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Henry Jaglom
Henry David Jaglom (born January 26, 1938) is an English-born American actor, film director and playwright. Life and career Jaglom was born to a Jewish family in London, England, the son of Marie (née Stadthagen) and Simon M. Jaglom, who worked in the import-export business. His father was from a wealthy family from Russia and his mother was from Germany. They left for England because of the Nazi regime. Through his mother, he is a descendant of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Jaglom trained with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York, where he acted, wrote and directed off-Broadway theater and cabaret before settling in Hollywood in the late 1960s. Under contract to Columbia Pictures, Jaglom featured in such TV series as ''Gidget'' and ''The Flying Nun'' and acted in a number of films which included Richard Rush's ''Psych-Out'' (1968), Boris Sagal's ''The Thousand Plane Raid'' (1969), Jack Nicholson's ''Drive, He Said'' (1971), Dennis Hopper's ''The Last Movie'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Foyt
Victoria Foyt is an American author, novelist, screenwriter and actor, actress, best known for her books ''The Virtual Life of Lexie Diamond''''Valentine to Faith''and ''Save the Pearls: Revealing Eden''. Foyt has written articles for magazines such as ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''O at Home'', and ''Film & Video''. Biography Foyt married Henry Jaglom in 1991 and divorced him in 2013. They met after Jaglom viewed a postcard promoting a play Foyt was performing in. In 2012, Foyt founded the publishing company ''Sand Dollar Press''. Film career Foyt co-wrote and starred in four feature films, all of which were directed by Jaglom. The pair first worked together in 1994's ''Babyfever'' and filmed ''Déjà Vu (1997 film), Déjà Vu'' in 1997, which was partially inspired by how Jaglom and Foyt met. Foyt wrote and directed the short film ''The Sweet Spot'', which starred Jennifer Grant and Carl Weathers. ''The Sweet Spot'' was shown in several film festivals, including ''PBS on Hollywood: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Nicholson
John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American retired actor and filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time. In many of his films, he played rebels against the social structure. He received numerous accolades throughout his career which spanned over five decades, including three Academy Awards. His most known and celebrated films include '' Chinatown'' (1974), '' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (1975), '' The Shining'' (1980), and ''The Departed'' (2006). He has also directed three films, including ''The Two Jakes'' (1990), a sequel to ''Chinatown''. His twelve Academy Award nominations make Nicholson the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, once for ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (1975) and once for ''As Good as It Gets'' (1997); he also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for ''Terms of Endearment'' (1983). He is one of only three male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracks (1976 Film)
''Tracks'' is a 1976 American drama film written and directed by Henry Jaglom and starring Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power and Dean Stockwell. The story involves a returned Vietnam veteran escorting a fellow soldier's coffin across the United States for burial. Plot In 1973, 1st Sgt. Jack Falen (Hopper) returns from the Vietnam War to the United States to escort a friend's body for a hometown burial. Once in the US, Jack travels across the country via train (hence the film's title), where he meets the mysterious Mark (Stockwell) and the alluring university student Stephanie (Power). During the trip, Jack falls in love with Stephanie, but destroys the relationship through constant flashbacks to combat. Cast *Dennis Hopper as 1st Sgt. Jack Falen *Taryn Power as Stephanie *Dean Stockwell as Mark *Topo Swope as Chloe *Alfred Ryder as The Man *Zack Norman as Gene *Michael Emil as Emile *Barbara Flood as The Lady *Frank McRae as Train Coachman *James Frawley as Train Passenger *Sally Kirkla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld (born Susan Ker Weld; August 27, 1943) is an American actress and model. She began acting as a child and progressed to mature roles in the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the following decade, she established a career playing dramatic roles in films. Weld often portrayed impulsive and reckless women acting out sexually, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for '' Play It as It Lays'' (1972), an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for '' Looking for Mr. Goodbar'' (1977), an Emmy Award for '' The Winter of Our Discontent'' (1983), and a BAFTA for ''Once Upon a Time in America'' (1984). Since the late 1980s her acting appearances have been infrequent. Background and family Weld was born Susan Ker Weld in Manhattan on August 27, 1943. Her father was Lathrop Motley Weld, of the Weld family of Massachusetts. Her father died in 1947 at the age of 49, shortly before his daughter's fourth birthday. Her moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Safe Place
''A Safe Place'' is a 1971 American drama film written and directed by Henry Jaglom and starring Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, and Jack Nicholson. Plot A young woman, named Noah, lives alone in a small apartment New York City. She is a mentally disturbed flower child, who retreats into her past, yearning for lost innocence. She recalls her childhood, searching for a "safe place." As a child, whose real birth name was Susan, she met a charismatic magician in Central Park who presented her with magical objects: a levitating silver ball, a star ring, and a Noah's ark. In the present day, Noah is currently and romantically involved with two totally different men named Fred and Mitch. Fred is practical, but dull. Mitch is dynamic and sexy, her ideal fantasy partner. Neither man is able to totally fulfill her needs. Cast The cast includes: * Tuesday Weld as Susan/Noah * Orson Welles as The Magician * Jack Nicholson as Mitch * Philip Proctor as Fred * Gwen Welles as Bari * Roger Garrett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy Rider
