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Catalina Sandino Moreno
Catalina Sandino Moreno (born 19 April 1981) is a Colombian actress, most notable for receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as sharing the Silver Bear with Charlize Theron, for her performance as lead role in '' Maria Full of Grace'' (2004). Other credits include '' Fast Food Nation'' (2006), '' Love in the Time of Cholera'' (2007), '' Che'' (2008), '' The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'' (2010), '' Roa'' (2013), '' A Most Violent Year'' (2014), '' Falling Skies'' (2014), '' American Gothic'' (2016), '' Custody'' (2016), '' The Affair'' (2015–2019), '' The Quarry'' (2020, '' Barbarians'' (2021), '' From'' (2022), ''Silent Night'' (2023), and '' Ballerina'' (2025). Early life Sandino Moreno was born 19 April 1981 in Bogotá, Colombia. She grew up in a middle-class family, her father is a veterinarian and her mother a pathologist. She attended an English-taught school, Saint George's School in Bogotá, Colombia. Before becoming an actress, she stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city of Colombia, and one of the List of largest cities, largest cities in the world. The city is administered as the Capital District, as well as the capital of, though not politically part of, the surrounding department of Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca. Bogotá is a territorial entity of the first order, with the same administrative status as the departments of Colombia. It is the main political, economic, administrative, industrial, cultural, aeronautical, technological, scientific, medical and educational center of the country and northern South America. Bogotá was founded as the capital of the New Kingdom of Granada on 6 August 1538 by Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada after a harsh Spanish conquest of the Muisca, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Quarry (2020 Film)
''The Quarry'' is a 2020 American mystery thriller film directed by Scott Teems, from a screenplay by Teems and Andrew Brotzman, based upon the 1995 novel of the same name by Damon Galgut. It stars Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Bobby Soto, Bruno Bichir and Alvaro Martinez. It was released on April 17, 2020 in theaters by Lionsgate. Plot Preacher David Martin finds a man unconscious at the side of the road in West Texas. David is traveling to the small town of Bevel to be the new preacher. When they reach a quarry nearby, the man kills David and heads to Bevel. Arriving at the house where David was to stay, the man claims to be David, and is given room and board from Celia, girlfriend of Chief John Moore, of the three-man local sheriff's department. Celia's cousins, adult Valentin and teenaged Poco, grow marijuana at the quarry. They steal the real preacher's belongings from the van, including bloody clothes. They later are arrested at the quarry, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benicio Del Toro
Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (; born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican actor. List of awards and nominations received by Benicio del Toro, His accolades include an Academy Awards, Academy Award, a British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe, and a Silver Bear for Best Actor, Silver Bear. Del Toro made his film debut in ''Big Top Pee-wee'' (1988) before his breakout role playing an unintelligible crook in the crime thriller ''The Usual Suspects'' (1995) followed by roles in ''Basquiat (film), Basquiat'' (1996), ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' (1998), and ''Snatch (film), Snatch'' (2000). He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a morally upright police officer in the Steven Soderbergh crime drama ''Traffic (2000 film), Traffic'' (2000), and was nominated in the same category for playing an ex-con in Alejandro González Iñárritu's thriller ''2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernanda Montenegro
Arlette Pinheiro Esteves Torres ONM (née da Silva; born 16 October 1929), known by her stage name Fernanda Montenegro ( eɦˈnɐ̃dɐ mõtʃiˈnegɾu, is a Brazilian actress. Considered by many as the greatest Brazilian actress of all time, she is often referred to as the ''grande dame'' of Brazilian theater, cinema, and performing arts. For her work in ''Central Station'' (1998), she has become the first Brazilian and first Latin American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as the first actress nominated for an Academy Award for a performance in a Portuguese language film. Her daughter was also nominated in 2025. In addition, for her performance in '' Sweet Mother'' (2014), she has become the first Brazilian to win the Emmy Award for Best Actress. Among the various national and international awards she has received in a career spanning more than sixty years, she was awarded in 1999 her country's highest civilian honor, the National Order of Mer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Bardem
Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. In a career spanning over three decades, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and seven Goya Awards, in addition to Cannes Film Festival Award and two Volpi Cups. A son of actress Pilar Bardem, he first became known for such Spanish films as ''Jamón jamón'' (1992), '' Boca a boca'' (1995), '' Carne trémula'' (1997), '' Los lunes al sol'' (2002), and '' Mar adentro'' (2004). He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Reinaldo Arenas in '' Before Night Falls'' (2000), a criminal with cancer in '' Biutiful'' (2010), and Desi Arnaz in '' Being the Ricardos'' (2021). His portrayal of assassin Anton Chigurh in the Coen brothers' crime film ''No Country for Old Men'' (2007) won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem has also starred in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José García Márquez (; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo () or Gabito () throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. García Márquez started as a journalist and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories. He is best known for his novels, such as ''No One Writes to the Colonel'' (1961), '' One Hundred Years of Solitude'' (1967), which has sold over fifty million copies worldwide, '' Chronicle of a Death Foretold'' (1981) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love In The Time Of Cholera
