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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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France
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France, officially the French Republic, is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The European, or metropolitan, area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. France spans 643,801 square kilometres and had a population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017. It is a unitary republic with the capital in Paris. Other major urban centres include Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Nice, Toulouse, during the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The area was annexed in 51 BC by Rome, which held Gaul until 486, France emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years War strengthening state-building and political centralisation. During the Renaissance, French culture flourished and a colonial empire was established. The 16th century was dominated by civil wars between Catholics and Protestants. France became Europes dominant cultural, political, and military power under Louis XIV, in the 19th century Napoleon took power and established the First French Empire, whose subsequent Napoleonic Wars shaped the course of continental Europe. Following the collapse of the Empire, France endured a succession of governments culminating with the establishment of the French Third Republic in 1870. Following liberation in 1944, a Fourth Republic was established and later dissolved in the course of the Algerian War, the Fifth Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle, was formed in 1958 and remains to this day. Algeria and nearly all the colonies became independent in the 1960s with minimal controversy and typically retained close economic. France has long been a centre of art, science. It hosts Europes fourth-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, France is a developed country with the worlds sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity. In terms of household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world. France performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, France remains a great power in the world, being one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and an official nuclear-weapon state. It is a member state of the European Union and the Eurozone. It is also a member of the Group of 7, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Trade Organization, originally applied to the whole Frankish Empire, the name France comes from the Latin Francia, or country of the Franks
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London College of Communication
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London College of Communication is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, located in Elephant and Castle. Natalie Brett is Head of College and it has about 6,500 students on 60 courses in media and design preparing students for careers in the creative industries. Courses cover diploma, foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate level, at the same time another of LCCs forebears, the Guild and Technical School, opened in Clerkenwell Road, moving the follow year to 6 Bolt Court. It became the Bolt Court Technical School and was rebuilt in 1911 and it was renamed London County Council School of Photo-Engraving and Lithography. In 1921 the Westminster Day Continuation School opened, becoming the School of Retail Distribution 1929, in 1949 Bolt Court and the London School of Printing merged forming the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts. In 1962 this was renamed the London College of Printing and moved to a new campus at Elephant & Castle, the North Western Polytechnic printing department merged with LCP in 1969. In 1985 the London Institute was formed and had taught degree awarding powers approved by Privy Council in 1993 with research degree awarding powers in 2002. The College of Distributive Trades merged with LCP in 1990 becoming the London College of Printing and Distributive Trades, in 2003 the London Institute was granted university status as the University of the Arts London with LCP becoming the London College of Communication in 2004. Since 2005 the LCC has hosted the annual Hugh Cudlipp lecture, LCC had student protests and sit-ins in November 2009, as students expressed anger over proposed course closures and staff redundancies. About 100 students tried to occupy the office of Sandra Kemp, head of the college at that time, students later occupied a lecture theatre and private security guards tried to remove protesting students. This failed when a member of academic staff questioned their right to touch the students, several students faced disciplinary action, including suspension. The director of the course in public relations resigned over the proposed cutbacks. In 2011 an inquiry by the Quality Assurance Agency into restructuring at the LCC, the investigation is the first of its kind and is the QAA’s revised “whistleblower” process for investigating concerns about academic standards and quality. The decision to investigate the complaints followed closure of 16 courses and 26 full-time redundancies
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Nymphomaniac (film)
