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Denis Lenoir
Denis Lenoir (born 1949) is a French cinematographer, whose credits include ''Uprising'', ''The Clearing'', and ''Thursday''. He started as second assistant operator for '' L'insolent'' (1973). Selected filmography *'' Sotelo'' (1976, short/Raoul Ruiz) *'' Dog's Dialogue'' (1976, short) *'' Laissé inachevé à Tokyo'' (1982, short/Olivier Assayas) *'' Les veufs'' (1983, short/Patrick Dewolf) *'' Winston Tong en studio'' (1984, short/Assayas) *''L'amour propre ne le reste jamais très longtemps'' (1985/ Martin Veyron) *''Beau fixe'' (1992) *''Carrington'' (1995) *''An Air So Pure'' (1997) *''Demonlover'' (2002) *''Boomtown'' (2002) *''The Clearing'' (2004) *'' Control'' (2004) *''Entre ses mains'' (2005) *''Time Bomb'' (2006) *''Paris, je t'aime'' (2006) (segment "14th arrondissement") *''88 Minutes'' (2007) *''Angel'' (2007) *''Righteous Kill'' (2008) *'' The Vintner's Luck'' (2009) *''Carlos'' (2010) *'' La belle endormie'' (2010) *'' Tous les soleils'' (2011) *''So Undercover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas (born 25 January 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his slow-burning period pieces, psychological thrillers, neo-noirs and French comedies. His work has become synonymous with the film movement known as the New French Extremity and has collaborated frequently with Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart. The son of filmmaker Jacques Rémy, Assayas began his career as a critic for influential magazine '' Cahiers du Cinéma''. Here he wrote about the World Cinema and its film auteurs who would later influence his own works. Assayas made several shorts, and then made the leap from writer to screenwriter. He made his directorial film debut with ''Disorder'' in 1986. He continued directing films, with '' Cold Water'' (1994) becoming a breakthrough film in his career. It would be his first film to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. His follow up film '' Irma Vep'' (1996) also s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris, Je T'aime
''Paris, je t'aime'' (; ''Paris, I love you'') 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. Production Julio Medem was attached to the project for a long time. He was supposed to direct one of the segments starring Javier Bardem et 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 Laboratoires Éclair). Both Emmanuel Benbihy and Gilles Caussade serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Bomb (television Film)
''Time Bomb'' is a 2006 television film starring David Arquette and Angela Bassett, by CBS Television. Plot During a football game in Washington, D.C., a terrorist makes a bomb threat to the DHS, stating that a bomb is in a stadium. Meanwhile, the family of DHS agent Mike Bookman (Arquette), are taken hostage. This brings out issues of suspect and trust amongst colleagues as the terrorist is suspected to be amongst them. Cast * David Arquette as Mike Bookman *Angela Bassett as Jill Greco *Richard T. Jones as Douglas Campbell *Sabine Karsenti as Deanne Mitchell *Tara Rosling as Lynn Bookman *Simon Reynolds as Richard Zawadski *Gianpaolo Venuta as Agent Brian Goodman *Carlo Rota as Musab Hyatti * Fajer Al-Kaisi as Al-Fatwa * Lynne Adams as FBI Agent Lawton *Devon Goyo as Sean Bookman * Jayne Heitmeyer as Audio Tech Marin *Carlo Rota Carlo Dante Rota (born 17 April 1961) is a British-born Canadian actor. He has appeared in ''Little Mosque on the Prairie'' and as systems ana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entre Ses Mains
''Entre ses mains'' is a 2005 French-Belgian drama film directed by Anne Fontaine. It is also known as ''In His Hands''. The screenplay was written by Fontaine and Julien Boivent. Plot Claire Gauthier works for an insurance company. Laurent Kessler is a client. When she has to deal with him he tries to seduce her. In spite of her marriage and her daughter she agrees to dating him. When she learns more about Kessler it strikes her how strange he behaves and that he might be the serial killer who currently makes news by murdering women. Cast * Benoît Poelvoorde as Laurent Kessler * Isabelle Carré as Claire Gauthier * Jonathan Zaccaï as Fabrice Gauthier * Valérie Donzelli as Valérie * Agathe Louvieaux as Pauline * Bernard Bloch as directeur * Véronique Nordey as Mme Kessler, Laurent's mother * Michel Dubois as Claire's father * Martine Chevallier as Claire's mother Awards and nominations * César Awards (France) ** Nominated: Best Actor – Leading Role (Benoît Poel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Control (2004 Film)
''Control'' is a 2004 American direct-to-video film directed by Tim Hunter and starring Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe and Michelle Rodriguez. It was produced by a United States production company and filmed in Bulgaria. Originally given a proposed theatrical release in the United States by Lionsgate, the film was instead shelved until it was eventually given a release on home video by Millennium Entertainment. Plot Lee Ray Oliver is a death row inmate who is given a lethal injection before a room of witnesses. He awakes in the morgue to find that he had only been administered saline and anaesthetic. A neuropharmacologist, Dr. Copeland, tells him that he has a choice: either agree to be a human subject for an experimental drug trial with potentially serious or fatal side effects, or he will receive a truly lethal injection. Oliver opts for the drug trial, where he is administered a "calming" medicine on a daily basis and tested extensively to see if his sociopathic tendencies decrease. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boomtown (2002 TV Series)
''Boomtown'' is an American action drama television series created by Graham Yost, that aired on NBC from September 29, 2002 to December 28, 2003. The show's title is a nickname for its setting: Los Angeles, California. Overview The show portrayed a criminal investigation each week, seen from various points of view: the police officers and detectives, the lawyers, paramedics, reporters, victims, witnesses and criminals. Despite the show's innovative style – similar to that of Akira Kurosawa's film '' Rashomon'', except all the perspectives agree – and glowing critical reviews, the show never drew a significant audience. The series premiered on September 29, 2002. The first season order was for 18 episodes. After airing 12 episodes with disappointing ratings, NBC moved ''Boomtown'' from Sundays to Fridays, putting the show on a two-month hiatus before it returned in March 2003. Its first season ended before May sweeps, an important period in determining ratings and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Air So Pure
''An Air So Pure'' or ''Un air si pur...'' is a 1997 French comedy-drama film directed by Yves Angelo. Plot During the World War I, a doctor and a lawyer buy a huge house in a mountain to make both nursing home and resort home. Tenants flock, all of different nationalities, sick or healthy. All invent false identities, to appear to others what they aren't, because all dream of a future in which their destiny, tragic or comic, does not allow accomplishment. Cast * Fabrice Luchini as Magnus * André Dussollier as Doctor Boyer * Marie Gillain as Julie d'Espard * Yolande Moreau as Laure Surville * Jacques Boudet as Monsieur Elmer * Jerzy Radziwiłowicz as Daniel * Jean-Pierre Lorit as Florent * Édith Scob as Mademoiselle Sophie * Krystyna Janda as Madame Leduroy * Laura Betti as Madame Ruben * Emmanuelle Laborit as Mathilde * Grażyna Wolszczak as Milady * Nicolas Vaude Nicolas Vaude (born 24 July 1962) is a French actor. Filmography Theater External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrington (film)
''Carrington'' is a 1995 British biographical film written and directed by Christopher Hampton about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington (1893–1932), who was known simply as "Carrington". The screenplay is based on '' Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography'', the 1967-68 two-volume biography of writer and critic Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) by Michael Holroyd. Plot The film, starring Emma Thompson in the title role, focuses on her unusual relationship with the author Lytton Strachey, played by Jonathan Pryce, as well as with other members of the Bloomsbury Group. The film is divided into 6 chapters. # ''Lytton & Carrington 1915'': During the Great War, Lytton Strachey is travelling to the country and staying at Vanessa Bell's house. There he meets Carrington for the first time, initially assuming she is a boy and not hiding his disappointment when disabused. Lytton is due to face a hearing with the military to decide his fate as a conscientious objector. While tak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beau Fixe
''Beau fixe'' (also known as ''Set Fare'') is a 1992 French film directed by Christian Vincent, who co-wrote screenplay with Philippe Alard. The film tells the story of four female pre-med students, who revise for their final exams at a rented coastal resort during two weeks in the summer vacation. It was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress (Isabelle Carré and Elsa Zylberstein). Cast * Isabelle Carré as Valerie * Elsa Zylberstein as Frederique * Judith Remy as Carine * Estelle Larrivaz as Armelle * Frédéric Gélard Frédéric and Frédérick are the French versions of the common male given name Frederick. They may refer to: In artistry: * Frédéric Back, Canadian award-winning animator * Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor * Frédéric Bazille, Impress ... as Francis References External links * * * ''Beau fixe''at filmsdefrance.com 1992 films French drama films Films directed by Christian Vincent Pan-Européenne film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
