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Gabriella Cristiani
Gabriella Cristiani (born 1949) is an Italian film editor with about twenty feature film credits. She has had a notable collaboration with director Bernardo Bertolucci. Early in her career she assisted editor Franco Arcalli on two of Bertolucci's films, ''Last Tango in Paris'' (1972) and ''1900'' (1976). Arcalli was the "supervising editor" on a 1977 film, ''Berlinguer, I Love You'', that was one of Cristiani's first feature editing credits; the film was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci - Bernardo's brother. Arcalli was to have edited Bernardo Bertolucci's next film, '' La Luna'' (1979), but he died during production; Cristiani, who was assisting, then took over as editor. Cristiani edited Bernardo Bertolucci's 1982 film ''Tragedy of a Ridulous Man''. She won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for ''The Last Emperor'' (1987), which won a total of 9 Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Director (for Bertolucci)) as well as numerous other honors. Cristiani's work on Bertolucci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Film Director And Editor Collaborations
This list of film director and editor collaborations includes longstanding, notable partnerships of film director, directors and film editor, editors. The list's importance is that directors and editors typically work together on the film editing, editing of a film, which is the ultimate step of filmmaking during which the dozens or hundreds of hours of raw film footage are pruned and woven into the final film. Film critic Walter Kerr has argued that editing is comparable in its importance to directing itself, and should be credited as such; he wrote "At the very least, it seems to me, the editor's credit should be rescued from its place near the bottom of the list, an area we may call Oblivion. And I don't mean the editor should be given a mere half-a-leg up, nudged one inch higher in the Pantheon of creative people who do things. The best he ever gets now is fourth or fifth spot, somewhere after the principal photographer and two or three screenwriters. Second position is where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Night With The King
''One Night with the King'' is a 2006 American religious epic film produced by Matt Crouch and Laurie Crouch of Gener8Xion Entertainment, directed by Michael O. Sajbel, and starring Peter O'Toole, Tiffany Dupont, John Rhys-Davies and Luke Goss. The screenplay by Stephan Blinn is based on Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen's novel '' Hadassah: One Night with the King''. ''One Night with the King'' is a dramatization of the Biblical story of Esther, who risked her life by approaching the King of Persia to request that he save the Jewish people. Despite being a critical and commercial failure, it received a 2007 CAMIE Award for Goss' portrayal of King Xerxes. Plot The film is set in Susa, Persia (modern-day Iran) King Xerxes holds a great feast for all the people to attend. An orphaned Jewish woman, Hadassah, longs to go to Jerusalem to see the Holy Land and prepares to leave with the caravan along with her friend, Jesse. They stop by the king's feast before he goes marching t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Peploe
Clare Peploe (20 October 1941 – 23 June 2021) was a British-Italian screenwriter, producer, and film director. Biography Peploe was born in Tanzania but grew up in the United Kingdom and Italy. William Peploe, her father, worked as a British civil servant before becoming an art dealer and then director of London's Lefevre Gallery. Clotilde Brewster Peploe, her mother, was an artist. Her younger brother is writer-director Mark Peploe. Peploe studied at the Sorbonne and the University of Perugia. Peploe debuted as a director with the short comic film ''Couples and Robbers'' (1981), produced by Christine Oestreicher, which received both Oscar and BAFTA nominations. Richard Roud's review in the ''Guardian Weekly'' praised her casting and direction of the actors; he hoped funding would become available for a feature film, but throughout her career she struggled to obtain funding, eventually realizing that being married to a famous filmmaker, Bernardo Bertolucci, was more of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Season (film)
''High Season'' is a 1987 British romantic comedy film directed by Clare Peploe. It is a comedy about tourism, set on the Greek island of Rhodes; vacationers from rich countries taking over the most spectacular scenery at the most desirable times of the year. There are nine principal characters, a mixture of English, Greek, and a Greek-American. It was written by director Clare Peploe with her brother Mark. Plot Katherine (Jacqueline Bisset) is an English photographer who, with her husband Patrick (James Fox), came to live at a coastal town on Rhodes before the tourists discovered it. Their thirteen-year-old daughter Chloe (Ruby Baker) grew up there, and even though Kath and Patrick have separated, they have both stayed on. He supports himself through his sculpture pieces, which Kath despises, and she, by her photography books featuring antiquities and peasant life, which he finds fuddy-duddy. Kath needs money; her latest book is not selling. She will be forced to give up her hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962)—as well as the English-language film ''Blow-up'' (1966), all considered masterpieces of world cinema. His films have been described as "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" that feature elusive plots, striking visual composition, and a preoccupation with modern landscapes. His work substantially influenced subsequent art cinema. Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, being the only director to have won the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion, the Golden Bear and the Golden Leopard. Early life Antonioni was born into a prosperous family of landowners in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, in northern Italy. He was the son of Elisabetta (née Roncagli) and Ismaele Antonioni. The director explained to Italian film cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumbha Mela (film)
Kumbh Mela or Kumbha Mela () is a major pilgrimage and festival in Hinduism. It is celebrated in a cycle of approximately 12 years, to celebrate every revolution Brihaspati (Jupiter) completes, at four river-bank pilgrimage sites: Allahabad (Ganges-Yamuna-Sarasvati rivers confluence), Haridwar (Ganges), Nashik (Godavari), and Ujjain (Shipra). The festival is marked by a ritual dip in the waters, but it is also a celebration of community commerce with numerous fairs, education, religious discourses by saints, mass gatherings of monks, and entertainment., Quote: "The special power of the Kumbha Mela is often said to be due in part to the presence of large numbers of Hindu monks, and many pilgrims seek the darsan (Skt., darsana; auspicious mutual sight) of these holy men. Others listen to religious discourses, participate in devotional singing, engage brahman priests for personal rituals, organise mass feedings of monks or the poor, or merely enjoy the spectacle. Amid this diversit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liliana Cavani
Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933, Carpi, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She belongs to a generation of Italian filmmakers from Emilia-Romagna that came into prominence in the 1970s, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Marco Bellocchio. Cavani became internationally known after the success of her 1974 feature film ''Il portiere di notte'' (''The Night Porter''). Her films have historical concerns.Brunetta, ''The History of Italian Cinema'', p. 227 In addition to feature films and documentaries, she has also directed opera. Early life Cavani was born in Carpi, near Modena in the regione of Emilia-Romagna.Marrone, ''The Gaze and the Labyrinth'', p. 3 Cavani's father, an architect from Mantua, belonged to a conservative bourgeois family of landowners. "My father was an architect interested in urban development. He took me to museums. He had worked in urban planning in Baghdad in 1956, when Iraq was still under British control. My mother was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco (1989 Film)
''Francesco'' is a 1989 historical drama film about the life of St. Francis of Assisi. It is directed and co-written by Liliana Cavani, and stars Mickey Rourke as Francis and Helena Bonham Carter as the future St. Claire. The screenplay is adapted from Hermann Hesse’s 1904 book ''Francis of Assisi''. Vangelis composed the musical score. The film won three awards and was nominated for a fourth. Danilo Donati won the 1989 David di Donatello Award for Best Production Design, and the 1989 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon also for Best Production Design. Fabio Bussotti won the Syndicate's Best Supporting Actor Award. Director Liliana Cavani was nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. The film is the second of three works by Cavani about St. Francis, preceded by a 1966 telefilm starring Lou Castel in the title role, and a 2014 production with Mateusz Kościukiewicz. Plot Through flashbacks, the film charts Francis's evolution f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Predrag Antonijević
Predrag "Gaga" Antonijević ( sr-Cyrl, Предраг Гага Антонијевић; born 7 February 1959) is a Serbian film director and screenwriter. In 2021, he was awarded the Order of Karađorđe's Star The Order of Karađorđe's Star ( sr, Orden Karađorđeve zvezde, italics=yes, sr-Cyrl, Орден Карађорђеве звезде) is Serbia's highest civilian and military decoration. It originated in the Kingdom of Serbia, and was initial .... Filmography ;TV works References External links * * 1959 births Living people People from Niš Serbian film directors {{Serbia-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savior (film)
''Savior'' is a 1998 war film starring Dennis Quaid, Stellan Skarsgård, Nastassja Kinski, and Nataša Ninković. It is about a U.S. mercenary escorting a Bosnian Serb woman and her newborn child to a United Nations safe zone during the Bosnian War. Plot Joshua Rose (Dennis Quaid), a U.S. Department of State official on embassy duty in Paris, sees his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and son killed in a bombing by suspected Islamic terrorists. Immediately after the transfer ceremony he storms into a nearby mosque and shoots several worshipers. His friend Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) is forced to shoot one of the survivors when the man tries to kill Rose, and in order to avoid arrest they join the French Foreign Legion, with Joshua taking the name Guy. Years later, Joshua, now going by the name of "Guy", and Peter are fighting for the Bosnian Serbs in the Bosnian War. They are stationed on a bridge separating them and the Bosniaks in a town. Guy mans a sniper post overlooking the bridge, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladies Room (1999 Film) ''
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Ladies Room may refer to: Place * Women's restroom Art, entertainment, and media Film *''Ladies Room'' (1999), 199 film with Nanette Workman *''Ladies Room'', ''The Ladies Room'', and ''Ladiesroom'', the titles of numerous films listed in IMDb Music *"Ladies Room", song by Kiss on ''Rock and Roll Over'' (1976) *Ladies Room, a visual kei rock band from Japan. Television * "Ladies Room", ''Mad Men'' season one, episode two Web series *"The Ladies Room" (2007), an episode of the interactive web-based video series ''Lonelygirl15 ''Lonelygirl15'' is an American science fiction thriller web series created by Miles Beckett, Mesh Flinders, Greg Goodfried, and Amanda Goodfried. It was independently released on YouTube from June 16, 2006 to August 1, 2008, and was also brief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ami Canaan Mann
Ami Canaan Mann is a British-born American film director, television director and television writer. Career Mann has worked as a television and film writer since writing the ''NYPD Blue'' episode "Tea and Sympathy" in 2000. She has won three awards, all in 2001 for her first film as a director, ''Morning''. These included the Audience Award at Dahlonega International Film Festival, Grand Prize for best directorial debut and Gold Award for Independent Theatrical Feature Films – First Feature. Her 2011 film, ''Texas Killing Fields'', screened in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September. ''Jackie & Ryan'', her romance film starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes, screened in the Horizons section at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. Personal life Mann is the daughter of director Michael Mann Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television who is best known for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
