Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a permane ...
ran from September 9 through September 18. The festival screened 328 films of which 253 were features and 75 were shorts (148 of the films screened were in a language other than English).
Awards
No first or second runners-up were officially named for the People's Choice Award; however, festival director
Piers Handling
Piers Handling is the former CEO and executive director of the Toronto International Film Festival, and former director of the Canadian Film Institute.
Early life
Piers was born to Joan Garrod and Douglas Handling, who met during World War II. He ...
did provide the media with a list of numerous other films that had been in the running, including ''
Crash
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* Couch su ...
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Gunner Palace
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I, Claudia
''I, Claudia'' is a one-woman play starring Kristen Thomson, which was adapted into a movie, shown on CBC's ''Opening Night (TV series), Opening Night'' and at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The play and film, written by Thomson, is a ...
3-Iron
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Ma Mère
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The Holy Girl
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Brides
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When marrying, the bride's future spouse, (if male) is usually referred to as the ''bridegroom'' or just ''groom''. In Western culture, a bride may be attended by a maid, brides ...
Sideways
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Carole Laure
Carole Laure O.C. (born August 5, 1948) is an actress and singer from Quebec, Canada.
Career
Throughout most of her career, Carole Laure primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, songwriter, producer, and director Lewis Furey, whom she m ...
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I, Claudia
''I, Claudia'' is a one-woman play starring Kristen Thomson, which was adapted into a movie, shown on CBC's ''Opening Night (TV series), Opening Night'' and at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The play and film, written by Thomson, is a ...
Mark A. Lewis
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It's All Gone Pete Tong
''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' is a 2004 British-Canadian mockumentary-drama film about a DJ (Paul Kaye) who goes completely deaf. The title uses a rhyming slang phrase used in Britain from the 1980s (Pete Tong = "wrong"), referring to the BBC Ra ...
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Michael Dowse
Michael Dowse (born April 19, 1973) is a Canadian director.
Life and career
Born in London, Ontario, to Irish parents, he was trained as a film editor. His first full-length movie, ''FUBAR'' was shot on a digital camera with a tiny budget, but w ...
Littoral
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Wajdi Mouawad
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Phil the Alien
''Phil the Alien'' is a 2004 Canadian comedy film. It was written and directed by Rob Stefaniuk, who also starred as the titular Phil."'When a spaceship crashes in Northern Ontario, it's funny'". '' Sudbury Star'', September 24, 2004.
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Rob Stefaniuk
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Saint Ralph
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Seven Times Lucky
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Plot
When a ve ...
White Skin
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Daniel Roby
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The Rowdyman
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The film is a ...
René Bonnière
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Biography
Bonnière was born in Lyo ...
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La bête lumineuse
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Pierre Perrault
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Pour la suite du monde
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Michel Brault
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The Times That Are
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The River Schooners
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(Les Voitures d'eau)'' (Pierre Perrault)
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3-Iron
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Kim Ki-duk
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Almost Brothers
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Lúcia Murat
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Murat participated in the student and guerrilla movements against the Brazilian military government, military dictatorship in Brazil in the 1960–1970s. She was imprisoned and ...
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The Alzheimer Case
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Erik Van Looy
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Antares
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Götz Spielmann
Götz Spielmann (born 11 January 1961) is an Austrian director and scriptwriter.
Life and career
Spielmann was born in Wels, Austria, and grew up in Vienna. After High School, he lived in Paris for several months. From 1980 to 1987 he studied fi ...
Federico Veiroj
Federico Veiroj (born 1976 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor.
Veiroj studied Communications at the UCUDAL. Two of his films have been List of Uruguayan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Interna ...
Carlos Sorín
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Breaking News
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Johnnie To
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Brothers
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Susanne Bier
Susanne Bier (; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. She is best known for her feature films ''Brothers'' (2004), '' After the Wedding'' (2006), ''In a Better World'' (2010), and '' Bird Box'' (2018), and the TV miniseries ''The Night Mana ...
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Cool
Cool commonly refers to:
* Cool, a moderately low temperature
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Cool or COOL may also refer to:
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Crónicas
''Crónicas'' ("chronicles") is a 2004 Ecuadorian thriller film, written and directed by Sebastián Cordero. The film was produced by, among others, Guillermo del Toro, director of ''Pan's Labyrinth'', and Alfonso Cuarón, director of '' Chi ...
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Sebastián Cordero
Sebastián Cordero Espinosa (; born 23 May 1972) is an Ecuadorian film director, screenwriter and editor, often recognized for his work in '' Ratas, Ratones, Rateros'' (1999), ''Crónicas'' (2004), and '' Europa Report'' (2013). His films have b ...
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Days and Hours
''Days and Hours'' ( Bosnian version title: ''Kod amidže Idriza'') is a 2004 Bosnian film directed by Pjer Žalica and written by Namik Kabil. It was Bosnia and Herzegovina's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best F ...
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Pjer Žalica
Pjer Žalica (born 7 May 1964 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnians, Bosnian film director, screenwriter and a professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. His father Miodrag (1926–1992) was a noted dramaturgist and poet who scripted several T ...
Shane Meadows
Shane Meadows (born 26 December 1972) is an English director, screenwriter and actor, known for his work in independent film, most notably the cult film ''This Is England'' (2006) and its three sequels (2010–2015).
Meadows' other films inc ...
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Dear Frankie
''Dear Frankie'' is a 2004 British drama film directed by Shona Auerbach and starring Emily Mortimer, Gerard Butler, Jack McElhone, and Sharon Small. The screenplay by Andrea Gibb focuses on a young single mother whose love for her son prompts h ...
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Shona Auerbach
Shona Auerbach is a British film director and cinematographer.
Early career
Auerbach began her career as a stills photographer. She studied film at Manchester University and cinematography at Leeds before completing her Master of Arts at th ...
Fernando Eimbcke
Fernando Eimbcke (born 1970 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter.
Fernando Eimbcke studied film direction at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM (1992–1996). He started his career directin ...
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Earth and Ashes
''Earth and Ashes'' ( fa, خاکستر و خاک) is a 2004 Afghan film directed by Atiq Rahimi, based on his book of the same name which was published in 2000. It was Afghanistan's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for B ...
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Atiq Rahimi
Atiq Rahimi ( fa, عتیق رحیمی) (born 26 February 1962 in Kabul) is a French-Afghan writer and filmmaker.
Life
Atiq Rahimi was born in 1962 in Kabul to a senior public servant and attended high school in Lycée Esteqlal. Following the So ...
Philippe Lioret
Philippe Lioret (born 10 October 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter
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La Femme de Gilles
''Gilles' Wife'' (french: La Femme de Gilles) is a 2004 drama film based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Madeleine Bourdouxhe. The film was directed by Frédéric Fonteyne and written by Fonteyne, Philippe Blasband and Marion Hänsel. It rec ...
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Frédéric Fonteyne
Frédéric Fonteyne (; born 9 January 1968) is a Belgian film director. He studied film at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve. His 2020 film ''Working Girls (2020 film), Working Girls'' was selected as the Belgian entry for th ...
Álex de la Iglesia
Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza (born 4 December 1965) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former comic book artist.
De la Iglesia's films combine grotesque and very dark elements such as death and murder: most of his ...
Paula van der Oest
Paula van der Oest (born 1965) is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. Her 2001 film ''Zus & Zo'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
With her final exam at the Dutch Film and Television Academy, ''Zinderend' ...
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The Holy Girl
''The Holy Girl'' ( es, La niña santa) is a 2004 Argentinian drama film directed by Lucrecia Martel. The picture was executively produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Esther García. It was produced by Lita Stantic. The film fe ...
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Lucrecia Martel
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Hotel
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Jessica Hausner
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The Keys to the House
''The Keys to the House'' ( it, Le chiavi di casa) is an Italian 2004 dramatic family film based on the story ''Born Twice'' (Italian title: ''Nati due volte'') telling the story of a young father meeting his handicapped son for the first time ...
