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Oren Moverman
Oren Moverman (; born July 4, 1966) is an Israeli-American Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, film director, and Emmy Award-winning film producer. He has directed the films '' The Messenger'', ''Rampart'', '' Time Out of Mind'', and '' The Dinner''. He also directed the Paramount+ documentary series " Willie Nelson & Family" with Thom Zimny. Biography Oren Moverman was born on July 4, 1966 in Jaffa (Yafo), Israel. He is an Ashkenazi Jew of Polish origin. He grew up in Givatayim. From age 13 to 17, he first lived in the United States. After serving in the Israel Defense Forces, he moved to the United States. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1992. Moverman started his career as a screenwriter. He wrote screenplays for films such as '' Jesus' Son'', ''Face'', the experimental Bob Dylan biographical film ''I'm Not There'', and Ira Sachs' '' Married Life'', as well as the Brian Wilson biopic '' Love & Mercy'' and the Arabic-language hip-hop film Junction 48. In 2009, Mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
69th Berlin International Film Festival
The 69th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 7 to 17 February 2019. French actress Juliette Binoche served as the Jury President. Lone Scherfig's drama film '' The Kindness of Strangers'' opened the festival. The Golden Bear was won by Israeli-French drama ''Synonyms'' directed by Nadav Lapid, which also served as the closing film of the festival. Juries Main competition * Juliette Binoche, French actress - Jury President * Justin Chang, American journalist and film critic * Sandra Hüller, German actress * Sebastián Lelio, Chilean film director and screenwriter * Rajendra Roy, American chief curator of MoMA * Trudie Styler, British actress, producer and film director First Feature Award Jury * Katja Eichinger, German journalist, writer and film producer * Alain Gomis, French filmmaker * Vivian Qu, Chinese filmmaker and producer Documentary Award Jury * Maria Bonsanti, Italian artistic director and director of the Eurodoc program * Gregory Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Defense Forces
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branches: the Israeli Ground Forces, the Israeli Air Force, and the Israeli Navy. It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security forces, Israeli security apparatus. The IDF is headed by the Chief of the General Staff (Israel), chief of the general staff, who is subordinate to the Ministry of Defense (Israel), defense minister. On the orders of first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, the IDF was formed on 26 May 1948 and began to operate as a Conscription in Israel, conscript military, drawing its initial recruits from the already-existing paramilitaries of the Yishuv—namely Haganah, the Irgun, and Lehi (militant group), Lehi. It was formed shortly after the Israeli Declaration of Independence and has participated in List of wars involving Israel, every armed conflict involving Israel. In the wak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Sundance Film Festival
The 2009 Sundance Film Festival was held during January 15, 2009 until January 25 in Park City, Utah. It was the 25th iteration of the Sundance Film Festival. Awards *Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - '' We Live in Public'' *Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - '' Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire'' *Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - '' The Maid (La Nana)'' *Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - '' Rough Aunties'' *Audience Award: Documentary - '' The Cove'' *Audience Award: Dramatic - '' Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - '' Afghan Star'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - '' An Education'' *Documentary Directing Award - Natalia Almada for '' El General'' *Dramatic Directing Award - Cary Joji Fukunaga for '' Sin Nombre'' *World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Oliver Hirschbiegel for '' Five Minutes of Heaven'' *World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - Havana Marking for '' Afghan Star'' *E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmmaker (magazine)
''Filmmaker'' is a quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film. The magazine was founded in 1992 by Karol Martesko-Fenster, Scott Macaulay and Holly Willis. The magazine is now published by the IFP ( Independent Filmmaker Project), which acts in the independent film community. Background The magazine was launched in 1992, as a merger between the two magazines run by IFP (The Off-Hollywood Report, 1986-1992) and IFP/West ("Montage: the Unruly Magazine of Independent Film.") With a readership of more than 60,000, the magazine includes interviews, case studies, financing and distribution information, festival reports, technical and production updates, legal pointers, and filmmakers on filmmaking in their own words. The magazine used to be available outside the US in London but has not been on sale in the UK since early 2009. It has been printed on a regularly quarterly schedule, only missing one print release in the summer of 2020 during the glo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Harrelson
Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor. He first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom ''Cheers'' (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from five nominations. Harrelson received three Academy Award nominations: Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor for ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' (1996), and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor for ''The Messenger (2009 film), The Messenger'' (2009) and ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' (2017). Other notable films include ''White Men Can't Jump'' (1992), ''Natural Born Killers'' (1994), ''The Thin Red Line (1998 film), The Thin Red Line'' (1998), ''No Country for Old Men'' (2007), ''Seven Pounds'' (2008), ''Zombieland'' (2009), ''Seven Psychopaths'' (2012), ''Now You See Me (film), Now You See Me'' (2013), ''The Edge of Seventeen'' (2016), ''War for the Planet of the Apes'' (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Foster (actor)
