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Alexandra Lamy
Alexandra Lamy () (born 14 October 1971) is a French actress. Early life Lamy was born in Villecresnes, near Paris, but grew up in Languedoc-Roussillon. When she was six months old, her parents, Michel and Michèle, moved the family to La Grande-Motte in Southern France. A few years later, her family moved again to Alès, where her father ran a fabric shop. She fell in love with theatre while performing in school plays. She later moved to Paris to begin her career, where she worked to lose her southern French accent. Her sister, Audrey Lamy, is also an actress and currently stars in the French sitcom ''Scènes de ménage''. Their cousin is the politician François Lamy. Career From 1999 to 2003, she starred in ''Un gars, une fille''. * TV commercial for Eurofil * TV commercial for Lustucru (2004) * Play "Théorbe" (Christian Siméon, 2005) * Play "Cinglée" (Tom Topor) (1988) * Play "La poule aux yeux d'or" (1994) * (January 20, 2006 - June 17, 2006) Stage play "Deux sur la b ...
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Deauville American Film Festival
The Deauville American Film Festival (french: Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville, link=no) is a yearly film festival devoted to American cinema, which has taken place since 1975 in Deauville, France. It was established by Lionel Chouchan, André Halimi, and then Mayor of Deauville Michel d'Ornano, with support from the Groupe Lucien Barrière in providing a luxurious setting for the Festival. Although not competitive at its origin, the festival began to award prizes for feature films in 1995 and short films in 1998. Awards Grand Prix This award was named ''Grand Prix spécial Deauville'' from 1995 to 2007 and ''Grand Prix du cinéma indépendant américain'' in 1998 and 1999. Prix du Jury The award was called ''Prix du jury spécial Deauville'' (Special Deauville Jury Award) from 1995 through 1997 and ''Prix spécial du jury du cinéma indépendant américain'' (Special Jury Award of American Independent Film) in 1998 and 1999. *1995 (tied): **'' Denise Calls U ...
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Two For The Seesaw (play)
''Two for the Seesaw'' is a three-act, two-person play written William Gibson. The play opened on Broadway on January 16, 1958, at the Booth Theatre in New York and ran for 750 performances, closing on October 31, 1959. With the opening cast of Henry Fonda (Jerry Ryan) and Anne Bancroft (Gittel Mosca), the play was directed by Arthur Penn and produced by Fred Coe. A surprise hit, ''Two for the Seesaw'' earned Anne Bancroft, making her Broadway debut, her first Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. The play was adapted into a film of the same name in 1962, directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine, and was later adapted into the musical ''Seesaw'' in 1973. The play marked the Broadway debut of writer William Gibson, who would later collaborate with Penn and Coe on the play and film adaptations of ''The Miracle Worker'', which also featured Bancroft in the lead role. Published in 1959, a year after ''Two for the Seesaw'' opened on Broadw ...
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Hugo Gélin
Hugo Gélin (born 4 May 1980) is a French film director, producer and screenwriter.Vincent JuléHugo Gélin, l’humour en héritage ''Le Parisien'', 30.10.2012 Life and career Hugo Gélin was born to Xavier Gélin on May 4, 1980. His grandparents are Daniel Gélin and Danièle Delorme.Hugo Gélin, le cinéma en héritage
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Ruben Alves
Ruben Alves (born 9 January 1980) is a French-Portuguese actor, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for '' The Gilded Cage'' which he wrote and directed. Biography Alves was born the son of Portuguese guest workers in Paris. At 20, he became a full-time actor and initially played minor roles in French television productions and in some short films.Interview mit Regisseur Ruben Alves, 24 December 2013
on the Website ''The Adelaide Review'', retrieved 18 October 2015.
His directorial debut, apart from a short film in 2002 'À l'abri des regards indiscrets', was in 2013 with the immigrant comedy ''La cage dorée''. The film was inspired by his parents' biography, and Alves has a small guest role in the film as 'Miguel'. The movie has been a great ...
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Guy A
Guy or GUY may refer to: Personal names * Guy (given name) * Guy (surname) * That Guy (...), the New Zealand street performer Leigh Hart Places * Guy, Alberta, a Canadian hamlet * Guy, Arkansas, US, a city * Guy, Indiana, US, an unincorporated community * Guy, Kentucky, US, an unincorporated community * Guy, Texas, US, an unincorporated community * Guy Street, Montreal, Canada Art and entertainment Films * ''Guy'' (1997 film) (American, starring Vincent D'Onofrio) * ''Guy'' (2018 film) (French, starring Alex Lutz) * '' That Guy... Who Was in That Thing'' (2012), a documentary film * Free Guy (2021), an action comedy film Music * ''Guy'' (album), debut studio album of Guy (band) 1988 * Guy (band), an American R&B group * "G.U.Y.", a 2014 song by Lady Gaga from the album ''Artpop'' Transport * Guy (sailing), rope to control a spinnaker on a sailboat * Air Guyane Express, ICAO code GUY * Guy Motors, a former British bus and truck builder * ''Guy'' (ship, 1933), se ...
