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25th Torino Film Festival
The 25th Torino Film Festival was held 23 November – 1 December 2007 in Turin, Italy and was directed by Nanni Moretti. Films in competition *''The Art of Negative Thinking'' (Bård Breien) *''Away from Her'' (Sarah Polley) *''The Blue Hour (2007 film), The Blue Hour'' (Eric Nazarian) *''The Elephant and the Sea'' (Woo Ming Jin) *''Free Fly'' (Janis Kalejs, Janis Putnins, Gatis Smits, Anna Viduleja) *''Garage (film), Garage'' (Lenny Abrahamson, Leonard Abrahamson) *''The Home Song Stories'' (Tony Ayres) *''The Woven Stories of the Other'' (Sherad Anthony Sanchez) *''Lars and the Real Girl'' (Craig Gillespie) *''Lino (film), Lino'' (Jean-Louis Milesi) *''Neandertal (film), Neandertal'' (Ingo Haeb, Jan-Christoph Glaser) *''Noise (2007 Australian film), Noise'' (Matthew Saville) *''The Railroad'' (Park Heung-sik (born 1962), Park Heung-sik) *''The Savages (film), The Savages'' (Tamara Jenkins) *''Water Lilies (film), Water Lilies'' (Céline Sciamma) Awards *Prize of the City of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torino Film Festival
The Torino Film Festival (also called the Turin Film Festival, TFF) is an international film festival held annually in Turin, Italy. Held every November, it is the second largest film festival in Italy, following the Venice Film Festival. It was founded in 1982 by film critic and professor Gianni Rondolino as Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani or the Festival of Young Cinema. The festival's directors have included Alberto Barbera, Stefano della Casa, Giulia d'Agnolo, Roberto Turigliatto, Nanni Moretti, Gianni Amelio and Paolo Virzì. History Gianni Rondolino founded the Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani in 1982 in Turin, a city that was in economic decline. The festival, attracting big names in Italian and international cinema, helped to re-energise the city both economically and culturally. The first directors were Rondolino and Ansano Gianarelli. In 1998, the festival's name changed to the Torino Film Festival. In 2007, film director Nanni Moretti was appointed as dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenny Abrahamson
Leonard Ian Abrahamson (born 30 November 1966) is an Irish film and television director. He is known for directing such praised independent films as ''Adam & Paul'' (2004), ''Garage'' (2007), ''What Richard Did'' (2012), and ''Frank'' (2014), and Room (2015), all of which contributed to Abrahamson's six Irish Film and Television Awards. In 2015, he received widespread recognition for directing ''Room'', based on the novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue. The film received four nominations at the 88th Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Abrahamson. In 2020, he directed six episodes of and executive produced the television series ''Normal People'', for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. Early life and education Abrahamson was born in Rathfarnham, Dublin, the son of Jewish parents Edna (née Walzman) and Max Abrahamson, a solicitor. Although his upbringing was not devoutly religious, his fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Saville
Matthew Saville (born 1966) is an Australian television and film director, known for ''Noise (2007 Australian film), Noise'' (2007) and ''A Month of Sundays (2015 film), A Month of Sundays'' (2015). Early life and education Saville was born around 1966, the youngest of six children, and grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. He studied at the Victorian College of the Arts. Career Saville began his career working as a titles designer for many Australian television series. Several of his short films, including ''Franz and Kafka'' have received awards and screened widely at film festivals. He came to wider prominence as a writer/director with his one-hour film ''Roy Hollsdotter Live'', a bittersweet comedy about a stand-up comedian experiencing a personal breakdown. The film won awards at the Sydney Film Festival in 2003, as well as at the Australian Writers' Guild Awards. He directed the TV comedy series ''Big Bite'' (2003–4) and ''We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noise (2007 Australian Film)
