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Santa Monica, California
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Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. The Census Bureau population for Santa Monica in 2010 was 89,736, due in part to an agreeable climate, Santa Monica became a famed resort town by the early 20th century. The city has experienced a boom since the late 1980s through the revitalization of its core, significant job growth. The Santa Monica Pier remains a popular and iconic destination, Santa Monica was long inhabited by the Tongva people. Santa Monica was called Kecheek in the Tongva language, the first non-indigenous group to set foot in the area was the party of explorer Gaspar de Portolà, who camped near the present-day intersection of Barrington and Ohio Avenues on August 3,1769. Named after the Christian saint Monica, there are two different accounts of how the name came to be. One says it was named in honor of the feast day of Saint Monica, another version says it was named by Juan Crespí on account of a pair of springs, the Kuruvungna Springs, that were reminiscent of the tears Saint Monica shed over her sons early impiety. In Los Angeles, several battles were fought by the Californios, following the Mexican–American War, Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gave Mexicans and Californios living in state certain unalienable rights. US government sovereignty in California began on February 2,1848, in the 1870s the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, connected Santa Monica with Los Angeles, and a wharf out into the bay. The first town hall was a modest 1873 brick building, later a beer hall and it is Santa Monicas oldest extant structure. By 1885, the towns first hotel was the Santa Monica Hotel, around the start of the 20th century, a growing population of Asian Americans lived in and around Santa Monica and Venice. A Japanese fishing village was near the Long Wharf while small numbers of Chinese lived or worked in Santa Monica, the two ethnic minorities were often viewed differently by White Americans who were often well-disposed towards the Japanese but condescending towards the Chinese. The Japanese village fishermen were an economic part of the Santa Monica Bay community. Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. built a plant in 1922 at Clover Field for the Douglas Aircraft Company, in 1924, four Douglas-built planes took off from Clover Field to attempt the first aerial circumnavigation of the world. Two planes returned after covering 27,553 miles in 175 days, the Douglas Company kept facilities in the city until the 1960s. The Great Depression hit Santa Monica deeply, one report gives citywide employment in 1933 of just 1,000. Hotels and office building owners went bankrupt, in the 1930s, corruption infected Santa Monica. The federal Works Project Administration helped build several buildings, most notably City Hall, the main Post Office and Barnum Hall were also among other WPA projects
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Santa Monica's Ocean Avenue at Sunset
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An 1840 Santa Monica adobe home (photographed in 1890).
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A busy day on the beach, 1880
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Exterior view of the Bank Building at the corner of Third Street and Broadway, Santa Monica, ca.1900
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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A forest of redwood trees in
Redwood National Park
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Mount Shasta
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Aerial view of the
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Carlos Saura
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Carlos Saura Atarés is a Spanish film director, photographer and writer from Aragon. His name, with those of Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar forms a triad of Spain’s most renowned filmmakers and he has a long and prolific career that spans over half a century. A great numbers of his films have won international awards. Saura began his career in 1955 making documentaries shorts and he quickly gained international prominence when his first feature length film premiered at Cannes in 1960. Although he started filming as a neo-realist, Saura quickly switched to films encoded with metaphors, in 1966, he was thrust into the international spotlight when his film La caza won the Silver Bear at Berlin. In the following years he forged a reputation for his cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions. By the 1970s, Saura was the best known filmmaker working in Spain and his film employed complex narrative devices and were frequently controversial. He won Special Jury Awards for La prima Angélica and Cría cuervos in Cannes, in the 1980s he was in the spotlight for his Flamenco trilogy – Blood wedding, Carmen, and Love Bewitched. He continued to appear in world wide competitions earning numerous awards and he received Oscar nominations for Carmen and Tango. His films are sophisticated expression of time and space fusing reality with fantasy, past with present, in the last two decades, Saura has concentrated in works uniting music, dance and images. Saura was born in Huesca, Aragón, Spain on 4 January 1932 and his father, Antonio Saura Pacheco, who came from Murcia, was an attorney and civil servant. His mother, Fermina Atares Torrente, was a concert pianist, the second of their four children, Carlos had two younger sisters Pilar and Angeles and an older brother Antonio Saura, who became a well known abstract expressionist painter. From their parents, the four received a liberal understanding education. Because his father was working for the ministry of interior, the Saura family moved to Barcelona, Valencia, saura’s childhood was marked by the Spanish Civil War, during which Franco and his allies rebelled against the established republican government. He was taught to read by a priest – a relative whom his parents sheltered from anticlerical extremist, at the war’s end Saura was separated from his parents and sent back to live with his maternal grandmother and aunts in Huesca. He described these relatives as “right wings and very religious” who imposed in the child the very antithesis of the kind of education he had received in the republican zone. In 1957-1958, Saura created his first film, in 1962 his film Los Golfos was recognized for its strong sociological impact in the betterment of the Spanish youth by tackling juvenile delinquency in Madrids poorest districts. Four years later, he was honored at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival, in 1967, his film Peppermint Frappé also received the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival
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Carlos Saura in
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Saura in 2002.
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The Hunt (1965)
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La prima Angélica (1973)
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Oona Chaplin
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Oona Castilla Chaplin is a Spanish actress. She is the daughter of Geraldine Chaplin, the granddaughter of English film star Charlie Chaplin, and she is known for playing Marnie Madden in The Hour, Talisa Maegyr in the HBO TV series Game of Thrones, Kitty Trevelyan in The Crimson Field and Zilpha Geary in Taboo. Oona Chaplin was born in Madrid to Anglo-American actress Geraldine Chaplin and Chilean cinematographer Patricio Castilla and she spent her childhood mostly in Spain, Great Britain, Switzerland, and Cuba, but also travelled often because of her mothers film career. She started dancing ballet, salsa and flamenco at an early age, when Chaplin was fifteen, she began studying at Gordonstoun School in Scotland on a drama scholarship. After leaving Gordonstoun, she was accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, since graduating from RADA, Chaplin has acted in mainly British and Spanish short and feature films. She has played alongside her mother in three films, Inconceivable, ¿Para qué sirve un oso. and Imago Mortis. Chaplin has also had supporting roles in British and American television. She plays Kitty Trevelyan, a character, in the BBC drama The Crimson Field and Ruth Levinson, wife of Ira Levinson. Chaplin stars as Zilpha Geary in the historical fiction series Taboo on BBC One. Oona Chaplin at the Internet Movie Database Oona Chaplin at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
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Chaplin in 2012
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Charlie Chaplin
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Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film. Chaplin became an icon through his screen persona the Tramp and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, Chaplins childhood in London was one of poverty and hardship. As his father was absent and his mother struggled financially, he was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine, when he was 14, his mother was committed to a mental asylum. Chaplin began performing at an age, touring music halls and later working as a stage actor. At 19, he was signed to the prestigious Fred Karno company, Chaplin was scouted for the film industry and began appearing in 1914 for Keystone Studios. He soon developed the Tramp persona and formed a fan base. Chaplin directed his own films from a stage and continued to hone his craft as he moved to the Essanay, Mutual. By 1918, he was one of the figures in the world. In 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which gave him control over his films. His first feature-length was The Kid, followed by A Woman of Paris, The Gold Rush and he refused to move to sound films in the 1930s, instead producing City Lights and Modern Times without dialogue. Chaplin became increasingly political, and his film, The Great Dictator. The 1940s were a decade marked with controversy for Chaplin, and he was accused of communist sympathies, while his involvement in a paternity suit and marriages to much younger women caused scandal. An FBI investigation was opened, and Chaplin was forced to leave the United States and he abandoned the Tramp in his later films, which include Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight, A King in New York, and A Countess from Hong Kong. Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in and he was a perfectionist, and his financial independence enabled him to spend years on the development and production of a picture. His films are characterised by slapstick combined with pathos, typified in the Tramps struggles against adversity, many contain social and political themes, as well as autobiographical elements. In 1972, as part of an appreciation for his work. He continues to be held in regard, with The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times
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Publicity portrait,
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Seven-year-old Chaplin (centre) at the
Central London District School for
paupers, 1897.
