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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 (film), Gods and Monsters'', ''Chicago (2002 film), Chicago'', ''Kinsey (film), Kinsey'', ''Dreamgirls (film), Dreamgirls'', ''The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1'', ''The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2'', and ''Beauty and the Beast (2017 film), 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 (New York City), 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Sundance Film Festival
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival took place in person from January 23 to February 2, 2025, in Park City, Utah, Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, and online from January 30 to February 2. The first selection lineup was announced on December 11, 2024. It is one of the last editions to take place in Utah, as the festival announced it will be held in Boulder, Colorado, beginning with the 2027 edition. Films U.S. Dramatic Competition World Cinema Dramatic Competition U.S. Documentary Competition World Documentary Competition Premieres Next Midnight Spotlight From the Collection Episodic Episodic Pilot Family Matinee U.S. Fiction Short Films International Fiction Short Films Animated Short Films Nonfiction Short Films Awards Grand Jury Prizes * Grand Jury Prize Dramatic, U.S. Dramatic – ''Atropia'' by Hailey Gates * Grand Jury Prize Documentary, U.S. Documentary – ''Seeds'' by Brittany Shyne * World Cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie And Clyde (film)
''Bonnie and Clyde'' is a 1967 American biographical film, biographical crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as Bonnie and Clyde, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, outlaws and romantic partners in the Great Depression-era American South. The cast also features Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons. The screenplay was written by David Newman (screenwriter), David Newman and Robert Benton (with uncredited contributions by Beatty and Robert Towne); Beatty also produced the film. The film was released in the United States by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts on August 13, 1967. Initial critical reception was mixed, but later swung positive, and the film became a significant commercial success, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of 1967. It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards including for Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture, winning Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress (for Estelle Parsons) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Stoltz
Eric Cameron Stoltz (born September 30, 1961) is an American actor, director and producer. He played Rocky Dennis in the biographical drama film ''Mask'' (1985), which earned him the nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. He has appeared in a wide variety of films, from mainstream ones including '' Some Kind of Wonderful'' to independent films such as ''Pulp Fiction'', '' Killing Zoe'', and '' Kicking and Screaming''. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in ''Pulp Fiction''. In 2010, he portrayed Daniel Graystone in the science fiction television series '' Caprica'' and became a regular director on the television series ''Glee''. Early life and education Stoltz was born in Whittier, California, the son of Evelyn (née Vawter), a violinist and schoolteacher, and Jack Stoltz, an elementary school teacher. He has two sisters. Stoltz was raised in both American Samoa and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Gothic
Southern Gothic is an artistic subgenre of Gothic fiction, fiction, Popular music, music, Gothic film, film, theatre, and television that are heavily influenced by Gothic fiction, Gothic elements and the Southern United States, American South. Common themes of Southern Gothic include storytelling of deeply flawed, disturbing, or Eccentricity (behavior), eccentric characters sometimes having physical deformities or insanity; decayed or derelict settings and grotesque situations; and sinister events bred from poverty, Social alienation, alienation, crime, violence, forbidden sexuality, or hoodoo (folk magic), hoodoo magic. Origins Elements of a Gothic treatment of the South first appeared during the American Civil War, ante- and post-bellum 19th century in the grotesques of Henry Clay Lewis and in the sardonic representations of Mark Twain. The genre was consolidated, however, in the 20th century, when dark romanticism, Southern humor, and the new Naturalism (literature), litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister, Sister (1987 Film)
''Sister, Sister'' is a 1987 American Southern Gothic psychological horror film directed and co-written by Bill Condon in his directorial debut, and starring Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Judith Ivey. It follows two sisters operating an inn in the Louisiana bayou, whose dark secrets come to light after the arrival of a male guest. Plot Lucy Bonnard, a young woman with a history of mental illness, helps her older sister, Charlotte, operate the Willows, an inn at their familial plantation in the Louisiana bayou. The sexually-frustrated Lucy is unsuccessfully courted by Etienne LeViolette, her childhood friend who now works as a handyman for the sisters. Charlotte is carrying on a romance with town sheriff Cleve Bonnard, but he ends the relationship, blaming Charlotte's overbearing devotion to caring for Lucy. Late one night, Matt Rutledge, a congressional aide from Washington, D. C., arrives at the inn as a guest, and soon finds himself attracted to Lucy. Three other gues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Shawn
Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is known for playing Vizzini in '' The Princess Bride'' (1987), Mr. Hall in '' Clueless'' (1995), Dr. John Sturgis in '' Young Sheldon'' (2018–2024), and voicing Rex in the ''Toy Story'' franchise (1995–present). Shawn also appeared in '' The Bostonians'' (1984), '' Prick Up Your Ears'' (1987), '' Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills'' (1989), '' Vanya on 42nd Street'' (1994), '' My Favorite Martian'' (1999), '' The Double'' (2013), '' Maggie's Plan'' (2015), and '' Marriage Story'' (2019). He appeared in six Woody Allen films including ''Manhattan'' (1979), '' Radio Days'' (1987), and '' Rifkin's Festival'' (2020). His television work includes recurring roles as Jeff Engels in '' The Cosby Show'' (1987–1991), Grand Nagus Zek in '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993–1999), Cyrus Rose in '' Gossip Girl'' (2008–2012), and Father Frank Ignatius in ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Allen (actress)
Nancy Allen (born June 24, 1950) is an American actress. She came to prominence for her performances in several films directed by Brian De Palma in the 1970s and early 1980s. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award nomination and three Saturn Award nominations. Her first major role was as Chris Hargensen in Brian De Palma's film '' Carrie'' (1976). Allen was subsequently cast as the co-lead in the Robert Zemeckis-directed comedy ''I Wanna Hold Your Hand'' (1978), followed by a supporting part in Steven Spielberg's ''1941'' (1979). Allen married De Palma in 1979, and her subsequent portrayal of a prostitute who witnesses a murder in his feature '' Dressed to Kill'' (1980) earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. She then appeared in De Palma's neo-noir film ''Blow Out'' (1981), playing a woman implicated in an assassination. Allen and De Palma divorced in 1984. She appeared in the science fiction films '' Strange Invaders'' (1983) and '' The Philadelph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Invaders
''Strange Invaders'' is a 1983 American science fiction film directed and co-written by Michael Laughlin, and stars Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen and Diana Scarwid. Produced as a tribute to the sci-fi films of the 1950s, notably '' The Invasion of the Body Snatchers'', it was intended to be the second installment of the aborted ''Strange Trilogy'' with '' Strange Behavior'' (1981), another 1950s spoof by Laughlin, but the idea was abandoned after ''Invaders'' failed to attract a large audience. Scarwid's performance earned her a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actress. Plot In 1958, the town of Centreville, Illinois is quietly invaded by extraterrestrial aliens. The aliens fire mysterious beams of energy from their hands and eyes, which turn the town's inhabitants into crystalized pulsing blue orbs. Using artificial skin and hair, the invaders then assume the identities of their victims and cover up the invasion. Twenty-five years later, Columbia University lec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science-fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated SF&F), horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many subgenres. The genre's precise definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other notable subgenres are cyberpunk, which explores the interface between technology and society, and climate fiction, which addresses environmental issues. Precedents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Behavior
''Strange Behavior'' (also known as ''Dead Kids'', ''Small Town Massacre'', ''Shadowlands'', ''Human Experiments'') is a 1981 slasher film written, directed and co-produced by Michael Laughlin, co-written with Bill Condon, and starring Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher and Dan Shor. Its plot follows a series of bizarre murders being perpetrated against teenagers in a small Midwestern town, at the same time that the local university is engaging in covert mind control experiments on the youth. An international co-production between United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, the film was intended as the first instalment of the ''Strange Trilogy'' which was cancelled after the second instalment, '' Strange Invaders'', failed to attract a large enough audience. It is a homage to the pulp horror films of the 1950s. The film is considered a seminal work of New Zealand cinema, being the first horror film produced in the country. It has since attracted a large cult following. While no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Film
An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is film production, produced outside the Major film studios, major film studio system in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, in some cases, distributed by major companies). Independent films are sometimes distinguishable by their content and style and how the filmmakers' artistic vision is realized. Sometimes, independent films are made with considerably lower film budget, budgets than major studio films. It is not unusual for well-known actors who are cast in independent features to take substantial pay cuts for a variety of reasons: if they truly believe in the message of the film, they feel indebted to a filmmaker for a career break; their career is otherwise stalled, or they feel unable to manage a more significant commitment to a studio film; the film offers an opportunity to showcase a talent that has not gained traction i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Village Voice
''The Village Voice'' is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first Alternative newspaper, alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf (publisher), Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer, ''The Voice'' began as a platform for the creative community of New York City. It ceased publication in 2017, although its online archives remained accessible. After an ownership change, ''The Voice'' reappeared in print as a quarterly in April 2021. ''The Village Voice'' has received three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Press Foundation Award, and the George Polk Award. ''The Village Voice'' hosted a variety of writers and artists, including writer Ezra Pound, cartoonist Lynda Barry, artist Greg Tate, music critic Robert Christgau, and film critics Andrew Sarris, Jonas Mekas, and J. Hoberman. In October 2015, ''The Village Voice'' changed ownership and severed all ties with former parent compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
