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I think there’s a mistake in the crew for “Quelques veuves de Noirmoutier”:
http://mubi.com/films/quelques-veuves-de-noirmoutier
All other sources report Jean-Baptiste Morin instead of Jean-Baptiste Montagut as the editor.
There is two pages for many chinese actors and actresses. Zhao Wei and Wei Zhao is the same person. Same thing for others…
Zhao Wei
http://mubi.com/cast_members/21538
http://mubi.com/cast_members/239855
Zhou Xun
http://mubi.com/cast_members/37747
http://mubi.com/cast_members/213024
Gong Li
http://mubi.com/cast_members/2652
http://mubi.com/cast_members/253976
Fan Bingbing
http://mubi.com/cast_members/64216
http://mubi.com/cast_members/260755
Li Bingbing
http://mubi.com/cast_members/13339
http://mubi.com/cast_members/260888
Chang Chen
http://mubi.com/cast_members/2656
http://mubi.com/cast_members/256196
Chen Daoming
http://mubi.com/cast_members/2726
http://mubi.com/cast_members/256522
Liu Ye
http://mubi.com/cast_members/12659
http://mubi.com/cast_members/280859
My Wife is a Gangster 2: The Legend Returns (2003)
K-20: Legend of the Mask (2008)
Too Tired to Die (1998)
Quote for Michel Hazanavicius
About silent movies: I think it’s the ultimate way to tell a story for a filmmaker
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“You know, I had sex with all the women in ‘Eternity’ except Deborah Kerr—and most of the men.”
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James Jones (November 6, 1921 – May 9, 1977) was an American author known for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath.
James Ramon Jones was born and raised in Robinson, Illinois, the son of Ramon and Ada M. (née Blessing) Jones. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1939 and served in the 25th Infantry Division before and during World War II, first in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks on Oahu, then in combat on Guadalcanal, where he was wounded in action.
His wartime experiences inspired some of his most famous works. He witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to his first published novel, From Here to Eternity. The Thin Red Line reflected his combat experiences on Guadalcanal. His last novel, Whistle, was based on his hospital stay in Memphis, Tennessee, recovering from surgery on an ankle he had reinjured on the island.
His second published novel, Some Came Running, had its roots in his first attempted novel, which he called They Shall Inherit the Laughter, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel of his experiences in Robinson immediately after World War II. After several rejections (with various complaints and claims for the work being too shrill and lacking perspective), Jones abandoned They Shall Inherit the Laughter and went to work writing From Here to Eternity, which won the National Book Award in 1952 and has been named one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century by the Modern Library.
Conversely Some Came Running – albeit made into a critically acclaimed film starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine that was nominated for several Oscars – was savaged by the critics who were especially harsh with Jones’ frequently misspelled words and punctuation errors throughout numerous passages of the book. Actually the critics had not realized that such elements were a conscious style choice by Jones to expound the provinciality of the novel’s characters and setting. Jones apparently played around with this style with several short stories written at about the same time as Some Came Running (later incorporated into the collection The Ice-Cream Headache and Other Stories), only to abandon it altogether for the blunt but more grammatically sound style most associated with Jones by the time he finished The Thin Red Line in 1962.
Jones assisted in the formation of the Handy Writers’ Colony in Marshall, Illinois, funded largely on the financial success of From Here To Eternity, and organized by his then-lover, Lowney Handy (Ms. Handy was still married at the time). Originally conceived as a Utopian commune where budding artists could focus exclusively on their writing projects, the colony dissolved after only a few years, largely in part because of Handy’s own erratic behavior and Jones’ focus on his own novels. The colony dissolved a few years after James Jones relocated to France following his marriage to Gloria Mosolino.
Jones would not live long enough to see the completion of his last novel, Whistle, (Jones knew he was dying of congestive heart failure while writing it). However, Jones did leave behind copious notes for Willie Morris to complete the final section of Whistle upon his death.
The posthumous publication of Whistle in 1978 saw the completion of Jones’ war trilogy (the first parts being From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line), of which he wrote: “It will say just about everything I have ever had to say, or will ever have to say, on the human condition of war and what it means to us, as against what we claim it means to us.”
