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71st Venice International Film Festival
The 71st annual Venice International Film Festival , was held from 27 August to 6 September 2014, at Venice Lido in Italy. French composer Alexandre Desplat was the jury president for the main competition. Italian actress Luisa Ranieri hosted the opening and closing nights of the festival. The Golden Lion was awarded to '' A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence'' by Roy Andersson. American editor Thelma Schoonmaker and American filmmaker Frederick Wiseman were the recipients of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The festival poster paid tribute to François Truffaut, as it featured the character of Antoine Doinel portrayed by Jean-Pierre Léaud from Truffaut's 1959 drama film ''The 400 Blows''. The festival opened with '' Birdman'' by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and closed with ''The Golden Era'' by Ann Hui. Juries Main Competition (''Venezia 71'') *Alexandre Desplat, French composer - Jury President *Joan Chen, Chinese actress and director * Philip Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birdman (film)
''Birdman'', stylized as ''BİRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)'', is a 2014 American black comedy-drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The film stars Michael Keaton as a washed-up Hollywood actor, best known for playing a superhero named Birdman, and follows the struggles he faces while trying to make a comeback by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story " What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". The film's supporting cast includes Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts. With a brief exception, ''Birdman'' is presented as though it was filmed in one continuous take, an idea Iñárritu had from the film's conception. Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki believed that the recording time necessary for the long take approach could not have been made with older technology. The film was shot in New York City during the spring of 2013 with a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. He came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for Bazin's ''Cahiers du Cinéma'', where he became a proponent of the auteur, ''auteur'' theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author. ''The 400 Blows'' (1959), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as Truffaut's alter-ego Antoine Doinel, was a defining film of the New Wave. Truffaut supplied the story for another milestone of the movement, Breathless (1960 film), ''Breathless'' (1960), directed by his ''Cahiers'' colleague Jean-Luc Godard. His other notable films include ''Shoot the Piano Player'' (1960), ''Jules and Jim'' (1962), ''The Soft Skin'' (1964), ''Two English Girls'' (1971) and ''The Last Metro'' (1980). Truffaut's Day for Night (film), ''Day for Night'' (1973) earned him the BAFTA Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Verdone
Carlo Gregorio Verdone (born 17 November 1950) is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. Best known for his comedic roles in Italian classics which he also wrote and directed such as ''Fun Is Beautiful'' and ''Bianco, rosso e Verdone'', he has introduced more serious subjects in his work since the 1990s, including ''Damned the Day I Met You'' and ''My Best Enemy (2006 film), My Best Enemy''. Early life Carlo Verdone was born in Rome to Mario Verdone, an important Italian film critic and academic, and studied at the Italian Liceo classico in Rome, having the future actor Christian De Sica as his deskmate. Verdone earned a degree in Modern Literature at Sapienza University of Rome, the same university where his father taught, and a degree in Film Direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. During the 1970s he started a television career highlighting his varied comic style, while also appearing in Advertising, ads for the ''Carosello'' show. He began introd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elia Suleiman
Elia Suleiman (, ; born 28 July 1960) is a Palestinian film director and actor. He is best known for the 2002 film ''Divine Intervention'' (), a modern tragicomedy on living under occupation in Palestine which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Suleiman's cinematic style is often compared to that of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton, for its poetic interplay between "burlesque and sobriety". He is married to Lebanese singer and actress Yasmine Hamdan. Life and career Early work Between 1982 and 1993, Suleiman lived in New York City, where he co-directed '' Introduction to the End of an Argument'' (1990) and directed ''Homage by Assassination'', both winning numerous awards. An experimental video film, co-directed by Jayce Salloum, ''Introduction to the End of an Argument'' critiqued the portrayal of Arabs in Western media and its effect on foreign policy by juxtaposing clips from Hollywood films, television broadcasts and cartoons with live scenes (shot by Sallo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Roth
Timothy Simon Roth (; born 14 May 1961) is an English actor. He was among a group of prominent British actors known as the " Brit Pack". After garnering attention in television productions '' Made in Britain'' (1982) and '' Meantime'' (1983), Roth was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer in his theatrical film debut '' The Hit'' (1984). He gained further recognition for his roles in films, including '' The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'' (1989), '' Vincent & Theo'', and '' Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'' (both 1990). Roth has collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on several films, including '' Reservoir Dogs'' (1992), '' Pulp Fiction'' (1994), '' Four Rooms'' (1995), and '' The Hateful Eight'' (2015). For his performance in '' Rob Roy'' (1995), he won a BAFTA Award, and was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award. Other film credits include '' The Legend of 1900'' (1998), '' Planet of the Apes'' (2001), '' Funny Games'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy Powell (costume Designer)
