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Night Watch
Night Watch or Nightwatch may refer to: Books * ''The Night Watch'', a 1977 memoir by Central Intelligence Agency officer David Atlee Phillips Novels * ''Night Watch'', a 1972 novel by American screenwriter Lucille Fletcher * ''Night Watch'', a 1989 UNACO novel by Alastair MacNeill * ''Night Watch'', a 1990 novel by American writer Robin Wayne Bailey * ''Night Watch'' (Sigurðardóttir novel), a 1992 novel by Icelandic author Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir * ''The Night Watch'', a 1997 novel by American-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author Sean Stewart * ''Night Watch'' (Lukyanenko novel), a 1998 fantasy novel by Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko * ''Nightwatch'', a 1999 novel by American novelist and screenwriter Richard P. Henrick * ''Night Watch'' (''Discworld''), a 2002 fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett * ''The Night Watch'' (Waters novel), a 2006 historical fiction novel by Sarah Waters * ''Night Watch'', a 2012 novel by American author, attorney, and fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Atlee Phillips
David Atlee Phillips (October 31, 1922 – July 7, 1988) was a Central Intelligence Agency officer of 25 years and a recipient of the Career Intelligence Medal. Phillips rose to become the CIA's chief of operations for the Western hemisphere. In 1975 he founded the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), an alumni association comprising intelligence officers from all services. Phillips was repeatedly accused of involvement in the JFK assassination, named by both investigators and Agency family members. The House Select Committee on Assassinations investigated accusations from Cuban exile Antonio Veciana that he Phillips had met Lee Harvey Oswald. In 1980, a book by Donald Freed and Fred Landis was released accusing him of involvement. Phillips sued them for libel. In 1986, they settled for an undisclosed amount and retracted the allegations. Early life and military career Phillips was born in Fort Worth, Texas and attended The College of William and Mary in Williamsbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hole (1960 Film)
''The Hole'' (french: Le Trou) is a 1960 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker. It is an adaptation of José Giovanni's 1957 book ''The Break (novel), The Break''. It was called ''The Night Watch'' when first released in the United States, but is released under its French title today. The film is based on a true event concerning five prison inmates in La Santé Prison in France in 1947. Becker, who died just weeks after shooting had wrapped, cast mostly non-actors for the main roles, including one man (Jean Keraudy) who was actually involved in the 1947 escape attempt, and who introduces the film. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Gaspard, a very polite prisoner, is moved to a cell (block 11, cell 6) designed for, and containing, four inmates due to repair works in his block. The cellmates keep busy making cardboard boxes. Gaspard receives a food parcel from his mistress and has to watch while the guard chops up the sausages and prods the jams, searchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noisia
Noisia (stylised as NOISIΛ; "VISION" turned upside down) was a Dutch electronic music trio consisting of members Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen and Thijs de Vlieger from Groningen, Netherlands. They produce a wide variety of music including drum and bass, dubstep, breakbeat and house. They have released music under several labels including Skrillex's Owsla, deadmau5's mau5trap and Jay-Z's Roc Nation. Noisia previously combined with the group Foreign Beggars to form the supergroup side project ''I Am Legion''. They released their collaborative '' self-titled album'' on 2 September 2013. Noisia also have production credits under the pseudonym Nightwatch, such as for their work with Alexis Jordan, Hadouken!, Wiley and Wretch 32. They produced Hadouken!'s album ''For the Masses'' that charted at number 19 on the UK Albums Chart. Noisia have also produced numerous works for video games, notably a soundtrack for '' DmC: Devil May Cry'', a '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silje Nergaard
Silje Nergaard (born 19 June 1966) is a Norwegian jazz vocalist and songwriter. She is one of the best-selling jazz artists on the official sales chart in Norway. She became known worldwide after the release of the international bestseller ''Tell Me Where You're Going'' featuring Pat Metheny on guitar. Career Nergaard entered the music scene at the age of 16 when she accidentally had a jam session with Jaco Pastorius Band in 1982. Her first hit single in 1990, "Tell Me Where You're Going" featuring guitarist Pat Metheny made it to no. 1 in Japan as well as top 10 in Norway and other countries. Her album ''At First Light'' (2001) is the best-selling Norwegian jazz album ever recorded and entered the official sales chart in Norway at No. 1 in its first week. The album ''A Thousand True Stories'', which Nergaard recorded with the Metropole Orchestra in 2008, was a great success in both Europe and Asia. Nergaard is one of the few Norwegian artists to have been commercially released a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightwatch (album)
''Nightwatch'' is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins, released in 1978. The album is Loggins' highest charting album on the ''Billboard'' 200 to date, reaching number 7. The lead single, " Whenever I Call You 'Friend'" featuring Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks (co-written with Melissa Manchester), reached number 5 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The second and final single, "Easy Driver", peaked at number 60 in early 1979. This album also featured the first released version of the Doobie Brothers' " What a Fool Believes", which Loggins co-wrote with the Doobies' Michael McDonald. Most of the artists on this album represent Loggins' original band from 1977 to 1980. Track listing Side One # "Nightwatch" (music: Kenny Loggins, Max Gronenthal; lyrics: Kenny Loggins, Dan Loggins) − 7:49 # "Easy Driver" (David Plenn, Jerry Riopelle) − 3:33 # "Down 'N' Dirty" (music: Kenny Loggins, Brian Mann; lyrics: Kenny Loggins, Eva Ein) − 4:42 # " Down in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sainthood (album)
