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Litoral (TV Series)
''Litoral'' is a four-part 2008 Chilean TV miniseries written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. Originally subtitled "Tales of the Sea", it is thematically similar to the director's film ''Three Crowns of the Sailor'' (1982) and is the second of the oneiric folklore-themed miniseries' he made for TVN, following on from ''La Recta Provincia'' (2007). Cast * Santiago Meneghello * Daniel Kiblisky * Francisca Walker * Héctor Aguilar * Ignacio Agüero * Jorge Becker * Bélgica Castro * Roberto Cobian * Marcial Edwards * Carlos Flores del Pino * Cristián Gajardo * Pablo Krögh * Sandro Larenas * Francisco Medina * Hugo Medina * Juan Pablo Miranda * Mario Montilles * Eugenio Morales * Valentina Muhr * Javiera Parra Javiera Cereceda Orrego (born 19 May 1968), better known as Javiera Parra, is a Chilean musician and singer born in Santiago. She is the lead singer of rock band ''Javiera y Los Imposibles''. A third generation member of Chile's Parra family, know ... * Hernán Vallejo * Pedr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raúl Ruiz (director)
Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino (; 25 July 1941 – 19 August 2011) was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed more than 100 films. Biography The son of a ship's captain and a schoolteacher in southern Chile, Raúl Ruiz abandoned his university studies in theology and law to write 100 plays with the support of a Rockefeller Foundation grant. He went on to learn his craft working in Chilean and Mexican television and studying at film school in Argentina (1964). Back in Chile, he made his feature debut ''Three Sad Tigers'' (1968), sharing the Golden Leopard at the 1969 Locarno Film Festival. According to Ruiz in a 1991 interview, ''Three Sad Tigers'' "is a film without a story, it is the reverse of a story. Somebody kills somebody. All the elements of a story are there but they are used like a landscape, and the landscape is used like story."Klonarides, Carole Ann http://bombsite.com/issues/34/articles/1391, ''BOMB Magazine'' Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bélgica Castro
Bélgica Castro Sierra (; 6 March 1921 – 6 March 2020) was a Chilean stage, film, and television actress. During her career she participated in more than 100 plays. She also acted in numerous Chilean films, including ' (1944) by Jorge Délano and '' The Good Life'' (2008) by Andrés Wood. Under the direction of Ricardo Larraín she participated in '' Chile puede'' (2008), where she played a Russian scientist, a role for which she received the Paoa Award of the Viña del Mar International Film Festival for Best National Lead Actress and the APES Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also won the 1995 National Prize for Performing and Audiovisual Arts. Biography Bélgica Castro, the daughter of Spanish anarchist parents, was born in Concepción and studied in Temuco. In 1940, she traveled to Santiago to study Spanish at the of the University of Chile, where she joined the theater group Cadip. Then, along with other young artists led by Pedro de la Barra, she founded the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Films
The year 2008 involved many major film events. '' The Dark Knight'' was the year's highest-grossing film, while '' Slumdog Millionaire'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture (out of eight Academy Awards). Evaluation of the year 2008 has been widely considered to be a very significant year for cinema. The entertainment agency website IGN described 2008 as "one of the biggest years ever for movies." It stated, "2008 was the year when the comic book movie genre not only hits its zenith, but also gained critical respectability thanks to '' The Dark Knight''. Animated films also proved a huge draw for filmgoers, with Pixar's '' WALL-E'' becoming not only the highest grossing toon but also the most lauded. Things got off on the right foot with the monster movie madness of '' Cloverfield''. Marvel got down to business laying the groundwork for their superhero team-up ''The Avengers'' with the blockbuster hit ''Iron Man'' and their respectable attempt at rebooting '' The Incredible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Raúl Ruiz
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of Visual arts, visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, Sound film, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual Recording medium, medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Chilean Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilean Television Miniseries
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Javiera Parra