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A teenage Chaplin in the play
Sherlock Holmes, which he appeared in between 1903 and 1906
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Advertisement from Chaplin's American tour with the
Fred Karno comedy company, 1913
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Golden Globe
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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The Golden Globe statuette
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David Lean
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Sir David Lean, CBE was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, responsible for large-scale epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago. He also directed adaptations of Dickens novels Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, Lean was born in Croydon, Surrey, to Francis William le Blount Lean and the former Helena Tangye. His parents were Quakers and he was a pupil at the Quaker-founded Leighton Park School in Reading and his younger brother, Edward Tangye Lean, founded the original Inklings literary club when a student at Oxford University. Lean was a schoolboy with a dreamy nature who was labeled a dud of a student, he left in his mid-teens. A more formative event for his career than his formal education was an uncles gift and you usually didnt give a boy a camera until he was 16 or 17 in those days. It was a compliment and I succeeded at it. Lean printed and developed his films, and it was his great hobby, at age 16, his father deserted the family when he ran off with another woman, and Lean would later follow a similar path after his own first marriage and child. He was taken on as a teaboy, promoted to clapperboy, by 1930 he was working as an editor on newsreels, including those of Gaumont Pictures and Movietone, while his move to feature films began with Freedom of the Seas and Escape Me Never. He edited Gabriel Pascals film productions of two George Bernard Shaw plays, Pygmalion and Major Barbara and he edited Powell & Pressburgers 49th Parallel and One of Our Aircraft Is Missing. After this last film, Lean began his career, after editing more than two dozen features by 1942. As Tony Sloman wrote in 1999, As the varied likes of David Lean, Robert Wise, Terence Fisher and Dorothy Arzner have proved, David Lean was given honorary membership of the Guild of British Film Editors in 1968. His first work as a director was in collaboration with Noël Coward on In Which We Serve and it has since become a classic, one of the most highly regarded British films. Two celebrated Charles Dickens adaptations followed – Great Expectations and Oliver Twist and these two films were the first directed by Lean to star Alec Guinness, whom Lean considered his good luck charm. The actors portrayal of Fagin was controversial at the time, the first screening in Berlin during February 1949 offended the surviving Jewish community and led to a riot. It caused problems too in New York, and after private screenings, was condemned by the Anti-Defamation League, to our surprise it was accused of being anti-Semitic, Lean wrote. We made Fagin an outsize and, we hoped, an amusing Jewish villain, the terms of the production code meant that the films release in the United States was delayed until July 1951 after cuts amounting to eight minutes. The Passionate Friends was the first of three films to feature the actress Ann Todd, who became his third wife, madeleine, set in Victorian-era Glasgow is about an 1857 cause célèbre with Todds lead character accused of murdering a former lover. The last of the films with Todd, The Sound Barrier, has a screenplay by the playwright Terence Rattigan and was the first of his three films for Sir Alexander Kordas London Films
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Sir David Lean,
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Doctor Zhivago (film)
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Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 British-Italian epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean. It is set in Russia between the prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922, and is based on the Boris Pasternak novel of the same name. While immensely popular in the West, the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades, for this reason, the film could not be made in the Soviet Union and was instead filmed mostly in Spain. The film stars Omar Sharif in the role as Yuri Zhivago. The supporting cast includes Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay, Ralph Richardson, Siobhán McKenna, over time, however, the films reputation has improved greatly. It also won five awards at the 23rd Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture - Drama, as of 2016, it is the eighth highest-grossing film of all time in the United States and Canada, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. The film takes place mostly against a backdrop of the pre-World War I years, World War I itself, the Russian Revolution of 1917, Yevgraf believes a young woman, Tanya Komarova, may be his niece and tells her the story of her fathers life. When Yuri Zhivago is orphaned after his mothers death in rural Russia, he is taken in by his mothers friends, Alexander and Anna Gromeko, and grows up with their daughter Tonya in Moscow. In 1913, Zhivago, as a student in training. Lara, only 17, is involved in an affair with the older and well-connected Victor Ipolitovich Komarovsky, one night, the idealistic reformer Pavel Pavlovich Antipov drifts into left-wing extremism after being wounded by sabre-wielding Cossacks during a peaceful demonstration. Pasha runs to Lara, whom he wants to marry, to treat his wound and he asks her to hide a gun he picked up at the demonstration. Laras mother discovers her affair with Komarovsky and attempts suicide, Komarovsky summons help from his physician, Zhivagos former professor, whom he accompanies back to Laras home to treat her mother. When Komarovsky learns of Laras intentions to marry Pasha, he tries to dissuade Lara, in revenge, the humiliated Lara takes the pistol she has been hiding for Pasha and shoots Komarovsky at a Christmas Eve party, wounding him. Komarovsky insists no action be taken against Lara, who is escorted out by Pasha, although enraged and devastated by Laras affair with Komarovsky, Pasha marries Lara, and they have a daughter named Katya. During World War I, Yevgraf Zhivago is sent by the Bolsheviks to subvert the Imperial Russian Army, Pasha is reported missing in action following a daring charge attack on German forces. Lara enlists as a nurse to search for him, Yuri Zhivago is drafted and becomes a battlefield doctor. During the February Revolution in 1917, Zhivago enlists Laras help to tend to the wounded, together they run a field hospital for six months, during which time radical changes ensue throughout Russia as Vladimir Lenin arrives in Moscow. Before their departure, Yuri and Lara fall in love, but Yuri remains true to Tonya, after the war, Yuri returns to his wife Tonya, son Sasha, and Alexander, whose house in Moscow has been divided into tenements by the new Soviet government
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Theatrical release poster design by
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The
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The initial and final scenes were shot at the
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Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Florence Lilly Hellman was an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52, although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the American film industry caused a drop in her income. Many praised Hellman for refusing to answer questions by HUAC, but others believed, despite her denial, that she had belonged to the Communist Party. As a playwright, Hellman had many successes on Broadway, including Watch on the Rhine, The Autumn Garden, Toys in the Attic, Another Part of the Forest, The Childrens Hour and The Little Foxes. She adapted her semi-autobiographical play The Little Foxes into a screenplay, Hellmans accuracy was challenged after she brought a libel suit against Mary McCarthy. In 1979, on the The Dick Cavett Show, McCarthy said that every word she writes is a lie, including and, during the libel suit, investigators found errors in Hellmans popular memoirs such as Pentimento. They said that the Julia section of Pentimento, which had been the basis for the Oscar-winning 1977 movie of the name, was actually based on the life of Muriel Gardiner. Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingways ex-wife, said that Hellmans remembrances of Hemingway, McCarthy, Gellhorn and others accused Hellman of lying about her membership in the Communist Party and being an unrepentant Stalinist. Lillian Florence Hellman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a Jewish family and her mother was Julia Newhouse of Demopolis, Alabama, and her father was Max Hellman, a New Orleans shoe salesman. Julia Newhouses parents were Sophie Marx, from a banking family, and Leonard Newhouse. During most of her childhood she spent half of year in New Orleans, in a boarding home run by her aunts. She studied for two years at New York University and then took courses at Columbia University. On December 31,1925, Hellman married Arthur Kober, a playwright and press agent, in 1929, she traveled around Europe for a time and settled in Bonn to continue her education. Years later she wrote, Then for the first time in my life I thought about being a Jew, beginning in 1930, for about a year she earned $50 a week as a reader for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood, writing summaries of novels and periodical literature for potential screenplays. Although she found the job rather dull, it opened doors for her to meet a greater range of creative people while also getting involved in more political. While there she met and fell in love with mystery writer Dashiell Hammett and she divorced Kober and returned to New York City in 1932. When she met Hammett in a Hollywood restaurant, she was 24 and they maintained their relationship off and on until his death in January 1961. Hellmans drama The Childrens Hour premiered on Broadway on November 24,1934 and it depicts a false accusation of lesbianism by a schoolgirl against two of her teachers
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Hellman, on jacket of her autobiography An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
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The Little Foxes
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The Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman, considered a classic of 20th century drama. Set in a town in Alabama in 1900, it focuses on the struggle for control of a family business. Tallulah Bankhead starred in the production as Regina Hubbard Giddens. Hes no businessman, just her financial support, and although hes pliable enough for her ambition, that ambition has driven him into becoming merely the sickly, wheelchair-bound tool of her insatiable greed. Her brother Oscar married Birdie, his alcoholic wife, solely to acquire her familys plantation. Oscar now wants to join forces with his brother, Benjamin and they need an additional $75,000 and approach Regina, asking her to invest in the project. Oscar initially proposes marriage between his son Leo and Reginas daughter Alexandra—first cousins—as a means of getting Horaces money, but Horace and Alexandra are repulsed by the suggestion. Horace refuses when Regina asks him outright for the money, so Leo, when he suffers a heart attack during this chat, she makes no effort to help him. He dies within hours, without knowing his plan and before changing his will. This leaves Regina free to blackmail her brothers by threatening to report Leos theft unless they give her 75% ownership in the cotton mill, the price Regina ultimately pays for her evil deeds is the loss of her daughter Alexandras love and respect. Reginas actions cause Alexandra to finally understand the importance of not idly watching people do evil and she tells Regina she will not watch her be one who eats the earth, and abandons her. Having let her die, alienated her brothers, and driven away her only child, Regina is left wealthy. The fictional Hubbards in the play are drawn from Lillian Hellmans Marx relatives. Hellmans mother was Julia Newhouse of Demopolis, Alabama, Julia Newhouses parents were Leonard Newhouse, a Demopolis wholesale liquor dealer, and Sophie Marx, of a successful Demopolis banking family. According to Hellman, Sophie Marx Newhouse never missed an opportunity to belittle, the discord between the Marx and Hellman families was to later serve as the inspiration for the play. The title The Little Foxes was suggested by Dorothy Parker, in 1946, Hellman wrote Another Part of the Forest, a prequel chronicling the roots of the Hubbard family. Produced and directed by Herman Shumlin, the original Broadway production of The Little Foxes opened February 15,1939 and it ran for 410 performances before its extensive tour of the United States. Tallulah Bankhead won Variety magazines citation as best actress of the year, Lillian Hellman wrote the screenplay for a 1941 film version, a Samuel Goldwyn production directed by William Wyler
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Program for the original Broadway production, starring
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Robert Altman
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Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in American cinema and his style of filmmaking was unique among directors, in that his subjects covered most genres, but with a subversive twist that typically relies on satire and humor to express his personal vision. Altman developed a reputation for being anti-Hollywood and non-conformist in both his themes and directing style, however, actors especially enjoyed working under his direction because he encouraged them to improvise, thereby inspiring their own creativity. He preferred large ensemble casts for his films, and developed a recording technique which produced overlapping dialogue from multiple actors. This produced a natural, more dynamic, and more complex experience for the viewer. He also used highly mobile camera work and zoom lenses to enhance the activity taking place on the screen, critic Pauline Kael, writing about his directing style, said that Altman could make film fireworks out of next to nothing. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Altmans body of work with an Academy Honorary Award and he never won a competitive Oscar despite five nominations. His films MASH, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Nashville have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Altman is one of the few filmmakers whose films have won the Golden Bear at Berlin, the Golden Lion at Venice, and the Golden Palm at Cannes. Altmans ancestry was German, English and Irish, his grandfather, Frank Altman. Altman had a Catholic upbringing, but he did not continue to follow or practice the religion as an adult, although he has referred to as a sort of Catholic. He was educated at Jesuit schools, including Rockhurst High School and he graduated from Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri in 1943. In 1943 Altman joined the United States Army Air Forces at the age of 18, during World War II, Altman flew more than 50 bombing missions as a crewman on a B-24 Liberator with the 307th Bomb Group in Borneo and the Dutch East Indies. Upon his discharge in 1946, Altman moved to California and he worked in publicity for a company that had invented a tattooing machine to identify dogs. He entered filmmaking on a whim, selling a script to RKO for the 1948 picture Bodyguard, Altmans immediate success encouraged him to move to New York City, where he attempted to forge a career as a writer. Having enjoyed little success, in 1949 he returned to Kansas City, in February 2012, an early Calvin film directed by Altman, Modern Football, was found by filmmaker Gary Huggins. Altman directed some 65 industrial films and documentaries before being hired by a businessman in 1956 to write. The film, titled The Delinquents, made for $60,000, was purchased by United Artists for $150,000, while primitive, this teen exploitation film contained the foundations of Altmans later work in its use of casual, naturalistic dialogue
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Altman in 1983
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Theatrical release poster for M*A*S*H (1970)
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Altman at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival
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Nashville (film)
