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Sean Gullette
Sean Leland Sebastian Gullette (born June 4, 1968) is an American film director, writer, screenwriter, actor, and producer. Personal life Gullette was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Margaret Morganroth Gullette a cultural critic and writer, and David George Gullette, a professor of English.https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/25853437.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+01%2C+1998&author=Peter+Brunette%2C+Globe+Correspondent&pub=Boston+Globe&desc=SIDEBAR+AND+THIS+YEAR'S+SUNDANCE+DEBUT+IS+.+.+.&pqatl=google He attended public schools and Harvard, where he acted in theater and films and directed plays. Gullette lives between New York City and Tangier, Morocco, and in addition to his film work is the founder of the 212 Society, a US non-profit which supports cultural and educational projects in Morocco, including the Cinémathèque de Tanger and Darna. The 212 Society takes its name from the 212 telephone codes of its home city and adoptive country. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Sandler
Susan Sandler is an American writer and currently a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She has numerous writing credits but is probably best known for her play ''Crossing Delancey'', which she also adapted into a film with the same name starring Amy Irving and directed by Joan Micklin Silver. Screenplays/Teleplays *''Crossing Delancey'' (based on her original play) *''Friends at Last'' (starring Kathleen Turner) - CBS *''Love Invents Us'' (based on the novel by Amy Bloom) - Sarah Green Productions *''The Florence Greenberg Story'' (starring Bette Midler) - TNT (U.S. TV network), TNT *''A Lesson in Love'' - Grossbart-Barnett *''Flying in Peace'' - Columbia Pictures Television *''Cost of Living'' - Hallmark Channel *''Lonelyville'' - Columbia Pictures *''I Slept for Science'' - Scott Rudin, Scott Rudin Productions *''Glitter Girls'' - Danny DeVito#As a film and television producer, Jersey Films *''Too Many Cooks'' - Interscope *''Funny That Way'' - Nantucket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bow Down To The Exit Sign
''Bow Down to the Exit Sign'' is a studio album by David Holmes, released in 2000. It features contributions from Bobby Gillespie, Sean Gullette, Jon Spencer, Martina Topley-Bird and Carl Hancock Rux. The song "69 Police" features during the closing scene of the 2001 remake of Ocean's Eleven, and was included in the soundtrack. Reception ''Bow Down to the Exit Sign'' received positive reviews from the majority of critics. AllMusic's John Bush saw it as a "vast improvement" over Holmes' previous studio record, ''Let's Get Killed ''Let's Get Killed'' is the second studio album by Belfast electronica DJ and producer David Holmes. It was released in the UK on 8 September 1997 through Go! Beat Records and contained two UK Top 40 singles: "Don't Die Just Yet" and "My Mat ...'', concluding, "while his previous work came off as soundtrack material in desperate search of a film to accompany it, ''Bow Down to the Exit Sign'' is very much a fully formed record." Track listing R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Irish
Northern Irish people is a demonym for all people born in Northern Ireland or people who are entitled to reside in Northern Ireland without any restriction on their period of residence. Most Northern Irish people either identify as Northern Irish, Irish people, Irish or British people, British, or a combination thereof. National identity In Northern Ireland, national identity is complex and diverse. The question of national identity was asked in the 2011 census with the three most common identities given being British people, British, Northern Irish and Irish people, Irish. Most people of Protestant background consider themselves British, while a majority of people of Catholic background are native Irish. This has origins in the 17th-century Plantation of Ulster. In the early 20th century, most Ulster Protestants and Catholics saw themselves as Irish, although Protestants tended to have a strong sense of Britishness also.Walker, Brian"British or Irish - who do you think y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laila Marrakshi
Leila ( fa, لیلا, ar, ليلى, he, לילה) is a feminine given name primarily in the Semitic (Arabic, Hebrew) and Iranian languages. In Latin alphabet the name is commonly spelled in multiple ways, including Laela, Laelah, Laila, Layla, Laylah, Leila, Leilah, Leela, Leighla, Lejla, Leyla and Leylah. () in Aramaic, () in Hebrew, () or () in Arabic, and () in Syriac. In Hebrew and Arabic the word Leila or Laila means "night", "dark" and the name is often given to girls born during the night, signifying "daughter of the night". The story of ''Qays and Layla'' or ''Layla and Majnun'' is based on the romantic poems of Qais Ibn Al-Mulawwah ( ar, links=no, قيس بن الملوح) in 7th century Arabia, who was nicknamed Majnoon Layla (), Arabic for "madly in love with Layla", referring to his cousin Layla Al-Amiriah (). His poems are considered the paragon of unrequited chaste love. They later became a popular romance in medieval Iran, and use of the name spread ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock The Casbah (2013 Film)
