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Tribeca Film Festival
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The mission of the festival is to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience. The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate New York City as a filmmaking center. In 2006 and 2007, the Festival received over 8600 film submissions, the Festivals program line-up includes a variety of independent films including documentaries, narrative features and shorts, as well as a program of family-friendly films. The Festival also features panel discussions with personalities in the entertainment world, past artists of the Artists Awards program have included Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and Julian Schnabel. The festival now draws an estimated three million people—including often-elusive celebrities from the worlds of art, film, and music—and generates $600 million annually, the inaugural festival launched after 120 days of planning with the help of more than 1,300 volunteers. It was attended by more than 150,000 people and featured several up-and-coming filmmakers, the 2003 festival brought more than 300,000 people. It became one of the venues of the festival, in an effort to serve its mission of bringing independent film to the widest possible audience, in 2006, the Festival expanded its reach in New York City and internationally. In New York City, Tribeca hosted screenings throughout Manhattan as the Festivals 1, internationally, the Festival brought films to the Rome Film Fest. As part of the celebrations in Rome, Tribeca was awarded the first ever Steps and Stars award, presented on the Spanish Steps. A total of 169 feature films and 99 shorts were selected from 4,100 film submissions, the festival featured 90 world premieres, nine international premieres,31 North American premieres,6 U. S. premieres, and 28 New York City premieres. In 2009, Rosenthal, Hatkoff and De Niro were named number 14 on Barrons list of the worlds top 25 philanthropists for their role in regenerating TriBeCas economy after September 11, as of 2010, the festival is run as a business by Tribeca Enterprises. Andrew Essex has been the CEO of Tribeca Enterprises since January,2016, in 2011, L. A. Noire became the first video game to be recognized by the Tribeca Film Festival. com,02.23.2013
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New York Governor
David Paterson opens the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
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Festival founders
Jane Rosenthal and
Robert De Niro.
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The marquee of Tribeca Cinemas
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Kansas City is the largest city in Missouri and the sixth largest city in the Midwest. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the city had an population of 475,378 in 2015. It is the city of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a Missouri River port at its confluence with the Kansas River coming in from the west, on June 1,1850 the town of Kansas was incorporated, shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory. Confusion between the two ensued and the name Kansas City was assigned to them soon thereafter. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, but portions spill into Clay, Cass, along with Independence, it serves as one of the two county seats for Jackson County. Major suburbs include the Missouri cities of Independence and Lees Summit and the Kansas cities of Overland Park, Olathe, and Kansas City. The city is composed of neighborhoods, including the River Market District in the north, the 18th and Vine District in the east. Kansas City is also known for its cuisine, its craft breweries, Kansas City, Missouri was officially incorporated as a town on June 1,1850, and as a city on March 28,1853. The territory straddling the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers was considered a place to build settlements. The Antioch Christian Church, Dr. James Compton House, the first documented European visitor to Kansas City was Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, who was also the first European to explore the lower Missouri River. Criticized for his response to the Native American attack on Fort Détroit, Bourgmont lived with a Native American wife in a village about 90 miles east near Brunswick, Missouri, where he illegally traded furs. In the documents, he describes the junction of the Grande Riv des Cansez and Missouri River, French cartographer Guillaume Delisle used the descriptions to make the areas first reasonably accurate map. The Spanish took over the region in the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the French continued their fur trade under Spanish license. After the 1804 Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark visited the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, in 1831, a group of Mormons from New York settled in what would become the city. They built the first school within Kansas Citys current boundaries, but were forced out by mob violence in 1833, in 1833 John McCoy established West Port along the Santa Fe Trail,3 miles away from the river. In 1834 McCoy established Westport Landing on a bend in the Missouri to serve as a point for West Port. Soon after, the Kansas Town Company, a group of investors, began to settle the area, in 1850, the landing area was incorporated as the Town of Kansas
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From top left: the
Liberty Memorial, the
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Kansas City skyline, the
Country Club Plaza,
Arrowhead Stadium, and
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Kansas City Pioneer Square monument in Westport features
Pony Express founder
Alexander Majors, Westport/Kansas City founder
John Calvin McCoy and Mountainman
Jim Bridger who owned Chouteau's Store.
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Walnut Street, Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, 1906.
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Kansas City satellite map
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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The signing of the
Mayflower Compact, 1620.
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The
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Committee of Five presenting their draft to the
Second Continental Congress in 1776
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University of Missouri
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The University of Missouri is a public land-grant research university located in Columbia, Missouri, U. S. It was founded in 1839 as the first public institution of higher education west of the Mississippi River, as the largest university in the state, it enrolled 32,777 students in 2016, offering over 300 degree programs in 19 academic colleges in the 2014–2015 school year. It is the campus of the University of Missouri System, which also maintains campuses in Kansas City, Rolla. MU is one of the nations top-tier R1 institutions and one of the 34 public universities to be members of the Association of American Universities, there are more than 300,000 MU alumni living worldwide with over one half continuing to reside in Missouri. The university was ranked 103rd among national universities in the 2016 U. S. News & World Report rankings, starting in December 1953, it boasts the countrys only university-owned TV network affiliate, operated by the Missouri School of Journalism. In 1908, the worlds first school of journalism was founded by Walter Williams as the Missouri School of Journalism, the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center is the worlds most powerful university research reactor. MU is one of six public universities in the United States with a school of medicine, veterinary medicine, engineering, agriculture. The university also owns the University of Missouri Health Care system, the only athletic program that operates a NCAA Division I FBS football team in Missouri is known as the Missouri Tigers and competes as a member of the Southeastern Conference. The schools mascot, Truman the Tiger, is named after Missourian, according to the NCAA, the American tradition of homecoming was established at the university in 1911, the tradition has since been adopted nationwide. In 1839, the Missouri Legislature passed the Geyer Act to establish funds for a state university and it would be the first public university west of the Mississippi River. To secure the university, the citizens of Columbia and Boone County pledged $117,921 in cash, the land on which the university was eventually constructed was just south of Columbias downtown and owned by James S. Rollins. He was later called the Father of the University, as the first public university in the Louisiana Purchase, the school was shaped by Thomas Jeffersons ideas about public education. In 1862 the American Civil War forced the university to close for much of the year, residents of Columbia formed a home guard militia that became known as the Fighting Tigers of Columbia. They were given the name for their readiness to protect the city and university, in 1890, the universitys newly formed football team took the name the Tigers after the Civil War militia. In 1870 the institution was granted land-grant college status under the Morrill Act of 1862, the act led to the founding of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy as an offshoot of the main campus in Columbia. It developed as the present-day Missouri University of Science and Technology, in 1888 the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station opened. This grew to encompass ten centers and research farms around Missouri, by 1890 the university encompassed a normal college, engineering college, arts and science college, school of agriculture and mechanical arts. School of medicine, and school of law, on January 9,1892, Academic Hall, the institutions main building, burned in a fire that completely gutted the building, leaving little more standing than six stone Ionic columns
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Fire at
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Painting of the Red Campus soon after the construction of
Jesse Hall
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Francis Quadrangle, featuring the columns and
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Marianne Leone Cooper