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Nashville is a 1975 American satirical musical comedy-drama film directed by Robert Altman. The film takes a snapshot of people involved in the music and gospel music businesses in Nashville. Nashville is often noted for its scope, with critics viewing it as a sort of mosaic. The work contains 24 main characters, an hour of musical numbers, Nicholls, Dave Peel, Cristina Raines, Bert Remsen, Lily Tomlin, Gwen Welles, and Keenan Wynn. Nashville opened to positive reviews and won numerous awards. It is considered Altmans masterpiece, and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1992, the overarching plot takes place over five days leading up to a political rally for Replacement Party candidate Hal Phillip Walker, who is never seen throughout the entire movie. The story follows 24 characters roaming around Nashville, in search of some sort of goal through their own story arcs, an Englishwoman named Opal who claims to be working on a documentary for the BBC appears in the studio but is told to leave by Haven. Down the hall from Havens session is Linnea Reese, a gospel singer recording a song with a black choir. Also present are Pfc. Glenn Kelly and the folk trio Bill, Mary. Bill and Mary are married, but largely unhappy, partly due to the fact that Mary is in love with womanizing Tom, however, Martha repeatedly puts off visiting her aunt in favor of chasing after male musicians. Working at the restaurant are African-American cook Wade Cooley, and his pretty waitress friend, Sueleen Gay. After greeting the crowds on the tarmac, Barbara Jean faints due to the heat, Barbara Jeans appearance having been cut short, those in attendance depart the airport and wind up stranded on the highway after a pile-up occurs. During the commotion, Winifred, a country singer, runs away from her husband, Star. Star gives a ride to Kenny Frasier, who has just arrived in town carrying a violin case, Opal takes advantage of the traffic jam to interview first Linnea and then Tommy Brown, an African-American country singer who is performing at the Opry. Tommy and his entourage go to Lady Pearls club but Wade, Linneas husband, Del Reese is working with political organizer, John Triplette to plan a small fundraiser and a large outdoor concert gala for the Walker campaign. Winifred shows up at Trouts club trying to recruit musicians to record a demo with her, Del invites Triplette for family dinner with Linnea and their two deaf children. Linnea and Del are having problems and she focuses on the children rather than on him. In the middle of dinner, Tom calls trying to make a date with Linnea, Pfc. Kelly sneaks into Barbara Jeans hospital room and sits in the chair by her bed all night, watching her sleep
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Theatrical release poster
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The
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The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Nashville
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A Wedding
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The story is told in the trademark Altman style, with multiple plots and overlapping humorous dialogue. The story takes place in a day during a lavish wedding that merges a nouveau riche Southern family with an established wealthy Chicago family having possible ties to organized crime. Dino Corelli marries Muffin Brenner in a lavish Episcopalian church wedding presided over by a doddering, the wedding party goes to the Corelli mansion for the reception. Bedridden matriarch Nettie Sloan, mother of Regina Sloan Corelli and grandmother of groom Dino, is being tended in her upstairs bedroom at the mansion by drunk, while speaking with wedding planner Rita Billingsley, Nettie suddenly dies. Dr. Meecham informs Dinos father Luigi Corelli of Netties death, Netties corpse remains in bed throughout the reception, while various attendees visit her room without realizing shes dead. By the time bossy daughter Toni finds out and plans a dramatic announcement, the Brenners are a nouveau riche family from Louisville, Kentucky, where Muffins father, Snooks Brenner, made millions in the trucking industry. Muffin and Dino met because his military academy was near the Brenners estate, by contrast, the Corellis are an old money North Shore Chicago family via Reginas and Netties Sloan lineage. Luigi is rumored to have mob connections, due to the familys questionable past, more than a hundred guests sent their regrets. Meecham gives her a pill, and a tornado blowing up just as the cake is about to be cut, two more guests arrive late, Tracy Farrell and Wilson Briggs, the exes of the groom and bride, respectively. Wilson was supposed to be Dinos best man, but stood him up, Tracy and Wilson bond over their mutual anger. The unsavory secrets of each family are revealed, Regina Corelli is a drug addict who needs regular injections just to stay functional. Her marriage was arranged by Nettie after Luigi met Regina while working as a waiter in Italy, Luigi was forced to change his name and be estranged from his Italian family for 22 years. Mack spends the entire reception trying to secretly woo Tulip into agreeing to a tryst. Snooks Brenner has a borderline incestuous attachment to his mute daughter Buffy, the maid of honor. Buffy behaves seductively towards men including her father, jealous of the attention being paid to her sister Muffin, when video is taken of the wedding gifts, Buffy, not wanting to be upstaged, disrobes in front of the nude portrait of Muffin. Dino confides in Wilson about Buffys pregnancy, and Wilson tells Tracy, Snooks angrily confronts Dino, who admits sleeping with Buffy but says she also slept with just about every member of his military school barracks, a fact Buffy confirms. Muffin and Dino prepare to leave for their honeymoon in a new car, the naive Muffin is rattled when Rita makes an unexpected pass at her. She then finds Dino in the shower with his groomsman, Reedley Roots, Roots actually took Dino into the shower to sober him up since Dino was too drunk to drive
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BAFTA
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom. David Lean was the founding Chairman of the Academy, the first Film Awards ceremony took place in May 1949 and honouring the films The Best Years of Our Lives, Odd Man Out and The World Is Rich. In 2005, it placed a cap on worldwide voting membership which now stands at approximately 6,500. BAFTA has offices in Scotland and Wales in the UK, in Los Angeles and New York in the United States and runs events in Hong Kong, amanda Berry OBE has been chief executive of the organisation since December 2000. Many of these events are free to online at BAFTA Guru. BAFTA runs a number of programmes across the UK, US. Launched in 2012, the UK programme enables talented British citizens who are in need of support to take an industry-recognised course in film. Each BAFTA Scholar receives up to £12,000 towards their annual course fees, since 2013, three students every year have received one of the Prince William Scholarships in Film, Television and Games, supported by BAFTA and Warner Bros. These scholarships are awarded in the name of in his role as President of BAFTA, since 2015, BAFTA has been offering scholarships for British citizens to study in China, vice versa. BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles. The BAFTA award trophy is a mask, designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe. Todays BAFTA award – including the mask and marble base – weighs 3.7 kg and measures 27 cm x 14 cm x 8 cm. BAFTAs annual film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards, or the BAFTAs, in 1949 the British Film Academy, as it was then known, presented the first awards for films made in 1947 and 1948. Since 2008 the ceremony has held at the Royal Opera House in Londons Covent Garden. It had been held in the Odeon cinema on Leicester Square since 2000, the ceremony had been performed during April or May of each year, but since 2002 it has been held in February to precede the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards, or Oscars. They have been awarded annually since 1954, the first ever ceremony consisted of six categories. Until 1958, they were awarded by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors, from 1968 until 1997, BAFTAs Film and Television Awards were presented together, but from 1998 onwards they were presented at two separate ceremonies. The Television Craft Awards celebrate the talent behind the programmes, such as working in visual effects, production
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Welcome to L.A.
