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61st Venice International Film Festival
The 61st annual Venice International Film Festival, was held from 1 and 11 September 2004, at Venice Lido in Italy. British filmmaker John Boorman was the jury president for the main competition. The Golden Lion was awarded to ''Vera Drake'', directed by Mike Leigh. On this edition, a new independent section, Venice Days ('' Giornate degli autori''), was created "for free cinema, new talents and new stories". This section is organized by the ANAC (National Association of Cinematographic Authors) and the API (Independent Authors & Producers). Also in this edition, ''The Secret History of Italian Cinema'' was launched, a new official retrospective section, with the aim of restoring and systematically rediscovering sides of the Italian cinema that have been "forgotten, invisible, unknown or misunderstood". The retrospective was planned for the following four editions (61st to 64th editions), later was extended with the ''These Phantoms: Italian Cinema Rediscovered'' (65th editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Terminal
''The Terminal'' is a 2004 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stanley Tucci. The film is about an Eastern European man who is stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport terminal when he is denied entry to the United States, but is unable to return to his native country because of a military coup. The film is partially inspired by the true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri who lived in Terminal 1 of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, from 1988 to 2006. After finishing '' Catch Me If You Can'' (2002), Spielberg decided to direct ''The Terminal'' because he wanted to make a film "that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world". As no suitable airport was willing to provide their facilities, an entire working set was built inside a large hangar at the LA/Palmdale Regional Airport, with most of the film's exterior shots taken from the Montreal–Mirabel International Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimmo Calopresti
Mimmo Calopresti (born 4 January 1955 in Polistena, Calabria) is an Italian film director, screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ..., producer and actor. He has directed 16 films since 1987. His film '' The Second Time'' was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' The Second Time'' (1995) * '' Notes of Love'' (1998) * '' I Prefer the Sound of the Sea'' (2000) * '' Happiness Costs Nothing'' (2003) References External links * 1955 births Living people People from the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria Italian film directors Italian screenwriters Italian film producers Italian male film actors Italian male screenwriters Ciak d'oro winners {{Italy-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3-Iron
''3-Iron'' () is a 2004 romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Kim Ki-duk. An international co-production between South Korea and Japan, the film stars Jae Hee as a young drifter who develops a relationship with an abused housewife (Lee Seung-yeon). The film's title is derived from a type of golf club used prominently throughout the narrative. ''3-Iron'' premiered in competition at the 61st Venice International Film Festival in September 2004, where it was nominated for the Golden Lion and won Kim the Silver Lion for Best Direction. It was released in South Korea on April 29, 2005, and received generally positive reviews and numerous accolades, including the FIPRESCI Grand Prix award at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Plot Tae-suk ( Jae Hee) is a loner who drives around on his motorbike, taping takeout menus over the keyholes of front doors and breaking into apartments where the menus have not been removed. He lives in those apartments while their owners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Simon
Claire Simon is a French screenwriter, actress, cinematographer, editor, and director. Early life and education Simon was born in Britain and raised in southern France. She grew up in a family of writers and painters. She took courses in anthropology and studied Arabic and Berber. Career Simon first worked in the film world when she did an internship to work as an editor at the Algiers Cinematheque. In the 1980s, she started to make narrative shorts. She received a scholarship to attend a prestigious documentary workshop led by Jean Rouch, one of the founders of cinéma-vérité. Distinctions Selections Three of her films have been selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs, an independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival: ''Sinon oui'' in 1997, ''Ça brûle'' in 2006, and ''Les Bureaux de Dieu'' in 2008. The film ''Gare du Nord'' and the associated '' Géographie humaine'' were selected at the Festival international du film francophone de Namur in O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Figgis
Michael Figgis (born 28 February 1948) is an English film director, screenwriter, and composer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for his work on '' Leaving Las Vegas'' (1995). Figgis was the founding patron of the independent filmmakers' online community Shooting People. Early life Figgis was born in Carlisle, Cumberland, and grew up in Nairobi, Kenya until he was eight. The rest of his childhood was spent in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was educated at Kenton Comprehensive School (the musicians Ian Carr and John Walters were among his teachers there). He studied music at Trent Park College, then part of the Institute of Education, University of London, where he "lived a lie" for three years – he had, in his words, "bluffed isway into the music course without being able to read music", although he later learned how to study harmony, counterpoint and composition. Career Figgis's early interest was in music. He played trumpet and guitar in The People Band and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiorella Infascelli
Fiorella Infascelli (born 29 October 1952) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Rome, Infascelli is the daughter of the producer and director Carlo. After working as an assistant director for notable directors such as Luchino Visconti, Bernardo Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini, she debuted as director in 1980 with the TV-movie ''Ritratto di donna distesa''. Her film '' The Mask'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival The 41st Cannes Film Festival took place from 11 to 23 May 1988. Italian filmmaker Ettore Scola served as jury president for the main competition. Danish filmmaker Bille August won the ''Palme d'Or'', the festival's top prize, for his drama film .... Filmography * '' Ritratto di donna distesa'' (1980) * '' Pa'' (1981) * '' The Mask'' (1988) * '' Zuppa di pesce'' (1992) * '' Italiani'' (1998) * '' Conversazione italiana'' (1999) * '' Ferreri, I Love You'' (2000) * '' Il vestito da sposa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Helgeland
Brian Thomas Helgeland (born January 17, 1961) is an American screenwriter, film producer, and director. He is best known for writing the screenplays for the films '' L.A. Confidential'' (1998) and '' Mystic River'' (2003). He wrote and directed the films '' 42'', a biopic of Jackie Robinson; and ''Legend'', about the rise and fall of the infamous London gangsters, the Kray twins. His work on ''L.A. Confidential'' earned him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Early life Helgeland was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to Norwegian immigrants Aud-Karin and Thomas Helgeland. He was raised in nearby New Bedford, Massachusetts. He majored in English at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth before following his father's work in fishing scallop. A particularly cold winter day in 1985 made Helgeland consider finding another job. He was fascinated by a book about film schools. With a love for movies, Helgeland decided to seek a career in film. He applied for the film sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Philibert
Nicolas Philibert (; born 10 January 1951) is a French film director and actor. Biography Philibert was born in Nancy, France. He studied philosophy in the University of Grenoble. Philibert's father was a film lecturer and he attended his talks in his youth, which encouraged him to embark on a career in the film industry. He started it with filmmaker René Allio in 1970, as a trainee on ''Les Camisards'' and then as an assistant on ''Rude Journée pour la reine'' (1973), and assistant-director on ''Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère...'' (1975). In 1978 he co-directed with Gérard Mordillat a feature documentary ''His Master's Voice'', in which a dozen bosses of big industrial groups discuss power, leadership, hierarchies and the role of unions. Between 1985 and 1987, he made several films about mountains and adventure for TV, then turned to making feature-length documentaries for theatrical distribution: ''La Ville Louvre'' (1990), '' Le Pays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orizzonti
''Orizzonti'' ( 'Horizons') is a section of the Venice Film Festival's official selection. It runs as a parallel section to the main competition for the Golden Lion The Golden Lion () is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is regarded as one of the film industry's most prestigious and distinguished prizes. In 1970, a .... ''Orizzonti'' winners Other ''Orizzonti'' awards References External links The Venice Film Festival at the ''IMDb'' Italian film awards Lists of films by award Venice Film Festival Long stubs with short prose {{film-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Scalia
Pietro Scalia (born March 17, 1960) is an Italian-American film editor. He won the Best Film Editing award at the 64th Academy Awards for his work on the film '' JFK'', sharing the award with Joe Hutshing, and at the 74th Academy Awards for '' Black Hawk Down''. Early life and education He was born in Catania, Sicily, and later emigrated to Aarau, Switzerland as a child with his parents. There, he attended Swiss-German schools until high school. After graduation, he decided to move to the United States to pursue his college education. He spent two years at the University at Albany, The State University of New York, after which he was accepted as an undergraduate at UCLA. The Swiss government's scholarship helped him through five years of UCLA and in 1985 he earned his Master of Fine Arts from the UCLA Film School. Career After his MFA, a couple of short films, a screenplay, two video documentaries, and a 16 mm thesis film, he returned to Europe to pursue his desire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren (; born Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov; 26 July 1945) is an English actor. With a career spanning over six decades of Helen Mirren on screen and stage, screen and stage, List of awards and nominations received by Helen Mirren, her accolades include an Academy Award, five Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four BAFTA Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. She is the only person to have achieved both the Triple Crown of Acting, US and Triple Crown (UK entertainment), UK Triple Crowns of Acting, and has also received the BAFTA Fellowship, Honorary Golden Bear, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Mirren was made a Dame, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 Birthday Honours, 2003. Mirren started her career at the age of 18 as a performer with the National Youth Theatre, where she played Cleopatra in ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1965). She later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and made her West End theatre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dušan Makavejev
Dušan Makavejev ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Макавејев, ; 13 October 1932 – 25 January 2019) was a Serbian film director and screenwriter. He is known for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s—many of which belong to the Black Wave. Makavejev's most internationally successful film was the 1971 political satire '' W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism'', which he both directed and wrote. Career Makavejev's first three feature films, '' Man Is Not a Bird'' (1965, starring actress and icon of the " Black Wave" period in film, Milena Dravić), '' Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator'' (1967, starring actress and icon of the "Black Wave" period in film, Eva Ras) and '' Innocence Unprotected'' (1968), all won him international acclaim. The last-mentioned won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1970 he was a member of the jury at the 20th Berlin Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
