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2009 Cannes Film Festival
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The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 May –24 May 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert was the President of the Jury and it was announced on 19 March 2009, that Pixars film Up would open the festival. This marked the first time that a film or a film in 3-D opened the festival. * First animated film ever to open the festival, the following films competed for the Palme dOr
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The poster shows a still from the film
L'avventura by
Michelangelo Antonioni.
2009 Cannes Film Festival
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The members of the international competition's jury.
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Paris
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Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. It has an area of 105 square kilometres and a population of 2,229,621 in 2013 within its administrative limits, the agglomeration has grown well beyond the citys administrative limits. By the 17th century, Paris was one of Europes major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts, and it retains that position still today. The aire urbaine de Paris, a measure of area, spans most of the Île-de-France region and has a population of 12,405,426. It is therefore the second largest metropolitan area in the European Union after London, the Metropole of Grand Paris was created in 2016, combining the commune and its nearest suburbs into a single area for economic and environmental co-operation. Grand Paris covers 814 square kilometres and has a population of 7 million persons, the Paris Region had a GDP of €624 billion in 2012, accounting for 30.0 percent of the GDP of France and ranking it as one of the wealthiest regions in Europe. The city is also a rail, highway, and air-transport hub served by two international airports, Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly. Opened in 1900, the subway system, the Paris Métro. It is the second busiest metro system in Europe after Moscow Metro, notably, Paris Gare du Nord is the busiest railway station in the world outside of Japan, with 262 millions passengers in 2015. In 2015, Paris received 22.2 million visitors, making it one of the top tourist destinations. The association football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris, the 80, 000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros, Paris hosted the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The name Paris is derived from its inhabitants, the Celtic Parisii tribe. Thus, though written the same, the name is not related to the Paris of Greek mythology. In the 1860s, the boulevards and streets of Paris were illuminated by 56,000 gas lamps, since the late 19th century, Paris has also been known as Panam in French slang. Inhabitants are known in English as Parisians and in French as Parisiens and they are also pejoratively called Parigots. The Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, inhabited the Paris area from around the middle of the 3rd century BC. One of the areas major north-south trade routes crossed the Seine on the île de la Cité, this place of land and water trade routes gradually became a town
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In the 1860s Paris streets and monuments were illuminated by 56,000 gas lamps, making it literally "The City of Light."
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Gold coins minted by the Parisii (1st century BC)
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The
Palais de la Cité and
Sainte-Chapelle, viewed from the Left Bank, from the
Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (month of June) (1410)
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Valerio Zurlini
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Valerio Zurlini was an Italian film director, stage director and screenwriter. During his law studies in Rome, he started working in the theatre, in 1943, he joined the Italian resistance. Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party and he filmed short documentaries in the immediate post-war period and in 1954 directed his first feature film, The Girls of San Frediano, his only comedy. In 1958 together with Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi and Alberto Lattuada Zurlini won the Silver Ribbon for Best Script for Lattuadas Guendalina, Zurlini made his name as a director with his second feature film, Violent Summer, starring Eleonora Rossi Drago and Jean Louis Trintignant. In 1961 Zurlini filmed Girl with a Suitcase, a successful intimist drama, starring Claudia Cardinale, who became a star in Italy, and Jacques Perrin. In 1962 Zurlinis film Family Diary earned him the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Zurlini had a masterful skill for screen adaptations. Both The Girls of San Frediano and Family Diary were based on Vasco Pratolinis work, Zurlini admired the work of Italian novelist Giorgio Bassani and hoped to adapt his novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which was subsequently directed by Vittorio De Sica in 1971. His 1965 film The Camp Followers was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver Prize. Zurlinis last film, The Desert of the Tartars, produced by Jacques Perrin, in 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. In the same year, with this film Zurlini, he won both the David di Donatello for Best Director and the Silver Ribbon for Best Director, the visual style of Zurlinis adaptations was informed by Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi and Ottone Rosais paintings. During the last years of his life Zurlini taught at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and he killed himself in Verona on 26 October 1982. After Zurlinis death his work fell into obscurity, but regained popularity in the 2000s. In the early 2000s several Zurlini retrospectives were met with success internationally, in 2006 the NoShame Films released The Desert of the Tartars, Violent Summer and Girl With a Suitcase on DVD. The Girls of San Frediano Guendalina Violent Summer Girl with a Suitcase Family Diary Le soldatesse Seduto alla sua destra The Professor The Desert of the Tartars Toffetti, ISBN 88-7180-076-1 Valerio Zurlini at the Internet Movie Database
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Valerio Zurlini
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Claudia Cardinale
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Claudia Cardinale is an Italian film actress who appeared in some of the most acclaimed European films of the 1960s and 1970s, mainly Italian or French, but also in several English films. From 1963, Cardinale became known in the United States and Britain following her role in The Pink Panther opposite David Niven, in 1982, she starred in Werner Herzogs Fitzcarraldo as the love interest of Klaus Kinski, who raises the funds to buy a steamship in South America. Outspoken on womens rights causes over the years, Cardinale has been a UNESCO goodwill ambassador for the Defense of Womens Rights since March 2000, in February 2011, the Los Angeles Times Magazine named Cardinale among the 50 most beautiful women in film history. Claudia Cardinale was born Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale in La Goulette and her mother, Yolande Greco, was born in Tunisia to Sicilian emigrants from Trapani. Her maternal grandparents had a shipbuilding firm in Trapani, but later settled in La Goulette. Her father, Francesco Cardinale, was a worker, born in Gela. Her native languages were French, Tunisian Arabic, and the Sicilian language of her parents and she did not learn to speak Italian until she had already begun to be cast for Italian films. Cardinale was educated at the Saint-Joseph-de-lApparition school of Carthage, which she attended along with her younger sister Blanche and she then studied at the Paul Cambon School, where she graduated with the intention of becoming a teacher. Cardinales first film work was participating, along with classmates, in a film by French director René Vautier, Anneaux dor. The film made her a local celebrity, and led to her being spotted by Jacques Baratier. She accepted it reluctantly after Baratier explained he wanted a Tunisian actress rather than an Italian to star in the role opposite the Egyptian actor Omar Sharif. The appearance nonetheless marked her feature-film debut, after being spotted by several film producers at the event, she was invited to study at the Experimental Cinematography Center in Rome under Tina Lattanzi. She attended briefly as, despite her extremely photogenic looks, she had trouble with her acting assignments, on this discovery, he wanted her to have an abortion, but she decided to keep the child. She solved her problems by signing an exclusive contract with Franco Cristaldis production company Vides. Cristaldi largely managed her career, and she was married to him from 1966 until 1975. She portrayed Carmelita, a Sicilian girl virtually imprisoned in her home by her overpowering brother, the comedy was a huge success, making Cardinale instantly recognizable. Some newspapers were referring to her as la fidanzata dItalia. Later that year, she had a role opposite Yvonne Monlaur in Claudio Goras romantic comedy Three Strangers in Rome
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Claudia Cardinale filming
The Pink Panther (1963)
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French film director
Jacques Baratier who spotted Cardinale
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Cardinale in
Pietro Germi 's
Un maledetto imbroglio
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Cardinale in
Girl with a Suitcase (1961)
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Girl with a Suitcase
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Girl with a Suitcase is a 1961 Italian romantic drama film by Italian Director Valerio Zurlini starring Claudia Cardinale as a naive nightclub singer who lives on the good will of others. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, when Aida is dumped by her lover, she travels alone to the big city. Her former lovers younger brother Lorenzo takes her in, protecting her, the pair have many obstacles, their ages and Lorenzos family, who go to great lengths trying to stop this cross-class affair. Aida begins a relationship with a new man but Lorenzo is unwilling to let go, when they do eventually part Lorenzo leaves Aida with a large sum of money as a farewell gift
Girl with a Suitcase
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Original Italian poster
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Family Diary
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Family Diary is a 1962 Italian film directed by Valerio Zurlini and based on the novel by Vasco Pratolini. It tells the story of two brothers who are brought up apart from each other at their mothers death, then brought together by family circumstances. Marcello Mastroianni gives a sensitive, finely judged performance as Enrico and he receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship, he was brought up by their poor, reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoiled brothers keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty and responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves. Beautifully photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno, this austere, deeply felt masterwork has been acclaimed as one of Zurlinis greatest achievements
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Family Diary
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Marcello Mastroianni
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Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, and grew up in Turin and Rome. He was the son of Ida and Ottone Mastroianni, who ran a shop. During World War II, after the division into Axis and Allied Italy, he was interned in a loosely guarded German prison camp, from which he escaped to hide in Venice. Mastroianni made his debut as an uncredited extra in Marionette when he was fourteen. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, for Divorce Italian Style, A Special Day and Dark Eyes, Mastroianni, Dean Stockwell and Jack Lemmon are the only actors to have been twice awarded the Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival. Mastroianni won it in 1970 for The Pizza Triangle and in 1987 for Dark Eyes, Mastroianni starred alongside his daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, in Raúl Ruizs Three Lives and Only One Death in 1996. For this performance he won the Silver Wave Award at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival and his final film, Voyage to the Beginning of the World, was released posthumously. Mastroianni married Flora Carabella on August 12,1950 and they had one daughter together, Barbara, but eventually separated because of his affairs with younger women. Mastroiannis first serious relationship after the separation was with Faye Dunaway, Dunaway wanted to marry and have children, but Mastroianni, a Catholic, refused to divorce Carabella. In 1971, after three years of waiting for Mastroianni to change his mind, Dunaway left him, Mastroianni had a daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, with French actress Catherine Deneuve, who was nearly 20 years his junior and lived with him for four years in the 1970s. During that time, the couple made four movies together, It Only Happens to Others, La cagna, A Slightly Pregnant Man, according to People magazine, Mastroiannis other lovers included actresses Anouk Aimee, Ursula Andress, Claudia Cardinale and Lauren Hutton. Around 1976, he involved with Anna Maria Tatò, an author. They remained together until his death, Mastroianni died of pancreatic cancer on 19 December 1996 at the age of 72. Both of his daughters, as well as Deneuve and Tatò, were at his bedside, the Trevi Fountain in Rome, associated with his role in Fellinis La Dolce Vita, was symbolically turned off and draped in black as a tribute. At the 1997 Venice Film Festival, Chiara, Carabella and Deneuve tried to block the screening of Tatòs four-hour documentary, Marcello Mastroianni, the festival refused and the movie was shown. The three women reportedly tried to do the thing at Cannes. Tatò said Mastroianni had willed her all rights to his image. com
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Mastroianni in 1991
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Cinema Paradiso
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Cinema Paradiso is a 1988 Italian drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, Salvatore obviously shies from committed relationships and has not been to his home village of Giancaldo, Sicily in 30 years. As his girlfriend asks him who Alfredo is, Salvatore flashes back to his childhood and it is a few years after World War II. Six-year-old Salvatore is the mischievous, intelligent son of a war widow, nicknamed Toto, he discovers a love for films and spends every free moment at the movie house Cinema Paradiso. During the shows, the audience can be heard booing when there are missing sections, causing the films to suddenly jump, the local priest had ordered these sections censored, and the deleted scenes are piled on the projection room floor. At first, Alfredo considers Toto a bit of a pest, the montage ends as the movie house catches fire as Alfredo was projecting The Firemen of Viggiù after hours, on the wall of a nearby house. Salvatore saves Alfredos life, but not before a film reel explodes in Alfredos face, the Cinema Paradiso is rebuilt by a town citizen, Ciccio, who invests his football lottery winnings. Salvatore, still a child, is hired as the new projectionist, about a decade later, Salvatore, now in high school, is still operating the projector at the Cinema Paradiso. His relationship with the blind Alfredo has strengthened, and Salvatore often looks to him for help – advice that Alfredo often dispenses by quoting classic films. Salvatore has been experimenting with film, using a movie camera, and he has met. Salvatore woos – and wins – Elenas heart, only to lose her due to her fathers disapproval, as Elena and her family move away, Salvatore leaves town for compulsory military service. His attempts to write to Elena are fruitless, his letters are returned as undeliverable, upon his return from the military, Alfredo urges Salvatore to leave Giancaldo permanently, counseling that the town is too small for Salvatore to ever find his dreams. They tearfully embrace, and Salvatore leaves town to pursue his future, Salvatore has obeyed Alfredo, but he returns home to attend the funeral. Though the town has changed greatly, he now understands why Alfredo thought it was important that he leave, Salvatore learns that Cinema Paradiso is to be demolished to make way for a parking lot. At the funeral, he recognizes the faces of people who attended the cinema when he was the projectionist. He watches Alfredos reel and discovers that it comprises a special montage. It contains all of the scenes the priest had ordered cut from movies. Salvatore has made peace with his past, the famous town square is Piazza Umberto I in the village of Palazzo Adriano, about 30 miles to the south of Palermo
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Original release poster
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Henri-Georges Clouzot was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques. Clouzot also directed films, including The Mystery of Picasso. Clouzot was an fan of the cinema and, desiring a career as a writer. He was later hired by producer Adolphe Osso to work in Berlin, after being fired from German studios due to his friendship with Jewish producers, Clouzot returned to France, where he spent years bedridden after contracting tuberculosis. Upon recovering, Clouzot found work in Nazi occupied France as a screenwriter for the German-owned company Continental Films, at Continental, Clouzot wrote and directed films that were very popular in France. His second film Le Corbeau drew controversy over its harsh look at provincial France, as a result of his association with Continental, Clouzot was barred by the French government from filmmaking until 1947. After the ban was lifted, Clouzot reestablished his reputation and popularity in France during the late 1940s with successful films including Quai des Orfèvres. After the release of his comedy film Miquette et sa mère, Clouzot married Véra Gibson-Amado, in the early and mid-1950s, Clouzot drew acclaim from international critics and audiences for The Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques. Both films would serve as material for remakes decades later. After the release of La Vérité, Clouzots wife Véra died of an attack and Clouzots career suffered due to depression, illness. Clouzots career became less active in years, limited to a few television documentaries. Clouzot wrote several unused scripts in the 1970s and died in Paris in 1977, Henri-Georges Clouzot was born in Niort, France, to mother Suzanne Clouzot and father Georges Clouzout, a book store owner. He was the first of three children in a middle-class family, Clouzot showed talent by writing plays and playing piano recitals. In 1922, Clouzots fathers bookstore went bankrupt and his moved to Brest, France. In Brest, Henri-Georges Clouzot went to Naval School, but was unable to become a Naval Cadet due to his myopia, at the age of 18, Clouzot left for Paris to study political science. While living in Paris, he became friends with several magazine editors and his writing talents led him to theater and cinema as a playwright, lyricist and adaptor-screenwriter. The quality of his work led producer Adolphe Osso to hire him and send him to Germany to work in Studio Babelsberg in Berlin, throughout the 1930s, Clouzot worked by writing and translating scripts, dialogue and occasionally lyrics for over twenty films
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Henri-Georges and Véra Clouzot in 1953
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Clouzot bought the rights to Les diaboliques which halted
Alfred Hitchcock 's attempt to purchase them.
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Henri-Georges Clouzot's tomb at the
Montmartre Cemetery.
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The Truth (1960 film)
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The Truth is a 1960 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Brigitte Bardot. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Dominique Marceau is a young Frenchwoman on trial for killing her lover, Gilbert. The prosecuting attorney, Eparvier, claims it was an act of premeditated murder that warrants the death penalty, the defense attorney, Guérin, maintains that it was an act of passion and not punishable by death. During the course of the trial, we see the events led up to the crime. Dominques parents let her move to Paris after she tried to kill herself when they initially refused and she had been living on the Paris Left Bank with her violinist sister Anne, partying and sleeping with men. She meets Gilbert, her sisters boyfriend, a music student, Dominique seduces Gilbert and he falls for her and proposed but she turns him down. They live together for a time but Dominique struggles with domesticity, over time Dominique becomes a prostitute while Gilbert becomes a famous conductor. Dominique realises that Gilbert was the man she ever loved. However he kicks her out the next day and she tries to kill herself to prove her love but when he mocks her she shoots him. She then attempts suicide but is found and rescued by the police, at the end of the trial, Dominique realises the jury is unconvinced that her love for Gilbert was real. She returns to her cell and slashes her wrists with a piece of broken mirror. Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu, one of the leads, was fired during shooting. Leroy-Beaulieu then sued the producer for damages of 300,000 francs, Charrier had a nervous breakdown and was hospitalised for two months. Vera Clouzot had a breakdown in July. In August Clouzot had an attack and filming was suspended for a week. Also Bardots secretary of four years sold secrets about her to the press, during filming, Bardot had an affair with Sammi Frey which resulting in her breaking up with her then husband Jacques Charrier. In September 1960 Bardot had an argument with Charrier and then attempted suicide by slashing her wrist, in the words of the New York Times probably no film in recent years - at least in France - has been subjected to so much advance attention. Two years in the planning, six months in the shooting, sets sealed to the press, the public had been told that Clouzot was turning B. B. into a real actress
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Film poster
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Mauro Bolognini
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Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film and stage director of literate sensibility, known for his masterly handling of period subject matter. Bolognini was born in Pistoia, in the Tuscany region of Italy, after earning a masters degree in architecture at the University of Florence, Bolognini enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where he studied stage design. After graduation, he interested in film direction and set out to work as an assistant to directors Luigi Zampa in Italy. Bolognini began directing his own films in the mid-1950s. Bolognini returned to features in 1966 with Madamigella di Maupin featuring Catherine Spaak, in 1981, Bolognini filmed The Lady of the Camellias, inspired by the Alexandre Dumas, fils novel and play. Throughout the decade, he continued directing films, as well as the television miniseries The Charterhouse of Parma. His final feature was the erotic drama Husband and Lovers starring Julian Sands and Joanna Pacula. In the mid-1960s, Bolognini started to show an interest, as director, in the production of operas. Fatti di gente per bene / The Murri Affair Per le antiche scale / Down the Ancient Staircase Leredità Ferramonti / The Inheritance Gran bollito / Black Journal Dove vai in vacanza, / Where Are You Going on Holiday
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Ottavia Piccolo in
Bubù (1971)
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Pierre Schoendoerffer
