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Carole Weyers
Carole Weyers (born November 30, 1984) is a Belgian actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Finding Focus (2011) and Winterlong (2016) and for portraying Elodie in the WGN America series MANH(A)TTAN. Early life Carole Weyers was born in Anderlecht, Belgium. She graduated from the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium) in 2006, then from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (London, UK) in 2007. In 2010, she moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue her acting career and study at the Howard Fine Acting Studio. Career Weyers appeared in several American series : '' Manh(A)ttan'', '' NCIS'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', ''Modern Family'', '' The Missing File''. In theatre, Weyers played modern and classic plays : ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'' by William Shakespeare, '' L'Illusion Comique'' by Pierre Corneille, ''Rhinoceros'' by Eugène Ionesco, ''All My Sons'' by Arthur Miller... In 2014, she was nominated for Best Featured Actress in a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anderlecht
Anderlecht (, ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and Saint-Gilles, as well as the Flemish municipalities of Dilbeek and Sint-Pieters-Leeuw. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch). There are several historically and architecturally distinct districts within Anderlecht. , the municipality had a population of around 120,887. The total area is , which gives a population density of . Its upper area is greener and less densely populated. History Origins and medieval times The first traces of human activity on the right bank of the Senne date from the Stone Age and Bronze Age. The remnants of a Roman villa and of a Frankish necropolis were also found on the territory of Anderlecht. The first mention of the name ''Anderlecht'', however, dates only from 1047 under the forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are '' All My Sons'' (1947), ''Death of a Salesman'' (1949), ''The Crucible'' (1953), and '' A View from the Bridge'' (1955). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on '' The Misfits'' (1961). The drama ''Death of a Salesman'' is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century. Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, '50s and early '60s. During this time, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and married Marilyn Monroe. In 1980, he received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. He received the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2001, the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003, and the Dorothy and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth And Blood
''Earth and Blood'' (french: La Terre et le Sang) is a 2020 French action thriller film directed by Julien Leclercq and starring Sami Bouajila, Eriq Ebouaney and Samy Seghir. The film is about a violent showdown at an isolated sawmill that occurs when a young employee hides eight kilos of a gang's stolen cocaine at the mill. When the heavily armed gang members come to recover their drugs, the sawmill owner stages a last stand to protect his teenage daughter. It was released on April 18, 2020, by Netflix. Plot During a heist at a police station's evidence room, two out of four criminals end up dead. The remaining two escape with eight kilos of cocaine. Meanwhile, sawmill owner Saïd goes through a CT scan and finds out he has carcinoma and not long to live. He visits his sister-in-law and tells her about his plans to sell his sawmill that was owned previously by her father, and assures her she'll get her share. One of his employees, a young man named Yanis who is out on parole, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Volckman
Christian Volckman (b. 1971) is a French film director, author, and painter. He is a graduate of Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques in Paris. Career He is mainly known for his motion capture animation feature film ''Renaissance'', a 2006 dystopian film noir. The film features the English voices of Daniel Craig, Romola Garai, Jonathan Pryce, and Ian Holm. It was awarded the Cristal for Best Feature at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. in 2006, as well as the Best Feature Film Award at the 5th Festival of European Animated Feature Films and TV Specials in 2007. The film, distributed by Miramax, received mixed reviews. His other film work includes music videos and two shorts, ''Le cobaye'', which received a Prix du Jury at Annecy in 1995, and Maaz', which has been shown at nearly 100 festivals and won 30 prizes, including two for sound. Volckman has directed several music videos, includingMiss Chang and Once upon a Time for the group Chinese Man.Paris sera toujours ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Room (2019 Film)
''The Room'' is a 2019 thriller film directed by Christian Volckman and starring Olga Kurylenko, Kevin Janssens, Joshua Wilson, John Flanders and Francis Chapman. The film follows a young couple who discover a way to fulfill all of their material desires, but then go too far by using it to create a child. It premiered on 15 April 2019 at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. Plot Matt and Kate, a young couple, move to Upstate New York, having purchased a home. While renovating, they discover a large hidden room and that a murder occurred on the property decades before. That evening, Matt learns that the killer is a "John Doe" and that he is still alive and in a psychiatric hospital. He also inadvertently discovers that the Room can grant any wish. He tells Kate and both quit their jobs with the Room providing everything they desire. Kate falls into depression when she realizes that nothing they wish for has any real value. To cheer her up, Matt tells her he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Boone (director)
