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The Nine Lives Of Tomas Katz
''The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz'' is a 2000 Anglo-German black and white surreal comedy. It has been described as an "avant-garde comedy about the Apocalypse", co-written and directed by Ben Hopkins. Premise On the last day of creation, a stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from but by the time he leaves, the entire universe will have been erased. Cast * Tom Fisher as No / Tomas Katz * Ian McNeice as Inspector * Tony Maudsley as Taxi Driver * Sachiko Hidari as Cuthbert Will Keen * Andrew Melville as Minister of Fish * Toby Jones as Civil Servant * Asif Kapadia as Gwupigrubynudnylandian * Kris Krishnamma as Gwupigrubynudnylandian * Jamille Jinnah as Gwupigrubynudnylandian * Sophie Bevan as Journalist * Trevor Thomas as Schlauch * Amelia Curtis as Underworld Announcer * Tilly Blackwood as Underworld Secretary * David de Keyser as Exhumed Rabbi * John Ramm as Ivul Gurk * Janet Henfrey as Janice Waily * Boyd Clack as Abel Mularchy * Tara Sava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Hopkins
Ben Hopkins (born 1969) is a British film director, screenwriter and novelist. His film ''Simon Magus (film), Simon Magus'' entered the 49th Berlin International Film Festival competition in 1999. His 2008 film, ''The Market: A Tale of Trade'' () won awards at film festivals in Locarno, Ghent and Antalya, where it was the first film directed by a foreigner to win an award in the national competition. In 2021, Ben Hopkins wrote a novel called Cathedral. David Wiley in a review on the Rain Taxi, writes that Hopkins as a screenwriter and filmmaker, Hopkins also employs far more filmic allusions than literary ones, such as stone facedly referencing Monty Python at two very unfunny moments and making a few glancing nods toward The Princess Bride, another work of a great screenwriter/novelist. Nicknaming his jejune stonecutter “Rettich” and placing great stress on the association with the word radish, Hopkins almost certainly invokes the celebrated Chartres scene in F for Fake, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Kötting
Andrew Kötting (born 16 December 1959) is a British artist, writer, and filmmaker. He made numerous experimental short films, which were awarded prizes at international film festivals. ''Gallivant'', was his first feature film, a road/home film about his four-month journey around the coast of the UK, with his grandmother Gladys and his daughter Eden. ''Gallivant'' won the Channel 4 Prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival for Best Director and the Golden Ribbon Award in Rimini (Italy). In 2011 the film was voted number 49 in Best British Film of all time by ''Time Out''. Kötting has frequently collaborated with Iain Sinclair, Jem Finer and his daughter Eden Kötting. He is currently a Professor of Time Based Media at the University for the Creative Arts Canterbury. Early life Kötting was born in Kent on 16 December 1959. He studied BA Fine Art at the Ravensbourne (college), Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in 1984 and MA in Mixed Media at the Slade School of Art in 1988. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Films
The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first installments of the ''Harry Potter (film series), Harry Potter'', ''Fast & Furious'', ''Spy Kids'', ''Monsters, Inc. (franchise), Monsters, Inc.'' and ''Shrek (franchise), Shrek'' franchises, and ''The Lord of the Rings (film series), The Lord of the Rings'' and ''Ocean's'' trilogies. Significant non-English language films released included ''Monsoon Wedding'', ''Amélie'' and ''Spirited Away''. There was one film, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', that passed over $1 billion in a re-release of 2020. The inaugural entries of the ''Harry Potter'' and ''Lord of the Rings'' film franchises prompted a shift in both the film and literary communities by propelling fantasy into mainstream culture, popularising Young adult fiction, young adult novels, and reforming the Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbuster to promote film franchises and cater to fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Films
BBC Film (formerly BBC Films) is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It was founded on 18 June 1990, and has produced or co-produced some of the most successful British films of recent years, including ''Truly, Madly, Deeply (film), Truly, Madly, Deeply'', ''Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'', ''Quartet (2012 film), Quartet'', ''Salmon Fishing in the Yemen'', ''Saving Mr. Banks'', ''My Week with Marilyn'', ''Eastern Promises'', ''Match Point'', ''Jane Eyre (2011 film), Jane Eyre'', ''In the Loop'', ''An Education'', ''StreetDance 3D'', ''Fish Tank (film), Fish Tank'', ''The History Boys (film), The History Boys'', ''Nativity! (film), Nativity!'', ''Iris (2001 film), Iris'', ''Notes on a Scandal (film), Notes on a Scandal'', '' Philomena (film), Philomena'', ''Stan & Ollie'', ''Man Up (film), Man Up'', ''Billy Elliot'' and ''Brooklyn (film), Brooklyn''. BBC Film co-produces around eight films a year, working in partnership with major international and UK distributors. Eva Yates is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Nicholas Bradshaw (born 19 June 1962) is a British writer and film critic. He has been chief film critic at ''The Guardian'' since 1999, and is a contributing editor at ''Esquire'' magazine. Early life and education Bradshaw was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hertfordshire and studied English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Cambridge Footlights. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984, followed by postgraduate research in the Early Modern period in which he studied with Lisa Jardine and Anne Barton. He received his PhD in 1989. Career In the 1990s, Bradshaw was employed by the ''Evening Standard'' as a columnist, and during the 1997 general election campaign, editor Max Hastings asked him to write a series of parodic diary entries purporting to be by the Conservative Party MP and historian Alan Clark, which Clark thought deceptive and which were the subject of a court case resolved in January 1998, the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Harrison (actor)
