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Pawel Pogorzelski
Pawel Pogorzelski (born 1979) is a Polish-Canadian cinematographer, known for his work with director Ari Aster. Pogorzelski was born in 1979 in Włocławek, Poland but moved to Montreal with his family when he was 2. He studied at Concordia University, receiving an undergraduate degree in media communication. He moved to Los Angeles in 2008, where he studied at the American Film Institute Conservatory. Pogorzelski garnered critical acclaim for his work on the 2018 psychological horror film ''Hereditary'', directed by Ari Aster. They would work together again on the 2019 film ''Midsommar'', for which he received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography at the 35th Independent Spirit Awards. In 2021, he was the director of photography for the action film ''Nobody'' and the Hulu horror film ''False Positive''. In 2023, he served as cinematographer for the DC Comics film ''Blue Beetle'' and once again worked with Ari Aster on his surrealist tragicomedy horr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the List of European countries by area, fifth largest EU country by area, covering . The capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Prehistory and protohistory of Poland, Prehistoric human activity on Polish soil dates to the Lower Paleolithic, with continuous settlement since the end of the Last Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
False Positive (film)
''False Positive'' is a 2021 American psychological horror film directed by John Lee from a screenplay he co-wrote with Ilana Glazer. The film stars Glazer, Justin Theroux, and Pierce Brosnan. ''False Positive'' had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 18, 2021 and was released in the United States by Hulu on June 25, 2021. Plot Copywriter Lucy Martin lives with her husband Adrian in Manhattan. The couple have been trying to conceive for two years and decide to seek out Dr. John Hindle, Adrian's former teacher and a leading fertility doctor. Lucy becomes pregnant after Dr. Hindle inseminates her, using a technique he invented. During an ultrasound she discovers she is pregnant with triplets: male twins and a female. Hindle suggests a selective reduction; either the twins or the daughter should be terminated to ensure a healthy pregnancy and birth. Adrian and Lucy decide to keep the girl. Lucy joins a group of expecting mothers, where she befriends Corgan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Lily Amirpour
Ana Lily Amirpour (;, is an American filmmaker of Iranian descent. She is best known for her feature film debut '' A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'', promoted as "the first Iranian vampire western," which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, and which was based on a previous short film that she wrote and directed, which won Best Short Film at the 2012 Noor Iranian Film Festival. Early life Amirpour was born in Margate, England to Iranian parents. She was born partially deaf. Her family moved to Miami, Florida when she was young. Her family then settled in Bakersfield, California, where she attended high school. She began studying biology at UC Santa Barbara but dropped out after one year. Later she returned to school to study painting and sculpting, attending San Francisco State University for her undergraduate degree, and then studied screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She has been making films since she was twelve years old. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon
''Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon'' is a 2021 American fantasy thriller film written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. It stars Kate Hudson, Jun Jong-seo, Ed Skrein, Evan Whitten, and Craig Robinson. The film had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 2021. It was released in the United States on September 30, 2022, by Saban Films. Plot Mona Lisa Lee is a patient in a mental institution near New Orleans. After silently enduring abusive treatment, she uses a telepathic power to escape, injuring several workers who stand in her way. Wandering the streets aimlessly at night, she encounters various strangers, some of them hostile or menacing. Her strange behavior brings her to the attention of a policeman, Officer Harold, who tries to arrest her. She uses her power to cause him to shoot himself in the knee. Next, she saves a woman named Bonnie Belle who is losing a fistfight in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. Bonnie Belle, a str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lee (producer)
John Michael Lee is an American television producer, writer, director, voice actor, and musician best known for his work on the MTV2 comedy series '' Wonder Showzen'' as a member of the rock band/art collective PFFR. Career Lee is of Chinese ancestry and is long time friends with fellow PFFR member and television producer Vernon Chatman. They met as undergraduates at San Francisco State University. Along with Chatman, Lee is the co-creator, writer, director and star of '' Wonder Showzen''. He voices Wordsworth, one of the main puppet characters and provides various other voices on the show. The pair also co-created Snoop Dogg's 2002 MTV sketch show ''Doggy Fizzle Televizzle''. In addition, Lee is the co-creator of '' Xavier: Renegade Angel'', also with Alyson Levy, Chatman and Jim Tozzi. He also worked as a creative consultant on the Adult Swim series ''Superjail!'' in 2009. In 2011, Lee, Levy and Chatman created the Adult Swim mini-series '' The Heart, She Holler'' starring P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Naishuller
