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The Belly Of An Architect
''The Belly of an Architect'' is a 1987 film drama written and directed by Peter Greenaway, featuring original music by Glenn Branca and Wim Mertens. Starring Brian Dennehy and Chloe Webb, it was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Plot American architect Stourley Kracklite has been commissioned to construct an exhibition in Rome dedicated to the architecture of the 18th-century French architect, Étienne-Louis Boullée, who until the 20th century remained little known. Kracklite's Italian colleagues express doubts about whether Boullée really belongs in the architectural pantheon; they note that few of his buildings were ever constructed and observe that Boullée was an inspiration for Adolf Hitler's architect Albert Speer. As he works on the exhibition, Kracklite's marriage and health deteriorate. He becomes obsessed with Caesar Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire, after hearing that Augustus's wife, Livia, supposedly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh film director, screenwriter and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his films are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death. Early life Greenaway was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, to a teacher mother and a builder's merchant father. Greenaway's family left South Wales when he was three years old (they had moved there originally to avoid the Blitz) and settled in Chingford, Essex. He attended Forest School in nearby Walthamstow. At an early age Greenaway decided on becoming a painter. He became interested in European cinema, focusing first on the films of Ingmar Bergman, and then on the French ''nouvelle vague'' filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard and, most especially, Alain Resnais. Greenaway ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia, and was ruled by emperors. From the accession of Caesar Augustus as the first Roman emperor to the military anarchy of the 3rd century, it was a Principate with Italia as the metropole of its provinces and the city of Rome as its sole capital. The Empire was later ruled by multiple emperors who shared control over the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. The city of Rome remained the nominal capital of both parts until AD 476 when the imperial insignia were sent to Constantinople following the capture of the Western capital of Ravenna by the Germanic barbarians. The adoption of Christianity as the state church of the Roman Empire in AD 380 and the fall of the Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fandango Media
Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website as well as through their mobile app, as well as a provider of television and streaming media information through its subsidiary Rotten Tomatoes. History On April 11, 2007, Comcast acquired Fandango, with plans to integrate it into a new entertainment website called "Fancast.com," set to launch the summer of 2007. In June 2008, the domain Movies.com was acquired from Disney. In March 2012, Fandango announced a partnership with Yahoo! Movies, making Fandango the official online and mobile ticketer for registered users of the Yahoo! service. That October, Paul Yanover was named President of Fandango. Fandango made its first international acquisition in September 2015 when it bought the Brazilian ticketing company Ingresso, which provides ticketing to a variety of Brazilian entertainment events, including the biannual Rock in Rio festival. On January 29, 2016, Fandango announced it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Review Aggregator
A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews of products and services (such as films, books, video games, software, hardware, and cars). This system stores the reviews and uses them for purposes such as supporting a website where users can view the reviews, selling information to third parties about consumer tendencies, and creating databases for companies to learn about their actual and potential customers. The system enables users to easily compare many different reviews of the same work. Many of these systems calculate an approximate average assessment, usually based on assigning a numeric value to each review related to its degree of positive rating of the work. Review aggregation sites have begun to have economic effects on the companies that create or manufacture items under review, especially in certain categories such as electronic games, which are expensive to purchase. Some companies have tied royalty payment rates and employee bonuses to aggregate scores, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rate Furlan
Rate Furlan (1911–1989) was an Italian actor, composer, screenwriter and film director.Chiti & Poppi p.411 Selected filmography * '' La figlia della Madonna'' (1949) * ''Lo Zappatore'' (1950) * '' Malavita'' (1951) * '' Melody of Love'' (1952) * '' Arrivederci Firenze'' (1958) * ''The Huns'' (1960) * '' Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison'' (1977) * ''The Belly of an Architect ''The Belly of an Architect'' is a 1987 film drama written and directed by Peter Greenaway, featuring original music by Glenn Branca and Wim Mertens. Starring Brian Dennehy and Chloe Webb, it was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) award a ...'' (1987) References Bibliography * Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959''. Gremese Editore, 1991. External links * 1911 births 1989 deaths Italian film directors Italian male film actors Italian screenwriters People from Padua 20th-century Italian screenwriters {{Italy-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marne Maitland
