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François-Eudes Chanfrault
François-Eudes Chanfrault (2 December 1974 – 11 March 2016), also credited as François Eudes and Francois Eudes, was a French composer and laptop musician. Chanfrault's film music composition work in 2003 included the movie ''Haute Tension'' by filmmaker Alexandre Aja and '' Who Killed Bambi?'' directed by Gilles Marchand. He released his first music album, ''Computer-Assisted Sunset'', on compact disc in 2005 via the label MK2, which received a positive reception from publications including ''Fnac'' and ''Les Inrocks''. The same year, his music was used in the film '' Beyond Hatred'', which was directed by Olivier Meyrou, and received a favorable review in ''Variety''. In 2006, he worked with director Alexandre Aja again, this time on the film '' The Hills Have Eyes''. His work on the music for this film inspired director Jeremy Forni for his 2011 documentary film ''Après la gauche''. Chanfrault's compositions for the 2007 film ''Inside'' directed by Julien Maury and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Bustillo , a Portuguese hypocoristic of the name "Alexandre"
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Alexandre may refer to: * Alexandre (given name) * Alexandre (surname) * Alexandre (film) See also * Alexander * Alexandra (other) * Xano (other) Xano is the name of: * Xano, a Portuguese hypocoristic of the name " Alexandre (other)" * Idálio Alexandre Ferreira (born 1983), Portuguese footballer known as "Xano", currently playing for Sligo Rovers {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Saint Laurent (designer)
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008), better known as Yves Saint Laurent (, , , ) or YSL, was a French fashion designer who, in 1962, founded his eponymous fashion label. He is regarded as being among the foremost fashion designers of the twentieth century. Saint Laurent helped women find confidence by looking both comfortable and elegant at the same time. He is credited with having introduced the " Le Smoking" tuxedo suit for women, and he was known for his use of non-European cultural references and diverse models.Yves Saint Laurent's body put to rest ''Fashion Television''. In 1985, historian Caroline Milbank called Saint Laurent "the most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years", adding that he "c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitch Film
ScreenAnarchy, previously known as Twitch Film or Twitch, is a Canadian English-language website featuring news and reviews of mainly international, independent and cult films. The website was founded in 2004 by Todd Brown. In addition to films, the website covers various film festivals from Sundance, Toronto and Fantasia to Sitges, Cannes and the Berlinale. They partnered with Instinctive Film in 2011 to found Interactor, a crowd funding and viral marketing site, and with Indiegogo in 2013. Brown is a partner at XYZ Films, and '' Variety'' credits Twitch Film as helping to popularize the production company's films. Brad Miska of Bloody Disgusting wrote that Twitch "...quickly established itself as the online world's leading source for international, independent, cult, arthouse and genre film news, review and discussion." He also wrote: "Over the years I have become increasingly impressed by what Todd Brown has done with Twitch Film, he has cornered the market for all edg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Computer Library Center
OCLC, Inc. See also: is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for its membership and the library community at large". It was founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center, then became the Online Computer Library Center as it expanded. In 2017, the name was formally changed to OCLC, Inc. OCLC and thousands of its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog in the world. OCLC is funded mainly by the fees that libraries pay (around $217.8 million annually in total ) for the many different services it offers. OCLC also maintains the Dewey Decimal Classification system. History OCLC began in 1967, as the Ohio College Library Center, through a collaboration of university presidents, vice presidents, and library directors who wanted to create a cooperative, computerized network for libraries in the state of Ohio. The gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WorldCat
WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions (mostly libraries), in many countries, that are current or past members of the OCLC global cooperative. It is operated by OCLC, Inc. Many of the OCLC member libraries collectively maintain WorldCat's database, the world's largest bibliographic database. The database includes other information sources in addition to member library collections. OCLC makes WorldCat itself available free to libraries, but the catalog is the foundation for other subscription OCLC services (such as resource sharing and collection management). WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the general public. , WorldCat contained over 540 million bibliographic records in 483 languages, representing over 3 billion physical and digital library assets, and the WorldCat persons dataset ( mined from WorldCat) included over 100 million people. History OCLC was founded in 1967 under the leade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Express (France)