Javiera Cereceda Orrego (born 19 May 1968), better known as Javiera Parra, is a Chilean musician and singer born in Santiago. She is the lead singer of rock band ''Javiera y Los Imposibles''. A third generation member of Chile's Parra family, known for its many musicians, she is the granddaughter of famous Chilean folklorist Violeta Parra. Her brother Ángel Parra was a member of rock group ''Los Tres''. See also * Music of Chile * List of Chileans References 1968 births 20th-century Chilean women singers Chilean guitarists Chilean women singer-songwriters Chilean singer-songwriters Chilean women guitarists Living people Musicians from Santiago, Chile Javiera Javiera () is the Spanish spelling of the more rare feminine given name Xaviera. Both names derive from the Catholic saint Francis de Xavier, where ''Xavier'' refers to the saint's birthplace. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Krögh
Pablo Willy Krögh Baraona (21 February 1963 – 2 September 2013) was a Chilean film, theater, television and voice actor. His credits included the Chilean films ''Machuca'' in 2004 and the 2009 dramatic film, ''Dawson Isla 10'', in which he portrayed the late politician, José Tohá. His television roles included the Chilevision telenovela series, ''La Doña (2011 telenovela), La Doña''. He was starring in the Televisión Nacional de Chile, TVN television series, ''Bim bam bum'', at the time of his death in 2013. Krögh died from tongue cancer in Santiago, Chile, at approximately 5:00 a.m. on 2 September 2013, at the age of 50. He had been diagnosed with tongue cancer in 2012. Numerous Chilean actors and directors posted tributes to Krögh on social media, including Ana Maria Gazmuri, Paula Sharim, Begoña Basauri, Lorena Capetillo, Herval Abreu and Daniel Alcaíno. Filmography Films References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Krogh, Pablo 1963 births 2013 death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignacio Agüero
Ignacio Agüero (born 7 March 1952) is a Chilean documentary filmmaker who famously co-directed ''No to Pinochet'' television spots during Chile's 1988 referendum. He is also known for his work as a character actor in art films and TV miniseries' directed by Raúl Ruiz and José Luis Torres Leiva. Select filmography Director * ''Aquí se construye'' (1977) * ''No olvidar'' (1982) * ''Como me da la gana'' (1985) * ''One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train'' (1988) * ''Dreams of Ice'' (1993) * ''Neruda, todo el amor'' (1998) * ''Aquí se construye (o Ya no existe el lugar donde nací)'' (2000) * '' Agustín's Newspaper'' (2008) * ''The Other Day'' (2013) Actor * '' Days in the Country'' (2004) * '' La Recta Provincia'' (2007) * ''Litoral'' (2008) * '' The Sky, the Earth and the Rain'' (2008) * ''Summer'' (2011) * ''Voice Over Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique used in radio, television, filmmaking, theatre, and other m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Arriagada
Jorge Arriagada (20 August 1943 – 8 October 2024) was a French-Chilean film composer residing in France. Specializing in film music, he is best known for his longstanding collaboration with director Raoul Ruiz. Life and career Jorge Arriagada, a French-Chilean composer, was born on 20 August 1943, in Santiago, Chile. He studied composition and orchestral conducting at the National Conservatory of Music in Santiago. Later, he received a four-year scholarship from the French government, allowing him to study in Paris with Max Deutsch, a student and friend of the Austrian composer and theorist Arnold Schönberg. He also studied with Pierre Schaeffer, Olivier Messiaen, and Pierre Boulez. In 1972, the Guggenheim Foundation in New York awarded him a scholarship for his contributions to the field of electronic music at Stanford University in California, USA. During the same period, he served as a professor of music composition for French government scholarship recipients. From 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Recta Provincia
''La Recta Provincia'' ("the straight province") is a four-part 2007 Chilean TV miniseries written and directed by Raúl Ruiz which was edited into a feature film and shown at the Rome Film Festival in 2007. It was the first of the two folklore-themed miniseries' Ruiz made for TVN, the second being ''Litoral'' (2008). Cast * Bélgica Castro * Ignacio Agüero * Ángel Parra * Javiera Parra * Francisco Reyes * Alejandro Sieveking Alejandro Sieveking Campano (5 September 1934 – 5 March 2020) was a Chilean playwright, theatre director and actor. Career Sieveking was born in the Chilean city of Rengo (in the O'Higgins Region) on 5 September 1934. He performed as an actor ... References External links * Ruiz and the Devilsby Gonzalo Maza Spanish-language television shows Films directed by Raúl Ruiz 2007 Chilean television series debuts 2007 Chilean television series endings 2000s Chilean television series {{Chile-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
