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42nd Venice International Film Festival
The 42nd annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 26 August to 6 September 1985. Jury The following people comprised the 1985 jury: * Krzysztof Zanussi (head of jury) (Poland) * Guido Aristarco (Italy) * Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei (Italy) * Ricardo Bofill (Spain) * Frank Capra (USA) * Jean d'Ormesson (France) * Odysseas Elytis (Greece) * Kon Ichikawa (Japan) * Eugène Ionesco (France) * Elem Klimov (USSR) * Lino Micciché (Italy) * Zoran Mušič (Yugoslavia) * John Schlesinger (UK) * Renzo Vespignani (Italy) Official selection In competition Autonomous sections Venice International Film Critics' Week The following feature films were selected to be screened as ''In Competition'' for this section: * '' A Strange Love Affair'' by Eric de Kuyper, Paul Verstraten (Netherlands) * '' El Haimoune'' (En. ''Wanderers of the Desert'') by Nacer Khemir (Tunisia, France) * ''Fandango'' by Kevin Reynolds (United States) * ''Ain't Nothin' Without You' ... [...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] |
John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger (; 16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for ''Midnight Cowboy'', and was nominated for the same award for two other films ('' Darling'' and ''Sunday Bloody Sunday''). Early life Schlesinger was born and raised in Hampstead, London, in a Jewish family, the eldest of five children of distinguished Emmanuel College, Cambridge-educated paediatrician and physician Bernard Edward Schlesinger (1896–1984), OBE, FRCP, who had also served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a brigadier, and his wife Winifred Henrietta, daughter of Hermann Regensburg, a stockbroker from Frankfurt. She had left school at 14 to study at the Trinity College of Music, and later studied languages at the University of Oxford for three years. Bernard Schlesinger's father Richard, a stockbroker, had come to England in the 1880s from Frankfurt. After St Edmund's School, Hindhead and Uppingham School (whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is a British film director and producer. Directing, among others, science fiction films, his work is known for its atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. Scott has received many accolades throughout his career, including the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2018. In 2003, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the British film industry. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011. An alumnus of the Royal College of Art in London, Scott began his career in television as a designer and director before moving into advertising, where he honed his filmmaking skills by making mini-films for television commercials. He made his debut as a film director with ''The Duellists'' (1977) and gained wider recognition with his next film, ''Alien'' (1979). Three years later he would dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legend (1985 Film)
''Legend'' is a 1985 American epic dark fantasy adventure film directed and initiated by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert, and Annabelle Lanyon. The film revolves around Jack, a pure being who must stop the Lord of Darkness who plots to cover the world with eternal night. Although not a commercial success when first released, it won the British Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography in 1985 for cinematographer Alex Thomson, as well as being nominated for multiple awards: Oscar for Best Makeup; Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Saturn Award for Best Makeup; BAFTA Awards for Best Costume Design, Best Makeup Artist, Best Special Visual Effects; DVD Exclusive Awards; and Young Artist Awards. Since its premiere and the subsequent release of the unrated Director's Cut, the film has become a cult classic. Plot In order to cast the world into eternal night, the Lord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miloslav Luther
Miloslav Luther (born 14 August 1945) is a Slovak film director and screenwriter. He was a member of the Federal board for broadcasting and retransmission of the Czechoslovak Federative Republic, a member of the Board of Slovak Television, vice-president of the Slovak Film and Television Academy and a pedagogue of directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He is the head of the board of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund as well as a member of the Slovak Film Institute board. Selected filmography * '' A Step Into the Dark'' (2014) * '' Mosquitos' Tango'' (2009) * '' Escape to Buda'' (2002) * '' Angel of Mercy'' (1993) * '' Try to Embrace Me'' (1991) * '' Witness of the Dying Time'' (1990) * '' A Path Across Danube'' (1989) * ''Bit Part'' (1988) * '' Mahuliena, The Golden Maid'' (1986) * ''Forget Mozart ''Forget Mozart'' (german: Vergeßt Mozart) is a 1985 West German-Czechoslovak mystery film directed by Miloslav Luther and starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Max Tidof and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forget Mozart
''Forget Mozart'' (german: Vergeßt Mozart) is a 1985 West German-Czechoslovak mystery film directed by Miloslav Luther and starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Max Tidof and Wolfgang Preiss. Following the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a number of those who knew him are assembled to establish the cause of his death. Main cast * Max Tidof as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart *Armin Mueller-Stahl as Graf Pergen *Katharina Raacke as Constanze Mozart *Wolfgang Preiss as Baron Gottfried van Swieten *Uwe Ochsenknecht as Director Emanuel Schikaneder * Winfried Glatzeder as Antonio Salieri *Kurt Weinzierl as Doctor * as Servant * Katja Flint as Magdalena Demel *Andrej Hryc as Franz Demel *Ladislav Chudík as Joseph Haydn *Zdenek Hradilák as Joseph II Joseph II (German: Josef Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; English: ''Joseph Benedict Anthony Michael Adam''; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg lands from November 29, 1780 un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juraj Jakubisko
