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69th Venice International Film Festival
The 69th annual Venice International Film Festival, organized by Venice Biennale, took place at Venice Lido from 29 August to 8 September 2012. The festival opened with the Indian director Mira Nair's ''The Reluctant Fundamentalist'', and closed with the Out of Competition film ''The Man Who Laughs'', directed by Jean-Pierre Ameris. Terrence Malick's film ''To the Wonder'' was met with both boos and cheers from critics at its premiere. The Golden Lion for Best Film was won by ''Pietà'', directed by South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk. Paul Thomas Anderson for '' The Master'' won the Silver Lion for Best Director. Additionally, American actors Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman shared the prize for Best Actor for that film. Israeli actress Hadas Yaron for her performance in ''Fill the Void'' was selected as the Best Actress in the festival. Jury The international juries of the 69th Venice International Film Festival included: Main competition (Venezia 69) * Michael M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (film)
''The Reluctant Fundamentalist'' is a 2012 political thriller drama film directed by Mira Nair and starring Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, and Liev Schreiber. It is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Mohsin Hamid. The film is a post-9/11 story about the impact of the terrorist attacks on one Pakistani man and his treatment by Americans in reaction to them. In 2007, Nair read the manuscript of Hamid's unpublished novel. After reading it, she decided to make a film. Her production house, Mirabai Films, and Nair's long-time partner, producer Lydia Dean Pilcher's production company, Cine Mosaic, optioned the film rights to the novel. The film premiered as the opening film for the 69th Venice International Film Festival, and at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival. The film had a limited release in the United States on 26 April 2013, by IFC Films. In Pakistan, the film was released in Urdu with a changed title as ''Changez'' on 24 May 2013. The film also screened at the 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrence Malick
Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker. His films include '' Days of Heaven'' (1978), '' The Thin Red Line'' (1998), for which he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, '' The New World'' (2005) and ''The Tree of Life'' (2011), the latter of which garnered him another Best Director Oscar nomination and the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood wave with the films '' Badlands'' (1973), about a murderous couple on the run in 1950s American Midwest, and ''Days of Heaven'' (1978), which detailed a love triangle between two laborers and a wealthy farmer during the First World War, before a lengthy hiatus. Malick's films have explored themes such as transcendence, nature, and conflicts between reason and instinct. They are typically marked by broad philosophical and spiritual overtones, as well as the use of meditative voice-overs from individu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Morton
Samantha Jane Morton (born 13 May 1977) is an English actress and director. Known for her work in independent cinema, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Morton was a member of the Central Junior Television Workshop in her native Nottingham and began her career in British television in 1991. She appeared in the ITV series '' Band of Gold'' (1995–1996) and the BBC miniseries '' The History of Tom Jones: a Foundling'' (1997). Morton's early film roles include '' Emma'' (1996), ''Jane Eyre'' (1997), and '' Under the Skin'' (1997). She received two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Supporting Actress for Woody Allen's ''Sweet and Lowdown'' (1999), and the other for Best Actress for Jim Sheridan's '' In America'' (2003). Other notable film credits include '' Morvern Callar'' (2002), ''Minority Report'' (2002), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Meier
Ursula Meier (born 24 June 1971) is a French- Swiss film director and screenwriter. Career A native of Besançon, the capital of the Franche-Comté region in eastern France, near the Swiss border, Ursula Meier graduated from Belgium's Institut des Arts de Diffusion nstitute of Visual Artsand served as assistant director to the internationally-renowned Swiss auteur, Alain Tanner, on his films ''Fourbi'' (''Gear)'' (1996) and ''Jonas et Lila, à demain'' (''Jonas and Lila, 'Till Tomorrow'') (1999). She won her first major film award for the 1998 short, ''Des heures sans sommeil'' (''Sleepless)'', which received the Special Jury Prize at the Festival International du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand as well as the International Grand Prize at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival and a Best Short Fiction Film nomination at the Molodist International Film Festival in Kyiv. In 2002, her film ''Tous à table'' (''Table Manners''), which had already won the Audience Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Garrone
Matteo Garrone (born 15 October 1968) is an Italians, Italian filmmaker. Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the ''Sacher d'Oro'', an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film ''Silhouette'', that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long feature, ''Terra di Mezzo'' in 1997. He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for ''Gomorrah (film), Gomorrah'' (2008), among many other awards. His film ''Reality (2012 film), Reality'' (2012) competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival), Grand Prix. His films ''Tale of Tales (2015 film), Tale of Tales'' (2015) and ''Dogman (film), Dogman'' (2018) were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and the 2018 Cannes Film Festival respectively. The Nastro d'Argento, Nastro d'argento awarded Garrone both Nastro d'Argento for Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ari Folman