(, stylized in all caps) is a French weekly news magazine headquartered in Paris. The weekly stands at the political centre-right in the French media landscape, and has a lifestyle supplement, ''L'Express Styles'', and a job supplement, ''Réussir''. Founded in 1953 by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud, ''L'Express'' would be considered France's first American-style news weekly. ''L'Express'' is one of the three major French news weeklies alongside '' Le Nouvel Obs'' and '' Le Point''. History and profile was co-founded in 1953 by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, future president of the Radical Party, and Françoise Giroud, who had earlier edited ''Elle'' and went on to become France's first minister of women's affairs in 1974 and minister of culture in 1976. ''L'Express'' first issue was released on Saturday 16 May 1953, at the corner of the end of the Indochina War The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Albou
Karin Albou is a French-Algerian female director, writer, editor, producer and actress. Early life Karin Albou was born on March 12, 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine to History of the Jews in Algeria, Jewish Algerian immigrant parents. Her mother was only 16 when she was born. In 1999 she moved to Tunisia. A year later, she returned to Paris and started her career as a filmmaker and as a writer. As a child, Albou was always involved with dance and singing. After high school, Karin continued to study dance, but also studied literature and drama, eventually enrolling in a film school in Paris. She studied screenwriting but discovered she wanted to be a director while taking classes at École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle. After graduating, she released her first short film, ''Hush!.'' Career Albou made her feature film debut in 2005 with ''Little Jerusalem (film), Little Jerusalem,'' which debuted in the International Critics' Week section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wedding Song (2008 Film)
''The Wedding Song'' (; ) is a 2008 Franco-Tunisian film. It is the second film of director-writer Karin Albou who also appeared in the film in a small role as the mother of lead character Myriam. Synopsis Myriam (Lizzie Brocheré) and Nour ( Olympe Borval) are two young Tunisian girls who live in the same poor tenement building in Tunis in the early 1940s. Jewish Myriam is allowed to go to school and given certain privileges while Nour, a native Tunisian, is banned by the French colonial authorities from being educated. At sixteen, Nour becomes engaged to one of her cousins, Khaled, though the marriage is delayed until Khaled can find work. Then, in November 1942, German army invades. They spread propaganda to the native population telling them they will help to liberate their country from the French and blaming World War II on the Jews. After Americans bomb Tunisia, the Germans levy a heavy tax on the Jewish community. Unable to pay the tax, Myriam's mother Tita introduces h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabrice Du Welz
Fabrice Du Welz (born 21 October 1972 in Belgium) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. He has directed several films including '' Calvaire'' in 2004, '' Vinyan'' in 2008 and '' Message from the King'' in 2016. Career Fabrice du Welz, born 21 October 1972. Initially he was a student at a Jesuit school. Before he studied at the Dramatic Arts Conservatory of Liège (Belgium) then and then a year at the INSAS, the cinema training institute of Brussels. Starting in 1990, he directed a number of films in Super 8. After his studies, he collaborated on comedy sketches for Canal+, "La Grande Famille", "Nulle Part Ailleurs". In 1999, he directed the short film ''Quand on Est Amoureux C'est Merveilleux'', which won the Grand Prize of the Gerardmer Festival in 2001. In 1999, he directed the short film ''A Wonderful Love'' that won the Grand Prize of the Festival of Gerardmer. Aged 25, in 2004 he directed his first feature film, '' Calvaire'' starring Laurent Lucas and Jackie B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libération
(), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968 in France, May 1968. Initially positioned on the far left of France's political spectrum, the editorial line evolved towards a more centre-left stance at the end of the 1970s, where it remains as of 2012. The publication describes its "DNA" as being "liberal libertarian". It aims to act as a common platform for the diverse tendencies within the French Left, with its "compass" being "the defence of freedoms and of minorities". Edouard Etienne de Rothschild, Edouard de Rothschild's acquisition of a 37% capital interest in 2005, and editor Serge July's campaign for the "yes" vote in the 2005 French European Constitution referendum, referendum establishing a Constitution for Europe the same year, alienated it from a number of its left-wing readers. In its early days, it was noted for its irreverent and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
