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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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Neuilly-sur-Seine
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Neuilly-sur-Seine is a French commune just west of Paris, in the department of Hauts-de-Seine. A suburb of Paris, Neuilly is immediately adjacent to the city, the area is composed of mostly wealthy, select residential neighbourhoods, and many corporate headquarters are located there. Originally, Neuilly was a hamlet under the jurisdiction of Villiers. In 1224 another charter of Saint-Denis recorded the name as Lugniacum, in a sales contract dated 1266 the name was also recorded as Luingni. In 1316, however, in a ruling of the parlement of Paris, the name was recorded as Nully, in a document dated 1376 the name was again recorded as Nulliacum. Then in the centuries the name recorded alternated between Luny and Nully, and it is only after 1648 that the name was definitely set as Nully. The name spelt Neuilly after the French Academy standard of pronunciation of the ill as a y, various explanations and etymologies have been proposed to explain these discrepancies in the names of Neuilly recorded over the centuries. The original name of Neuilly may have been Lulliacum or Lugniacum, some interpret Lulliacum or Lugniacum as meaning estate of Lullius, probably a Gallo-Roman landowner. This interpretation is based on the many placenames of France made up of the names of Gallo-Roman landowners and these researchers contend that it is only after the fall of the Roman Empire and the Germanic invasions that the area of Neuilly was deforested and settled. Thus, they think that the name Lulliacum or Lugniacum comes from the ancient Germanic word lund meaning forest, akin to Old Norse lundr meaning grove, however, this interesting theory fails to explain why the d of lund is missing in Lulliacum or Lugniacum. Or perhaps the consonants were simply inverted under the influence of the settlements of France called Neuilly. On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighbouring communes, on that occasion, a part of the territory of Neuilly-sur-Seine was annexed by the city of Paris, and forms now the neighbourhood of Ternes, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. On 11 January 1867, part of the territory of Neuilly-sur-Seine was detached and merged with a part of the territory of Clichy to create the commune of Levallois-Perret. On 2 May 1897, the name officially became Neuilly-sur-Seine. However, most people continue to refer to Neuilly-sur-Seine as simply Neuilly, during the 1900 Summer Olympics, it hosted the basque pelota events. The American Hospital of Paris was founded in 1906, in 1919, the Treaty of Neuilly was signed with Bulgaria in Neuilly-sur-Seine to conclude its role in World War I. In 1929, the Bois de Boulogne, which was divided between the communes of Neuilly-sur-Seine and Boulogne-Billancourt, was annexed in its entirety by the city of Paris. It was the site of the Château de Neuilly, an important royal residence during the July Monarchy, Neuilly-sur-Seine is served by three stations on Paris Métro Line 1, Porte Maillot, Les Sablons and Pont de Neuilly
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Film director
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A film director is a person who directs the making of a film. Generally, a film director controls a films artistic and dramatic aspects, the director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design, and the creative aspects of filmmaking. Under European Union law, the director is viewed as the author of the film, the film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized, or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions, there are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, film editors or actors, other film directors have attended a film school. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors dialogue, while others control every aspect. Some directors also write their own screenplays or collaborate on screenplays with long-standing writing partners, some directors edit or appear in their films, or compose the music score for their films. Film directors create a vision through which a film eventually becomes realized/noticed. Realizing this vision includes overseeing the artistic and technical elements of production, as well as directing the shooting timetable. This entails organizing the crew in such a way as to achieve their vision of the film. This requires skills of leadership, as well as the ability to maintain a singular focus even in the stressful. Moreover, it is necessary to have an eye to frame shots and to give precise feedback to cast and crew, thus. Thus the director ensures that all involved in the film production are working towards an identical vision for the completed film. The set of varying challenges he or she has to tackle has been described as a jigsaw puzzle with egos. It adds to the pressure that the success of a film can influence when, omnipresent are the boundaries of the films budget. Additionally, the director may also have to ensure an intended age rating, thus, the position of film director is widely considered to be a highly stressful and demanding one. It has been said that 20-hour days are not unusual, under European Union law, the film director is considered the author or one of the authors of a film, largely as a result of the influence of auteur theory. Auteur theory is a film criticism concept that holds that a directors film reflects the directors personal creative vision
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Margot Kidder
