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Spanish Fly (1998 Film)
''Spanish Fly'' is a 1998 French comedy film written and directed by Daphna Kastner and starring Daphna Kastner, Toni Cantó, Martin Donovan, Danny Huston, Marianne Sägebrecht and Antonio Castro. It was released in France on June 30, 1999, by Miramax Films. Plot Cast *Daphna Kastner as Zoe *Toni Cantó as Antonio *Martin Donovan as Carl *Danny Huston as John *Marianne Sägebrecht as Rosa *Antonio Castro as Julio *Maria de Medeiros as Rossy *Vernon Dobtcheff as Carl's Friend *Mary McDonnell as Zoe's Mother *Rossy de Palma Rosa Elena García Echave (born 16 September 1964), known professionally as Rossy de Palma, is a Spanish actress and model. She is well known for her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar such as ''Law of Desire'', ''Women on the Verge of a Nervou ... as Interviewee References External links * * 1998 films French comedy films 1998 comedy films 1990s English-language films 1990s French films {{1990s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphna Kastner
Daphna Kastner (born April 17, 1961) is a Canadian film and television actress, screenwriter, and film director. She is married to American actor Harvey Keitel. Personal life She and Harvey Keitel secretly married in Jerusalem, while attending the Haifa International Film Festival. In October 2001 they had their official ceremony at the Manhattan home of Keitel's friend, Ian Eckersley. They have a son. Selected Filmography * 1983 ''The Lonely Lady'' * 1986 '' Evixion'' * 1989 '' Girlfriend from Hell'' * 1990 ''Eating'' * 1991 ''Crack Me Up'' * 1991 '' Julia Has Two Lovers'' * 1991 '' Lana in Love'' * 1992 '' Venice/Venice'' * 1995 '' French Exit'' * 1996 '' Kiss & Tell'' * 1998 ''Spanish Fly'' * 2000 ''Timecode A timecode (alternatively, time code) is a sequence of numeric codes generated at regular intervals by a timing synchronization system. Timecode is used in video production, show control and other applications which require temporal coordination ...'' * 2001 ''Eden'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria De Medeiros
Maria Esteves de Medeiros Victorino de Almeida, DamSE (born 19 August 1965), known professionally as Maria de Medeiros (), is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film productions. Early life Maria de Medeiros was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the daughter of musician and composer António Victorino de Almeida. She played her first part on screen at the age of 15. At 18, she moved to France to pursue her acting studies and was a student at the CNSAD. Medeiros speaks French fluently and has acted extensively on stage and on screen in French productions. She also acts in German, Spanish and Italian productions. Medeiros is the first Portuguese woman to be designated a UNESCO Artist for Peace. Film career Among Medeiros' most memorable film appearances are three early 1990s roles. Her considerable resemblance to Anaïs Nin landed her the primary role in ''Henry & June'' (1990), in which she played the author. In 1990, she p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Comedy Films
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The '' Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). With up to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and ''The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Films
The year 1998 in film involved many significant films, including '' Shakespeare in Love'' (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), '' Saving Private Ryan'','' Armageddon'' (which was the top grossing film of the year in the United States), '' American History X'', '' The Truman Show'', ''Primary Colors'', '' ''Rushmore'''', ''Rush Hour'', '' There's Something About Mary'', '' The Big Lebowski'', and Terrence Malick's directorial return in '' The Thin Red Line''. DreamWorks SKG released its first two animated films: '' Antz'' and ''The Prince of Egypt''. The ''Pokémon'' theatrical film series started with '' Pokémon: The First Movie''. Warner Bros. Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary. The year saw two dueling science-fiction disaster films about asteroids, '' Armageddon'' and ''Deep Impact'', becoming box office success, with ''Armageddon'' becoming the more popular of the two. It was also the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide. Highest-grossing films The t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rossy De Palma
Rosa Elena García Echave (born 16 September 1964), known professionally as Rossy de Palma, is a Spanish actress and model. She is well known for her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar such as ''Law of Desire'', ''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'', ''Kika'', ''The Flower of My Secret'', '' Julieta'', and ''Parallel Mothers''. Life and Career Born in Palma de Mallorca, and her father was a mason from Asturias. In the 1980s, during the Movida cultural movement she moved to Madrid. In 1984 she founded the pop music group for which she was a singer and a dancer. In 1986 she met Pedro Almodóvar in a café in Madrid. He was impressed by her performance during one of the group's concerts. He proposed a role in his next film, ''Law of Desire''. Rossy lent some of her personal dresses to Carmen Maura, who was playing the main female character of the film, Tina Quintero. Her first major role was in 1988 in Almodóvar's ''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary McDonnell
