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Fay Grim
''Fay Grim'' is a 2006 espionage thriller film written and directed by Hal Hartley. The film is a sequel to Hartley's 1997 film '' Henry Fool'', and revolves around the title character, played by Parker Posey, the sister of Simon Grim (James Urbaniak). The plot revolves around Fay's attempt to unravel an increasingly violent mystery in Europe. Hartley began writing the script in 2002, and filming took place in Europe from January to March 2006. It premiered in September at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, and received a theatrical release in the United States on May 18, 2007. The film was shot almost entirely in Dutch angles, meaning the vast majority of shots are framed diagonally, or "tilted". At the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Hartley revealed that the two shots in the film's final cut that are not "Dutched" occurred when he and the film crew forgot to tilt the camera. A sequel, '' Ned Rifle'', was released in 2014. Plot Seven years after the events of '' Henr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley (born November 3, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and composer who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and '90s. He is best known for his films '' The Unbelievable Truth'', '' Trust'', ''Simple Men'', ''Amateur'' and '' Henry Fool'', which are notable for deadpan humour and offbeat characters quoting philosophical dialogue. His films provided a career launch for a number of actors, including Adrienne Shelly, Edie Falco, James Urbaniak, Martin Donovan, Karen Sillas and Elina Löwensohn. Hartley frequently scores his own films using his pseudonym Ned Rifle, and his soundtracks regularly feature music by indie rock acts Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and PJ Harvey. Early life Hartley was born in Lindenhurst on southern Long Island, New York, the son of an ironworker. Hartley had an early interest in painting and attended the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston where he studied art and developed an intere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Löwensohn
Elina Löwensohn (born 11 July 1966) is a Romanian-American actress. She had roles in the films '' Simple Men'' (1992), ''Schindler's List'' (1993), '' Amateur'' (1994), '' Nadja'' (1994) and '' The Wisdom of Crocodiles'' (1998). Life and career Löwensohn was born in Bucharest, Romania. After the death of her father, a Holocaust survivor, her mother emigrated to the United States with her, where her mother went on a hunger strike to get a visa for her. After finishing high school, Löwensohn studied acting in New York City and played in several successful theatre productions. She started her film career in 1991 with ''Theory of Achievement''. Some of her notable roles are Diana Reiter in ''Schindler's List ''Schindler's List'' is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the 1982 novel ''Schindler's Ark'' by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film f ...'' (1993), Katya in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pick-up Shot
In filmmaking, a pick-up is a small, relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment footage already shot. When entire scenes are redone, it is referred to as a re-shoot or additional photography. On set During principal photography, the director may choose to ask for another take (meaning that every movable object and person in the scene returns to their starting positions and the entire shot is recorded all over again), or may ask for a pick-up shot of only the faulty portion of an otherwise satisfactory take. In the latter situation, the script supervisor is expected to record in their notes that a pick-up shot was called for (so the film editor can understand and correctly edit the resulting footage) and also help prompt or " cue" the relevant actor by reading the last line before that actor's line. It is increasingly common for a director to not immediately call "cut" after a blooper, but instead leave the camera rolling and call for a pick-up, which make ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Toronto International Film Festival
The 30th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 8–17 and screened 335 films from 52 countries - 109 of these films were world premieres, and 78 were North American premieres. Awards At the Festival's closing event, the following prizes were awarded: * The People's Choice Award, presented to Gavin Hood's ''Tsotsi''. * The Discovery Award, presented to Sarah Watt's '' Look Both Ways''. * The Fipresci Prize, presented to South Korean director Kang Yi-kwan for ''Sa-kwa''. * A tie for the Citytv Award for Best Canadian First Feature, presented to Louise Archambault's '' Familia'' and Michael Mabbott's ''The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico''. * The Toronto – City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film, presented to '' C.R.A.Z.Y.'' directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. * The Bravo!FACT Short Cuts Canada Award, presented to Renuka Jeyapalan's '' Big Girl'' (Honourable mention to Andrea Dorfman's ''There's a Flower in My Pedal''). Because the vote for the People's Choice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Hope
Ted Hope (born 1962) is an American independent film producer based in New York City. He is best known for co-founding the production/sales company Good Machine, where he produced the first films of such notable filmmakers as Ang Lee, Nicole Holofcener, Todd Field, Michel Gondry, Moisés Kaufman, and Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, among others. Hope later co-founded This is That with several associates from Good Machine. He later worked at the San Francisco Film Society and Amazon Studios. Among Hope's twenty-three Sundance entries, are three Grand Jury Prize winners: ''American Splendor'' (2003), ''The Brothers McMullen'' (1995) and ''What Happened Was...'' (1994). ''American Splendor'' also won the FIPRESCI Award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, the Critics prize at the 2003 Deauville Film Festival, and was nominated for five Spirit Awards and one Academy Award. Hope has also produced two Sundance Opening Night selections: Nicole Holofcener's ''Friends with M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Da Vinci Code