''Noise'' is a 2007 Australian drama-thriller film written and directed by Matthew Saville. The film stars Brendan Cowell, Henry Nixon, Luke Elliot, Katie Wall, Maia Thomas and Nicholas Bell. Plot The film is set against the landscape of two potentially related murders: that of an engaged woman in the inner-western Melbourne suburb of Sunshine, and that of seven passengers on a Melbourne train. From there, the film deals primarily with the experiences of Lavinia Smart, a young woman who boarded the train shortly after the murders, and police Constable Graham McGahan, who is afflicted with increasingly severe tinnitus. When he requests light duty on account of his tinnitus, Constable McGahan is assigned the night shift of a police information van in Sunshine, where he encounters the traumatized members of the local community, including Lucky Phil, a mentally handicapped man, and Dean Stouritis, the dead woman's fiancé. At the same time, the film explores the fear Lavinia exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neandertal (film)
Neanderthals (, also ''Homo neanderthalensis'' and erroneously ''Homo sapiens neanderthalensis''), also written as Neandertals, are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. While the "causes of Neanderthal disappearance about 40,000 years ago remain highly contested," demographic factors such as small population size, inbreeding and genetic drift, are considered probable factors. Other scholars have proposed competitive replacement, assimilation into the modern human genome (bred into extinction), great climatic change, disease, or a combination of these factors. It is unclear when the line of Neanderthals split from that of modern humans; studies have produced various intervals ranging from 315,000 to more than 800,000 years ago. The date of divergence of Neanderthals from their ancestor ''H. heidelbergensis'' is also unclear. The oldest potential Neanderthal bones date to 430,000 years ago, but the classificat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lino (film)
Lino may refer to: * Lino, short for linoleum, a common flooring material * Lino, slang for linesman, the former name (still in widespread common use) for an assistant referee in association football * Lino, slang for a habitual user of the narcotic cocaine People Given name * Lino (footballer, born 1971), Brazilian footballer * Lino (footballer, born 1976), Guinea-Bissauan footballer * Lino (footballer, born 1977), Brazilian footballer *Lino (rapper), French rapper; part of the rap duo Ärsenik * Lino Cayetano, Filipino politician * Lino Donoso (1922–1990), Cuban baseball player * Lino Facioli, Brazilian actor * Lino Lacedelli (1925–2009), Italian mountaineer * Lino Rulli, American talk radio host * Lino Saputo, Canadian businessman and founder of the Canadian-based cheese manufacturer Saputo, Inc. * Lino Tagliapietra, glass artist *Lino Urdaneta (born 1979), Venezuelan baseball player *Lino Ventura, an Italian actor who starred in French movies Surname * Pascal Lino, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Gillespie
Craig Gillespie (born 1 September 1967) is an Australian-American film, television, music video, and commercial director. He is best known for directing the films ''Lars and the Real Girl'' (2007), ''Fright Night'' (2011), ''I, Tonya'' (2017), and '' Cruella'' (2021). Early life Born and raised in Sydney, Gillespie moved to New York City at the age of nineteen to study illustration, graphic design and advertising at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts. Gillespie stated he had grown up as an atheist. Career Gillespie started out as an intern at ad agency J. Walter Thompson, New York. He then moved on to D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, BBDO, Deutsch, and Ammirati & Puris, first as an art director, later as a creative director. After eight years working on the agency side he moved into directing in 1995. Based on the strength of his spec reel and agency experience, he gained representation by production company Fahrenheit Films in late 1995. One year later, he signed with Coppos Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars And The Real Girl
''Lars and the Real Girl'' is a 2007 romantic comedy-drama film written by Nancy Oliver and directed by Craig Gillespie. It stars Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, and Patricia Clarkson. The film follows Lars (Gosling), a kind-hearted but socially awkward young man who develops a romantic yet nonsexual relationship with an anatomically correct sex doll, a RealDoll named Bianca. Though a commercial failure, ''Lars and the Real Girl'' was critically acclaimed, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, while Gosling received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. Plot Lars Lindstrom lives a secluded life in a small Wisconsin town. His mother died when he was born, causing his grief-stricken father to have been a distant parent to Lars and his older brother, Gus. Gus left town as so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