Josh Boone (born April 5, 1979) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the romantic drama ''The Fault in Our Stars (film), The Fault in Our Stars'' (2014), based on the The Fault in Our Stars, novel of the same name. Boone also wrote and directed the romantic comedy ''Stuck in Love'' (2012) and the superhero horror film ''The New Mutants (film), The New Mutants'' (2020). In 2020, he directed the first and last episode of the miniseries ''The Stand (2020 miniseries), The Stand''. Career Boone made his film debut as writer and director of the romantic comedy-drama film ''Stuck in Love'', which premiered in September 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival. It began a limited theatrical release in the United States in July 2013. The film earned mixed to positive reviews from critics. In February 2013, Boone was hired to direct the romantic comedy-drama film ''The Fault in Our Stars (film), The Fault in Our Stars'', based on John Green (author), John Green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – )Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new light on Anne Frank's last months". AnneFrank.org, 31 March 2015 was a Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented life in hiding under Nazi persecution. She is a celebrated diarist who described everyday life from her family hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. One of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' (originally in Dutch, ; English: ''The Secret Annex''), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films. Anne was born in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1934, when she was four and a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fault In Our Stars (film)
''The Fault in Our Stars'' is a 2014 American coming-of-age romance film directed by Josh Boone, based on John Green's 2012 novel of the same name. The film stars Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, with Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Nat Wolff, and Willem Dafoe in supporting roles. Woodley plays a sixteen-year-old cancer patient forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she meets and subsequently falls in love with another cancer patient, played by Elgort. Development began in January 2012 when Fox 2000, a division of 20th Century Fox, optioned the rights to adapt the novel into a feature film. Principal photography began on August 26, 2013, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a few additional days in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, before concluding on October 16, 2013. Pittsburgh doubled for all of the scenes set in Indianapolis, Indiana, the novel's setting, as well as for some interior scenes set in Amsterdam. ''The Fault in Our Stars'' had its world premiere at Seattle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Invader (2011 Film)
''The Invader'' (french: L'envahisseur) is a 2011 Belgian drama film written and directed by Nicolas Provost. Dieudonné Kabongo received a Magritte Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The film was shown at several international film festivals in 2011, including the Toronto International Film Festival; was nominated for several awards, including Best Production Design at the 2013 Magritte Award; and winner of the Best Original Music and Sound Design at the 2011 Flanders International Film Festival Ghent. Plot After Amadou, an illegal African immigrant, arrives in Brussels seeking a better life, his illusions of Europe are quickly shattered. He is exploited and consumed with the drudgery of daily existence, until he meets Agnès, a beautiful business woman, onto whom he projects his hopes and desires. His charisma and persistence seduces Agnès, who quickly wearies of his emotional burdens. When she severs all ties with Amadou, he sinks into destruction and violence. Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CollabFeature
CollabFeature is a group of independent filmmakers from all over the world who have come together to create feature films made up of multiple individual stories. Each filmmaker writes and directs their own small segment of a film in their own country. The group's first feature, ''The Owner'', began shooting in spring of 2010 and was completed in 2012.http://www.freep.com/article/20101119/ENT01/11190325/Backpack-stars-in-local-film#ixzz16XPY7HC3 The project was created by Detroit-based filmmaker Marty Shea and web developer Ian Bonner. ''The Owner'' CollabFeature's first multi-director project was a feature film titled, ''The Owner''. The story follows a lost backpack that travels the globe on a journey to find its owner, a man named "MacGuffin." As the story progresses, the viewer learn details about the mysterious man to whom the bag belongs. The film brings together a variety of cultures, languages and film styles into a singular narrative plot. The feature consists of 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Wharton
Darren Leigh Wharton (born 25 December 1961) is a British keyboardist, singer and songwriter. He has fronted his own band, Dare, since 1985, but first came to attention as a member of Thin Lizzy. His son, Paris, is also a musician. Biography Wharton was born in Failsworth, Lancashire in 1961. He was playing keyboards for a band in London clubs when he auditioned for Thin Lizzy. Thin Lizzy had not had a permanent keyboard player since their early gigs, but following the final departure of Gary Moore from the band on 4 July 1979, Midge Ure (who had prior plans to join Ultravox) stepped in to help Thin Lizzy complete their touring commitments. Before a tour of Japan beginning in September 1979, Dave Flett joined the band to enable Ure to switch to playing keyboards where necessary. Ure was still acting as a temporary keyboard player at gigs during early 1980, but when he left to be with Ultravox full-time, Lynott decided to look for a permanent keyboard player. Wharton got the job, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Breath (2009 Film)
Last Breath or The Last Breath may refer to: Books *''Last Breath'', novel by Tunku Halim *''Last Breath'', Morganville Vampires novel by Rachel Caine 2011 *''The Last Breath'', Paddy Meehan novel by Denise Mina 2012 * "Last Breath" (short story), by Joe Hill 2014 Film * ''The Last Breath'' (1999 film), a Canadian drama film originally titled ''Le Dernier souffle'' * ''The Last Breath'', also known as '' Epitaph'', a 2007 South Korean film * ''Saansein: The Last Breath'' 2016 film starring Rajneesh Duggal * ''Last Breath'' (2019 film), a documentary * ''Last Breat'' (upcoming film), a British survival thriller film Music * "Last Breath" (Sevendust song) * "Last Breath" (Liamoo song), 2018 *"Last Breath", song by Attack Attack! from ''Attack Attack!'' (album) *"Last Breath", song by Chelsea Grin from My Damnation *"Last Breath", song by Hatebreed from '' Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire'', 1997 *"Last Breath", a 2010 song by Plain White T's from ''Wonders of the Younger '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