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Welcome to L. A. is a 1976 film directed by Alan Rudolph and starring Keith Carradine. Barber is a womanizer who cannot commit or love and is used to illustrate the loneliness inherent in big-city life. Barber is a songwriter of mediocre talent, who is supported financially, with enthusiasm. An inveterate womanizer, he has affairs with the estate agent who found his apartment, and whose husband. He also beds the wife of the businessman, who is the C. O. O. of his dads successful dairy, Barber even includes his fathers mistress among his conquests. Kroll also considered Rudolphs work with Robert Altman, hes gone beyond even Altmans example in shaping a film from a design concept. Furthermore, he praised Rudolph for creating a Los Angeles thats shimmering Xanadu of psychic uncertainty, mirrors reassemble people into soulless human collages. The swoosh of Huttons ever-present Nikon sounds like a little guillotine beheading reality, the quavering cadences of Baskins music evoke both the sweetness and self-indulgence of Carroll Barber. Cinematographer Dave Myers works like the new realist painters, capturing a metropolis of burnished surfaces that seems to dissolve the will in an amber nullity of light, geraldine Chaplin was nominated for a British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. Welcome To L. A. at the Internet Movie Database
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Roseland (film)
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Roseland is a 1977 Merchant Ivory Productions anthology film with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, the film is made up of three connected short features, The Waltz, The Hustle and The Peabody. All three stories share a theme of the protagonists trying to find the dance partner. At Roseland, a lady, May, with a light step. Stan, an older man steers May to brandy alexanders. Pauline is a widow with the means to pay for the services of a younger gigolo, Russell and share champagne with her Roseland friends, the dance teacher Cleo. Both Marilyn and Cleo fail to break Russells attachment to the lifestyle that Pauline provides, rosa, a former Schraffts cook and wannabe dance superstar makes it her mission to win the peabody prize with her older partner, Arthur who is desperate to marry her. The vignettes are also based on true stories. Filming took place almost entirely in the Roseland Ballroom, the Washington Post explained that the film shows what is mostly the sadness and faded dreams of dancers who look like they were around the day the doors first opened. The review praised how Ivory effectively uses three romantic vignettes as well as the realistic dialogue, Merchant Ivory Roseland at the Internet Movie Database
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Remember My Name
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Remember My Name is a 1978 American thriller film, written and directed by Alan Rudolph and produced by Robert Altman. Geraldine Chaplin stars as a woman, determined to get back her husband. Rudolph explained what he wanted to achieve, an update of the classic womans melodramas of the Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck and it had a successful run in Paris before opening in New York City. Neil Curry is living a life with his second wife Barbara in California after abandoning his first wife, Emily. Their life of bliss is interrupted when Emily comes back from prison. She arrives in California to wreak havoc and also to claim back Neil and they praised Perkins and described Chaplins performance as extraordinary, and that she adopts a unique speech pattern as Emily. She says everything as though shes rehearsed it and now is blurting it out in what she hopes will be accepted as a replica of casual speech. Emilys manner only loses its furtive, dodging quality when she feels in control or when she flies into a rage, the Washington Post described it as a neurotic film noir that is also a gripping tale of sexual frustration. The reviewer was impressed with Chaplins performance, Chaplin is spooky, spookier even than Perkins. Jack Kroll of Newsweek praised Rudolphs direction, he has an eye for the visual paradox. The review praised Perkins as a specialist at playing the nice guy whose smile, Kroll also heaped praise on Chaplin as her performance creates something new in the modern pantheon of weirdos. She is chilling in her ability to be guilty and innocent, victim and predator, catatonic and driven by feelings so deep they draw blood
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Hannah Chaplin
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Hannah Chaplin, birth name Hannah Harriet Pedlingham Hill, stage name Lily Harley, was an English actress, singer and dancer who performed in British music halls from the age of 16. Chaplin was the mother of Charlie Chaplin and his two half-brothers, the actor Sydney Chaplin and the film director Wheeler Dryden, as a result of debilitating illness, now thought to be syphilis, she was unable to continue performing from the mid-1890s. In 1921, she was relocated by her son Charlie to California, Hannah Chaplin was born on 6 August 1865 at 11 Camden Street in the London district of Walworth. Her father, Charles Frederick Hill, the son of a bricklayer, was a shoemaker who may have been of Irish descent. Her mother, Mary Ann Hodges, the daughter of a clerk, had previously been married to a sign writer who had died in an accident. At the age of 16, Chaplin left home to improve her fortunes by becoming an actress. Inspired by Lillie Langtry, one of the most successful performers of the times, she adopted the stage name Lily Harley, performing as an actress. While taking part in an Irish sketch Shamus OBrien in the early 1880s, she fell for her stage partner Charles Chaplin, attracted by his charm, reflecting on this period, Charlie Chaplin described his mother as divine-looking. He was later told that she had been dainty and attractive and had compelling charm, in 1884, pregnant by Hawkes, she returned to London where she again lived together with Charles Chaplin. In 1885, she gave birth to Sydney, Hawkes son and she married Charles on 22 June 1885 at St Johns Church, Walworth. While there is record of performances by Charles in the mid-1880s, Hannah Chaplin appeared in Bristol and Dublin in 1885. Press notices referred to her as the refined and talented artist Lily Harley who had been a most brilliant hit at Gaity and Star, Glasgow, four and five turns every night and heaps of flowers. At the beginning of 1887, Chaplin was back in London and she appeared with her husband that year in Bath and at music halls in the north of England. Despite her illness, she continued to perform in 1888 and her husband became increasingly popular, yet she did not progress in her career. On 15 April 1889, she gave birth to a child, Charles Spencer Chaplin. Hannahs relationship with her began to deteriorate, possibly as a result of his drinking or to his touring in North America during the summer of 1890. In the early 1890s, Chaplin became involved with music hall performer. On 31 August 1892, her son, Wheeler Dryden was born and for a time the family seems to have lived comfortably in West Square
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Chaplin (film)
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Chaplin is a 1992 British-American biographical comedy-drama film about the life of British comedian Charlie Chaplin. It was produced and directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Robert Downey Jr. Marisa Tomei, Dan Aykroyd, Penelope Ann Miller and it also features Geraldine Chaplin in the role of her own paternal grandmother, Hannah Chaplin. The film was adapted by William Boyd, Bryan Forbes and William Goldman from the books My Autobiography by Chaplin and Chaplin, His Life, associate producer Diana Hawkins got a story credit. The original music score was composed by John Barry, Chaplins recollections begin with his childhood of extreme poverty from which he escapes by immersing himself in the world of the London music halls. After his mother Hannah Chaplin has an attack of nerves on stage during a performance, Hannah retires from performing and is eventually committed to an asylum after developing psychosis. In the years that follow, Chaplin and his brother Sydney gain work with variety show producer Fred Karno, where Chaplin becomes a hit with his comedy drunk act. He begins a relationship with his first love Hetty Kelly, the night before he is due to leave for America he proposes to her but she declines, Chaplin promises to return to England for her when he is a success. Chaplin is sent to America by Karno and is given a job by Mack Sennett, while there, he creates his iconic Tramp persona and due to the terrible directorial capabilities of Sennetts wife Mabel, Chaplin is allowed to direct his own movies. Before the year is over, Chaplin directs over 20 movies, after Sydney joins him in America to become his manager, Chaplin decides to break away from Sennett to have complete creative control over his films with the goal of one day owning his own studio. In 1917, Chaplin completes work on The Immigrant which causes concern over the films political subject matter. Years later at a party thrown by Douglas Fairbanks, Chaplin meets. Chaplin eventually becomes wealthy and profitable enough to set up his own studio, Chaplin reveals to Fairbanks that he is to marry Harris as she is pregnant, but later at a party thrown by William Randolph Hearst, the pregnancy is revealed to be a hoax. Chaplin and Mildred separate after the death of their only child. The brothers eventually arrange for their mother to them in America. Chaplin is initially happy to see her but has been away from her for so long that he is unable to cope with her mental illness. In 1921, seeking a break from film-making and his private life and he reunites with Karno and hopes to locate Hetty, but Karno sadly informs him that she died in a flu epidemic shorty after the war. Despite the arrival of sound pictures drawing nearer, Chaplin vows never to make a talkie featuring the Tramp, at an industry party Chaplin causes a minor scandal when he refuses to shake hands with a visiting member of the Nazi party. Fairbanks comments that Chaplin looks a lot like Adolf Hitler, providing Chaplin with inspiration for his movie in their final encounter before Fairbanks death in 1939