Sandy Powell (born 7 April 1960) is a British costume designer. In a career spanning over four decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across independent films and Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbusters. She has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards, and two Costume Designers Guild Awards. She has been the recipient of various honorary awards, including the BAFTA Fellowship in 2023. Powell was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to costume design. Powell is best known for her collaborations with directors Derek Jarman, Neil Jordan, Todd Haynes and Martin Scorsese. She has received 15 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and has won three times for ''Shakespeare in Love'' (1998), ''The Aviator (2004 film), The Aviator'' (2004), and ''The Young Victoria'' (2009). She has also been nominated for the BAFTA Award fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jhumpa Lahiri
Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" LahiriMinzesheimer, Bob, ''USA Today'', August 19, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-04-13. (born July 11, 1967) is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian. Her debut collection of short-stories, '' Interpreter of Maladies'' (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her first novel, '' The Namesake'' (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. ''The Namesake'' was a ''New York Times'' Notable Book, a ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize finalist and was made into a major motion picture. '' Unaccustomed Earth'' (2008) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, while her second novel, '' The Lowland'' (2013) was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. On January 22, 2015, Lahiri won the US$50,000 DSC Prize for Literature for ''The Lowland''. In these works, Lahiri explored the Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Hausner
Jessica Hausner (born 6 October 1972) is an Austrian film director and writer, and a professor at Filmacademy Vienna. Early life Jessica Hausner is the daughter of Viennese painter Rudolf Hausner, sister of costume designer Tanja Hausner and half sister of set designer and painter Xenia Hausner. She studied at Filmacademy Vienna. Career With fellow directors Barbara Albert and Antonin Svoboda and director of photography Martin Gschlacht, she founded the Viennese film production company coop99 in 1999. Her first films, a short ''Flora'' (1995) and diploma ''Inter-View'' (1999), were screened at several European film festivals. She received international attention in 2001 when her film '' Lovely Rita'', a portrait of a young girl who feels confined by family constraints, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. At that time Austrian cinema was dominated by commercial comedies and the general public was prejudiced against auteur and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Gröning
Philip Gröning (born 7 April 1959, in Düsseldorf) is a German director, documentary film maker and screenwriter. Career Gröning was raised in Germany and U.S., but also traveled extensively. He studied Medicine and Psychology, before beginning in the cinema with some acting. In 1986, he began doing his own films. His first documentary was ''The Last Picture Taken.'' In 2005, he gained acclaim for '' Into Great Silence''. His 2013 film ''The Police Officer's Wife'' was screened in the main competition section at the 70th Venice International Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize. Philip Groening was: * the jury president of the Orizzonti section at the Venice international film festival in 2006; * member of the jury at the Filmfest Munich in 2009; * member of the main international jury at Venice international filmfestival in 2014; and * jury member at the Message of Man Festival in St. Petersburg in 2014. He has been lecturing at the Baden-Württemberg Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Chen
Joan Chen (simplified Chinese; 陈冲; born April 26, 1961) is an American actress and film director. She made her film debut in the Chinese film ''Youth'' (1977) before starring in the film (1979). She came to the attention of American audiences for her portrayal of Wanrong in the Bernardo Bertolucci historical epic film '' The Last Emperor'' (1987), which won nine Academy Awards including Best Picture. She is also known for her leading roles in '' Heaven & Earth'' (1993), ''Golden Gate'' (1994), '' Red Rose White Rose'' (1994), '' Saving Face'' (2004), '' Sunflower'' (2005), and '' The Home Song Stories'' (2007) with supporting roles in '' Lust, Caution'' (2007), '' Tigertail'' (2020), and '' Dìdi'' (2024). As a filmmaker she directed the feature films '' Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl'' (1998), '' Autumn in New York'' (2000), '' English'' (2018) and ''Hero'' (2022). On television, she is most known for her recurring role as Jocelyn 'Josie' Packard in the David Lynch cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Hui
Ann Hui On-wah, (; born 23 May 1947) is a film director, producer, screenwriter and actress from Hong Kong who is one of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers of the Hong Kong New Wave. She is known for her films about social issues in Hong Kong which include literary adaptations, martial arts, semi-autobiographical works, women's issues, social phenomena, political changes, and thrillers. She served as the president of the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild from 2004 to 2006. Hui has won numerous awards. She won Best Director at the Golden Horse Awards three times (1999, 2011, 2014); Best Film at the Asia Pacific Film Festival; and Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards six times (1983, 1996, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018). Only two films have won a Grand Slam (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress) at the Hong Kong Film Awards; they are '' Summer Snow'' and '' A Simple Life'', both directed by Ann Hui. She was honored for her lifetim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu (born 15 August 1963) is a Mexican filmmaker primarily known for making modern psychological drama (film genre), psychological drama films about the human condition. His most notable films include ''Amores perros'' (2000), ''21 Grams'' (2003), ''Babel (film), Babel'' (2006), ''Biutiful'' (2010), ''Birdman (film), Birdman'' (2014), ''The Revenant (2015 film), The Revenant'' (2015), and ''Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, Bardo'' (2022). His projects have garnered critical acclaim and List of awards and nominations received by Alejandro González Iñárritu, numerous accolades, including five Academy Awards. In 2006, Iñárritu became the List of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees, first Mexican filmmaker to receive the Best Director Award at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival. Eight years later, he became the first Mexican filmmaker to be nominated as director or producer in the history of the Academy Awards, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
