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Gyula Pados
Gyula Pados (; born 2 April 1969) is a Hungarian cinematographer. He is best known for his collaborations with director Wes Ball on the films '' Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials'', '' Maze Runner: The Death Cure'', and '' Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes''. Life and career Pados was born in Budapest, Hungary. In 1990, he attended the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest as a cinematographer. He worked as a camera assistant to Academy Award-winner Vilmos Zsigmond. As a university student, he and his friends founded a company, which is still the third largest Hungarian commercial film studio. His diploma work was cinematographing and directing ''Hajnal'', for which he was awarded several prizes. Then he cinematographed ''The dance''. Later, he made ''Angyal utca'' with a completely Hungarian team. In England, he shot the short movie ''Meter Running'', written by Charles Martin and directed by David Moore. After getting his degree in 1996, he returned to England and shot ''The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nimród Antal
Nimród E. Antal (; born November 30, 1973) is a Hungarian Americans, Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and actor. Life and career Antal was born in Los Angeles, California, to parents of Hungarian people, Hungarian descent. In 1991, following his father's advice, Antal moved to Hungary to study at the Hungarian Film Academy in Budapest. After graduating, he worked in the Hungarian film and television industry; in 2005, he returned to Los Angeles and continued to work in the film and television industry in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood. Directing Antal wrote and directed the Hungarian-language film ''Kontroll'' (2003), which won numerous awards, including the Award of the Youth at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and the main prize at the Chicago International Film Festival, as well as a European Film Award nomination for Best Director and being selected as Hungary's submission to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The backdrop of the film is the Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David F
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as " House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the '' Seder Olam Rabbah'', '' Seder Olam Zutta'', and ''Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, the historicity of which has been extensively challenged,Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel; by Isaac Kalimi; page 32; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Kasdan
Jacob Kasdan (born October 28, 1974) is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for directing ''Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story'' (2007), ''Bad Teacher'' (2011), ''Sex Tape (film), Sex Tape'' (2014), ''Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle'' (2017), ''Jumanji: The Next Level'' (2019), and ''Red One (film), Red One'' (2024). Early life Jacob Kasdan was born to Meg (née Goldman), a writer, and Lawrence Kasdan, a writer and director, in Detroit. Jacob grew up in a Jewish family with little religious education. His younger brother, Jon Kasdan, also works in the film and television industry as an actor and writer. Career Jake Kasdan has directed nine films. He has also worked in television, most notably with Judd Apatow as a consulting producer and director on ''Freaks and Geeks'' and as a director on ''Undeclared''. He has directed numerous stage productions. He is attached to direct a family film adaption of a John Grisham novel, ''Calico Joe.'' In 2008, Kasdan received his fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Gillespie
Craig Gillespie (born 1 September 1967) is an Australian-American film director, film, television director, television, music video director, music video, and commercial director. He is best known for directing the films ''Lars and the Real Girl'' (2007), ''Fright Night (2011 film), Fright Night'' (2011), ''I, Tonya'' (2017), and ''Cruella (film), Cruella'' (2021). Early life Born and raised in Sydney, Gillespie moved to New York City at the age of nineteen to study illustration, graphic design and advertising at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts. Career Gillespie started out as an intern at ad agency J. Walter Thompson, New York. He then moved on to D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, BBDO, Deutsch Inc., Deutsch, and Ammirati & Puris, first as an art director, later as a creative director. After eight years working on the agency side he moved into directing in 1995. Based on the strength of his spec showreel, reel and agency experience, he gained representation by production compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Million Dollar Arm (film)
''Million Dollar Arm'' is a 2014 American biographical sports drama film directed by Craig Gillespie and produced by Walt Disney Pictures from a screenplay written by Tom McCarthy. The film is based on the true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel who were discovered by sports agent J. B. Bernstein after winning a reality show competition. The film stars Jon Hamm as J. B. Bernstein, Bill Paxton as pitching coach Tom House, Suraj Sharma as Singh, Madhur Mittal as Patel, and Alan Arkin. The film's music is composed by A. R. Rahman. Produced by Joe Roth, Mark Ciardi, and Gordon Gray, the film was released theatrically on May 16, 2014. ''Million Dollar Arm'' grossed $39.2 million. Plot Sports agent J. B. Bernstein and his business partner Ash Vasudevan have formed their own struggling company in Los Angeles, but all J. B.'s clients have retired, and he is unable to reel in star NFL player Popo Vanuatu. Desperate for new clients, J. B. realizes the potential f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Through The Never ''
