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Jorge Arriagada
Jorge Arriagada (born 1943) is a Chilean film composer. He is perhaps best known for his long-term collaboration with director Raúl Ruiz (director), Raúl Ruiz. He has also worked with directors Patricio Guzman, Barbet Schroeder and Olivier Assayas. Biography Jorge Arriagada was born on August 20, 1943 in Santiago, Chile, Santiago. He studied composition and orchestral conduction at the National Conservatory of Music in Santiago. He then obtained a scholarship from the French government that enabled him to study expressionism with Max Deutsch, who was Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg's friend and student. He also studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and orchestral conduction with Pierre Boulez. In 1972, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation in New York City, New York awarded him a fellowship for his contribution in the field of electronic music. Arriagada has been living in France since 1966, working with experienced as well as promising di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago, Chile
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital (political), capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated Regions of Chile, region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose total population is 8 million which is nearly 40% of the country's population, of which more than 6 million live in the city's continuous urban area. The city is entirely in the country's Chilean Central Valley, central valley. Most of the city lies between above mean sea level. Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has been the capital city of Chile since colonial times. The city has a downtown core of 19th-century neoclassical architecture and winding side-streets, dotted by art deco, neo-gothic, and other styles. Santiago's cityscape is shaped by several stand-alone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, lined by parks such as Parque Forestal and Balm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroacoustic music). Pure electronic instruments depended entirely on circuitry-based sound generation, for instance using devices such as an electronic oscillator, theremin, or synthesizer. Electromechanical instruments can have mechanical parts such as strings, hammers, and electric elements including magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers. Such electromechanical devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, electric piano and the electric guitar."The stuff of electronic music is electrically produced or modified sounds. ... two basic definitions will help put some of the historical discussion in its place: purely electronic music versus electroacoustic music" ()Electroacoustic music may also use electronic effect units to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manoel's Destinies
''Manoel's Destinies'' (french: Les destins de Manoel) is a 1984 French-Portuguese children's fantasy film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It was edited down from the three-part TV miniseries ''Manuel on the Island of Wonders '' (french: Manoel dans l'île des merveilles). Cast * Ruben de Freitas as Manoel (7yo) * Teresa Madruga as Manoel's Mother * Fernando Heitor as Manoel's Father * Marco Paulo de Freitas as Manoel (13yo) * Diogo Dória Diogo Dória (born 16 April 1953) is a Portuguese film actor who has worked in France and Portugal and is most associated with his films for director Manoel de Oliveira. Selected filmography * 1981 ''Francisca'' * 1985 ''The Satin Slipper'' * 19 ... as Captain Araujo * Cecília Guimarães * Vasco Pimentel * José de Freitas * Aurélie Chazelle * Miguel Silva * Pedro M. Ruivo Further reading * Goddard, Michael (2013); ''The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies.'' Wallflower Press, pp. 82–83. * Solomon, Stefan (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melvil Poupaud
Melvil Poupaud (born 26 January 1973) is a French actor, author and filmmaker. Career Poupaud's first appearance was, as a child, in Raúl Ruiz (director), Raúl Ruiz's 1983 film ''City of Pirates''. He met Ruiz through his mother, Chantal Poupaud, who was a well-known press relations officer in the French film world. He starred in François Ozon's ''Time to Leave'', and co-starred with Parker Posey in Zoe Cassavetes' ''Broken English (2007 film), Broken English''. He also appeared in films such as Eric Rohmer's ''A Summer's Tale'', Arnaud Desplechin's ''A Christmas Tale'', and François Ozon's ''The Refuge (film), The Refuge''. He co-starred with Suzanne Clément in Xavier Dolan's ''Laurence Anyways''. Having led a selective career, grown in a family having close links with the cinema world, he has been close to figures of the Parisian intelligentsia during the seventies and eighties, such as Marguerite Duras or Jacques Lacan. Personal life Poupaud dated actress Chiara Mastro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Richard (director)
Joseph Alfred Gilles Jacques Richard (October 7, 1952 – October 8, 2002) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Atlanta Flames, Buffalo Sabres, and Quebec Nordiques. After an impressive junior career, Richard was considered a potential NHL superstar, but, except for a single season late in his career, he failed to live up to the promise. He led a troubled life both in hockey and after. Six years after retiring, in 1989, he was arrested for attempting to smuggle cocaine and then in 2002, Richard died in a car accident driving back from a party celebrating his 50th birthday. Career Richard was drafted 2nd overall in the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft. Richard was slated to be the marquee player by the expansion Atlanta Flames. However, he was to have a mostly indifferent pro career. Troubled at times by serious injuries—facial fractures in 1974–75 and a knee injury in 1979–80—he also indulged in alcohol, gambling and eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeria Sarmiento
Valeria Sarmiento (born 29 October 1948) is a film editor, director and screenwriter best known for her work in France, Portugal and her native Chile. She has worked both in film and television, directing 20 feature films, documentaries and television series'. She is the widow of Chilean film director Raúl Ruiz (1941-2011) with whom she collaborated for decades as regular editor and co-writer. She has also edited films for Luc Moullet, Robert Kramer and Ventura Pons and is a Guggenheim Fellow (1988). Biography Sarmiento was born in the Chilean municipality of Valparaíso and was first exposed to film at the age of five, becoming familiar with the work of Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and others. She rarely saw French films due to censorship but, thanks to what she refers to as a "moment of magic", was able to watch Jean-Luc Godard's ''Breathless'' (1960) at the age of twelve. She went on to study film and philosophy at the University of Valparaíso and married filmmaker Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Pirates
