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The Best Film You've Never Seen
''The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love'' is a book by the journalist and editor Robert K. Elder. Synopsis Published in 2013, the book features interviews with 35 directors about lesser-known movies that influenced them. This is the companion to his previous book, '' The Film That Changed My Life''. Interviews The directors include: *John Woo ('' Le Samouraï'') *Danny Boyle ('' Eureka'') *John Dahl ('' Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me'') *Guillermo del Toro (''Arcane Sorcerer'') *Rian Johnson (''Under the Volcano'') *Jay Duplass (''Joe Versus the Volcano'') *Richard Linklater (''Some Came Running'') *John Waters ('' Boom!'') *Kevin Smith ('' A Man for All Seasons'') *Peter Bogdanovich ('' Trouble in Paradise'') *Edgar Wright ('' The Super Cops'') *Bill Condon (''Sweet Charity'') *Alex Proyas ('' The Swimmer'') *Frank Oz (''The Trial ''The Trial'' (german: Der Process, link=no, previously , and ) is a nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Film You've Never Seen
''The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love'' is a book by the journalist and editor Robert K. Elder. Synopsis Published in 2013, the book features interviews with 35 directors about lesser-known movies that influenced them. This is the companion to his previous book, '' The Film That Changed My Life''. Interviews The directors include: *John Woo ('' Le Samouraï'') *Danny Boyle ('' Eureka'') *John Dahl ('' Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me'') *Guillermo del Toro (''Arcane Sorcerer'') *Rian Johnson (''Under the Volcano'') *Jay Duplass (''Joe Versus the Volcano'') *Richard Linklater (''Some Came Running'') *John Waters ('' Boom!'') *Kevin Smith ('' A Man for All Seasons'') *Peter Bogdanovich ('' Trouble in Paradise'') *Edgar Wright ('' The Super Cops'') *Bill Condon (''Sweet Charity'') *Alex Proyas ('' The Swimmer'') *Frank Oz (''The Trial ''The Trial'' (german: Der Process, link=no, previously , and ) is a nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boom! (film)
''Boom!'' is a 1968 British drama film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Noël Coward. It was adapted by Tennessee Williams from his own play '' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore''. Plot Flora 'Sissy' Goforth (Taylor, in a part written for an older woman) is a terminally-ill woman living with a coterie of servants, whom she verbally abuses, in a large mansion on a secluded Italian island. Into her life comes a mysterious man, Christopher Flanders, nicknamed "Il Angelo Dellamorte" " The Angel of Death" (played by then-husband Burton, in a part intended for a younger man). Christopher claims to have met her previously, while Flora, for her part, affects not to remember having met him before. Flora is said to suffer from neuritis and several other kinds of "-itis." In her complex of villas wired for sound, so she can at any moment resume her dictation, Flora is dictating her memoirs detailing her multiple marriages, and her affair w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Non-fiction Books
Thirteen or 13 may refer to: * 13 (number), the natural number following 12 and preceding 14 * One of the years 13 BC, AD 13, 1913, 2013 Music * 13AD (band), an Indian classic and hard rock band Albums * ''13'' (Black Sabbath album), 2013 * ''13'' (Blur album), 1999 * ''13'' (Borgeous album), 2016 * ''13'' (Brian Setzer album), 2006 * ''13'' (Die Ärzte album), 1998 * ''13'' (The Doors album), 1970 * ''13'' (Havoc album), 2013 * ''13'' (HLAH album), 1993 * ''13'' (Indochine album), 2017 * ''13'' (Marta Savić album), 2011 * ''13'' (Norman Westberg album), 2015 * ''13'' (Ozark Mountain Daredevils album), 1997 * ''13'' (Six Feet Under album), 2005 * ''13'' (Suicidal Tendencies album), 2013 * ''13'' (Solace album), 2003 * ''13'' (Second Coming album), 2003 * ''13'' (Ces Cru EP), 2012 * ''13'' (Denzel Curry EP), 2017 * ''Thirteen'' (CJ & The Satellites album), 2007 * ''Thirteen'' (Emmylou Harris album), 1986 * ''Thirteen'' (Harem Scarem album), 2014 * ''Thirtee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trial (1962 Film)
''The Trial'' (french: Le procès) is a 1962 drama film directed by Orson Welles, who also wrote the screenplay based on the 1925 posthumously published novel of the same name by Franz Kafka. Welles stated immediately after completing the film: "''The Trial'' is the best film I have ever made". The film begins with Welles narrating Kafka's parable " Before the Law" to pinscreen scenes created by the artists Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker. Anthony Perkins stars as Josef K., a bureaucrat who is accused of a never-specified crime, and Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, and Elsa Martinelli play women who become involved in various ways in Josef's trial and life. Welles plays the Advocate, Josef's lawyer and the film's principal antagonist. ''The Trial'' has grown in reputation over the years, and some critics, including Roger Ebert, have called it a masterpiece. It is often praised for its scenic design and cinematography, the latter of which includes disorienting camera angles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Oz
Frank Oz (born Frank Richard Oznowicz; May 25, 1944) is an American actor, puppeteer, and filmmaker. He began his career as a puppeteer, performing the Muppet characters of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam Eagle in ''The Muppet Show'', and Cookie Monster, Bert (Sesame Street), Bert, and Grover in ''Sesame Street''. He also puppeteered and/or provided the voice for Yoda in the ''Star Wars'' series. His work as a director includes ''The Dark Crystal'' (1982), ''The Muppets Take Manhattan'' (1984), ''Little Shop of Horrors (film), Little Shop of Horrors'' (1986), ''Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (film), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'' (1988), ''What About Bob?'' (1991), ''In & Out (film), In & Out'' (1997), ''Death at a Funeral (2007 film), Death at a Funeral'' (2007), and an episode of the US television series ''Leverage (American TV series), Leverage'' (2011). Early life Oz was born on May 25, 1944, in Hereford, Herefordshire, England; the son of Frances (née Ghevaert; 1910–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swimmer (1968 Film)
