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Pax (1994 Film)
''PAX'' is a Portuguese comedy film directed by Eduardo Guedes with a screenplay by Bruno Heller. It is part of a film trilogy about Lisbon, ordered for Lisbon's year as European Cultural Capital in 1994. Synopsis Franny (Amanda Plummer Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress. She is known for her work on stage and for her roles in such films as ''Joe Versus the Volcano'' (1990), '' The Fisher King'' (1991), ''Pulp Fiction'' (1994), and '' The Hunge ...), an absent-minded American girl, is in Lisbon to deliver an important package. Unfortunately she has lost the address and only knows that the recipient's name is João. When she meets an old hooker, Esmeralda, the two join forces and begin cruising the town at night, across the streets and the local bars, meeting Lisbon's unconventional night fauna, to try to find João (which would never happen). Franny and Esmeralda open the package to find the contents and final destination of the package. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Guedes
Eduardo Luis Santos Correia Guedes (21 April 1941 – 29 August 2000) was a Portuguese film-maker involved with the independent British film collective Cinema Action. Guedes was born in Lisbon, the son of a judge, and initially studied chemical engineering at the University of Lisbon, but after refusing to take part in the Portuguese colonial wars, he left in 1961 to study film-making at the London International Film School. After graduating in 1964, he worked as a tutor at the school. In 1965 he went to Brazil and made three documentaries (one, ''Rio Araguaia'', was later networked by the BBC and French television). Returning to London, he freelanced as a film editor from 1968 to 1971, working with theatre director Peter Brook and Thames Television's Jeremy Isaacs, and was credited as editor of Maurice Hatton's 1970 film ''Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joaquim Pinto
Joaquim Pinto (born 20 June 1957) is a Portuguese film director from Porto. His movie ''What Now? Remind Me'' was the Portuguese submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ... in 2014. References External links * category:Portuguese film directors Living people 1957 births People from Porto {{Portugal-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Heller
Bruno Heller (born 13 January 1960) is an English screenwriter, producer and director. He is known for creating the HBO television series ''Rome'' and CBS television series ''The Mentalist''. He has produced the TV series '' Gotham'', based on the Batman franchise, for FOX and '' Pennyworth'' for Epix. Early life and family Heller's father, Lukas, was a German Jewish emigre and screenwriter (''Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte'', '' What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?''). His mother, Caroline (née Carter), was an English Quaker and instrumental in keeping up the Labour Party's "Save London Transport Campaign". He has three siblings, including Zoë, a columnist and writer who has published three novels, including ''Notes on a Scandal''. Heller graduated from the University of Sussex near Brighton. Career Heller was a union soundman working in England in the 1980s when film sets were rigidly hierarchical. While working as a soundman on a series of films about England's infamous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Plummer
Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress. She is known for her work on stage and for her roles in such films as '' Joe Versus the Volcano'' (1990), ''The Fisher King'' (1991), ''Pulp Fiction'' (1994), and '' The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'' (2013). Plummer won a Tony Award in 1982 for her performance in '' Agnes of God''. Early life Plummer was born on March 23, 1957, in New York City, the only child of American actress Tammy Grimes and Canadian actor Christopher Plummer. Her father said that they named their daughter Amanda Michael after Amanda Prynne, a character from the play ''Private Lives'', and the actress Michael Learned. She attended the elite Trinity School before graduating from the United Nations International School (UNIS). She attended Middlebury College for two and a half years and, as a young adult, studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. Career Plummer has received critical acclaim for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Ruth
Isabel Ruth (born 6 April 1940) is a Portuguese actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films since 1963. She starred in '' River of Gold'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Os Verdes Anos'' (1963) * '' Domingo À Tarde'' (1966) * '' Mudar de Vida'' (1966) * '' Agosto'' (1987) * '' Hard Times'' (1988) * ''Ossos'' (1997) * ''Voyage to the Beginning of the World'' (1997) * '' River of Gold'' (1998) * ''The Mutants'' (1998) * ''Anxiety'' (1998) * '' I'm Going Home'' (2001) * '' The Uncertainty Principle'' (2002) * ''Daqui P'rá Frente'' (2007) * ''The Strange Case of Angelica'' (2010) * ''Journey to Portugal ''Journey to Portugal'' (''Viagem a Portugal'' in Portuguese) is a non-fiction book on Portugal by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago. It was first published in 1981 by Círculo de Leitores e Editorial Caminho. Critical assessment An En ...'' (2011) * ''Versailles'' (2013) References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