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Nymphomaniac is a European 2013 two-part drama art film written and directed by Lars von Trier. The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe and Connie Nielsen. The film was supposed to be only one complete entry. Nymphomaniac was an international co-production of Denmark, Belgium, France, the world premiere of the uncut version of Volume I of the original five-and-half-hour-long version occurred on 16 February 2014 at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. The world premiere of the version of Volume II debuted at 2014s Venice Film Festival. The general release world premiere of the complete 5½ hours Directors Cut took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, the film was nominated for the 2014 Nordic Council Film Prize. Nymphomaniac is the third and final installment in von Triers unofficially titled Depression Trilogy, having been preceded by Antichrist, on a snowy evening, the middle-aged bachelor Seligman finds the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac Joe beaten up and lying in the alleyway behind his apartment. He takes her back to his home and, over tea, Seligman, a highly-educated but cloistered man, connects and analyzes Joes stories with what he has read about. Seligmans favourite hobby to read about is fly fishing, which is why he has the fly fishing hook on the wall, throughout the story he parallels much of what she has experienced with various methods of the sport. Her father is a doctor whom she adores while her mother is, as Joe describes her. In adolescence, she loses her virginity to a young man named Jerôme. Joe tells Seligman her encounter with S is the first of many terrible things shes done, Joe takes on more lovers as she, B, and several friends create a club, The Little Flock, dedicated to liberating themselves from societys fixation on love. Joe eventually leaves after all the other end up developing serious attachments to their conquests. As a young adult, Joe drops out of medical school and her first employer is none other than Jerôme. While sexual intentions are clearly on his mind, she finds herself avoiding his advances and sleeping with other co-workers, when Joe finally realizes she has developed feelings for Jerôme, she writes him a letter. However, she is too late as he has left along with his uncles jealous secretary Liz and she is immediately fired by his uncle, the actual owner of the company, for her lack of experience and goes back to indulging her nymphomania, despite a yearning for Jerôme. On one occasion one of her lovers, H, Joe inadvertently causes conflict that makes him leave his wife for her. The distressed Mrs. H arrives and demonizes both of them in front of her children, though Joe states in the present that this affected her
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England
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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, the Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east, the country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain in its centre and south, and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight. England became a state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the worlds first industrialised nation, Englands terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and southern England. However, there are uplands in the north and in the southwest, the capital is London, which is the largest metropolitan area in both the United Kingdom and the European Union. In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland through another Act of Union to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the name England is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means land of the Angles. The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages, the Angles came from the Angeln peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area of the Baltic Sea. The earliest recorded use of the term, as Engla londe, is in the ninth century translation into Old English of Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its spelling was first used in 1538. The earliest attested reference to the Angles occurs in the 1st-century work by Tacitus, Germania, the etymology of the tribal name itself is disputed by scholars, it has been suggested that it derives from the shape of the Angeln peninsula, an angular shape. An alternative name for England is Albion, the name Albion originally referred to the entire island of Great Britain. The nominally earliest record of the name appears in the Aristotelian Corpus, specifically the 4th century BC De Mundo, in it are two very large islands called Britannia, these are Albion and Ierne. But modern scholarly consensus ascribes De Mundo not to Aristotle but to Pseudo-Aristotle, the word Albion or insula Albionum has two possible origins. Albion is now applied to England in a poetic capacity. Another romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, Lloegr, the earliest known evidence of human presence in the area now known as England was that of Homo antecessor, dating to approximately 780,000 years ago. The oldest proto-human bones discovered in England date from 500,000 years ago, Modern humans are known to have inhabited the area during the Upper Paleolithic period, though permanent settlements were only established within the last 6,000 years