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Gianni Amelio
Gianni Amelio (born 20 January 1945) is an Italian film director.
Early life
Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with ...
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Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants
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Yvan Attal Yvan is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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*Marc-Yvan Côté (born 1947), former Quebec politician and Cabinet Minister for the Quebec Liberal Party
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Inconscientes
''Unconscious'' ( es, Inconscientes, links=no) is a 2004 period comedy film directed by Joaquín Oristrell starring Leonor Watling and Luis Tosar, also featuring Mercedes Sampietro, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Núria Prims and Alex Brendemühl in support ...
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Joaquín Oristrell
Joaquín Oristrell Ventura (born 15 September 1953) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Barcelona on 15 September 1953, he is the cousin of actress Yolanda Ventura and nephew of trumpeter .
He has written scripts ...
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Innocent Voices
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Luis Mandoki
Luis Mandoki (born August 17, 1954) is a Mexican film director working in Mexico and Cinema of the United States, Hollywood.
Luis Mandoki studied Fine Arts in Mexico and at the San Francisco Art Institute, the London College of Printing, and th ...
Ziad Doueiri
Ziad Doueiri ( ar , زياد دويري ; born October 7, 1963) is a Lebanese film director, cinematographer and writer. He is best known for his award-winning films ''West Beirut'' (1998) and '' The Insult'' (2017), a film that was nominated a ...
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The Limb Salesman
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Anais Granofsky
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Early life
Granofsky was born in Spring ...
Ma Mère
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Christophe Honoré
Christophe Honoré (born 10 April 1970) is a French writer and film and theatre director.
Career
Honoré was born in Carhaix, Finistère. After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in ''Les Cahiers du Cinéma''. He started writing soon aft ...
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Male Fantasy
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Blaine Thurier
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Mon père est ingénieur
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Robert Guédiguian
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Guédiguian is the son of a German mother and an Arme ...
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My Summer of Love
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Paweł Pawlikowski
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Mysterious Skin
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Gregg Araki
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Nobody Knows Nobody Knows may refer to:
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Hirokazu Koreeda
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Park Chan-wook
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Plastic Flowers
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Liu Bingjian
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Originally trained as a painter, Liu attended the prestigious Beijin ...
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Quill
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Yoichi Sai
was a Japanese film director. He was the president of the Directors Guild of Japan.
Life and career
Sai was born on 6 July 1949 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. His mother was Japanese and his father was Zainichi Korean.
Sai won the Best Screenpl ...
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Real Life
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Arnaud Desplechin
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Desplechin was born in Roubaix. He is the son of Robert and ...
Pablo Trapero
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Shiza
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Gulshat Omarova
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David Weaver
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Somersault
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Cate Shortland
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Stray Dogs
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Marzieh Meshkini
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The Tuner
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Kira Muratova
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Turtles Can Fly
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Bahman Ghobadi
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Two Great Sheep
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''Two Great Sheep'' tells the gentle story of a peasant couple, played by Sun Yunkun and Jiang Zhikun, who are charged with car ...
Jan Hřebejk
Jan Hřebejk (; born 27 June 1967) is a Czechs, Czech film director and actor.
Life and career
Born in Prague, Hřebejk graduated from high school in 1987 and continued his studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in ...
Eytan Fox
Eytan Fox ( he, איתן פוקס; born on August 21, 1964) is an Israeli film director.
Biography
Eytan Fox was born in New York City. His family immigrated to Israel when he was two. His father, Seymour Fox, was a Conservative rabbi and a prof ...
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Whisky
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Juan Pablo Rebella
Juan Pablo Rebella (born 1974, in Montevideo – died July 5, 2006) was an Uruguayan film director and screenwriter.
Biography
He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied social communication.
In 2004 Rebella and Stoll ...
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Pablo Stoll
Pablo Stoll (born 1974) is a Uruguayan film director and screenwriter.
He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied Social communication, it was here that he started to direct short films and his collaboration with fellow stude ...
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Wilby Wonderful
''Wilby Wonderful'' is a 2004 comedy-drama film directed by Daniel MacIvor, and starring James Allodi, Maury Chaykin, Paul Gross, Rebecca Jenkins, Sandra Oh, Elliot Page, Callum Keith Rennie, and Daniel MacIvor. ''Wilby Wonderful'' tells the story ...
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Daniel MacIvor
Daniel MacIvor (born July 23, 1962) is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director, and film director. He is probably best known for his acting roles in independent films and the sitcom ''Twitch City''.
Personal
MacIvor was born in Sydney, Nov ...
Nicole Kassell
Nicole Kassell (born 1972) is an American film and television director who is noted for her work on films such as '' The Woodsman'' and on TV in series such as ''Vinyl'', '' The Leftovers'' and ''Watchmen''.
Kassell has won numerous awards incl ...
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The World
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Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke ( zh, c=贾樟柯, p=Jiǎ Zhāngkē, born 24 May 1970) .He is a Chinese-language film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and writer. He is the dean of the Shanxi Film Academy of Shanxi Media College and the dea ...
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Dialogues: Talking with Pictures
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The Brood
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David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation ...
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Diary of a Country Priest
''Diary of a Country Priest'' (french: Journal d'un curé de campagne) is a 1951 French drama film written and directed by Robert Bresson, and starring Claude Laydu in his debut film performance. A faithful adaptation of Georges Bernanos' nove ...
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Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson (; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French film director.
Known for his ascetic approach, Bresson contributed notably to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, Ellipsis (narrative device), ellipses, and s ...
Michael Cimino
Michael Antonio Cimino ( ; February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016) was an American filmmaker. One of the "New Hollywood" directors, Cimino achieved fame with ''The Deer Hunter'' (1978), which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best D ...
Ousmane Sembène
Ousmane Sembène (; 1 January 1923 or 8 January 1923 – 9 June 2007), often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer. The ''Los Angeles Times'' consider ...
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Sweet Smell of Success
''Sweet Smell of Success'' is a 1957 American film noir drama film directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, and Martin Milner, and written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman, and Mackendrick from t ...
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Alexander Mackendrick
Alexander Mackendrick (September 8, 1912 – December 22, 1993) was an American-born director and professor, long based in Scotland. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and later moved to Scotland. He began making television commercials befor ...
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This Sporting Life
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Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for h ...
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Withnail and I
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Bruce Robinson
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Discovery
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Astronauts
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Santi Amodeo
Santiago José "Santi" Amodeo Ojeda (born 1969) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, musician and composer.
Biography
Santi was born in Seville
Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous comm ...
The Buffalo Boy
''The Buffalo Boy'' ( vi, Mùa len trâu, links=no, french: Le Gardien des Buffles, links=no) is a 2004 film directed by Nguyễn Võ Nghiêm Minh. The movie was the official entry from Vietnam for Best Foreign Language Film category at the 78t ...
Safy Nebbou
Safy Nebbou (born 27 April 1968) is a French actor and director.
Life and career
Nebbou was born on 27 April 1968 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France to a German mother and an Algerian father. He is the brother of actor Mehdi Nebbou.
He ...
Alexander Voulgaris
Alexander Voulgaris ( gr, Αλέξανδρος Βούλγαρης) is a Greek film director, screenwriter, composer and actor. Films Voulgaris wrote, directed and scored include '' Thread'', '' Roz'' and ''Higuita''. His composing credits includ ...
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Electric Shadows
''Electric Shadows'' is a 2004 Chinese film directed by Xiao Jiang. The English title of the film is the literal translation for the Chinese term for movies or "dian ying" (電影).
''Electric Shadows'' is the debut film of director Xiao Jiang, o ...
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Xiao Jiang
Xiao Jiang () (born 1972) is the stage name of female Chinese film director Jia Yan,. Jia graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1995. Jia Yan worked primarily in television, directing three TV movies before joining the China Film Group
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The Forest for the Trees
''The Forest for the Trees'' (german: Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen) is a 2003 German film directed by Maren Ade in her feature film directorial debut.
The movie premiered at the 2003 Hof International Film Festival before going on to play at the ...
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Maren Ade
Maren Ade (; born 12 December 1976) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer. Ade lives in Berlin, teaching screenwriting at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. Together with Janine Jackowski and Jonas Dornbach, she r ...
Bharatbala
Bharath Bala is an Indian film director, screenwriter and film producer based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Career
Bharat Bala produced the acclaimed album ''Vande Mataram'' and '' Jana Gana Mana Video'' and heads BharatBala Productions based in Che ...
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Harvest Time
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Marina Razbezhkina
Marina Razbezhkina ( rus, Марина Разбежкина) is a Russian screenwriter, producer, director and documentary filmmaker. Working on such films as''Harvest Time (film), Harvest Time'', ''The Hollow (2007 film), The Hollow'' and ''Optic ...
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In My Father's Den
''In My Father's Den'' is a 1972 novel by New Zealand author Maurice Gee.
The novel was adapted to film in 2004, written and directed by Brad McGann.
First edition
*''In My Father's Den''. London: Faber, 1972. Auckland: Oxford UP, 1978.
The no ...
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Brad McGann
Brad McGann MNZM (22 February 1964 – 2 May 2007), was a New Zealand film director and screenwriter.
McGann was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1964. He completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Otago and in 1988 com ...
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Innocence
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In relation ...
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Lucile Hadžihalilović
Lucile Emina Hadžihalilović (born 7 May 1961) is a French writer and director of Bosnian descent. She is best known for the 1996 short film ''La Bouche de Jean-Pierre'' and the 2004 feature-length film ''Innocence'', for which she became the ...
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Mirage
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Svetozar Ristovski
Svetozar Ristovski (born January 26, 1972) is a Macedonian film director who now resides in Canada. His first film was the 2000 short ''Hunter'' about the psychological study of a wartime sniper. He marked his English language debut with 2010's ...
Hendrik Hölzemann Hendrik may refer to:
* Hendrik (given name)
* Hans Hendrik, Greenlandic Arctic traveller and interpreter
* Hendrik Island, an island in Greenland
* Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, a municipality in the Netherlands
* A character from ''Dragon Quest XI''
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Omagh
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Pete Travis
Pete Travis is a British television and film director. His work includes '' Cold Feet'' (1999), '' The Jury'' (2002) and ''Omagh'' (2004) for television and '' Vantage Point'' (2008), ''Endgame'' (2009), ''Dredd'' (2012) and ''City of Tiny Ligh ...
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On the Outs
''On the Outs'' is a 2004 Drama (film and television), drama film co-directed by Lori Silverbush and Michael Skolnik. The film chronicles the lives of three young women in a Jersey City, New Jersey, Jersey City neighborhood and their struggles ag ...
The Overture
''The Overture'' ( th, โหมโรง or Hom rong) is a 2004 in film, 2004 Cinema of Thailand, Thai tragic-nostalgia musical film, music-Drama (film and television), drama film. A fictionalised account based on the life story of Thai palace ...
Oyster Farmer
''Oyster Farmer'' is a 2004 Australian romantic comedy/drama film about a 24 year old man who runs away to the Hawkesbury River and finds a job with eighth-generation oyster farmers. It was written and directed by Anna Reeves, produced by Anthon ...
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Anna Reeves
Anna may refer to:
People Surname and given name
* Anna (name)
Mononym
* Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke
* Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773)
* Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century)
* Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221)
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Private
Private or privates may refer to:
Music
* " In Private", by Dusty Springfield from the 1990 album ''Reputation''
* Private (band), a Denmark-based band
* "Private" (Ryōko Hirosue song), from the 1999 album ''Private'', written and also recorde ...
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Saverio Costanzo
Saverio Costanzo (born 28 September 1975) is an Italian film and television director.
Biography Early life
Costanzo was born in Rome, the son of journalist and TV presenter Maurizio Costanzo and writer Flaminia Morandi, and the brother of writ ...
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Producing Adults
''Producing Adults'' ( fi, Lapsia ja aikuisia – kuinka niitä tehdään?) (''Children and Adults – How To Make Them?'') is a 2004 Finnish comedy drama written by Pekko Pesonen and directed by Aleksi Salmenperä. It was Finland's official A ...
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Aleksi Salmenperä
Aleksi Salmenperä (born 1973 in Helsinki) is a Finnish film director. He is a graduate of the University of Art and Design Helsinki; among his films are 2004's ''Producing Adults'', 2007's '' A Man's Work'' and 2010 '' Bad Family''. ''A Man's W ...
Robin Campillo
Robin Campillo (; born 16 August 1962) is a Moroccan-born French screenwriter, editor and film director. He is known for his work on films such as ''The Class (2008 film), The Class'' (2008), ''Heading South'' (2005), the French zombie film ''Th ...
Alice Wu
Alice Wu (; born April 21, 1970) is an American film director and screenwriter, known for her films '' Saving Face'' (2004) and ''The Half of It'' (2020).
Both of her films feature Chinese-American main characters and explore the lives of intel ...
Marco Kreuzpaintner
Marco Johann Kreuzpaintner (born 11 March 1977) is a German film director, executive producer and screenwriter.
Career
In 1999, he began his career in the role of German dubbing assistant for the Stanley Kubrick film ''Eyes Wide Shut''.
In t ...
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Symmetry
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Aksel Hennie
Aksel Hennie (born 29 October 1975) is a Norwegian actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles in the films '' Headhunters'' (2011), ''Hercules'' (2014), and '' The Martian'' (2015).
Early life
Hennie was born in the Lambert ...
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Vento di Terra
Vento may refer to:
* Vento (surname), a Finnish and Italian surname
* Vento (motorcycle manufacturer), an Italian motorcycle manufacturer
* Volkswagen Vento (A3), a German compact sedan
* Volkswagen Vento (A05), a German subcompact sedan
* VinF ...
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Vincenzo Marra
Vincenzo Marra (born Naples, 18 September 1972) is an Italian filmmaker.
Filmography
* 2001 - '' Tornando a casa''
* 2002 - '' E.A.M. - Estranei alla massa'' (documentary)
* 2003 - '' Paesaggio a sud''
* 2004 - '' Vento di terra''
* 2005 - '' 58 ...
Amma Asante
Amma Asante (born 13 September 1969) is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, former actress, and Chancellor at Norwich University of the Arts, who was born in London to parents from Ghana. Her love for the film industry started when she received ...
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Whisky Romeo Zulu
''Whisky Romeo Zulu'' is a 2004 Argentine drama film directed by Enrique Piñeyro and written by Piñeyro and Emiliano Torres. Verónica Cura was the executive producer and Enrique Piñeyro was the producer.
The drama is based on the experience ...
Abbas Kiarostami
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Raymond Depardon
Raymond Depardon (; born 6 July 1942) is a French photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker.
Early life
Depardon was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France.
Photographer
Depardon is a mainly self-taught photographer, as he began ...
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À tout de suite
''Right Now'' (french: À tout de suite) is a 2004 French film by director Benoît Jacquot. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
In 1975, a young bourgeois woman falls in love with a bank robber. ...
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Benoît Jacquot
Benoît Jacquot (; born 5 February 1947) is a French film director and screenwriter who has had a varied career in European cinema.
Life and career
Born in Paris, Jacquot began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films, inclu ...
Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (; (often known simply as Almodóvar) born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish filmmaker. His films are marked by melodrama, irreverent humour, bold colour, glossy décor, quotations from popular culture, and complex narr ...
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Brides
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Pantelis Voulgaris
Pantelis Voulgaris ( el, Παντελής Βούλγαρης; born 23 October 1940) is a Greek film director and screenwriter. His first feature film ''To proxenio tis Annas'' in 1972 won the first prize in Thessaloniki International Film Festiv ...
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Café Lumière
is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien for Shochiku as homage to Yasujirō Ozu, with direct reference to the late director's '' Tokyo Story'' (1953). It premiered at a festival commemorating the centenary of Ozu's ...
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Hou Hsiao-hsien
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Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Buddhadeb Dasgupta (11 February 1944 – 10 June 2021) was an Indian filmmaker and poet best known for his Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali-language films like ''Bagh Bahadur'', ''Tahader Katha'', ''Charachar'' and ''Uttara (film), Uttara''. Five ...
Agnès Varda
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Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and Film studies, film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for films such as ''Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 108 ...
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Eros
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Wong Kar-wai
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Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh (; born January 14, 1963) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. A pioneer of modern independent cinema, Soderbergh is an acclaimed and prolific filmmaker.
Soderbergh's direc ...
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962 ...
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Five
5 is a number, numeral, and glyph.
5, five or number 5 may also refer to:
* AD 5, the fifth year of the AD era
* 5 BC, the fifth year before the AD era
Literature
* ''5'' (visual novel), a 2008 visual novel by Ram
* ''5'' (comics), an awa ...
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Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami ( fa, عباس کیارستمی ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of ...
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Human Touch
''Human Touch'' is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen. The album was released on March 31, 1992, the same day as ''Lucky Town''. It was the more popular of the two, peaking at number two on the US ''Billboard ...
Land of Plenty
''Land of Plenty'' is a 2004 American drama film directed by Wim Wenders starring Michelle Williams and John Diehl.
The title of the film comes from the song "The Land of Plenty" from the album '' Ten New Songs'', written by Leonard Cohen and ...
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Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer. He is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Docum ...
Im Kwon-taek
Im Kwon-taek (born December 8, 1934) is one of South Korea's most renowned film directors. In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards as well as considerable box-office success, and h ...
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Midwinter Night's Dream
''Midwinter Night's Dream'' ( sr, italic=yes, San zimske noći, Сан зимске ноћи) is a 2004 drama film directed by Goran Paskaljevic. It is an allegory of the Yugoslav wars, starring an autistic child as the main character. When fir ...
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Goran Paskaljević
Goran Paskaljević ( sr-cyr, Горан Паскаљевић; ; 22 April 1947 – 25 September 2020) was a Serbian and former Yugoslav film director.
Biography
Born in Belgrade, he was raised by his grandparents in Niš in southern Serbia, foll ...
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Moolaadé
''Moolaadé'' ("magical protection") is a 2004 film by the Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembène. It addresses the subject of female genital mutilation, a common practice in a number of African countries, from Egypt to Nigeria. The film ...
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Ousmane Sembène
Ousmane Sembène (; 1 January 1923 or 8 January 1923 – 9 June 2007), often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer. The ''Los Angeles Times'' consider ...
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The Ninth Day
''The Ninth Day'' is a 2004 German historical drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring Ulrich Matthes and August Diehl. It was released by Kino International.
The film is about a Catholic priest from Luxembourg who is imprisoned i ...
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Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff (; born 31 March 1939 Friday) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s, ...
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Notre Musique
''Notre musique'' (English: ''Our Music'') is a 2004 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The film reflects on violence, morality, and the representation of violence in film, and touches especially on past colonialism and the current Israeli–Pal ...
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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as Fran ...
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Salvador Allende
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (, , ; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the fir ...
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Patricio Guzmán
Patricio Guzmán Lozanes (born August 11, 1941) is a Chilean documentary film director. He is most known for his films ''The Battle of Chile'' (1975-1979) and ''Salvador Allende'' (2004).
Career
Guzmán also teaches documentary film classes in ...
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Sucker Free City
''Sucker Free City'' is a 2004 television film directed by Spike Lee. The film examines white, black, and Chinese characters in San Francisco and the conflicts they encounter with each other. The film was intended to be the pilot for a Showtime t ...
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Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced more than 35 films since 1983. He made his directorial debut ...
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (; ; 27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely re ...
Fabrice du Welz
Fabrice Du Welz (born 21 October 1972 in Belgium) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. He has directed several films including '' Calvaire'' in 2004, ''Vinyan'' in 2008 and '' Message from the King'' in 2016.
Career
Fabrice du Welz, b ...
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Creep
Creep, Creeps or CREEP may refer to:
People
* Creep, a creepy person
Politics
* Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP), mockingly abbreviated as CREEP, an fundraising organization for Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign
Art ...
Alex Turner
Alexander David Turner (born 6 January 1986) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is well known as the frontman and principal songwriter of the rock band Arctic Monkeys, with whom he has released seven albums. He ...
Mamoru Oshii
is a Japanese filmmaker, television director and writer. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of acclaimed anime films, including ''Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer'' (1984), ''Angel's Egg'' (1985), ...
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Kontroll
''Kontroll'' is a 2003 Hungarian comedy–thriller film. Shown internationally, mainly in art house theatres, the film is set on a fictionalized version of the Budapest Metro system. "Kontroll" in Hungarian refers to the act of ticket inspectors ...
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Nimród Antal
Nimród E. Antal (; born November 30, 1973) is a Hungarian Americans, Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and actor.
Life and career
Antal was born in Los Angeles, California, to parents of Hungarian people, Hungarian descent. In 199 ...
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The Machinist
''The Machinist'' is a 2004 psychological thriller film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Scott Kosar. It stars Christian Bale as the title character, a machinist struggling with guilt, paranoia, and delusion after being unable to sleep ...
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak ( th, ยุทธเลิศ สิปปภาค, born November 8, 1966 in Loei, Thailand) is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his genre-blending films '' Killer Tattoo'' (comedy and actio ...
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The Raspberry Reich
''The Raspberry Reich'' is a 2004 film by director Bruce LaBruce which explores what LaBruce calls " terrorist chic", cult dynamics, and the "innate radical potential of homosexual expression". It is about a contemporary terrorist group who set ou ...
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Bruce LaBruce
Bruce LaBruce (born January 3, 1964) is a Canadian artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer, and underground director based in Toronto.
Life and career
LaBruce was born in Tiverton, Ontario. He has claimed both Justin Stewart and Bryan Bruce as ...
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Saw
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James Wan
James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian director, producer, screenwriter and comic book writer. He has primarily worked in the horror genre as the co-creator of the ''Saw'' and ''Insidious'' franchises and the creator of The Conjurin ...
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Zebraman
is a 2004 Japanese tokusatsu action comedy superhero film directed by Takashi Miike, written by Kankurō Kudō and stars Shō Aikawa as the main character, a superhero named "Zebraman".
A 2010 sequel, titled '' Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City ...
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Takashi Miike
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Cape of Good Hope
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A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is t ...
Drum
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Zola Maseko
Zola Maseko (born 1967) is a Swazi film director and screenwriter. He is noted for his documentary films related to xenophobia.
Biography
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Forgiveness
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Ian Gabriel
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He directed the film '' Forgiveness'' starring Arnold Vosloo, which treats the theme of forgiveness in post-apartheid South Africa.
And directed a ...
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Max and Mona
''Max and Mona'' is a 2004 comedy film co-produced between South Africa and Sweden, starring Mpho Lovinga, Jerry Mofokeng and Percy Matsemala and directed by Teddy Mattera. At the 2006 South African Film and Television Awards it won the Golden Ho ...
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Teddy Mattera
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People Nickname
* Teddy Atlas (born 1956), boxing trainer and fight commentator
* Teddy Bourne (born 1948), British Olymp ...
Zulu Love Letter
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Synopsis
Thandeka, a young Black journalist, lives in fear of Johannesburg
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Ramadan Suleman
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Aïcha
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Newton I. Aduaka
Newton I. Aduaka (born 1966) is an England-based, Nigerian-born filmmaker, winner of Best Director at the Pan African Film Festival.
Filmography Short films
* ''Voices Behind the Wall'' (1990)
* ''Carnival of Silence'' (1994)
* ''On the Edge'' ( ...
Bullet Boy
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Saul Dibb
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Born in London, England, Saul Dibb is a graduate of the University of East Anglia. He is best known for co-writing and direct ...
Eric Kabera
Eric Kabera (born in 1970) is a Rwandan journalist and filmmaker and founder and president of Rwanda Cinema Center.