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Pierre Schoendoerffer was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician. He was president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts for 2001 and for 2007, in 1967, he was the winner of the Academy Award for Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon. The film followed a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam during 1966, Pierre Schoendoerffer was born in Chamalières of a French Alsatian Protestant family. His maternal grandfather, who was an 1870 veteran, volunteered in the French Army in 1914 at the age of 66 and he was killed during the Second Battle of the Aisne at Chemin des Dames. His father was the director of the Annecy hospital and died shortly after the end of the battle of France where he was injured and he met his wife Patricia in Morocco, she was a journalist for France-Soir. They had three children, actor and screenwriter Frédéric Schoendoerffer, director and producer Ludovic Schoendoerffer and actress Amélie Schoendoerffer, Pierre Schoendoerffer died on 14 March 2012 in France. During World War II, Schoendoerffer lost his father and was not doing well with his studies at school in Annecy, from this experience he would later direct Than, the Fisherman shot in Vietnam, and Iceland Fisherman. The following year he went back to the Pays de la Loire region, in 1947, on board a merchant navy coaster, he sailed for two years in the Baltic Sea and North Sea. This experience would later find echoes in Seven Days at Sea, The Drummer-Crab, from 1949 to 1950 he left the sea to fulfill mandatory military service in the Alpine infantrys 13e Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins based in Chambéry and Modane, Rhône-Alpes. The Alpine infantry would later be the title characters corps in The Honor of a Captain, young Schoendoerffer had realized he was not born to be a mariner, but he did not want to be a soldier either, thinking he would be wasting his time. What he wanted to do was filmmaking, as he failed to enter the television and cinema industries, he began photography instead. One day as he read a Le Figaro article about war cameraman Georges Kowal, Killed in action during the First Indochina War, in late 1951, he volunteered to become a war cameraman for the French army and was sent to Saigon, in French Indochina. There Corporal Schoendoerffer met and became friends with Service Presse Information war photograph Sergeant-Chief Jean Péraud, Schoendoerffers first SCA production was a 9-minute short documentary First Indochina War Rushes that would surface thirty years later on screen in The Honor of a Captain. In 1954, his friend and superior Sergeant-Chief Péraud asked him by telegram to him at the battle of Dien Bien Phu. As a result, upranked Corporal-Chief Schoendoerffer celebrated his 26th birthday in the midst of the 57-day siege and this event was later depicted on screen by his own son, Frédéric, in Pierre Schoendoerffers 1992 docudrama Dien Bien Phu recreating the battle. At the end of the battle in 1954, he saved, after the battle, on 7 May 1954, he was captured and sent to a Viet Minh reeducation camp. During the march to the camp, following Jean Péraud, he tried to escape with paratroopers commander Marcel Bigeard, Péraud vanished though and has since been Missing in action. During this time, Karmen had some friendly meetings with Schoendoerffer, they spoke about their job, Karmen kept the reels though, so as a result the only footage covering the battle is from the Viet Minhs perspective
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Pierre Schoendoerffer at the
Cinémathèque Française
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Croix de Guerre TOE
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Catherine Deneuve
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Catherine Deneuve is a French actress as well as an occasional singer, model and producer. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof, mysterious beauties for various directors, including Luis Buñuel, Francois Truffaut, in 1985, she succeeded Mireille Mathieu as the official face of Marianne, Frances national symbol of liberty. A 14-time César Award nominee, she won for her performances in Truffauts The Last Metro and she is also noted for her support for a variety of liberal causes. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for Belle de Jour, and she also won the 1998 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Place Vendôme. Other films include Scene of the Crime, My Favourite Season,8 Women and her English-language films include The April Fools, Hustle, The Hunger and Dancer in the Dark. In 2015, she starred in The Brand New Testament and Standing Tall, Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac in Paris, France, the daughter of French stage actors Maurice Dorléac and Renée Simonot. Deneuve was her mothers name, which she chose for her stage name. Her work for Buñuel would be her most famous, further prominent films from this early time in her career included Jean-Paul Rappeneaus A Matter of Resistance, and Demys musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. Her starring roles at the time were featured in films as A Slightly Pregnant Man with Marcello Mastroianni. She made her film as a producer in 1988, Drôle dendroit pour une rencontre. In 1997, Deneuve was the protagonist in the video for the song NOubliez Jamais sung by Joe Cocker. In 1998 she won acclaim and the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Place Vendôme. In the late 1990s, Deneuve continued to appear in a number of films such as 1999s five films Est-Ouest, Le temps retrouvé, Pola X, Belle maman. In 2000, Deneuves part in Lars von Triers musical drama Dancer in the Dark alongside Icelandic singer Björk was subject to critical scrutiny. The film was selected for the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival and she made another foray into Hollywood the following year, starring in The Musketeer for Peter Hyams. In 2002, she shared the Silver Bear Award for Best Ensemble Cast at the Berlin International Film Festival for her performance in 8 Women. In 2005, Deneuve published her diary A lombre de moi-meme, in it she writes about her experiences shooting the films Indochine and she also provided the voice role of Marjane Satrapis mother in Satrapis animated autobiographical film Persepolis, based on the graphic novel of the same name. In 2008, she appeared in her 100th film, Un conte de Noël, during an interview at the Cannes Film Festival with Ali Naderzad, Deneuve was asked which was her own favorite film
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Deneuve at the
2014 Cannes Film Festival
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Deneuve in 1968
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Deneuve at the
2011 César Awards.
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Jacques Demy
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Jacques Demy was a French director and screenwriter. He appeared in the wake of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard, Demys films are well known for their sumptuous look, drawing on Hollywood musicals, fairytales, jazz, and opera. His films are also distinguishable by their overlapping continuity, lush musical scores and themes like teenaged love, labor rights, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. After working with the animator Paul Grimault and the filmmaker Georges Rouquier, Demy directed his first feature film, Lola, in 1961, the Demy universe here emerges full-fledged. La Baie des Anges, starring Jeanne Moreau, took the theme of fate further, Demy is best known for his original musical, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, with a score by Legrand. Although the subversion of established genres was a typically New Wave obsession, the whimsical concept of singing all the dialogue sets the tone for this tragedy of the everyday. The young man, Roland Cassard, from Lola reappears here, such reappearances are typical of Demys work. Demys subsequent films never quite captured audience and critical acclaim the way that Les Parapluies had, although he continued to make ambitious and original dramas and musicals. It has stunning color photography, some of the best French songs of the period, peau dÂne is a visually extravagant musical interpretation of a classic French fairytale which highlights the tales incestuous overtones, starring Deneuve, Jean Marais, and Delphine Seyrig. Lévénement le plus important depuis que lhomme a marché sur la lune is a look back at the pressures of second-wave feminism in France. After years of neglect, Demys strengths have been recognized, Demy himself appears in the film in the opening and closing sequences, and at several points throughout. He had two children with Varda, Rosalie Varda-Demy, who was the daughter of Antoine Bourseiller. Jacques Demy died from complications of AIDS on 27 October 1990 at age 59 and was interred in the Montparnasse Cemetery in Montparnasse
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Jacques Demy
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
