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Night Games (song)
Night Games may refer to: __NOTOC__ Film * ''Night Games'' (1966 film), a 1966 Swedish film directed by Mai Zetterling * ''Night Games'' (1980 film), a 1980 film directed by Roger Vadim Music * "Night Games" (Charley Pride song), 1983 * "Night Games" (Graham Bonnet song), 1981 * "Night Games", by Stephanie Mills on her album ''Stephanie'', 1981 Other uses * ''Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport'', 2013 book by Anna Krien ** ''Night Games'', upcoming TV series based on the book, directed by Samantha Lang Samantha Lang is an Australian film director and screenwriter. Her production company is Handmaid Media. Early life and education Samantha Lang was born in London, England, migrating to Australia with her family at the age of 14. She attended ... See also * Night game (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Games (1966 Film)
''Night Games'' ( sv, Nattlek) is a 1966 Swedish movie directed by Mai Zetterling and starring Ingrid Thulin. The film premiered at the 27th Venice International Film Festival where it was considered so controversial that it was shown to the jury in private. The film was also the cause of former child-star Shirley Temple's resignation from the San Francisco International Film Festival. Temple denounced the film as “pornography for profit” and was against its being shown at the festival. Plot Jan returns with his fiancée to his childhood home. While there he flashes back to his childhood, twenty years before when he lived an unfettered life watched over by a strange great-aunt and a hedonistic and often neglectful mother and father. In particular he remembers watching his mother give birth to a stillborn child after refusing to go to the hospital in the middle of a party and his sexual obsession with his mother which included being caught by her while he was masturbating wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Games (1980 Film)
''Night Games'' is a 1980 erotic thriller film directed by Roger Vadim. It was released in France as ''Jeux de Nuit''. The film stars Cindy Pickett as a woman still traumatised after being raped as a teenager, and is unable to have a satisfactory sex life with her husband, who eventually leaves her. Left alone in a large house, Valerie drifts into sexual fantasies, while facing danger from another potential rapist. Joanna Cassidy also stars, as Valerie's best friend. The film was released on CED in 1983 and VHS in 1989, with a running time of 104 minutes. A subsequent DVD release has a running time of only 96 minutes. Cast * Cindy Pickett as Valerie St. John * Joanna Cassidy as Julie Miller * Barry Primus as Jason St. John * Paul Jenkins as Sean Daniels * Gene Davis as Timothy Production Roger Vadim had previously made a number of provocative films, including '' And God Created Woman'' and '' Barbarella'', whose respective stars Vadim also married, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Games (Charley Pride Song)
"Night Games" is a song written by Blake Mevis and Norro Wilson, and recorded by American country music artist Charley Pride. It was released in May 1983 as the first single and title track from the album '' Night Games''. Pride's 29th and final number one hit on the ''Billboard'' country music charts, the single peaked at number one for one week and spent a total of 13 weeks on the country chart. It was the last country song by a solo black artist to reach number one on the country charts until "Don't Think I Don't Think About It" by Darius Rucker Darius Carlos Rucker (born May 13, 1966) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Ca ... achieved the feat in 2008. Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References 1983 singles 1983 songs Ray Stevens songs Charley Pride songs Songs written by Norro Wilson Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Games (Graham Bonnet Song)
"Night Games" is a song by British singer Graham Bonnet released as a single in March 1981 from his third solo album '' Line-Up''. It peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart. Background and release "Night Games" was written by Edwin Hamilton and was first recorded in the mid-1970s by rock band Fast Buck, for whom Hamilton was the lead vocalist and also guitarist. However, the band's version remained unreleased until the release of the box set ''Night Games – The Complete Recordings'' in 2019. Graham Bonnet had been the lead vocalist for the British rock band Rainbow between 1979 and 1980, recording one studio album, '' Down to Earth''. After leaving the band and whilst staying in New York, Bonnet's then manager David Oddie gave him a tape of "Night Games". Bonnet thought "it was perfect, coming across as the sort of poppy hard rock tune that I should be doing. It seemed to follow on from what I had done in Rainbow". It was then recorded in early 1981 with many well-known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie (album)
''Stephanie '' is the Grammy-nominated fifth studio album by American R&B/soul singer Stephanie Mills. It was released in 1981 and produced by James Mtume and Reggie Lucas. The album features hit song " Two Hearts" a duet with Teddy Pendergrass. By default, this fulfilled her contract with 20th Century-Fox Records, as the following year, the label was sold to PolyGram Records, which quickly folded it into Casablanca Records, to which Mills' contract was subsequently transferred. ''Stephanie'' scored Mills her second nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 24th Annual Grammy Awards in 1982. Track listing All songs written by James Mtume and Reggie Lucas except where indicated. #"Winner" - 4:50 #" Two Hearts" (duet with Teddy Pendergrass) (Tawatha Agee, James Mtume, Reggie Lucas) - 4:44 #"Don't Stop Doin' What 'Cha Do" - 4:48 #"Top of My List" (Rodney Brown, Willie Lester) - 3:42 #"I Believe in Love Songs" - 4:14 #"Night Games" - 5:47 #"My Love's Been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Krien
Anna Krien is an Australian journalist, essayist, fiction and nonfiction writer and poet. Career Krien has contributed to a number of Australian publications, including ''The'' ''Monthly'', ''The Age'', ''The Big Issue'', ''The Best Australian Essays'', ''Griffith Review'', '' Voiceworks'', ''Going Down Swinging'', ''Colors'', ''Frankie'' and '' Dazed & Confused''. Krien has written poetry for a number of years. Her poem, "The Last Broadcasters", won the 2008 Val Vallis Award and "Horses" was included in ''The Best Australian Poems 2010''. In 2014 she became only the second woman to win the £25,000 (A$47,000) William Hill Sports Book of the Year award since its inception 1989. Krien has written two contributions to the ''Quarterly Essay'' — "Us & Them: On the Importance of Animals" and "The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock". In 2019 she joined the judging panel for the Horne Prize. As of 2019 she was based in Melbourne, Victoria. Awards and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Lang
Samantha Lang is an Australian film director and screenwriter. Her production company is Handmaid Media. Early life and education Samantha Lang was born in London, England, migrating to Australia with her family at the age of 14. She attended North Sydney Girls' High School, earning her HSC in 1985. She grew up watching European films, and was very influenced by the film ''Hiroshima Mon Amour''. In 1986 she spent a year at Universite de Grenoble, at Grenoble in France, studying French literature and linguistics. After beginning her university studies in 1987, in 1989 Lang was awarded a scholarship from Qantas to study at the Fachhochschule Wiesbaden in Germany for 10 months, where she focused on film and photography. She also attended FAMU, the Czech film school in Prague, which she said was a "life-changing experience" for her. The government had been overthrown, as Vaclev Havel was coming to power, and young people who had previously been barred from attending univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |