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74th Venice Film Festival
The 74th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 30 August to 9 September 2017. The jury president was announced as the actress Annette Bening on 5 July 2017. '' Downsizing'', directed by Alexander Payne, was selected to open the festival. The Golden Lion, the highest prize given by the festival, was awarded to ''The Shape of Water'', directed by Guillermo del Toro. A new section for virtual-reality (VR) films was introduced in this edition of the festival, as part of the Official Selection. 22 films were selected for the first-ever competition for films made in VR, while several more were presented in out-of-competition subsections. Jury The following people formed the 2017 juries: Main Competition (Venezia 74) * Annette Bening, American actress (Jury President) * Ildikó Enyedi, Hungarian film director and screenwriter * Michel Franco, Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter * Rebecca Hall, English actress *Anna Mouglalis, French actress * David S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downsizing (film)
''Downsizing'' is a 2017 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by Payne and Jim Taylor, and starring Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, and Kristen Wiig. It tells the story of Paul Safrânek, who decides to undergo a recently-invented procedure to shrink his body so he can start a new life in an experimental community, which he ends up doing alone when his wife backs out at the last minute; his journey takes an unexpected turn after he befriends an impoverished activist. Principal photography for the film began in Ontario, Canada, on April 1, 2016. The film premiered at the 74th Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on December 22, 2017. It was a box-office bomb, grossing only $55 million against a production budget of $68–76 million, and received mixed reviews from critics. Nevertheless, it was chosen by the National Board of Review as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Franco
Michel Franco (born 28 August 1979) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his film '' After Lucia'' that won the Prize Un Certain Regard at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. His films typically deal with themes of dysfunctional families, in particular Mexican upper classes. His 2020 film '' New Order'' was received with an overwhelming backlash due to accusations of racism towards lower classes in Mexico to the point that Franco had to make a public apology in social media as he claimed the film was the subject of "reverse racism". Although many of his films have been poorly received by Mexican critics and audiences, Franco has received numerous awards in film festivals like Cannes, Venice and Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Zlotowski
Rebecca Zlotowski (born 21 April 1980) is a French film director and screenwriter. Education A former student at prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rebecca Zlotowski received her teaching qualification in French modern literature in 2003. She graduated in 2007 at la Femis in scriptwriting section. Career Her first feature film, ''Belle Épine'', is her graduation project at La Fémis, written under the guidance of her mentor Lodge Kerrigan. It was presented in competition at the 49th Critics' Week and won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film in January 2011, as well as the French critics' union prize for Best First Film. Léa Seydoux was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress. In 2013, Rebecca Zlotowski directed '' Grand Central'' starring Léa Seydoux and Tahar Rahim which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. In 2016, ''Planetarium'', starring Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp as sisters, was released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fien Troch
Fien Troch (born 1978, in Londerzeel) is a Belgian left field film director, producer and screenwriter. Career After graduating from the Sint-Lukas art academy in Brussels in 2000, she achieved several nominations and awards in her chosen career. Her first full-length film ''Someone Else's happiness'' is a psychological drama film that deals with how a fatal car accident affects a small village in Flanders. The film was nominated for the Grand Prix (2005) at the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent and for the Joseph Plateau Award (2006) for Best Belgian Director and Best Belgian Screenplay. Moreover, in 2005 at Thessaloniki Film Festival it won the Golden Alexander and an award for Best Screenplay. At the 62nd edition of the Torino Film Festival it also won the prize for Best Actress. Her second film '' Unspoken'' depicts the aftermath of the disappearance of a young girl. The film received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association (U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrés Duprat
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Mark Cousins (film Critic)
Mark Cousins (born 3 May 1965) is a Northern Irish director and writer based in Edinburgh. A prolific documentarian, he is best known for his 15-hour 2011 documentary ''The Story of Film: An Odyssey''. Career Cousins interviewed famous filmmakers such as David Lynch, Martin Scorsese and Roman Polanski in the TV series ''Scene by Scene''. He presented the BBC cult film series ''Moviedrome'' from June 1997 to July 2000. He introduced 66 films for the show, including the little-seen Nicolas Roeg film ''Eureka (1983 film), Eureka''. Throughout his career, Cousins has interviewed directors, producers and actors including Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Tom Hanks, Sean Connery, Brian De Palma, Steve Martin, Lauren Bacall, Jane Russell, Paul Schrader, Bernardo Bertolucci, Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Moreau, Terence Stamp, Jack Lemmon, Janet Leigh and Rod Steiger. In 2009, Cousins and Tilda Swinton co-founded the '8/2 Foundation'. Together they also created a project where they mounted a 33.5-t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ami Canaan Mann
Ami Canaan Mann is a British-born American film director, television director and television writer. Career Mann has worked as a television and film writer since writing the ''NYPD Blue'' episode "Tea and Sympathy" in 2000. She has won three awards, all in 2001 for her first film as a director, ''Morning''. These included the Audience Award at Dahlonega International Film Festival, Grand Prize for best directorial debut and Gold Award for Independent Theatrical Feature Films – First Feature. Her 2011 film, ''Texas Killing Fields'', screened in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September. ''Jackie & Ryan'', her romance film starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes, screened in the Horizons section at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. Personal life Mann is the daughter of director Michael Mann Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television who is best known for ... [...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] |
Yonfan
Yonfan (born 14 October 1947) is a Hong Kong film director and photographer. Biography He was born in Wuhan, Hubei, Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China. As the Yang family emigrated from mainland China, they lived first in Hong Kong for 3 years, and then moved to Taiwan when Yonfan was 5 years old. He spent most of his childhood and adolescence in Taichung, Taiwan, and returned to Hong Kong in 1964 as a 17-year-old man to work as a photographer, but left for the United States in 1968 to study film. After a couple of years travelling through the United States, France and Britain, he returned to Hong Kong in 1973, and became a photographer noted for his celebrity portraits. In 1984, he made his box office debut as a director with ''A Certain Romance (film), A Certain Romance''. Two years later, Yonfan adapted the much-loved romantic novel ''The Story of Rose'' by Yi Shu. Starring an up-and-coming Maggie Cheung, the passionate ''Lost Romance'' was a huge commercial succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Wright
Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilisation of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes. He began making independent short films before making his first feature film ''A Fistful of Fingers'' in 1995. Wright created and directed the comedy series ''Asylum'' in 1996, written with David Walliams. After directing several other television shows, Wright directed the sitcom ''Spaced'' (1999–2001), which aired for two series and starred frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. In 2004, Wright directed the zombie comedy ''Shaun of the Dead,'' starring Pegg and Frost, the first film in Wright's ''Three Flavours Cornetto'' trilogy. The film was co-written with Pegg—as were the next two entries in the trilogy, the buddy cop film ''Hot Fuzz'' (2007) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmine Trinca
Jasmine Trinca (; born 24 April 1981) is an Italian people, Italian actress. Trinca was born in Rome, Italy. She began her career in 2001, chosen by Nanni Moretti for his award-winning ''The Son's Room'', receiving the Guglielmo Biraghi prize as Best New Talent of the Year. In 2004, she won a Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress, Nastro d'Argento for ''The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù)''. Trinca played again with Moretti in ''Il caimano'' (2006). Filmography References External links * Jasmine Trinca's Profile on www.shooting-stars.eu 1981 births Living people Actresses from Rome Nastro d'Argento winners 21st-century Italian actresses Italian film actresses Italian television actresses David di Donatello winners Ciak d'oro winners Marcello Mastroianni Award winners {{italy-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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