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Spooked (film)
''Spooked'' is a 2004 New Zealand film directed by Geoff Murphy and loosely based on Ian Wishart's novel ''The Paradise Conspiracy'', which itself is based on actual events in New Zealand. Partly funded by the New Zealand Film Commission, ''Spooked'' had its first screenings in the market at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival where it was first reviewed. The film performed poorly at the box office after some negative reviews despite its cast of prominent New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ... actors. Plot Investigative journalist Mort Whitman (Cliff Curtis) is onto the story of his lifetime, the most important story in the nation. It was huge, involving a big payoff from a multinational bank to a second-hand computer dealer Kevin Jones (Christopher Hobbs). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Murphy
Geoffrey Peter Murphy (12 October 1938 – 3 December 2018) was a New Zealand filmmaker, producer, director, and screenwriter best known for his work during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the second half of the 1970s. His second feature ''Goodbye Pork Pie'' (1981) was the first New Zealand film to win major commercial success on its own soil. Murphy directed several Hollywood features during the 1990s, before returning to New Zealand as second-unit director on ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy. Murphy was also at different times a scriptwriter, special effects technician, schoolteacher and trumpet player. He was married to Merata Mita, also a film director, actor, writer. Early life Murphy grew up in the Wellington suburb of Highbury, and attended St. Vincent de Paul School in Kelburn and St. Patrick's College, Wellington, before training and working as a schoolteacher. Blerta Murphy was a founding member of the hippy musical and theatrical co-opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Hobbs (actor)
Christopher Hobbs (born 9 September 1950) is an English experimental composer, best known as a pioneer of British systems music. Life and career Hobbs was born in Hillingdon, near London. He was a junior exhibitioner at Trinity College London, then was Cornelius Cardew's first student at the Royal Academy of Music from 1967. Hobbs worked with Cardew and Christian Wolff: he joined AMM, appearing on two albums: ''The Crypt'' and ''Laminal''. In 1969, Hobbs was a member from the first meeting of the Scratch Orchestra, and, as its youngest member, designed the Scratch Orchestra's first concert, at Hampstead Town Hall on 1 November 1969. His early composition ''Voicepiece'', part of his Verbal Pieces group, was used often enough to be called a Popular Classic in the Scratch Orchestra nomenclature. As experimental music was hard to come by, Hobbs gathered sheet music from friends and founded the Experimental Music Catalogue in 1968 as a distribution centre. Various pieces were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Drama Films
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Films Shot In New Zealand
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Drama Films
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Geoff Murphy
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Films
2004 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. ''Shrek 2'' was the year's top-grossing film, and '' Million Dollar Baby'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy described 2004 as "a banner year for actors, particularly men." He went on to emphasize, "I can't think of another year in which there were so many good performances, in every genre. It was a year in which we saw the entire spectrum of demographics displayed on the big screen, from vet actors such as Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, to seniors such as Pacino, De Niro, and Hoffman, to newcomers such as Topher Grace. As always, though, the center of the male acting pyramid is occupied by actors in their forties and fifties, such as Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Liam Neeson, Kevin Kline, Don Cheadle, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Bruce
Alison Bruce (born 1962) is a New Zealand television and film actress, who starred in the 1999 feature ''Magik and Rose''. She also appeared in the teen series ''Being Eve'', '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' and had a recurring role as Simula in ''Young Hercules''. Life and career Bruce was born in Tanzania to a Scottish father and an English mother. Her family moved to New Zealand when she was around eight. After training at Auckland's Theatre Corporate in the early 1980s, she began a busy acting career with stage roles that include starring in ''Hamlet'' (as Ophelia) and ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' (as Roxane). Bruce made her screen debut in the 1984 teleplay ''The Minders''. Since then she has acted in more than 30 screen roles, including sizeable parts in two feature films: the 1990 chase comedy ''User Friendly'', in which her character steals a keenly-sought dog statue from a crazed former boss; and 2001 feature ''Magik and Rose'', which Bruce later described as a turning point in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriama Smith
Miriama Te Rangimarie Smith (born 3 June 1976) is a New Zealand film and television actress who has played roles in various TV shows such as '' Xena: Warrior Princess'', ''Karaoke High'' and ''Shortland Street''. Her best-known roles, however, were the role of Moz in the third season of '' The Tribe'', and also the role of Elsa / Principal Randall in the 2004 ''Power Rangers'' series, ''Power Rangers Dino Thunder''. She was one of the three judges on the first season of entertainment show ''New Zealand's Got Talent'' that aired on Prime TV in 2008. She starred as Brady Trubridge on the TVNZ 2 drama series '' Filthy Rich.'' Early life Smith was born in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She is of Te Arawa descent. Career Smith started her acting career when she was a teen. She did a few commercials and a role in one episode of the TV show ''Shark in the Park.'' She was in the movie The Other Side of Heaven in 2001. She played Elsa / Principal Randall in the 2004 ''Power Ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Cannes Film Festival
The 57th Cannes Film Festival started on 12 and ran until 23 May 2004 in film, 2004. The Palme d'Or went to the United States, American film ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' by Michael Moore. The festival opened with ''Bad Education (2004 film), La mala educación'', directed by Pedro Almodóvar and closed with ''De-Lovely'', directed by Irwin Winkler. Laura Morante was mistress of the ceremonies. Juries Main competition The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2004 Official Selection: * Quentin Tarantino, () Jury President * Emmanuelle Béart () * Edwidge Danticat ( & ) * Tilda Swinton () * Kathleen Turner () * Benoît Poelvoorde () * Jerry Schatzberg () * Tsui Hark () * Peter von Bagh () Un Certain Regard The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 2004 Un Certain Regard: * Jeremy Thomas (producer) () President * Carlos Gomez (critic) () * Baba Richerme (journalist) () * Eric Libiot (critic) () * Eva Zaoralova (artistic director of the Karl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Curtis
Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born 27 July 1968) is a New Zealand actor. His film credits include ''Once Were Warriors'' (1994), ''Three Kings'' (1999), ''Training Day'' (2001), ''Whale Rider'' (2002), ''Collateral Damage'' (2002), ''Sunshine'', ''Live Free or Die Hard'' (both 2007), '' The Dark Horse'' (2014), for which he won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor, and ''Doctor Sleep'' (2019). Curtis had television series roles on NBC's ''Trauma'' and ABC's ''Body of Proof'' and ''Missing''. From 2015 to 2017, he portrayed Travis Manawa on the AMC horror drama series '' Fear the Walking Dead''. He is the co-owner of the independent New Zealand production company Whenua Films. Early life Curtis was born on 27 July 1968 in Rotorua in the Bay of Plenty. He is one of eight children, the son of an amateur dancer. Curtis is of Māori descent; his tribal affiliations are Te Arawa and Ngāti Hauiti. As a boy he studied mau rākau, a traditional Māori form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
