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Daniel Rezende
Daniel Rezende (born May 5, 1975) is a Brazilian film editor and director. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for his work on the 2002 film '' City of God'' and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the same film. ''City of God'' was listed as the 17th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. In a 2003 interview to Channel 4, Rezende has described the editing process of ''City of God'', saying he tried to "provoke differing sensations in each of the film's phases". In addition to the international nominations and awards received for ''City of God'', Rezende's editing has frequently been recognized by regional awards in his native Brazil and in Argentina. Rezende has also given a master editing class at the prestigious international film school EICTV in 2011. In 2017, Rezende made his debut as film director with '' Bingo: The King of the Mornings'' (''Bingo: O Rei das Manhãs''). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, São Paulo is the most populous city proper in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the world's 4th largest city proper by population. Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The city's name honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas around the Greater São Paulo (Campinas, Santos, Jundiaí, Sorocaba and São José dos Campos) created the São Paulo Macrometr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Water (2005 Film)
''Dark Water'' is a 2005 supernatural horror film directed by Walter Salles and written by Rafael Yglesias. It is a remake of the 2002 Japanese film of the same name, which was inspired by the short story " Floating Water" by Koji Suzuki, who also wrote the ''Ring'' trilogy. The film stars Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Pete Postlethwaite, Perla Haney-Jardine, Dougray Scott and Ariel Gade. ''Dark Water'' was released on July 8, 2005, and grossed $44–49 million worldwide. It is a co-production between the United States and Japan. Plot Dahlia battles her ex-husband Kyle for custody of their daughter Cecilia, a five-year-old kindergartener. Kyle wants Cecilia to live closer to his apartment in Jersey City, but Dahlia wants to move to the cheaper Roosevelt Island, where she has found a good school. Dahlia and Cecilia view an apartment in a dilapidated complex on Roosevelt Island, a few blocks from Cecilia's new school. Cecilia sneaks to the roof and finds a Hello K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RoboCop (2014 Film)
''RoboCop'' is a 2014 American superhero film directed by José Padilha and written by Joshua Zetumer, Edward Neumeier, and Michael Miner. It is a remake of the 1987 film of the same name, and the fourth installment of the ''RoboCop'' franchise overall. The film stars Joel Kinnaman as the title character, with Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael K. Williams, Jennifer Ehle, and Jay Baruchel in supporting roles. Set in 2028, the film sees a detective become critically injured and turned into a cyborg police officer whose programming blurs the line between man and machine. Screen Gems first announced a remake in 2005, but it was halted one year later. Darren Aronofsky and David Self were originally assigned to direct and write the film, respectively, for a tentative 2010 release. The film was delayed numerous times, and Padilha signed on in 2011. In March 2012, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (successor company to Orion Pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
360 (film)
''360'' is a 2011 internationally produced drama thriller film directed by Fernando Meirelles and written by Peter Morgan as a loose adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play '' Reigen''. The film stars an ensemble cast of Anthony Hopkins, Ben Foster, Rachel Weisz, Jude Law and other international actors. Following the stories of couples and their sexual encounters, ''360'' was selected to open the 2011 London Film Festival. Magnolia Pictures released the film on video on demand on 29 June 2012 and was released in United States theaters on 3 August 2012. The film reunited Weisz and director Meirelles, who worked together on ''The Constant Gardener''. Plot Vienna Anna accompanies her sister Mirka to a nude photo-shoot for an escort agency, run by Rocco. Mirka chooses the professional name 'Blanca', and Rocco reveals he murdered a wealthy client, splitting his money with the escort who tipped him off. Anna waits downstairs while Mirka performs a “personal favor” for Rocco, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrence Malick
Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker. His films include '' Days of Heaven'' (1978), '' The Thin Red Line'' (1998), for which he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, '' The New World'' (2005) and ''The Tree of Life'' (2011), the latter of which garnered him another Best Director Oscar nomination and the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood wave with the films '' Badlands'' (1973), about a murderous couple on the run in 1950s American Midwest, and ''Days of Heaven'' (1978), which detailed a love triangle between two laborers and a wealthy farmer during the First World War, before a lengthy hiatus. Malick's films have explored themes such as transcendence, nature, and conflicts between reason and instinct. They are typically marked by broad philosophical and spiritual overtones, as well as the use of meditative voice-overs from individu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tree Of Life (film)
''The Tree of Life'' is a 2011 American experimental coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick and featuring a cast of Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler, Jessica Chastain, and Tye Sheridan in his debut feature film role. The film chronicles the origins and meaning of life by way of a middle-aged man's childhood memories of his family living in 1950s Texas, interspersed with imagery of the origins of the known universe and the inception of life on Earth. After several years in development and missing its planned 2009 and 2010 release dates, ''The Tree of Life'' premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Palme d'Or. It ranked number one on review aggregator Metacritic's "Top Ten List of 2011", and made more critics' year-end lists for 2011 than any other film. It appeared in the 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll of the world's top 250 films as well as BBC's poll of the greatest American films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Enemy Within