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The Age of Innocence (1993 film)
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The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American film adaptation of Edith Whartons 1920 novel of the same name. The story takes place during the Gilded Age, portraying New Yorks high society, the film was released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Martin Scorsese, and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder. The film was dedicated to Martin Scorseses father, Luciano Charles Scorsese, in 1870s New York City, Newland Archer is planning to marry the respectable young May Welland. Mays cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska, has returned to New York after a marriage to a dissolute Polish Count. At first she is ostracized by society and vicious innuendo is spread, when Archer realizes that he is in love with the Countess, he abruptly leaves the next day to be reunited with May and her parents, who are in Florida on vacation. Archer asks May to shorten their engagement, but May becomes suspicious, Archer reassures May that he is in love with her. When back in New York, Archer calls on the Countess and admits that he is in love with her, after their wedding and honeymoon, Archer and May settle down to married life in New York. Over time, Archers memory of the Countess fades, when the Countess returns to New York to care for her grandmother, she and Archer agree to consummate their affair. But then suddenly, the Countess announces her intention to return to Europe, may throws a farewell party for the Countess, and after the guests leave, May announces to Archer that she is pregnant and that she told Ellen her news two weeks earlier. The years pass, Archer is 57 and has been a dutiful, loving father, the Archers have had three children. May had previously died of pneumonia and Archer had mourned her in earnest. Archers engaged son, Ted convinces him to travel to France, there, Ted has arranged to visit the Countess Olenska at her Paris apartment. Archer has not seen the countess in over 25 years, Ted confides to his father Mays deathbed confession that. She knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you gave up the thing you wanted most. Archer confesses that she never asked him and that evening outside the Countess apartment, Archer sends his son alone to visit her. While sitting outside the apartment, he thinks about their time together and gets up, the Age of Innocence was filmed on location primarily in Troy, New York. The opera scenes were filmed at the Philadelphia Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the scenes set in the home of Mrs. Mingott were filmed in The Castle, a fraternity house belonging to the Alpha Tau chapter of Pi Kappa Phi at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Formerly known as the Paine Mansion, after its completion in 1896, the scenes depicting the country house in snow were filmed inside the circa 1737 Dutch-colonial Luykas Van Alen House, in Kinderhook, New York
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Jane Eyre (1996 film)
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Jane Eyre is a 1996 American, British, French and Italian romantic epic and dramatic feature film adaptation of Charlotte Brontës 1847 novel of the same name. Jane Eyre is the plain, impoverished young woman who is hired by Mr. Rochester through Mrs. Fairfax to work as a governess for Adèle. Despite her mild unprepossessing manner more like a nun, Jane has strong passions and shows her strength in character in expressing her opinions. Rochester is the Byronic anti-hero who is tortured and tormented by family troubles, past injustices, Rochester and Jane find an affinity for each other and fall in love. What she does not realize is that she must share the estate with his wife, Bertha, the marriage is stopped by Berthas brother Richard Mason and lawyer Briggs. Jane flees, her world crashing down is a nightmare and she recovers in the parsonage of her original aunts home, discovers she is now a wealthy woman inheriting her long-lost uncles fortune in Madeira. She gets a proposal of marriage from Parson St. John Rivers but her heart and she goes back to find Thornfield Hall burnt down but Rochester is crippled and blinded by the fire set by his mad wife, Bertha, who has killed herself in the fire. However, Janes love for Rochester remains undiminished, she nurses him back to health, he recovers his eyesight, prior to Zeffirellis location use, Haddon Hall had been once used as the castle for The Princess Bride. The film holds a rating of 74% at Rotten Tomatoes based on 27 reviews. The New York Times called Hurt embarrassingly miscast as a Rochester more nearly a mild eccentric than a brooding, Byronic type, Jane Eyre at the Internet Movie Database Jane Eyre at Rotten Tomatoes Review at JaneEyre. net
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The Wolfman (2010 film)
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The Wolfman is a 2010 American horror film and a remake of the 1941 film of the same name. Baker and make-up effects supervisor Dave Elsey won the Academy Award for Best Makeup at the 83rd Academy Awards, acclaimed director Mark Romanek was originally attached to direct the film but later dropped out due to creative differences and Joe Johnston was hired shortly after. The film was released in the United States on February 12,2010, grossing $61 million domestically, in 1891, Ben Talbot is killed by a fierce creature in the Blackmoor woods. Gwen Conliffe, Bens fiancée, has contacted his brother Lawrence, Lawrence returns to his familys estate in Blackmoor where he has an uneasy reunion with his estranged father, Sir John. Lawrence discovers Bens mutilated body kept in a slaughterhouse, at the local pub, Lawrence overhears the locals discussing the killing. Many blame Gypsies who are camped outside the town, while another patron claims there was a similar murder several decades earlier and he has flashbacks as he tours his familys home where his mother, Solana, committed suicide when he was a boy. Lawrence saw his father standing over her body, afterwards he was sent to an insane asylum in London suffering from delusions. Lawrence visits the Gypsies during a full moon, the local townspeople raid the camp to confiscate a dancing bear they believe is the killer, but a werewolf attacks the camp and bites Lawrence before being chased away by local hunters. A Gypsy woman named Maleva sutures his neck wounds, but her daughter insists the now cursed Lawrence should be killed before he destroys other lives, Maleva refuses, saying he is still a man and that only a loved one can release him. Lawrence recovers unnaturally quickly, and develops heightened vitality and senses and his fathers servant Singh shows Lawrence a set of silver bullets and implies that something monstrous is loose in Blackmoor. Inspector Aberline arrives to investigate the recent killings, and suspects Lawrence is responsible based on his mental history, Lawrence sends Gwen away to London for her own safety. He follows his father to his mothers crypt, where Sir John locks himself in a room alone as he gives a warning to Lawrence. Lawrence then undergoes a transformation into the Wolfman before running off into the woods. Aberline and the police arrest the now human Lawrence, taken to the same asylum he was committed to as a child, Lawrence is subjected to torturous treatments by Dr. Hoenneger. Sir John visits Lawrence and explains that years before while hunting in India. Lawrence realizes his father, as a werewolf, killed his mother, knowing that Lawrence would never be believed, he confesses before leaving his son at the asylum permanently. As moonlight streams through the window, Lawrence transforms into the Wolfman and goes on a rampage throughout the hall and London. The next day, the now-human Lawrence visits Gwens antique shop for help and they realize they are falling in love and share a passionate kiss