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Marianne Leone Cooper is an American film and television actress, screenwriter and essayist. Her longest-running recurring role was playing Christopher Moltisantis mother on The Sopranos, Cooper was born Marianne Leone in Boston, Massachusetts, to Italian immigrants. She married actor Chris Cooper in 1983, in 1987, their son, Jesse Lanier Cooper, was born. Three months premature, Jesse developed a cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral palsy, after searching for the best schools for children with special needs, Cooper and Leone moved to Kingston, Massachusetts, where they became strong advocates for disabled children. On January 3,2005, Jesse Cooper died from SUDEP, a memorial fund was set up in his name, the Jesse Cooper Foundation. Leones memoir, Knowing Jesse, A Mothers Story of Grief, Grace, Leone has had roles in several films, including The Thin Blue Line, True Love, Goodfellas, Household Saints and The Three Stooges. She has also acted in a number of television series, including Kate & Allie. Her longest-running recurring role was playing Christopher Moltisantis mother in nine episodes of The Sopranos from 2002 to 2007, leones essays have appeared in The Boston Globe. Her essay Knitting, Epic Fail appears in the anthology Knitting Yarns, Writers on Knitting and her screenplay, Hurricane Mary, is a true life story of a mothers struggles to have her disabled twin daughters integrated into the public school system. It is being made into a movie starring Chris Cooper, William H. Macy, Marianne Leone at the Internet Movie Database Knowing Jesse, Among the Books of 2010, a Life Lesson interview on Radio Open Source
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Marianne Leone Cooper at the Tribeca Film Festival
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American Beauty (1999 film)
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American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, a 42-year-old advertising executive who has a crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenaged daughters best friend. Annette Bening co-stars as Lesters materialistic wife, Carolyn, and Thora Birch plays their insecure daughter, Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper, and Allison Janney also feature. Ball began writing American Beauty as a play in the early 1990s and he shelved the play after realizing the story would not work on stage. After several years as a screenwriter, Ball revived the idea in 1997 when attempting to break into the film industry. The modified script had a cynical outlook that was influenced by Balls frustrating tenures writing for several sitcoms, producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen took American Beauty to DreamWorks, the then-fledgling film studio bought Balls script for $250,000, outbidding several other production bodies. DreamWorks financed the $15 million production and served as its North American distributor, principal photography took place between December 1998 and February 1999 on soundstages at the Warner Bros. backlot in Burbank, California, and on location in Los Angeles. Mendes dominant style was deliberate and composed, he made use of static shots and slow pans. Cinematographer Conrad Hall complemented Mendes style with peaceful shot compositions to contrast with the turbulent on-screen events, during editing, Mendes made several changes that gave the film a less cynical tone than the script. Released in North America on September 17,1999, American Beauty was positively received by critics, reviewers praised most aspects of the production, with particular emphasis on Mendes, Spacey, and Ball, criticism focused on the familiarity of the characters and setting. It was nominated for and won other awards and honors, mainly for the direction, writing. Lester Burnham is an advertising executive and magazine writer who despises his job. He is unhappily married to Carolyn, a neurotic yet fiercely ambitious real estate broker who grows red roses in their yard, their daughter, Jane. His job as a part-time bar caterer serves as a front for his secret marijuana dealings, Frank is a strict disciplinarian who previously sent Ricky to a military school and briefly committed him to a psychiatric hospital. Jim Olmeyer and Jim Berkley, a gay couple who live nearby, on the way to school, Frank reveals his homophobia while he angrily discusses the incident with Ricky. Lester becomes infatuated with Janes vain friend, Angela Hayes, after seeing her perform a dance routine at a high school basketball game with Jane. He starts having sexual fantasies about Angela, in red rose petals are a recurring motif. Carolyn begins an affair with her married business rival, Buddy Kane, when Lesters boss and efficiency expert, Brad, tells him that he is to be laid off, Lester instead blackmails him for $60,000 and quits his job
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Principal cast. First row, left to right: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Mena Suvari Second row: Chris Cooper, Wes Bentley, Allison Janney
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The aerial shots of the Burnhams' neighborhood at the beginning and end of the film were captured above Sacramento, California.
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October Sky
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October Sky is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Joe Johnston, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern. Most of the film was shot in rural East Tennessee, including Oliver Springs, Harriman and Kingston in Morgan, the movie received a positive critical reception and is still celebrated in the regions of its setting and filming. October Sky is an anagram of Rocket Boys, the title of the 1998 book upon which the movie is based and it is also used in a period radio broadcast describing Sputnik 1 as it crossed the October sky. The book was later re-released with the name in order to capitalize on interest in the movie, the film is set in Coalwood, West Virginia, in October 1957. Most people in the work in the coal mines. John Hickam, the superintendent, loves his job and hopes that his boys, Jim and Homer Hickam. When it appears that Jim will receive a scholarship to attend college. In October, news of the Soviet Unions rocket launch of Sputnik 1 reaches Coalwood, as the townspeople gather outside on the night of the broadcast, they see the satellite orbit across the sky. Filled with awe and a belief that this may be his chance to get out of Coalwood, Homer sets out to build rockets of his own. With the help of his friends, Roy Lee Cooke and Sherman ODell, and continued support from their teacher, Miss Riley. While their first launches are failures, they experiment with new fuels, after they complete several successful launches, the local paper runs a story about them. However, the day, they are arrested – accused of having started a forest fire with a rocket that went astray. After John picks up Homer from the station, Roy Lee is beaten up by his abusive stepfather. John intervenes and rescues Roy Lee, warning the drunken man that he will protect him as Roy Lees late father would have, the arrests, along with Johns lack of support, crush the boys dream, and they abandon rocketry. That night, after a disaster, John is injured while rescuing other men. The victim who is killed is Ike Bykovsky, a shop worker who let Homer use the shop to build his rockets. Homer has no choice but to drop out of high school, then, at this darkest day, Homer is inspired to look at a rocket science book Miss Riley has given him, and learns how to calculate the trajectory of a rocket. He and Quentin use what he learns to locate the accused and unrecovered rocket launched by the boys, finding the rocket proves that it could not have caused the fire, as it was unable to travel that far
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Theatrical release poster
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The Bourne Identity (2002 film)
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The Bourne Identity is a 2002 American-German action spy thriller film. It is an adaptation of Robert Ludlums novel of the same name and it stars Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, a man suffering from extreme memory loss and attempting to discover his true identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the Central Intelligence Agency. The film also features Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Julia Stiles, Brian Cox and this, the first in the Jason Bourne film series, is followed by The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Legacy, and Jason Bourne. The film was co-produced and directed by Doug Liman and adapted for the screen by Tony Gilroy, although Robert Ludlum died in 2001, he is credited as the films executive producer alongside Frank Marshall. Universal Pictures released the film to theatres in the United States on June 14,2002, in the Mediterranean Sea, Italian fishermen rescue an unconscious American floating adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. They tend to his wounds, and when the man wakes and he has no memory of his own identity, while he retains his speech and finds himself capable of advanced combat skills and fluency in several languages. The skipper finds a laser projector under the mans hip that. Upon landing in Imperia, the man heads to the bank in Switzerland to investigate the deposit box and he finds it contains a large sum of money in various currencies, numerous passports and identity cards with his picture on all of them, and a handgun. The man takes everything but the gun, and leaves, opting to use the name on the American passport, after Bournes departure, a bank employee contacts Operation Treadstone, a CIA black ops program. Treadstones head, Alexander Conklin, activates three agents to take down Bourne, Castel, Manheim, and the Professor, while also issuing alerts to local police to capture him. Meanwhile, CIA Deputy Director Ward Abbott contacts Conklin about an assassination attempt against exiled African dictator Nykwana Wombosi. Conklin promises Abbott that he deal with the Treadstone agent who failed. Bourne attempts to evade the Swiss police by using his U. S. passport to enter the American consulate, but he is discovered by guards. He evades capture, and escapes the consulate, giving a German woman, Marie Kreutz, at the address, an apartment, he hits redial on the phone and reaches a hotel. He inquires about the names on his passports there, learning that a John Michael Kane had been registered but died two weeks prior in a car crash, Castel ambushes Bourne and Marie in the apartment, but Bourne gets the upper hand. Instead of allowing himself to be interrogated, Castel throws himself out a window to his death, Marie finds wanted posters of Bourne and herself, and after agonizing, agrees to continue to help Bourne. After a chase in which Bourne evades Paris police in Maries car, meanwhile, Wombosi continues to obsess over the attempt on his life. Conklin, having anticipated this, planted a body in the Paris morgue to appear as the assailant, the Professor assassinates Wombosi on Conklins orders
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Damon in 2001
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The Bourne Identity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Seabiscuit (film)
