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64th Berlin International Film Festival
The 64th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 6 to 16 February 2014. Wes Anderson's film ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' opened the festival. British film director Ken Loach was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Chinese film ''Black Coal, Thin Ice'' directed by Diao Yinan, which also served as closing film. Competition Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: International jury * James Schamus, film producer and screenwriter (United States) - Jury President * Barbara Broccoli, film producer (United States) * Trine Dyrholm, actress (Denmark) * Mitra Farahani, film director (Iran) * Greta Gerwig, actress and film director (United States) * Michel Gondry, film director, screenwriter, and producer (France) * Tony Leung, actor (China) * Christoph Waltz, actor (Austria) Best First Feature Award Jury * Nancy Buirski, director, screenwriter, producer and founder of the Full Frame Docu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grand Budapest Hotel
''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' is a 2014 comedy-drama film written and directed by Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes leads a seventeen-actor ensemble cast as Monsieur Gustave H., famed concierge of a twentieth-century mountainside resort in the fictional Eastern European country of Zubrowka. When Gustave is framed for the murder of a wealthy dowager (Tilda Swinton), he and his recently befriended protégé Zero (Tony Revolori) embark on a quest for fortune and a priceless Renaissance painting amidst the backdrop of an encroaching fascist regime. Anderson's American Empirical Pictures produced the film in association with Studio Babelsberg, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Indian Paintbrush's Scott Rudin and Steven Rales. Fox Searchlight supervised the commercial distribution, and ''The Grand Budapest Hotel''s funding was sourced through Indian Paintbrush and German government-funded tax rebates. Anderson and longtime collaborator Hugo Guinness conceived ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry (; born 8 May 1963) is a French filmmaker noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène. Along with Charlie Kaufman, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'', a film he also directed. His other films include the surrealistic science fantasy comedy ''The Science of Sleep'' (2006), the comedy '' Be Kind Rewind'' (2008), the superhero action comedy ''The Green Hornet'' (2011), the drama '' The We and the I'' (2012), and the romantic science fantasy tragedy ''Mood Indigo'' (2013). He is well known for his music video collaborations with Daft Punk, Donald Fagen, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Kanye West, Björk, Beck, The Chemical Brothers, Kylie Minogue, Idles, and The White Stripes. Early life Gondry was born in Versailles. He is the grandson of inventor Constant Martin. Career Gondry's vision and career began with his emphasis on emotion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yann Demange
Yann Demange (born 1977) is a French film director of French and Algerian parents, who grew up in London. After directing the well-received television series ''Dead Set'' (2008) and ''Top Boy'' (2011), he made his directorial film debut with the critically acclaimed independent film '''71 (film), '71'' (2014), for which he received the British Independent Film Awards 2014, British Independent Film Award for Best Director. Biography Born in Paris to a French mother and an Algerian father, Demange moved to London with his mother and two older half-brothers when he was two years old, initially to the South London, south of the city, then the West London, west. His parents split up shortly after the family moved to London, and between the ages of four and 12 Demange was raised in two four-year placements in foster care in Essex, one with a French-speaking family and the other with a white Cockney family. He was originally given the first name Mounir, however one of his half-brothers con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
'71 (film)
71'' is a 2014 British historical action thriller film written by Gregory Burke and directed by Yann Demange (in his feature directorial debut). Set in Northern Ireland, it stars Jack O'Connell, Sean Harris, David Wilmot, Richard Dormer, Paul Anderson and Charlie Murphy, and tells the fictional story of a British soldier who becomes separated from his unit during a riot in Belfast at the height of the Troubles in 1971. Filming began on location in Blackburn, Lancashire, in April 2013 and continued in Sheffield, Leeds and Liverpool. The film was funded by the British Film Institute, Film4, Creative Scotland and Screen Yorkshire, and had its premiere in the competition section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, held in February 2014, where it was particularly praised for O'Connell's performance and Demange's direction. Plot Gary Hook, a new recruit to the British Army, is sent to Belfast in 1971 during the early years of the Troubles. Under the leadership of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Bear
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the " Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in France. Tens of thousands of visitors attend each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale juries also give many other awards, and in addition there are other awards given by i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Tohmé