Juraj Jakubisko (born 30 April 1938) is a Slovak film director. He has directed fifteen feature films, between 1967 and 2008. He often takes the dual role of cinematographer, and is often also credited as a screenplay writer as he usually co-writes or writes the scripts of his movies. In 2000 he was named Best Slovak Director of the 20th century by film critics and journalists. His work is often described as magical realism. Career Before entering the film industry, Jakubisko taught still photography at a secondary school for applied arts in Bratislava, and worked for a television company in Košice. In 1960 he moved to Prague where he attended the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), studying film direction under Václav Wasserman. He graduated in 1965 and began working with Alfréd Radok at the Laterna Magika theatre in Prague. He began winning international acclaim with his experimental short films before making his first feature '' Crucial Years'' ( sk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Feather Fairy
''The Feather Fairy'' ( sk, Perinbaba) is a 1985 adaptation of a Brothers Grimm's Mother Hulda short story directed by Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko. A fairy tale about an immortal woman who cares for snow and a boy who isn't afraid of death. Synopsis A fairy tale not only for children about Jacob, who through his courage, manages to trick death. The film plays with people's never-ending desire for happiness, love and victory over death. Mrs Winter, The Feather Fairy, rules the world and also, being so open-hearted, raises little Jacob, who almost died in an avalanche. Life in the fairytale is perfect: the little boy is immortal, he doesn't get older, and he has everything. Even though his life is perfect, he watches human life through a looking glass. He sees a young girl Alžbetka growing into a young lady, and he desires to be a normal person and live with his love. Jakubisko: “What you do now with the special digital effects we did without them. My friend Federico Fellin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masaki Kobayashi
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, best known for the epic (genre), epic trilogy ''The Human Condition (film series), The Human Condition'' (1959–1961), the samurai films ''Harakiri (1962 film), Harakiri'' (1962) and ''Samurai Rebellion'' (1967), and the horror anthology ''Kwaidan (film), Kwaidan'' (1964). ''Senses of Cinema'' described him as "one of the finest depicters of Japanese society in the 1950s and 1960s." Biography Early life Kobayashi was born in Otaru, then a small port on the island of Hokkaido, the son of a company employee. He was a second cousin of the actress and director Kinuyo Tanaka. In 1933 he entered Waseda University in Tokyo where he studied East Asian art and philosophy. He embarked on a career in film in 1941 as an apprentice director at Shochiku Studios, but was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army in January 1942 and sent to Manchuria. Kobayashi regarded himself as a pacifist and a socialist, and resisted by refusing promotion to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mircea Daneliuc
Mircea Daneliuc (; born 7 April 1943) is a Romanian film director, screenwriter and actor. He has directed 19 films since 1975. In 1993 his film '' The Conjugal Bed'' was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. Two years later, his film '' The Snails' Senator'' was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. As one of the most prominent Romanian film directors of the 1980s, his films mixed realism and parables, enabling him to convey uncensored criticism towards the communist regime. Selected filmography * '' Cursa'' (The Ride) (1975) * '' Ediţie specială'' (Special Issue) (1977) * '' Probă de microfon'' (Microphone Test) (1980) * '' Vânătoarea de vulpi'' (Foxhunting) (1980) * '' Croaziera'' (The Cruise) (1981) * ''Glissando'' (1984) * '' Iacob'' (1988) * ''A 11-a poruncă'' (The 11-th Commandment) (1991) * '' Tusea şi junghiul'' (The Toothless War) (1992) * '' Patul conjugal'' (The Conjugal Bed) (1993) * '' Această lehamite'' (Fed Up) (1994) * '' Senat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glissando (film)
''Glissando'' is a 1982 Romanian drama film directed by Mircea Daneliuc. The film was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Stefan Iordache * Tora Vasilescu * Petre Simionescu * Victor Ionescu * Ion Fiscuteanu * Constantin Dinulescu * Camelia Zorlescu * Mihaela Nestorescu * Rodica Moianu See also * List of submissions to the 57th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Romanian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Romania began submitting for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in 1966. As of 2021 , Romania has submitted thirty-seven films for Oscar consideration, scoring its first nomination for '' Collective'' at the 93rd Academy Awards. ... References External links * 1982 films 1982 drama films 1980s fantasy drama films 1980s Romanian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Hänsel
Marion Hänsel (née Ackermann; 12 February 1949 – 8 June 2020) was a French-born Belgian , producer, actress and . Her film '' Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea'' was entered into the |
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