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is a British-French actress and singer. She is the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, after making her musical debut with her father on the song Lemon Incest at the age of 12, she released an album with her father at the age of 15. More than 20 years passed before she released three albums as an adult to commercial and critical success, Gainsbourg has also appeared in many films, including several directed by Lars von Trier, and has received both a César Award and the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award. Gainsbourg was born in London, to English actress and singer Jane Birkin and French actor, Gainsbourg was born at the height of her parents fame, they had made headlines several years earlier with the sexually explicit song Je taime. Moi non plus and by that point had become notorious for their turbulent relationship, as a result, her birth and childhood were well publicised. Her maternal grandmother was actress Judy Campbell, and her uncle is screenwriter Andrew Birkin and she is a cousin of theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter. Her father was Jewish, and her mother is from a Protestant background, Gainsbourg attended École Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel in Paris and Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil in Switzerland. French is Gainsbourgs first language, but she is fluent in English. Gainsbourg was raised in Paris alongside her half-sister from her mothers marriage to composer John Barry, Kate Barry, according to Birkin, both parents were somewhat neglectful, often spending their nights going out to parties and drinking. She has a brother, Lucien Lulu Gainsbourg, born in 1986 from her fathers relationship with Bambou. On her fathers side she also had two siblings born from his second marriage to Françoise-Antoinette Béatrice Pancrazzi. By 1980, her parents relationship had dissolved and her left her father for the director Jacques Doillon. Her half sister Lou Doillon was born in 1982 as a result of the union, Gainsbourg would go on to work with her stepfather in the film The Temptation of Isabelle in 1985 and later in Amoureuse in 1992, which also starred her spouse Yvan Attal. In 1987 she was the target of a bungled kidnapping, after her parents separated, Gainsbourgs father descended into alcoholism, eventually dying of a heart attack in 1991. Gainsbourg remained devoted to preserving his legacy and preserved his home and she eventually abandoned the project and decided to maintain the house as a private residence instead. On 5 September 2007, Gainsbourg was rushed to a Paris hospital where she underwent surgery for a cerebral hemorrhage and she had been experiencing headaches since a waterskiing accident in the United States several weeks earlier. Gainsbourg grew up on film sets, as both of her parents were involved in the film industry, in 1986, Gainsbourg won a César Award for Most Promising Actress for Leffrontée. That same year Gainsbourg appeared in the film Charlotte for Ever about a man who develops incestuous desires for his daughter after his wife dies
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Lars von Trier
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Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He has a prolific and controversial career spanning almost four decades and his work is known for its genre and technical innovation, confrontational examination of existential, social, and political issues, and treatment of subjects like mercy, sacrifice and mental health. His political and humanitarian work was honored in 2004 with the Cinema for Peace awareness award. Among more than 100 awards and over 200 nominations in festivals worldwide, he has received the Palme dOr, the Grand Prix, the Prix du Jury, in March 2017, Trier began filming The House that Jack Built, an English-language serial killer thriller. Trier was born in Kongens Lyngby, north of Copenhagen, the son of Inger Høst and he received his surname from Høsts husband Ulf Trier, whom he considered his biological father until 1989. The director would later become famous for his honesty to journalists about his family and upbringing, as well as the impact it had on his identity, beliefs. Trier studied film theory at the University of Copenhagen and film direction at the National Film School of Denmark. In 1984, The Element of Crime, Triers breakthrough film, received awards in seven international festivals including the Technical Grand Prize at Cannes. His next film, Epidemic, was shown at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. Trier has occasionally referred to his films as falling into thematic and stylistic trilogies and this pattern began with The Element of Crime, the first of the Europa trilogy, which illuminated the traumas of Europe both in the past and the future. It includes The Element of Crime, Epidemic and Europa, Von Trier directed Medea for television, which won him the Jean dArcy prize in France. It is based on a screenplay by Carl Th. Dreyer, Trier completed the Europa trilogy in 1991 with Europa, which won the Prix du Jury at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and picked up awards at other major festivals. In 1990 he also directed the video for Bakerman by Laid Back. This video was reused in 2006 by the English DJ and artist Shaun Baker in a remake of Bakerman, seeking both financial independence and total creative control over their projects, von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen founded the film production company Zentropa Entertainment in 1992. Named after a railway company in Europa, their most recent film at the time, Zentropa has produced many movies other than Triers own. It has also produced hardcore sex films, Constance, Pink Prison, HotMen CoolBoyz, in 1995, von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg presented their manifesto for a new cinematic movement, which they called Dogme 95. The Dogme 95 concept, which led to international interest in Danish film, in 2008, together with their fellow Dogme directors Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg received the European Film Award European Achievement in World Cinema. In 1996, von Trier conducted an unusual experiment in Copenhagen involving 53 actors