Ari Folman ( he, ארי פולמן) (born December 17, 1962) is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, animator, and film-score composer. He directed the Oscar-nominated animated documentary film ''Waltz with Bashir'' (2008) and the live-action/animated film '' The Congress''. Biography Ari Folman was born in Haifa to Holocaust survivors. His wife is also a film director. They live in Tel Aviv. In 2006, he was the head writer of the Hot 3 famous drama series ''BeTipul''. Folman's latest project is an animated drama film based on the life of Anne Frank during the Holocaust, named ''Where Is Anne Frank?'' ''Waltz with Bashir'' Ari Folman's memories of the aftermath of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, which took place when he was a 19-year-old soldier, served as the basis for his movie ''Waltz with Bashir''. The film follows his attempt to regain his memories of the war through therapy, as well as conversations with old friends and other Israelis who were present in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Ho-sun Chan
Peter Ho-sun Chan (born 28 November 1962) is a film director and producer. Early life Chan was born in British Hong Kong to parents China. He and his family moved to Thailand when he was 12, where he grew up amongst the international Chinese community in Bangkok. He speaks Thai as fluently as a Thai person. He later studied in the United States where he attended film school at UCLA, with a minor in accountancy. He returned to Hong Kong in 1983 for a summer internship in the film industry. Chan never returned to UCLA to complete his studies. Career He served as second assistant director, translator, and producer on John Woo's ''Heroes Shed No Tears'' (1986), which was set in Thailand. He then was a location manager on three Jackie Chan films, ''Wheels on Meals'' (1984), '' The Protector'' (1985) and ''Armour of God'' (1986), all of which were shot overseas. He joined Impact Films as a producer in 1989, guiding projects such as ''Curry and Pepper'' (1990) to completion. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laetitia Casta
Laetitia Marie Laure Casta (; born 11 May 1978)FMD profile Retrieved 4 December 2009. is a French supermodel and actress. Casta became a " Girl" in 1993 and gained further recognition as a from 1998 to 2000 and as a spokesperson for cosmetics company . She has appeared on over 100 covers of such popular magazines as '' |
Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body". In 2007, she founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art. Early life, education and teaching Abramović was born in Belgrade, Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia, on November 30, 1946. In an interview, Abramović described her family as having been "Red bourgeoisie." Her great-uncle was Varnava, Serbian Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Both of her Montenegrin-born par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mann (director)
Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American film director, director, screenwriter, and Film producer, producer of film and television who is best known for his distinctive style of crime drama. His most acclaimed works include the films ''Thief (film), Thief'' (1981), ''Manhunter (film), Manhunter'' (1986), ''The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film), The Last of the Mohicans'' (1992), ''Heat (1995 film), Heat'' (1995), ''The Insider (film), The Insider'' (1999), ''Collateral (film), Collateral'' (2004), and ''Public Enemies (2009 film), Public Enemies'' (2009). He is also known for his role as executive producer on the popular TV series ''Miami Vice'' (1984–89), which he adapted into a Miami Vice (film), 2006 feature film. For his work, he has received nominations from international organizations and juries, including the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As a producer, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fill The Void
''Fill the Void'' ( he, למלא את החלל - lemale et ha'ḥalal) is a 2012 Israeli drama film written and directed by Rama Burshtein. It focuses on life among the Haredi Jewish community in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hadas Yaron stars as Shira Mendelman, an 18-year-old girl who is pressured to marry her older sister's husband, following the death of her sister in childbirth. The film required a lengthy production period, taking over a year for the casting to be completed, and another year and three months for editing. Burshtein, who was doubtful as to how much of the process would be completed, took a step-by-step approach, focusing first on the writing, then on accumulating enough funding for the project, followed by the filming and editing. Burshtein became the first Haredi Jewish woman to direct a film intended for wide distribution. The film premiered at the 69th Venice Film Festival on 1 September 2012, and was later released in the United States on 24 May 2013. ''Fill the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor. Known for his distinctive supporting and character roles—typically lowlifes, eccentrics, underdogs, and misfits—he acted in many films and theatrical productions, including leading roles, from the early 1990s until his death in 2014. Hoffman was drawn to theater in his youth after attending a stage production of Arthur Miller's '' All My Sons'' at age 12. He studied acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and began his screen career in a 1991 episode of ''Law & Order'', starting to appear in films in 1992. He gained recognition for his supporting work, notably in '' Scent of a Woman'' (1992), ''Twister'' (1996), '' Boogie Nights'' (1997), ''Patch Adams'' (1998), ''The Big Lebowski'' (1998), ''Magnolia'' (1999), ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999), ''Almost Famous'' (2000), and '' Along Came Polly'' (2004). He began to occasionally play leading roles, and for his portrayal of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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