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The choreography was by Norman Maen. Michel Legrand composed the score, to Demys lyrics, the most famous songs from this film score, which is generally less acclaimed than that for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, are A Pair of Twins and You Must Believe in Spring. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Original Score, the film was also another big success for Demy in France with a total of 1,319,432 admissions. The Young Girls of Rochefort takes place over the course of one weekend in the town of Rochefort. When the fair comes to town, Delphine and Solange meet two smooth-talking but kind-hearted carnies, Étienne and Bill. The twins mother Yvonne owns a café in the center of town, Yvonnes café becomes a central hub for Étienne and Bill as well as most of the other characters in the film. In the café, Yvonne meets a sailor about to be demobbed from the navy, Maxence is a poet and painter, and is searching for his true feminine ideal. Little does Yvonne know, her former fiancé, Simon Dame, has opened a music store in Rochefort. He knows his fiancée had twins from a relationship. Solange, a songwriter, enlists the help of Simon Dame. As Solange is on her way to pick up her younger brother BouBou from school, she happens to bump into a charming foreigner, however, the two do not exchange names. Meanwhile, Delphine is unhappy in her relationship with the gallery owner Guillaume. In the gallery, as she is about to leave, Delphine notices a painting that looks remarkably like her, the image was in fact painted by Maxence. Back in the square, the two dancers in Étienne and Bills show run off with sailors, so they ask Delphine and Solange to perform. On the day of the fair, the paths of all of the cross again at the town square
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Donkey Skin (film)
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Peau dÂne is a 1970 French musical film directed by Jacques Demy. It is also known by the English titles Once Upon a Time, the film was adapted by Demy from Donkeyskin, a fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a king who wishes to marry his daughter. It stars Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais, with music by Michel Legrand, Donkey Skin also proved to be Demys biggest success in France with a total of 2,198,576 admissions. Peau dÂne is distributed on DVD in North America by Koch-Lorber Films, the King promises his dying Queen that after her death he will only marry a woman as beautiful and virtuous as she. Pressed by his advisers to remarry and produce an heir, he comes to the conclusion that the way to fulfil his promise is to marry his own daughter. Donning the donkey skin, the Princess flees her fathers kingdom to avoid the incestuous marriage, in the guise of Donkey Skin, the Princess finds employment as the pig-keeper in a kingdom. The Prince of this kingdom spies her in her hut in the woods, love-struck, he retires to his sickbed, and asks that Donkey Skin be instructed to bake him a cake to restore him to health. In the cake he finds a ring that the Princess has placed there and he declares that he will marry the woman whom the ring fits. All the women of marriageable age assemble at the Princes castle and try the ring on one by one, last of all is the lowly Donkey Skin, who is revealed to be the Princess when the ring fits her finger. At the wedding of the Prince and the Princess, the Lilac Fairy, Jacques Demy, fascinated by Charles Perraults fairy tale since childhood, was working on a script for the film as early as 1962. The involvement of Catherine Deneuve was instrumental in securing financing for the production
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Z (1969 film)
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Z is a 1969 Algerian-French epic political thriller film directed by Costa-Gavras, with a screenplay by Gavras and Jorge Semprún, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos. The film presents a fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of democratic Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963. With its satirical view of Greek politics, its sense of humor, and its downbeat ending. The film stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as the investigating magistrate, international stars Yves Montand and Irene Papas also appear, but despite their star billing have very little screen time. Jacques Perrin, who co-produced, plays a key role as a photojournalist, the films title refers to a popular Greek protest slogan meaning he lives, in reference to Lambrakis. The film had a total of 3,952,913 admissions in France and was the 4th highest grossing film of the year. It was also the 12th highest grossing film of 1969 in the U. S. Z is also the first film—and one of the few—to be nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Picture. The scene shifts to preparations for a rally of the faction where the pacifist Deputy is to give a speech advocating nuclear disarmament. It is obvious that there have been attempts to prevent the delivery by the government. The venue has changed to a much smaller hall and logistical problems have appeared out of nowhere. The Deputy is hit in the head by right-wing anticommunist bullies but carries on with his sharp speech. As the Deputy crosses the street from the hall after giving his speech, a delivery truck speeds past him, however, they do not control the hospital, where the autopsy disproves their interpretation. The action of the film concludes with one of the Deputys associates rushing to see the Deputys widow to give her the news of the officers indictments. The widow looks distressed, appearing not to believe things will change for the better, an epilogue provides a synopsis of the subsequent turns of events. The heads of the government resign after public disapproval, but before elections are carried out, a Coup detat occurs, the soundtrack, by Mikis Theodorakis, was also a record hit. The Greek junta had placed the composer under house arrest but he was able to give his approval to Costa-Gavras for the use of existing musical pieces, the film features, but does not credit, Pierre Henrys contemporary hit song, Psyché Rock. The soundtrack as released on LP and CD replaces Henrys song with a track written by Theodorakis named Café Rock. By referring to the Irish struggle against British rule rather than Greek realities, they offered a way to circumvent censorship in Greece, the Smiling Youth was also one of the nicknames of Lambrakis
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Costa Gavras
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Costa-Gavras is a Greek-French film director and producer, who lives and works in France. He is known for films with political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller Z. Most of his movies have made in French, however, six were made in English, Missing, Hanna K. Betrayed, Music Box, Mad City. He produces most of his films himself, through his production company K. G. Productions, Costa-Gavras was born in Loutra Iraias, Arcadia. His family spent the Second World War in a village in the Peloponnese and his father had been a member of the Pro-Soviet branch of the Greek Resistance, and was imprisoned during the Greek Civil War. In 1956, he left his university studies to film at the French national film school. After film school, he apprenticed under Yves Allégret, and became an assistant director for Jean Giono, after several further positions as first assistant director, he directed his first feature film, Compartiment Tueurs, in 1965. His 1967 film Shock Troops was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival, the film is a fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963. It had additional resonance because, at the time of its release, Z won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Costa-Gavras and co-writer Jorge Semprún won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Film Screenplay, LAveu follows the path of Artur London, a Czechoslovakian communist minister falsely arrested and tried for treason and espionage in the Slánský show trial in 1952. State of Siege takes place in Uruguay under a government in the early 1970s. Hormans father, played by Jack Lemmon, and wife, played by Sissy Spacek, search in vain to determine his fate. Nathaniel Davis, US ambassador to Chile from 1971–1973, a version of character had been portrayed in the movie, filed a US$150 million libel suit. 1372, against the studio and the director, which was eventually dismissed, the film won an Oscar for Best Screenplay Adaptation and the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival. Betrayed, roughly based upon the terrorist activities of American neo-Nazi and white supremacist Robert Mathews, in Music Box, a respected Hungarian immigrant is accused of having commanded an Anti-Semitic death squad during World War II. His daughter, a Chicago defense attorney played by Jessica Lange, the film is inspired by the arrest and trial of Ukrainian immigrant John Demjanjuk and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas realization that his father had been a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party. The film won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival, La Petite Apocalypse was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. Amen. was based in part on the highly controversial 1963 play, ein christliches Trauerspiel, by Rolf Hochhuth
