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2015 New York Film Festival
The 53rd New York Film Festival was held September 25 – October 11, 2015. The lineup consisted of seven sections: * Main Slate (26 films and four shorts programs) * Spotlight on Documentary (11 films and one shorts program) * Projections (14 programs) * Special Events (10 films) * Revivals (11 films) * Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler Retrospective (12 programs) * Convergence (transmedia presentations and talks) The Festival also included various talks and free screenings. The primary selection committee included Kent Jones (chair), Dennis Lim, Marian Masone, Gavin Smith, and Amy Taubin. The Shorts Programs were selected by Sarah Mankoff, Laura Kern, Matt Bolish, Florence Almozini, and Dan Sullivan. Projections was programmed by Dennis Lim, Aily Nash, and Gavin Smith. The Dorsky/ Hiler retrospective was programmed by Gavin Smith, and Convergence was curated by Matt Bolish. Sections Main Slate Feature-length Shorts Spotlight on Documentary Feature-len ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival (NYFF) is a film festival held every fall in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center. Founded in 1963 by Richard Roud and Amos Vogel with the support of Lincoln Center president William Schuman, NYFF is one of the longest-running and most prestigious film festivals in the United States. It is a non-competitive festival centered on a "Main Slate" of typically 20–30 feature films, with additional sections for experimental cinema and new restorations. Dennis Lim is the Artistic Director for NYFF. Kent Jones was the festival director from 2013 to 2019. Sections the festival program is divided into the following sections: Main Slate The Main Slate is the Festival's primary section, a program typically featuring 25–30 feature-length films, intending to reflect the current state of cinema. The program is a mix of major international art house films from the festival circuit, new discoveries, and studio releases targeting awards sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Walk (2015 Film)
''The Walk'' is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher Browne. It is based on the story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit, alongside Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale, Ben Schwartz, and Steve Valentine. Following its premiere at the New York Film Festival, ''The Walk'' was released by TriStar Pictures on September 30, 2015 in the United States in IMAX 3D, and on October 9 in regular 2D and 3D. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for Gordon-Levitt's performance, Zemeckis's direction and the visual effects, particularly during the wire walk scene, but underperformed at the box office. The film is dedicated to the victims of the September 11 attacks. Plot In 1973, Parisian street performer Philippe Petit bites a hard candy from the audience, damaging h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridge Of Spies (film)
''Bridge of Spies'' is a 2015 historical drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, written by Matt Charman and the Coen brothers, and starring Tom Hanks in the lead role, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, and Alan Alda. Set during the Cold War, the film tells the story of lawyer James B. Donovan, who is entrusted with negotiating the release of Francis Gary Powers—a convicted Central Intelligence Agency pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960—in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a convicted Soviet KGB spy held by the United States, whom Donovan represented at trial. The name of the film refers to the Glienicke Bridge, which connects Potsdam with Berlin, where the prisoner exchange took place. The film was an international co-production of the United States, India, Germany and the United Kingdom. ''Bridge of Spies'' was shot under the working title of ''St. James Place''. Principal photography began on September 8, 2014, in Brooklyn, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842 as a consequence of losing the First Opium War. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. Hong Kong was occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II. The territory was handed over from the United Kingdom to China in 1997. Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of one country, two systems. Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages,. the territory is now one of the world's most signific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the China, People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. It has an area of , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its Urbanization by country, highly urbanized population is concentrated. The combined Free area of the Republic of China, territories under ROC control consist of list of islands of Taiwan, 168 islands in total covering . The Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, largest metropolitan area is formed by Taipei (the capital), New Taipei City, and Keelung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated countries. Tai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hou Hsiao-hsien ( zh, t=侯孝賢, poj=Hâu Hàu-hiân; born 8 April 1947) is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film '' A City of Sadness'' (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for '' The Assassin'' (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include '' The Puppetmaster'' (1993) and ''Flowers of Shanghai'' (1998). Hou was voted "Director of the Decade" for the 1990s in a poll of American and international critics by ''The Village Voice'' and ''Film Comment''. In a 1998 New York Film Festival worldwide critics' poll, Hou was named "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema." ''A City of Sadness'' ranked 117th in the British Film Institute's 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll of the greatest films ever made. In 2017, Met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Assassin (2015 Film)