''Sainthood'' is the sixth studio album by the Canadian indie pop duo Tegan and Sara, released in the UK on October 26, 2009 and in the US on October 27, by Sire Records. The album was a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize. Background This is the first album by Tegan and Sara to feature a song co-written by the pair, as they usually choose to write separately. However, it was not written while Tegan and Sara stayed together in New Orleans as an attempt to write together. No songs from that time made it on to the album, although one such song lends its title to that of the record. The album title was inspired by a Leonard Cohen lyric. The record also includes co-written songs from Tegan's side project with Hunter Burgan, bassist of AFI (band), AFI. The album is described by the band as such: Tegan and Sara's sixth studio album – ''Sainthood'' – addresses secular themes of devotion, delusion, and exemplary behavior in the pursuit of love and relation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starless And Bible Black
''Starless and Bible Black'' is the sixth studio album by English progressive rock band King Crimson, released in March 1974 by Island Records in the United Kingdom and by Atlantic Records in the United States. It carries over most of the same lineup which appeared on the preceding album, ''Larks' Tongues in Aspic'', with only percussionist Jamie Muir not returning. In order to more faithfully capture the band's live energy, much of the material on this album was tracked in concert and edited together with studio recordings. Background and production King Crimson's previous album, ''Larks' Tongues in Aspic'' (on which they had moved decisively away from a more traditional progressive rock sound drawing on American jazz, and towards the influence of European free improvisation), had been recorded by a quintet lineup of the band, including experimental percussionist Jamie Muir. Early in 1973, Muir abruptly left the band, ostensibly due to an onstage injury, but in fact due to an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Watch (album)
''The Night Watch'' is a live album (2-CD set) by the English rock band King Crimson, recorded in Amsterdam in 1973, and released in 1997. Contents This album contains an important performance in King Crimson's career, being the source of the improvisations "Trio" and "Starless and Bible Black", the Fripp instrumental "Fracture" and the intro to the song "The Night Watch", all of which were included, with some editing, in the 1974 album '' Starless and Bible Black''. Prerecorded excerpts of ''(No Pussyfooting)'' appear at the end of " 21st Century Schizoid Man" similarly to what was included at the beginning of ''USA''. Production The concert was performed on 23 November 1973 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Most of the concert was also broadcast live by the BBC and taped by listeners; bootlegs of the broadcast circulated among fans. The concert began with a version of "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part I)", a recording of which has never been found. Some boot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightwatching
''Nightwatching'' is a 2007 film about the artist Rembrandt and the creation of his 1642 painting ''The Night Watch''. The film is directed by Peter Greenaway and stars Martin Freeman as Rembrandt, with Eva Birthistle as his wife Saskia van Uylenburg, Jodhi May as his lover Geertje Dircx, and Emily Holmes as his other lover Hendrickje Stoffels. Reinier van Brummelen is the director of photography. James Willcock, known for his esoteric sets, is the art director. The film is described by co-producer Jean Labadie as "a return to the Greenaway of ''The Draughtsman's Contract''." It features Greenaway's trademark neoclassical compositions and graphic sexuality. The music is by Włodek Pawlik. The film premiered in competition, at the Venice Film Festival. ''Nightwatching'' is the first feature in Greenaway's film series "Dutch Masters". The following film in the series is ''Goltzius and the Pelican Company''. An associated work by the same director is the documentary film ''R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgardo Cozarinsky
Edgardo Cozarinsky (; born 1939 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a writer and filmmaker. He is best known for his Spanish-language novel ''Vudú urbano''. Life Cozarinsky was born to an Argentine family of Ukrainian-Jewish descent. His name reflects his mother's enthusiasm for the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, while his surname comes from his grandparents, Ukrainian Jewish immigrants who arrived in Argentina from Kiev and Odessa in the late nineteenth century. After an adolescence spent in neighbourhood cinemas showing double bills of old Hollywood films and reading an inordinate amount of fiction in Spanish, English and French (favourite authors – Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, Henry James), he studied literature at Buenos Aires University, wrote for local and Spanish cinephile magazines, and published an early essay on James, which he developed from his university thesis – ''El laberinto de la apariencia'' (''The Labyrinth of Appearance'', 1964), a book which he later su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Watch (2004 Film)
''Night Watch'' (russian: Ночной Дозор, Nochnoy Dozor) is a 2004 Russian urban fantasy supernatural thriller film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and written by Bekmambetov and Laeta Kalogridis. It is loosely based on the 1998 novel ''The Night Watch'' by Sergei Lukyanenko. It was Russia's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film received a limited theatrical release in the United States, where it grossed $1.5 million. It overperformed in the American home video market, generating more than $9.5 million in home video sales and $12 million in home video rentals. It received mixed reviews from critics. A sequel, '' Day Watch'', was released in 2006. Plot Since the beginning of time, there have been "Others" – humans endowed with supernatural abilities – and for just as long, the Others have been divided between the forces of Light and Dark. In Medieval times, the armies o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightwatch (1997 Film)
''Nightwatch'' is a 1997 American horror thriller film directed by Ole Bornedal and starring Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin and Nick Nolte. It was written by Bornedal and Steven Soderbergh. It is a remake of the 1994 Danish film of the same name, which was also directed by Bornedal. Plot Law student Martin Bells is hired as a night watchman at a hospital morgue. A string of gruesome prostitute murders committed by a necrophiliac serial killer quickly point to him as the lead suspect in the investigation carried out by Inspector Thomas Cray. At the same time, Martin slowly discovers clues that point to the real perpetrator. Cast * Ewan McGregor as Martin Bells * Patricia Arquette as Catherine * Josh Brolin as James Gallman * Lauren Graham as Marie * Nick Nolte as Inspector Thomas Cray * Brad Dourif as Duty Doctor * Alix Koromzay as Joyce * Anais Evans as Leanne * Lonny Chapman as Old Watchman * Larry Cedar as Waiter (uncredited) * Sandra Hess as Student (uncred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
