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Four Rooms
''Four Rooms'' is a 1995 American anthology farce black comedy film co-written and co-directed by Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino, loosely based on the adult short fiction writings of Roald Dahl. The story is set in the fictional Hotel Mon Signor in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve. Tim Roth plays Ted, the bellhop and main character in the frame story, whose first night on the job consists of four very different encounters with various hotel guests. The film received mixed reviews from critics who praised the segments directed by Rodriguez and Tarantino, but heavily criticized the segments by Anders and Rockwell. Plot On New Year's Eve, bellhop Sam ( Marc Lawrence) of the Hotel Mon Signor briefs his replacement, Ted (Tim Roth). The film's animated opening credits, inspired by the cartoons of ''The Pink Panther Show'', feature the scat song "Vertigogo" by Combustible Edison. Honeymoon Suite – "The Missing Ingredient" *Written and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Anders
Allison Anders (born November 16, 1954) is an American independent film director whose films include ''Gas Food Lodging'', ''Mi Vida Loca'' and ''Grace of My Heart''. Anders has collaborated with fellow UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate Kurt Voss and has also worked as a television director. Anders' films have been shown at the Cannes International Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival. She has been awarded a MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Genius Grant as well as a Peabody Award. Early life Anders was born in Ashland, Kentucky, Ashland, Kentucky, to mother Alberta "Rachel" Anders (née Steed) and father Robert "Bob" Anders. She has four sisters, one of whom, Luanna Anders, starred in her first film, ''Border Radio.'' Her paternal side has ancestry that traces back to the Southern United States, Southern Hatfield–McCoy feud, Hatfield family and, more distantly, to George Washington's spy, Caleb Brewster, while her maternal side includes anoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |