|
Animals (1998 Film)
''Animals'' is a 1998 American fantasy romance film written and directed by Michael Di Jiacomo in his directorial debut, and starring Tim Roth, Mili Avital and John Turturro. Cast * Tim Roth as Henry * Mili Avital as Fatima *Rod Steiger as Fontina * Barbara Bain as The Mother * John Turturro as Tuxedo Man *Mickey Rooney Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor. In a career spanning nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the ... as Tollkeeper * Lothaire Bluteau as Young Laurent * Jacques Herlin as Laurent * O-Lan Jones as Essie Production Filming occurred in South Carolina in March 1997. The opening black-and-white 13-minute segment ''The Tollkeeper'' was shot in December 1996 in Utah. Reception The '' Mail & Guardian'' gave the film a positive review: "Di Jiacomo’s screenplay for ''Animals'' blurs the levels of accepted reality an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielle Tana
Gabrielle Tana is a British film producer. Tana and her fellow producers were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for the 2013 film ''Philomena''. Filmography * '' Someone Else's America'' (1995) * ''Animals'' (1998) * ''On the Ropes'' (1999) * ''The Moth'' (2002) * '' The Duchess'' (2008) * ''Coriolanus'' (2011) * '' The Invisible Woman'' (2013) * ''Philomena'' (2013) * ''Run'' (short) (2013) * ''Dancer (Documentary)'' (2016) * '' Mindhorn'' (2016) * ''Ideal Home'' (2018) * ''The White Crow'' (2018) * ''Stan & Ollie'' (2018) * ''My Zoe'' (2018) * '' The Dig'' (2021) * ''Thirteen Lives ''Thirteen Lives'' is a 2022 American biographical survival film based on the Tham Luang cave rescue directed and produced by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by William Nicholson. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edger ...'' (2022) References External links * British film producers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Roth
Timothy Simon Roth (born 14 May 1961) is an English actor and producer. He began acting on films and television series in the 1980s. He was among a group of prominent British actors of the era, the "Brit Pack (actors), Brit Pack". He made his television debut in ''Made in Britain'' (1982), and theatrical film debut in ''The Hit (1984 film), The Hit'' (1984), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Since then, he gained more attention for his roles in films, including ''The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'', (1989), ''Vincent & Theo'' (1990), and ''Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (film), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'' (1990). Roth collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on several films, such as ''Reservoir Dogs'' (1992), ''Pulp Fiction'' (1994), ''Four Rooms'' (1995), and ''The Hateful Eight'' (2015). For his performance in ''Rob Roy (1995 film), Rob Roy'' (1995), Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mili Avital
Mili Avital is an Israeli actress. She built an international career, starting in her native Israel, starring on stage, film and television. She won the Israeli Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1991, moved to New York in 1993 to study theater in English, was discovered by an agent while working in a restaurant, and started acting in Hollywood almost immediately. She has maintained her career in both countries since. Early life Avital was born in Jerusalem, the daughter of graphic designers Noni and Iko Avital. Both her parents are Sephardic Jews; Avital's father was born in Morocco, whereas her mother is Israeli-born and of Turkish-Jewish descent. She was raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, and in Ra'anana, Israel. She attended the Thelma Yellin High School of Arts in Givatayim, Israel. American career In 1993 she arrived in New York City to study acting at the Circle in the Square Theatre School. The following year, discovered by an agent while working as a waitress, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Turturro
John Michael Turturro (; born February 28, 1957) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his contributions to the independent film movement. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler, and Spike Lee. He began his acting career on-screen in the early 1980s, and received early critical recognition with the independent film '' Five Corners'' (1987). Turturro's mainstream breakthrough came with Lee's ''Do the Right Thing'' (1989) and the Coens' '' Miller's Crossing'' (1990) and ''Barton Fink'' (1991), for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His subsequent roles included Herb Stempel in ''Quiz Show'' (1994), Jesus Quintana in both ''The Big Lebowski'' (1998) and ''The Jesus Rolls'' (2020), Pete in ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' (2000), Seymour Simmons in the ''Transformers'' film series (2007–2017) and Carmine Falcone in ''The Batman'' (2022). In 2016, in a lead role, he portrayed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alik Sakharov
Alik Sakharov (born May 17, 1959) is a film and television director. A former Director of Photography, he is an active member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). Career Sakharov entered the US film scene when he began sharing the responsibilities of a lighting cameraman in 1985 in the New York industrial video scene, eventually progressing to shooting music videos, commercials, narrative films. Sakharov served as Director of Photography on numerous feature films, as well as a formidable number of programs for network television and premium cable, most notably on HBO's ''The Sopranos'' (38 episodes), and, as Director/cinematographer, on HBO's ''Rome'' (10 episodes), and '' Game of Thrones'' (8 episodes). He served as Director/co-Executive Producer on the third season of Starz' television series '' Black Sails''. In seasons one and two of Netflix series '' Marco Polo'' Sakharov directed: "Feast"; "The Fourth Step"; "Lost Crane"; "The Fellowship". He has also dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Steiger
