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1995 Cannes Film Festival
The 48th Cannes Film Festival took place from 17 to 28 May 1995. French actress Jeanne Moreau served as jury president for the main competition. French actress Carole Bouquet hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica won the ''Palme d'Or'', the festival's top prize, for a second time with the comedy-drama film ''Underground (1995 film), Underground''. The festival opened with ''The City of Lost Children'' by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and closed with ''The Quick and the Dead (1995 film), The Quick and the Dead'' by Sam Raimi. Juries Main competition * Jeanne Moreau, French actress - Jury President * Gianni Amelio, Italian filmmaker * Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director * Nadine Gordimer, South African author * Gaston Kaboré, Burkinabé filmmaker * Michèle Ray-Gavras, Michele Ray-Gavras, French producer and journalist * Emilio García Riera, Mexican actor, writer and film critic * Philippe Rousselot, French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ryszard Horowitz
Ryszard Horowitz (born May 5, 1939) is a Polish-born American photographer recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography that predates digital imaging. Early life Horowitz was born in Kraków, Poland on May 5, 1939. Four months later, because they were Jewish, Ryszard's entire family was forced into ghettos following the German invasion of Poland. From September 1944, he was imprisoned at the Auschwitz concentration camp and later became known as one of the youngest known people to survive Auschwitz and be included on Schindler's list. At war's end, five-year old Ryszard was found in an orphanage by his mother and reunited with his family. His was among the few Jewish families to re-establish themselves in Krakow. Horowitz began taking pictures at the age of fourteen. For a brief period, he grew up alongside Roman Polański, with whom he created his first photographic enlarger from cardboard. Career In 1956, the Polish government began awarding subsidies to encourag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean-Claude Brialy
Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Early life Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland France with his family in 1942. He was an alumnus of the Prytanée National Militaire. When he was 21 years old, he went to Paris to work as an actor. Career In 1956, Brialy acted in his first role in the short film ''Le coup du berger'' ('' Fool's Mate'') by Jacques Rivette. By the late 1950s, he'd become one of the most prolific actors in the French '' nouvelle vague'' and a star. He appeared in films of ''nouvelle vague'' directors such as Claude Chabrol ('' Le Beau Serge'', 1958; '' Les Cousins'', 1959), Louis Malle ('' Ascenseur pour l'échafaud'', 1958; '' Les Amants'', 1958), François Truffaut ('' Les 400 Coups'', 1959), Jean-Luc Godard, ('' Une femme est une femme'', 1961), Éric Rohmer ('' Claire's Knee'', 1970), as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marion Hänsel
Marion Hänsel (née Ackermann; 12 February 1949 – 8 June 2020) was a Belgian , producer, actress and . Her film '' Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea'' was entered into the |
Philip Haas
Philip Haas (born 1954) is an American artist, screenwriter and filmmaker, perhaps best known for his 2012 sculpture exhibition "The Four Seasons" and his 1995 film '' Angels and Insects.'' He began his career as a documentary film maker, directing ten profiles of unusual artists through the early 1990s with the theme "Magicians of the Earth," commissioned by the Centre Georges Pompidou. His feature films include '' Angels and Insects,'' set in Victorian England, which was nominated for an Academy Award and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, '' Up at the Villa'', an adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novella, starring Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft and Kristin Scott Thomas, '' The Situation,'' a political thriller set in Iraq, released in 2006, and the highly regarded '' The Music of Chance'' (1993). In 2008, the Sonnabend Gallery of New York featured a film installation called ''The Butcher's Shop'', commissioned by the Kimbell Art Museum, in which Haas recreated the space dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Angels And Insects
''Angels and Insects'' (sometimes styled as ''Angels & Insects'') is a 1995 romantic drama film directed by Philip Haas and starring Mark Rylance, Patsy Kensit, and Kristin Scott Thomas. It was written by Philip and Belinda Haas with A. S. Byatt after her 1992 novella '' Morpho Eugenia'' (included in her book ''Angels and Insects''). The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design. Plot William Adamson, a naturalist, returns to Victorian England, staying with his benefactor, Sir Harold Alabaster, a wealthy Baronet. William has lost his possessions in a shipwreck, returning from an extended expedition to the Amazon. Now dependent upon his patron, he is employed to catalog Sir Harold's specimen collection and teach his younger children the natural sciences, assisting their governess, the unassuming Matty Crompton. William becomes enamoured of Sir Harold's eldest daughter, Eugenia. Eugenia is softly spoken, anxious, and mourning the recent death of her fian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