Mary Eileen McDonnell (born April 28, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles as Stands With A Fist in ''Dances with Wolves'' and May-Alice Culhane in ''Passion Fish''. McDonnell is well known for her performances as President Laura Roslin in ''Battlestar Galactica'', First Lady Marilyn Whitmore in '' Independence Day'', and Rose in ''Donnie Darko''. She was featured as Captain Sharon Raydor during seasons 5–7 of the TNT series ''The Closer'' and starred as Commander Sharon Raydor in the spin-off series '' Major Crimes'' on the same network. Early life Mary Eileen McDonnell was born April 28, 1952, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, one of six children born to Eileen (née Mundy) and John "Jack" McDonnell, a computer consultant. She is of Irish descent and was raised Roman Catholic. As a child, McDonnell relocated with her family to Ithaca, New York, where she spent the remainder of her upbringing. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Dobtcheff
Vernon Dobtcheff (born 14 August 1934) is a British actor, best known for his roles on television and film, he has acted in numerous stage productions. Biography Dobtcheff was born in Nîmes, France, of Russian descent. He attended Ascham Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, in the 1940s, where he won the Acting Cup. One of his many television roles was as the Chief Scientist in the ''Doctor Who'' series ''The War Games'' in 1969, in which he became the first actor ever to mention the Time Lords by name. He appeared in the ''Blake's 7'' episode "Shadow" as the Chairman of the Terra Nostra in 1979. He has appeared in such films as ''The Day of the Jackal'' (1973), ''Murder on the Orient Express'' (1974), '' The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977), ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' (1989), and ''Before Sunset'' (2004). In his 2006 memoir, ''Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins'', British actor Rupert Everett describes an encounter with Dobtcheff on the boat train to Paris, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film and it is derived from the classical comedy in theatre. Some of the earliest silent films were comedies, as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions, without requiring sound. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1930s, comedy films took another swing, as laughter could result from burlesque situations but also dialogue. Comedy, compared with other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity. In '' The Screenwriters Taxonomy'' (2017), Eric R. Williams contends that film genres are fundamentally based upon a film's atmosphere, character, and story. Therefore the labels "drama" and "comedy" are t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Cantó
Antonio Cantó García del Moral, known as Toni Cantó (born 14 January 1965) is a Spanish actor, current People's Party politician and former Citizens deputy and spokesman, who represented Valencia Province in the Congress of Deputies from 2011 to April 2015 and again from December 2015 until 2021. Biography Early life Antonio Cantó García del Moral was born on 14 January 1965 in Valencia, son to a physician. He worked as model. He received training in drama at the Centro Dramático Nacional and, in 1986, he landed a job as TV presenter in La 1 show ''La tarde''. Acting career and other appearances His debut in a feature film came with a performance in Carlos Romero Marchent's ', released in 1986. Some of his credits included performances in films such as Pilar Miró's ''Your Name Poisons My Dreams'' (1996) and Pedro Almodóvar's ''All About My Mother'' (1999). A performer in a number of television series in the 1990s (including ''El destino en sus manos'', ''Entre naran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Toronto International Film Festival
The 23rd Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 10 to September 19, 1998. A total of 311 films were screened during the ten-day festival, commencing with the opening gala, ''The Red Violin''. Awards Programmes Gala Opening Night * ''The Red Violin'' by François Girard Gala Closing Night * ''Antz'' by Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson Gala Presentations * ''August 32nd on Earth'' by Denis Villeneuve * ''Central Station'' by Walter Salles * ''Dancing at Lughnasa'' by Pat O'Connor * ''Dog Park'' by Bruce McCulloch * ''Elizabeth'' by Shekhar Kapur * ''Hilary and Jackie'' by Anand Tucker * '' Judas Kiss'' by Sebastian Gutierrez * ''The School of Flesh'' by Benoît Jacquot * ''L.A. Without a Map'' by Mika Kaurismäki * ''Lautrec'' by Roger Planchon * '' Little Voice'' by Mark Herman * ''Living Out Loud'' by Richard LaGravenese * '' Pleasantville'' by Gary Ross * '' A Simple Plan'' by Sam Raimi * ''A Soldier's Sweetheart'' by Thomas Michael Donnelly * ''Without Limits'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miramax
Miramax, LLC, also known as Miramax Films, is an American film and television production and distribution company founded on December 19, 1979, by brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and based in Los Angeles, California. It was initially a leading producer and distributor of independent films until it became the first company to be acquired by The Walt Disney Company on June 30, 1993. In 2010, the leadership of Disney saw Miramax to be redundant in their directions and on December 3 sold it to Filmyard Holdings, a joint venture of Colony NorthStar, Tutor-Saliba Corporation and Qatar Investment Authority. On March 2, 2016, the company was in turn sold to the beIN Media Group, who then agreed to sell a 49% stake in the company to ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) on December 20, 2019. It was completed on April 3, 2020, and its stake in Miramax got placed under the umbrella of its film division, Paramount Pictures. History Independent era (1979–1993) The company was founded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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