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James Duvall
James Edward Duval (born September 10, 1972) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in ''Independence Day'' (1996), '' Go'' (1999), ''Donnie Darko'' (2001), ''May'' (2002), and the films of Gregg Araki. Duval has starred in numerous independent films, including the 2009 psychological thriller ''The Black Waters of Echo's Pond'' and the mystery crime-thriller film ''Noirland''. Personal life Born in Detroit in 1972 to a Franco-Vietnamese mother from Saigon and a father with Irish and Native American ancestry, Duval's family moved to Los Angeles when he was 2 years old. He grew up around the Greater Los Angeles area, going to elementary school in Redondo Beach before graduating from Gladstone High School in Covina in 1989. As a teenager in his early career with Gregg Araki's ''Teenage Apocalypse'' films, he identified with the themes of nihilism, social alienation and not fitting in: "I was 18 and living that, searching for myself who I was, where I belonged. I was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit ( , ) is the List of municipalities in Michigan, most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario. It had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of United States cities by population, 26th-most populous city in the United States and the largest U.S. city on the Canada–United States border. The Metro Detroit area, home to 4.3 million people, is the second-largest in the Midwestern United States, Midwest after the Chicago metropolitan area and the 14th-largest in the United States. The county seat, seat of Wayne County, Michigan, Wayne County, Detroit is a significant cultural center known for its contributions to music, art, architecture and design, in addition to its historical automotive and industrial background. In 1701, Kingdom of France, Royal French explorers Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and Alphonse de Tonty founded Fort Pontc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elementary School
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age). Primary schooling follows preschool and precedes secondary schooling. The International Standard Classification of Education considers primary education as a single phase where programmes are typically designed to provide fundamental skills in reading, writing, and mathematics and to establish a solid foundation for learning. This is ISCED Level 1: Primary education or first stage of basic education.Annex III in the ISCED 2011 English.pdf Navigate to International St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Clown At Midnight
''The Clown at Midnight'' is a 1999 Canadian slasher film directed by Jean Pellerin and starring Sarah Lassez, James Duval, Tatyana Ali, Christopher Plummer and Margot Kidder. Plot Years ago, opera singer Lorraine Sedgewick (Vicki Marentette) was killed in her dressing room at an opera house, supposedly by Lorenzo Orsini (Jonathan Barrett), one of the lead actors in a performance of ''Pagliacci''. When Orsini was thought to have fled to Europe afterwards, the opera house closed down. Years later, high school student Kate ( Sarah Lassez) is plagued with nightmares after discovering she is Lorraine's daughter. Kate's best friend Monica (Tatyana Ali) convinces Kate to help restore the opera house, and when they arrive they meet the rest of the group including nerdy Cheryl "Walnut" Webber (Melissa Galianos), flamboyant Marty (J. P. Grimard), rebel George (James Duval), vindictive Ashley (Liz Crawford) and her jock boyfriend Taylor (Ryan Bittle). The group are lectured by their teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Made To Drown In
''River Made to Drown In'' is a 1997 drama film starring Michael Imperioli, Richard Chamberlain, Ute Lemper and James Duval. Although directed by James Merendino, Merendino had his name removed, and the film is credited to Alan Smithee.Daniel Herbert ''River Made to Drown In'' failed to secure U.S. theatrical distribution, and it was released on DVD and has appeared on here! television. Plot summary Allen is a struggling artist who had formerly worked as a male prostitute. He has left that life behind and is involved with Eva his art dealer. His life is upset by the arrival of Thaddeus, a wealthy lawyer near death from AIDS. Allen had for a time been Thaddeus's "kept boy" and Thaddeus has come to Allen to die. Before he dies, however, he wants Allen to help him find Jaime, another young hustler who had taken Allen's place with Thaddeus. Thaddeus is worried that he's infected Jaime with HIV and says he wants to care for him financially. The film follows Allen's efforts to fulf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doom Generation
''The Doom Generation'' is a 1995 independent film, independent black comedy thriller (genre), thriller film co-produced, co-edited, written and directed by Gregg Araki, and starring Rose McGowan, James Duval and Jonathan Schaech. The plot follows two troubled teenage lovers who pick up an adolescent drifter and embark on a journey full of sex, violence, and convenience stores. Billed as "A Heterosexual Movie by Gregg Araki", ''The Doom Generation'' is the second installment in the director's trilogy known as the ''Gregg Araki#Teenage Apocalypse trilogy, Teenage Apocalypse'' film trilogy, preceded by ''Totally F***ed Up'' (1993) and followed by ''Nowhere (1997 film), Nowhere'' (1997). The characters of Amy Blue and Jordan White are based on the Mark Beyer (comics), Mark Beyer comic strip ''Amy and Jordan''. Araki's major film debut, shooting primarily took place at night during January 1994 in Los Angeles on a budget of $800,000. The crew avoided well known landmarks and shot in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totally F***ed Up
''Totally F***ed Up'' (also known as ''Totally Fucked Up'') is a 1993 American drama film written and directed by Gregg Araki. The first installment of Araki's ''Teenage Apocalypse'' film trilogy, it is considered a seminal entry in the New Queer Cinema genre. The film chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six gay adolescents who have formed a family unit and struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of various major obstacles. Araki classified it as "a rag-tag story of the fag-and-dyke teen underground....a kinda cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick." It premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival. Plot The plot is concerned with six teenagers, four of whom are gay men, the other two a lesbian couple. The plot is episodic, spliced with segments of other material and occasional tangents not central to the plot framed through the amateur documentary filmmaking of Steven, one of the teenagers, but it mainly follows a lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Lassez
