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15th Venice International Film Festival
The 15th Venice International Film Festival was held from 22 August to 7 September 1954. Writer Ignazio Silone was appointed as president of the jury. The Golden Lion was awarded to ''Romeo and Juliet'', directed by Renato Castellani. Jury Main Competition (Venezia 15) *Ignazio Silone, Italian writer (Jury President) * Bengt Idestam-Almquist, Swedish screenwriter *Louis Chauvet, French writer and journalist *Carlos Fernández Cuenca, Spanish journalist, film critic and historian *Roger Manvell, British film historian * Mario Gromo, Italian journalist and film critic *Pasquale Ojetti, Italian journalist and film critic *Piero Regnoli, Italian screenwriter and film director *Filippo Sacchi, Italian journalist and film critic Official selection In Competition The following films were selected for the main international competition: : indicates Golden Lion winner. Awards Official selection The following official awards were presented at the 15th edition: In Competition *Golden Lio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Caine Mutiny (film)
''The Caine Mutiny'' is a 1954 American military trial film directed by Edward Dmytryk, produced by Stanley Kramer, and starring Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Robert Francis, and Fred MacMurray. It is based on Herman Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1951 novel of the same name. Set in the Pacific theatre of World War II, the film depicts the events on board a fictitious U.S. Navy destroyer-minesweeper and the subsequent court-martial of its executive officer for mutiny. The film was well-received by critics and was the second highest-grossing film in the United States in 1954.'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1954', ''Variety Weekly'', January 5, 1955 Plot During World War II, newly commissioned Ensign Willis Seward "Willie" Keith reports to the minesweeper USS ''Caine,'' commanded by Lieutenant Commander William De Vriess, also meeting the executive officer (XO), Lieutenant Stephen Maryk, and the communications officer, Lieutenant Thomas Keefer. De Vriess, popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Königliche Hoheit (film)
''His Royal Highness'' (German: ''Königliche Hoheit'') ''Königliche Hoheit'' is a 1953 West German comedy film directed by Harald Braun and starring Dieter Borsche, Ruth Leuwerik, and Lil Dagover. It is based on the 1909 novel of the same name by Thomas Mann. The film was made at the Göttingen Studios and on location around Fulda in Hesse. It was shot using Gevacolor. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Haag Walter Haag (1898–1978) was a German art director. He worked on more than sixty films during his career including the 1940 historical melodrama ''The Heart of a Queen''.Hull p.179-80 Selected filmography * ''The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (19 .... Cast External links * 1953 films German comedy films West German films Films directed by Harald Braun Films based on works by Thomas Mann Films set in the 1900s German historical comedy films 1950s historical comedy films 1953 comedy films Films based on German novels 1950s Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Gil
Rafael Gil (22 May 1913 – 10 July 1986) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film ''La guerra de Dios'' (1953) won the Bronze Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1953 and also won best film and best director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. His film ''La noche del sábado'' (1950) was nominated for the Gold Lion at the 1950 Venice Film Festival and his film ''El beso de Judas'' (1954) was also nominated for the Gold Lion at the 1954 festival in Venice. His film ''Let's Make the Impossible!'' (1958) was nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. He has won nine prizes of the National Syndicate of Spectacle of Spain. Gil was a prominent director of the Franco era. His later works, often in collaboration with the Pro-Franco screenwriter and novelist Fernando Vizcaíno Casas, looked back nostalgically to the years of Franco's rule.Mira p.147 Filmography * ''The Queen's Flower Girl'' (1940) *''The Man Who Wanted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judas' Kiss (1954 Film)
''Judas' Kiss'' (Spanish:''El beso de Judas'') is a 1954 Spanish religious drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Rafael Rivelles, Francisco Rabal and Gérard Tichy.Bentley p.121 Plot It tells the story of Judas Iscariot (Rafael Rivelles) with the famous kiss of him betraying Jesus to the Romans in exchange for a few coins. The magazines of the time rapturously described the spectacular nature of El beso de Judas, rarely seen before in Spanish cinema, not even in Alba de América, by Juan de Orduña, which in the end had been shot with severe budget cuts. Eighty-two sets, exteriors shot in the Holy Land (Rafael Gil moved there with a film crew in the summer of 1953 and the images would later be used in long shots or on transparencies of the film), a brilliant cast and – above all – An interesting plot idea characterized El beso de Judas: narrating the story of Jesus from the point of view of Judas. The journalist Barreira ended one of his reports by pointing out: "Neve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinosuke Gosho
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who directed Japan's first sound film, '' The Neighbor's Wife and Mine'', in 1931. His films are mostly associated with the shomin-geki (lit. "common people drama") genre. Among his most noted works are ''Where Chimneys Are Seen'', '' An Inn at Osaka'', ''Takekurabe'' and ''Yellow Crow''. Life Gosho was born on January 24, 1902, in Kanda, Tokyo, to merchant Heisuke Gosho and his father's geisha mistress. At the age of five, after Heisuke's eldest son died, Gosho left his mother to be the successor to his father's wholesale business. He studied business at Keio University, graduating in 1923. Through his father's close relation to film director Yasujirō Shimazu, Gosho was able to join the Shochiku film studios and worked as assistant director to Shimazu. In 1925, Gosho debuted as a director with the film ''Nantō no haru''. His films of the 1920s are nowadays regarded as lost. Gosho's first notable success, and Japan's first feat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasha Alexander (film Director)