''Love in the Time of Cholera'' () is a novel written in Spanish by Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez and published in 1985. Edith Grossman's English translation was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1988. Plot summary The main characters of the novel are Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza. Florentino and Fermina fall in love in their youth. A secret relationship blossoms between the two with the help of Fermina's Aunt Escolástica. They exchange love letters. But once Fermina's father, Lorenzo Daza, finds out about the two, he demands his daughter stop seeing Florentino immediately. When she refuses, he moves with her to another city where they live with relatives of his deceased wife. Regardless of the distance, Fermina and Florentino continue to communicate via telegraph. Upon her return, Fermina realizes that her relationship with Florentino was nothing but a dream since they are practically strangers; she breaks off her engagement to Florentino and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris, Je T'aime
''Paris, je t'aime'' (; ) is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different '' arrondissements'' (districts). The 22 directors include Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel and Ethan Coen, Isabel Coixet, Gérard Depardieu, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Nobuhiro Suwa, Alexander Payne, Tom Tykwer, Walter Salles, Yolande Moreau and Gus Van Sant. It was the first film in the '' Cities of Love'' franchise. Production Film director Julio Medem was attached to the project for a long time. He was supposed to direct one of the segments starring Javier Bardem and Maria Valverde, but this finally fell through because of scheduling conflicts with the filming of '' Caótica Ana'' (2007). ''Paris, je t'aime'' is the first feature film to be fully scanned in 6K and mastered in 4K in Europe (as opposed to the normal 2K). Encoding the image took about 24 hours per reel (at Labor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette (; born April 8, 1968) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'' (1987) and has since received several awards, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Arquette had starring roles in several critically acclaimed films, including ''True Romance'' (1993), ''Ed Wood (film), Ed Wood'' (1994), ''Flirting with Disaster (film), Flirting with Disaster'' (1996), ''Lost Highway (film), Lost Highway'' (1997), ''The Hi-Lo Country'' (1998), ''Bringing Out the Dead'' (1999), and ''Holes (film), Holes'' (2003). From 2005 to 2011, she starred as a character based on the Mediumship, medium Allison DuBois, in the supernatural drama series ''Medium (TV series), Medium'', winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2005. For playing a single mother in the coming-of-age film ''Boyhood (2014 film), Boyhood'' (2014), wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V (American Magazine)
''V'' is an American fashion magazine published since 1999. The magazine is printed seasonally and highlights trends in fashion, film, music and art. A men's fashion quarterly entitled '' VMan'' started as an offshoot in 2003. History ''V'' was launched in September 1999 as the "younger sibling" publication to the limited-edition quarterly '' Visionaire''. ''V'' releases six issues a year, one for each current seasonal collection; Spring, Spring/Summer, Summer, Fall Preview, Fall, and Winter. The magazine has a readership of 315,000 as of 2010. ''V'' is edited by Stephen Gan and features new global fashion displayed through shoots and editorials focusing more specifically on art, film, music and fashion. ''V'' has been noted for its inventive and progressive styling, as well as its reportage of cultural figures and global youth culture. Past contributors have included Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Hedi Slimane, Mario Testino, Mario Sorrenti, and Karl Lagerfeld. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europe's "Film festival#Notable festivals, Big Three" film festivals alongside the Venice Film Festival held in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival held in France. Furthermore, it is one of the "Film festival#Notable festivals, Big Five", the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The festival regularly draws tens of thousands of visitors each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and #Awards, Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballerina (2025 Film)
''Ballerina'' (marketed and labelled onscreen as ''From the World of John Wick: Ballerina'') is a 2025 American action thriller film directed by Len Wiseman and written by Shay Hatten. It is the fifth installment in the ''John Wick'' franchise, taking place between the events of '' John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum'' (2019) and '' John Wick: Chapter 4'' (2023). It stars Ana de Armas, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick (in his final screen appearance), Norman Reedus, Ian McShane, and Keanu Reeves. In the film, ballerina-turned-assassin Eve Macarro (de Armas) takes on an army of killers as she seeks revenge against those responsible for the death of her father. Development on a fifth ''John Wick'' film began in 2017, after Hatten, who also contributed to the third and fourth films, wrote a spec script intended for a spin-off. Wiseman was appointed director in October 2019, with Chad Stahelski, who directed each of the franchise's previous entries, returning as a prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
