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Eva Aridjis
Eva Aridjis Fuentes is a Mexican and American filmmaker. She attended the American School Foundation in Mexico City, Princeton University, and New York University. She has made many prize-winning short and feature-length films. Early life and education Born in the Netherlands, raised in Mexico City, and now living in New York City, Aridjis Fuentes is the daughter of Mexican poet and novelist, Homero Aridjis, and American environmental activist and translator, Betty Ferber. Her sister is writer Chloe Aridjis. Aridjis Fuentes left Mexico City when she was 18 to study Anthropology and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she wrote her thesis on the concepts of the self and other in the works of Borges, Cortázar, Baudelaire and Lacan. She also took all of the film classes on offer, and worked as Professor P. Adams Sitney's assistant for three years. She then earned an MFA in Film and Television at New York University, where she focused on directing and writi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American School Foundation
The American School Foundation, A.C, ("''Colegio Americano''" in Spanish) is an independent international school in the American tradition based in Mexico City. It offers coeducational college-preparatory school for international students aged 3 to 18. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest operating accredited American School outside the United States, and is widely considered to be amongst the first international schools in the World. As of 2022, over 2,500 students from more than 40 countries attend the school. English is the language of instruction with the exception of a bilingual program in the lower school and courses in Spanish at the secondary level. The social language of the school is mainly Spanish. The school has about 280 teaching staff. The school grants three diplomas for students graduating from its Upper School: the Mexican diploma of the Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP), the American diploma, and the International Baccalaureate (IB). History The Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SundanceTV
Sundance TV (formerly known as Sundance Channel) is an American pay television channel owned by AMC Networks that launched on February 1, 1996. The channel is named after Robert Redford's character in ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' and, while it is an extension of Redford's non-profit Sundance Institute, the channel operates independently of both the Institute and the Sundance Film Festival. Originally, Sundance was dedicated largely to airing documentaries, independent feature films, short films, world cinema, and coverage on the latest developments from each year's Sundance Film Festival. The channel has since incorporated both original and acquired programming and became fully ad-supported in 2013, with programming being edited for content soon thereafter. , Sundance is available to approximately 54,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2017 peak of 71,000,000 households. History As Sundance Channel (1996–2014) After negotiations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Births
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, the Greek junta's collapse paves the way for the establishment of a parliamentary republic and Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the hosts won the championship title, as well as '' The Rumble in the Jungle'', a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Wood (actor)
Frank Wood (born May 6, 1960) is an American actor who has appeared in various television, film, and theatre roles. Early life and education Wood is the son of Margaret (Byers) and Robert Coldwell Wood, a political scientist who briefly served as United States secretary of housing and urban development in the Lyndon Johnson administration. His sister is U.S. senator and former governor of New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan. Wood attended the Buxton School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in 1984 and a MFA from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Career Wood won a Tony Award in 1999 for Best Featured Actor in a Play for '' Side Man''. He played Bill in '' August: Osage County'' on Broadway. From September 14, 2010, to March 27, 2011, Wood starred as the character Roy Cohn in the acclaimed off-Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play ''Angels in America'' staged by the Signature Theatre Company in Manhattan. Wood play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rat (song)
"The Rat" is a song by American indie rock band the Walkmen. It was released as the first single from their second studio album, ''Bows + Arrows'' (2004), on April 19, 2004. The song peaked at number 45 on the UK Singles Chart. Composition and recording Singer Hamilton Leithauser said the song originated in a jam session when the band were "just screwin' around." The band's drummer Matt Barrick instigated the track by playing a fast drum pattern. The band then quickly built this foundation into the full track. Leithauser said "we threw some Chord (music), chords on it, I wrote the lyrics, words in five minutes." The song had been included in the band's live sets as early as February 2002, with slightly different lyrics than the recorded version. The band's usual method was to self-produce their material. However, after unsuccessful attempts to record the layered Electronic organ, electric organ and electric guitar, guitar, they decided to record the track with a professional record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Walkmen
The Walkmen is an American Rock music, rock band formed in New York City in 2000. The band consists of Hamilton Leithauser (vocals), Paul Maroon (guitar, keyboards), Walter Martin (musician), Walter Martin (bass, organ), Peter Matthew Bauer (organ, bass) and Matt Barrick (drums) - all former members of Jonathan Fire*Eater and the Recoys. Initially active from 2000 to 2013, they are known as part of the 2000s-era post-punk revival in New York City, particularly for their critically acclaimed single "The Rat (song), The Rat". The band released seven studio albums during their initial run: ''Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone'' (2002), ''Bows + Arrows'' (2004), ''A Hundred Miles Off'' (2006), ''"Pussy Cats" Starring the Walkmen'' (2006), ''You & Me (The Walkmen album), You & Me'' (2008), ''Lisbon (album), Lisbon'' (2010) and ''Heaven (The Walkmen album), Heaven'' (2012). The band went on hiatus in 2013, with Leithauser, Bauer and Martin all pursuing solo careers, and Barrick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Newman (producer)
Eric Newman (born December 31, 1970) is an American film and television producer and writer and the founder of Grand Electric, an LA-based production company with overall deals in both TV and film with Netflix. He is the showrunner of '' Narcos'', '' Narcos: Mexico'', '' True Story'', and '' Zero Day''. Early life Born on December 31, 1970, and raised in Los Angeles, Newman is a graduate of Curtis School, Harvard Boys School (Now Harvard-Westlake School), and the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television (now known as the USC School of Cinematic Arts). He is the son of multiple Academy Award, Emmy, and Grammy-winning composer and songwriter Randy Newman and his first wife, Roswitha Schmale (1944-2017). He is the cousin once removed of composers David Newman and Thomas Newman and the great-nephew of Academy Award winning composers Lionel Newman, Emil Newman, and Alfred Newman. Career He first worked as an intern and assistant for the television sketch co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundary, maritime boundaries with the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the southeast, and the Gulf of Mexico to the east. Mexico covers 1,972,550 km2 (761,610 sq mi), and is the List of countries by area, thirteenth-largest country in the world by land area. With a population exceeding 130 million, Mexico is the List of countries by population, tenth-most populous country in the world and is home to the Hispanophone#Countries, largest number of native Spanish speakers. Mexico City is the capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city, which ranks among the List of cities by population, most populous metropolitan areas in the world. Human presence in Mexico dates back to at least 8,000 BC. Mesoamerica, considered a cradle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