Sasha Alexander (born Suzana Drobnjakovic on May 17, 1973) is an American actress and television director. She played Gretchen Witter in ''Dawson's Creek'' and has acted in films including '' Yes Man'' (2008) and '' He's Just Not That Into You'' (2009). Alexander played Caitlin Todd for the first two seasons of ''NCIS (TV series), NCIS'' (2003–2005). From July 2010 through September 2016, Alexander starred as Rizzoli & Isles#Isles, Maura Isles in the Turner Network Television, TNT series ''Rizzoli & Isles'', and was a regular in Shameless (season 5), Season 5 and Shameless (season 6), 6 of ''Shameless (American TV series), Shameless'' in 2015–2016. Early life Alexander, who is of Serbian Americans, Serbian descent, was born Suzana Drobnjakovic in Los Angeles, California. She began acting in school productions in the seventh grade. She was also an ice skater, but stopped due to a knee injury. She continued acting through high school and college, then moved to New York Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hamer
Robert Hamer (31 March 1911 – 4 December 1963) was a British film director and screenwriter best known for the 1949 black comedy ''Kind Hearts and Coronets''. Biography Hamer was born at 24 Chester Road, Kidderminster, along with his twin Barbara, the son of Owen Dyke Hamer, a bank clerk, and his wife, Annie Grace Brickell. He was educated at Rossall School, an independent school for boys near the town of Fleetwood in Lancashire, and won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read the Economics tripos. Although claims have since been made that he was sent down (expelled),"Hamer, Robert (1911-63)" screenonline.org.uk. Accessed 4 October 2022. with several sources suggesting that he was suspended for homosexual activities, he did in fact graduate with a third-class degree in 1933. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father Brown (film)
''Father Brown'' is a 1954 British mystery comedy film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Alec Guinness as the title character with Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch and Cecil Parker. Like the American film ''Father Brown, Detective'' (1934), it is based loosely on ''The Blue Cross'' (1910), the first Father Brown short story by G. K. Chesterton. It was shot at the Riverside Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director John Hawkesworth. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures in both Britain and the United States where it was released as ''The Detective''. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival. Plot The police raid a premises at night and find a priest at an open safe: he explains he is replacing the money for a parishioner. He is arrested and put in the cells but released when the bishop confirms who he is. Outside he meets the erring parishioner Bert (Sid James) and convinces him to be a chauffeur to Lady Warren rather than drive get-away ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wise
Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American film director, producer, and editor. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films ''West Side Story'' (1961) and ''The Sound of Music'' (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for ''Citizen Kane'' (1941) and directed and produced '' The Sand Pebbles'' (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture. Among his other films are ''The Body Snatcher'' (1945), ''Born to Kill'' (1947), '' The Set-Up'' (1949), ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (1951), '' Destination Gobi'' (1953), '' This Could Be The Night'' (1957), ''Run Silent, Run Deep'' (1958), '' I Want to Live!'' (1958), '' The Haunting'' (1963), '' The Andromeda Strain'' (1971), '' The Hindenburg'' (1975) and '' Star Trek: The Motion Picture'' (1979). He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1971 to 1975 and the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1985 thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Executive Suite
An executive suite in its most general definition is a collection of offices or rooms—or suite—used by top managers of a business—or executives. Over the years, this general term has taken on a variety of specific meanings. Corporate office The oldest use of the term "executive suites" referred to the suite of offices on or near the top floor of a skyscraper where the top executives of a company worked, usually including at least the president or chief executive officer, various vice presidents and their staff. That use was then applied not just to the physical space but also to the people who occupy the offices and their immediate underlings, much like the White House has come to mean the Executive Office of the President of the United States or 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister's Office. A quote from the Ottawa Sun in 2003 shows this use: "The Montreal Canadiens are fading in the Eastern Conference playoff race, but there is no panic in the executive sui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Wheeler
René Wheeler (8 February 1912 - 11 December 2000) was a French screenwriter and film director. He co-wrote the story of the film ''A Cage of Nightingales'' (1945) with Georges Chaperot, for which they both received an Academy Award nomination in 1947. Their story would later serve as an inspiration for the hugely successful film '' The Chorus'' (2004). Wheeler also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1955 heist film ''Rififi''. Selected filmography * ''Moutonnet'' (1936) * '' Night Warning'' (1946) * ''The Faceless Enemy'' (1946) * ''The Winner's Circle'' (1950) * ''The Love of a Woman'' (1953) * '' Double or Quits'' (1953) * ''Rififi'' (1955) * ''The Restless and the Damned'' (1959) * ''A Woman in White ''A Woman in White'' (French: ''Le Journal d'une femme en blanc'') is a 1965 French-Italian drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Marie-José Nat, Jean Valmont and Claude Gensac. It was written by Jean Aurenche and André Soubir ...'' (1965) References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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