Sarah Lassez is a French American and Canadian actress and writer. She was born in Canada to French parents and raised in Australia. At the age of 14, she moved to New York City and currently lives in Los Angeles. Sarah Lassez is best known for her work in Gregg Araki's ''Nowhere'', Abel Ferrara's '' The Blackout'' and the underground cult hit ''Mad Cowgirl''. Her memoir, ''Psychic Junkie'', was published by Simon & Schuster in the summer of 2006. It was featured on the cover of ''The New York Times'' Sunday Styles section, ''Entertainment Weekly'', ''People Magazine'' and ''The Today Show''. She had the lead role in the horror musical ''The Dead Inside'', directed by Travis Betz. Selected filmography * ''Roosters'' (1993) * '' The Shaggy Dog'' (1994) * '' Malicious'' (1995) * ''Nowhere'' (1997) * '' The Blackout'' (1997) * '' The Clown at Midnight'' (1998) * ''The Outfitters'' (1999) * '' Sleeping Beauties'' (1999) * ''Rien, Voila l'Ordre'' (2003) * '' Until the Night'' (2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nowhere (1997 Film)
''Nowhere'' is a 1997 black comedy drama film written and directed by Gregg Araki. Described by Araki as "''Beverly Hills, 90210'' on acid", the film follows a day in the lives of a group of Los Angeles college students and the strange lives that they lead. It stars an ensemble cast led by James Duval and Rachel True. The film is Araki's sixth overall and third entry in his ''Teenage Apocalypse'' film trilogy, preceded by '' Totally F***ed Up'' (1993) and ''The Doom Generation'' (1995). Like the other films in the trilogy, it contains scenes of graphic violence and sexuality. The film notably includes several cast members on the verge of stardom, including Ryan Phillippe, Mena Suvari, Kathleen Robertson, and Denise Richards. Initial reception was mixed, though in subsequent years it has garnered a cult status and its reputation among critics has grown. Plot In Los Angeles, Dark and Mel are a bisexual couple in an open relationship. Mel is dating a girl named Lucifer, whom Dark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge subgenre in the United States, and the Britpop and shoegaze subgenres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. During this period, many record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many Arena rock, corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s were beginning to grow stale throughout the music industry. The emergence of Generation X as a Culture, cultural force in the 1990s also contributed greatly to the rise of alternative music. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or arena rock, commercial rock or pop. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gay City News
''Gay City News'' (stylized as ''gcn'') is a free weekly LGBT newspaper based in New York City focusing on local and national issues relating to LGBT community. It was founded in 1994 as ''Lesbian Gay New York'', later ''LGNY'', and was sold to Community Media LLC, owner of '' The Villager'', in 2002, which renamed the publication. It is the largest LGBT newspaper in the United States, with a circulation of 47,000. Background ''Gay City News'' came into existence after several incarnations. The newspaper began to form in the late 1980s after the collapse of the LGBT newsmagazine '' OutWeek'' (which came into existence in 1989 to compete against the then-dominant '' New York Native''—which itself folded in 1997). ''OutWeek'' was known for firebrand activist style journalism and provided coverage of a then nascent gay rights movement. It was one of the first publications to undertake scientific reporting on the growing AIDS The HIV, human immunodeficiency virus ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Alienation
Social alienation is a person's feeling of disconnection from a group whether friends, family, or wider society with which the individual has an affiliation. Such alienation has been described as "a condition in social relationships reflected by (1) a low degree of integration or common values and (2) a high degree of distance or isolation (3a) between individuals, or (3b) between an individual and a group of people in a community or work environment numeration added. It is a sociological concept developed by several classical and contemporary theorists. The concept has many discipline-specific uses and can refer both to a personal psychological state ( subjectively) and to a type of social relationship (objectively). History The term ''alienation'' has been used over the ages with varied and sometimes contradictory meanings. In ancient history it could mean a metaphysical sense of achieving a higher state of contemplation, ecstasy or union—becoming alienated from a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nihilism
Nihilism () encompasses various views that reject certain aspects of existence. There have been different nihilist positions, including the views that Existential nihilism, life is meaningless, that Moral nihilism, moral values are baseless, and that Philosophical skepticism, knowledge is impossible. These views span various branches of philosophy, including ethics, value theory, epistemology, and metaphysics. Nihilism is often characterized as a broad cultural phenomenon or historical movement that pervades modernity in the Western world. Existential nihilism asserts that life is inherently meaningless and lacks a higher purpose. By suggesting that all individual and societal achievements are ultimately pointless, it can lead to Apathy, indifference, Motivation#Amotivation and akrasia, lack of motivation, and existential crises. In response, some philosophers propose detachment from worldly concerns while others seek to discover or create values. Moral nihilism, a related view, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