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Seabiscuit is a 2003 American equestrian sports film directed by Gary Ross and based on the best-selling non-fiction book Seabiscuit, An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand. Seabiscuit was nominated for seven Academy Awards, three men, Red Pollard, Charles S. Red is the child of a Canadian family financially ruined by the Great Depression, in desperate need of money, the family leaves Red with a horse trainer. Red eventually becomes a jockey, but makes extra money through illegal boxing matches which left him blind in one eye, Howard is a clerk in a bicycle shop who gets asked by a passing motorist to repair his automobile, a technology which has recently been introduced. However, his son is killed in an accident while driving the family car, which sends Howard into a bout of deep depression. On a trip to Mexico to obtain a divorce and to drown his sorrows, Marcela helps Howard overcome his depression, mainly through horse-riding. After marrying Marcela, Howard acquires a stable of horses and later has an encounter with the skilled. Smith convinces Howard to acquire the colt Seabiscuit, who comes from noted lineage but had been deemed incorrigible by past handlers and was later broken, Seabiscuit and Pollard become close and they begin to race. Inspired, Howard tries repeatedly to provoke a race with the mocking New York tycoon Samuel Riddle and his fearsome stallion War Admiral, the top race horse in the country. Riddle eventually relents to a race on his terms between War Admiral and Seabiscuit, but while the date approaches, Pollard is injured in a riding accident. When the doctor reports that he will be unable to again, Red suggests that Howard get an old friend. Red teaches Woolf about Seabiscuits handling and mannerisms, later on, Seabiscuit is racing at Santa Anita when he is injured and has to stop. Red helps him to recover and get fit enough to race again, the last race is again at the Santa Anita, and Red rides him this time after putting a special self-made brace on his own leg to keep it stable. Woolf is on a different horse, Seabiscuit drops to last place and trails the pack, but Woolf holds back to be alongside Red and let Seabiscuit get a good look. After a short conversation, Seabiscuit surges and wins the race, Red says, You know, everyone thinks that we found this broken down horse and fixed him, but we didnt. And I guess in a way, we kinda fixed each other, the film also marks a second collaboration between director Gary Ross and actors Tobey Maguire and William H. Macy, who worked together in Rosss 1998 film Pleasantville. The film received reviews from critics. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists,2006, AFIs 100 Years
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Theatrical release poster
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Biographical film
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A biographical film, or biopic, is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people. Such films show the life of a person and the central characters real name is used. Because the figures portrayed are actual people, whose actions and characteristics are known to the public, biopic roles are considered some of the most demanding of actors and actresses. Biopic scholars include George F. Custen of the College of Staten Island, Custen, in Bio/Pics, How Hollywood Constructed Public History, regards the genre as having died with the Hollywood studio era, and in particular, Darryl F. Zanuck. On the other hand, Binghams 2010 study Whose Lives Are They Anyway, ellen Cheshires Bio-Pics, a life in pictures examines UK/US films from the 1990s and 2000s. Each chapter reviews key films linked by profession and concludes with further viewing list, christopher Robé has also written on the gender norms that underlie the biopic in his article, Taking Hollywood Back in the 2009 issue of Cinema Journal. The Hurricane is not a documentary but a parable, some biopics purposely stretch the truth. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was based on game show host Chuck Barris widely debunked yet popular memoir of the same name, Kafka incorporated both the life of author Franz Kafka and the surreal aspects of his fiction. The Errol Flynn film They Died with Their Boots On tells the story of Custer but is highly romanticized, casting can be controversial for biographical films. Casting is often a balance between similarity in looks and ability to portray the characteristics of the person, anthony Hopkins felt that he should not have played Richard Nixon in Nixon because of a lack of resemblance between the two. The casting of John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror was objected to because of the American Wayne being cast as the Mongol warlord. Egyptian critics criticized the casting of Louis Gossett, Jr. an African American actor, also, some objected to the casting of Jennifer Lopez in Selena because she is a New York City native of Puerto Rican descent while Selena was Mexican-American. Biographical novel Biography in literature List of biographical films
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Truman Capote
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At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced of Capote novels, stories, and plays. Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, an absence from his mother. He had discovered his calling as a writer by the age of 8, Capote began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of one story, Miriam, attracted the attention of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf, Capote earned the most fame with In Cold Blood, a journalistic work about the murder of a Kansas farm family in their home. Capote spent four years writing the book aided by his lifelong friend Harper Lee, a milestone in popular culture, In Cold Blood was the peak of Capotes literary career. In the 1970s, he maintained his celebrity status by appearing on talk shows. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Capote was the son of 17-year-old Lillie Mae Faulk and his parents divorced when he was four, and he was sent to Monroeville, Alabama, where, for the following four to five years, he was raised by his mothers relatives. He formed a fast bond with his mothers distant relative, Nanny Rumbley Faulk and her face is remarkable – not unlike Lincolns, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind, is how Capote described Sook in A Christmas Memory. In Monroeville, he was a neighbor and friend of author Harper Lee, as a lonely child, Capote taught himself to read and write before he entered his first year of school. Capote was often seen at age five carrying his dictionary and notepad and he was given the nickname Bulldog around this age. Capote received recognition for his work from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in 1936. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born textile broker. However, Joseph was convicted of embezzlement and shortly afterwards, when his income crashed, of his early days, Capote related, I began writing really sort of seriously when I was about eleven. I say seriously in the sense that other kids go home and practice the violin or the piano or whatever, I used to go home from school every day. In 1935, he attended the Trinity School in New York City and he then attended St. Joseph Military Academy. In 1939, the Capote family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, and Truman attended Greenwich High School, where he wrote for both the schools literary journal, The Green Witch, and the school newspaper. When they returned to New York City in 1942, he attended the Franklin School, an Upper West Side private school now known as the Dwight School and that was the end of his formal education. While still attending Franklin in 1943, Capote began working as a copyboy in the art department at The New Yorker, years later, he reminisced, Not a very grand job, for all it really involved was sorting cartoons and clipping newspapers
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Truman Capote, 1980
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This much-discussed 1947 Harold Halma photo on the back of Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) was a key factor in Capote's rise to fame during the 1940s.
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Capote photographed by
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Truman Capote's marker at Westwood Village Memorial Park
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Capote (film)
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Capote is a 2005 biographical film about Truman Capote, following the events during the writing of Capotes non-fiction book In Cold Blood. Philip Seymour Hoffman won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his acclaimed portrayal of the title character. The film was based on Gerald Clarkes biography Capote and was directed by Bennett Miller and it was filmed mostly in Manitoba in the autumn of 2004. It was released September 30,2005, to coincide with Truman Capotes birthday, in 1959, the four dead bodies of the Clutter family are discovered on their Kansas farm. While reading The New York Times, Truman Capote is riveted by the story, Capote travels to Kansas, inviting childhood friend Nelle Harper Lee to come along. He intends to interview those involved with the Clutter family, with Lee as his go-between, Capotes stories of movie sets and film stars captivate Marie. Over time, her husband warms to Capote and allows him to view the photographs of the victims, the Deweys, Lee, and Capote are having dinner when the murder suspects, Perry Smith and Richard Dick Hickock, are caught. Flattery, bribery, and an insight into the human condition facilitate Capotes visits to the prison where the accused are held. Capote begins to form an attachment to Smith and he informs Shawn of his intent to expand the story into a full-length book. Following the trial and conviction, Capote gains continued access to the murderers by bribing Warden Marshall Krutch, the story of Smiths life, his remorseful manner, and his emotional sincerity impress Capote, who becomes emotionally attached to him despite the gruesome murders. Capote aids Smith and Hickock by obtaining expert legal counsel for them, still he is frustrated, as Smith declines to relate exactly what happened on the night of the murders. Though initially an effort to provide representation and extend Capotes opportunity to speak with the killers. Without the court case being resolved, Capote feels he is stuck with a story without an ending, eventually he gets Smith to describe the killings and his thoughts at the time in great detail. He has what he wants from Smith, but in the process he sees a callousness and selfishness in his own actions, now with everything in hand, Capote still must wait for the appeals process to conclude before he feels he can publish his work. With the last appeal rejected, Smith pleads for Capote to return before he is executed, a telegram from Smith to Harper Lee ultimately compels Capote to return to Kansas. There he is an eyewitness as Smith and Hickock are executed, Capote talks to Lee about the horrifying experience and laments that he could not do anything to stop it. The fact is you didnt want to, the final scenes show Capote looking through photos from the case and at the writings and drawings given to him by Smith. An epilogue points out that In Cold Blood turned Capote into the most famous writer in America, also noting that he never finished another book
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Syriana