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Jean-Louis Trintignant
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Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant is a French actor, screenwriter and director who has enjoyed international acclaim. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival as well as the Best Actor Award at the César Awards 2013, Trintignant was born in Piolenc, Vaucluse, France, the son of Claire and Raoul Trintignant, an industrialist. At the age of twenty, Trintignant moved to Paris to study drama, trintignant’s acting was interrupted for several years by mandatory military service. After serving in Algiers, he returned to Paris and resumed his work in film and he had the leading male role in the classic A Man and a Woman, which at the time was the most successful French film ever screened in the foreign market. Throughout the 1970s, Trintignant starred in films and in 1983 he made his first English language feature film. Following this, he starred in François Truffauts final film, Confidentially Yours, and reprised his role in the sequel A Man. In 1994, he starred in Krzysztof Kieślowskis last film, Three Colors, though he takes an occasional film role, he has, as of late, been focusing essentially on his stage work. After a 14-year gap, Trintignant came back on screen for Michael Hanekes film Amour, haneke had sent Trintignant the script, which had been written specifically for him. Trintignant comes from a wealthy family and he is the nephew of race car driver, Louis Trintignant, who was killed in 1933 while practising on the Péronne racetrack in Picardy. Another uncle, Maurice Trintignant, was a Formula One driver who won the Monaco Grand Prix as well as the 24 hours of Le Mans. Raised in and around automobile racing, Jean-Louis Trintignant was the choice of film director Claude Lelouch for the starring role of race car driver in the 1966 film, A Man. He suffered a leg injury from an accident in June 2007. His first wife was actress Stéphane Audran and his second wife, Nadine Marquand, was also an actress as well as a screenwriter and director. They had three children, Vincent Trintignant, Pauline and Marie Trintignant, at the age of 17, Marie performed in La terrazza alongside her father and later became a successful actress in her own right. She was killed at the age of 41 by her boyfriend, singer Bertrand Cantat, in a room in Vilnius. Trintignant is good friends with Anouk Aimée and it was he who recommended Aimée to film director Claude Lelouch for the female lead in A Man and a Woman. Jean-Louis Trintignant biography on newwavefilm. com Jean-Louis Trintignant at the Internet Movie Database Jean-Louis Trintignant at New Wave Film
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Yves Montand
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Ivo Livi, better known as Yves Montand, was an Italian-French actor and singer. Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, Giuseppina was a devout Catholic, while Giovanni held strong Communist beliefs. Montands family left for France in 1923 because of Italys Fascist regime and he grew up in Marseille, where, as a young man, he worked in his sisters beauty salon, and later on the docks. He began a career in business as a music-hall singer. In 1944, he was discovered by Édith Piaf in Paris, Montand went on to international recognition as a singer and actor, starring in numerous films. His recognizably crooner songs, especially those about Paris, became instant classics and he was one of the most famous performers at Bruno Coquatrixs famous Paris Olympia music hall, and toured with musicians including Didi Duprat. In October 1947, he sang Mais quest-ce que jai. at the Théâtre de lÉtoile, the composer of this song had him offer also sing Cest si bon he had written but Yves Montand refused. Following the success of the recording of song by the Sœurs Étienne in 1948. During his career, Montand acted in a number of American motion pictures as well as on Broadway and he was nominated for a César Award for Best Actor in 1980 for I comme Icare and again in 1984 for Garçon. The film was a critical hit and raised Montands profile in the US. In 1951, he married Simone Signoret, and they co-starred in several films throughout their careers, Montands only child, Valentin, his son by his second wife, Carole Amiel, was born in 1988. In a paternity suit that rocked France, another woman accused Montand of being the father of her daughter, Montand refused, but the woman persisted after his death. In a court ruling that made headlines, the woman won the right to have Montand exhumed. The results indicated that he was not the girls biological father. In an interview, Jean-Jacques Beineix said, e died on the set, on the very last day, after his very last shot. It was the very last night and we were doing retakes and he finished what he was doing and then he just died. And the film tells the story of an old man who dies from a heart attack, Montand is interred next to his first wife, Simone Signoret, in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. International Jose Guillermo Carrillo Foundation Yves Montand at the Internet Movie Database Yves Montand at the Internet Broadway Database Yves Montand at Find a Grave
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Irene Papas
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Irene Papas or Irene Pappas is a retired Greek actress and occasional singer, who has starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She became famous in Greece, and then a star of feature films such as The Guns of Navarone. She was a presence as a Greek heroine in films including The Trojan Women, Iphigenia. Papas was born as Irini Lelekou in Chiliomodi, outside Corinth and her mother was a schoolteacher, and her father taught classical drama. She was educated at the Royal School of Dramatic Art in Athens, taking classes in dance and she serves on the board of directors of the Anna-Marie Foundation. She stated in an interview that her father was of Albanian descent, Papas began her film career in Greece, being discovered by Elia Kazan, and achieved widespread fame there. She then starred in internationally renowned films such as The Guns of Navarone and Zorba the Greek and she appeared as Catherine of Aragon in Anne of the Thousand Days, opposite Richard Burton and Geneviève Bujold in 1969. In 1976, she starred in Mohammad, Messenger of God about the origin of Islam, in 1982, she appeared in Lion of the Desert, together with Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, and John Gielgud. One of her last film appearances was in Captain Corellis Mandolin in 2001, the Treccani Enciclopedia Italiana describes Papas as a typical Mediterranean beauty, with a lovely voice both in singing and acting, greatly talented and with an adventurous spirit. In the view of film critic Philip Kemp, Papas was an awe-inspiring presence, the film critic Roger Ebert observed that there were many pretty girls in cinema but not many women, and called Papas a great actress. Ordinary actors, he suggested, had trouble sharing the screen with Papas, all the same, her presence in many well-known movies, wrote Ebert, inspired something of a cult. Papas began her career in variety and traditional theatre, in plays by Ibsen, Shakespeare. Later in her career, she took the role of Medea in a 1973 production of Euripidess play. Reviewing the production in The New York Times, Clive Barnes described her as a fine, controlled Medea, smouldering with a carefully dampened passion. In 1969, the RCA label released Papas vinyl LP, Songs of Theodorakis and this has 11 folk songs sung in Greek, with sleeve notes in English by Michael Cacoyannis. A later CD of Greek folk songs, Irene Pappas Sings Mikis Theodorakis, was released in 2006. Papas knew Mikis Theodorakis from working with him on Zorba the Greek as early as 1964, in 1972, she appeared on the album 666 by the Greek rock group Aphrodites Child on the track ∞. She chants I was, I am, I am to come repeatedly and wildly over a backing, causing controversy with her graphic orgasm