''City of Pirates'' (french: La ville des pirates) is a 1983 French surrealist fantasy film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. Made during Ruiz's most prolific period of filmmaking in exile and shortly after his first return to Chile since the 1973 military coup, the film stars a primarily French cast including Hugues Quester, Anne Alvaro and Melvil Poupaud. It was filmed in Portugal in a period of three weeks. Ruiz used a process of automatic writing to write his screenplay during the shoot. Academic Michael Goddard notes that "Ruiz would write the script each day immediately after the siesta; hence, in effect, ''dream'' the script rather than writing it." As a result, the film is heavily influenced by conceptions of dreams and their relationship to storytelling and the visual. The film is generally considered to be one of Ruiz's best works and exemplifies several recurring themes and motifs of the director's style, including neo-Baroque narrative and cinematograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Crowns Of The Sailor
''Three Crowns of the Sailor'' (french: Les trois couronnes du matelot) is a 1983 French fabulation, fabulist film with Surrealist cinema, surrealist and oneiric (film theory), oneiric flourishes written and directed by Cinema of Chile, Chilean director Raúl Ruiz (director), Raúl Ruiz. Plot The film opens in black and white with the motiveless murder of a professor by his student in Warsaw in 1958. The student walks through the war-torn streets whereupon he meets a sailor who offers him passage from the country through a job on board a ship. They go into a dancehall to wine and dine while they negotiate the deal; the student agrees to listen to the sailor's life story as part of the payment and then to give him three Danish crowns. The sailor tells his story – depicted in colour – but is interrupted on several occasions by the student who either questions his logic or complains that he has heard this story told time and again. The story begins in Valparaíso where, in sear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Botelho
João Manuel Relvas Leopoldo Botelho (born 1949) is a Portuguese film director. He has directed and written the screenplays of numerous films. His films have won several awards. His works have been nominated for the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion. Botelho was awarded the prestigious Ordem do Infante D.Henrique (Grau Comendador), one of the highest Portuguese honors, by President Jorge Sampaio on 10 June 2005. Early years Botelho was born in Lamego, northern Portugal. He enrolled in mechanical engineering at the University of Coimbra and in cinema at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema), in 1974, dropping out in both cases. He has worked as a graphic artist. His first cinematographic works were ''O Alto do Cobre'' and ''Um Projecto de Educação Popular'', both in 1976. Awards *In 1985, he won the Tucano de Ouro for Best Director at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival for ''Um Adeus Português''. *Nominated for the Golden Globes, Portugal i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Top Of The Whale
''On Top of the Whale'' ( nl, Het dak van de walvis) is a 1982 Dutch Surrealist cinema, surreal and Magic realism, magic-realistic fantasy film directed by Chilean Raúl Ruiz (director), Raúl Ruiz while he was in exile and "...is one of his most delirious and ambitious hoax-like fictions". The film employs the use of six different languages, including an invented one. The story follows a Dutch anthropologist and his wife and child who are invited to the house of a communist millionaire in Patagonia (an area located in Chile and Argentina) to study the last two surviving Yachanes Indians. Cast * Willeke van Ammelrooy as Eva * Jean Badin as Luis * Fernando Bordeu as Narciso * Herbert Curiel as Adam * Amber De Grau as Eden * Luis Mora * Ernie Navarro Plot The film unfolds as an ethnography and starts in the Netherlands at the beach, where Jean (a Dutch anthropologist) and his wife Eva meet a communist millionaire (Narciso), who later invites them over to his house in Patagonia to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Territory (1981 Film)
''The Territory'' ( pt, O Território) is a 1981 Portuguese philosophical horror film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz about two American families who resort to cannibalism shortly after getting lost on a camping trip in the South of France. The film, about the animalistic nature of humans when they disregard their "civilized" instincts, obliquely addresses themes of "exile and crossing boundaries: of language, nation and morality". Cast * Isabelle Weingarten as Françoise, Jim's partner * Rebecca Pauly as Barbara, Peter's partner * Geoffrey Carey as Peter, Barbara's partner * Jeffrey Kime as Jim, Françoise's partner * Paul Getty Jr. as Guide, uncle to Linda's daughter * Shila Turna as Linda * Artur Semedo as Indefinite man * Camila Mora as Young girl * Ethan Stone as Young boy, Françoise's son * José Nascimento as Prawler * Duarte de Almeida as Indefinite man's friend, found in the territory as a man lost for much longer than them * Rita Nascimento as Linda's daugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Hypothese Du Tableau Vole
''The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting'' (french: L'Hypothèse du tableau volé) is a 1978 French experimental mystery film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz and shot by cinematographer Sacha Vierny. The film was inspired by the themes of French writer Pierre Klossowski (1905 - 2001) and makes references to many of Klossowski's works including ''The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes'', ''The Baphomet'' and “La Judith de Frédérique Tonnerre.” Ruiz was originally commissioned by a French TV network to make an arts documentary on Klossowski, but what emerged is this film, a parody of the art documentary. The film was featured in film festivals after its release such as the London Film Festival in 1979. ''Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting'' has been noted as one of Ruiz's masterpieces that challenges the boundaries of cinema and film theory. Plot "You can say ''The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting'' is a detective film because of its riddle… In a more baroque syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