Early life and career
Eric Kabera, a Rwandan, was born in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).Le Grand Voyage
''Le Grand Voyage'' is a 2004 film written and directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi. The film portrays the relationship between father and son as both embark on a religious pilgrimage trip by car. The film won the Golden Astor for Best Film at the 2005 ...
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Ismaël Ferroukhi
Ismaël Ferroukhi (born 26 June 1962) is a French- Moroccan film director and screenwriter.
Ferroukhi was born in Kenitra. He gained exposure with his 1992 short film ''L'Exposé'', which won the Kodak Prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Foll ...
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The Hero
The Hero may refer to:
Books
* "The Hero" (poem), a poem written by Rabindranath Tagore
* ''The Hero'' (novel), a science fiction novel by John Ringo and Michael Z. Williamson
* '' The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama'', a book by Fi ...
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Zézé Gamboa
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Life
Zézé Gamboa was born in Luanda in 1955.Ivonete PintoEntrevista: Zézé Gamboa ''Orson'', No. 4, 2013. He started working as a news p ...
Apolline Traoré
Apolline Traoré (born 1976) is a Burkinabé filmmaker and producer.
Biography
She was born in 1976 in Ouagadougou. Her father's profession, a diplomat, led to her travelling the world. At the age of 17, her family moved to the United States ...
Fanta Régina Nacro
Fanta Regina Nacro (born 4 September 1962) is well known for being the first woman from Burkina Faso to direct a feature film and is a founding member of the Guilde Africaine des Realisateurs et Producteurs (The African Guild of Directors and Prod ...
On the Verge of a Fever
''On the Verge of a Fever'' (french: Le Goût des jeunes filles) is a 2004 Canadian drama film, directed by John L'Ecuyer. An adaptation of Dany Laferrière's novel ''Dining with the Dictator (Le Goût des jeunes filles)'', the film is set in Hait ...
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John L'Ecuyer
John L'Ecuyer (born November 15, 1964) is a Canadian film and television director.
Biography
John L'Ecuyer's first feature, '' Curtis's Charm'' (1995), was an adaptation of a Jim Carroll story. The film received a Special Jury Citation as Best Can ...
A Spoonful of Sugar
"A Spoonful of Sugar" is a song from Walt Disney's 1964 film and 2004 musical version of ''Mary Poppins'', composed by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman.
It is an uptempo song sung by Mary Poppins, instructing the two children, Jane (Kar ...
Time Out
Time-out, Time Out, or timeout may refer to:
Time
* Time-out (sport), in various sports, a break in play, called by a team
* Television timeout, a break in sporting action so that a commercial break may be taken
* Timeout (computing), an enginee ...
Andrew and Jeremy Get Married
''Andrew and Jeremy Get Married'' is a 2004 British documentary film written and directed by Don Boyd for the BBC. It tells the story of two Englishmen, Andrew Thomas and Jeremy Trafford, as they plan for their commitment ceremony. Originally comm ...
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Don Boyd
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Margaret Brown
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Zev Asher
Zev Asher (May 9, 1963 – August 7, 2013) was a Canadian experimental musician and documentary film maker.
Biography
Born in Montreal, Quebec, to a Jewish family. His father Stanley was an compulsive collector of popular cultural artefacts. A mo ...
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Darwin's Nightmare
''Darwin's Nightmare'' is a 2004 Austrian-French-Belgian documentary film written and directed by Hubert Sauper, dealing with the environmental and social effects of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. It premiered at the 2004 V ...
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Hubert Sauper
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Sauper has lived in the ...
Amanda Micheli
Amanda Micheli is an American director and the founder of Runaway Films. In June 2022 she signed with United Talent Agency, The United Talent Agency.
In her latest film, HALFTIME, international icon Jennifer Lopez lays bare her evolution as a ...
Gunner Palace
''Gunner Palace'' is a 2004 documentary film by Michael Tucker, which had a limited release in the United States on March 4, 2005. The film was an account of the complex realities of the situation in Iraq during 2003–2004 amidst the Iraqi insurg ...
Petra Epperlein
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Deborah Stratman Deborah Stratman (born 1967) is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker who explores landscapes and systems. Her body of work spans multiple media, including public sculpture, photography, drawing and audio.
Biography
Stratman's work has been exhibi ...
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The Last Victory
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John Appel
John George Appel (1859–1929) was an Australian politician, lawyer, and farmer. He served from 1908 to 1929 as a delegate for the electoral district of Albert and from 1909 to 1915 as the Secretary of Mine and Public Works and Home Secretar ...
Clara Law
Clara Law Cheuk-yiu (, born 29 May 1957 in Macau) is a Hong Kong Second Wave film director. Law currently resides in Australia.
Early life
Clara Law was born on 29 May 1957 in Macau. At the age of 10 she moved to Hong Kong. Law studied at the U ...
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Lightning in a Bottle
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Antoine Fuqua
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Mondovino
''Mondovino'' ( it, World of Wine) is a 2004 documentary film on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions written and directed by American film maker Jonathan Nossiter. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cann ...
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Jonathan Nossiter
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Early life and education
Nossiter was born to a Jewish familyScared Sacred
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''Scared Sacred'' is a feature-length documentary that takes viewers to many of the places in the world that have experienced great sufferin ...
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Velcrow Ripper
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Peter Raymont
Peter Raymont (born February 28, 1950) is a Canadian filmmaker and producer and the president of White Pine Pictures, an independent film, television and new media production company based in Toronto. Among his films are ''Shake Hands with the De ...
Róbert Ingi Douglas
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Touch the Sound
''Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie'' is a 2004 German documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about profoundly deaf Scottish classical percussionist Evelyn Glennie. In the film Glennie, who won a Grammy Award in ...
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Thomas Riedelsheimer
Thomas may refer to:
People
* List of people with given name Thomas
* Thomas (name)
* Thomas (surname)
* Saint Thomas (disambiguation)
* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
* Thomas the Ap ...
Ken Burns
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Peter Lynch
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Pola Rapaport Pola or POLA may refer to:
People
*House of Pola, an Italian noble family
*Pola Alonso (1923–2004), Argentine actress
*Pola Brändle (born 1980), German artist and photographer
*Pola Gauguin (1883–1961), Danish painter
* Pola Gojawiczyńska (1 ...
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The Year of the Yao
''The Year of the Yao'' is a 2004 American documentary film based on basketball player Yao Ming's first year in the United States. The film is narrated by his friend and former interpreter Colin Pine, who stayed with Yao during Yao's rookie year, a ...
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James D. Stern
James D. Stern is an American film and Broadway producer. He won a 2003 Tony Award for ''Hairspray'', has been nominated for other awards, and was a Drama Desk Award Winner for ''Stomp''.
Life and career Early life
Before starting Endgame, S ...
Michèle Cournoyer
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Early life
Born in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, Quebec, Cournoyer began dra ...
Pierre Hébert
Pierre Hébert (Villabé, 1804 – Paris, 1869) was a French sculptor. His son, Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert (1828–1893) and his daughter Hélène Bertaux were also sculptors.
Selected works
* ''Boy playing with a tortoise'' (''Enfant ...
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Bob Ostertag
Robert "Bob" Ostertag (born April 19, 1957) is a musician, writer, and political activist based in San Francisco. He has published seven books, one feature film, a DVD, twenty-six albums, and collaborated with numerous musicians.
Musically, he ...
Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Félix Dufour-Laperrière (born 1981) is a Canadian animator, film director and screenwriter from Chicoutimi, Quebec. He is most noted for his 2021 film ''Archipelago (2021 film), Archipelago (Archipel)'', which was the winner of the Prix Luc-Perr ...
Jay Dahl
Jay Steven Dahl (December 6, 1945 – June 21, 1965) was an American baseball pitcher who made his debut (and lone appearance) in Major League Baseball at age 17 in 1963, then died less than two years later in a car crash.
