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2008 Sundance Film Festival
The 2008 Sundance Film Festival ran from January 17, 2008 to January 27 in Park City, Utah. It was the 24th iteration of the Sundance Film Festival. The opening night film was ''In Bruges'' and the closing night film was '' CSNY Déjà Vu''. Films Out of 2,021 U.S. and 1,603 international feature-length films submitted for consideration, 121 were selected to be shown at the festival. For a list of films that were shown at the festival, see List of films at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Award winners *Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - ''Trouble the Water'' *Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - ''Frozen River'' *Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - ''Man On Wire'' *Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - '' The King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)'' *Audience Award: Documentary - '' Fields of Fuel'' *Audience Award: Dramatic - ''The Wackness'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - ''Man on Wire'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - ''Captain Abu Raed'' *Directing Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Bruges
''In Bruges'' is a 2008 black comedy-drama crime film directed and written by Martin McDonagh in his feature-length debut and starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two London-based Irish hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their enraged boss. The film is set and was filmed in Bruges, Belgium. ''In Bruges'' was the opening night film of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and opened in limited release in the United States on 8 February 2008. For his performance in the film, Farrell won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, while Gleeson was nominated in the same category. McDonagh won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Plot Carrying out orders, rookie hitman Ray shoots a priest during confession, but accidentally kills a young boy who is also in church. He and his mentor Ken are sent to Bruges by their employer Harry, where they are to await further i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man On Wire
''Man on Wire'' is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. It is based on Petit's 2002 book, ''To Reach the Clouds'', released in paperback with the title ''Man on Wire''. The title of the film is taken from the police report that led to the arrest (and later release) of Petit, whose performance lasted for almost an hour. The film is crafted like a heist film, presenting rare footage of the preparations for the event and still photographs of the walk, alongside re-enactments (with Paul McGill as the young Petit) and present-day interviews with the participants, including Barry Greenhouse, an insurance executive who served as the inside man. ''Man on Wire'' competed in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary and the World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rape In The Congo
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability, or is below the legal age of consent. The term ''rape'' is sometimes used interchangeably with the term ''sexual assault.'' The rate of reporting, prosecuting and convicting for rape varies between jurisdictions. Internationally, the incidence of rapes recorded by the police during 2008 ranged, per 100,000 people, from 0.2 in Azerbaijan to 92.9 in Botswana with 6.3 in Lithuania as the median. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Eyelids
''Blue Eyelids'' ( es, Párpados azules) is a 2007 Mexican drama film directed by Ernesto Contreras. Plot ''Marina Farfán'' works at a cloth factory, and during a work ceremony the owner of the company draws Marina's name on a contest and she wins a paid trip to ''Playa Salamandra''. When she collects her prize, ''Marina'' finds out it's a trip for two, but her introverted and sordid personality had stopped her from connecting with other people for years, and she doesn't have anyone to share the trip with. Later, while ''Marina'' buys bread, she is recognized by ''Víctor'', a former high school classmate that she doesn't remember, but who is a little insistent on talking to her to remember the old days. ''Marina'' isn't interested in his advances, but when she fights with her sister ''Lucía'', who was supposed to come with her on the trip, she decides to call ''Víctor'' and invite him to go with her instead. ''Víctor'' agrees to go with her, but as the departure day ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recycle (film)
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. The Energy recycling, recovery of energy from waste materials is often included in this concept. The recyclability of a material depends on its ability to reacquire the properties it had in its original state. It is an alternative to "conventional" waste disposal that can save material and help lower greenhouse gas emissions. It can also prevent the waste of potentially useful materials and reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reducing energy use, air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling). Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the "Waste minimisation, Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle" waste hierarchy. It promotes environmental sustainability by removing raw material input and redirecting waste output in the economic system. There are some International Organization for Standardization, ISO standards related t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dream Of Life