James Marne Kumar Maitland (18 December 1914 – March 1992) was an Anglo-Indian character actor in films and television programmes. Biography Maitland was born in Calcutta, and educated at Bedales School before going up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he took a BA in 1936. He served in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War, commissioned as a second lieutenant on 20 November 1941. He made his film debut in ''Cairo Road'' (1950). His sharp, dark features and small stature saw him typecast as villains from the Middle and Far East, particularly for Hammer Film Productions. '' The Man with the Golden Gun'' (1974) was his one appearance in a James Bond film. He made numerous television appearances in programmes such as '' The Buccaneers'', ''Danger Man'', '' The Avengers'' (as a sinister Eastern delegate in the 1967 episode " Death's Door"), ''The Saint'', ''The Champions'', '' Department S'', and '' Randall and Hopkirk'', and the Granada series '' The Jewel in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marino Masé
Marino Masè (21 March 1939 – 28 May 2022) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than 70 films. Life Masè was born in Trieste on 21 March 1939. While still a teenager, he joined the laboratory for young actors of the production company Vides by Franco Cristaldi and studied acting under Alessandro Fersen. He made his stage debut in 1960 in ''L'arialda'', directed by Luchino Visconti, and his film debut in the 1961 adventure '' Romulus and the Sabines'' by Richard Pottier. He had several leading roles in the first half of the 1960s, including Marco Bellocchio's ''Fists in the Pocket'' and Jean-Luc Godard's ''Les Carabiniers'', then he was mainly cast in supporting roles. Masè was also active in the adaptation of the dialogues for dubbing. Masè died in Rome on 28 May 2022, at the age of 83. Selected filmography * '' Romulus and the Sabines'' (1961) as Leno * ''The Leopard'' (1963) as Tutor * ''The Carabineers'' (1963) as Ulysses * ''A Sentimental Attempt'' (1963) as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Carnelutti (actor)
Francesco Carnelutti (8 April 1936 - 26 November 2015) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1969 to 2014. Filmography References External links * 1936 births 2015 deaths Italian male film actors {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Copleston
Gerald Geoffrey Copleston (18 March 1921 – 1999) was an English actor, voice actor, and translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transl ... who worked primarily in Italian genre cinema. He appeared in more than one hundred films beginning in 1956, many of which were English-language dubs of European films. Filmography Live-action roles Partial dubbing roles References External links * 1921 births 1999 deaths English male film actors British expatriates in Italy Place of death missing Male actors from Manchester {{UK-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Varelli
Alfredo Varelli (born Alfredo Ciavarella, 31 August 1914, date of death unknown) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned more than six decades. Varelli was born ''Alfredo Ciavarella'' and debuted in Alessandro Blasetti's 1934 film ''Vecchia guardia''. He emerged during the Fascist era, but most of his work was post-Second World War. He played a leading role in the 1942 historical drama '' The Jester's Supper''.Reich & Garofalo p.159-60 Varelli is also known for playing "Lucan" in ''Quo Vadis'' (1951). His last role was in the film ''Roseanna's Grave'' (1997). Selected filmography * '' Vecchia guardia'' (1934) * ''Giuseppe Verdi'' (1938) * '' I, His Father'' (1939) * ''The Secret Lover'' (1941) * ''Fedora'' (1942) * '' The Jester's Supper'' (1942) * ''Measure for Measure'' (1943) * ''The Tyrant of Padua'' (1946) * ''The Devil's Gondola'' (1946) * ''The Beggar's Daughter'' (1950) * ''Cavalcade of Heroes'' (1950) * ''Quo Vadis'' (1951) as Lucan, poet in Nero's court ubbed* ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanni Corbellini
Vanni Corbellini (Turin, 15 February 1955) is an Italian actor and Film director, director. Biography Vanni Corbellini was born in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He is the son of an engineer and a painter who came from Florence. He attended the Faculty of Economics and Business, he practiced competitive skiing and horse riding. He began performing as presenter in a show for disabled people. He became assistant director, after three years he moved to Rome. In 1987, he collaborated with Welsh director and painter Peter Greenaway on the movie "The Belly of an Architect". In 1998, he's the protagonist of the drama TV series "Incantesimo" and he obtained great popularity. He speaks English, French and German and, in his free time, he enjoys swimming, cooking and relaxing in South Africa. Filmography Actor Film *Paesaggio con figure (1983) *Colpire al cuore (1983) *Delirium (1987 film) *The Belly of an Architect (1987) *Drowning by Numbers (1988) *Modì (1990) *Isimeria (1991) *La fine del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
