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Sylvia Kristel
Sylvia Maria Kristel (28 September 1952 17 October 2012) was a Dutch actress and model who appeared in over 50 films. She was the eponymous character in five of the seven Emmanuelle films, including originating the role with ''Emmanuelle'' (1974). Early life Kristel was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands; she was the elder daughter of an innkeeper, Jean-Nicholas Kristel, and his wife Pietje Hendrika Lamme. In her 2006 autobiography, ''Nue'', she stated that she was sexually abused by an elderly hotel guest when she was nine years old, an experience she otherwise refused to discuss. Her parents divorced when she was 14 years old, after her father abandoned the family for another woman. "It was the saddest thing that ever happened to me," she said of the experience of her parents' separation. Career Kristel began modeling when she was 17 years old. In 1971, before becoming famous, she took part in auditions for the female lead (a role ultimately played by Maria Schneider) in Bernard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utrecht
Utrecht ( ; ; ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city of the Netherlands, as well as the capital and the most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Utrecht (province), Utrecht. The municipality of Utrecht is located in the eastern part of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Netherlands, and includes Haarzuilens, Vleuten and De Meern. It has a population of 376,435 as of . Utrecht's ancient city centre features many buildings and structures, several dating as far back as the High Middle Ages. It has been the religious centre of the Netherlands since the 8th century. In 1579, the Union of Utrecht was signed in the city to lay the foundations for the Dutch Republic. Utrecht was the most important city in the Netherlands until the Dutch Golden Age, when it was surpassed by Amsterdam as the country's cultural centre and most populous city. Utrecht is home to Utrecht University, the largest university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Chatterley's Lover
''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' is the final novel by English author D. H. Lawrence, which was first published privately in 1928, in Florence, Italy, and in 1929, in Paris, France. An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books, which won the case and quickly sold three million copies. The book was also banned for obscenity in the United States, Canada, Australia, India and Japan. The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex and its use of then-unprintable profane words. Background Lawrence's life, including his wife, Frieda, and his childhood in Nottinghamshire, influenced the novel. According to some critics, the fling of Lady Ottoline Morrell with "Tiger", a young stonemason who came to carve plinths for her garden statues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani (born 27 June 1955) is a French actress and singer of Algerian and German descent. She has received various accolades, including five César Awards and a Lumière Award, along with nominations for two Academy Awards. Adjani was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 2010 and a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014. Adjani has won a record five Césars for Best Actress for '' Possession'' (1981), '' One Deadly Summer'' (1983), '' Camille Claudel'' (1988), '' La Reine Margot'' (1994), and '' La Journée de la jupe'' (2009). Her other César-nominated roles were in '' The Story of Adèle H.'' (1975), '' Barocco'' (1976), '' Subway'' (1985), and '' The World Is Yours'' (2018). Other notable films include '' The Slap'' (1974), '' The Tenant'' (1976), ''The Driver'' (1978), '' Nosferatu the Vampyre'' (1979), '' All Fired Up'' (1982), '' Deadly Circuit'' (1983), ''Ishtar'' (1987), '' Diabolique'' (1996), ''Adolphe'' (2002), '' Bon vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tenant
''The Tenant'' () is a 1976 French psychological horror thriller film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gérard Brach, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Roland Topor. The film stars Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Lila Kedrova, Claude Dauphin and Shelley Winters. It is the final installment in Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy", following '' Repulsion'' (1965) and '' Rosemary's Baby'' (1968), it was Polanski's last film before being accused of sexual assault in 1977, and then leaving the United States. Plot Trelkovsky, a quiet and unassuming man, rents an apartment in Paris whose previous tenant, Egyptologist Simone Choule, attempted suicide by throwing herself out of the window and through a pane of glass below. Before moving in officially, he meets the concierge, who shows him the apartment and the spot where Simone fell. Nobody knows the reason for the suicide attempt. Trelkovsky visits Simone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Polanski
Raymond Roman Thierry Polański (; born 18 August 1933) is a Polish and French filmmaker and actor. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Roman Polanski, numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three British Academy Film Awards, ten César Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Golden Bear and a Palme d'Or. In 1977, Polanski was arrested for Roman Polanski sexual abuse case, drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of Statutory rape, unlawful sex with a minor in exchange for a probation-only sentence. The night before his sentencing hearing in 1978, he learned that the judge would likely reject the proffered plea bargain, so he fled the U.S. to Europe, where he continued his career. He remains a fugitive from the U.S. justice system. Further allegations of abuse have been made by other women. Polanski's parents moved the family from his birthplace in Paris back to Kraków in 1937.Paul Werner, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nude Bomb