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Margaret Ruth Margot Kidder is a Canadian American actress and activist. She rose to fame in 1978 for her role as Lois Lane in Superman, opposite Christopher Reeve, Kidder began her career in the 1960s appearing in low-budget Canadian films and television series, before landing a lead role in Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx. She then appeared playing Siamese twins in Brian De Palmas cult thriller Sisters, in the slasher film Black Christmas, and her performance as Kathy Lutz in the blockbuster horror film The Amityville Horror gained her further mainstream exposure. After a highly publicized manic episode and nervous breakdown in 1996, by the 2000s, however, she had maintained steady work in independent films as well as television, with guest-starring roles on Smallville, Brothers & Sisters, and The L Word. In 2015, she won an Emmy Award for her performance on the television series R. L. Stines The Haunting Hour. She has also acted in productions, most notably appearing on Broadway in a 2002 production of The Vagina Monologues. In 2005, Kidder became a naturalized U. S. citizen and she is an outspoken political, environmental, and anti-war activist. She has also advocated the use of medicine, which she credits as having helped treat her bipolar disorder. Kidder, one of five children, was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, the daughter of Jocelyn Mary Jill, a teacher, and Kendall Kidder. Kidder also spent time growing up in Labrador City, Newfoundland and her mother was from British Columbia, Canada, and her father was from New Mexico, United States. She is of Welsh and English descent, Kidder was born in Yellowknife because of her fathers job, which required the family to live in remote locations. Her father was manager of the Yellowknife Telephone Company from 1948 to 1951, Kidder recalled her childhood in northern Canada, saying, We didnt have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with singing and dancing. I knew I had to go far away, I was clueless, but I okay. Kidder attended multiple schools in her youth, and graduated from Havergal College and she has a sister, Annie, and three brothers, John, Michael and Peter. Kidders niece, Janet Kidder, is also an actress, Kidder made her film debut in a 49-minute film titled The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar, a drama set in a Canadian logging community, which was produced by the Challenge for Change. Her first major feature was the 1969 American film Gaily, Gaily, during the 1971–72 season, she co-starred as barmaid Ruth in Nichols, a James Garner western, which aired 22 episodes on NBC. In the late 1960s, Kidder was based in Toronto, and in 1970, during an August 3,1970 interview on The Dick Cavett Show, Kidder stated that she was ambivalent toward having a film career, and was considering working as a film editor in the future
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Marthe Keller
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Marthe Keller is a Swiss actress and opera director. Marthe studied ballet as a child, but stopped after an accident at age 16. She changed to acting, and worked in Berlin at the Schiller Theatre, kellers earliest film appearances were in Funeral in Berlin and the German film Wilder Reiter GmbH. She appeared in a series of French films in the 1970s, including Un cave, La raison du plus fou and she also acted alongside William Holden in Billy Wilders 1978 romantic drama Fedora. After 1978, Keller worked more steadily in European cinema compared to American movies and her later films include Dark Eyes, with Marcello Mastroianni. In April 2016, she was announced as the President of the Jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and she was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for this performance. In addition to her work in film and theatre, Keller has developed a career in music as a speaker. She has performed the role of Joan of Arc in Arthur Honeggers oratorio Jeanne dArc au Bûcher on several occasions, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa. She has recorded the role for Deutsche Grammophon with Ozawa, Keller has also recited the spoken part in Igor Stravinskys Perséphone. She has performed classical music melodramas for speaker and piano in recital, the Swiss composer Michael Jarrell wrote the melodrama Cassandre, after the novel of Christa Wolf, for Keller, who gave the world premiere in 1994. Kellers first production as a director was Dialogues des Carmélites. This production subsequently received a performance in London that year. She has also directed Lucia di Lammermoor for Washington National Opera and her directorial debut at the Metropolitan Opera was in a 2004 production of Don Giovanni. Keller has one son, Alexandre, from her relationship with director Philippe de Broca, Marthe Keller at the Internet Movie Database Yahoo. Movies biography of Marthe Keller Marthe Keller at AllMovie
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That Man from Rio
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That Man from Rio is a 1964 adventure film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac. It was the first film to be made by the French subsidiary of United Artists, the film was a huge success with a total of 4,800,626 admissions in France, becoming the 5th highest earning film of the year. This fast-moving spoof of James Bond-type movies features striking location photography of Rio de Janeiro, Oscar Niemeyers nascent Brasília, at the 37th Academy Awards the film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay. Catalan was Agnès fathers companion on an Amazon expedition during which her father died, Catalan believes that the statuette is one of three which hold the secret to an Amazon treasure. Adrien tells the pilot that his fiancée has been abducted, but Agnès has been drugged, the pilot plans to have Adrien arrested when they reach Rio de Janeiro, but Adrien eludes the police upon arrival. With the help of Sir Winston, a Brazilian bootblack, Adrien rescues Agnès and they retrieve the first statuette, but the Indians steal it back again. In Sir Winstons car, Agnès and Adrien drive to Brasília to meet Señor De Castro, on the way, they come across the Indians car with Catalan slumped inside, after picking him up, they drive on to Brasília. At a party in their honor, De Castro takes Catalan to his room to assure him of the statuettes safety, and Catalan. By the time Adrien discovers the body, Catalan and the Indians have abducted Agnès again, Adrien steals a plane and follows. In a floating jungle cafe run by Lola, the woman who financed Catalan, Adrien learns that Catalan