Andrew Stuart Harrison (born 7 February 1957 in Edmonton, London) is an English actor. Career Andrew Harrison began his career in repertory theatre playing the lead roles in '' A Chorus of Disapproval'' and '' Serious Money'' at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter. His West End (London) debut came with a role in Sir Michael Hordern's ''Trelawny of the 'Wells'''. Andrew has numerous TV credits include ''The Bill'', ''Miss Marple'', and '' Birds of a Feather'', and the films ''A Sea Change'' and ''An Ideal Husband''. He contributes regularly to BBC Radio. In television, Andrew is perhaps best known for his roles in ''Beyond Narnia'' and ''Florence Nightingale''. Filmography * 2011 ''King James' Bible'' as Bishop Lancelot Andrews * 2010 ''Derelict'' as Governor Phillips * 2010 ''Summer in Transylvania'' Dr. Tempest * 2009 ''Dorian Gray'' as House Seller * 2008 ''Home'' as Dad * 2005 ''Florence Nightingale'' as Lord Palmerston * 2005 ''C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia'' as Albert Lewis, The Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Potter
Tim Potter (born Nottingam, 1959) is an English actor in film, television, and theatre since the 1980s. Career Stage Potter's stage work includes playing the role of Salvador Dalí in the original production of Terry Johnson's ''Hysteria'' at the Royal Court in 1993, and Charles II in Stephen Jeffreys' '' The Libertine'' the following year. He has appeared in productions of plays by Edward Bond, Oscar Wilde, Dario Fo, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare, George Etherege and Jim Cartwright. and worked for directors including Sam Mendes, Phyllida Lloyd, Neil Bartlett, Ken Russell, Benjamin Ross, Julian Jarrold, Steven Berkoff, Max Stafford-Clark, Philip Prowse, Uberto Pasolini, Deborah Warner and Stephen Frears. He was a founder member, with Jim Cartwright and Louis Mellis of Acme Acting, a theatre company which performed plays in domestic homes, using the whole house, with the audience following the actors room to room. His roles included Blanche DuBois in ''A S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Noble
Kim Noble is a comedian and artist, and was one half of the BAFTA-nominated comedy duo Noble and Silver, who won the 2000 Perrier Award for Best Newcomer. Kim has featured in shows such as ''The Mighty Boosh'', ''Garth Marenghi's Darkplace'', and '' Man to Man with Dean Learner'', as well as appearing onstage in his own one-man shows and exhibitions. His stage work, by himself and with Stuart Silver, had an emphasis on performance art, as well as surreal comedy. Career Noble and Silver Kim Noble and his writing and performance partner Stuart Silver first came to national prominence upon winning the Best Newcomer Perrier Award in 2000. Trained in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, the duo received as much praise from the art community as from comedy aficionados. This work draws together visual art, stand-up, theatre, and performance art. Post-Perrier shows as Noble and Silver include ''Pleasance Above'' at the 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a collage of video, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Farr (theatre Director)
David Farr (born 29 October 1969) is a British writer, theatrical director and Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Background Farr was brought up in Surrey and educated in Guildford and the University of Cambridge (English Literature double first). Career Farr began directing theatre at University and won the ''Guardian Student Drama Award'' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1991 with ''Slight Possession'' starring Rachel Weisz. His professional directorial debut came at The Gate Theatre, Notting Hill in 1995 (aged 25) under Stephen Daldry. He was also Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic from 2002 to 2005 and Lyric Hammersmith from 2005 to 2009. In 2009, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as Associate Director. He wrote regularly for ''Spooks'' for the BBC and is a film writer having co-written the Joe Wright film '' Hanna'', released in 2011. Farr's adaptation of John le Carré's novel '' The Night Manager'' was aired in 2016 on BBC1. His first n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Taylor
Noah George Taylor (born 4 September 1969) is a British born Australian actor. The accolades he has received include nominations for three Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Critics' Choice Award, and four AACTA Awards. He is best known for his roles as teenage David Helfgott in '' Shine'', Locke in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', Darby Sabini in the BBC One series ''Peaky Blinders'', Mr. Bucket in '' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' and Danny in the Australian cult film '' He Died with a Felafel in His Hand''. Taylor also starred as Adolf Hitler in both the American television series ''Preacher'' and the 2002 film ''Max''. In 2023 he starred as Dr. Friedrich "Fritz" Pfeffer in '' A Small Light''. Early life Taylor, elder of two sons, was born in London to Australian parents, Maggie (née Miller), a journalist and book editor, and Paul Taylor, a copywriter and journalist. His parents returned to Australia when he was five, and he grew up in Clifton Hill and St Kilda, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven O'Donnell (British Actor)
Steven O'Donnell (born 19 May 1963 in Oldham) is an English actor. Before O'Donnell became an actor, he spent five years working at Charing Cross Hospital as a Scientific Officer in a medical laboratory. He has appeared in several comedies with Rik Mayall, including ''The Comic Strip'', '' Bottom'', and the film ''Guest House Paradiso''. He also starred in various advertisements in the United Kingdom for Sega in the mid-1990s, for systems such as the Mega Drive, Master System and Game Gear. Television Filmography Radio * 1995: ''Old Harry's Game ''Old Harry's Game'' is a British radio comedy written and directed by Andy Hamilton, who stars as the cynical, world-weary Satan. "Old Harry" is one of many names for the Devil. The show's title is a play on that of the 1982 television series ...'' as The Demon Gary References External links * 1963 births British male television actors British male film actors British people of Irish descent Living people Male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