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Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet Land of the Rising Sun in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is an archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, the country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one, the population of 127 million is the worlds tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98. 5% of Japans total population, approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period, the first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, from the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a period of isolation in the early 17th century. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, the G8, the country has the worlds third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the worlds fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the worlds fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer, although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the worlds eighth-largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a country with a very high standard of living. Its population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest infant mortality rate in the world, in ancient China, Japan was called Wo 倭. It was mentioned in the third century Chinese historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms in the section for the Wei kingdom, Wa became disliked because it has the connotation of the character 矮, meaning dwarf. The 倭 kanji has been replaced with the homophone Wa, meaning harmony, the Japanese word for Japan is 日本, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, at the start of the seventh century, a delegation from Japan introduced their country as Nihon
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BAFTA
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom. David Lean was the founding Chairman of the Academy, the first Film Awards ceremony took place in May 1949 and honouring the films The Best Years of Our Lives, Odd Man Out and The World Is Rich. In 2005, it placed a cap on worldwide voting membership which now stands at approximately 6,500. BAFTA has offices in Scotland and Wales in the UK, in Los Angeles and New York in the United States and runs events in Hong Kong, amanda Berry OBE has been chief executive of the organisation since December 2000. Many of these events are free to online at BAFTA Guru. BAFTA runs a number of programmes across the UK, US. Launched in 2012, the UK programme enables talented British citizens who are in need of support to take an industry-recognised course in film. Each BAFTA Scholar receives up to £12,000 towards their annual course fees, since 2013, three students every year have received one of the Prince William Scholarships in Film, Television and Games, supported by BAFTA and Warner Bros. These scholarships are awarded in the name of in his role as President of BAFTA, since 2015, BAFTA has been offering scholarships for British citizens to study in China, vice versa. BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles. The BAFTA award trophy is a mask, designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe. Todays BAFTA award – including the mask and marble base – weighs 3.7 kg and measures 27 cm x 14 cm x 8 cm. BAFTAs annual film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards, or the BAFTAs, in 1949 the British Film Academy, as it was then known, presented the first awards for films made in 1947 and 1948. Since 2008 the ceremony has held at the Royal Opera House in Londons Covent Garden. It had been held in the Odeon cinema on Leicester Square since 2000, the ceremony had been performed during April or May of each year, but since 2002 it has been held in February to precede the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards, or Oscars. They have been awarded annually since 1954, the first ever ceremony consisted of six categories. Until 1958, they were awarded by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors, from 1968 until 1997, BAFTAs Film and Television Awards were presented together, but from 1998 onwards they were presented at two separate ceremonies. The Television Craft Awards celebrate the talent behind the programmes, such as working in visual effects, production
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High-Rise (film)
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High-Rise is a 2015 British dystopian drama directed by Ben Wheatley, starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, and Elisabeth Moss. It was produced by Jeremy Thomas through his production company Recorded Picture Company and its screenplay was written by Amy Jump and based on the 1975 novel of the same name by British writer J. G. The film is set in a tower block during the 1970s. Featuring a wealth of modern conveniences, the building allows its residents to become gradually uninterested in the outside world, the infrastructure begins to fail and tensions between residents become apparent, and the building soon descends into chaos. In September 2015, the received its world première at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 18 March 2016 by StudioCanal, the film opens with Dr. Robert Laing living in a ravaged tower block, killing a white Siberian husky and spit roasting it. The film flashes back to three months ago when life was more typical, the forty storey high-rise tower on the outskirts of London, built by esteemed architect