Career
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The Bridge The Bridge may refer to:
Art, entertainment and media Art
* ''The Bridge'' (sculpture), a 1997 sculpture in Atlanta, Georgia, US
* Die Brücke (''The Bridge''), a group of German expressionist artists
* ''The Bridge'' (M. C. Escher), a lithograph ...
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Guy Édoin
Guy Édoin is a Canadians, Canadian film director and screenwriter, whose debut full-length film ''Wetlands (2011 film), Wetlands (Marécages)'' was released in 2011.
Originally from Saint-Armand, Quebec, Saint-Armand, Quebec, Édoin studied at th ...
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Build
Build may refer to:
* Engineering something
* Construction
* Physical body stature, especially muscle size; usually of the human body
* Build (game engine), a 1995 first-person shooter engine
* "Build" (song), a 1987 song by The Housemartins
* ...
Sarah Fortin
Sarah Fortin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose debut feature film '' Nouveau Québec'' was released in 2021.
At the 2021 Whistler Film Festival, Fortin won both the Alliance of Women Film Journalists's EDA Award for b ...
Anita Doron
Anita Doron (born June 3, 1974) is a Hungarian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, author, and a 2010 TED Fellow. Doron is best known for her 2012 film adaptation of the 1996 novel '' The Lesser Blessed'', written b ...
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Filth
Filth or The Filth may refer to:
Common uses
* Dirt, unclean matter
* Police officer, a pejorative in British slang
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Filth'' (film), a 2013 film based on the novel
* ''Filth'', an alternative title for ''S ...
Sook-Yin Lee
Sook-Yin Lee is a Canadian broadcaster, musician, film director, and actress. She is a former MuchMusic VJ and a former radio host on CBC Radio. She has appeared in films, notably in the John Cameron Mitchell movie ''Shortbus''.
Early and pers ...
Deborah Chow
Deborah Chow (born June 16, 1972) is a Canadian filmmaker, television director and screenwriter known for her independent films and her work on ''Star Wars'' television. Two of her first short films, ''Daypass'' (2002) and ''The Hill'' (2004) have ...
Cameron Bailey
Cameron Bailey is a Canadian film critic and festival programmer, who is the CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Biography
Born in London, England to parents from Barbados,The Human Kazoo'' ( Fabrizio Filippo)
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Dylan Akio Smith
Dylan Akio Smith (born September 21, 1974, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian film director and producer.David Spaner, "Really good movies, ReelFast: Dylan Akio Smith had 48 hours to make winning film". ''The Province'', August 26, 2003. ...
David Ostry David J. Ostry is an engineer and neuroscientist whose research focuses on human motor control.
Ostry is a professor of psychology at McGill University and a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut. His research focuses o ...
Pigeon
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Ryan
Ryan may refer to:
People and fictional characters
*Ryan (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
*Ryan (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
Places Australia
* Division of Ryan, an elector ...
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Chris Landreth
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Jeffrey St. Jules
Jeffrey St. Jules is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who won the Claude Jutra Award in 2015 for his debut feature film ''Bang Bang Baby''. The film also won the award for Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian First ...
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Sissy Boy Slap Party
''Sissy Boy Slap Party'' is a Canadian experimental short film directed by Guy Maddin.
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Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin (born February 28, 1956) is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer, and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Since completing his first film in ...
Guy Maddin
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Brad Peyton
Brad Peyton (born May 27, 1978) is a Canadian film director, writer, and producer, best known for directing the Dwayne Johnson star vehicles '' Journey 2: The Mysterious Island'' (2012), '' San Andreas'' (2015), and '' Rampage'' (2018) as well as ...
Semi Chellas
Semi Chellas is a director, writer, producer who has written for film, television and magazines. She was born in Palo Alto, California and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. She is known for her work on the television series ''Mad Men'' and her film ...
5x2
''5x2'' (also ''Cinq fois deux''; en, Five Times Two) is a 2004 Cinema of France, French film directed by François Ozon, which uncovers the back story to the gradual disintegration of a middle class marriage by depicting five key moments in the ...
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François Ozon
François Ozon (; born 15 November 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Ozon is considered one of the most important modern French filmmakers. His films are characterized by aesthetic beauty, sharp satirical humor and a free-wheeli ...
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon
''The Assassination of Richard Nixon'' is a 2004 American drama film directed by Niels Mueller and starring Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson and Naomi Watts. It is based on the story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richa ...
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Niels Mueller
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Biography
Mueller was born and raised in Milw ...
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Bluebird
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Mijke de Jong
Mijke de Jong (born 23 September 1959) is a Dutch film director, screenwriter and producer. She is known for creating films such as ''Bluebird'' (2004), '' Frailer'' (2014), ''Layla M.'' (2016) and ''God Only Knows'' (2019). ''Layla M.'' was sel ...
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Childstar
''Childstar'' is a 2004 Canadian comedy film directed and co-written by Don McKellar, and starring McKellar, Peter Paige, Gil Bellows, Mark Rendall, Michael Murphy (actor), Michael Murphy, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Alan Thicke. It premiered a ...
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Don McKellar
Don McKellar (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
He is known for directing and writing the ...
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Les Choristes
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Christophe Barratier
Christophe Barratier (born 17 June 1963) is a French film producer, director and screenwriter, and lyricist.
Early life and education
Barratier is the son of the actress Eva Simonet and M. Barratier. He is the nephew of the film director Jacques ...
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Crash
Crash or CRASH may refer to:
Common meanings
* Collision, an impact between two or more objects
* Crash (computing), a condition where a program ceases to respond
* Cardiac arrest, a medical condition in which the heart stops beating
* Couch su ...
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Paul Haggis
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A Dirty Shame
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''A Dirty Shame'' is currently the last ...
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John Waters
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Enduring Love
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Summary
On a beautiful and cloudless day, a middle-aged couple celebrate thei ...
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Roger Michell
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Buster Keaton
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Clyde Bruckman
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Frank E. Flowers
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John Duigan
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Hotel Rwanda
''Hotel Rwanda'' is a 2004 drama film directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay co-written by George and Keir Pearson, and stars Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina and his wife Tatiana. Based on the Rw ...
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Terry George
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He was nominated fo ...
Jim Brown
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Lodge Kerrigan
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Kung Fu Hustle
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Stephen Chow
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Early life and education
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Ladies in Lavender
''Ladies in Lavender'' is a 2004 British drama film written and directed by Charles Dance. The screenplay is based on a 1908 short story by William J. Locke. The film stars Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Natascha McElhone, and Miriam Margolyes.
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Charles Dance
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Laurence Dunmore
Laurence Dunmore is a graphic designer and film director whose first major collaboration was the British production of '' The Libertine'' in 2005. He is a member of Ridley Scott Associates and has directed advertisements for AT&T, BMW, ING and T ...
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The Merchant of Venice
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Although classified as ...
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Michael Radford
Michael James Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an English film director and screenwriter. He began his career as a documentary director and television comedy writer before transitioning into features in the early 1980s. His best-known credits ...
Danny Boyle
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Chazz Palminteri
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P.S.
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Dylan Kidd
Dylan Kidd (born August 30, 1969) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing and writing the 2002 American film '' Roger Dodger''.
Career
Kidd achieved critical acclaim through his debut film ''Roger Dodger' ...
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Palindromes
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Todd Solondz
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Promised Land
The Promised Land ( he, הארץ המובטחת, translit.: ''ha'aretz hamuvtakhat''; ar, أرض الميعاد, translit.: ''ard al-mi'ad; also known as "The Land of Milk and Honey"'') is the land which, according to the Tanakh (the Hebrew ...
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Amos Gitaï
Amos Gitai ( he, עמוס גיתאי; born 11 October 1950) is an Israelis, Israeli filmmaker, who was trained as an architect.
Gitai's work was presented in several major retrospectives in Pompidou Center in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art (M ...
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The Sea Inside
''The Sea Inside'' ( es, Mar adentro) is a 2004 Spain, Spanish psychological drama film co-written and directed by Alejandro Amenábar, who also co-produced, scored and edited. It is based on the real-life story of Ramón Sampedro (played by Javie ...
