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Fay Grim
''Fay Grim'' is a 2006 espionage thriller film written and directed by Hal Hartley. The film is a sequel to Hartley's 1997 film '' Henry Fool'', and revolves around the title character, played by Parker Posey, the sister of Simon Grim ( James Urbaniak). The plot revolves around Fay's attempt to unravel an increasingly violent mystery in Europe. Hartley began writing the script in 2002, and filming took place in Europe from January to March 2006. It premiered in September at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, and received a theatrical release in the United States on May 18, 2007. The film was shot almost entirely in Dutch angles, meaning the vast majority of shots are framed diagonally, or "tilted". At the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Hartley revealed that the two shots in the film's final cut that are not "Dutched" occurred when he and the film crew forgot to tilt the camera. A sequel, '' Ned Rifle'', was released in 2014. Plot Seven years after the events of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley (born November 3, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and composer who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and '90s. His films include '' The Unbelievable Truth'' (1989), '' Trust'' (1990), '' Simple Men'' (1992), ''Amateur'' (1994) and '' Henry Fool'' (1997), which are notable for deadpan humour and offbeat characters quoting philosophical dialogue. Hartley frequently scores his own films, sometimes under the pseudonym Ned Rifle, and his soundtracks regularly feature music by Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and PJ Harvey. His films provided a career launch for a number of actors, including Adrienne Shelly, Edie Falco, James Urbaniak, Martin Donovan, Karen Sillas and Elina Löwensohn. Early life Hartley was born in Lindenhurst, New York, the son of an ironworker. Hartley had an early interest in painting and attended the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, where he studied art and developed an interest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Löwensohn
Elina Löwensohn (born 11 July 1966) is a Romanian-American actress. She had roles in the films '' Simple Men'' (1992), ''Schindler's List'' (1993), ''Amateur'' (1994), '' Nadja'' (1994) and '' The Wisdom of Crocodiles'' (1998). Life and career Löwensohn was born in Bucharest, Romania. After the death of her father, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, her mother emigrated to the United States with her, where her mother went on a hunger strike to get a visa for her. After finishing high school, Löwensohn studied acting in New York City and played in several successful theatre productions. She started her film career in 1991 with ''Theory of Achievement''. Some of her notable roles are Diana Reiter in ''Schindler's List'' (1993), Katya in the 1994 ''Seinfeld ''Seinfeld'' ( ) is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, with a total of nine seasons consisting of List of Seinfeld episode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pick-up Shot
Pickup(s), pick-up, or pick up may refer to: Film * Pick-Up (1933 film), ''Pick-Up'' (1933 film), a crime film starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft * Pickup (1951 film), ''Pickup'' (1951 film), an American film noir directed by Hugo Haas * Pick-Up (1975 film), ''Pick-Up'' (1975 film), an exploitation film directed by Bernard Hirschenson * Pick up (documentary), ''Pick up'' (documentary), a 2005 documentary film directed by Lucia Sanchez * Pick-up (filmmaking), minor shots filmed after the primary filming of a movie to augment what has already been shot * ''Pickups'', a 2017 British film directed by Jamie Thraves Music *Pick-up notes or anacrusis, note or sequence of notes which precedes the first downbeat in a bar *Pickup group or pickup band, a musical ensemble brought together for only a few performances *Pick-Up (band), a Ukrainian alternative rock band *Pickup (song), "Pickup" (song), by MacKenzie Porter *"Pick Up", by Dierks Bentley from Black (Dierks Bentley album), ''Blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Toronto International Film Festival
The 30th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 8–17 and screened 335 films from 52 countries - 109 of these films were world premieres, and 78 were North American premieres. Awards At the Festival's closing event, the following prizes were awarded: * The People's Choice Award, presented to Gavin Hood's '' Tsotsi''. * The Discovery Award, presented to Sarah Watt's '' Look Both Ways''. * The Fipresci Prize, presented to South Korean director Kang Yi-kwan for ''Sa-kwa''. * A tie for the Citytv Award for Best Canadian First Feature, presented to Louise Archambault's '' Familia'' and Michael Mabbott's '' The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico''. * The Toronto – City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film, presented to '' C.R.A.Z.Y.'' directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. * The Bravo!FACT Short Cuts Canada Award, presented to Renuka Jeyapalan's '' Big Girl'' (Honourable mention to Andrea Dorfman's '' There's a Flower in My Pedal''). Because the vote for the People's Cho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Hope
Ted Hope (born 1962) is an American independent film producer based in New York City. He is best known for co-founding the production/sales company Good Machine, where he produced the first films of such filmmakers as Ang Lee, Nicole Holofcener, Todd Field, Michel Gondry, Moisés Kaufman, and Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Hope then co-founded This is That with several associates from Good Machine. He later worked at the San Francisco Film Society and Amazon Studios. Among Hope's twenty-three Sundance entries, are three Grand Jury Prize winners: '' American Splendor'' (2003), '' The Brothers McMullen'' (1995) and '' What Happened Was...'' (1994). ''American Splendor'' also won the FIPRESCI Award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, the Critics prize at the 2003 Deauville Film Festival, and was nominated for five Spirit Awards and one Academy Award. Hope has also produced two Sundance Opening Night selections: Nicole Holofcener's '' Friends with Money'' (2006) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Da Vinci Code