''Dream of Life'' is the fifth studio album by Patti Smith, released in June 1988 on Arista Records. Recording and release ''Dream of Life'' was her first album after the dissolution of The Patti Smith Group, and the only album that she made with her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith. Lead single "People Have the Power" received some album-oriented rock airplay at the time, and later was revived by Michael Stipe as a theme song for the 2004 Vote for Change concerts. "People Have the Power" was performed live for the first time by Patti and Fred Smith at the Arista Records 15th Anniversary Gala at Radio City Music Hall on March 17, 1990. "Paths That Cross" is dedicated to the memory of Samuel J. Wagstaff. The cover photograph is by Robert Mapplethorpe. Reception ''Dream of Life'' received generally favorable reviews from critics, who ranked the album number 31 in ''The Village Voice''s 1988 Pazz & Jop critics' poll. It was also ranked number 49 on '' Sounds'' magazine's list of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanted And Desired
Wanted may refer to: Law enforcement * Fugitive, a person wanted by the authorities * Wanted poster, a poster put up to inform the public of one or more criminals whom authorities wish to apprehend Film * '' Wanted!'', a 1937 British comedy film * ''Wanted'' (1967 film), an Italian western * ''Wanted'' (2004 film), an Indian Malayalam-language thriller * ''Wanted'' (2008 film), an American action film based on the comics series (see below) * ''Wanted'' (2009 film), a Bollywood film starring Salman Khan * ''Wanted'' (2010 film), an Indian Bengali film starring Jeet * ''Wanted'' (2011 film), a Tollywood film starring Gopichand * ''Wanted'' (2015 film), an American Western pornographic film Literature * ''Wanted'' (comics), a 2003–2005 comic book limited series by Mark Millar and J. G. Jones * ''Wanted'' (manga), a 2005 Japanese manga series by Matsuri Hino * ''Wanted'' (''Pretty Little Liars''), a 2010 ''Pretty Little Liars'' novel by Sara Shepard * ''Wanted'', a 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Always Wanted To Be A Gangster
''I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster'' (french: J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster) is a 2008 French comedy film directed by Samuel Benchetrit. Cast * Anna Mouglalis - Suzy - la serveuse * Édouard Baer - Gino - le braqueur * Jean Rochefort - Jean * Laurent Terzieff - Émile * Jean-Pierre Kalfon - Max * Venantino Venantini - Joe * Roger Dumas - Pierrot la Pince * Alain Bashung - Alain Bashung * Arno The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber. Source and route The river originates on Monte Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a ... - Arno * Bouli Lanners - Léon References External links * 2008 comedy films 2008 films French comedy films 2000s French films {{2000s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleep Dealer
''Sleep Dealer'' is a 2008 futuristic science fiction film directed by Alex Rivera. ''Sleep Dealer'' depicts a dystopian future to explore ways in which technology both oppresses and connects migrants. A fortified wall has ended unauthorized Mexico-US immigration, but migrant workers are replaced by robots, remotely controlled by the same class of would-be emigrants. Their life force is inevitably used up, and they are discarded without medical compensation. Plot ''Sleep Dealer'' is set in a future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor, and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, where three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the technology barriers. Memo Cruz works at a factory, one of several sleep dealers. Here, workers are connected to the network via suspended cables that plug into nodes in their arms and back, allowing them to control the robots that have replaced them as unskilled labor on the other sid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mermaid (2007 Film)
''Mermaid'' (Russian: Русалка, Rusalka) is a Russian 2007 fantasy comedy-drama film directed and written by Anna Melikyan. It is a loose adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 fairy tale "The Little Mermaid". It was a box office success in Russia, won numerous awards, including at Sundance Film Festival for best Dramatic Directing, and was selected as Russia's official submission to Foreign-Language Film category for the 2009 Academy Awards. Plot As a child Alisa lives with her mother and grandmother near the sea and waits for the return of her father, a sailor her mother had a brief affair with. When Alisa learns that her mother is having trysts with their boarder she sees it as her mother's betrayal of her father and burns down the house. After an eclipse of the sun, Alisa stops talking. Alisa is then sent to a school for mentally disabled children, where she discovers a magical ability to fulfill her wishes. After wishing to move away and causing a hurricane, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Village Of Fools
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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