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1985 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
The 11th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards were announced on 14 December 1985 and given on 23 January 1986. Winners *Best Picture: **''Brazil'' **Runner-up: ''Out of Africa'' *Best Director: **Terry Gilliam – ''Brazil'' **Runner-up: Akira Kurosawa – ''Ran'' *Best Actor: **William Hurt – '' Kiss of the Spider Woman'' **Runner-up: Jack Nicholson – ''Prizzi's Honor'' *Best Actress: **Meryl Streep – ''Out of Africa'' **Runner-up: Whoopi Goldberg – ''The Color Purple'' *Best Supporting Actor: **John Gielgud – '' Plenty'' and ''The Shooting Party'' **Runner-up: William Hickey – ''Prizzi's Honor'' *Best Supporting Actress (tie): **Anjelica Huston – ''Prizzi's Honor'' **Runner-up: Oprah Winfrey – ''The Color Purple'' *Best Screenplay: **Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown and Tom Stoppard - ''Brazil'' **Runner-up: Richard Condon and Janet Roach – ''Prizzi's Honor'' *Best Cinematography: ** David Watkin – ''Out of Africa'' *Best Music Score: **Toru Takemitsu – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil (1985 Film)
''Brazil'' is a 1985 dystopian black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. The film stars Jonathan Pryce and features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm. The film centres on Sam Lowry, a low-ranking bureaucrat trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. ''Brazil''s satire of technocracy, bureaucracy, hyper-surveillance, corporatism and state capitalism is reminiscent of George Orwell's 1949 novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' and has been called Kafkaesque and absurdist. Sarah Street's ''British National Cinema'' (1997) describes the film as a "fantasy/satire on bureaucratic society", and John Scalzi's ''Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies'' (2005) describes it as a "dystopian satire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shooting Party
''The Shooting Party'' is a 1984 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges and based on the book of the same name by Isabel Colegate. The film is set in 1913, less than a year before the beginning of the First World War, and shows the soon-to-vanish way of life of English aristocrats, focusing on a shooting party gathered to pursue pheasant and general self-indulgence. Their situation is contrasted with the life of local rural poor, who work on the estate and serve as beaters, driving the game for the aristocrats to shoot. It was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. Plot summary In the autumn of 1913, a large party of guests gather at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby ( James Mason) and his wife Minnie (Dorothy Tutin) for a weekend of shooting. Over the next few days two of the guests, Lord Gilbert Hartlip ( Edward Fox) and Lionel Stephens (Rupert Frazer), engage in an escalating contest over who can shoot the more game. Hartlip is a renowned sportsma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and a part of Antarctica. The earliest recorded human prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Official Story
''The Official Story'' ( es, La historia oficial) is a 1985 Argentine drama historical film directed by Luis Puenzo and written by Puenzo and Aída Bortnik. It stars Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe and Hugo Arana. In the United Kingdom, it was released as ''The Official Version''. The film deals with the story of an upper middle class couple who lives in Buenos Aires with an illegally adopted child. The mother comes to realize that her daughter may be the child of a '' desaparecida'', a victim of the forced disappearances that occurred during Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976–1983), which saw widespread human rights violations including many thousands of murders. Among several other international awards, it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards, a first for a Latin American film. It was selected as the eighth greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll conducted by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trouble In Mind (film)
''Trouble in Mind'' is a 1985 American neo-noir film written and directed by Alan Rudolph and starring Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Geneviève Bujold, and Lori Singer, with an out-of-drag appearance by Divine. The story follows an ex-cop just released from jail after serving time for a murder sentence as he returns to the mean streets of the fictional "Rain City", inspired by and filmed in Seattle. Plot In the mysterious metropolis of Rain City, a former policeman, Hawk, is out of prison after serving eight years on a murder rap. He returns to his former hangout, Wanda's Cafe, run by his former love, Wanda. New arrivals in town are the down on his luck: Coop, his naive wife Georgia and their baby boy, Spike. In desperate need of money, Coop goes to work for a gangster, Solo, but he isn't very good at his job. Hawk, meanwhile, begins to develop a protective and even romantic attachment to Georgia, who is hired by Wanda to be a waitress. Coop runs afoul of the mob boss in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Isham
Mark Ware Isham (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician and film composer. A trumpeter and keyboardist, Isham works in a variety of genres, including jazz and electronic. He is also a film composer, having worked on numerous films and television series, including '' The Hitcher,'' ''Point Break'', '' A River Runs Through It'', ''Of Mice and Men, Warrior, Nell, Blade,'' ''Crash'', ''The Black Dahlia'', '' The Lucky One'' and ''Once Upon a Time.'' Isham acted as well in ''Made in Heaven'' by Alan Rudolph (1987) and directed ''The Cowboy and the Ballerina'' in 1998. Life and career Isham was born in New York City, the son of Patricia (née Hammond), a violinist, and Howard Fuller Isham, a Professor of Humanities. His discography is extensive and varied, including participation with artists including David Sylvian, Group 87, Art Lande, Pharoah Sanders, Van Morrison, David Torn, and sessions with people like Brian Wilson, Joni Mitchell, Terry Bozzio, Bill Bruford, XTC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toru Takemitsu , village in Kaarma Parish, Saare County, Estonia
