughout Seoul and his films Memories of Murder, The Host, Madeo and Snowpiercer were re-released as a film series in April 2015 in the Jacob Burns Film Center in New York
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Bong Joon-ho in 2013 at the Deauville American Film Festival.
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Bong Joon-ho at the Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles, March 5, 2010.
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13 Beloved
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13 Beloved is a 2006 Thai horror comedy film written and directed by Chukiat Sakveerakul and starring Krissada Sukosol Clapp. It was the second film for Chukiat, who previously directed the horror film. The film won awards in Thailand and from film festivals. Remake rights for the film were purchased by The Weinstein Company, a Boy Scout is standing at the crosswalk of a busy intersection in Bangkok and sees an elderly woman carrying some bags, struggling to make her way across the street. The woman drops some of her belongings, and as the seconds tick away before the lights will change, in the confusion, he drops his mobile phone, and leaves it in the street while he helps the woman to safety. Just as the changes and traffic starts to rush forward, the boy runs out to retrieve his phone. The scene then shifts to protagonist Phuchit Puengnathong, a struggling Yamaha Corporation salesman and he arrives at a potential clients school to find that a co-worker from his firm has already made the sale. His girlfriend, Maew, has dumped him to become a pop star. He lives alone in a small apartment, the next morning, he finds that his car has been repossessed. He arrives at work and is called into his bosss office and he goes out to the stairwell to gather his thoughts and have a cigarette. He then discovers he has no more and he has a big stack of overdue bills from credit companies. However, his phone is still working. She needs some money to pay for his younger brothers schooling, puchit agrees to send her some money. Angrily, he crumples his credit-card statements and bills and throws them to the floor, the caller says Phuchit has a chance to win 10,000 baht. Phuchit is ready to hang up, thinking the call is cruel joke being played on him by his co-workers or friends, but then the caller tells Phuchit his full name, age, employment status and other details that makes Phuchit stay on the line. To win the 10,000 baht, all he has to do is swat a fly which is at that very moment buzzing around him and has been pestering him the time hes been sitting in the stairwell. The caller even says there is a rolled up newspaper nearby, phutchit grabs the paper and swats the fly. He immediately receives a message that 10,000 baht has been transferred to his bank account, the caller says Phuchit will win more money if he eats the dead fly
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Chookiat Sakveerakul
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Chookiat Sakveerakul, born 1981 in Chiang Mai, Thailand) is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is also credited as Ma-Deaw Chukiatsakwirakul or Matthew Chukiat Sakwirakul, chookiats first feature-length film was an ensemble drama, The Passenger of Li, which was an independent production. His next film was Pisaj, a 2004 horror film produced by Sahamongkol Film International, chookiat garnered critical acclaim for this next film,13 Beloved, a gritty drama about a deadly underground reality television game, which won several awards in Thailand and from film festivals. He graduated from Montfort College in Chiang Mai, body Chocolate 4 Romance The Passenger of Li Pisaj 13 Beloved The Love of Siam Home, Love, Happiness, Remembrance Grean Fictions Chukiat Sakweerakul at the Internet Movie Database
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Chookiat at the premiere of The Love of Siam in November 2007
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Let the Right One In (film)
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Let the Right One In is a 2008 Swedish romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson, based on the 2004 novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay. The film tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a child in Blackeberg. Alfredson, unconcerned with the horror and vampire conventions, decided to tone down many elements of the novel, selecting the lead actors involved a year-long process with open castings held all over Sweden. In the end, the 11-year-olds Kåre Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson were chosen for the leading roles and they were subsequently commended by both Alfredson and film reviewers for their performances. Oskar, a meek 12-year-old boy, resides with his mother Yvonne in the western Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1981, Oskars classmates regularly bully him, and he spends his evenings imagining revenge, collecting clippings from newspapers and magazines about grisly murders. One night he meets Eli, who appears to be a girl of his age. Eli has recently moved into the apartment with an older man, Håkan. Eli initially informs Oskar that they cannot be friends, over time, however, they begin to form a close relationship, with Oskar lending his Rubiks Cube to Eli, and the two exchanging Morse code messages through their adjoining wall. Håkan requests that Eli stop seeing Oskar, after questioning Oskar about a cut on his cheek, Eli learns that the boy is being bullied by schoolmates and encourages him to stand up for himself. This inspires Oskar to enroll for weight-training classes after school, earlier, Håkan stops and kills a passerby on a busy footpath near a main road to harvest fresh blood for Eli, but he fails to return with any when he is interrupted by an oncoming dog walker. Eli is prompted to waylay and kill a man, Jocke, making his way home from a bar after having said goodnight to his best friend. A local cat-loving recluse, Gösta, witnesses the attack from his flat and he does not believe what he has seen and decides not to report the incident. Håkan hides Jockes body in an ice-hole in the local lake, Håkan later makes another well-prepared but incompetently executed effort to obtain blood for Eli by trapping a teenage boy in a changing room after school. The boys friends are waiting for him to emerge, and go to see what is holding him up, before he is discovered, Håkan pours concentrated hydrochloric acid onto his own face, disfiguring it to prevent the authorities from identifying him and tracing Eli. Eli learns that Håkan has been taken to the hospital and scales the building to access his restricted room, Håkan opens the window for Eli and offers his neck to Eli for feeding, after Eli has fed, Håkan falls out of the window on the snow. Now alone, Eli goes to Oskars apartment and spends the night with him, while Eli states, Im not a girl, Oskar either ignores this or accepts the nature of the relationship. During an ice skating field trip at the lake, some of Oskars fellow students discover Jockes body. At the same time, Oskar finally stands up to his tormentors and strikes the leader of the bullies, Conny, on the side of the head with a pole, some time later, Oskar shows Eli a private place he knows
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The characteristic subway station of
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The absence of ceilings made various overhead lighting techniques possible.