Rodney Stephen Steiger (; April 14, 1925July 9, 2002, aged 77) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. Cited as "one of Hollywood's most charismatic and dynamic stars," he is closely associated with the art of method acting, embodying the characters he played, which at times led to clashes with directors and co-stars. He starred as Marlon Brando's mobster brother Charley in '' On the Waterfront'' (1954), the title character Sol Nazerman in ''The Pawnbroker'' (1964) which won him the Silver Bear for Best Actor, and as police chief Bill Gillespie opposite Sidney Poitier in the film '' In the Heat of the Night'' (1967) which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Steiger was born in Westhampton, New York, the son of a vaudevillian. He had a difficult childhood, with an alcoholic mother from whom he ran away at the age of 16. After serving in the South Pacific Theater during World War II, he began his acting career with te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Bain
Barbara Bain (born Mildred Fogel; September 13, 1931) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cinnamon Carter on the action television series '' Mission: Impossible'' (1966–1969), which earned her three Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination. She also starred as Dr. Helena Russell on the British-Italian coproduction science fiction television series '' Space: 1999'' (1975–1977). Bain has also appeared in the films ''Animals with the Tollkeeper'' (1998), ''Panic'' (2000), ''Forget Me Not'' (2009) and ''On the Rocks'' (2020). Early life Bain was born Mildred Fogel in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in sociology. Developing an interest in dance, she moved to New York City, where she studied alongside Martha Graham. Dissatisfied with her career as a dancer, she went into modeling; jobs with ''Vogue'', '' Harper's'', and other publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor. In a career spanning nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era. He was the top box-office attraction from 1939 to 1941, and one of the best-paid actors of that era. At the height of a career marked by declines and comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized mainstream America's self-image. At the peak of his career between ages 15 and 25, he made 43 films, and was one of MGM's most consistently successful actors. A versatile performer, he became a celebrated character actor later in his career. Laurence Olivier once said he considered Rooney "the best there has ever been". Clarence Brown, who directed him in two of his earliest dramatic roles in ''National Velvet'' and '' The Human Comedy'', said Rooney was "the cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothaire Bluteau
Lothaire Bluteau (born 14 April 1957) is a Canadian actor. Biography He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and performs in both French and English. Bluteau has worked in theatre, film and television throughout Canada and internationally. He abandoned medicine for the theatre and was first noticed for his performance as a mentally challenged youth in Yves Simoneau's ''In the Shadow of the Wind (Les Fous de Bassan)''. After receiving great acclaim for the lead in the stage version of ''Being at Home with Claude'', he won a best actor Genie Award for his performance in Denys Arcand's Oscar-nominated '' Jésus de Montréal''. He has since appeared in '' Black Robe'' and Robert Lepage's '' Le Confessionnal'', and his international credits include ''Orlando'' (1992) and ''I Shot Andy Warhol'' (1996). He had a recurring role in the third season of the television series '' 24'' as the character Marcus Alvers. In the fourth season of ''The Tudors'', he played Charles de Marillac, the Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Herlin
Jacques Herlin (17 August 1927 – 7 June 2014) was a French character actor. Born in Paris as Jacques de Jouette, he appeared in an impressive number of films from the early sixties. He was also active on stage and on television. He died in 2014 at the age of 86. Selected filmography * ''Et ta soeur'' (1958) - (uncredited) * ''Le caïd'' (1960) - (uncredited) * '''' (1960) - Le garçon de café * ''The Girl with the Golden Eyes'' (1961) - Un chauffeur de taxi * ''Carillons sans joie'' (1962) - Benjouba * ''Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin'' (1962) * '' |
O-Lan Jones
O-Lan Jones (born May 23, 1950) is an American actress, composer, and theater producer. She played religious fanatic Esmeralda in ''Edward Scissorhands''. Early and personal life Jones was born in Los Angeles, California. Her first name comes from the Chinese heroine of the novel ''The Good Earth'' by Pearl S. Buck. Her father left the family when she was a child. Her mother Scarlett Johnson, a self-described "free spirit", moved their family for a year to a remote Mayan village in the Yucatán jungle when Jones was 15. In 1966 they moved to Greenwich Village, New York City, where Jones began her acting career. It was there that Johnson married comedian and actor Johnny Dark, while Jones was dating Dark's best friend, playwright Sam Shepard. Shepard wrote the role of "Oolan" for Jones in his 1967 play ''Forensic & The Navigators''. In 1969, Jones and Shepard were married. She went on to star in a number of his plays, including '' Suicide in B♭'' and '' Angel City''. Jones gav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mail & Guardian
The ''Mail & Guardian'' is a South African weekly newspaper and website, published by M&G Media in Johannesburg, South Africa. It focuses on political analysis, investigative reporting, Southern African news, local arts, music and popular culture. It is considered a newspaper of record for South Africa. History The publication began as the ''Weekly Mail'', an alternative newspaper by a group of journalists in 1985 after the closure of two leading liberal newspapers, ''The Rand Daily Mail'' and ''Sunday Express''. ''Weekly Mail'' was one of the first newspapers to use Apple Mac desktop publishing. The ''Weekly Mail'' criticised the government and its apartheid policies, which led to the banning of the paper in 1988 by then State President P. W. Botha. The paper was renamed the ''Weekly Mail & Guardian'' from 30 July 1993. The London-based Guardian Media Group (GMG), the publisher of ''The Guardian'', became the majority shareholder of the print edition in 1995, and the name was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