Christine Tohme ( ar, كريستين طعمة) is a Lebanese curator and the founding director of Ashkal Alwan - The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts. Since its establishment in 1993, Ashkal Alwan has been committed to contemporary artistic practice, production, research and education. Biography Tohme was born on February 28, 1964, in Beirut, where she continues to live and work. She received her BA in English literature from the American University of Beirut (1984) and her MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London (2007). From 1988 to 2006 she worked for Radio Liban as a presenter and DJ. She is the founder of Ashkal Alwan Ashkal Alwan (), The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts is a non-profit organization that promotes contemporary art practices in Lebanon and the broader region. History Ashkal Alwan was founded in 1993 by Lebanese curator Christine Tohmé. Sin ..., the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, established in 1993. In 2001, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuno Rodrigues (curator)
Nuno Rodrigues may refer to: * Nuno Rodrigues (footballer, born 1979), Portuguese football left back * Nuno Rodrigues (footballer, born 1994), Portuguese football midfielder {{hndis, Rodrigues, Nuno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin (director)
Edwin (born 24 April 1978) is an Indonesian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He has won a total of four Citra Awards: Best Short Film for ''Kara, Anak Sebatang Pohon'' (2005), Best Director for ''Posesif'' (2017), as well as Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (shared with Eka Kurniawan) for ''Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash'' (2022). His feature film debut ''Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly'' (2008) earned critical acclaim and won several international festival awards. In 2012, Edwin received the Edward Yang New Talent Award at the 6th Asian Film Awards. In 2012, Edwin's sophomore feature ''Postcards from the Zoo'' was selected to compete in the main section of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, making him the first Indonesian filmmaker to compete for the prestigious Golden Bear in 49 years. In 2021, Edwin won Golden Leopard at the 74th Locarno Film Festival with ''Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash''. Career Edwin first came to prominence in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernán Musaluppi
Hernán is a Spanish masculine given name, originating from Germanic Hernan in the Visigoth culture in Spain. It is the Latinized version of the compound name ''Fard-nanth'', which seems to mean "gentle traveler" or "spiritual traveler". The House of Hernán gave its name to those with the surname Hernández, the -ez at the end denoting membership of that House. The surname, like many Spanish surnames, is of Teutonic-Gothic origin. It is not connected with "Herman" - also of Germanic origin, but a different one. Persons with the given name include: * Hernán Alvarado Solano (1946–2011), Colombian Roman Catholic bishop * Hernán Andrade (born 1960), Mexican racewalker * Hernán Barcos (born 1984), Argentinian football player * Hernán Barreneche Hernán Barreneche Ríos (born July 25, 1939 in Pereira, Risaralda) is a long-distance runner from Colombia, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He won the bronze medal in the men's marathon at the 1971 P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeria Golino
Valeria Golino (born 22 October 1965) is an Italian actress and film director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her roles in ''Rain Man'', ''Big Top Pee-wee'' and the two ''Hot Shots!'' films, particularly the olive-in-the-belly-button scene. In addition to David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, Golden Ciak and Italian Golden Globe awards, she is one of four actresses to have twice won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival. Early life Golino was born in Naples, Italy, the daughter of an Italian father who was a Germanist scholar, and a Greek mother, Lalla, who was a painter. One of her grandmothers was Egyptian-French. She grew up in an "artistic household", and after her parents split up, was raised alternating between Athens and Sorrento (near Naples). Golino is the niece of the journalist Enzo Golino at ''L'Espresso'', and her brother is a musician. When she was a girl, her mother frequently took her to the cinema, and she quickly became interested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema. The festival is a program of the Center for Documentary Studies, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) at Duke University. This event receives financial support from corporate sponsors, private foundations, and individual donors. The Presenting Sponsor of the Festival is Duke University. Additional sponsors include: A&E IndieFilms, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, National Endowment for the Arts, Merge Records, Whole Foods, Hospitality Group (parent company for Saladelia Cafe and Madhatter Bakeshop and Cafe), and the City of Durham. The festival began in 1998 with no more than a few hundred patrons and has grown tremendously since then. Full Frame is now considered to be one of the premier documentary film festivals in the United States. The Festival was founded by Nancy Buirski, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor of ''The New York Times'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