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Syriana is a 2005 geopolitical thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, and executive produced by George Clooney, who also stars in the film with an ensemble cast. Gaghans screenplay is adapted from Robert Baers memoir See No Evil. C. Attorney, and a young unemployed Pakistani migrant worker in an Arab state in the Persian Gulf, as with Gaghans screenplay for Traffic, Syriana uses multiple, parallel storylines, jumping between locations in Iran, Texas, Washington, D. C. Clooney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Bob Barnes, and Gaghans script was nominated by the Academy for Best Original Screenplay. As of April 20,2006, the film had grossed a total of $50.82 million at the U. S. box office and $42.9 million overseas, for a total of $93.73 million. U. S. energy giant Connex is losing control of key Middle East oil fields in a kingdom ruled by the al-Subaai family. The emirates foreign minister, Prince Nasir, has granted natural gas drilling rights to a Chinese company, greatly upsetting the U. S. oil industry and government. To compensate for its production capacity, Connex initiates a shady merger with Killen. Connex-Killen ranks as the worlds twenty-third largest economy, and antitrust regulators at the U. S. Justice Department have misgivings, a Washington, D. C. -based law firm headed by Dean Whiting is hired to smooth the way for the merger. Bennett Holiday is assigned to promote the impression of due diligence to the DOJ, Bryan Woodman is an energy analyst based in Geneva, Switzerland. Woodmans supervisor directs him to attend a party hosted by the emir at his estate in Marbella, Spain. No one notices that a crack in one of the swimming pool areas underwater lights has electrified the water, just as Woodman and all the other guests are brought to the pool area, Woodmans son jumps into the pool and is electrocuted. His father, at the urging of the American government, names the younger Meshal as his successor, Bob Barnes is a veteran Operations Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency trying to stop illegal arms trafficking in the Middle East. Barnes makes his superiors nervous by writing memos about the theft and is subsequently reassigned to a desk job. Prior to his reassignment, Barnes confides in his ex-CIA agent friend, Stan Goff, Goff advises him to clear his presence with Hezbollah so they know he is not acting against them. Barnes travels to Lebanon, obtains safe passage from a Hezbollah leader, but Mussawi has become an Iranian agent and has Barnes abducted. Mussawi tortures Barnes and prepares to behead him, just before he is about to cut off Barnes head, the Hezbollah leader arrives and stops him. When the CIA learns that Mussawi plans to broadcast the agencys intention to kill Nasir, they set Barnes up as a scapegoat and he has Barness passports revoked, locks him out of his computer at work, and initiates an investigation of him
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The Kingdom (film)
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The Kingdom is a 2007 American action thriller directed by Peter Berg and starring Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, and Jennifer Garner. The film is set in Saudi Arabia, and is based on the 1996 bombing of the Khobar housing complex. During a softball game at an American oil company housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, al-Qaeda terrorists set off a bomb, killing Americans and Saudis. While one team hijacks a car and shoots residents, a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blows himself up. Sergeant Haytham of the Saudi State Police kills the carjackers, the FBI Legal Attaché in Saudi Arabia, Special Agent Fran Manner, calls his US colleague, Special Agent Ronald Fleury, to advise him about the attack. Manner is discussing the situation with DSS Special Agent Rex Bura when a full of explosives is detonated, killing Manner, Bura. At FBI Headquarters in Washington, D. C, Fleury briefs his rapid deployment team on the attack. Fleury gathers Special Agent Janet Mayes, an examiner, FBI analyst Adam Leavitt, an intelligence analyst, and Special Agent Grant Sykes. On arrival they are met by Colonel Faris al-Ghazi, the commander of the Saudi State Police Force providing security at the compound, the investigation is being run by General Al Abdulmalik of the SANG, who does not give Fleury and his team permission to investigate. The FBI team is invited to the palace of Saudi Prince Ahmed bin Khaled for a dinner, while at the palace, Fleury persuades the Prince that Colonel al-Ghazi is a natural detective and should be allowed to lead the investigation. With this change in leadership, the Americans are allowed access to the crime scene. While searching for evidence, Sergeant Haytham and Sykes discover the second bomb was detonated in an ambulance, Fleury learns the brother of one of the dead terrorists had access to ambulances and police uniforms. Colonel al-Ghazi orders a SWAT team to raid a house, managing to kill a few heavily armed terrorists, following the raid, the team discovers clues, including photos of the U. S. and other Western embassies in Riyadh. Soon afterward, the U. S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Damon Schmidt notifies Fleury, on their way to King Khalid International Airport, their convoy is attacked and incapacitated. Leavitt is dragged out of the car and kidnapped while Fleury manages to wound one attacker. Al-Ghazi commandeers a civilian vehicle to chase the fourth SUV and the car holding Leavitt into the dangerous Al-Suwaidi neighborhood of Riyadh. As they pull up, a gunman launches rocket-propelled grenades at them, Leavitt is tied up inside a complex. While Sykes and Haytham watch the entrance to the complex, al-Ghazi, Fleury, Mayes, separated from the others, finds Leavitt and his attackers, preparing an execution video of Leavitt
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Promotional poster
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The Town (2010 film)
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The Town is a 2010 American crime drama film co-written, directed by and starring Ben Affleck, adapted from Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves. The film premiered on September 8,2010 at the Venice Film Festival before being released in the United States on September 17,2010 to positive reviews. Renner was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, four lifelong friends from the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, Douglas Doug MacRay, James Jem Coughlin, Albert Gloansy MacGloan, and Desmond Dez Elden, rob a bank. They take the manager, Claire Keesey, hostage, but release her unharmed. When they find out Claire lives in their neighborhood, Doug begins to follow her to find out how much she has told the authorities, soon a romance grows between them, which Doug hides from the gang. As they grow closer, Doug tells Claire of his search for his long-lost mother and he also recounts his chance to be a professional hockey player which he threw away for a life of crime, following in his fathers footsteps. She in turn tells Doug that she saw a tattoo on one of the robbers and he knows that Jem will kill her if he discovers the truth, so he persuades her that the authorities cannot protect her, and she decides not to tell the police. After Claire tells Doug about being harassed and her car vandalized by Alex, a thug, Doug enlists Jem for a favor. Doug and Jem don hockey masks and violently assault the offenders without Jem knowing the reason for the favor is to protect Claire. FBI Agent Adam Frawley surveils the gang and recognizes their ties to crime lord Fergus Fergie Colm. During a visit to his father Stephen in prison, Doug reveals his plans to leave Boston, the gangs next robbery in the North End goes awry, and the gang barely escapes. The gang is interrogated by Frawley, but he fails to get any confessions and is forced to release them, Doug asks Claire if she will go away with him, and she agrees. When Frawley learns that Claire quit her job, he wiretaps her phone, shocked to discover that her lover was one of her assailants, she is forced to cooperate with the FBI and breaks up with Doug. Meanwhile, Fergie and Jem are pressuring Doug about the next heist, Fergie threatens to kill Claire if Doug does not go through with the job, and reveals to Doug how he controlled his father by making his mother an addict, which led to her suicide. Doug gives in but swears that he will kill Fergie if anything happens to Claire, at Fenway Park, Doug and Jem enter disguised as Boston police officers, steal $3,500,000 in gate cash, and prepare to escape in an ambulance disguised as paramedics. Dougs ex-girlfriend and Jems sister Krista, threatened by Frawley and heartbroken by Dougs going away without her, the gang is caught in a firefight with FBI SWAT, and Dez and Gloansy are killed. Frawley spots Jem and they exchange gunfire, Jem, determined not to go back to prison and out of ammunition, commits suicide by cop by running out of cover with his guns unloaded and is killed. Knowing that Claire is in danger and that he will never escape as long as Fergie is alive, Doug murders Fergie and his bodyguard and calls Claire
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The exterior of a former
MassBank branch in
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Jon Hamm and
Ben Affleck chat on the set in
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The Muppets (film)
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The Muppets is a 2011 American musical comedy film and the seventh theatrical film featuring the Muppets. Bret McKenzie of comedy band Flight of the Conchords served as supervisor, writing four of the films five original songs. Walt Disney Pictures announced the development in March 2008, with Segel and Stoller writing the screenplay. Bobin was hired to direct in January 2010, and the supporting cast was filled out in October of the same year, with the casting of Adams, Cooper. Filming began in September 2010 and was completed entirely in Los Angeles, the film was the first theatrical Muppet production without the involvement of veteran Muppet performers Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson, although Nelson provides an uncredited vocal cameo. Instead, their characters are performed by Jacobson and Vogel, respectively, the Muppets premiered at the Savannah Film Festival and was released theatrically in North America on November 23,2011. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $165 million worldwide and garnering praise for its humor, screenplay, the film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for McKenzies Man or Muppet, as well as garnering BAFTA and Critics Choice Awards nominations. A sequel, Muppets Most Wanted, was released on March 21,2014, Brothers Walter and Gary, residents of Smalltown, are fans of the Muppets, having watched The Muppet Show throughout their youth. Now adults, Gary plans a vacation to Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Mary, to celebrate their tenth anniversary, Mary feels Garys devotion to Walter is detracting from their relationship. In Los Angeles, the three visit the abandoned Muppet Studios, during the tour, Walter sneaks into Kermit the Frogs office and discovers Statler and Waldorf selling the Muppet Theater to oil magnate Tex Richman and his henchmen Bobo the Bear and Uncle Deadly. After Statler and Waldorf leave, Walter overhears Richman reveal his plan to destroy the theater, Walter explains to Gary and Mary that if the Muppets can raise $10 million by the time their original contract expires, they can repurchase the theater. Convinced to try, Kermit sets off with the three to reunite the group, Kermit attempts to dissuade Fozzie Bear from continuing to perform in Reno, Nevada with the Moopets, a tribute group of uncouth Muppet impersonators. Meanwhile, Gonzo has become a plumbing magnate and, despite his objection, destroys his business. Animal is recovered from a celebrity anger-management clinic, before being instructed by his sponsor Jack Black to keep away from drums, the other primary Muppets rejoin through a montage. Later in Paris, the group finds Miss Piggy working as an editor for plus-sized fashion at Vogue Paris, having failed to convince Miss Piggy to return, the group replaces her with Moopet counterpart Miss Poogy. The Muppets return to Los Angeles and pitch their idea to several television networks. Following a shows cancellation, CDE executive Veronica gives the Muppets a recently vacated two-hour slot in the networks schedule, the Muppets refurbish the theater, but their first rehearsal is unsuccessful and Kermit is unable to contact a celebrity guest. Miss Piggy returns, forces Poogy out, and informs Kermit that she refuses to work with him, Kermit inspires Walter to find his talent and perform in the telethon