István Gaál
István Gaál (25 August 1933 – 25 September 2007) was a Hungarian film director, editor and screenwriter. He directed more than 20 films between 1956 and 1996. With ''Falcons'' he won the Jury Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography *1955: Fifty/Ötven (s) *1957: Surfacemen/Pályamunkások (s) *1961: Etude/Etűd (s) *1962: To and Fro/Oda-vissza (d) *1962: Tisza - Autumn Sketches/Tisza - Őszi vázlatok (d) * ''Current'' (1963) *1965: Green Years/Zöldár *1967: Baptism/Keresztelő *1967: Chronicle/Krónika (d) *1969: Cuba's 10 Years/(Tíz) 10 éves Kuba (d) *1970: The Music of Night by Béla Bartók/Bartók Béla: Az éjszaka zenéje (s) * ''The Falcons'' (1970) *1971: Dead Landscape/Holt vidék *1975: Our Heritage/Örökségünk (d) *1975: Pictures from the Life of a Town/Képek egy város életéből (d) *1976: Two Trains a Day/Naponta két vonat *1976: Customs Frontier/Vámhatár (tv) *1977: Legato/Legato * ''Cserepek'' (1980) *1980: The Dance of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alberto Barbera
Alberto Barbera (born 20 February 1950) is an Italian film critic and festival curator, who is director of the Venice Film Festival. Life and career Born in Biella, Barbera graduated in modern literature with a thesis about cinema history, and then started collaborating with the Turin film association AIACE, being its president between 1977 and 1989. Between 1980 and 1983 he was the film critic of the newspaper '' Gazzetta del Popolo'', and later collaborated with several publications, including ''La Stampa'', as well as with radio and television programs. In 1982, he began a long collaboration with the Turin Film Festival, first as press officer, then as secretary-general and member of the selection committee from 1984 to 1988, and finally as director from 1989 to 1998. Between December 1998 and April 2002 Barbera was president of the Venice Film Festival, heading three editions (1999, 2000 and 2001). In 2004, he was nominated director of the National Museum of Cinema in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Michel Deville
Michel Deville (13 April 1931 – 16 February 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter. Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues an ..., possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France. One of Deville's comedies, '' La Lectrice'' (''The Reader'') was probably his biggest success with international audiences. ''La Lectrice'' is about a woman (played by Miou-Miou), who find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Waters
John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including '' Multiple Maniacs'' (1970), '' Pink Flamingos'' (1972) and '' Female Trouble'' (1974). Waters wrote and directed the comedy film '' Hairspray'' (1988), which was later adapted into a hit Broadway musical and a 2007 musical film. His other films include '' Desperate Living'' (1977), ''Polyester'' (1981), '' Cry-Baby'' (1990), '' Serial Mom'' (1994), '' Pecker'' (1998), and '' Cecil B. Demented'' (2000). His films contain elements of post-modern comedy and surrealism. As an actor, Waters has appeared in the films '' Sweet and Lowdown'' (1999), '' Mangus!'' (2011), '' Excision'' (2012), and '' Suburban Gothic'' (2014), as well as the '' Child's Play'' franchise with the film '' Seed of Chucky'' (2004) and the third season of the television series ''Chucky'' (2024). He hosted and produced the televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Philippe Rousselot
Philippe Rousselot, (born 4 September 1945) is a French cinematographer, best known for his wide range of work in both European and mainstream American cinema, from drama, to fantasy, and action. He is the recipient of three César Awards, a BAFTA, an Oscar, and is a nominee for the Palme d'Or. Life and career Rousselot was born in Briey, Meurthe-et-Moselle Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a '' département'' in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. Its prefecture and largest city is Nancy and it borders the departments of Meuse to the west, Vosges to the south, ..., France. After studying cinema at l'École Louis Lumière, he graduated in 1966 with, alongside François About, Eduardo Serra, Noël Very, and Jean-François Robin. He then began as an assistant to Néstor Almendros, then quickly emerged as chief operator. In 1992, he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on '' A River Runs Through It'', and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Emilio García Riera
Emilio García Riera (born 17 November 1931 in Ibiza, Spain – died on 11 October 2002 in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico) was a Spanish-born Mexican actor, writer and cinema critic. He has written exhaustively on Mexican cinema of 1929 and 1976, leaving behind an anthology in eighteen volumes, Historia documental del cine mexicano. After the Spanish Civil War he moved first to France, then to the Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ..., where his father died, and in 1944 arrived in Mexico, which became his adopted country. He worked in the Economics faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, as a researcher in the Centre of Communication, as a professor of the sociology of cinema in the faculty of Social and Political Sciences, and as a profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
