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Fred Raskin
Fred Raskin, (born September 26, 1973) is an American film editor. He is best known for editing three installments in '' The Fast and the Furious'' film series, Quentin Tarantino's ''Django Unchained'', ''The Hateful Eight'' and ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'', and the ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' film trilogy. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (1991–1995). In 2015, he was nominated for the ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy or Musical) for his editing work on ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', along with Hughes Winborne Hughes Winborne is a Hollywood film editor. He has edited 20 films, including '' Crash'', for which he won an Oscar for film editing in the 78th Academy Awards. He also edited '' Sling Blade'' (1996) and '' The Pursuit of Happyness'' (2006), tho ... and Craig Wood. Filmography Film Television References External links * 1973 births Artists from Philadelphia Living people American film editors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is the urban core of the Philadelphia metropolitan area (sometimes called the Delaware Valley), the nation's Metropolitan statistical area, seventh-largest metropolitan area and ninth-largest combined statistical area with 6.245 million residents and 7.379 million residents, respectively. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Americans, English Quakers, Quaker and advocate of Freedom of religion, religious freedom, and served as the capital of the Colonial history of the United States, colonial era Province of Pennsylvania. It then played a historic and vital role during the American Revolution and American Revolutionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Kaufman
Stanley Lloyd Kaufman Jr. (born December 30, 1945) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Alongside producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, such as '' The Toxic Avenger'' (1984) and '' Tromeo and Juliet'' (1996). Many of the strategies employed by him at Troma have been credited with making the film industry significantly more accessible and decentralized. Early life Kaufman was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Ruth ('' née'' Fried) and Stanley Lloyd Kaufman Sr., a lawyer. Career Early career Kaufman graduated from Yale University with the class of 1968, where he majored in Chinese studies. His fellow Yale classmates included Oliver Stone and George W. Bush. Originally intending to become a social worker, he became fast friends with student filmmaker Robert Edelstein and Eric Sherman (son of filmmaker Vincent Sherman), who introduced him to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Better Luck Tomorrow
''Better Luck Tomorrow'' is a 2002 American independent crime drama film directed by Justin Lin. The film is about Asian American overachievers who become bored with their lives and enter a world of petty crime and material excess. ''Better Luck Tomorrow''s cast include Parry Shen, Jason Tobin, Sung Kang, Roger Fan, and John Cho. The film was based loosely on the murder of Stuart Tay, a teenager from Orange County, California, by four Sunny Hills High School honor students on December 31, 1992. Crucial funding for the film came from MC Hammer, whom Lin had met in April 2001 at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. "Out of desperation, I called up MC Hammer because he had read the script and liked it. Two hours later, he wired the money we needed into a bank account and saved us," Lin said. MC Hammer is credited as a producer of the film. ''Better Luck Tomorrow'' debuted at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, and was subsequently acquired b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Fleder
Gary Fleder (; born December 19, 1965) is an American film director, screenwriter, and Film producer, producer. His most recently completed film, ''Homefront (2013 film), Homefront,'' was released by Open Road Films and Millennium Films in November 2013. In recent years he has been a prolific director of television pilots. Life and career Fleder was born to a American Jews, Jewish family in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of Lorraine and Harry Fleder. A graduate of Boston University and the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Fleder began his television career in 1993 with an award-winning episode of ''Tales from the Crypt (TV series), Tales from the Crypt'' ("Forever Ambergris", starring Steve Buscemi and Roger Daltrey). Since then, he has directed pilots and episodes of more than a dozen television series, including ''L.A. Doctors'', ''Blind Justice (TV series), Blind Justice'', ''The Evidence (TV series), The Evidence'', ''The Shield'', ''Life on Mars (American TV series), Life on Mars'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impostor (2001 Film)
''Impostor'' is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film based upon the 1953 short story "Impostor" by Philip K. Dick. The film starred Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Mekhi Phifer and was directed by Gary Fleder. Plot In the year 2039, Earth is attacked by an alien civilization from Alpha Centauri. Force field domes are put in place to protect cities, and a totalitarian global military government is established to effect the war and the survival of humans. The Centaurians have never been physically seen. Thirty years later, Spencer Olham, a designer of top-secret government weapons, is arrested while on his way to work by Major Hathaway of the Earth Security Administration (ESA), being identified as a replicant created by the aliens. The ESA intercepted an alien transmission which cryptanalysts decoded as programming Olham's target to be the Chancellor, whom he was scheduled to meet. Such replicants are perfect biological copies of exis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daddy And Them