''Rock the Casbah'' is a 2013 French-Moroccan drama film written and directed by Laïla Marrakchi. It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot After Moroccan entrepreneur Moulay Hassan (Omar Sharif) abruptly dies of a heart attack members of his family come together for a three-day mourning period over his death. Foremost among the mourners are Aicha (Hiam Abbass), his wife, and his three daughters Miriam (Nadine Labaki), Kenza (Lubna Azabal) and Sofia (Morjana Alaoui). Sofia is someone estranged from her family, having left Morocco to act in Hollywood years before. Furthering the rift between her and her family is the fact that her older sister Leyla committed suicide years before, in part because Moulay was controlling towards her and refused to let her marry Zakaria, the son of their maid, who she was in love with. Despite trying to reconnect with her family Sofia finds herself feuding with them when they discover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tariq Teguia
Tariq Teguia (born 1966) is an Algerian film director, screenwriter and producer. He studied visual arts and philosophy in Paris. He was an arts history teacher and a photographer, before filming some well-regarded shorts in the 1990s and a 2003 documentary short. His 2006 feature film debut, ''Rome wa la n-toura'' ('' Rome Rather Than You''), won the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Fribourg International Film Festival. '' Variety'' magazine critic Robert Koehler praised "Tariq Teguia’s highly accomplished debut ... Although the final moments are foreseeable, both the getting there and the immediate aftermath show Teguia to be a director of major promise". Eric Henderson dissented, writing in ''Slant Magazine'' that the film was "arrogantly conceived, pretentiously executed, and petulantly protracted". Teguia's next film, ''Gabbla'' (2008), was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival and the Daum Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Jeonju Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zanj Revolution (film)
Zanj ( ar, زَنْج, adj. , ''Zanjī''; fa, زنگی, Zangi) was a name used by medieval Muslim geographers to refer to both a certain portion of Southeast Africa (primarily the Swahili Coast) and to its Bantu inhabitants. This word is also the origin of the place-names Zanzibar ("coast of the Zanji") and the Sea of Zanj. The latinization Zingium serves as an archaic name for the coastal area in modern Kenya and Tanzania in southern East Africa. The architecture of these commercial urban settlements are now a subject of study for urban planning. For centuries the coastal settlements were a source of ivory, gold, and slaves, from sections of the conquered hinterland, to the Indian Ocean world. Etymology ''Zanj'' in Arabic means the "country of the blacks". Other transliteration include Zenj, Zinj, and Zang.. Anthony Christie argued that the word ''zanj'' or ''zang'' may not be Arabic in origin, a Chinese form (僧祇 ''sēngqí'') is recorded as early as 607 AD. Christi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Dreher (director)
Michael Dreher (born 1974 in Ruit) is a German film director and screenwriter. Life and work Michael Dreher was born in Ruit, Ostfildern, Baden-Württemberg. In 1996, he started to work as production manager and thereafter, in 1997, he studied film direction at the University of Television and Film Munich. Michael Dreher finished his study in 2006 with a successful diploma- and short film ''Fair Trade'', which he produced together with Karim Debbagh and which was nominated for the Student Academy Award. Filmography (selection) *2006: Fair Trade ''(Film director, Screenplay writer and Producer)'' *2009: Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore ''(Film director and Screenplay writer)'' Awards and nominations *''Fair Trade'' (2006) **2006: AFI Fest - Audience award for ''Best Short'' **2006: ''German Short Film Award'' - ''Short Film Award in Gold'' **2007: Shnit international shortfilmfestival - ''Jury Award'' for ''Best LONG JOHN'' **2007: ''Aspen Shorts Fest'' - ''Jury Award'' for ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morjana Alaoui
Morjana Alaoui ( ar, مرجانة العلوي; born November 30, 1982) is a Moroccan- French actress. She is best known for her starring roles in director Laila Marrakchi's ''Marock'' and ''Rock the Casbah,'' films which dealt with sexual taboos, cultural and religious values, and female emancipation in Morocco. She also starred in Pascal Laugier'''s'' horror film ''Martyrs,'' a polarizing film and associated with the New French Extremity movement. Biography Alaoui spent her early life in the Anfa neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco, and studied at the Casablanca American School. At 18, Alaoui moved to Paris, France, where she studied at the American University of Paris. While attending the university, she met director Laila Marrakchi, who offered her a role in the film ''Marock'' (2005). ''Marock'' was critically acclaimed and provided Alaoui national fame. In 2007, she began filming ''Martyrs A martyr (, ''mártys'', "witness", or , ''marturia'', stem , ''martyr-'') is so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Kinski
Nanhoï Nikolai Kinski (born July 30, 1976) is a French-American film actor, who has also done work in television and on stage. He was born in Paris, and grew up in California. Currently residing in Berlin, he has acted primarily in American and German films, and speaks English, German, and French. He is a citizen of both the U.S. and France. He is the only son of the German actor Klaus Kinski and his third wife, Minhoi Geneviève Loanic. He is the half-brother of actresses Pola Kinski and Nastassja Kinski, and through Nastassja, the uncle of model Kenya Kinski-Jones. Early life and education Kinski was born in 1976 in Paris, to German actor Klaus Kinski, and his third wife, Minhoi Geneviève Loanic, a model of 19 when they met, who was born in Vietnam and came with her family to France at the age of seven. His father had two older daughters, Pola Kinski and Nastassja Kinski, born in Germany to his first and second wives, respectively. He took his family to California, where Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