Anthony Royal, is the epitome of chic, modern living. The upper echelons of society live in the top floors, while more common families live in the lower ones, the high-rise provides its tenants with a swimming pool, gym, spa, supermarket and even a primary school. There is little reason to leave the building outside of working hours, Laing moves into an apartment on the 25th floor, after his sister dies. He begins a relationship with single mother Charlotte Melville and becomes a figure to her son. He also becomes friends with Richard Wilder and his pregnant wife Helen. Laing works at a school of physiology, while he is cracking open a severed head, a student named Munrow faints. Having taken a fall, he is given brain scans as a precaution, the next day, Laing is taken to the 40th storey penthouse to meet Royal, where he finds an opulent rooftop garden and is invited to a party being thrown by Royals snobby wife, Ann. The party turns out to be an 18th-century costume party and Laings everyday suit is ridiculed by Ann and other guests, including Munrow, Laing is thrown out of the party and becomes trapped in an elevator during a power cut. Such outages are becoming common, along with water being shut off and garbage chutes becoming blocked, during a game of squash, Royal tells Laing that these are simply the growing pains of a new building. Laing receives Munrows brain scans, which come back clean, however, still angry about his humiliation, the vengeful Laing tells Munrow that they may have found something. Another power out in the leads to a night of decadent partying in the hallways. A drunken and distressed Munrow commits suicide by jumping off the 39th floor, Wilder finds it suspicious that no police show up to the scene and becomes intent on exposing the injustices of the high-rise
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Matteo Garrone
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Matteo Garrone is an Italian filmmaker. He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for Gomorrah and his film Reality competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix. His latest film Tale of Tales was selected to compete for the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, tutto il cinema di Matteo Garrone, Rome, Edizioni Sabinae,2008. The Films of Matteo Garrone, Italian Cinema Is Not Embalmed in William Hope Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Press,2010, pp. 175–187
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Tale of Tales (2015 film)
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Tale of Tales is a 2015 European dark fantasy film, directed by Matteo Garrone, starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, and John C. Reilly. An Italian-led production with co-producers in France and the United Kingdom and it competed for the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The Baroque stories manage to mix real and surreal with many metaphorical usages, pentamerone was a 17th-century collection of Italian fairytales. The three tales are La Cerva Fatata, La Pulce, La Vecchia Scorticata, that have been adapted with elements of other tales by Giambattista Basile. All three stories are told in a way, pieced in fragments through the whole film until the end. The first tale begins in the kingdom of Longtrellis, where the King and Queen have tried everything to have a child, the King loves his Queen, but all she desires is a child. One night, a necromancer suggests a solution, if the Queen eats the heart of an aquatic dragon cooked by a virgin. However, this will come at the cost of a life, the Queen accepts, not caring about the price. The King sets off to slay the dragon, and dies doing so. The Queen does not mourn the loss of her husband, she cares for the dragons heart. After eating the heart, the bears a son, Elias. The servant who cooked the heart for the Queen, who became pregnant by inhaling the steam from the heart, also gives birth to a boy. The two boys are nearly identical and have hair as white as the dragon, as a young man, Eliass affections are not for the Queen, but for his friend Jonah, who he views as a brother. This greatly hurts the Queen, who attempts to murder Jonah herself, after finding the boys are so close. In response, Jonah leaves the kingdom, leaving his mother, Elias is heartbroken and tries to convince Jonah to stay, but Jonah says he must go. Jonah takes a knife and plunges it into the root of a tree, Jonah tells Elias that as long as the tree continues to spout clear water, he will know that Jonah is alive and well. One day, Elias comes to the tree to find the water clouded with blood and he immediately leaves to find Jonah. When Elias arrives in a distant village, Jonahs pregnant sweetheart, by claiming to have lost his memory, Elias discovers that Jonah has been missing since he went to the woods five days ago
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Emile Hirsch
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Hirsch, who is of German-Jewish, English, and Scots-Irish ancestry, was born in Palms, California. His mother, Margaret Esther, is a visual artist and teacher who designed pop-up books, and his father, David M. Hirsch, is an entrepreneur, manager, and producer. He has a sister, Jenny, and was raised in Los Angeles, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hirsch appeared in television roles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the award-winning Showtime original movie Wild Iris, opposite Laura Linney. He made his debut in the Jodie Foster-produced The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys and next acted alongside Kevin Kline in the Michael Hoffman-directed film. Hirsch appeared in the teen comedy, The Girl Next Door and in the summer of the year, The Mudge Boy. Hirsch next appeared with Jeff Daniels and Sigourney Weaver in Imaginary Heroes, a drama about a dysfunctional family, Hirsch reportedly consulted with Hollywoods real life father before playing the role. Then he played remarkably as Christopher McCandless in the story of Chris McCandless called Into the Wild. He lost 40 pounds for the role, which earned him a Screen Actors Guild nomination for best actor, esquire said, creates a vivid, unforgettable character you at once admire and pity. Hirsch had the role in Andy & Larry Wachowskis follow-up to The Matrix Trilogy, Speed Racer. Hirsch plays gay rights activist Cleve Jones in Gus Van Sants Academy Award-winning Harvey Milk bio-pic Milk that featured Sean Penn in the title role and he also appeared in Ang Lees Taking Woodstock, based on a screenplay of the Elliot Tiber memoir Taking Woodstock, adapted by James Schamus. He then starred in the box-office disappointment Killer Joe and he starred in The Motel Life, based on the novel by Willy Vlautin. The film was filmed in Nevada in 2010, and released in 2013, in April 2011 he was cast in Oliver Stones Savages, which was released in July 2012. In 2012 Hirsch starred with Penélope Cruz in Venuto al mondo, in 2013, he was in Prince Avalanche, co-starring Paul Rudd, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival where it was acquired by Magnolia Pictures. Director David Gordon Green would go on to win Best Director for the film at the Berlin Film Festival, additionally, Hirsch starred alongside Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey in the William Friedkin directed Killer Joe. The controversial, NC-17 film, was written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Tracy Letts, Hirsch also starred in the Rome Film Festival Award-winning film The Motel Life, co-starring Dakota Fanning and Stephen Dorff, directed by the Polsky brothers. In Fall 2013, he starred alongside Holliday Grainger, and Oscar winners Holly Hunter and William Hurt, in the two-part Bruce Beresford directed miniseries, also in 2013, Hirsch co-starred alongside Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Ben Foster in the Peter Berg-directed Universal Pictures film Lone Survivor. The film grossed over $125 million domestically, as well as earning an A+ grade from CinemaScore, in the film, Hirsch plays fallen Navy SEAL Danny Dietz
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Miu Miu
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Miu Miu is an Italian high fashion womens clothing and accessory brand and a fully owned subsidiary of Prada. It is headed by Miuccia Prada and headquartered in Milan, Italy, Miu Miu was established in 1993 by Miuccia Prada. The name was conceived from Miuccia Pradas family nickname, in 2012, Miu Miu launched the Womens Tales series. The campaign consisted of films that were produced in conjunction with high-profile female directors. The outcome was a list of short, silent films that featured Miu Mius collections, the first four short films premiered at the 69th Venice International Film Festival and were directed by Zoe Cassavetes, Lucrecia Martel, Giada Colagrande, and Massy Tadjedin. A fifth film that debut in 2013, was written and directed by Ava DuVernay, on May 17,2013, a statement against sexual harassment and gender discrimination at workplace was released by the UN Committee. In April 2013, an American Change. org petition against Miuccia Prada and this petition was against Miuccia Prada for countersuing a victim for voicing her opinion against sexual harassment. This petition damaged the brand image, on May 28,2013, The UN has backed former Prada employee Bovrisse over the sexual harassment and discrimination case of Prada. Vogue launched a news article, Prada Vs The UN with a comment, Anyone who buys from the Prada and Miu Miu brands are supporting a culture of discrimination and power harassment. Set to launch its first fragrance in 2015, Miu Mius new venture is backed by the agreement between Coty Inc. and Prada. This is the first time that Miu Miu has expanded outside the fashion, there are Miu Miu boutiques located on a global scale. Miu Miu opened its first independent store in China in the MIX in the city of Shenzhen in 2009. A new North American store was launched in Houston, Texas, in The Galleria during the summer of 2011 and in Short Hills, New Jersey, Miu Miu also opened their first Australian boutique at Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne. A second opened at Westfield Sydney in 2011, a branch opened in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2010 and is situated in the Frasers department store. In May 2011, Miu Miu appointed the actress Hailee Steinfeld to be the new face of the brand. For the 2012 campaign, a 34-year-old, U. S. model Guinevere Van Seenus was chosen, official website Miu Miu – brand and company profile at Fashion Model Directory Short info about Miu Miu Fashion Shows, Runway Collections and Fashion Tv
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London