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Claude Lelouch
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Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch was born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Charlotte and his father was born to an Algerian Jewish family and his mother was a convert to Judaism. His father gave him a camera to him a fresh start after his failure in the baccalaureat. He started his career with reportage – one of the first to film life in the Soviet Union. He also filmed sporting events like the 24 Hours of Le Mans and his first full-length film as director, Le Propre de lhomme, was decried by the critics – Claude Lelouch, remember this name well, because you will not hear it again – Cahiers du cinéma said. La femme spectacle, following prostitutes, women shopping, going for nose-jobs, was censored for its misogynist tendency, a Man and a Woman changed his fortunes and was met with favour even by the Cahiers group. The 1981 musical epic Les Uns et les Autres is widely considered as his masterpiece and his 1976 film, Cétait un rendez-vous, purportedly features a Ferrari 275 GTB being driven at extreme speed through the streets of Paris at dawn. The entire short is shot from the point of view of the car, legend has it that Lelouch was arrested after it was first shown publicly. In a 2006 interview, Lelouch stated that he drove his own Mercedes-Benz 450SEL6.9 in the film and he has collaborated more than two dozen times with composer Francis Lai. They scored a hit with the piece chabadabada for the film A Man and a Woman sung by Nicole Croisille and Pierre Barouh. He is the father of 7 children, in 1993 he was the President of the Jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. 2016, Commander in the Order of the Crown, lelouchs A Man and a Woman won the Palme dOr at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, as well as two Oscars including Best Foreign Language Film. His 1967 film, Vivre pour vivre, was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, in 1971, he won the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Directing for Le Voyou. Media related to Claude Lelouch at Wikimedia Commons Claude Lelouch at the Internet Movie Database
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Les Uns et les Autres
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Les Uns et les Autres is a 1981 French film by Claude Lelouch. The film is an epic and it is widely considered as the directors best work with Un Homme et une Femme. It won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, in the United States, it was distributed under the name Boléro in reference to Maurice Ravels orchestral piece, used in the film. The film was successful in France with 3,234,549 admissions and was the 6th highest grossing film of the year. The film follows four families, with different nationalities but with the passion for music. The various story lines cross each time and again in different places and times. In Moscow,1936, an aspiring dancer Tatiana marries a man, Boris, in Berlin, Karl Kremer’s success as a pianist is confirmed when he receives praise from Hitler – something which will haunt him throughout his life. In Paris, a young violinist Anne falls in love with a Jewish pianist, Simon Meyer, they marry and produce a son, in New York, Jack Glenn is making his name with his popular jazz band. Twenty years on, their children are reliving their experiences, the main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are based on historical musical icons The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together. A heavily cut version was released in the United States with the title Bolero, Les Uns et les Autres at the Internet Movie Database Les Uns et les Autres at Rotten Tomatoes
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Alain Resnais
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Alain Resnais was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as an editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog. These films were contemporary with, and associated with, the French New Wave and he had closer links to the Left Bank group of authors and filmmakers who shared a commitment to modernism and an interest in left-wing politics. This led to adaptations of plays by Alan Ayckbourn, Henri Bernstein and Jean Anouilh. His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination, and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives, throughout his career, he won many awards from international film festivals and academies. Resnais was born in 1922 at Vannes in Brittany, where his father was a pharmacist, an only child, he was often ill with asthma in childhood, which led to his being withdrawn from school and educated at home. He was a reader, in a range that extended from classics to comic books. For his twelfth birthday his parents gave him a Kodak 8mm camera with which he began to make his own short films, around the age of 14, he discovered surrealism and through that an interest in the works of André Breton. Visits to the theatre in Paris gave Resnais the desire to be an actor, from 1940 to 1942 he studied acting in the Cours René-Simon, but he then decided in 1943 to apply to the newly formed film school IDHEC to study film editing. The film-maker Jean Grémillon was one of the teachers who had the most influence on him at that period and he returned to Paris in 1946 to start his career as a film editor, but also began making short films of his own. Finding himself to be a neighbour of the actor Gérard Philipe, he persuaded him to appear in a 16mm surrealist short, a more ambitious feature-length work, Ouvert pour cause dinventaire, has also vanished without trace. He filmed it at first in 16mm, but when the producer Pierre Braunberger saw the results, van Gogh received a prize at the Venice Biennale in 1948, and also won an Oscar for Best 2-reel Short in 1949. Nuit et Brouillard was one of the first documentaries about the Nazi concentration camps, the accompanying narration was intentionally understated to add to the distancing effect. Although the film encountered problems with the French government, its impact was immense. In 1958 Resnais undertook a commission from the Pechiney company to make short film, in colour and wide-screen, extolling the merits of plastics, poetry was brought to the project, literally, by Raymond Queneau who wrote the narration for the film in rhyming couplets. Similar collaborations underpinned his work in feature films. Resnaiss first feature film was Hiroshima mon amour, in the film, the themes of memory and forgetting are explored via new narrative techniques which balance images with narrated text and ignore conventional notions of plot and story development. The film was shown at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, alongside Truffauts Les Quatre Cents Coups, Resnaiss next film was LAnnée dernière à Marienbad, which he made in collaboration with the novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Life Is a Bed of Roses
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Life Is a Bed of Roses is a 1983 French film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Jean Gruault. The English-language distribution title of the film is Life Is a Bed of Roses, though it has also known as Forbeks Castle. A literal translation of the title is Life is a novel. The film interweaves three stories from different eras but sharing a location, in the forest of Ardennes. In legendary times, the son of a king is rescued by his nurse when his father is killed by a rival. When the boy grows up, he kills a dragon, rescues a maiden, and reclaims his kingdom, to initiate a reign of love and happiness. His plans are disrupted by the onset of the First World War, and Livia marries Raoul, an army officer, Livia alone secretly avoids drinking the potion and observes its effect on the others. When she learns that Raoul has died in the experiment, she denounces Forbeks scheme, in the 1980s, the castle has been converted into the Institut Holberg, a progressive school and teacher-training establishment. Meanwhile, Noras mischievous plan to foster a romance between Elisabeth and Roger has completely contrary results, the conference breaks up in disarray. They developed a scenario from their personal interests and enthusiasms into a three-tiered narrative which explored different attitudes towards happiness. Resnaiss interest in 18th century British architecture and the extravagant projects of William Beckford provided the point for the section about Forbek. Music was a significant element of the film, Resnais was eager to use an alternation of speaking and singing in the dialogue. The final scenes of the 1980s section with its shifting romantic coupling was modelled with The Marriage of Figaro in mind, the operatic dimension of the film was further emphasised by the casting of the bass Ruggero Raimondi in the role of Forbek. The singer Cathy Berberian appeared in the sequence, in the singing role of the old nurse which was one of her last performances. This produced the effect described in the film as une pâtisserie, interior scenes were filmed at the Studios de Boulogne. When the film was released in April 1983, it received bad reviews. It also drew the number of cinema admissions in France for a Resnais film to that date. It was also received by English-language critics when shown at film festivals