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Through The Never can refer to: * '' Metallica: Through the Never'', a 2013 Metallica concert film * ''Metallica: Through the Never'' (album), the soundtrack album for the film * "Through the Never", the seventh track on the 1991 Metallica album, ''Metallica Metallica is an American heavy metal band. It was formed in Los Angeles in 1981 by vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career. The band's fast tempos, instrume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saul Dibb
Saul Dibb (born 18 August 1968) is an English director and screenwriter. His father is the documentary maker Mike Dibb. Born in London, England, Saul Dibb is a graduate of the University of East Anglia. He is best known for co-writing and directing ''Bullet Boy'', for which he was nominated for the Douglas Hickox Award, ''The Line of Beauty (TV series), The Line of Beauty'', and ''The Duchess (film), The Duchess'', which won the Academy Award for Best Costume in 2009. In 2016, he directed the adaptation for BBC2 of Zadie Smith's bestselling novel ''NW (novel), NW'' into a 90-minute television film of the same name, starring Nikki Amuka-Bird and Phoebe Fox. Dibb directed a Journey's End (2017 film), film adaptation of R. C. Sherriff's 1928 play ''Journey's End'', which was released in 2017. This has been dubbed "The best ever film about the Great War" by ''The Times''. Filmography ;Film *''Bullet Boy'' (2004) *''The Duchess (film), The Duchess'' (2008) *''Suite Française (film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Duchess (film)
''The Duchess'' is a 2008 historical drama film directed by Saul Dibb, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen, based on the 1998 book ''Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire'' by Amanda Foreman (historian), Amanda Foreman, about the late 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. She was a distant relation of Diana, Princess of Wales, where the quote Diana, Princess of Wales#Divorce, "There were three people in her marriage" in the promotional poster comes from. The Duchess was the older sister of Lady Diana's great-great-great-grandfather, George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer. ''The Duchess'' was released on 5 September 2008 in the United Kingdom. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. It won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Best Costume Design and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Best Art Direction at the 81st Academy Awards. Plot In 1774, the young Georgiana Caven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalandorok
''Kalandorok'' ("Adventurers") is a 2008 Hungarian film directed by Béla Paczolay. A retired teacher, his son and his grandson take a road trip to Budapest. Cast *Péter Haumann Péter Haumann (17 May 1941 – 28 May 2022) was a Hungarian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1962. Selected filmography References External links * 1941 births 2022 deaths Hungarian male film actors Male ... as Grandpa * as Géza *Milán Schruff as Andris * Ágnes Bánfalvy as Widow External links * 2008 films 2000s Hungarian-language films 2008 comedy films Hungarian comedy films {{2000s-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evening (film)
''Evening'' is a 2007 American drama film directed by Lajos Koltai. The screenplay by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Minot. Plot The film alternates between the 1950s and the present, in which a dying Ann Grant Lord reflects on her past. Her comments about people she never mentioned before leave her daughters, Constance and Nina, wondering if she is delusional. As a young woman in her early twenties, cabaret singer Ann arrives at the spacious Newport, Rhode Island, home of her best friend Lila Wittenborn, who is soon to marry Karl Ross. Lila's brother (and Ann's college friend) Buddy introduces her to Harris Arden, a young doctor and the son of a former family servant. Buddy tells Ann his sister has always adored Harris, and expresses his concern that she's marrying another out of a sense of duty rather than love. Drunk, Buddy passes out, and as Ann and Harris chat they have an instant connection. On Lila's wedding day, she t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Caton-Jones
Michael Caton-Jones (born Michael Jones; 15 October 1957) is a Scottish director and producer of film and television. Biography Caton-Jones grew up in Broxburn, near Edinburgh. He moved to London and squatted in Stoke Newington. He attended the National Film and Television School. He was instrumental in casting Leonardo DiCaprio in his first major film role in This Boy's Life (1993). In October 2017, Caton-Jones told BuzzFeed News that he was forced from the production of the 1998 crime drama film '' B. Monkey'' when he refused to fire lead actress Sophie Okonedo, who producer Harvey Weinstein had deemed was not "fuckable". Weinstein told '' Variety'' that Caton-Jones left the production due to "creative differences". Michael Radford was hired to replace Caton-Jones and Okonedo was replaced by Asia Argento. Argento was one of three women who in 2017 told ''The New Yorker'' she had been rape Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse, or other f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