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TORU or Toru may refer to: *TORU, spacecraft system *Toru (given name), Japanese male given name *Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *Tõru Tõru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Estonia. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Lääne-Saare Parish Lääne-Saare Parish ( et, Lääne-Saare vald) was a rural municipality of Estonia, in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Watkin (cinematographer)
David Watkin BSC (23 March 1925 – 19 February 2008) was an English cinematographer, an innovator who was among the first directors of photography to experiment heavily with the usage of bounce light as a soft light source. He worked with such film directors as Richard Lester, Peter Brook, Tony Richardson, Mike Nichols, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli, Sidney Lumet and Sydney Pollack. In 1985, Watkin won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on ''Out of Africa''. He received lifetime achievement awards in 2004 from the British Society of Cinematographers and the cinematographic-centric Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland. In ''Chariots of Fire'', he "helped create one of the most memorable images of 1980s cinema: the opening sequence in which a huddle of young male athletes pounds along the water's edge on a beach" to the film's theme music by Vangelis. Early life and career Watkin was born in Margate, Kent, England, the fourth and youngest son of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Roach
''The Real Housewives of Melbourne'' (abbreviated ''RHOMelbourne'') is an Australian reality television series that premiered 23 February 2014 on Arena An arena is a large enclosed platform, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre, musical performances, or sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators .... It was developed as one of the international installments of ''The Real Housewives'', an American television franchise. The series chronicles the lives of several women living in Melbourne, Australia. The series originally focused on Gina Liano, Jackie Gillies, Andrea Moss, Janet Roach, Chyka Keebaugh and Lydia Schiavello; the lineup currently consists of Gillies, Roach, Gamble Breaux, Cherry Dipietrantonio, Kyla Kirkpatrick and Simone Elliott. Of the original housewives, Moss left after the first season, whilst Keebaugh departed after the third and Liano and Schiavello after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Condon
Richard Thomas Condon (March 18, 1915 – April 9, 1996) was an American political novelist. Though his works were satire, they were generally transformed into thrillers or semi-thrillers in other media, such as cinema. All 26 books were written in distinctive Condon style, which combined a fast pace, outrage, and frequent humor while focusing almost obsessively on monetary greed and political corruption. Condon himself once said: "Every book I've ever written has been about abuse of power. I feel very strongly about that. I'd like people to know how deeply their politicians wrong them." Condon's books were occasionally bestsellers, and a number of his books were made into films; he is primarily remembered for his 1959 ''The Manchurian Candidate'' and, many years later, a series of four novels about a family of New York gangsters named Prizzi. Condon's writing was known for its complex plotting, fascination with trivia, and loathing for those in power; at least two of his books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard (born , 3 July 1937) is a Czech born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical thematics of society. Stoppard has been a playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation. Stoppard was knighted for his contribution to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997. Born in Czechoslovakia, Stoppard left as a child refugee, fleeing imminent Nazi occupation. He settled with his family in Britain after the war, in 1946, having spent the previous three years (1943–1946) in a boarding school in Darjeeling in the Indian Himalayas. After being educated at schools in Nottingham and Yorkshire, Stoppard became a journalist, a drama critic and then, in 1960, a playwright. Stoppard's most prominent plays include ''R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles McKeown
Charles McKeown ( ; born 1946) is a British actor and writer, perhaps best known for his collaborations with Terry Gilliam. The two met while shooting ''Monty Python's Life of Brian'', while McKeown was doing bit parts in the film. Screenwriting career McKeown co-wrote the screenplay for ''Brazil'' (1985) with Gilliam and Tom Stoppard, for which they were collectively nominated for an Academy Award. McKeown also co-wrote the screenplay for ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' (1988) with Gilliam. After nearly twenty years apart, the two collaborated again on the screenplay for ''The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus''. Additionally, McKeown wrote the BBC sitcom, ''Hold the Sunset''. Other notable screenwriting credits for McKeown include ''Plunkett & Macleane'' (1999) and ''Ripley's Game'' (2002). He went uncredited for his work on ''Batman'' (1989). Acting career McKeown has had a number of appearances in films and television series associated with the Monty Python comedy grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