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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31st Academy Awards Presentations,
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Presidency of Salvador Allende
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Salvador Allende was the president of Chile from 1970 until 1973, and head of the Popular Unity government, he was the first Marxist ever to be elected to the national presidency of a democracy. Allendes presidency was ended by a coup before he could complete a full term in office. During his tenure, Chilean politics reached a state of civil unrest amid strikes, lockouts, economic sanctions, CIA-sponsored propaganda and strikes, Allendes coalition, Unidad Popular, faced the problem of being a minority in the congress and it was plagued by factionalism. On 11 September 1973, a coup led by General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government of Allende. In the 1970 election, Allende ran with the Unidad Popular coalition, Allende received a plurality with 36. 2% of the vote. Christian Democrat Radomiro Tomic won 27. 8% with a similar platform to Allendes. Both Allende and Tomic promised to nationalize the mineral industry and redistribute land. Conservative former president Jorge Alessandri, standing for the National Party, according to the constitution, Congress had to decide between the two candidates who had received the most votes. 6% of the popular vote. This statute was suggested as a means to convince the majority of Christian Democrat senators that favoured Allessandri, as they doubted Allendes allegiance to democracy, after signing the statute, members of the Christian Democrat party in the Senate gave their vote in favor of Allende. It has been argued that given that less than the majority of the voters voted for him, but the legality of the election itself is not in dispute. In office, Allende pursued a policy he called La vía chilena al socialismo, the previous government of Eduardo Frei had already partly nationalised copper by acquiring a 51 percent share in foreign owned mines. The primary U. S. business in Chile at this time was copper mining, the Chilean government sought to fully nationalize U. S. mining operations and the Chilean constitution required just compensation to be made according to minimum international standards. However, the Allende government chose to hold mining companies to damages caused to the state. Subsequently, Chile made significant deductions in computing the amount of due to the North American industries. Such deductions included charges for loans invested poorly and excessive profits among other reasoning, excessive profits were assessed dating back to the 1950s. Ultimately, deductions for social and financial malfeasance when combined with other deductions resulted in the total deductions greatly exceeding the base values of the mining enterprises. In effect, compensation to three of the five nationalized mines was wholly eliminated by subjective deductions determined by Allendes government, Allende did also nationalized coal mining in 1971, a move that was welcomed by the miners of Lota. Chilean presidents were allowed a maximum of six years, which may explain Allendes haste to restructure the economy and he had a significant restructuring program organized
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Chileans marching in support of Allende
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Claude Jade
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Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade, was a French actress. She is known for starring as Christine in François Truffauts three films Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board and Love on the Run, Jade acted in theatre, film and television. Her film work outside France included the Soviet Union, the United States, Italy, the daughter of university professors, Jade spent three years at Dijons Conservatory of Dramatic Art. In 1964 she played on stage 40 times the part of Agnès in Molières Lécole des femmes, in 1966 she won the Prix de Comédie for Jean Giraudouxs stage play Ondine, performed at the Comédie Boulogne. She moved to Paris and became a student of Jean-Laurent Cochet at the Edouard VII theater, while performing as Frida in Pirandellos Henri IV, in a production by Sacha Pitoëff at the Théâtre Moderne, Jade was discovered by New Wave film director François Truffaut. He was completely taken by her beauty, her manners, her kindness, and her joie de vivre, during the filming, Truffaut fell in love with her, and there was talk of marriage. American critic Pauline Kael wrote that Jade seems a less ethereal, playing the same character, Jade appeared in two more movies by Truffaut, Bed and Board, and Love on the Run. Some months after Truffauts Stolen Kisses Claude Jade starred in Alfred Hitchcocks Topaz, as Michèle Picard, recommended to Hitchcock by Truffaut, she was 19 years old when cast, with Dany Robin playing her mother. Hitchcock said he chose the two actresses to provide glamor, and later quipped, Claude Jade is a quiet young lady. Jade recounted that they talked in a Paris hotel about cooking, and I gave him my recipe for soufflé and told him I liked Strangers on a Train, Hitchcock said she resembled his former star Grace Kelly, and in France she was a younger Danielle Darrieux. Some of her scenes were deleted and restored for the cut of Topaz in 1999. Topaz was Jades only Hollywood film, universal Pictures offered her a seven-year contract, which she turned down reportedly because she preferred to work in French. Director Tony Richardsons film Nijinsky, based on a screenplay by Edward Albee, was canceled during pre-production by producer Harry Saltzman and it was to have starred Jade as Vaslav Nijinskys wife, alongside Rudolf Nureyev as Nijinsky and Paul Scofield as his lover Sergei Diaghilev. She had a role as Linda in Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo by André Hunebelle. Here the 19 years young actress starred alongside French cinemas veterans like Pierre Brasseur, Jade starred in Édouard Molinaros My Uncle Benjamin alongside Jacques Brel. As Manette she refuses Brels advances until he produces a marriage contract, at the End Manette realizes she prefers happiness to a marriage contract after all. Her career continued in Belgium, where she played a young English teacher who is intrigued by a murderer in the 1969 film The Witness. Her fiancé is this movie was played by Jean-Claude Dauphin, to whom she was engaged at this time, also in 1969 she starred as Helena in a film adaptation of Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream by Jean-Christophe Averty, Le Songe dune nuit dété
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Screenshot from trailer of Hitchcock's Topaz with Claude Jade, Michel Subor and Dany Robin