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Michel Hazanavicius
Michel Hazanavicius ( lt, Hazanavičius; born 29 March 1967) is a French film director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. He is best known for his 2011 film, '' The Artist'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Awards. It also won him the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed spy film parodies '' OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies'' (2006) and '' OSS 117: Lost in Rio'' (2009). Life and career Hazanavicius was born in Paris. His family is Jewish, and originally from Lithuania. His grandparents were from both Poland and Lithuania and settled in France in the 1920s. Before directing films, Hazanavicius worked in television, beginning with the Canal+ channel, where he started as a director in 1988.Michel Hazanavicius.
''Allocine''.
He began directing commercials for c ...
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Thomas Vinterberg
Thomas Vinterberg (; born 19 May 1969) is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production. He is best known for the films ''The Celebration'' (1998), '' Submarino'' (2010), '' The Hunt'' (2012), '' Far from the Madding Crowd'' (2015), and '' Another Round'' (2020). For ''Another Round'', he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, the former became the first Danish filmmaker nominated for Best Director. Life and career Vinterberg was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark. In 1993, he graduated from the National Film School of Denmark with ' (''Sidste omgang''), which won the jury and producers' awards at the Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen München, and First Prize at Tel Aviv. The same year, Vinterberg made his first TV drama for DR TV and his short fiction film ', produced by at Nimb ...
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Festen
''The Celebration'' ( da, Festen) is a 1998 Danish dark comedy-drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and produced by Nimbus Film. The film tells the story of a family gathering to celebrate their father's 60th birthday, juggling subjects of death, child abuse, trauma, and family. Vinterberg was inspired to write it with Mogens Rukov, based on a hoax broadcast by a Danish radio station.It was the first Dogme 95 film, an artistic movement created by Danish directors Vinterberg and Lars von Trier. The movement preferred simple and analog production values to allow for the highlighting of plot and performance. ''Festen'' was selected as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. In addition, it won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival in 1998. Plot Helge (Henning Moritzen), a respected businessman and family patriarch, is celebrating his 60th birthday at the family-run hotel. Gathered together amongst a lar ...
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Danièle Thompson
Danièle Thompson (born 3 January 1942) is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter. Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman. She has written screenplays for a number of highly successful films including ''Cousin, cousine'', ''La Boum'', ''Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre'', '' La Reine Margot'' and ''Jet Lag'', which she also directed. She was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for ''Cousin, cousine''. Her 2006 film, ''Fauteuils d'orchestre'' was France's entrant for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. She is half Jewish from her father, and was on the 1986 Cannes Film Festival jury. In 2009, Thompson signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse case In 2010, she joined Isabelle Adjani, Paul Auster, Isabelle Huppert, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Mathilde Seigner, ...
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Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron ( ; May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker. She is best known for her romantic comedy films and was nominated three times for the Writers Guild of America Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for ''Silkwood'' (1983), '' When Harry Met Sally...'' (1989), and ''Sleepless in Seattle'' (1993). She won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for ''When Harry Met Sally...'', which the Writers Guild of America ranked as the 40th greatest screenplay of all time. Ephron's first produced play, '' Imaginary Friends'' (2002), was honored as one of the ten best plays of the 2002–03 New York theatre season. She also co-authored the Drama Desk Award–winning theatrical production ''Love, Loss, and What I Wore''. In 2013, Ephron received a posthumous Tony Award nomination for Best Play for '' Lucky Guy''. Ephron also directed films, usually from her own screenplays, including ''Sleepless in Seattle'' (1993) ...
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Delia Ephron
Delia Ephron ( ; born July 12, 1944) is an American bestselling author, screenwriter, and playwright. Life and career Ephron was born in New York City, the second eldest of four daughters of screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron. Her movies include ''You've Got Mail'', ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'', ''Hanging Up'' (based on her novel), and ''Michael''. She has written novels for adults (''Hanging Up,'' ''The Lion Is In'' and the recent ''Siracusa'') and teenagers (''Frannie in Pieces'' and ''The Girl with the Mermaid Hair''), books of humor (''How to Eat Like a Child''), and essays. Her family is Jewish. Her journalism has appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''Oprah Magazine'', ''Vogue'', ''More'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', and ''The Huffington Post''. In 2011, she won an Athena Film Festival award for creativity and panache as a screenwriter. Ephron collaborated with her elder sister, Nora, on ''Love, Loss, and What I Wore'', which ran for over two and a half ...
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Love, Loss, And What I Wore
''Love, Loss, and What I Wore'' is a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman. It is organized as a series of monologues and uses a rotating cast of five principal women. The subject matter of the monologues includes women's relationships and wardrobes and at times the interaction of the two, using the female wardrobe as a time capsule of a woman's life. The show was initially presented as a part of the 2008 summer series at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, and then as a benefit series at the DR2 Theatre in New York in early 2009. Later the same year, the show was produced Off-Broadway as an ongoing commercial theatrical production at the Westside Theatre in New York, where it became the second-longest running show in the theatre's history. The production and its cast received positive critical attention. The production won the 2010 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience as well as the 2010 Broadway.com Audien ...
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