Benjamin A. Foster (born October 29, 1980) is an American actor. His films include ''The Punisher'' (2004), '' X-Men: The Last Stand'' and ''Alpha Dog'' (both 2006), ''30 Days of Night'' (2007), '' The Messenger'' and ''Pandorum'' (both 2009), '' The Mechanic'' (2011), ''Contraband'' (2012), ''Kill Your Darlings'' and ''Lone Survivor'' (both 2013), '' The Program'' (2015), ''Warcraft'' (2016), and ''Leave No Trace'' (2018). He has won an Independent Spirit Award for portraying Tanner Howard in '' Hell or High Water'' (2016). He also had a recurring role as Russell Corwin in '' Six Feet Under'' (2003–05). Early life Foster was born in Boston on October 29, 1980, the son of restaurant owners. He has described his parents as "free-spirited, Vietnam-protesting hippies". He has a younger brother, Jon, who is also an actor. In 1984, the Foster family relocated to Fairfield, Iowa when their Boston home was broken into by robbers while they were present. Foster was raised Jewish His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junction 48
''Junction 48'' is a 2016 Israeli drama film directed by Udi Aloni, co-written by Oren Moverman and the film's star Tamer Nafar. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Audience Award. It received the Best International Narrative Feature award at the 2016 Tribeca Festival. Plot Karim, a young Arab from Lod, works for the Execution Office's Customer Service, and lives among drug dealers in the Middle East drug capital, but dreams of being a musician. The plot takes place in Lod and the character of Karim is based on the Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar (who also plays his role), and who wrote the screenplay with Oren Moverman, as well as composed the music for the film (along with Itamar Ziegler of the ''Balkan Beat Box''). Cast * Tamer Nafar as Kareem * Samar Qupty as Manar * Salwa Nakkara as Kareem's mother * Saeed Dassuki as Talal * Adeeb Safadi as Yousef * Tarik Kopty as Abu Abdallah, Talal's father * Sameh Za ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love & Mercy (film)
''Love & Mercy'' is a 2014 American biographical film, biographical Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Bill Pohlad about the Beach Boys' co-founder and leader Brian Wilson and his struggles with mental illness during the 1960s and 1980s. It stars Paul Dano and John Cusack as the young and older Wilson, respectively, with Elizabeth Banks as his second wife Melinda Ledbetter and Paul Giamatti as his psychologist Dr. Eugene Landy. The title comes from Wilson's Love and Mercy, 1988 song of the same name. The film alternates between Wilson's production of the album ''Pet Sounds'' (1966) and his treatment under Landy's 24-hour therapy program in the late 1980s. Wilson called the film "very factual", despite containing parts that "weren't actually as factual". He had little involvement with its making, although Ledbetter was relied upon for the 1980s portions. The cast and crew maintained that nothing in the film was a "Hollywood" embellishment and that everything was i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slant Magazine
''Slant Magazine'' is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians. The site covers various film festivals like the New York Film Festival. History ''Slant Magazine'' was launched in 2001. On January 21, 2010, it was relaunched and absorbed the entertainment blog ''The House Next Door'', founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, a former ''New York Times'' and '' New York Press'' writer, and maintained by Keith Uhlich, former '' Time Out New York'' film critic, who was the blog's editor until 2012. In the media ''Slant''s reviews, which A. O. Scott of ''The New York Times'' has described as "passionate and often prickly", have occasionally been the source of debate and discourse online and in the media. Ed Gonzalez's review of Kevin Gage's 2005 film '' Chaos'' sparked some controversy when Roger Ebert quoted it in his review of the film for the '' Chicago Sun-Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Married Life (2007 Film)
''Married Life'' is a 2007 American period drama film directed by Ira Sachs. The screenplay by Sachs and Oren Moverman is based on the 1953 novel ''Five Roundabouts to Heaven'' by John Bingham. Cast members include Patricia Clarkson, Chris Cooper, Rachel McAdams and Pierce Brosnan. The novel was also the basis for the December 20, 1962 episode of ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' entitled "The Tender Poisoner". Plot In 1949, successful middle-aged businessman Harry Allen (Chris Cooper) is having an affair with considerably younger war widow Kay Nesbitt (Rachel McAdams). Feeling rejuvenated by his emotional reawakening, he confides in his best friend Richard Langley (Pierce Brosnan) and encourages him to visit his mistress to alleviate her loneliness. Richard complies and immediately finds himself attracted to the young woman. Richard discovers Harry's wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson), oblivious to her husband's ongoing tryst, is engaged in an affair of her own with John O'Brien (David Wen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm Not There
''I'm Not There'' is a 2007 musical drama film directed by Todd Haynes, who co-wrote the screenplay with Oren Moverman, based on a story by Haynes. An experimental biographical film, it is inspired by the life and music of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, with six actors depicting different facets of Dylan's public personas: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger (his final film to be released during his lifetime), and Ben Whishaw. A caption at the start of the film declares it to be "inspired by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan"; this is the only mention of Dylan in the film apart from song credits, and his only appearance in it is concert footage from 1966. The film's title is taken from the 1967 Dylan '' Basement Tape'' recording of "I'm Not There", a song that had not been officially released until it appeared on the film's soundtrack album. ''I'm Not There'' premiered at the 64th Venice International Film Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face (2002 Film)
Face is a 2002 drama film directed by Bertha Bay Sa Pan and co-written by Pan and Oren Moverman. It stars Bai Ling, Kristy Wu, Kieu Chinh, Treach, Ken Leung, Will Yun Lee, and Tina Chen. The film follows the multigenerational arc of three Chinese-American women. ''Face'' premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival where it was a nominee for the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Feature. Plot Kim is a timid and conflicted 20-year-old in the 1970s, struggling to sort out her relationship with her traditional Chinese-American mother while forging a future for herself at college. Attempting to tread the fine line between dutiful daughter and independent woman, Kim has an unfortunate one-night stand with Daniel, the spoiled and arrogant son of a wealthy family. When Kim discovers that she is pregnant, she is forced to marry Daniel. Trapped in a nightmare marriage with a newborn infant, Kim leaves her daughter Genie in the care of her mother and departs for Hong Kong. 19 years later, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