''The Swimmer'' is a 1968 American surrealist drama film starring Burt Lancaster. The film was written and directed by Academy Award-nominated husband-and-wife team of Eleanor Perry (screenplay adaptation) and Frank Perry (director). The story is based on the 1964 short story " The Swimmer" by John Cheever, which appeared in the July 18, 1964, issue of ''The New Yorker''. The 95-minute movie adds new characters and scenes consistent with those in the original 12-page short story. Plot On a sunny day in an affluent suburb in Connecticut, a fit and tanned middle-aged man in a bathing suit, Ned Merrill, drops by a pool party being held by old friends. They offer him a cocktail while nursing hangovers from the night before. As they share stories, Ned realizes there is a series of backyard swimming pools that could form a "river" back to his house, making it possible for him to "swim his way home". Ned dives into the pool, emerging at the other end and beginning his journey. Ned's be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Proyas
Alexander Proyas (; Greek: Αλέξανδρος Πρόγιας; born 23 September 1963) is an Australian filmmaker of Greek descent. Proyas is best known for directing the films '' The Crow'' (1994), '' Dark City'' (1998), ''I, Robot'' (2004), '' Knowing'' (2009), and '' Gods of Egypt'' (2016). Early life Proyas was born in Alexandria, present-day Egypt, to ethnic Greek parents. His father's family had lived in Egypt for many generations, and his mother's family were from Cyprus. He moved to Sydney when he was three. At 17, he attended the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School, and began directing music videos shortly after. He moved to Los Angeles in the United States to further his career, working on MTV music videos and TV commercials. Career Proyas' first feature film was the independent science fiction thriller ''Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds'', which was nominated for two Australian Film Institute awards in 1988, for costume design and production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Charity (film)
''Sweet Charity'' (full title: ''Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved'') is a 1969 American musical comedy-drama film directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse in his feature directorial debut, written by Peter Stone, and featuring music by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields. The film stars Shirley MacLaine and features John McMartin, Sammy Davis Jr., Ricardo Montalbán, Chita Rivera, Barbara Bouchet, Paula Kelly and Stubby Kaye. It is based on the 1966 stage musical of the same name – also directed and choreographed by Fosse – which in turn is based on Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli's screenplay for Fellini's film ''Nights of Cabiria'' (''Le Notti di Cabiria'', 1957). Whereas Fellini's film concerns the romantic ups-and-downs of an ever-hopeful prostitute, the musical makes the central character a dancer-for-hire at a Times Square dance-hall. The film has costumes by Edith Head. Plot Charity Hope Valentine works as a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Condon
William Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American director and screenwriter. Condon is known for writing and/or directing numerous successful and acclaimed films including '' Gods and Monsters'', ''Chicago'', '' Kinsey'', ''Dreamgirls'', '' The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1'', '' The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2'', and ''Beauty and the Beast''. He has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, ''Gods and Monsters'' and ''Chicago'', winning for the former. Early life Condon was born in New York City on October 22, 1955, the son of a police detective, and was raised in an Irish Catholic family. He attended Regis High School and Columbia College of Columbia University, graduating in 1976 with a degree in philosophy. Two films had a significant impact of Condon's early life. At the age of twelve, he found himself drawn to screenplay writing with his first viewing of ''Bonnie and Clyde''. In college he saw ''Sweet Charit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Super Cops
''The Super Cops'' is a 1974 action adventure film directed by Gordon Parks and starring Ron Leibman and David Selby. The film is based on the book ''The Super Cops: The True Story of the Cops Called Batman and Robin'' by L. H. Whittemore. The film was released a few months after the successful cop movie ''Serpico'' (also based on a true story). Plot The film opens with archival footage from a press conference where NYPD officers Dave Greenberg and Robert Hantz are being commended by Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy for the sheer volume of drugs and weaponry that the two cops have removed from the streets. After a credits sequence, the narrative begins at the New York City Police Academy, where Greenberg (Leibman) and Hantz (Selby) graduate as probationary officers. They are assigned to low-level work like clerical tasks and directing traffic, but they chafe against the insignificance of these tasks and frequently abandon them to follow the sound of gunfire. One day, Greenberg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Wright
Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilisation of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes. He began making independent short films before making his first feature film '' A Fistful of Fingers'' in 1995. Wright created and directed the comedy series ''Asylum'' in 1996, written with David Walliams. After directing several other television shows, Wright directed the sitcom ''Spaced'' (1999–2001), which aired for two series and starred frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. In 2004, Wright directed the zombie comedy ''Shaun of the Dead,'' starring Pegg and Frost, the first film in Wright's ''Three Flavours Cornetto'' trilogy. The film was co-written with Pegg—as were the next two entries in the trilogy, the buddy cop film ''Hot Fuzz'' (2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trouble In Paradise (1932 Film)
''Trouble in Paradise'' is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall. Based on the 1931 play ''The Honest Finder'' (''A Becsületes Megtaláló'') by Hungarian playwright László Aladár,"Screenplay info" on TCM.com. Accessed=August 24, 2012 the lead characters are a gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket who join forces to con a beautiful woman who is the owner of a perfume company. In 1991, ''Trouble in Paradise'' was selected for preservation by the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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