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Lumière And Company
''Lumière and Company'' (original title: ) is a 1995 anthology film made in collaboration between forty-one international film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...s. The project consists of short films made by each of the filmmakers using the original camera invented by the Lumière brothers. The shorts were edited in-camera and constrained by three rules: #A short may be no longer than 52 seconds #No synchronized sound #No more than three takes Directors References External links * * 1996 films Auguste and Louis Lumière Films directed by Merzak Allouache Films directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos Films directed by Vicente Aranda Films directed by Gabriel Axel Films directed by John Boorman Films directed by Youssef Chahine Films directed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumière And Company
''Lumière and Company'' (original title: ) is a 1995 anthology film made in collaboration between forty-one international film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...s. The project consists of short films made by each of the filmmakers using the original camera invented by the Lumière brothers. The shorts were edited in-camera and constrained by three rules: #A short may be no longer than 52 seconds #No synchronized sound #No more than three takes Directors References External links * * 1996 films Auguste and Louis Lumière Films directed by Merzak Allouache Films directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos Films directed by Vicente Aranda Films directed by Gabriel Axel Films directed by John Boorman Films directed by Youssef Chahine Films directed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasse Hallström
Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallström (; born 2 June 1946) is a Swedish film director. He first became known for directing almost all the music videos by the pop group ABBA, and subsequently became a feature film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for '' My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund)'' (1985) and later for '' The Cider House Rules'' (1999). His other celebrated directorial works include '' What's Eating Gilbert Grape'' (1993) and '' Chocolat'' (2000). Early life Hallström was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father Nils Hallström was a dentist and his mother was the writer Karin Lyberg (1907–2000). His maternal grandfather, Ernst Lyberg, was the Minister of Finance in the first cabinet of Carl Gustaf Ekman (1926–1928) and leader of the Liberal Party of Sweden (1930–1933). His father was also enthusiastic about film and made a film called ''Sommarstad'' in 1939. Career Hallström attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. He made his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ivory
James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. For many years, he worked extensively with Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, his domestic as well as professional partner, and with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. All three were principals in Merchant Ivory Productions, whose films have won seven Academy Awards; Ivory himself has been nominated for four Oscars, winning one. Ivory's directorial work includes ''A Room with a View'' (1985), ''Maurice'' (1987), ''Howards End'' (1992), and ''The Remains of the Day'' (1993). For his work on ''Call Me by Your Name'' (2017), which he wrote and produced, Ivory won awards for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Academy Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Writers Guild of America, the Critics' Choice Awards, and the Scripter Awards, among others. Upon winning the Oscar and BAFTA at the age of 89, Ivory became the oldest-ever winner in any category for both awards. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismail Merchant
Ismail Merchant (born Ismail Noor Muhammad Abdul Rahman (25 December 1936 – 25 May 2005)) was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter. He worked for many years in collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included Director (and Merchant's longtime professional and domestic partner) James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Early life and education Born in Bombay (Mumbai), Merchant was son of Hazra (née Memon) and Noor Mohamed Rehman, a Bombay textile dealer. He grew up bilingual in Gujarati and Urdu, and learned Arabic and English at school. When he was 11, he and his family were caught up in the 1947 partition of India. His father was the President of the Muslim League and refused to move to Pakistan. Merchant later said that he carried memories of "butchery and riots" into adulthood.cited in ''Cheek of the devil'' As a child at the age of 9, Merchant delivered a speech about partition at a political rally in front of a crowd of 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, visual artist and actor. A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and the César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. In 2007, a panel of critics convened by ''The Guardian'' announced that "after all the discussion, no one could fault the conclusion that David Lynch is the most important film-maker of the current era", while AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking". His work led to him being labeled "the first populist surrealist" by film critic Pauline Kael. Lynch studied painting before he began making short films in the late 1960s. His first feature-length film, the surrealist ''Eraserhead'' (1977), became a success on the midnight movie circuit, and he followed that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critical acclaim for his 1966 romantic melodrama film '' A Man and A Woman''. At the 39th Academy Awards in 1967, ''A Man and a Woman'' won Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Lelouch was also nominated for Best Director. While his films have gained him international recognition since the 1960s, Lelouch's methods and style of film are known for attracting criticism. Life and career Lelouch was born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris to Charlotte (née Abeilard) and Simon Lelouch. His father was born to an Algerian Jewish family while his mother was a convert to Judaism. Lelouch says that his first contact with cinema was very young: "My mother hid me in movie theaters when I was little. We were wanted by the Gestapo. .. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced more than 35 films since 1983. He made his directorial debut with '' She's Gotta Have It'' (1986). He has since written and directed such films as ''School Daze'' (1988), ''Do the Right Thing'' (1989), ''Mo' Better Blues'' (1990), ''Jungle Fever'' (1991), '' Malcolm X'' (1992), '' Crooklyn'' (1994), '' Clockers'' (1995), '' 25th Hour'' (2002), '' Inside Man'' (2006), ''Chi-Raq'' (2015), '' BlacKkKlansman'' (2018) and '' Da 5 Bloods'' (2020). Lee also acted in eleven of his feature films. His films have featured breakthrough and acclaimed performances from actors such as Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Samuel L. Jackson, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Delroy Lindo and John David Washington. Lee's work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte (; born 12 November 1947) is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter. Life and career Leconte grew up in Tours, and began making little amateur films at 15. He went to Paris in 1967 and studied at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. While attending film school in the late 1960s, Leconte also worked as a cartoonist, in particular for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Pilote''. He directed his first feature film in 1976, and had a number of major successes with comedy films that were barely distributed outside France. He first came to international attention in 1989 with '' Monsieur Hire'', which was shown at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and which was a radical departure from his previous work. Although he had already directed more than half a dozen features, many foreign critics, unfamiliar with his previous work, essentially treated him as a newcomer. Since then, he has alternated between films such as '' Ridicule'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (russian: link=no, Андрей Сергеевич Михалков-Кончаловский; born 20 August 1937) is a Russian filmmaker. He has worked in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary Russian cinema. He is a laureate of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", a National Order of the Legion of Honour, an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters, a Cavalier of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and a People's Artist of the RSFSR. He is the son of writer Sergey Mikhalkov, and the brother of filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov. Konchalovsky's work has encompassed theatrical motion pictures, telefilms, documentaries, and stage productions. His film credits include ''Uncle Vanya'' (1970), '' Siberiade'' (1979), '' Maria's Lovers'' (1984), '' Runaway Train'' (1985), '' Tango & Cash'' (1989), '' House of Fools'' (2002), '' The Postman's White Nights'' (2014), ''Paradise'' (2016), and '' Dear Comrades!'' (2020). He also directed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cédric Klapisch
Cédric Klapisch ( ; born 4 September 1961) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Life and career Klapisch was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII. He was rejected on two occasions by the French film school IDHEC (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques), now known as La fémis. He later attended the film school at New York University from 1983 to 1985. During the 1980s, he started to shoot short films such as ''In transit'' or ''Ce qui me meut''. He subsequently worked as a scriptwriter and he became a director for feature films. He has also directed a nature documentary for French television. In 1992, Klapisch shot his first feature film, ''Riens du tout''. A year later, a TV channel asked him to make a film about high school life, set in 1975, '' Le p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami ( fa, عباس کیارستمی ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the '' Koker'' trilogy (1987–1994), ''Close-Up'' (1990), ''The Wind Will Carry Us'' (1999), and ''Taste of Cherry'' (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In later works, ''Certified Copy'' (2010) and ''Like Someone in Love'' (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. His films ''Where Is the Friend's Home?'' (1987), ''Close-Up'', and ''The Wind Will Carry Us'' were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. ''Close-Up'' was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial ''Sight & Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Kaboré
Gaston Kaboré (born 1951) is a Burkinabé film director and an important figure in Burkina Faso's film industry. He has won awards for his films '' Wend Kuuni'' and ''Buud Yam''. Biography Kaboré was born in 1951 in Bobo-Dioulasso in Upper Volta. He studied history at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, receiving his license and Maîtrise (Master's) degrees. While researching the history of racial prejudice against Africa by its colonisers for his Maîtrise, Kaboré was drawn to contemporary documentary films which, he felt, continued to propagate such stereotypes. To better understand the "language of cinema", he decided to go to ESEC film school. Originally intending to use film as a medium for disseminating historical knowledge, he gradually grew passionate about film for its own sake. He received his degree in Film Production in 1976. He returned to his native country to be director of the Centre National du Cinéma. His film ''Wend Kuuni'' was only the second feature film pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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