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"Official" poster for Green with Envy
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Lonesome Dove (miniseries)
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Lonesome Dove is an American epic Western adventure television miniseries directed by Simon Wincer. It is a adaptation of the 1985 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry and is the first installment in the Lonesome Dove series. The series stars Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, the series was originally broadcast by CBS from February 5 to 8,1989, drawing a huge viewing audience, earning numerous awards, and reviving both the television western and the miniseries. An estimated 26 million homes tuned in to watch Lonesome Dove, the western genre was considered dead by most people, as was the miniseries. By the shows end, it had earned huge ratings and virtually revamped the entire 1989–1990 television season, a favorite with audiences, as well as critics, Lonesome Dove garnered many honors and awards. At the 1989 Emmy Awards, the miniseries had 18 nominations and seven wins, Lonesome Dove also won two Golden Globes, for Best Miniseries and Best Actor in a Miniseries. Captain Augustus Gus McCrae and Captain Woodrow F. Call, two famous former Texas Rangers, run a livery in the small dusty Texas border town of Lonesome Dove, Gus loves women, but hes twice a widower, and Call is somewhat of a workaholic. Also living with them is Newt Dobbs, a 17-year-old whose mother was a prostitute named Maggie and whose father may be Call. The story begins in the small Texas town of Lonesome Dove, as Jake Spoon and he reveals that he is a man on the run, a fugitive, after having accidentally shot the dentist and mayor of Fort Smith, Arkansas, in a bar-room gunfight. The dentist/mayors brother happens to be the sheriff, July Johnson, reunited with Gus and Call, Jakes glowing description of Montana inspires Call to gather a herd of cattle and drive them there, attracted by the notion of settling pristine country. Gus is less enthusiastic, pointing out that they are getting old, but he changes his mind when he realises Lonesome Dove has little left to offer him by way of excitement, now that much of the land has been civilized. Once her son and husband have left for Texas, Elmira leaves Fort Smith for Ogallala, Nebraska, to meet up with her first husband and Joes father, sailing up the Arkansas River on a whiskey boat, she falls in with a group of buffalo hunters. Before leaving, Gus returns to fetch his livery sign and say farewell to his pigs, back in Fort Smith, Peach insists that Roscoe has to find July not only to inform him that his wifes run off but that she is pregnant. Jake decides not to travel with the herd, mainly because he promises to take the towns only prostitute, Lorena Lorie Wood, to San Francisco via Denver. Some time later the group survive a huge dust storm, but Sean, the young Irishman soon succumbs to his numerous snakebites, dies, and is buried. While travelling through a forest in east Texas, Roscoe, Sheriff Johnsons deputy, is joined by Janey, as they travel together they are robbed, when luckily Sheriff Johnson happens to catch up with them. Meanwhile, Johnsons wife Elmira arrives by boat at Bents Fort, Colorado, meanwhile, the camps cook refuses to continue, and Gus and Call head into San Antonio in search of a new cook, Po Campo. On the way back, they catch up with Lorie, whom Jake has abandoned in order to go gambling in Austin, before he returns, Gus and Lorie encounter Blue Duck, a notorious Mexican/Indian bandit from Gus and Calls Ranger days
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2001 DVD cover
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Walter Brennan was the first winner in this category for 1936's
Come and Get It; He would also win for his roles in
Kentucky (1938) and
The Westerner (1940).
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Van Heflin won in 1942 for his performance in
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George Sanders won for his role in 1950's
All About Eve.
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Karl Malden won in 1951 for
A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Adaptation (film)
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Adaptation is a 2002 American comedy-drama metafilm directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. The film is based on Susan Orleans non-fiction book The Orchid Thief, Adaptation had been in development as far back as 1994. Jonathan Demme brought the project to Columbia Pictures with Kaufman writing the script, Kaufman experienced writers block and did not know what to think of The Orchid Thief. Finally he wrote a script based on his experience of adapting the book into a screenplay, Jonze signed to direct, and filming was finished in June 2001. Adaptation received awards at the 75th Academy Awards, 60th Golden Globe Awards, Cooper won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, while Kaufman won the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The work was ranked in a British Film Institute poll as one of the thirty best films of the 2000s, the self-loathing Charlie Kaufman is hired to write the screenplay adaptation for Susan Orleans The Orchid Thief. Kaufman is going through depression and is not happy that his twin brother, Donald decides to become a screenwriter like Charlie and attends one of Robert McKees famous seminars. Charlie, who rejects formulaic script writing, wants to ensure that his script is a adaptation of The Orchid Thief. However, he comes to realize that the book does not have a usable narrative, already well over his deadline with Columbia Pictures, and despairing at writing his script with self-reference, Charlie travels to New York City to discuss the screenplay with Orlean directly. Charlie ends up asking Donald to join him in New York to assist with the story structure, Donald pretends to be Charlie and interviews Orlean, but is suspicious of her account of the events of her book because she acts as though she is lying. He and his brother Charlie follow Orlean to Florida where she meets John Laroche and it is revealed that the Seminole wanted the ghost orchid in order to manufacture a drug that causes fascination – Laroche introduces this drug to Orlean. After Laroche and Orlean catch Charlie observing them taking the drug and having sex, Orlean forces Charlie at gunpoint to drive to the swamp, where she intends to kill him. Charlie and Donald escape and hide in the swamp, where they resolve their differences and Charlies problems with women, fleeing, Charlie and Donald drive off but crash into a rangers truck – Donald dies in the accident. Charlie runs off into the swamp to hide but is spotted by Laroche, however, Laroche is killed by an alligator before being able to kill Charlie. Charlie makes up with his mother, tells his former love interest Amelia that he is still in love with her and it ends with Charlie in a voice-over announcing the script is finished and that he wants Gérard Depardieu to portray him in the film. Variety reviewed the film as if Donald were a real person, Cage took the role for a $5 million salary, and wore a fatsuit during filming. Streep expressed strong interest in the role of Susan Orlean before being cast, John Turturro was approached to portray John Laroche. Cooper strongly considered turning down Laroche, but accepted it after his wife urged him to, albert Finney, Christopher Plummer, Terence Stamp and Michael Caine were considered for the role of Robert McKee, but McKee personally suggested Brian Cox to filmmakers
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Nicolas Cage portrays Charlie and Donald Kaufman through
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Breach (film)
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Breach is a 2007 American historical and political thriller film directed by Billy Ray. ONeill served as a consultant on the film, the film received generally positive reviews. Eric ONeill is a young FBI employee assigned to work undercover as a clerk to Robert Hanssen, Hanssen has been recalled from a detail post at the State Department to FBI headquarters ostensibly to head up a new division specializing in Information Assurance. Initially, Hanssen insists on a strict formality between the two men and he calls the bureaus information technology systems antiquated and laments the lack of coordination and information exchange with other intelligence agencies. Eventually, Hanssen becomes a friend and mentor to ONeill and takes a personal interest in him and his wife Juliana, who is suspicious of Hanssen and resents his intrusions. A devout Catholic who is also a member of Opus Dei, Hanssen urges ONeill, a lapsed Catholic, Hanssen is suspected of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for years and being responsible for the deaths of agents working for the United States. He learns that FBI Director Louis Freeh is personally leading the investigation, ONeill is ordered to obtain data from Hanssens Palm Pilot and keep him occupied while FBI agents search his car and plant covert listening devices in it. The tracking devices in Hanssens car cause interference with the radio and he also wonders why he was placed in an isolated position in the FBI only a few months before hes scheduled to retire. He tells ONeill he believes he is being watched by Russian agents, the FBI intercepts a message he sends to his Russian handlers saying he will not provide any more information. ONeill persuades Hanssen that he is not being trailed by the Russians or by him on behalf of the FBI, with his confidence restored, Hanssen makes one last dead drop of stolen information, and the FBI catches him in the act. Although he is assured promotion, ONeill is discouraged with the toll the case has taken on his marriage, when ONeill leaves his office with his belongings, he unexpectedly encounters Hanssen in an elevator being escorted by arresting officers. Hanssen tells ONeill to Pray for me and ONeill promises that he will, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported 84% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 167 reviews. Metacritic reported the film had a score of 74 out of 100. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone rated the film 3½ out of four stars and he added, Director and co-writer Billy Ray, who detailed the misconduct of journalist Stephen Glass at The New Republic in 2003s Shattered Glass. Proves himself a filmmaker of uncommon talent and ambition, ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle commented, Breach suffers from lavishing so much attention on a relatively minor figure. ONeill, at least the way hes presented, isnt a compelling character. Expends too much energy on a minor functionary, but it is worth seeing for its fleeting looks into a heart of darkness. Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor named Breach the best film of the year, richard Schickel of Time ranked it #6 and called Chris Coopers performance brilliant
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Original theatrical poster
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Robert Hanssen
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Robert Philip Hanssen is a former U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for twenty-two years from 1979 to 2001. He is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences at ADX Florence, on July 6,2001, he pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He was sentenced to 15 life terms without the possibility of parole and his activities have been described by the Department of Justices Commission for the Review of FBI Security Programs as possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U. S. history. Hanssen was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a family who lived in the Norwood Park community and his father Howard, a Chicago police officer, was emotionally abusive to Hanssen during his childhood. He graduated from William Howard Taft High School in 1962 and went on to attend Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, Hanssen applied for a cryptographer position in the National Security Agency, but was rebuffed due to budget setbacks. He enrolled in school at Northwestern University but switched his focus to business after three years. Hanssen received an MBA in accounting and information systems in 1971 and he quit after one year and joined the Chicago Police Department as an internal affairs investigator, specializing in forensic accounting. In January 1976, he left the department to join the FBI. Hanssen met Bernadette Bonnie Wauck, a staunch Roman Catholic, while attending school at Northwestern. Upon becoming an agent on January 12,1976, Hanssen was transferred to the FBIs Gary, Indiana. In 1978, Hanssen and his family moved to New York City when the FBI transferred him to its field office there. The next year, Hanssen was moved into counter-intelligence and given the task of compiling a database of Soviet intelligence for the Bureau, in 1979, only three years after joining the FBI, Hanssen approached the Soviet GRU and offered his services. He never indicated any political or ideological motive for his actions, during his first espionage cycle, Hanssen told the GRU a significant amount, including information on the FBIs bugging activities and lists of suspected Soviet intelligence agents. For unknown reasons, the Soviets did not act against Polyakov until he was betrayed a second time by CIA mole Aldrich Ames in 1985, Polyakov was arrested in 1986 and executed in 1988. Ames was officially blamed for giving Polyakovs name to the Soviets, in 1981, Hanssen was transferred to FBI headquarters in Washington, D. C. and moved to the suburb of Vienna, Virginia. His new job in the FBIs budget office gave him access to information involving many different FBI operations and this included all the FBI activities related to wiretapping and electronic surveillance, which were Hanssens responsibility. He became known in the Bureau as an expert on computers, Hanssens section was in charge of evaluating Soviet agents who volunteered to give intelligence to determine whether they were genuine or triple agents. In 1985, Hanssen was again transferred to the FBIs field office in New York and it was after the transfer, while on a business trip back to Washington, that he resumed his career in espionage
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Hanssen in 2001
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"Ellis" dead drop site in
Foxstone Park used by Hanssen, including on the day of his arrest
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Hanssen's mug shot, taken on the day of his arrest
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United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, where Hanssen is incarcerated
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The Company You Keep (film)
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The Company You Keep is a 2012 American political thriller film produced, directed by and starring Robert Redford. The script was written by Lem Dobbs based on the 2003 novel of the name by Neil Gordon. The film was produced by Nicolas Chartier, Redford and Bill Holderman, the story centers on recent widower and single father, Jim Grant, a former Weather Underground anti-Vietnam War militant wanted for a bank robbery and murder. Grant has hidden from the FBI for over 30 years, as an attorney in Albany and he becomes a fugitive when his true identity is exposed by Ben Shepard, an aggressive young reporter. Grant must find his ex-lover, Mimi, the one person who can clear his name, otherwise, he will lose everything, including his 11-year-old daughter Isabel. While Ben struggles with ethical issues as a journalist, Jim, after film festival screenings in September 2012, the films first theatrical release was in Italy in December 2012. A U. S. limited release began in April 2013, followed by wider North American release later in the month, the film received a mixed reception from the critics in the U. S. but a generally favorable one abroad. It grossed $5.1 million in the U. S. and Canada, a recently widowed single father, Jim Grant, is a former Weather Underground militant wanted for a 1980 Michigan bank robbery and the murder of the banks security guard. He has been hiding from the FBI for over thirty years, establishing an identity as a defense attorney near Albany and his prickly editor, Ray Fuller, assigns him to follow up. Bens ex-girlfriend, Diana, is an FBI agent, and he presses her for information about the case and she tells him to look up a Billy Cusimano. Billy, an old hippie with a history of drug arrests who runs a grocery, is an old friend of Sharon Solarz. Billy is disappointed that Jim doesnt want to take Sharons case, Ben pursues Jim and tries to question him, but Jim is evasive. Spooked by the investigation, Jim takes his 11-year-old daughter Isabel on a little trip. Ben learns that Mimi Lurie, an accomplice in the Michigan bank robbery, was last seen in Canada, a private investigator helps Ben find out that Jim had no Social Security number prior to 1979 and finds a copy of Jim Grants California death certificate. Ben concludes that Jim is really Nick Sloan, another former Weatherman, meanwhile, Jim and Isabel arrive in New York City. They go sight-seeing and check into a fancy hotel, the manhunt for Jim/Nick is now national news. While Isabel is sleeping, Jim leaves the key hidden in the hotel lobby. FBI agents, under the direction of Dianas boss Cornelius, have been tracking Daniel and they nearly catch Jim there, but Jim creates a diversion and escapes
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U.S. theatrical release poster
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Norman Osborn
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Norman Osborn is a fictional supervillain created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko who first appeared in the fourteenth issue of The Amazing Spider-Man published by Marvel Comics. He is best known for being the original Green Goblin and as the archenemy of the superhero Spider-Man, in his comic book appearances, Osborn is portrayed as a criminal mastermind. With his persona of the Goblin, he is warped with as psychopath, as Spider-Mans nemesis, Osborn has been part of the superheros defining stories, including the death of Gwen Stacy and the Clone Saga. He is the amoral industrialist head of Oscorp and is also the father of Peter Parkers best friend Harry Osborn, Osborns most well-know origin story is that hee took a formula which enhanced his physical abilities and intellect but also drove him to insanity. The antithesis of Spider-Man in personality and appearance, Osborn is considered by critics to be his perfect adversary, although his primary obsession is Spider-Man, Osborn has also fought other heroes including Jessica Jones and the Punisher. In 2009, Norman Osborn was also ranked as IGNs 13th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time, the characters popularity has seen him appear on a variety of merchandise, such as clothing and collectable items, inspire real-world structures, and be referenced in a number of media. Osborn has been adapted to serve as Spider-Mans adversary in live-action, animated, the character has been portrayed in film by Willem Dafoe in the 2002 film Spider-Man and Chris Cooper in the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Neil Ross, Steven Weber, and others have provided the characters voice, according to Steve Ditko, Stans synopsis for the Green Goblin had a movie crew, on location, finding an Egyptian-like sarcophagus. Inside was an ancient, mythological demon, the Green Goblin, on my own, I changed Stans mythological demon into a human villain. The Green Goblin debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #14, at the end of the story, the Green Goblin is shown changing out of his costume, consoling himself that although he was unsuccessful in his scheme, his secret identity remains safe. However, the mystery of the Green Goblins true identity was not played up until the story arc featuring him. Lee elaborated, At some point we had to tell the reader who The Green Goblin really was, and Steve wanted him to turn out to be just some character that we had never seen before. Because, he said, in life, very often a villain turns out to be somebody that you never knew. And I felt that that would be wrong, I felt, in a sense, it would be like cheating the reader. If its somebody you didnt know and had never seen, then what was the point of following all the clues, I think that frustrates the reader. So that was a big argument we had, however, Ditkos account contradicts Lees, So I had to have some definite ideas, who he was, his profession and how he fit into the Spider-Man story world. I was even going to use an earlier, planted character associated with J. Jonah Jameson and it was like a subplot working its way until it was ready to play an active role. John Romita, Sr. who replaced Ditko as the titles artist, recalled, Stan wouldnt have been able to stand it if Ditko did the story, I didnt know there was any doubt about Osborn being the Goblin
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Art by
Mike Deodato. Background art by
John Romita, Sr..