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Jacques Rivette
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Jacques Rivette was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including Lamour fou, Out 1, Celine and Julie Go Boating and his work is noted for its improvisation, loose narratives, and lengthy running times. Inspired by Jean Cocteau to become a filmmaker, Rivette shot his first short film at age twenty, Rivette began writing film criticism, and was hired by André Bazin for Cahiers du Cinéma in 1953. He continued making films, including Le Coup de Berger. Truffaut later credited Rivette with developing the movement, although he was the first New Wave director to begin work on a feature film, Paris Belongs to Us was not released until 1961. Rivette became editor of Cahiers du Cinéma during the early 1960s and publicly fought French censorship of his feature film. He then re-evaluated his career, developing a unique style with Lamour fou. This technique led to the thirteen-hour Out 1 which, although rarely screened, is considered a Holy Grail of cinephiles and his films of the 1970s, such as Celine and Julie Go Boating, often incorporated fantasy and were better-regarded. After attempting to make four films, however, Rivette had a nervous breakdown. During the early 1980s, he began a partnership with producer Martine Marignac. Rivettes output increased from then on, and his film La Belle Noiseuse received international praise and he retired after completing Around a Small Mountain, and it was revealed three years later that he had Alzheimers disease. Very private about his life, Rivette was briefly married to photographer and screenwriter Marilù Parolini during the early 1960s. Jacques Pierre Louis Rivette was born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France to André Rivette and Andrée Amiard, according to childhood friend André Ruellan, Rivettes father was a skilled painter who loved opera. His younger sister said that their home in Rouen was next to a movie theater, Rivette, educated at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille, said that he briefly studied literature at university just to keep myself occupied. Inspired by Jean Cocteaus book about the filming of La Belle et la Bête, Rivette decided to pursue filmmaking, in 1948, he shot his first short film, Aux Quatre Coins, in Rouens Côte Sainte-Catherine section. The following year, he moved to Paris with friend, Francis Bouchet, on the day of his arrival, he met future collaborator Jean Gruault, who invited him to see Les dames du Bois de Boulogne at the Ciné-Club du Quartier Latin. Éric Rohmer, whose film criticism Rivette admired, gave a talk at the screening, although Rivette submitted his film to the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques because it was the kind of thing that would have pleased my parents, he was not accepted by the school. He took courses at the Sorbonne, but began frequenting screenings at Henri Langloiss Cinémathèque Française with Bouchet instead of attending classes, Rivette was active in post-screening debates, and Rohmer said that in film-quiz competitions at the Studio Parnasse he was unbeatable
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Rivette in 2006.
Jacques Rivette
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François Truffaut outside a theater showing
Claude Chabrol 's
Le Beau Serge, considered the first film of the
French New Wave. Truffaut was one of Rivette's best friend and he and Chabrol helped finance the completion of
Paris Belongs to Us.
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Rivette cast
Jean-Luc Godard 's wife
Anna Karina in
The Nun and directed a stage play with her in the lead.
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A political poster for the Etats généraux du cinéma francais from
May 68. Rivette took an active role in the political protests and the events influenced several of his films.
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Love on the Ground
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Love on the Ground is a 1984 French film directed by Jacques Rivette. The film stars Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier and it was released in France on 17 October 1984. A young man in Paris collects group of people to come, the performance sees Silvano hiding two women Charlotte and Emily from each other, despite the lived-in appearance and small size of the apartment. In the audience is the author, Clément Roquemaure who decides to use the same cast for rehearsals of his new play that weekend at his empty mansion. After arriving at the mansion, Charlotte and Emily are afflicted by disturbing visions, as a consequence of the presence of the resident magician, as the rehearsal progresses, the two actresses continue to have visions, including those of a romantic calamity that took place at the mansion. This is a calamity that the weekend gathering seem on the verge of repeating, mr. Rivette is able to sustain a complex, shifting relationship between the real and the theatrical without losing the films overriding sense of fun. Rivette displays a cool ingenuity that matches that of the performers, even when it becomes entangled in the romances that take shape during the course of the week, the film sustains its trickiness and sophistication. Maslin also praised the casting, Miss Birkin and Miss Chaplin make a team. Love on the Ground at the Internet Movie Database
Love on the Ground
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Promotional poster
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Ana and the Wolves
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Ana and the Wolves is a 1973 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura. Starring Geraldine Chaplin as a governess who comes to an isolated house to take care of the children of a convoluted family. The film is encoded with political symbolism of Francisco Franco’s regime, saura’s 1979 Mamá cumple cien años was a sequel of sorts. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, Ana, a young foreign governess, arrives to an isolated country estate in arid region of Castile, near Madrid. She has come to take charge of three girls whose mother, Luchy, greets Ana upon arrival. While Ana is unpacking, José, an uncle of the girls, introduces himself as the voice of order, in case Ana runs into any problem she must go to him, he explains. A family dinner that evening allows Ana to meet her eccentric employers, the family consists of three middle age brothers, their ailing mother, Mama, Luchy, Juan’s wife, and the couple’s three daughters, Carlota, Victoria and Natalia. At night, Natalia wakes up screaming after a nightmare, Juan, the father of the three girls, lusting over Ana, takes advantage of the situation to enter her bedroom. Firmly but politely, she rejects his sexual advances, dominated by an uncontrollable sex drive, the rejected Juan looks for consolation with Amparo, one of the maids. Surprisingly, Ana starts receiving erotic letters signed by an admirer who desires to be with her. They are delivered with rare postage from distance places each of them increasingly closer, José explains to Ana that he has not only opened and read those letters, but that he knows who has been sending them. Juan, he tells her, has been writing those letters using the valuable collection of stamps to deceive her. José has set up a museum of military dress in his study and he offers Ana his protection. Fernando, the most subdued of the three brothers, has moved out of the house to establish his residence in a nearby cave where he practices mystical incantations in an effort to levitate. She is both appalled by him and attracted to his way of life, as if understanding why he wants to escape from the world, between bouts of epilepsy and gout, Mama remains the protectress of the family unit. When she and Ana engage in dialogue, the old dowager gives Ana a bit of the background of the three sons as she shows the governess their childhood clothing she has saved for years. “ You must be understanding with them” mama tells her, as Ana becomes interested in the absurdity of what has been happening, Ana now actively leads the three brothers on, playing to the fantasy life of each of the three men, at times, outwardly mocking them. Recruited to help José with his museum when he shots a flying bird to scare her, Ana is bemused, Juan is so obsessed with Ana that at one point he sneaks into her bedroom to brush his teeth with her toothbrush
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