Ilya Viktorovich Naishuller (; born November 19, 1983) is a Russian film director and musician. He is known for directing the action films ''Hardcore Henry'' (2015) and ''Nobody (2021 film), Nobody'' (2021). He is also the founder of the film production company Versus Pictures and the indie rock band Biting Elbows. Early life Naishuller was born in Moscow, the son of a surgeon mother, Tatyana Rusakova, and an "Russian oligarchs, oligarch" businessman father, "one of the richest people in Russia in the early 1990s", Viktor Naishuller, of Jewish background. From the ages of seven to fourteen he lived in London and attended a private school.Ilja Naischuller at kino-teatr.ua [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tragedy Girls
''Tragedy Girls'' is a 2017 American teen buddy comedy horror film directed by Tyler MacIntyre, written by Chris Lee Hill and MacIntyre, and starring Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand, Josh Hutcherson, Craig Robinson, Kevin Durand and Jack Quaid. It was released on October 20, 2017, by Gunpowder & Sky. Plot Psychopathic high school seniors McKayla Hooper and Sadie Cunningham live in the Midwestern town of Rosedale and run a true crime blog called ''Tragedy Girls.'' They are obsessed with murder and fame, and are willing to do anything to get more followers. They use their friend Craig as bait to capture serial killer Lowell Orson Lehmann and ask him to aid them, but he refuses. The two decide to keep him captive, commit murders themselves and use Lehmann as a fall guy. The next day, Craig is missing, presumed to have run away. McKayla, Sadie, and their friend Jordan attempt to convince Rosedale that there is a serial killer running loose, but they only earn the ire of Jordan's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boost (film)
''Boost'' is a 2016 Canadian drama film written and directed by Darren Curtis. The film stars Nabil Rajo and Jahmil French as Hakeem and Anthony/"A-Mac", teenagers in the Park Extension neighbourhood of Montreal who work at Hakeem's uncle's car wash while simultaneously maintaining a sideline pursuit of passing on tips about valuable cars to the neighbourhood's gang of car thieves. One day, however, they decide to try their hands at undertaking an auto theft themselves. The film's cast also includes Fanny Mallette, Oluniké Adeliyi, Patrick Goyette, Théodore Pellerin and Juliette Gariépy. The film was originally written to be about characters of South Asian background, but was rewritten in a Black Canadian context when Rajo and French were cast as the leads. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We're Still Together
''We're Still Together'' is a 2016 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Jesse Klein."We’re Still Together – Film de Jesse Noah Klein" ''Films du Québec'', September 19, 2017. The film stars as Chris, a shy young man who gets taken under the wing of the more outgoing Bobby () when they meet outside a station after Chris has been attacked by a bully.A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patchwork (2015 Film)
''Patchwork'' is a 2015 American horror film directed by Tyler MacIntyre, from a screenplay from Chris Lee Hill and MacIntyre. It was shown in film festivals starting in 2015 and officially released in 2017. Reception According to Derek Anderson of ''Daily Dead'', the film is "A delightfully dark, Frankenstein-themed horror comedy about a re-animated corpse, made from the stitched together body parts of three murdered young women, that decides to go on a bloody quest to find their killer and avenge their deaths!" Daniel Kurland of ''Screen Rant'' called the film "a cutting commentary on gender dynamics and female empowerment" that "is truer to the source text than the more modern narrative." Awards The film received 8 awards including the 2015 Screamfest Awards for Best Editing and Best Picture, and the Toronto After Dark Film Festival Toronto After Dark Film Festival (TADFF) is a showcase of horror, sci-fi, action and cult cinema held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beau Is Afraid
''Beau Is Afraid'' is a 2023 American surrealist tragicomedy film written, directed, and co-produced by Ari Aster. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as the title character, and also includes a supporting cast consisting of Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandolfini, Zoe Lister-Jones, Armen Nahapetian, and Richard Kind. Its plot follows the mild-mannered but paranoia-ridden Beau as he embarks on a surreal odyssey to get home to his mother's funeral, realizing his greatest fears along the way. Distributed by A24, ''Beau Is Afraid'' premiered at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on April 1, 2023, and began a limited theatrical release in the United States on April 14, 2023, before a wide release the following week. The film received generally positive reviews from critics but was a box-office bomb, grossing only $11 million. Phoenix received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance. Plot Beau Wasse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSII
KSII (93.1 FM) is a radio station that serves the El Paso, Texas, area with hot adult contemporary music known as ''93.1 KISS-FM''. It is under ownership of Townsquare Media. Its studios are located on North Mesa Street in northwest El Paso and its transmitter is located in the Franklin Mountains. History 93.1 MHz was the original KAMA-FM, licensed in 1976 to the owners of KAMA at 1060 kHz. In 1982, the FM station separated from KAMA and changed its calls to KAMZ, with the KSII callsign instituted in 1985. By 2011, KSII reduced the rhythmic contemporary lean, and began acting much like an adult contemporary radio station, but still continues to report as hot adult contemporary per Mediabase & Nielsen BDS Broadcast Data Systems (also known as Nielsen BDS, BDS or Luminate BDS) was a service that tracks radio, television and internet airplay of songs. The service, which is a unit of MRC Data, is a contributing factor to North American charts publishe .... As of Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