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The Amazing Spider-Man #14 (July 1964), the Green Goblin's first appearance; the character originally used a turbo-fan-powered "flying
broomstick." Cover art by
Steve Ditko.
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The Amazing Spider-Man #39 (Aug. 1966). Cover art by
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Norman Osborn as the Iron Patriot
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
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It is the fifth theatrical Spider-Man film produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Entertainment, and is a sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man. It is also the film in the Amazing Spider-Man franchise. The studio hired James Vanderbilt to write the screenplay and Alex Kurtzman, development of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 began after the success of The Amazing Spider-Man. DeHaan, Giamatti, Jones, and Cooper were cast between December 2012 and February 2013, filming took place in New York City from February to June 2013. The film was released in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D on May 2,2014, the film received mixed reviews, and although it grossed $709 million worldwide and became the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2014, it was the lowest-grossing film in the series. However, the film was declared a hit in the markets with high openings. The film subsequently won awards for its composition and acting, notably one Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was originally envisioned as the beginning of a fictional universe. Holland is scheduled to appear in his own film, due out in July 2017, in 2000, Oscorp scientist Richard Parker records a video message to explain his disappearance. Later, he and his wife, Mary, are aboard a private jet hijacked by a man sent to assassinate Richard, the plane crashes, killing both Richard and Mary, after he uploads the video. Fourteen years later, Richards son Peter continues to fight crime as Spider-Man and he pursues and apprehends Aleksei Sytsevich. Later, Peter meets with Gwen at their high school graduation ceremony and, insisting he keep his vow to her father, Peters childhood friend, Harry Osborn, returns to Manhattan to see his terminally-ill father, Norman, CEO of OsCorp. Norman explains his illness is genetic, and Harry is at the age where it first develops, Norman gives Harry a small device he claims contains his lifes work. The next day, Norman dies and Harry is appointed the new OsCorp CEO, while working in an OsCorp laboratory, electrical engineer Max Dillon shocks himself by accident and falls into a tank of genetically-engineered electric eels. They attack him, and he mutates into an electric generator. Meanwhile, Peter attempts to maintain a friendship with Gwen, before they can discuss it, Dillon wanders into Times Square, accidentally causing a blackout, and is stopped by Peter after a battle. Dillon is taken to Ravencroft Institute, where he is studied by German scientist Dr. Kafka, meanwhile, the first symptoms of Harrys illness are showing, and he uses the device Norman gave him to deduce that Spider-Mans blood could help save him. He asks Peter, who has been selling photos of Spider-Man to the Daily Bugle, Peter refuses, unsure of what effects the transfusion would have
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Andrew Garfield and Jamie Foxx at the 2013
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Hulu
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Hulu is an American subscription video on demand service owned by Hulu LLC, a joint venture with The Walt Disney Company, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and as of August 10,2016, Time Warner. It is primarily oriented towards television series, carrying current and past episodes of series from its owners respective television networks, the subscription service is, in turn, divided into advertising-supported and mostly ad-free tiers. In 2016, Hulu spun out its content into a joint venture with Yahoo. called Yahoo. View and announced plans for a television streaming service some time in 2017. The name Hulu comes from two Mandarin Chinese words, húlú, calabash, bottle gourd, and hùlù, interactive recording, the company blog explains, In Mandarin, Hulu has two interesting meanings, each highly relevant to our mission. The primary meaning interested us because it is used in an ancient Chinese proverb that describes the Hulu as the holder of precious things and it literally translates to gourd, and in ancient times, the Hulu was hollowed out and used to hold precious things. The secondary meaning is interactive recording and we saw both definitions as appropriate bookends and highly relevant to the mission of Hulu. Key executives instrumental in the founding of Hulu include Bruce Campbell, Peter Chernin, JB Perrette, Michael Lang, Beth Comstock, the venture was announced in March 2006 with AOL, Comcast, Facebook, MSN, Myspace, and Yahoo. planned as initial distribution partners. Kilar was named the CEO in June 2006, the name Hulu was chosen in late August 2007, when the website went live, with an announcement only and no content. It invited users to leave their addresses for the upcoming beta test. In October, Hulu began the private beta testing by invitation, Hulu launched for public access in the United States on March 12,2008. The first product to launch was the HULU Syndication network, which was designed and developed by the NBC Universal team from New York, on October 29,2007, followed by the Hulu. com destinations site. Hulu began a campaign during NBCs broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII with an initial ad starring Alec Baldwin titled Alec in Huluwood. The ad intended to reveal the shocking secret behind Hulu. Advertisements have since aired featuring Eliza Dushku, Seth MacFarlane, Denis Leary, with its investment came a seat on the board of directors, where Providence was said to act as an independent voice on the board. In October 2012, Providence sold its 10 percent stake to Hulus media owners, ComScore says monthly video streams reached 903 million in January 2010, over three times the figure for a year earlier, and second only to YouTube. On August 16,2010, a report revealed that Hulu was planning an Initial Public Offering which could value the company at more than $2 billion. On June 21,2011, The Wall Street Journal reported that an unsolicited offer caused Hulu to begin weighing whether to sell itself
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John Sayles
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John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Passion Fish and his film Men with Guns has been nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. His directorial debut, Return of the Secaucus 7, has added to the National Film Registry. Sayles was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary, a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, both of Sayless parents were of half-Irish descent and were Catholic. Like Martin Scorsese and James Cameron, Sayles began his working with Roger Corman. In 1979, Sayles used $30,000 he earned writing scripts for Corman to fund his first film, the film received near-unanimous critical acclaim at the time and has held its reputation. In 1983, after the films Baby Its You and Lianna and he put the money into the fantasy The Brother from Another Planet, a film about a black, three-toed slave who escapes from another planet and finds himself at home among the people of Harlem. In 1989, Sayles created and wrote the episode for the short-lived television show Shannons Deal about a down-and-out Philadelphia lawyer played by Jamey Sheridan. Sayles received a 1990 Edgar Award for his teleplay for the pilot, the show ran for 16 episodes before being cancelled in 1991. Sayles has funded most of his films by writing scripts, such as Piranha, Alligator, The Howling. Having collaborated with Joe Dante on Piranha and The Howling, Sayles acted in Dantes movie, in deciding whether to take a job, Sayles reports that he is interested mostly in whether there is the germ of an idea for a movie which he would want to watch. Sayles gets the rest of his funding by working as a doctor, he did rewrites for Apollo 13. A genre script, called Night Skies, inspired what would become the film E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial. That films director, Steven Spielberg, later commissioned Sayles to write a script for the fourth Jurassic Park film and he has written and directed his own films, including Lone Star, Passion Fish, Eight Men Out, The Secret of Roan Inish, and Matewan. He serves on the board for the Austin Film Society. Maggie Renzi has been John Sayles long-time companion, but they have not married, Renzi has produced most of his films since Lianna. They met as students at Williams College, Sayles works with a regular repertory of actors, most notably Chris Cooper, David Strathairn, and Gordon Clapp, each of whom has appeared in at least four of his films. In early 2003, Sayles signed the Not In Our Name Statement of Conscience which opposed the invasion of Iraq, in February 2009, Sayles was reported to be writing an HBO series based on the early life of Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
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John Sayles, March 2008
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Sayles at the
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Matewan
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The film dramatizes the events of the Battle of Matewan, a coal miners strike in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and it was 1920 in the southwest West Virginia coal fields, and, as the narrator recalls, things were tough. The new workers are African Americans from Alabama and are coming in on the train, but the train is stopped outside town, derided as scabs, they are then attacked by the local miners, but manage to get back on the train and continue their journey. Witnessing the attack is Joe Kenehan, a passenger on the train and an organizer for the United Mine Workers. He arrives in Matewan and takes up residence at a house run by a coal miners widow, Elma Radnor, and her 15-year-old son, Danny, who is also a miner. Kenehan and the leader, Sephus, then go around to meet the rest of the black miners as well as a contingent of Italians to try to bring them into the union. But later, caught between the guns and the local miners, the blacks and the Italians throw down their coal shovels. C. E. Lively, an agent provocateur for the company who has infiltrated the union, tries to goad the miners towards violence. The infiltrator also pens a note to the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency, the next day, two Baldwin–Felts men, Hickey and Griggs, show up in town and take up residence at the Radnor boarding house. Danny at first refuses to give rooms to Hickey and Griggs, Hickey and Griggs then start their campaign against the union by forcibly evicting miners from company-owned houses in town. Mayor Testerman and Police Chief Sid Hatfield refuse to let them be evicted without eviction writs from Charleston, Hatfield deputizes all the men in town and tells them to go home and come back with their guns. The Baldwin–Felts men then turn their attention on the camp outside town. At night, the armed strikebreakers fire shots into the camp, the next day, they enter the camp to demand that all food and clothing purchased at the company store with scrip be turned over to them. But then some armed foothill people, whose land was taken by the coal company, expressing disdain for the noise caused by the gunmens automobile the night before, their presence and sympathy for the miners compels the Baldwin–Felts men to leave empty-handed. The slow arrival of the thinly stretched strike funds tests the patience of Danny Radnor and other miners who become disillusioned. The miners are involved in a shootout with the agents. He is rescued by some people but not before he recognizes Lively as the infiltrator. Danny Radnor overhears Hickey and Griggs talking about the scheme but is caught, one of the miners hurries to the camp to find Few Clothes, who had drawn the short straw for who would kill Kenehan for his assumed treachery
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City of Hope (film)
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City of Hope is a 1991 American drama film written and directed by John Sayles. The film features Vincent Spano, Stephen Mendillo and Chris Cooper, as Rinaldi searches for more self-control, he quits the contractors job provided by his father, feeling that major events are about to happen in his life. By the films ending, his life change, as will the lives of many others. Film critic Roger Ebert wrote, City of Hope is a film. It is impossible not to find echoes of its despair on the front pages every day and it asks a hard question, Is it possible for a good person to prevail in a corrupt system, just simply because right is on his side. The answer, in the run, is that power is stronger than right. The notion of a run, of course, is all that keeps hope alive. City of Hope helps us see that community is enriched or torn apart by the decisions we make every day. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 93% of critics gave the film a positive review, wins Tokyo International Film Festival, Tokyo Grand Prix, John Sayles,1991. Political Film Society, PFS Award Democracy and Special Award,1992, kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards, KCFCC Award, Best Screenplay, John Sayles,1992. Independent Spirit Awards, Independent Spirit Award, Best Supporting Male, nominations Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics, Grand Prix,1994. Deauville Film Festival, Critics Award, John Sayles,1991, Independent Spirit Awards, Independent Spirit Award, Best Feature, Sarah Green and Maggie Renzi,1992. The producers used the tagline to market the film, Welcome to the American city. You buy your way in, and you fight your way out, who says its a free country. The film premiered in Baltimore, Boston, and New York City, on October 11,1991, the film was screened at various film festivals, including, the Deauville Film Festival, France, the Tokyo International Film Festival, Japan, and others. City of Hope at the Internet Movie Database City of Hope at AllMovie City of Hope at Rotten Tomatoes City of Hope film trailer on YouTube
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Lone Star (1996 film)
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Lone Star is a 1996 American mystery film written and directed by John Sayles and set in a small town in Texas. The ensemble cast features Chris Cooper, Kris Kristofferson, Matthew McConaughey and Elizabeth Peña, Sheriff Sam Deeds is the county sheriff in Frontera, Texas. He was born and raised in Frontera, and returned two years ago to be sheriff, sams late father had been the legendary Sheriff Buddy Deeds, who is remembered as fair and just. Sam had problems with his father and the pair routinely fought, as a teenager, Sam had been in love with Mercedess daughter Pilar, but the courtship was strongly opposed by Buddy and Mercedes. After a chance meeting, Sam and the widowed Pilar, now a local teacher, colonel Delmore Payne has recently arrived in town as the commander of the local U. S. Army base. Delmore is the son of Otis Big O Payne, a nightclub owner. The two are estranged because of Otiss serial infidelity and abandonment of Delmores mother when Delmore was a child, relic hunters discover a human skeleton on an old shooting range along with a Masonic ring, a Rio County sheriffs badge, and a bullet not used by the military. Sam brings in Texas Ranger Ben Wetzel to help with the case, Wetzel tells Sam that forensics identify the skeleton as that of Charlie Wade, the corrupt sheriff who preceded Buddy. Wade had mysteriously disappeared in 1957, taking $10,000 in county funds, Sam investigates the events leading up to Wades murder. Wade used this method to murder Cruzs husband, Eladio, in front of Deputy Hollis, Sam travels to San Antonio, where he visits his marginally mentally ill ex-wife Bunny and searches through his fathers things, where he discovers love letters to Buddys mistress. Sam confronts Hollis and Otis about Wades murder, Wade extorted money from a young Otis for running an illegal gambling operation in the bar, then was about to use his resisting arrest setup to kill Otis. Buddy arrived just as Hollis shot Wade to prevent Otiss murder, the three buried the body and took the $10,000 from the county and gave it to Mercedes – who was destitute after Eladios recent death – to buy her restaurant. Hollis reveals that Buddy and Mercedes did not take up some time later. Sam decides to drop the issue, saying it will remain an unsolved mystery, Hollis voices concern that, when the skeleton is revealed to be Wade, people will assume Buddy killed him to take his job, to which Sam states that Buddys legend can handle it. Sam learns that Hollis and Mercedes have recruited his own deputy to run against him in the next election and he decides to not run for re-election. Sam tells Pilar that Eladio died 18 months, rather than a few weeks, Sam shows Pilar an old photo of Buddy and Mercedes, revealing that Buddy is her father. Both are hurt over the deception but decide that, since she cannot have any children, they will continue their romantic relationship. The movie was filmed in Del Rio, Eagle Pass and Laredo, the film received highly positive reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes reporting that 43 out of 46 reviews were positive for a score of 93% and a certification of fresh
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Silver City (2004 film)
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Silver City is a 2004 political satire and drama film. It was written and directed by John Sayles, chris Cooper portrays an inept Republican gubernatorial candidate, a character that was noted for similarities to U. S. President George W. Bush. The films ensemble cast includes Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Huston, Michael Murphy, Maria Bello, Kris Kristofferson, Mary Kay Place, Thora Birch, Tim Roth, Billy Zane and Daryl Hannah. The film is a mystery to a political satire, according to Sayles, it is about electoral politics. Richard Dicky Pilager, the scion of a powerful political dynasty, is running for Governor of Colorado. One day, while filming an ad that shows him fishing at Arapahoe Lake. Chuck Raven, Pilagers campaign manager, hires Danny OBrien, a former journalist who works as a private investigator, Raven urges OBrien to find potential links between the body and Pilagers political enemies. OBriens job is essentially to intimidate Pilagers opponents, and he has numerous revealing conversations with various people and he learns that business mogul Wes Benteen is using Pilager to promote his own agenda. The interviews also reveal further corruption, politicians, land developers, OBrien also learns about illegal migrant workers, as well as a potentially damaging love affair. He was a reporter for the Mountain Monitor newspaper before getting fired for reporting a false story, now working for Chuck Raven, he is to intimidate anyone who might be trying to sabotage the Pilager campaign. Dicky Pilager is the son of an influential Colorado Senator and he was not successful in a mining enterprise, so he has decided to run for Governor of Colorado. His campaign is funded by family friend Wes Benteen. Raven is Campaign Manager of Pilager for Governor, a lifelong family friend, he is in charge of protecting the family name. He hires Danny OBrien in a strategem to ensure the campaign wont be tainted by political scandal, Benteen is the billionaire mogul who is funding the campaign. His businesses benefit the Pilager family in return for political favors and his companies produce meat and agricultural products, and provide medical services. He also owns a football team, the Prospectors. He finances half the campaign in order to land development rights. She is a reporter at the Mountain Monitor and is Danny OBriens ex-wife, seymour runs a Private Investigation firm, and is Danny OBriens boss
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