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Nicholas St. John (screenwriter)
Nicodemo Oliverio,Nicole Brenez''Abel Ferrara'' University of Illinois Press, 2007 page 2 better known as Nicholas St. John, is an American screenwriter. He has collaborated with film director Abel Ferrara in nine films together including ''The Driller Killer'' (1979), ''Body Snatchers'' (1993) and ''The Addiction'' (1995),Chris Vander Kaay and Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay''Horror Films by Subgenre: A Viewer's Guide'' McFarland, 2016 page 196 as well as ''Ms. 45'' (1981) and ''King of New York'' (1990). For his work in the film '' The Funeral'' (1996), St. John was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay. Life and career St. John attended Lakeland High School. It was at high school where he met and befriended Ferrara. Both he and Ferrara attended and graduated from New York University.Ric Meyers''For One Week Only: The World of Exploitation Films'' Eirini Press, 2011 page 49 Under the pseudonym Nicholas George, St. John wrote the screenplay for Ferrara ...
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Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. The channel's programming consists mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. (covering films released before 1950), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986), and the North American distribution rights to films from RKO Pictures. However, Turner Classic Movies also licenses films from other studios and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta (as Turner Classic Movies), Latin America, France, Greece, Cyprus, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa (as TNT), and Asia-Pacific. History Origins In 1986, eig ...
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Dangerous Game (1993 Film)
''Dangerous Game'' (also known as ''Snake Eyes'') is a 1993 joint American-Italian drama film directed by Abel Ferrara, written by Nicholas St. John, and starring Madonna, Harvey Keitel, and James Russo. Plot Utilizing a film-within-a-film format, the overall plot involves New York City-based director Eddie Israel directing actors Sarah Jennings and Frank Burns in a Hollywood marital-crisis drama, ''Mother of Mirrors'', which is about a formerly wealthy but unemployed husband who berates his newly religious wife about what he considers her hypocritical aversion to their sex-and-drug lifestyle. During the shooting of that film, Israel becomes more and more demanding of his actors, growing increasingly obsessive with finding the ugly truths beneath the story's surface. All the while, his own carelessness and bad behavior with his own family begins to erode him and to corrode his marriage to Madlyn. Cast * Harvey Keitel as Eddie Israel * Madonna as Sarah Jennings * James Russo as ...
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China Girl (1987 Film)
''China Girl'' is a 1987 independent neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Abel Ferrara, and written by his longtime partner Nicholas St. John. Story ''China Girl'' is a contemporary take on the classic tale of '' Romeo and Juliet''. Set in 1980s Manhattan, the plot revolves around the intimate relationship developing between Tony, a teenage boy from Little Italy, and Tye, a teenage girl from Chinatown, while both of their older brothers become engrossed in a heated gang war against each other. It also bears some similarities to the 1957 musical ''West Side Story'', which similarly is an adaptation of ''Romeo and Juliet'' set among rival ethnic gangs in Manhattan, and also features a male protagonist named Tony. Release The film was released theatrically on September 25, 1987 in 193 theaters and grossed $531,362 its opening weekend. the film grossed a domestic total of $1,262,091 and its widest release was to 193 theaters. After its theatrical run, the film was release ...
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Fear City
''Fear City'' is a 1984 American neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, and Melanie Griffith. The screenplay was written by longtime Ferrara collaborator Nicholas St. John. It is considered a cult film. The film follows a haunted former boxer turned mob-connected nightclub promoter (Berenger) and a fiercely driven police Detective (Williams), investigating a brutal serial killer targeting strippers in Manhattan. Plot Best friends Matt Rossi and Nicky Parzeno run a management company for Manhattan’s best exotic dancers, managing and booking their clients into clubs across the borough. Rossi was once in a relationship with their top client Loretta, but they broke up because Rossi's memories of accidentally killing an opponent in the ring during his days as a professional boxer left him emotionally barren. Loretta still cares for Matt but has moved onto a lesbian relationship with a pretty young dancer ...
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The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited, Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, th ...
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''Fear X'' is a 2003 psychological thriller film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The first film to be produced from one of Hubert Selby Jr.'s original screenplays, its eventual box-office failure would force Refn's film company '' Jang Go Star'' into bankruptcy. Refn's financial recovery was documented in the 2006 documentary ''The Gambler''. Plot A security guard's wife is killed in a seemingly random incident. Prompted by mysterious visions, he journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder. Cast * John Turturro as Harry * Deborah Kara Unger as Kate * Stephen McIntyre as Phil * William Allen Young as Agent Lawrence * Gene Davis as Ed (as Eugene M. Davis) * Mark Houghton as Diner Cop * Jacqueline Ramel as Claire * James Remar as Peter * Amanda Ooms as Prostitute Critical reception On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 58% based on reviews from 36 critics. The site's consensus states: "As hazy, unsettling, and fleetingly insubstantial ...
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Bleeder (film)
''Bleeder'' is a 1999 Danish crime drama film written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The film was successful in Denmark, but did not live up to the success of Refn's previous film '' Pusher''. Plot The film follows the friends Leo and Lenny, who live in Nørrebro, a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen. Leo lives in a rundown apartment with his girlfriend Louise. Lenny is a shy and quiet film expert who works with his and Leo's mutual friend Kitjo, in a video store that rents out art films as well as a huge collection of pornographic films. As a subplot, we follow Lenny, who is trying to build a relationship to Lea, a girl that works in a local grill bar. Lenny asks Lea out to see a movie, but he chickens out when he sees her at the theatre. Lenny spends most of his time both at home and at work watching films. When Leo finds out that Louise is pregnant and wants to keep the baby, he becomes more and more aggressive. After witnessing a beating at a club he gets himse ...
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