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Housebound (2000 Film)
''Housebound'' (also titled ''Kitchen Privileges'') is a 2000 American thriller film written and directed by Mari Kornhauser and starring Katharina Wressnig and Peter Sarsgaard. Cast *Katharina Wressnig as Marie *Peter Sarsgaard as Tom *Angeline Ball as Mignon *Geoffrey Lower as Jarrid *Liz Stauber as Ricky * Ann Magnuson as Brandy Release The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival on September 2, 2000. Reception Eddie Cockrell of ''Variety'' gave the film a mixed review and wrote that "...Wressnig brings a fine Euro gravity to the updated Catherine Deneuve role, but viewers will be distracted by overly schematic and unconvincing production design." Ron Wells of ''Film Threat ''Film Threat'' is an online film review publication, and earlier, a national magazine that focused primarily on independent film, although it also reviewed videos and DVDs of mainstream films, as well as Hollywood movies in theaters. It first ...'' gave it a positive review, praising Kor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sarsgaard
John Peter Sarsgaard (; born March 7, 1971) is an American actor. His first feature role was in '' Dead Man Walking'' in 1995. He then appeared in the 1998 independent films ''Another Day in Paradise'' and ''Desert Blue''. That same year, Sarsgaard received a substantial role in '' The Man in the Iron Mask'' (1998), playing Raoul, the ill-fated son of Athos. Sarsgaard later achieved critical recognition when he was cast in '' Boys Don't Cry'' (1999) as John Lotter. He landed his first leading role in the 2001 film ''The Center of the World''. For his portrayal of Charles Lane in '' Shattered Glass'', Sarsgaard received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. Sarsgaard has appeared in an eclectic range of films, including '' Garden State'', '' Kinsey'' (both 2004), '' Jarhead'' (2005), ''Elegy'' (2008), ''An Education'' (2009), '' Lovelace'' (2013), '' Night Moves'' (2013), ''Blue Jasmine'' (2013), '' Black Mass'' (2015), '' Jackie'' (2016), and ''The Lost Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal World Film Festival
The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF; french: le Festival des Films du Monde) was one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF (although the Toronto International Film Festival is North America's only accredited non-competitive festival). The public festival, which was founded in 1977 as a replacement for the defunct Montreal International Film Festival (1960–68), is held annually in late August in the city of Montreal in Quebec. Unlike the Toronto International Film Festival, which has a greater focus on Canadian and other North American films, the Montreal World Film Festival has a larger diversity of films from all over the world. The festival was cancelled in 2019. In 2022, former festival president Serge Losique announced plans to revive the festival as the Global Montreal Film Festival, with a 2022 edition featuring free screenings of a selection of films that had previously screene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angeline Ball
Angeline Ball (born 28 June 1969) is an Irish actress and singer who resides in London, England. She is known for her roles as Imelda Quirke in Alan Parker's '' The Commitments'' (1991) and as Tina in John Boorman's '' The General'' (1998). She has appeared in films and television series both in the UK and in the US. She is also a stage actor. Background Ball, the youngest of three sisters, was born in Cabra, Dublin. As a child she trained in tap, ballet and modern dance attending the Billie Barry Stage School at the age of eight. Career Her breakthrough role came in 1991 when she appeared as backing singer Imelda Quirke in Alan Parker's '' The Commitments''. In 1993, Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement wrote the short-lived TV series ''Over the Rainbow'' for her, for which she also wrote the music. In 1994 she played Vada's mother in ''My Girl 2'' for which she sang a rendition of Charlie Chaplin's "Smile". She worked with ''Alan Parker'' again in 1996 when she sang backing vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Lower
Geoffrey Lower (born March 19, 1963) is an American former actor known for playing Reverend Timothy Johnson on ''Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman''. He also played Monica Geller's boyfriend Alan in the ''Friends'' episode " The One With the Thumb". Early life and education Lower grew up in Casper, Wyoming. He attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Juilliard School. Career Lower's contemporary theater credits include ''What Doesn't Kill Us'' at the McCadden Theatre in Hollywood, California, ''There's One in Every Marriage'' at P.R.T.E. and ''The Marrieds'' at the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center. In addition to six seasons as the Rev. Timothy Johnson on the CBS-TV series ''Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'', Lower's television career includes two seasons on ''The Trials of Rosie O'Neill'' (1990), as well as many guest appearances on numerous other TV series, with one notable appearance on NBC's ''Quantum Leap'' as Confederate officer Lieutenant Montgomery in the Season 5 episode "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Magnuson
Ann Magnuson (born January 4, 1956) is an American actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer. She was described by ''The New York Times'' in 1990 as "An endearing theatrical chameleon who has as many characters at her fingertips as Lily Tomlin does". A founding member of the 1980s band Bongwater, Magnuson starred in the ABC sitcom ''Anything but Love'' (1989–92). Her film appearances include '' The Hunger'' (1983), ''Making Mr. Right'' (1987), ''Clear and Present Danger'' (1994), ''Panic Room'' (2002), and '' One More Time'' (2015). Early life and career Magnuson was born in Charleston, West Virginia, to a journalist mother and a lawyer father. She had a brother, Bobby, who died in 1988 of complications from AIDS. She attended Holz Elementary and George Washington High School in Charleston. After graduating from Denison University in 1978, she moved to New York City and was a DJ and performer at Club 57 and the Mudd Club in Manhattan around 1979 through the ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve (, , ), is a French actress as well as an occasional singer, model, and producer, considered one of the greatest European actresses. She gained recognition for her portrayal of icy, aloof, and mysterious beauties for various directors, including Jacques Demy, Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, and Roman Polanski.Catherine Deneuve Biography . Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. In 1985, she succeeded as the official face of , France's national symbol of liberty. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Threat
''Film Threat'' is an online film review publication, and earlier, a national magazine that focused primarily on independent film, although it also reviewed videos and DVDs of mainstream films, as well as Hollywood movies in theaters. It first appeared as a photocopied zine in 1985, created by Wayne State University students Chris Gore and André Seewood. In 1997, ''Film Threat'' was converted to a solely online resource. The current incarnation of ''Film Threat'' accepts money from filmmakers who are looking for a way to promote their films. Since 2011, those seeking a review from the site can pay between $50 and $400 for varying levels of service, ranging from a "guaranteed review within 7-10 days" to a package that includes a guarantee of "100K minimum impressions". Beginning The initial issues of ''Film Threat'' combined pseudopolitical ranting by Seewood and cinematic material and parody of mainstream film by Gore. In Gore's own words, "I thought, wouldn’t it be great t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s English-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