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London /ˈlʌndən/ is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain and it was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. Londons ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1. 12-square-mile medieval boundaries. London is a global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism. It is crowned as the worlds largest financial centre and has the fifth- or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world, London is a world cultural capital. It is the worlds most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the worlds largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic, London is the worlds leading investment destination, hosting more international retailers and ultra high-net-worth individuals than any other city. Londons universities form the largest concentration of education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to have hosted the modern Summer Olympic Games three times, London has a diverse range of people and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken in the region. Its estimated mid-2015 municipal population was 8,673,713, the largest of any city in the European Union, Londons urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The citys metropolitan area is the most populous in the EU with 13,879,757 inhabitants, the city-region therefore has a similar land area and population to that of the New York metropolitan area. London was the worlds most populous city from around 1831 to 1925, Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world, the etymology of London is uncertain. It is an ancient name, found in sources from the 2nd century and it is recorded c.121 as Londinium, which points to Romano-British origin, and hand-written Roman tablets recovered in the city originating from AD 65/70-80 include the word Londinio. The earliest attempted explanation, now disregarded, is attributed to Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae and this had it that the name originated from a supposed King Lud, who had allegedly taken over the city and named it Kaerlud. From 1898, it was accepted that the name was of Celtic origin and meant place belonging to a man called *Londinos. The ultimate difficulty lies in reconciling the Latin form Londinium with the modern Welsh Llundain, which should demand a form *lōndinion, from earlier *loundiniom. The possibility cannot be ruled out that the Welsh name was borrowed back in from English at a later date, and thus cannot be used as a basis from which to reconstruct the original name. Until 1889, the name London officially applied only to the City of London, two recent discoveries indicate probable very early settlements near the Thames in the London area
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun is a 2015 French-Belgian thriller film directed by Joann Sfar and starring Freya Mavor, Benjamin Biolay, Elio Germano, and Stacy Martin. It won the Magritte Award for Best Costume Design at the 6th Magritte Awards, Dany, a secretary, accepts an offer from her boss, Michel Caravaille, to stay overnight at his house and complete a project. Dany formerly worked with Michels wife, Anita, whom he says will be pleased to see her again, when she arrives, Dany realizes she has left her coat behind. Dany is disappointed when Michel and Anita step out for a party together. In the morning, Michel requests Dany accompany him and Anita to the airport to drive their car back home. Afterward, left alone with the car, Dany convinces herself nobody will miss it if she takes it for a joyride to see the sea. After treating herself to a spree, a woman who owns a nearby café stops Dany. Dany insists that she did not visit any cafés in the town, after stopping at a gas station, an unseen assailant physically assaults her, leaving her wrist injured. Several men come running when they hear her cries, but a mechanic is skeptical of her story, annoyed that another person claims to recognize her, Dany says she has only just arrived and did not have any injury prior to entering the bathroom. The others are noncommittal about what they saw, after being bandaged, Dany continues her journey to the coast, only to be stopped by a police offer who already knows her name. Concerned that she is driving with an injured wrist at night, on a hunch, Dany asks the receptionist if she is already registered as a guest, which he confirms. When she points out that the handwriting is not hers, the receptionist says her injured wrist may have prevented her from signing, confused and starting to doubt her own sanity, Dany exits the hotel and encounters a man who introduces himself as Georges. Georges refuses to leave her car and asks for a ride, Dany initially refuses but relents when he points out she has obviously stolen the car. She explains her predicament to him, and he suggests the townspeople are playing a prank on her, when Georges learns Dany has two rooms reserved in her name, he ingratiates himself into the second room. As he flirts with her, Dany warms to him, as he sleeps, Dany finds Georges passport, which has a different name on it. Though worried, she continues to allow Georges to travel with her, Georges drives them to a scenic spot and leaves to get something from the car, when he does not return, Dany realizes he has stolen the car. Dany hitchhikes to a town, where a trucker uses his CB radio to help her track down the cars current location. After stealing it back, Dany finds a rifle and corpse in the rear, Georges confronts her, and both accuse each other of murder
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The Childhood of a Leader (film)
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The Childhood of a Leader is a 2015 historical mystery drama film, written, produced and directed by Brady Corbet, and is Corbets feature film directorial debut. It is loosely based on Jean-Paul Sartres short story The Childhood of a Leader, published in 1939 in a collection entitled The Wall, Corbet co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Mona Fastvold, and filmed both an English and a French language version. The film chronicles the childhood of a fascist leader in the immediately following World War I. Production began in early 2015, in Budapest, Hungary, the film had its world premiere in-competition at 72nd Venice International Film Festival on 5 September 2015 and won two awards at the festival, Best Debut film and Best Director. In 1919, an American boy living in France with his authoritarian parents witnesses the creation of the Treaty of Versailles, which shapes his beliefs and causes him to develop a terrifying ego. Advisor Roderick Hill as Older American Gentleman Brady Corbet began writing the script of the ten years ago on his own. He later pick it up again after support from his partner Mona Fastvold, on 1 April 2013, it was announced that Corbet was set to make his feature film directorial debut with a France-set World War I film, based on the script he co-wrote with Mona Fastvold. Corbet would produce along with French producers Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre and Chris Coen, Film Producer Helena Danielsson of Hepp Film also came on board to get the film additional financing. On 10 December 2013, it was announced that Juliette Binoche, Tim Roth, in August 2014, it was announced that both Binoche and Roth had left the project. Roth dropped due to scheduling conflict while Binoche citing the reason that it was too dark, the same month Binoche and Roth were replaced by Bérénice Bejo and Liam Cunningham. Corbet talking about the casting and characters in the said that I have intentionally not revealed the identity of the character. And its a thing because its not for the reasons that people think. One thing I will happily tell everybody is that the character is not Hitler, and the character is not Mussolini. And theres the dramatic event where you learn who this person is, Robert Pattinson is not playing Hitler as you now know. Ill go on the saying that. Corbet held auditions for the casting of the role of Prescott, des Hamilton and his great team found Tom Sweet and brought him in. Tom was everything we had envisioned and more and he is the film’s greatest triumph. Production was originally slated to start from November 2014 but later moved to January 2015, Pattinson describing the film said that Its about the youth of a future dictator in the Thirties, like an amalgamation of Hitler, Mussolini and some others
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Anne Wiazemsky
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Anne Wiazemsky is a French actress and novelist of the Russian Rurikid family of Princes Vyazemsky-Counts Levashov. Through her mother, she is the granddaughter of François Mauriac and she appeared in Robert Bressons Au Hasard Balthazar and in Godards films La Chinoise, Week End and One Plus One. She was married to Jean-Luc Godard from 1967 to 1979, they divorced and she has written several novels, Canines, Une Poignée de Gens, Aux Quatre Coins du Monde and Hymnes à l’Amour. The 2003 film All the Fine Promises, directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac and starring Valérie Crunchant and her 2007 novel Jeune Fille is based on her experience starring in Au Hasard Balthazar at the age of 18. S. Les cafés 2000, Tableaux de chats 2001, Venise Preface 1994, En habillant Anne Wiazemsky at the Internet Movie Database
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Virtual International Authority File
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The Virtual International Authority File is an international authority file. It is a joint project of national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center. The project was initiated by the US Library of Congress, the German National Library, the National Library of France joined the project on October 5,2007. The project transitions to a service of the OCLC on April 4,2012, the aim is to link the national authority files to a single virtual authority file. In this file, identical records from the different data sets are linked together, a VIAF record receives a standard data number, contains the primary see and see also records from the original records, and refers to the original authority records. The data are available online and are available for research and data exchange. Reciprocal updating uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting protocol, the file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia biographical articles and are incorporated into Wikidata. VIAFs clustering algorithm is run every month, as more data are added from participating libraries, clusters of authority records may coalesce or split, leading to some fluctuation in the VIAF identifier of certain authority records
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Integrated Authority File
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The Integrated Authority File or GND is an international authority file for the organisation of personal names, subject headings and corporate bodies from catalogues. It is used mainly for documentation in libraries and increasingly also by archives, the GND is managed by the German National Library in cooperation with various regional library networks in German-speaking Europe and other partners. The GND falls under the Creative Commons Zero license, the GND specification provides a hierarchy of high-level entities and sub-classes, useful in library classification, and an approach to unambiguous identification of single elements. It also comprises an ontology intended for knowledge representation in the semantic web, available in the RDF format
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