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Alejandro Amenábar
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Shadows of Time
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Florian Gallenberger
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Career
Gallenberger appeared in various ...
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Sideways
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Alexander Payne
Constantine Alexander Payne (; born February 10, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for the films ''Citizen Ruth'' (1996), ''Election'' (1999), ''About Schmidt'' (2002), ''Sideways'' (2004), ''The Desc ...
John Sayles
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Steamboy
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Katsuhiro Otomo
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Johnnie To
Johnnie To Kei-fung (born 22 April 1955) is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and film producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas. Intensely prolific, To has made films in a variety of genres, though in ...
James Toback
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Yes
Yes or YES may refer to:
* An affirmative particle in the English language; see yes and no
Education
* YES Prep Public Schools, Houston, Texas, US
* YES (Your Extraordinary Saturday), a learning program from the Minnesota Institute for Talente ...
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Sally Potter
Charlotte Sally Potter (born 19 September 1949) is an English film director and screenwriter. She is known for directing ''Orlando'' (1992), which won the audience prize for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival.
Early life
Potter was born an ...
Darrell James Roodt
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Special events
* ''Celebrating Brian Linehan'' — Live tribute event at the
Winter Garden Theatre
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to Canadian entertainment journalist and interviewer
Brian Linehan
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, following his death earlier in 2004. Hosted by
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert beca ...
, with celebrity guests including
Martin Short
Martin Hayter Short (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, and writer. He has received various awards including two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. In 2019 Short became an Officer of the Order of Canada.
He ...
.
Viacom Galas
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Arsène Lupin
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Jean-Paul Salomé
Jean-Paul Salomé (born 14 September 1960) is a French director and screenwriter.
Filmography
External links
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Living people
Film directors from Paris
French male screenwriters
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Being Julia
''Being Julia'' is a 2004 comedy-drama film directed by István Szabó and starring Annette Bening and Jeremy Irons. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood is based on the novel ''Theatre'' (1937) by W. Somerset Maugham. The original film score was com ...
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István Szabó
István Szabó (; born 18 February 1938) is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.
Szabó is one of the most notable Hungarian filmmakers and one who has been best known outside the Hungarian-speaking world since the la ...
Kevin Spacey
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Olivier Assayas
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Der Untergang
''Downfall'' (german: Der Untergang, it, La caduta – Gli ultimi giorni di Hitler) is a 2004 German-language historical war drama film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from a screenplay by its producer, Bernd Eichinger. It is set during the ...
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Oliver Hirschbiegel
Oliver Hirschbiegel (born 29 December 1957) is a German film director. His works include ''Das Experiment'' and the Oscar-nominated '' Downfall''.
Life and career
Hirschbiegel was born in Hamburg, Germany. A Waldorf graduate, Hirschbiegel stud ...
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Five Children and It
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House of Flying Daggers
''House of Flying Daggers'' (Chinese: 十面埋伏) is a 2004 ''wuxia'' romance film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Unlike other ''wuxia'' films, it is more of a love story than purely a martial ...
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Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yimou (; born 2 April 1950) is a Chinese film director, producer, writer, actor and former cinematographer.Tasker, Yvonne (2002). "Zhang Yimou" i''Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers'' Routledge Publishing, p. 412. . Google Book Search. Retriev ...
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I Heart Huckabees
''I Heart Huckabees'' (stylized as ''I ♥ Huckabees''; also ''I Love Huckabees'') is a 2004 independent black comedy film directed and produced by David O. Russell, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeff Baena.
A self-described "existential co ...
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David O. Russell
David Owen Russell (born August 20, 1958) is an American filmmaker. His early directing career includes the comedy films ''Spanking the Monkey'' (1994), '' Flirting with Disaster'' (1996), ''Three Kings'' (1999), and ''I Heart Huckabees'' (200 ...
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Imaginary Heroes
''Imaginary Heroes'' is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Dan Harris. It focuses on the traumatic effect the suicide of the elder son has on a suburban family.
Plot
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best com ...
An Italian Romance
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Carlo Mazzacurati
Carlo Mazzacurati (2 March 1956 – 22 January 2014) was an Italian film director and screenwriter born in Padua. He started his cinema career in 1980.
His better known films include ''Il Toro'' (1994) and ''La lingua del santo'' (2000). H ...
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Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
''Jiminy Glick in Lalawood'' is a 2004 American comedy film starring Martin Short as Jiminy Glick, a morbidly obese movie critic who is involved in a murder case at the Toronto International Film Festival. The supporting cast features Jan Hooks, ...
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Vadim Jean
Vadim Jean (born Bristol, 9 December 1963)"Zip up your Rhino suit" Global Ideas Bank ...
Bill Condon
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Mick Davis
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Walter Salles
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Early life
Salles was born on 12 April 1956 in Rio de Janeiro and attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. He is the son of Brazil ...
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Ray
Ray may refer to:
Fish
* Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea
* Ray (fish fin anatomy), a bony or horny spine on a fin
Science and mathematics
* Ray (geometry), half of a line proceeding from an initial point
* Ray (g ...
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Taylor Hackford
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Tom Hooper
Thomas George Hooper (born 5 October 1972)''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005''. 5d: 2485. is a British-Australian filmmaker.
Hooper began making short films as a teenager and had his first professional short, ...
Bille August
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Shark Tale
''Shark Tale'' is a 2004 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. The film was directed by Vicky Jenson, Bibo Bergeron, and Rob Letterman (in his feature directorial debut) ...
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Vicky Jenson
Victoria "Vicky" Jenson (born March 4, 1960) is an American film director of both live-action and animated films. Retrieved April 9, 2014. She has directed projects for DreamWorks Animation, including ''Shrek'', the first film to win an Academy ...
,
Bibo Bergeron
Eric "Bibo" Bergeron (born July 14, 1965) is a French animator and film director. His work includes ''The Road to El Dorado'' (2000), ''Shark Tale'' (2004) and ''A Monster in Paris'' (2011).
Bergeron has served as animator on films like '' Aster ...
,
Rob Letterman
Robert Thomas Letterman (born October 31, 1970) is an American film director and screenwriter.
Letterman made his directorial debut as co-director of the animated comedy film ''Shark Tale'' (2004), for which he received a nomination for the Annie ...
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Stage Beauty
''Stage Beauty'' is a 2004 romantic period drama directed by Richard Eyre. The screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher is based on his play ''Compleat Female Stage Beauty'', which was inspired by references to 17th-century actor Edward Kynaston made in th ...
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Richard Eyre
Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre (born 28 March 1943) is an English film, theatre, television and opera director.
Biography
Eyre was born in Barnstaple, Devon, England, the son of Richard Galfridus Hastings Giles Eyre and his wife, Minna Ma ...
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Visions
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9 Songs
''9 Songs'' is a 2004 British art romantic drama film written and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The film stars Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley. The title refers to the nine songs played by eight different rock bands that complement the sto ...
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Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottom (born 29 March 1961) is an English film director. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films—''Welcome to Sarajevo'', '' Wonderland'' and '' 24 Hour Party People'' ...
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A Hole in My Heart
''A Hole in My Heart'' ( sv, Ett hål i mitt hjärta) is a 2004 Swedish experimental drama film written and directed by Lukas Moodysson, starring Thorsten Flinck, Sanna Bråding, Björn Almroth and Goran Marjanovic. The story revolves around a ...
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Lukas Moodysson
Karl Fredrik Lukas Moodysson (; born 17 January 1969) is a Swedish novelist, short story writer and film director. First coming to prominence as an ambitious poet in the 1980s, he had his big domestic and international breakthrough directing the ...
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Acapulco Gold
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History
First recorded in the United States in 1964, Acapulco Gold was defined by the ''Oxford English ...
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André Forcier
André Forcier (born Marc-André Forcier on July 19, 1947) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His work has been linked to Latin American magic realism by its use of fantasy but is firmly rooted in Quebec's reality. His unromanticized, e ...