''Easy Rider'' is a 1969 American independent drug culture road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal. The success of ''Easy Rider'' helped spark the New Hollywood era of filmmaking during the early 1970s. A landmark counterculture film, and a "touchstone for a generation" that "captured the national imagination," ''Easy Rider'' explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions towards adolescents in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle. Real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana and other substances.Interviews in . A Making-of documentary. Released by Columbia Pictures on July 14, 1969, ''Easy Rider'' earned $60 million worldwide from a filming budget of no more than $400,000. Critic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Film That Changed My Life
''The Film That Changed My Life'' (also known as ''The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors on Their Epiphanies in the Dark'') is a non-fiction collection of interviews compiled by American journalist, author and film columnist Robert K. Elder. The book presents interviews with thirty famous directors who share stories about the movies that affected their career paths and directing styles. Chapter list # Edgar Wright on '' An American Werewolf in London'' # Rian Johnson on ''Annie Hall'' # Danny Boyle on ''Apocalypse Now'' # Bill Condon on ''Bonnie and Clyde'' # Richard Kelly on ''Brazil'' # Peter Bogdanovich on ''Citizen Kane'' # John Dahl on ''A Clockwork Orange'' # Henry Jaglom on ''8½'' # Brian Herzlinger on '' E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial'' # Alex Gibney on ''The Exterminating Angel'' # Kimberly Peirce on ''The Godfather'' # Steve James on ''Harlan County, USA'' # Austin Chick on ''Kings of the Road'' # Guy Maddin on ''L’âge d’Or'' # Michel Gondry on ''Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert K
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Side Of The Wind
''The Other Side of the Wind'' is a 2018 satirical drama film, directed, co-written, co-produced and co-edited by Orson Welles, and posthumously released in 2018 after forty-eight years in development. The film stars John Huston, Bob Random, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, and Oja Kodar. Intended by Welles to be his Hollywood comeback, the film began shooting in 1970 and resumed on and off until 1976. Welles continued to intermittently work on the project into the 1980s, but it became embroiled in legal, financial and political complications which prevented it from being completed. Despite Welles' death in 1985, filming was completed and several attempts were made at reconstructing the unfinished film. In 2014, the rights were acquired by Royal Road and the project was overseen by Bogdanovich and producer Frank Marshall. The story utilizes a film-within-a-film narrative which follows the last day in the life of an aging Hollywood film director (Huston) as he hosts a scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, known for his innovative work in film, radio and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. While in his 20s, Welles directed high-profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project, including an adaptation of ''Macbeth'' with an entirely African-American cast and the political musical '' The Cradle Will Rock''. In 1937, he and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented a series of productions on Broadway through 1941, including ''Caesar'' (1937), an adaptation of William Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar''. In 1938, his radio anthology series ''The Mercury Theatre on the Air'' gave Welles the platform to find international fame as the director and narrator of a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel ''The War of the Worlds'', which caused s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily, Aime-moi
''Lily, aime-moi'' is a 1975 French comedy film directed by Maurice Dugowson. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Jean-Michel Folon - François * Patrick Dewaere - Gaston, dit Johnny Cash * Rufus - Claude * Zouzou - Lily * Juliette Gréco - Flo * Jean-Pierre Bisson - Le frère de Flo / Flo's brother * Roger Blin - Le père de Lily / Lily's father * Jean Capel * - L'intellectuel de chez Flo / Intellectual at Flo's * Pauline Godefroy - Une invitée chez Flo * Anne Jousset - L'auto-stoppeuse / Hitchhiker * Tatiana Moukhine - La mère de Lily / Lily's mother * Maurice Vallier - Le rédacteur chez François / François' coworker * Andréas Voutsinas - Le barbu de chez Flo / Bearded man at Flo's * Henry Jaglom - Un invité chez Flo / A guest at Flo's * Bernard Freyd * Miou-Miou Sylvette Herry (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Miou-Miou (), is a French actress. A ten-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Dugowson
Maurice Dugowson (23 September 1938 – 11 November 1999) was a French film director and screenwriter. His 1975 film ''Lily, aime-moi'' was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival. The following year, his film ''F comme Fairbanks'' was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1981 his film '' Bye, See You Monday'' was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Lily, aime-moi'' (1975) * ''F comme Fairbanks ''F comme Fairbanks'' is a 1976 French drama film directed by Maurice Dugowson. It was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Patrick Dewaere – André * Miou-Miou – Marie * John Berry – Fragman * Michel Piccoli ...'' (1976) * '' Bye, See You Monday'' (1979) * ' (1983) * ''Blind Spot'' (1995) * ''El Che'' (1997) References External links * 1938 births 1999 deaths French film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters 20th- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