''The Da Vinci Code'' is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is “the best-selling American novel of all time.” Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon—the first was his 2000 novel '' Angels & Demons''—''The Da Vinci Code'' follows symbologist Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris entangles them in a dispute between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus and Mary Magdalene having had a child together. The novel explores an alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince's '' The Templar Revelation'' (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. The book also refers to '' The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (1982), although Brown stated that it was not used as research material. ''The Da Vinci Code'' provoked a popular inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the third into the Pentagon (headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense) in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in a rural Pennsylvania field during a passenger revolt. The attacks killed 2,977 people, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in history. In response to the attacks, the United States waged the global war on terror over multiple decades to eliminate hostile groups deemed terrorist organizations, as well as the foreign governments purported to support them. Ringleader Mohamed Atta flew American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex at 8:46 a.m. Seventeen minutes later at 9:03 a.m., United Airlines Flig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibel Kekilli
Sibel Kekilli (born 16 June 1980) is a German actress. She gained public attention after starring in the 2004 film '' Head-On''. She won two Lolas, the most prestigious German film award, for her performances in ''Head-On'' and '' When We Leave'' (2010). Beginning in 2011, she became more widely known for her role as Shae in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones''. Early life Kekilli was born and raised in Heilbronn, to a family of Turkish origin. Her parents came to Germany from Turkey in 1977, and were described by Kekilli as having a rather modern and open attitude. After completing school with excellent grades at age 16, she entered a 30-month-long combined training program to become a certified public administration specialist at the local city administration. After successful completion of the training program, she continued to work as an administrative assistant for another two years at Heilbronn city hall, then moved to Essen, where she worked various jobs as a bouncer, cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Scheller
David Scheller (born October 12, 1972) is a German actor. Since the early 1990s he appeared in many German TV- and film productions and also participated in a few international movies like ''Fay Grim'' or '' Extreme Ops''. In series and films David Scheller often plays dubious characters and criminals. In one of his most famous roles, David Scheller stars as Dieter Bockhorn, the former companion of Uschi Obermaier in the German film ''Eight Miles High''. David Scheller lives in Berlin. Filmography (selection) * 1992: ''Geteilte Nacht'' * 1992: '' Marienhof ''(TV-series) * 1994: ''Tatort ''(TV-series) * 1997: ''Mord für eine Schlagzeile ''(TV-movie) * 1998: ''Explodiert'' * 2000: ' * 2000: ''Zärtliche Sterne ''(TV-movie) * 2001: '' ''(TV-movie) * 2001: ' * 2001: ''Tatort ''(TV-series) * 2002: '' Extreme Ops'' * 2003: ''Polizeiruf 110 ''(TV-series) * 2003: ' * 2003: '' Yu'' * 2005: ''Die Bullenbraut – Ihr erster Fall ''(TV-movie) * 2005: '' Katze im Sack'' * 2005: ' * 2005: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Michelsen
Claudia Michelsen (born 4 February 1969) is a German actress. She was born in Dresden and is based in Berlin. She has appeared in more than eighty films since 1989. Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Michelsen, Claudia 1969 births Living people Actresses from Dresden German film actresses German television actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehdi Nebbou
Mehdi Nebbou (born 10 January 1971) is a French actor. Early life and education Mehdi Nebbou was born on 10 January 1974 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, to a German mother and an Algerian father. His brother is the film director Safy Nebbou. Career He started his career by appearing in the film '' My Sweet Home'', directed by Filipos Tsitos. In 2004, the director Samir Nasr offered him the leading role in the film '' Seeds of Doubt'', which won the Golden Gate Award for best film at the San Francisco Film Festival. 2005 was a turning point in Nebbou's career thanks to the film '' Schläfer'' by German film director Benjamin Heisenberg. The film received excellent reviews and was selected for the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In 2006, he portrayed Ali Hassan Salameh in the Steven Spielberg blockbuster film ''Munich''. In 2007, for his performance in '' Teresas Zimmer'', directed by German film director Constanze Knoche, he won the award for best actor at First St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Keogh (actor)
John Keogh (1740 – 13 November 1817) was an Irish merchant and Catholic political activist. He was a leading campaigner for Catholic Emancipation and reform of the Irish Parliament, active in Dublin on the Catholic Committee and, with some reservation, in the Society of United Irishmen. He was a leading organiser of the national Catholic Convention, the so-called "Back Lane Parliament", that gathered in Dublin in December 1792, and which, by direct appeal to the King and his ministers in London, secured passage the Catholic Relief Act of 1793. Background Keogh was of an obscure family. He was born in Dublin and made his considerable fortune in land speculation, brewing, and silk trading. He owned land in Dublin, County Sligo, County Roscommon, and County Leitrim, and by the 1790s he had an income of around £6,000 per year.Kelly, James (2004) "John Keogh" In Matthew, H.C.G. and Brian Harrison, eds. ''The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.'' vol. 31, 35 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