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Anatomie de l'enfer
''Anatomy of Hell'' (french: Anatomie de l'enfer) is a 2004 erotic drama film written and directed by Catherine Breillat, based on her 2001 novel ''Pornocratie''. According to Breillat, ''Anatomy of Hell'' is a "sequel" to ''Romance''.
Plot
Tee ...
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Catherine Breillat
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Blood
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Jerry Ciccoritti
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Biography
Born in Tor ...
Josué Méndez
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Evolution of a Filipino Family
''Evolution of a Filipino Family'' () is a Filipino language, Filipino experimental film co-produced, edited, written and directed by Lav Diaz. At 643 minutes (10 hours and 43 minutes), it is among list of longest films, the longest films ever m ...
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Lav Diaz
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
''The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things'' is a 2004 drama film co-written and directed by Asia Argento and starring Argento, Jimmy Bennett, Dylan Sprouse and Cole Sprouse (with Bennett and the Sprouse brothers sharing the role as Jeremiah). Th ...
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Asia Argento
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L'Intrus
''The Intruder'' (french: L'intrus) is a 2004 French drama film directed by Claire Denis. The film had its world premiere in the Competition section at the 61st Venice International Film Festival on 9 September 2004. It was released in France on ...
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Claire Denis
Claire Denis (; born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film ''Beau Travail'' (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s, as well as of all time. Other acclaimed works include '' Trouble Ev ...
The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess
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Lisandro Alonso
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Primer
Primer may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Primer'' (film), a 2004 feature film written and directed by Shane Carruth
* ''Primer'' (video), a documentary about the funk band Living Colour
Literature
* Primer (textbook), a t ...
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Shane Carruth
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Jonathan Caouette
Jonathan Caouette (born November 26, 1972) is an American film director, writer, editor and actor.
Film career
Caouette is the director and editor of '' Tarnation'' (2003), an autobiographical documentary, that premiered at the Sundance and Ca ...
Trauma
Trauma most often refers to:
*Major trauma, in physical medicine, severe physical injury caused by an external source
*Psychological trauma, a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a severely distressing event
*Traumatic inju ...
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Marc Evans
Marc Evans (born 1963) is a Welsh director of film and television, whose credits include the films ''House of America'', '' Resurrection Man'' and ''My Little Eye''.
Biography
Evans was born in 1963 in Cardiff, Wales. He studied for a history ...
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Tropical Malady
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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David Gordon Green
David Gordon Green is an American filmmaker. He directed the dramas ''George Washington'' (2000), ''All the Real Girls'' (2003), and '' Snow Angels'' (2007), as well as the thriller '' Undertow'' (2004), all of which he wrote or co-wrote.
In 2 ...
Shinya Tsukamoto
is a Japanese people, Japanese filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter, Film editing, editor, Film director, director, cinematographer, art director, production designer and actor.
With a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad ...
SMARTERCHILD
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History
SmarterChild was an intelligent agent or "bot" developed by ActiveBuddy, Inc., with offices in New York and Sun ...
Morgan Fisher
Stephen Morgan Fisher (born 1 January 1950) is an English keyboard player and composer, and is most known as a member of Mott the Hoople in the early 1970s. However, his career has covered a wide range of musical activities, and he is still ac ...
Thom Andersen
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Lewis Klahr
Lewis Klahr (born 1956) is an American animator and experimental filmmaker known for his collage work since the 1970s.
Style
He uses an assortment of pop culture imagery from the 1950s to the 1970s to deconstruct the romantic promises of the pa ...
Flushing Meadows
Flushing may refer to:
Places
* Flushing, Cornwall, a village in the United Kingdom
* Flushing, Queens, New York City
** Flushing Bay, a bay off the north shore of Queens
** Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠), a community in Queens
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Joseph Cornell
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Andrew Noren
Andrew Noren (1943–May 2, 2015) was an American avant-garde filmmaker.
Biography
Andrew Noren was born 1943 in Santa Fe, New Mexico and grew up in Southern California.
Noren moved to New York in the mid 1960s, where he worked as an editor at AB ...
Lynn Marie Kirby
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Biography
Lynn Marie Kirby was born in 1952 in Washington, D.C., USA. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees ...
Line Describing a Cone
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Anthony McCall
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Mirror
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Phantom
Phantom may refer to:
* Spirit (animating force), the vital principle or animating force within all living things
** Ghost, the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living
Aircraft
* Boeing Phantom Ray, a stealthy un ...
Play
Play most commonly refers to:
* Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment
* Play (theatre), a work of drama
Play may refer also to:
Computers and technology
* Google Play, a digital content service
* Play Framework, a Java framework
* Pla ...
Rose Hobart
Rose Hobart (born Rose Kefer; May 1, 1906 – August 29, 2000) was an American actress and a Screen Actors Guild official.
Early years
Born in New York City, Hobart was the daughter of a cellist in the New York Symphony Orchestra, Paul K ...
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Joseph Cornell
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Lynn Marie Kirby
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Biography
Lynn Marie Kirby was born in 1952 in Washington, D.C., USA. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees ...
Janie Geiser
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Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas (; December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". Mekas' work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwi ...
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Canada's Top Ten
The festival's year-end
Canada's Top Ten Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival and announced in December each year to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films."Canada's Top Ten awards will honour excellence in Canadian cinema" ...
list was announced in December.
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Childstar
''Childstar'' is a 2004 Canadian comedy film directed and co-written by Don McKellar, and starring McKellar, Peter Paige, Gil Bellows, Mark Rendall, Michael Murphy (actor), Michael Murphy, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Alan Thicke. It premiered a ...
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Don McKellar
Don McKellar (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
He is known for directing and writing the ...
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The Five of Us
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(Elles étaient cinq)'' —
Ghyslaine Côté
Ghyslaine Côté (born September 6, 1955) is a Canadian director, screenwriter and actor. She is best known for directing ''The Five of Us'' (), which won the Prize for most popular Canadian film and the prize for best artistic contribution at t ...
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I, Claudia
''I, Claudia'' is a one-woman play starring Kristen Thomson, which was adapted into a movie, shown on CBC's ''Opening Night (TV series), Opening Night'' and at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The play and film, written by Thomson, is a ...
It's All Gone Pete Tong
''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' is a 2004 British-Canadian mockumentary-drama film about a DJ (Paul Kaye) who goes completely deaf. The title uses a rhyming slang phrase used in Britain from the 1980s (Pete Tong = "wrong"), referring to the BBC Ra ...
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Michael Dowse
Michael Dowse (born April 19, 1973) is a Canadian director.
Life and career
Born in London, Ontario, to Irish parents, he was trained as a film editor. His first full-length movie, ''FUBAR'' was shot on a digital camera with a tiny budget, but w ...
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Ryan
Ryan may refer to:
People and fictional characters
*Ryan (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
*Ryan (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
Places Australia
* Division of Ryan, an elector ...
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Chris Landreth
Chris Landreth (born August 4, 1961) is an American animator working in Canada, best known for his work on the 2004 film '' Ryan''. He has made many CGI animated films since the mid-1990s, including ''The End'', ''Bingo'', ''The Listener'', ''Cau ...
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Saint Ralph
''Saint Ralph'' is a 2004 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Michael McGowan. Its central character is a teenage boy who trains for the 1954 Boston Marathon in the hope a victory will be the miracle his mother needs to awaken from ...
Scared Sacred
''Scared Sacred'' is an independent film produced in 2004 and released in 2006 by director Velcrow Ripper.
''Scared Sacred'' is a feature-length documentary that takes viewers to many of the places in the world that have experienced great sufferin ...
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Velcrow Ripper
Velcrow Ripper (born October 20, 1963, in Gibsons, British Columbia) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer, and public speaker, best known for his Genie Award-winning 2006 film ''Scared Sacred'' and his newest feature documentary, '' Fierce ...
Peter Raymont
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White Skin
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Daniel Roby
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Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time
In 2004 a new
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The Canadian Encyclopedia
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2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...