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Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose, The Lover, and Seven Years in Tibet. Annaud has received awards for his work, including four César Awards, one David di Donatello Award. Annauds first film, Black and White in Color, received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, jean-Jacques Annaud was born on 1 October 1943 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne in France. He was educated at the school in Vaugirard, and in 1964 graduated from the prestigious film school Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques in Paris. Annaud began his career by directing television advertisements in the late 1960s to early 1970s, in his first feature film, Black and White in Color from 1976, he used personal experience obtained during his own military service in Cameroon. The film won an Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film and his third film Quest for Fire received two Césars for best film and best director. In 1986, Annaud directed The Name of the Rose, a adaptation of Umberto Ecos popular novel of the same name. The film version, with a written by Andrew Birkin. Jean-Jacques Annaud spent four years preparing for the film, traveling throughout the United States as well as Europe, searching for the perfect cast and film set locations. He supposedly felt personally intrigued by the project, among other things because of a fascination with medieval churches. For Seven Years in Tibet, a adaptation of the life of Heinrich Harrer, he reportedly received a lifelong denial of entry to China, along with starring actors Brad Pitt. In 2012 however, Annaud was invited to chair the jury at the Shanghai Film Festival, in 2000 he wrote and produced Running Free directed by Sergei Bodrov. He also directed the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates, detailing the exploits of Vassili Zaitsev during the Battle of Stalingrad and his latest film is Black Gold, an epic drama set in the 1930s Arab states which premiered in 2011. The film was filmed in Tunisia and Qatar, annauds most recent project is the film adaptation of the award-winning best-selling Chinese novel Wolf Totem
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Jean-Jacques Annaud in 1998
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Max von Sydow
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Max von Sydow is a Swedish actor who became a French citizen in 2002. He has appeared in films in many languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, English, French, Italian. He received the Royal Foundation of Swedens Cultural Award in 1954, was made a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 2005, Sydow has appeared in well over a hundred films and TV shows. In 2016, Sydow joined the cast of HBOs hit series Game of Thrones, Max von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow in Lund, to a wealthy family. His father, Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, was an ethnologist and professor of Irish, Scandinavian and his mother, Baroness Maria Margareta Greta, was a schoolteacher. Some of his ancestry is German, his family’s origin is in Pomerania, now a region mostly in Poland, formerly part of Prussia, the particle von means of and usually indicates aristocratic descent. Sydow was brought up as a Lutheran and later became an agnostic and he attended Lund Cathedral School, where he learned German and English, starting at the age of nine. At school he and some friends founded a theatrical company. He completed his service before studying at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. During his time at Dramaten, he made his debuts in Alf Sjöbergs films Only a Mother and Miss Julie. In 1955, Sydow moved to Malmö, where he met his mentor and his first work with Bergman occurred on stage at the Malmö Municipal Theatre, and he would go on to work with Bergman on films such as The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries and The Virgin Spring. In The Seventh Seal, Sydow is the knight who plays a game with Death. The chess scenes and the film were international breakthroughs for actor and director alike and it was in these films that Sydow honed and perfected his craft. Max von Sydow came to dominate the screen as he did the stage, critical recognition came as early as 1954 when he was awarded the Royal Foundation Culture Award. He worked profusely on both stage and screen while in Scandinavia, resisting the calls from the United States to go to Hollywood. As his talents were soon in demand in other American productions, von Sydow, from 1965, he became a regular on the American screen while maintaining a presence in his native Sweden. In 1969, he appeared in John Hustons The Kremlin Letter, though often typecast as a villain, he was rewarded in the United States with two Golden Globe nominations, for Hawaii in 1966 and The Exorcist in 1973. In the mid-1970s, Sydow moved to Rome and began to appear in a number of Italian films, becoming friendly with another screen legend, Marcello Mastroianni
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Microcosmos (film)
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Microcosmos is a 1996 documentary film by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou and produced by Jacques Perrin. Set to the music of Bruno Coulais, this film is primarily a record of detailed interactions between insects and other small invertebrates, the film was screened out of competition at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. Scenes from the film were used in the video for the single You Dont Love Me from The Philosopher Kings album Famous, Rich. Roger Ebert gave Microcosmos 4/4 stars, calling it. an amazing film that allows us to peer deeply into the insect world, janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote. this quick, captivating film offers a taste of the exotic to viewers of any stripe. And its a reminder that Mother Nature remains the greatest special effects wizard of all. The film holds a 97% rating from the consensus of 32 critics on the aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes
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Winged Migration
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The film is dedicated to the French ornithologist Jean Dorst. The movie was shot over the course of four years on all seven continents and it was shot using in-flight cameras, most of the footage is aerial, and the viewer appears to be flying alongside birds of successive species, especially Canada geese. They traverse every kind of weather and landscape, covering vast distances in a flight for survival, the filmmakers exposed over 590 miles of film to create an 89-minute piece. In one case, two months of filming in one location was edited down to less than one minute in the final film, much of the aerial footage was taken of tame birds. The filmmakers raised birds of species, including storks and pelicans. The newborn birds imprinted on staff members, and were trained to fly along with the film crews, the birds were also exposed to the film equipment over the course of their lives to ensure that the birds would react the way the filmmakers want. Several of these species had never been imprinted before, film was shot from ultralights, paragliders, and hot air balloons, as well as trucks, motorcycles, motorboats, remote-controlled robots, and a French Navy warship. Its producer says that Winged Migration is neither a documentary nor fiction, the film states that no special effects were used in the filming of the birds, although some entirely CGI segments that view Earth from outer space augment the real-life footage. The films soundtrack by Bruno Coulais was recorded by Bulgarian vocal group Bulgarka Junior Quartet in Bulgarian, as well as Nick Cave in English, the vocal effects include sequences in which panting is superimposed on wingbeats to give the effect that the viewer is a bird. Release Date France 2001/12/12 Belgium 2001/12/12 Switzerland 2001/12/13, greece 2001/12/14 South Korea 2002/03/29 Germany 2002/04/04 Netherlands 2002/04/18 Hong Kong 2002/06/20 Russia 2002/06/21. Turkey 2002/09/13 Israel 2002/09/19 Hungary 2002/09/19 Spain 2002/09/27 Italy 2002/11/15 Lithuania 2002/12/27 Poland 2003/04/04 Japan 2003/04/05, Canada 2003/05/30 Australia 2003/06/19 Norway 2003/06/20 New Zealand 2003/07/13. Finland 2003/09/05 UK 2003/09/05 Denmark 2003/09/12 Sweden 2003/ 11/07 Iceland 2004/01/23, argentina 2004/07/29 Chile 2005/03/31 Ireland 2011/07/10. Winged Migration has an approval rating of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. By gross ticket sales, the film still holds seventh place in nature documentaries, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It won Best Editing at the 27th César Awards, where it was nominated for Best Music. The idea of the birds we owe to him. Lishman appears in the Making of documentary on the DVD release, notes Official site Official site Winged Migration at the Internet Movie Database Winged Migration at the TCM Movie Database Winged Migration on FFilms. org
Winged Migration
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theatrical poster
Winged Migration
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One of the CGI shots in Winged Migration, in which an
Arctic tern flies above southern
Africa