''The Assassin'' () is a 2015 wuxia film co-written and directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. A Taiwan/China/Hong Kong co-production, the film is loosely based on the late eighth-century martial arts story " Nie Yinniang" by Pei Xing. It stars Shu Qi and Chang Chen. ''The Assassin'' premiered on 21 May 2015 at the Cannes Film Festival, where Hou won Best Director. It was released in China and Hong Kong on 27 August 2015, and a day later in Taiwan. It was Taiwan's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. Critically acclaimed, ''The Assassin'' was named the best film of 2015 by '' Sight & Sound'' magazine. It was Hou's final film before his retirement in 2023 after it was announced that he was battling with dementia. Plot ''The Assassin'' is loosely based on the late seventh-century martial arts story " Nie Yinniang" by Pei Xing, a core text in Chinese swordsmanship and ''wuxia'' fiction. The film is set in China during the Zhenyu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares Portugal-Spain border, the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the Macaronesia, Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, which are the two Autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous regions of Portugal. Lisbon is the Capital city, capital and List of largest cities in Portugal, largest city, followed by Porto, which is the only other Metropolitan areas in Portugal, metropolitan area. The western Iberian Peninsula has been continuously inhabited since Prehistoric Iberia, prehistoric times, with the earliest signs of Human settlement, settlement dating to 5500 BC. Celts, Celtic and List of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Gomes (director)
Miguel Gomes (born 1972) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ... and editor. He studied cinema at Lisbon Theatre and Film School. His films include '' The Face You Deserve'' (2004), '' Our Beloved Month of August'' (2008) and '' Tabu'' (2012), '' Arabian Nights'' (2015) and '' Grand Tour'' (2024). For the last, he won Best Director at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Career Trained at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Gomes began his career as a film critic and author of theoretical writings on cinema. His early filmography includes '' The Face You Deserve'' (2004) and '' Our Beloved Month of August'' (2008). His 2012 film, '' Tabu'', was selected in the Competition programme at the 62nd Berlin International Film Fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabian Nights (2015 Film)
''Arabian Nights'' () is a 2015 three-part drama film, co-written and directed by Miguel Gomes, based on the ''One Thousand and One Nights''. It comprises ''Volume 1: The Restless One'', ''Volume 2: The Desolate One'' and ''Volume 3: The Enchanted One''; each volume is around two hours long. It premiered on 16 May 2015 at the 68th Cannes Film Festival, as part of the Directors' Fortnight section. ''Volume 2: The Desolate One'', was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot The film is set in Portugal, with the plot drawing from current events. The film's structure is based on the ''One Thousand and One Nights'' collection of fantasy tales. Cast * Crista Alfaiate as Shahrazād * Dinarte Branco as Uomo del Patronato * Carloto Cotta as Traduttore * Adriano Luz as Luis * Joana de Verona as Vania * Rogério Samora as Primo Ministro * Maria Rueff as Ministro delle Finanze * Cristina Carvalhal as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Cheadle
Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. (, ; born November 29, 1964) is an American actor. Known for his roles in film and television, he has received List of awards and nominations received by Don Cheadle, multiple accolades including two Golden Globe Awards, two Grammy Awards, and a Tony Awards, Tony Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards, and 11 Primetime Emmy Awards. He is one of a few actors to have received List of EGOT winners#Four nominations, nominations for the EGOT. Cheadle's career started with supporting roles in ''Hamburger Hill'' (1987), ''Colors (film), Colors'' (1988), ''Devil in a Blue Dress (film), Devil in a Blue Dress'' (1995), ''Rosewood (film), Rosewood'' (1997), ''Boogie Nights'' (1997), and ''Bulworth'' (1998). He collaborated with director Steven Soderbergh acting in ''Out of Sight (1998 film), Out of Sight'' (1998), ''Traffic (2000 film), Traffic'' (2000), ''The Ocean's Trilogy'' (2001–2007), and ''No Sudde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Ahead (film)
''Miles Ahead'' is a 2015 American biographical-drama film directed by Don Cheadle in his feature directorial debut, which Cheadle co-wrote with Steven Baigelman, Stephen J. Rivele, and Christopher Wilkinson, which interprets the life and compositions of jazz musician Miles Davis. The film stars Cheadle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, and Ewan McGregor, and closed the New York Film Festival on October 11, 2015. The film takes its title from Davis's 1957 album. Cheadle took a free-form approach to the film's narrative. Skipping around in time, it depicts Davis' attempts to get his career back on track following a period of inactivity and drug addiction in the 1970s, fictional adventures with a journalist (played by McGregor) who wants to profile him, and his troubled marriage to a former dancer (Corinealdi). The film's score covers, in non-linear fashion, Davis' actual recordings throughout his career, beginning with '' Agharta'' (1975) before jumping back and forth in scenes featuring '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
