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Affonso Beato
Affonso Henrique Beato (born July 13, 1941) is a Brazilian cinematographer. He has served as the President of the Brazilian Society of Cinematographers, receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. He is also a member of the American Society of Cinematographers. In 2017, he became a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Beato was born in Rio de Janeiro. He started his cinematic career during the 1960s, gaining international recognition with his work on Glauber Rocha's ''Antonio das Mortes'' (1969). From the 1970s, he started an international career, notably collaborating with directors Jim McBride ('' The Big Easy'', '' Great Balls of Fire!'' ) and Pedro Almodóvar (''The Flower of My Secret'', ''Live Flesh'' and ''All About My Mother''). In 2004, he was the Director of Photography on fellow Brazilian Walter Salles's first Hollywood effort ''Dark Water''. Other notable credits include '' Ghost World'', ''The Queen'', ''Love In The Time Of Cholera'', and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a beta global city, Rio de Janeiro is the sixth-most populous city in the Americas. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost World (film)
''Ghost World'' is a 2001 black comedy film directed by Terry Zwigoff and starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro, Illeana Douglas and Steve Buscemi. Based on the 1993–97 comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes, with a screenplay co-written by Clowes and Zwigoff, the story focuses on the lives of Enid (Birch) and Rebecca (Johansson), two teenage outsiders in an unnamed American city. They face a rift in their relationship as Enid takes interest in an older man named Seymour (Buscemi), and becomes determined to help his romantic life. The film debuted at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2001. It had little box office impact, but was critically acclaimed. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and has become a cult film. Plot Best friends Enid and Rebecca face the summer after their high school graduation, with no plans for their future other than to find jobs and live together. The girls are cynical social outcasts, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documenteur
''Documenteur'' also known as ''Documenteur: An Emotion Picture'' is a French-American feature film by French director Agnès Varda. The film debuted at the 1981 Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Sabine Mamou as a single mother and Varda's son Mathieu Demy as her son. Though the film stands on its own it was made as a companion piece to the documentary ''Mur Murs'' in which Varda filmed mural art around L.A. and interviewed the artists who had made the pieces. Many of the murals filmed in ''Mur Murs'' appears in ''Documenteur'' and the film even opens with the same image as ''Mur Murs'' ended on. Plot A Frenchwoman, Emilie (Sabine Mamou) slowly puts her life together after the breakup of her partner, finding a home for herself and her son and adjusting to life as a single mother. While working as a typist, transcribing work for a writer she meets a film crew who have made a documentary on the murals of L.A. Though they originally intended to have her employer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circle Of Power
''Circle of Power'', also known as ''Mystique'', ''Brainwash'' and ''The Naked Weekend'', is a 1981 film, co-produced by Gary Mehlman, Anthony Quinn and Jeffrey White, and based on the non-fiction book '' The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled''. It stars Yvette Mimieux in one of her final film performances. Plot Yvette Mimieux plays Bianca Ray, the chief executive of a giant corporation called "Mystique", but the organization is also known as "Executive Development Training", or EDT.Erickson, Hal.''Brainwash'', Overview, Allmovie, retrieved 4/20/2007. Christopher Allport plays Jack Nilsson, a decent all-American young executive. Top management executives are required to spend a weekend with Bianca Ray at a hotel, where they are put under psychological pressure. As a prerequisite to the training course, participants must sign a waiver giving the company the release to physically and psychologically abuse the individuals in the course. The participants struggle with their shortcom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Roth
Robert Jay Roth (born 1950) is an American television and film director, screenwriter and producer. Life and career Born and raised in Los Angeles, Roth began his tertiary education at the University of California, Berkeley studying philosophy and creative writing before earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in Cinema at the University of Southern California in 1972. He continued his education at the University of California, Los Angeles enrolling in the Master of Fine Arts program and received his graduate degree in motion picture production in 1975. /sup> The following year, he wrote, produced and directed his first film, ''Independence Day''. His 1984 film '' Heartbreakers'' was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. /sup> In 1988, Roth wrote and directed the television film ''Dead Solid Perfect''. Over the course of his career, Roth has written, produced, and directed several television and feature films and episodes. Television series he has worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Littín
Miguel Ernesto Littin Cucumides (born 9 August 1942) is a Chilean film director, screenwriter, film producer and novelist. He was born to a Palestinian father, Hernán Littin and a Greek mother, Cristina Cucumides. Career Miguel Littin directed ''El Chacal de Nahueltoro'' (1969) becoming a figure of the New Latin American Cinema. Littin was exiled in México shortly after Augusto Pinochet came to power in a military coup, which ousted President Salvador Allende, on September 11, 1973. His 1973 film '' The Promised Land'' was entered into the Cannes Film Festival, New York film festival and the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. In México he directed several films: * ''Letters from Marusia'', based on a miners strike in Chile. ''Letters from Marusia'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. * ''El Recurso del Método'' (''Long Live the President'') based on Alejo Carpentier's novel '' El Recurso del método'' (''Reasons of State''); a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Promised Land (1973 Film)
''The Promised Land'' ( es, La tierra prometida) is a 1972 Chilean drama film written and directed by Miguel Littín. It was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. The film was not officially released until 1991 due to the military coup in 1973, which prevented the production from being completed in Chile. It was finished by Littín in Cuba with the collaboration of the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinematographic Industry. The performances of Nelson Villagra and Marcelo Gaete as the lead actors stand out. The music includes the participation of Inti Illimani and Ángel Parra, whose direction was supervised by Luis Advis. Plot In the late 1920s, the economic crisis in Chile affected thousands of peasants, as well as displaced nitrate workers from closed northern offices. One such displaced person, El Traje Cruzado, meets José Durán, and they discuss revolution and the right of peasants to occupy state lands. They arrive in Palmilla and establish a town, shar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antônio Calmon
Antônio Augusto Du Pin Calmon (born October 29, 1945) is a Brazilian telenovela writer. Career Beginning of his professional career took place in cinema, as director of short films and assistant direction in seminal films of the so-called Cinema Novo (New Cinema), then conducted the Brazilian film ''Paranoia (1975)'', with screenplay by Carlos Heitor Cony, a tense police drama and suspense, on television wrote the serial-TV ''Armação Ilimitada'', attraction displayed by Globo TV TV Globo (, "Globe TV", or simply Globo), formerly known as Rede Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Grupo Globo. The TV station ... between 1985 until 1988. His debut as the author was in 1989, when he wrote along with Walther Negro the novel ''Top Model'', which addressed topics among others such as masturbation and pregnancy in adolescence, was a phenomenon of audience in Brazilia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Daniel Pollet
Jean-Daniel Pollet (; 1936–2004) was a French film director and screenwriter who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was associated with two approaches to filmmaking: comedies which blended burlesque and melancholic elements, and poetic films based on texts by writers such as the French poet Francis Ponge. Career Pollet was born on 20 June 1936 in La Madeleine, Nord, in France. His film career started in 1958, when he did a short film set in Paris called ''Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse''..., in which Pollet filmed the movements of dancers' silhouettes. Pollet built on the images and themes from this first film in many of his later works, by incorporating elements of popular comedies imbued with both burlesque and melancholic elements. In the early 1960s, Pollet began exploring another approach to filmmaking with the film ''Méditerranée (1963 film), Méditerranée'', which he made over two years with Volker Schlöndorff. Pollet tried to create a form of poetic film, using text ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnaldo Jabor
Arnaldo Jabor (12 December 1940 – 15 February 2022) was a Brazilian film director and producer, screenwriter, writer, journalist and political pundit for Brazilian television network Rede Globo. Biography He was of jewish lebanese descent and identified as an atheist. Initially associated with the Cinema Novo movement with his first fiction feature ''Pindorama'' (1970), Jabor went on directing nine films between 1965 and 1990. His 1973 film ''All Nudity Shall Be Punished'' won the Silver Bear at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. In the 1980s, Jabor reached critical and commercial success with his erotically-charged psychological romantic dramas ''I Love You'' (1981) and '' Love Me Forever or Never'' (1986), with the latter gathering a Palm d'Or nomination at the 39th Cannes Film Festival. At the end of his filmmaking career, he considered his satirical comedy ''Tudo Bem'' (1978) as his best film. Jabor died as a result of a stroke in São Paulo on 15 February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brave Warrior
''The Brave Wales'' ( pt, O Bravo Guerreiro) is a 1968 Brazilian drama film directed by Gustavo Dahl. The directorial debut of Dahl, it is one of the most important films of the second phase of Brazil's Cinema Novo movement. It won the Special Award at the 1968 Festival de Brasília, Best Director at the 1968 Festival de Belo Horizonte, and the Best Cinematography at the 1969 Instituto Nacional do Cinema (INC) Awards. Cast *Paulo César Pereio as Miguel Horta *Mário Lago as Augusto *Ítalo Rossi as Conrado Frota *Maria Lúcia Dahl as Clara Horta *Milton Gonçalves as sindicalist * César Ladeira as Virgílio *Paulo Gracindo as Péricles *Joseph Guerreiro as Honório *Angelito Mello as governor *Hugo Carvana as Pelêgo *Carlos Vereza Carlos Alberto Vereza de Almeida (born 4 March 1939) is a Brazilian actor. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. Selected filmography * '' O Bravo Guerreiro'' (1968) * ''Memoirs of Prison'' (1984) * ''O Rei do Gado'' (1996) * '' Corpo Dourado'' (1998) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Júlio Bressane
Júlio Eduardo Bressane de Azevedo (born February 13, 1946) is a Brazilian filmmaker and writer. Biography A representative of the Brazilian '' cinema marginal'', Julio Bressane began making films as an assistant director of Walter Lima Jr., in 1965. In 1967 Bressane debuted as director with ''Face to Face'', being selected for the Festival of Brasilia. In 1970 he founded ''Belair Movies'' in company with fellow filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla. They chose a model of making films and low-cost production and thereby managed to run six feature films in just six months. He came into exile in London in the early 1970s, but returned to Brazil several years later and made one film after another, using slapstick and debauchery as its main features. An acclaimed film of this period was the provocative ''Tabu'', released in 1982. Critics consider Bressane the most scholarly of the Brazilian film directors, and his work is notable for the diversity of its narrative language. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
