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51st Venice International Film Festival
The 51st annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 1 September to 12 September, 1994. Jury The following people comprised the 1994 jury: *David Lynch (head of jury) * Olivier Assayas *Margherita Buy *Gaston Kaboré *Nagisa Oshima *David Stratton *Uma Thurman *Mario Vargas Llosa *Carlo Verdone Official selection In competition Out of competition *''Bullets Over Broadway'' by Woody Allen (United States) *'' Dichiarazioni d'amore'' by Pupi Avati (Italy) *''Oasi'' by Cristiano Bortone (Italy) *'' Staggered'' by Martin Clunes (United Kingdom) *''Tom & Viv'' by Brian Gilbert (United Kingdom) *'' Genesis: The Creation and the Flood'' by Ermanno Olmi (Italy-Germany) *'' Il Postino: The Postman'' by Michael Radford (Italy-France) Venetian Nights *''Love and Human Remains'' by Denys Arcand (Canada) *''True Lies'' by James Cameron (United States) *''47 Ronin'' by Kon Ichikawa (Japan) *''Wolf'' by Mike Nichols (United States) *''Clear and Present Danger'' by Ph ... [...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] |
Before The Rain (1994 Film)
''Before the Rain'' ( mk, Пред дождот, ''Pred doždot'') is a 1994 film written and directed by Milcho Manchevski, starring Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Šerbedžija, Grégoire Colin and Labina Mitevska, photographed by Manuel Teran, edited by Nicolas Guster and featuring an original score by the Macedonian band Anastasia (band), Anastasia. The sophisticated interplay of three seemingly unrelated short narratives and the emotional effect of the masterful directing were highly praised by the reviews and festivals, and appreciated by audiences in more than 50 countries. Plot Set against the background of political turbulence in Macedonia and contemporary London, three love stories intertwine to create a powerful portrait of modern Europe in Milcho Manchevski’s Before The Rain. When a mysterious incident in the fabled Macedonian mountains blows out of proportion, it threatens to start a civil war, and brings together a silent young monk, a London picture editor, and a disillus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel () (23 February 1938 – 5 September 2020) was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura. Early life Menzel was born in Prague in 1938 to Josef Menzel and Božena Jindřichová. His father Josef was a journalist, translator and children's book writer. Menzel studied directing at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in Prague. His teachers at the academy included Czech Director Otakar Vávra. Career Menzel was a member of the Czech New Wave cinema in the 1960s. His first feature film, ''Closely Watched Trains'', won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1967. The film was a World War II drama based on a book by Bohumil Hrabal. His film '' Larks on a String'' was filmed in 1969, but was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life And Extraordinary Adventures Of Private Ivan Chonkin
Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy transformation, and reproduction. Various forms of life exist, such as plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea, and bacteria. Biology is the science that studies life. The gene is the unit of heredity, whereas the cell is the structural and functional unit of life. There are two kinds of cells, prokaryotic and eukaryotic, both of which consist of cytoplasm enclosed within a membrane and contain many biomolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. Cells reproduce through a process of cell division, in which the parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells and passes its genes onto a new generation, sometimes producing genetic variation. Organisms, or the individual entities of life, are generally thought to be open systems that maint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Amelio
Gianni Amelio (born 20 January 1945) is an Italian film director. Early life Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother. The absence of a paternal figures will be a constant in Amelio's future works. During his university studies of philosophy in Messina, Amelio got interested in cinema, writing as film critic for a local magazine. In 1965 he moved to Rome, where he worked as operator and assistant director for figures such as Liliana Cavani and Vittorio De Seta. He also worked for television, directing documentaries and advertisements. Amelio's first important work is the TV film '' La città del sole'', directed in 1973 for RAI TV and inspired to Tommaso Campanella's work. This was followed by '' Bertolucci secondo il cinema'' (1976) a documentary about ''1900'' shooting, and the thriller '' Effetti speciali''. Two years l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamerica
''Lamerica'' is a 1994 Italian drama film directed by Gianni Amelio. It entered the competition at the 51st Venice International Film Festival, in which Amelio won the Golden Osella for Best Director. The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Plot The film Lamerica is a story of two men caught up in the startup of a scam shoe company. The main characters Gino anSpiro(later discovered to be Michele), go on an adventure of misfortune. Gino is a young man originally from Sicily who is involved in a company that is trying to “give every Albanian good shoes,” but it truly is a scam. Mr. Fiore (Gino’s boss) and Gino were unsatisfied with the officials that were originally set up to run the company. With the help of an Albanian middleman, they decided to find their own candidate who would be a “man of straw”, meaning he would do what they say. Spiro, or Michele, was the old m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiang Wen
Jiang Wen (born 5 January 1963) is a Chinese actor, screenwriter, and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "Sixth Generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film '' Red Sorghum'' (1986), and more recently as Baze Malbus in the Star Wars film ''Rogue One'' (2016). He is the older brother of fellow actor Jiang Wu. Career Born in Tangshan, Hebei, in a family of military personnel, Jiang relocated to Beijing at the age of ten. In 1973 he attended Beijing No. 72 Middle School, where he studied alongside Ying Da. In 1980, he entered China's foremost acting school, the Central Academy of Drama, graduating in 1984. After graduation, he was assigned to China Youth Art Institute as an actor. That same year, he started acting both on the stage (with the China Youth Theater) and in films. Jiang's debut role was in the film ''The Last Empress'', where he portrayed Puyi. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Heat Of The Sun
''In the Heat of the Sun'' is a 1994 Chinese film directed and written by Jiang Wen. The film is based loosely on author Wang Shuo's novel '' Wild Beast''. Jiang Wen, known as one of China’s best actors and seen in numerous films such as ''Red Sorghum'' (1988), ''Hibiscus Town'' (1987), ''The Imperial Eunuch'' (1991), and ''Letter from An Unknown Woman'' (2004), is also a very successful filmmaker and director. ''In the Heat of the Sun'' was Jiang Wen's first foray into directing after years as a leading actor. In the film, Jiang Wen utilized eroticism to restructure the discourse of Maoist China. The romantic and nostalgic representation of history is evident through the sensual narrative as well as the sexual experience of the film’s characters at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Synopsis The film is set in the early 1970s in Beijing, during the Cultural Revolution. It is told from the perspective of Ma Xiaojun, a teenage boy nicknamed "Monkey" (played by Xia Yu, some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known as the director, writer and producer of the ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy (2001–2003) and the ''Hobbit'' trilogy (2012–2014), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. Other notable films include the critically lauded drama ''Heavenly Creatures'' (1994), the horror comedy ''The Frighteners'' (1996), the epic monster remake film ''King Kong'' (2005), the World War I documentary film ''They Shall Not Grow Old'' (2018) and the documentary '' The Beatles: Get Back'' (2021). He is the third-highest-grossing film director of all-time, his films having made over $6.5 billion worldwide. Jackson began his career with the " splatstick" horror comedy ''Bad Taste'' (1987) and the black comedy ''Meet the Feebles'' (1989) before filming the zombie comedy '' Braindead'' (1992). He shared a nomination for Academy Award for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavenly Creatures
''Heavenly Creatures'' is a 1994 New Zealand biographical psychological drama film directed by Peter Jackson, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his partner, Fran Walsh, and starring Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey in their feature film debuts, with supporting roles by Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, and Simon O'Connor. Based on the notorious 1954 Parker–Hulme murder case in Christchurch, the film focuses on the relationship between two teenage girls—Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme—which culminates in the murder of Parker's mother. The events of the film span the period from their meeting in 1952 to the murder in 1954. The film opened in 1994 at the 51st Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion and became one of the best-received films of the year. Reviewers praised most aspects of the production, with particular attention given to the performances by the previously unknown Winslet and Lynskey, as well as for Jackson's directing. The film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Idrissa is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: *Idrissa Adam (born 1984), Cameroonian sprinter * Idrissa Camara, Guinean-born dancer and choreographer * Idrissa Camará (born 1992), Bissau-Guinean footballer *Idrissa Coulibaly (born 1987), Malian footballer *Idrissa Dione (born 1929), French boxer *Idrissa Djaló (born 1962), Bissau-Guinean politician * Idrissa Doumbia (born 1998), Ivorian footballer * Idrissa "Idris" Elba (born 1972), English actor, producer and musician *Idrissa Gueye (born 1989), Senegalese footballer * Idrissa Halidou (born 1982), Nigerien footballer * Idrissa Kabore (born 1977), Burkinabé boxer *Idrissa Keita (born 1977), Ivorian footballer * Idrissa Kouyaté (born 1991), Ivorian footballer * Idrissa Laouali (born 1979), Nigerien footballer * Ydrissa M'Barke (born 1983), French sprinter *Idrissa Mandiang (born 1984), Senegalese footballer *Idrissa Niang (born 1992), Senegalese footballer * Idrissa Ouédraogo (1954–2018), Burkinabé f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heart's Cry
''The Heart's Cry'' (french: Le Cri du cœur) is a 1994 Burkinabé/French drama film directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo. Plot Moctar is a young boy who, although born in France, has grown up in Mali. At the age of eleven, he moves with his family to live in Paris. Moctar struggles to adjust to life in France, and is homesick for Africa. He begins to see visions of a hyena in the street. When he tells people, nobody believes him. He is laughed at by his schoolmates and sent to the school psychologist. He meets a man in the street called Paulo who helps Moctar to understand his visions. Cast *Richard Bohringer as Paulo * Saïd Diarra as Moctar *Félicité Wouassi as Saffi *Alex Descas as Ibrahim Sow *Clémentine Célarié as Deborah * Jean-Yves Gautier as Paul Guerin * Cheik Doukouré as Mamadou * Adama Ouédraogo as Adama * Ginette Fabet as Firmine * Adama Kouyaté as Grandfather * Valérie Gil as Miss Romand * Grégoire Le Du as Olivier Reception It won the OCIC Award - Honorable Ment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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