''Daddy and Them'' is a 2001 American comedy-drama film written, directed by, and starring Billy Bob Thornton. It also stars John Prine, Laura Dern, Andy Griffith, Ben Affleck, Kelly Preston, Diane Ladd, Brenda Blethyn, Tuesday Knight, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Jim Varney in his final film role. ''Daddy and Them'' was filmed in 1998 in the wake of Thornton’s success with '' Sling Blade'' and was originally planned as a theatrical release. The release was ultimately delayed by Miramax, who found the film not "commercial" enough. The film debuted at the Newport International Film Festival on June 6, 2001. Miramax eventually aired the film on Showtime in January 2003 and released it on DVD on January 13, 2004. Plot Ruby and Claude Montgomery are a very insecure and jealous couple who must reunite with extended family in Arkansas. When Claude's uncle, Hazel, is arrested for attempted murder, the couple travels with Ruby's older sister Rose, with whom Claude had a previous rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer and songwriter. He received international attention after writing, directing and starring in the independent film, independent Drama (film and television), drama film ''Sling Blade'' (1996), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. For his role in ''A Simple Plan (film), A Simple Plan'' (1998) he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Thornton is also known for his film roles in ''One False Move'' (1992), ''Tombstone (film), Tombstone'' (1993), ''Dead Man'' (1995), ''U Turn (1997 film), U Turn'' (1997), ''Primary Colors (film), Primary Colors'' (1998), ''Armageddon (1998 film), Armageddon'' (1998), ''Monster's Ball'' (2001), ''The Man Who Wasn't There (2001 film), The Man Who Wasn't There'' (2001), ''Intolerable Cruelty'' (2003), ''Bad Santa'' (2003) and ''Friday Night Lights (film), Friday Night Lig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All The Pretty Horses (film)
''All the Pretty Horses'' is a 2000 American Western film produced and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, based on Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name, and starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz. It premiered on December 25, 2000 to mostly negative reviews. It grossed $18 million worldwide on a $57 million budget. ''All the Pretty Horses'' was the first film adaptation from a Cormac McCarthy novel. Plot In 1949, young cowboy John Grady Cole is rendered homeless after his family's ranch is sold. He asks his best friend Lacey Rawlins to leave his family ranch in San Angelo, Texas, and join him to travel on horseback to cross the border 150 miles (241 km) south, to seek work in Mexico. They encounter a peculiar boy named Jimmy Blevins on the trail to Mexico, whom they befriend, but from whom they then separate. Later on, they meet a young aristocrat's daughter, Alejandra Villarreal, with whom Cole falls in love. Cole and Rawlins become hired hands for Alejandra's father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Drazan
Anthony Drazan is an American film director and screenwriter. He grew up in Rockville Centre, New York. He is best known for writing and directing the 1992 film ''Zebrahead (film), Zebrahead'', his film writing and directing debut. The film was produced by Chuck Mitchell. His other film directing credits include ''Imaginary Crimes'' starring Harvey Keitel and ''Hurlyburly (film), Hurlyburly'' starring Sean Penn. He also directed episodes of the television series ''Trinity (US TV series), Trinity'' and ''The West Wing''. His last directing credit was the 2003 television pilot ''E.D.N.Y.'' From 2011 to 2014, Drazan performed on stage in scripted one-man shows including an Off-Off-Broadway, Off-Broadway production of ''The Leak, The Nod''. References External links * Year of birth missing (living people) Film directors from New York (state) American male screenwriters American television directors Living people English-language film directors Place of birth missing (li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurlyburly (film)
''Hurlyburly'' is a 1998 independent comedy-drama film directed by Anthony Drazan and based on '' Hurlyburly'' the 1984 play by David Rabe, who adapted the screenplay. The film is about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes. Rabe condensed the action of his three-hour plus play into two hours and updated the setting from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. Plot Eddie, a cocaine-addicted womanizing casting director, lives in the Hollywood Hills, where his friend Mickey has come to stay with him temporarily after a fallout with his wife. Along with their buddies, Artie and out-of-work actor Phil, Eddie and Mickey live a life of decadence and immorality. Eddie is in love with Darlene, but she is also seeing the married Mickey. Eddie comes to question his lifestyle and purpose, while Mickey is content with his situation. Through a haze of drugs and booze, the four friends inch closer to rock bottom. Cast * Sean Penn as Eddie * Kevin Spacey as Mickey * Robi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boogie Nights
''Boogie Nights'' is a 1997 American drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through his fall during the excesses of the 1980s. The film is an expansion of Anderson's mockumentary short film '' The Dirk Diggler Story'' (1988), and stars Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Heather Graham. ''Boogie Nights'' premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 1997, and was theatrically released by New Line Cinema on October 10, 1997, garnering critical acclaim. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay for Anderson, Best Supporting Actress for Moore, and Best Supporting Actor for Reynolds. The film's sound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun (May 19, 1953 – November 26, 2022) was an American film director who made low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. The Independent Film Channel said that Pyun "has carved out a unique niche as a director of low-budget, high-concept genre films starring actors past their prime", adding that "others believe this a charitable description for Pyun, who has also been derided as the new Ed Wood." Though his films frequently blended kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with Science fiction film, science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs, Pyun stated in a 2012 interview that "I have really no interest in cyborgs. And I've never really had any interest in post-apocalyptic stories or settings. It just seemed that those situations presented a way for me to make movies with very little money, and to explore ideas that I really wanted to explore — even if they were [controversial]." Pyun's films include ''The Sword and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