''The Enemy Within'' may refer to: Books * ''The Enemy Within'' (Kennedy book), by Robert F. Kennedy, 1960 * ''The Enemy Within'' (play), by Brian Friel, 1962 * ''The Enemy Within'', 1986 Volume 3 of L. Ron Hubbard's '' Mission Earth'' series * ''The Enemy Within'' (Milne book), by Seumas Milne, 1994 * ''The Enemy Within'' (novel), by Christie Golden, 1994 * ''The Enemy Within'' (Savage book), by Michael Savage, 2003 * '' Hitman: Enemy Within'', a 2007 novelization of the video game ''Hitman'' * ''The Enemy Within: Terror, Lies, and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr'' by Ezra Levant, 2011 * ''The Enemy Within'' (Rusch novel), by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, 2014 *''Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain'' by Richard Davenport-Hines, 2018 Film * ''The Enemy Within'' (1918 film), a 1918 Australian silent film * ''The Enemy Within'' (1994 film), an HBO thriller starring Forest Whitaker * '' Doctor Who: The Enemy Within'' (1996 film), FOX TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laís Bodanzky
Laís Bodanzky (born 23 September 1969) is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. She is best known for '' Brainstorm'', a film about the situation in mental institutions in Brazil. Over 15 years, she has coordinated the educational Tela Brasil social projects, showing movies in low-income areas of Brazil, fostering the Brazilian film industry and bringing over one million people to movie theaters, most for the first time in their lives. Filmography References External links * 1969 births Living people Mass media people from São Paulo Brazilian film directors {{Brazil-film-director-stub Brazilian people of Austrian-Jewish descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blindness (2008 Film)
''Blindness'' is a 2008 English-language thriller film about a society that suffers an epidemic of blindness. The film is an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by the Portuguese author José Saramago. The film was written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles, starring Julianne Moore as the doctor's wife and Mark Ruffalo as the doctor. Saramago originally refused to sell the rights for a film adaptation, but the producers were able to acquire it with the condition that the film would be set in an unnamed and unrecognizable city. ''Blindness'' premiered as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008, and was released in Canada as part of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2008. Plot The film begins with a young professional suddenly going blind in his car while at an intersection, with his field of vision turning white. A seemingly kind passerby offers to drive him home. However, he then steals the blind man's car. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulo Morelli
Paulo is a Portuguese, Spanish, Swiss, and Italian masculine given name equivalent to English Paul. Notable people with the name include: * Paulo Jr. * Paulo Jr. (footballer) *Paulo Almeida, Brazilian footballer *Paulo André Cren Benini (born 1983), Brazilian football defender *Paulo Angeles (born 1997), Filipino actor, singer and dancer *Paulo Avelino (born 1988), Filipino actor and film actor *Paulo de Carvalho (born 1947), Portuguese singer-songwriter and actor *Paulo Coelho (born 1947), Brazilian lyricist and novelist *Paulo Fernando Craveiro, Brazilian author *Paulo Freire (1921–1997), Brazilian educator and philosopher * Paulo R. Holvorcem, Brazilian amateur astronomer, a prolific discoverer of asteroids *Paulo Jorge (other) * Paulo Kanoa (1802–1885), Governor of Kauaʻi * Paulo P. Kanoa (1832–1895), Governor of Kauaʻi *Paulo Miklos (born 1959), Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, musician and actor *Paulo Antonio de Oliveira (born 1982), Brazilian football str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Men (film)
''City of Men'' ( pt, Cidade dos Homens ) is a 2007 Brazilian drama film directed by Paulo Morelli. The screenplay was written by Elena Soarez based on a story by Morelli and Soarez. It is a film version of the TV series ''Cidade dos Homens'' that ran for four seasons in Brazil, following the international success of the film '' City of God'' (2002), both co-directed by Fernando Meirelles who also co-produces this film. Plot Best friends Acerola ("Ace") and Laranjinha ("Wallace") live in the ''favelas'' of Rio de Janeiro, and have been raised without their fathers. They are turning eighteen as a war between rival drug gangs begins around them. Wallace, with Ace's help, gets to meet his father, Heraldo, in person, a parolee living not very far away, only to witness the police arrest of his father a few days after. Wallace and Ace discover that their fathers were best friends, but Heraldo killed Ace's father in a robbery incident. Each discovers things about his missing father that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Padilha
José Bastos Padilha Neto (; born 1 August 1967) is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the Brazilian critical and financial successes ''Elite Squad'' and '' Elite Squad: The Enemy Within'' and the 2014 remake of '' RoboCop''. He has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for ''Elite Squad'' in 2008. He is also the producer of the Netflix original series '' Narcos'', starring frequent collaborator Wagner Moura, and directed the first two episodes in the series. Early life Padilha was born in Rio de Janeiro. Before making films, he studied business, politics, and economics in Rio de Janeiro. He attended Oxford University and studied literature and international politics. In 1997, Padilha co-founded the production company Zazen Produções with Marcos Prado, whom he met at Oxford. In the years to come, Zazen Produções would become hugely instrumental in his film making affairs. Career Padilha emerged onto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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