''The Da Vinci Code'' is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel ''Angels & Demons''. ''The Da Vinci Code'' follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris causes them to become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene having had a child together. The novel explores an alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince's ''The Templar Revelation'' (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. The book also refers to '' The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (1982) though Dan Brown has stated that it was not used as research material. ''The Da Vinci Code'' provoked a popular interest in speculation conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the Northeastern United States to California. The hijackers crashed the first two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and the third plane into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the United States military) in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane was intended to hit a federal government building in Washington, D.C., but crashed in a field following a passenger revolt. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and instigated the war on terror. The first impact was that of American Airlines Flight 11. It was crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan at 8:46 a.m. Seventeen minutes later, at 9:03, the World Trade Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Benedict
Peter Benedict (born Christian Riss; 13 July 1963) is an Austrian actor, director and writer. Early life Peter Benedict was born Christian Riss in Chur, Switzerland. He is the only son of actors Walter Riss and Christa Rossenbach. He grew up in Berlin, Paris and Salzburg. Benedict studied drama and film directing at Mozarteum University Salzburg and at Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. Career Benedict began working in film and television productions under his birth name in the late 1980s. He wrote and directed the 1999 film ''Ende des Frühlings''. In 2000, he started his film career as an actor. His first role was in Dominik Graf's drama '' A Map of the Heart''. Since then, Benedict has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including ''Fay Grim'' (2006), '' Yella'' (2007), '' Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic'' (2007), '' Unschuldig'' (2008), '' Barbara'' (2012), '' The Team'' (2015), and ''The Young Karl Marx'' (2017). From 2005 to 2016, he made re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibel Kekilli
Sibel Kekilli (born 16 June 1980) is a German actress. She gained public attention after starring in the 2004 film '' Head-On''. She won two Lolas, the most prestigious German film awards, for her performances in ''Head-On'' and ''When We Leave'' (2010). Beginning in 2011, she became more widely known for her role as Shae in the HBO series '' Game of Thrones''. Early life Kekilli was born and raised in Heilbronn, to a family of Turkish origin. Her parents came to Germany from Turkey in 1977, and were described by Kekilli as having a rather modern and open attitude. After completing school with excellent grades at age 16, she entered a 30-month-long combined training program to become a certified public administration specialist at the local city administration. After successful completion of the training program, she continued to work as an administrative assistant for another two years at Heilbronn city hall, then moved to Essen, where she worked various jobs as a bouncer, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Scheller
David Scheller (born October 12, 1972) is a German actor. Since the early 1990s he appeared in many German TV- and film productions and also participated in a few international movies like ''Fay Grim'' or ''Extreme Ops''. In series and films David Scheller often plays dubious characters and criminals. In one of his most famous roles, David Scheller stars as Dieter Bockhorn, the former companion of Uschi Obermaier in the German film ''Eight Miles High''. David Scheller lives in Berlin. Filmography (selection) * 1992: ''Geteilte Nacht'' * 1992: '' Marienhof ''( TV-series) * 1994: ''Tatort ''(TV-series) * 1997: ''Mord für eine Schlagzeile ''(TV-movie) * 1998: ''Explodiert'' * 2000: ' * 2000: ''Zärtliche Sterne ''(TV-movie) * 2001: '' ''(TV-movie) * 2001: ' * 2001: ''Tatort ''(TV-series) * 2002: ''Extreme Ops'' * 2003: ''Polizeiruf 110 ''(TV-series) * 2003: ' * 2003: '' Yu'' * 2005: ''Die Bullenbraut – Ihr erster Fall ''(TV-movie) * 2005: '' Katze im Sack'' * 2005: ' * 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Michelsen
Claudia Michelsen (born 4 February 1969) is a German actress. She has appeared in more than eighty films since 1989. Selected filmography External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Michelsen, Claudia 1969 births Living people Actors from Dresden German film actresses German television actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehdi Nebbou
Mehdi Nebbou (born 10 January 1974) is a French actor. Biography Nebbou was born on 10 January 1974 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, to a German mother and an Algerian father. His brother is the film director Safy Nebbou. He started his career by appearing in the film '' My Sweet Home'', directed by Filipos Tsitos. In 2004, the director Samir Nasr offered him the leading role in the film '' Seeds of Doubt'', which won the Golden Gate Award for best film at the San Francisco Film Festival. 2005 was a turning point in Nebbou's career thanks to the film '' Schläfer'' by German film director Benjamin Heisenberg. The film received excellent reviews and was selected for the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In 2006, he portrayed Ali Hassan Salameh in the Steven Spielberg blockbuster film ''Munich''. In 2007, for his performance in '' Teresas Zimmer'', directed by German film director Constanze Knoche, he won the award for best actor at First Steps Awards. In 2008, Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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