''The Nude Bomb'' (also known as ''The Return of Maxwell Smart'') is a 1980 American spy comedy film based on the 1965–70 television series ''Get Smart''. It stars Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and was directed by Clive Donner. It was retitled ''The Return of Maxwell Smart'' for television. Co-creators Mel Brooks and Buck Henry had no involvement in the film. Furthermore, Adams and Robert Karvelas (as Larrabee) were the only cast members from the original TV series to reprise their roles for the film. Dana Elcar portrays the Chief in ''The Nude Bomb'' because Edward Platt, the original Chief, had died in 1974. Eugene Roche was first cast as the Chief in this film, but fell ill and was replaced by Elcar. Barbara Feldon did not return as Agent 99 from the TV series nor is she mentioned; Feldon claimed that she was unaware of the film's production and was not asked to reprise the role, but wouldn't have accepted in any case. This fact (taking into account that sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Get Smart
''Get Smart'' is an American comedy television series parodying the Spy fiction, secret agent genre that had become widely popular in the first half of the 1960s with the release of the ''James Bond'' films. It was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and had its television premiere on NBC on September 18, 1965. It starred Don Adams (who was also a director on the series) as agent Get Smart#Characters, Maxwell Smart (Agent 86), Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as The Chief. Henry said that they created the show at the request of Daniel Melnick to capitalize on James Bond (literary character), James Bond and Inspector Clouseau, "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today". Brooks described it as "an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy". The show generated a number of popular catchphrases during its run, including "sorry about that, Chief", "...and ''loving'' it", "missed it by ''that much''", and "would you believe...". The show was f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walerian Borowczyk
Walerian Borowczyk (21 October 1923 – 3 February 2006) was a Polish film director described by film critics as a "genius who also happened to be a pornographer". He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. Borowczyk settled in Paris in 1959. As a film director, he worked mainly in France.Margalit FoxWalerian Borowczyk, The New York Times 2006 obituary./ref> Biography Born in Kwilcz near Poznań, Borowczyk studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, then devoted himself to painting and lithography, including the creation of posters for the film, cinema, which earned him a national prize in 1953. His early films were Surrealism, surreal animations, some only a few seconds long, including several comic abecedarium, abecedaria. His most acclaimed early films were ''Był sobie raz'' (Time Upon a Once) (1957) and ''Dom (film), Dom'' (House) (1958, with Jan Lenica). In 1959, Borowczyk immigrated to France and settled in Paris. He worked with Chris Marker for ''Les Astr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Dallesandro
Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro III (born December 31, 1948) is an American actor and Warhol superstar. He was a sex symbol of gay subculture in the 1960s and 1970s, and of several American underground films before going mainstream. Dallesandro starred as a male prostitute in The Factory film ''Flesh (1968 film), Flesh'' (1968), produced by Andy Warhol and directed by Paul Morrissey. ''Rolling Stone magazine, Rolling Stone'' magazine declared Dallesandro's subsequent lead in ''Trash (1970 film), Trash'' (1970) as the "Best Film of the Year", making him a celebrity of youth culture and the sexual revolution. Dallesandro proceeded to star in ''Heat (1972 film), Heat'' (1972), ''Andy Warhol's Frankenstein'' (1973), and ''Andy Warhol's Dracula'' (1974). After appearing in European genre fiction, genre and art films for several years, he crossed into the mainstream as mobster Lucky Luciano in the 1984 film ''The Cotton Club (film), The Cotton Club''. Early life Joe Dallessandro was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Margin (film)
''The Margin'' (, also known as ''The Streetwalker'' and ''Emmanuelle 77'') is a 1976 French erotic drama film written and directed by Walerian Borowczyk and starring Sylvia Kristel, Joe Dallesandro, André Falcon, Mireille Audibert and Denis Canuel. It is loosely based on the novel '' The Margin'' by André Pieyre de Mandiargues. It had admissions of 725,502 in France. at Box Office Story Plot On business in Paris, a happily-married man receives news of the death of his wife and becomes emotionally involved with a prostitute, ultimately committing suicide.Cast ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Vadim
Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (; 26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director, and producer, as well as an author, artist, and occasional actor. His best-known works are visually lavish films with erotic qualities, such as ''And God Created Woman (1956 film), And God Created Woman'' (1956), ''Blood and Roses'' (1960), ''The Game Is Over'' (1966), ''Barbarella (film), Barbarella'' (1968), and ''Pretty Maids All in a Row'' (1971). Early life Vadim was born Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (sometimes transliterated Plemiannikoff) in Paris. His father, Igor Nikolaevich Plemiannikov, a White émigré, White Russian military officer and pianist, had emigrated from the Russian Empire and become a naturalized French citizen. He was a Diplomatic consulate, vice consul of France to Egypt, stationed in Alexandria, Egypt, Alexandria, later posting to Mersin, Turkey as a consul. Vadim's mother, Marie-Antoinette (née Ardilouze), was a stage actress. He had one sister, Hé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