murdered Agnès father, rushing to the boat, Adrien hangs onto the side as it heads upstream and finally docks. While Catalan goes to the location of the treasure, Adrien kills all of Catalans accomplices and rescues Agnès. Catalan finds the treasure, but a set off by a nearby demolition crew causes him to be buried with it. Adrien and Agnès flee the jungle and arrive in Paris in time for Adrien to catch his train back to camp and it was decided that he should star in a James Bond spoof. Italian finance meant the Italian actor Adolfo Celi was cast, jean Paul Belmondos own personal tastes were Tintin comics, sports magazines and detective novels. He said he preferred making films like Rio to the intellectual movies of Alain Renais or Alain Robbe-Grillet. The film was a financial success in France, being the fourth most popular movie at the French box office. It also performed well in the USA, the review noted that the film was beautifully organised and that it always keeps the chuckles rising even if they seldom break into real guffaws. LHomme de Rio at the Internet Movie Database That Man from Rio at Le Film Guide That Man From Rio at AllMovie That Man from Rio at TCMDB Review of film at New York Times
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On Guard (1997 film)
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On Guard is a 1997 French swashbuckler film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez, and Marie Gillain. Adapted from the 1858 historical novel Le Bossu by Paul Féval, when the duke is attacked by his evil cousin Gonzague, the duke in his dying moments asks Lagardère to avenge him and look after his infant daughter. On Guard was released on 3 December 1997 in France, the film had 2,385,688 admissions in France and grossed $96,750 in the United States. The film also received a BAFTA Film Award Nomination for Best Film in 1999, in 1700 in Nevers, France, a skilled swordsman named Lagardère challenges Duke Philippe de Nevers to a friendly duel in order to learn his secret lethal maneuver known as the Nevers Attack. Nevers agrees and quickly dispatches the upstart whom he soon befriends, Nevers learns that he has a son by Blanche de Caylus—a fact previously concealed by his cousin and would-be heir, the wicked Comte de Gonzague. That night Nevers escapes an attempt by Gonzagues men. Determined to claim his bride, Nevers leaves for Caylus with Lagardère along as his escort and they are followed by Gonzague and his men who plan to murder Nevers before he can marry Blanche and claim his son and heir. Along the way Nevers teaches Lagardère the Nevers Attack—an acrobatic sleight of hand that ends with a blade between the opponents eyes, soon after, they spot the assassins, and Lagardère is able to delay the attackers long enough to allow Nevers to reach Caylus and marry Blanche. The newlyweds happiness, however, is short-lived, when Gonzague and his men arrive at Caylus, they murder the entire wedding party. Lagardère arrives, and after a sword fight, Nevers is fatally stabbed by a masked Gonzague. With his dying breath, Nevers implores Lagardère to avenge him, Lagardère flees Caylus with the infant and finds refuge in the mountains in an abandoned farmhouse, where he discovers that the son is in fact a girl named Aurore. Gonzagues men track Lagardère to his mountain hideaway looking to kill Nevers rightful heir, Lagardère and Aurore escape with the help of a band of strolling players who convince the pursuing killers that Lagardère and Aurore have plunged to their deaths in a mountain torrent. After Gonzagues men leave, Lagardère and Aurore join up with the strolling players, back in Nevers, after attending the funeral of her daughter—the coffin actually contains a wax doll—Blanche retires to a convent, and the evil Gonzague is named executor of her estate. Sixteen years later, Lagardère and Aurore are still with the players, after witnessing Lagardère defend her against three outlaws using sophisticated swordplay with a stick, Aurore asks about his past. Lagardère keeps his past hidden, but he teaches her the Nevers Attack, one night after a performance, Aurore is taken to a party given by one of Gonzagues men, Louis-Joseph, and is soon assaulted by the host. Using fencing skills she learned from her father, Aurore escapes her attacker, when Gonzague learns how his finest blade was killed, he suspects that Aurore is still alive, his suspicions are confirmed when Aurores tomb is opened revealing a decayed wax doll. Gonzague then orders his men to find and kill her, Lagardère sets out to plan his revenge on Gonzague. If you do not come to Lagardère, he states, Lagardère will come to you, when Aurore is captured by Gonzagues men, Lagardère executes a daring rescue
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King of Hearts (1966 film)
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King of Hearts is a 1966 French comedy-drama film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Alan Bates. The film is set in a town in France near the end of World War I. As the Imperial German Army retreats they booby trap the whole town to explode, charles Plumpick is a kilt-wearing French born Scottish soldier who is sent by his commanding officer to disarm a bomb placed in the town square by the retreating Germans. As the fighting closer to the town, its inhabitants—including those who run the insane asylum—abandon it. The asylum gates are open, and the inmates leave the asylum. Plumpick has no reason to think they are not who they appear to be—other than the colorful and playful way in which theyre living their lives, so at odds with the fearful and war-ravaged times. The lunatics crown Plumpick King of Hearts with surreal pageantry as he tries to find the bomb before it goes off. When it was released in France in 1966, King of Hearts was not especially successful critically or at the box office with only 141,035 admissions. However, it achieved bona fide cult-film status, when United States distribution rights were picked up by Randy Finley and it was paired with Marv Newlands Bambi Meets Godzilla and John Magnusons Thank You Mask Man and marketed under the heading The King of Hearts and His Loyal Short Subjects
