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Falling Angels (other)
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Falling Angels may refer to: * ''Falling Angels'' (film), a 2003 adaptation of the novel by Barbara Gowdy (see below) * ''Falling Angels'', a 2001 novel by Tracy Chevalier * ''Falling Angels'', a 1989 novel by Barbara Gowdy * ''Falling Angels'', a 1979 novel by K. M. Peyton * ''Falling Angels'', a 1989 ballet choreographed by Jiří Kylián See also * ''Falling Angel'', a 1978 horror novel by William Hjortsberg * Fallen Angels (other) * Fallen angel (other) * Angels Fall (other) '' Angels Fall'' is a 1982 play by Lanford Wilson. Angels Fall may also refer to: * "Fall of the angels", an Islamic-Judeo-Christian religious event resulting from the War in Heaven * ''Angels Fall'' (film), a 2007 American television adaptation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falling Angels (film)
''Falling Angels'' is a 2003 independent film by Scott Smith, based on the novel of the same name by Barbara Gowdy and adapted for the screen by poet and author Esta Spalding. It is the second feature film by Scott Smith, writer, producer and director of ''Rollercoaster'' (1999). Set in the late 1960s, the film is a dark comedy focusing on the coming of age of three sisters and their struggle for independence in a dysfunctional family. It is also a story about the destructive effects of secrecy between parents and children. Plot The first few days of 1970, in an Ontario suburb, and the Field family's fragile domestic peace has come to an end with the death of mother Mary. The story is told in loops and flashbacks over 10 years, opening and closing with the water flowing over Niagara Falls, while the bulk of the film depicts the fall and winter of 1969 leading to Mary's funeral. In the background looms the tragedy of the suspicious death years ago of the first-born child, three-mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Rose Chevalier (born 19 October 1962) is an American-British novelist. She is best known for her second novel, '' Girl with a Pearl Earring'', which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth. Personal background Chevalier was born on 19 October 1962, in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of Douglas and Helen (née Werner) Chevalier. Her father was a photographer who worked with ''The Washington Post'' for more than 30 years. Her mother died in 1970, when Chevalier was eight years old. Chevalier has an older sister, Kim Chevalier, who resides in Soulan, France; and a brother, Michael Chevalier, who lives in Salida, Colorado. , Chevalier lives in London with her husband, Jonathan Drori. She graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1980. After receiving her bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin College in 1984, she moved to England, where she began working in publishing. In 1993, she began studying Creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Gowdy
Barbara Gowdy, CM (born 25 June 1950) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto. Literary career Gowdy's novel '' Falling Angels'' (1989) was made into a film of the same name by director Scott Smith, from an adaptation written by Esta Spalding, in 2002. The comically dark novel focuses on a nuclear family in a 1960s Ontario suburb. The main characters are three sisters who come of age in a house run by their abusive and womanizing father and must constantly find ways to take care of their depressed and alcoholic mother. Gowdy says her inspiration for the book was the idea of a Canadian family living during the Cold War and practicing using their bomb shelter in the back yard. In the novel and movie, the family spend two weeks trapped in the bomb shelter as an "exercise" rather than going on a family trip to Disneyland. Authors such as Alice Munro and Carol Shie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Kylián
Jiří Kylián (born 21 March 1947) is a Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer. Life Jiří Kylián was born in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to his father Václav who was a banker and to his mother Markéta, who was as a young teenager a dancer-child protégée. Initially inspired by the acrobatic performances of the , Kylián decided to pursue professional ballet training at the School of the National Ballet Prague at the age of 9, after having seen a ballet performance for the first time. Kylián was admitted to the Prague conservatory in 1962. Here he encountered one of his mentors, teacher and former dancer Zora Šemberová, "who left a deep mark in Jiří's professional development". At the conservatory Kylián made his first steps as a choreographer with ''Nine Eighth's'', choreographed to jazz music, and ''Quartet'', to music by Béla Bartók. In 1967 Kylián received a scholarship to study at the Royal Ballet School in London. Among other artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falling Angel
''Falling Angel'' is a 1978 horror novel by American writer William Hjortsberg. Written in a hardboiled detective style with supernatural themes, it was adapted into the 1987 film '' Angel Heart''. Plot summary Johnny Favorite, a popular crooner before and during the Second World War, has not been seen or heard of since he was critically wounded during a 1943 Luftwaffe raid on Allied forces in Tunisia. In 1959, private investigator Harry Angel is hired to locate him on behalf of a mysterious client who calls himself Louis Cyphre. During his investigation, Angel finds himself enmeshed in a disturbing occult milieu. Adaptations The book was adapted into a 1987 mystery-thriller film entitled '' Angel Heart'' starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. It was also adapted into an opera by J. Mark Scearce to a libretto by Lucy Thurber. Titled ''Falling Angel'', it premiered at the Brevard Music Center on June 30, 2016, after having initially been commissioned by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fallen Angels (other)
A fallen angel is an angel that has been exiled or banished from Heaven. Fallen Angels may also refer to: Film and television * ''Fallen Angels'' (1948 film), a Greek film by Nikos Tsiforos * Fallen Angels (1985 documentary film) by Gregory Dark * ''Fallen Angels'' (1995 film), a Hong Kong film by Wong Kar-wai * ''Fallen Angels'' (2006 film), a horror film featuring Adrianne Curry * ''Fallen Angels'' (2008 film), a film by Morten Tyldum * ''Fallen Angels'' (American TV series), a 1993–1995 American neo-noir anthology series that was broadcast on Showtime * ''Fallen Angels'' (Australian TV series), a 1997 Australian drama series Literature * ''Fallen Angels'' (play), a 1925 play by Noël Coward * '' Fallen Angels: Six Noir Tales Told for Television'', a 1993 anthology * ''Fallen Angels'' (comics), a fictional team of superhuman teenagers in the Marvel Comics universe Novels * ''Fallen Angels'' (Myers novel), a 1988 novel by Walter Dean Myers * ''Fallen Angels'' (Niven, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fallen Angel (other)
A fallen angel, in Abrahamic religions, is an angel who has been exiled or banished from Heaven. Fallen Angel or The Fallen Angel may also refer to: Film * ''Fallen Angel'' (1945 film), a ''film noir'' by Otto Preminger * ''Fallen Angel'' (1981 film), a TV film starring Dana Hill * ''Fallen Angel'' (1991 film), a TV film starring Michael Chow * ''Fallen Angel'' (1997 film), a film featuring George Buck Flower * ''Fallen Angel'' (2003 film), a TV film starring Gary Sinise and Joely Richardson * ''Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel'', a 2004 documentary film about Gram Parsons * ''The Fallen Angel'' (2010 film), a Japanese film by Genjiro Arato * ''Fallen Angel'' (2010 film), a film starring Erik Contreras Novels * ''The Fallen Angel'' (novel), a 2012 novel by Daniel Silva * '' Angel of Ruin'', a 2001 novel by Kim Wilkins, released in the UK as ''Fallen Angel'' * ''Fallen Angel'', a novel by Howard Fast * ''Fallen Angel'', featuring the fictional detective Kosuke Kindaichi Music A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |