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Axiom Films
Axiom Films is an international film distributor and producer based in London. Founded in 1997 by producer Douglas Cummins and partner Rocio Freire-Bernat, Axiom specialises in independent and world cinema, as well as documentary, filmed opera and dance. Notable films under Axiom ownership include '' Half Nelson'', for which actor Ryan Gosling was nominated for the Best Actor award at the 2007 Academy Awards, ''In a Better World'', which won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Academy Awards, and the majority of Wim Wenders’s feature and documentary films. Axiom is owned by UKI Investments and founders Douglas Cummins and Rocio Freire-Bernat, who also retain a controlling interest and act as managing director and director of acquisitions respectively. UKI is one of the largest privately owned investment companies in the United Kingdom, with interests in real estate, mining, agriculture, financial services and technology across a broad geographical footprint. Axiom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FilmFlex
FilmFlex, is an on-demand movie rental services provider, claiming to be largest outside the US. The service originally launched as a joint venture between Sony Pictures Television and The Walt Disney Company, but it was sold in 2014 to Vubiquity. Virgin Movies Virgin Movies makes up part of Virgin Media's "On Demand" video on demand system. Virgin Movies has been available on Virgin since January 2005 and saw over 11 million films watched on demand in 2009. FilmFlex replaced ''Front Row'' which was a near video on demand pay-per-view service which was initially available on analogue cable from 1997, switching to digital when digital cable services launched from late 1999 onwards. On 13 September 2012, the FilmFlex service was rebranded as Virgin Movies on the cable platform. Virgin Movies provides over 500 movies some of which are available in HD (high definition), which are available at any time for the viewer to watch when they want to. Viewers can search for a movie by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neten Chokling
Neten Chokling Rinpoche (), is also referred as to the 4th Neten Chokling Rinpoche. Life Neten Chokling was born on August 10 1973, into a farming family in Wangdue Phodrang in Bhutan. He was recognized by the 16th Karmapa and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as being the reincarnation of Neten Chokling Pema Gyurme. At the age of four, he was taken to his monastery — the Pema Ewam Chögar Gyurme Ling Monastery — in Bir, India, and enthroned by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in Clement Town at the Ngedön Gatsal Ling monastery. Before arriving in his home monastery, Rinpoche was also enthroned in Rumtek by H.H. 16th Karmapa, who gave him the name Rigdzin Gyurme Dorje. He has received the transmissions of the Kangyur, Nyingma Gyübum, Nyingma Kama, Rinchen Terdzö and Chokling Tersar , as well as many other teachings from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche, one of the sons of the previous Neten Chokling Rinpoche, participated in the education of his father's reincarnation befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Trapero
Pablo Trapero (born 4 October 1971) is an Argentine film producer, editor, and director. at the He is considered to be a big creative force in . Biography Pablo Trapero was born in San Justo, Argentina in 1971. In 1999 he directed his first feature, ''Mundo Grúa'', which won the Critics Prize at Venice. In 2002, he opened his production company, Matanza Cine, that produces films for fellow filmmakers, as well as his own. His second feature, ''El Bonaerense'' (2002) premiered at Cannes, ''Familia Ro ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Contreras (director)
Ernesto Contreras (born 1969 in Veracruz, Veracruz) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Contreras graduated from the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM. His shorts have received several national and international awards, like the Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy for ''Best Short Film'' in 2004, for The non-invited. In 2007, '' Párpados azules'' (''Blue Eyelids''), his first feature-film received the Best Iberoamerican Film and Script awards, as well as the Mezcal Award of the Young Jury in the XXII Guadalajara International Film Festival. He was later nominated for the Camera d’Or of the 60th Cannes Film Festival competing in the official selection of the 46th International Critics' Week. In September of that same year, he received a Special Mention in the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and he also received the National University Distinction Award in Artistic Creation. In 2008, the Sundance Film Festival and the Miami Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lance Hammer
Lance Hammer is an American independent filmmaker. His first film, ''Ballast'', premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival where he won the US Dramatic Directing Award. Ballast was nominated for six Independent Spirit Awards and four Gotham Independent Film Awards. Hammer won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director. Filmography *''Batman Forever'' (1995; computer graphics city designer) *'' Batman & Robin'' (1997; digital design associate) *''Practical Magic'' (1998; visual effects art director) *'' The Man Who Wasn't There'' (2001; assistant art director) *'' Issaquena'' (2002; director, producer, writer) *''Ballast Ballast is material that is used to provide stability to a vehicle or structure. Ballast, other than cargo, may be placed in a vehicle, often a ship or the gondola of a balloon or airship, to provide stability. A compartment within a boat, ship ...'' (2008; director, producer, writer, editor) References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballast (film)
''Ballast'' is a 2008 film directed by Lance Hammer. It competed in the Dramatic category at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography. The film received six nominations in the 2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Plot The film opens with a local man driving to the home of Lawrence and Darius, twin brothers who operate a local store. Upon entering the home, the man discovers Darius dead in his bedroom with Lawrence sitting on the couch unable to speak. Lawrence then walks to a neighboring property and shoots himself in the chest, which he survives. In the hospital, it is revealed that Darius committed suicide. Depressed and unable to return to the store he owns, Lawrence spends his days at the property he shared with his brother. Meanwhile, James, Darius' estranged pubescent son, steals Lawrence's gun and holds him at gunpoint for money to buy crack. After a failing to repay debts to his drug dealer, James and his mother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The American Friend
''The American Friend'' (german: Der amerikanische Freund) is a 1977 neo-noir film by Wim Wenders, adapted from the 1974 novel ''Ripley's Game'' by Patricia Highsmith. The film features Dennis Hopper as career criminal Tom Ripley and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann, a terminally ill picture framer whom Ripley coerces into becoming an assassin. The film uses an unusual "natural" language concept: Zimmermann speaks German with his family and his doctor, but English with Ripley and while visiting Paris. Plot Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper) is a wealthy American living in Hamburg, Germany. He is involved in an artwork forgery scheme, in which he appears at auctions to bid on forged paintings produced by an accomplice to drive up the price. At one of these auctions, he is introduced to Jonathan Zimmermann (Bruno Ganz), a picture framer who is dying of leukemia. Zimmermann refuses to shake Ripley's hand when introduced, coldly saying "I've heard of you" before walking away. A French crimin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Barman
Thomas Andrew Barman (born 1 January 1972), is a Belgian musician and film director. Barman studied at the film school of St.-Lucas in Brussels, but did not finish his studies because he wished to pursue a career in music. In 1989, he began by forming the rock band, dEUS, in Antwerp. Although he had chosen music over his interest in film, his experience aided him in directing his own music videos for dEUS, and he made a short film in 1996 titled ''Turnpike''. He also directed videos for other Belgian musicians including Axelle Red and Hooverphonic among others. He is of Norwegian descent from his father's side. In the summer of 2002 shooting started in Antwerp for his first feature film '' Any Way the Wind Blows'' which was released in Belgian cinemas in the summer of 2003. ''Live'', an album in collaboration with pianist Guy Van Nueten, was released in November 2003. In February 2004, Barman released ''The Body Gave You Everything'', the debut album by Magnus, his dance-orie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Any Way The Wind Blows (film)
''Any Way the Wind Blows'' is a 2003 Belgian film directed by Tom Barman, the lead singer of the Belgian rockband dEUS. The film is set in Antwerp and follows the lives of several characters intertwining with each other. Thanks to its rock music, jazz, pop and electronica music soundtrack, the film has become a cult film. The theme song ''Summer's Here'' by Magnus was a hit at the time. Premise Set in Antwerp on a sunny Friday in the beginning of June, eight people dream of having a different life. There is wind and music, police and paranoia, gossip, fighting and in the evening, a party. Cast Soundtrack # Magnus – "Summer's Here" # Charles Mingus – "Mysterious Blues" # Squarepusher – "My Red Hot Car" # Toy – "Suspicion" # Oliver Nelson – "Elegy For A Duck" # Max Berlin – "Elle Et Moi" # Charlie Parker – "In the Still of the Night" # Young MC – "Got More Rhymes" # The Kids – "There Will Be No Next Time" # Yazoo – "Situation" # Tiefschwarz – "Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice In The Cities
''Alice in the Cities'' (german: Alice in den Städten) is a 1974 German road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It is the first part of Wenders' "Road Movie trilogy", which also includes '' The Wrong Move'' (1975) and ''Kings of the Road'' (1976). The film is shot in black and white by Robby Müller with several long scenes without dialogue. The film's theme foreshadows Wenders' later film ''Paris, Texas''.Allison AndersAlice in the Cities: A Girl’s Story" ''The Criterion Collection'', URL accessed 7 June 2016. Plot West German writer Philip Winter has missed his publisher's deadline for writing an article about the United States. In fact, he hasn't written anything substantial, seemingly hating the country and in the middle of a life crisis – he has only been taking lots of Polaroid pictures of the emptiness (in his mind). Having lost the job and attempting to book a flight from New York City to Munich, he meets a German woman, Lisa van Dam, and her young daughter, Alice, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Brisseau
Jean-Claude Brisseau (; 17 July 1944 – 11 May 2019) was a French filmmaker best known for his 2002 film ''Secret Things'' ("Choses Secrètes") and his 2006 film '' The Exterminating Angels'' ("Les Anges exterminateurs"). His film ''Céline'' was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. At the Cannes Film Festival, he was awarded the France Culture Award in 2003 for ''Secret Things''; in 1988 he was awarded the Special Award for the Youth. In 2002, Brisseau was arrested on charges of sexual harassment after three women came forward accusing him of cajoling them into performing sexual acts on camera by promising them a film role. He was eventually found guilty, fined and given a suspended one-year prison sentence. Brisseau made a semi-autobiographical film in 2006 about this incident, ''Les Anges Exterminateurs''. He was formerly a professor at La Fémis in Paris. Brisseau died in Paris on 11 May 2019 at the age of 74. Filmography *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