Jones is the father of two children, including author Kaylie Jones, best known for writing A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, a thinly veiled memoir of the Joneses living in Paris during the 1960s. Ms. Jones’ novel was made into a film starring Kris Kristofferson, Barbara Hershey and Leelee Sobieski in 1998. The release of this film, along with the 1998 release of a new film version of The Thin Red Line, directed by Terrence Malick and produced by Robert Michael Geisler and John Roberdeau, sparked a revival of interest in James Jones’ life and works. In 2011, Ms. Jones was instrumental in publishing an uncensored edition of James Jones’ From Here to Eternity.
Jones died in Southampton, New York of congestive heart failure and is buried in Poxabogue-Evergreen Cemetery, Bridgehampton, New York. His papers are now held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His widow, Gloria, died on June 9, 2006. Many of James Jones’s books are still available in digital format including an unpublished work “To the End of the War.”—Wikipedia
Still for THE DAY I WAS NOT BORN
Also the name in German is DAS LIED IN MIR
Screencap for Seven Servants
Why the stills of My Wife Is A Gangster and My Wife Is A Gangster 2: The Legend Returns are same?
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Hikari Mitsushima (満島ひかり Mitsushima Hikari) is a Japanese film actress, born on 30 November 1985, in Okinawa, Japan. She began her career in 1997 as a teenage idol singer in the J-pop groups Folder and Folder 5. She made her acting debut in Rebirth of Mothra II in 1997, but did not start acting regularly until 2005. She appeared in manga-based thriller film Death Note in 2006 and the controversial drama Love Exposure, directed by Sion Sono, in 2008. Her performance in Love Exposure brought her to critical attention and won several awards. Since then she has had starring roles in Kakera: A Piece of Our Life (2009) and Sawako Decides (2010), directed and written by Yuya Ishii (aged 27), which eventually led to her marriage to him in late 2010.—Wikipedia
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Maki Horikita (堀北 真希 Horikita Maki) (born October 6, 1988) is a Japanese actress and endorser. She debuted in 2003 as a U-15 idol and has since starred in Japanese television dramas, television and magazine advertisements, and movies.
Horikita had appeared in several drama series and movies since 2003, but it was her roles in Densha Otoko and Nobuta wo Produce that opened more doors of opportunity for her. Her promising portrayal of the titular character in Nobuta wo Produce won her a Best Supporting Actress award from Japan’s Television Academy Awards. It was also around this time that she won the Newcomer Award from Japan Academy Awards for her role as a student apprentice in Always: Sunset on Third Street.
In the following year, she won her second Best Supporting Actress award from the Television Academy Awards for her role in Kurosagi. Months later, she was given the lead role for Teppan Shoujo Akane and the role of a bully who is behind a class rebellion in the drama series Seito Shokun! where she co-starred with her agency senior Rina Uchiyama. She was also cast in the horror movie, One Missed Call: Final, the last installment of the One Missed Call franchise with agency colleague and best friend Meisa Kuroki and South Korean actor Jang Geun-suk.
Soon after, Horikita achieved her first Best Actress award for her role as Mizuki Ashiya in the Japanese drama adaptation of the gender-bender manga Hana-Kimi, or Hanazakari no Kimitachi e. In the same year that Hana Kimi was filmed, Horikita also starred in the Taiga drama Atsuhime with Aoi Miyazaki. Simultaneously, she played the lead character who has multiple personality disorder in the suspense movie Tokyo Shōnen and reprised her role as a student apprentice in Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi, the sequel to her breakthrough movie. Horikita’s exceptional work was recognized by Vogue Nippon in which she was identified as one of the eleven Women of the Year for 2007.
On October of the following year, she was once again seen on television opposite Yuzu’s lead vocalist Yujin Kitagawa, leading the cast of Fuji TV’s golden time slot in the drama Innocent Love. Towards the end of the year, she had been cast as Naomi, the female protagonist of Dareka ga Watashi ni Kiss wo Shite or DareKiss (based on Gabrielle Zevin’s popular novel, “Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac”) a Hollywood-Japan collaboration film directed by internationally acclaimed director and self-confessed Japanese culture fanatic, Hans Canosa. (2007).
As soon as the filming for DareKiss ended, Horikita had gone on to appear in two television dramas, Atashinchi no Danshi in 2009 as an adoptive mother of six young men (played by Jun Kaname and Mukai Osamu among others) and Tokujo Kabachi!! in 2010 as an administrative scrivener opposite Arashi’s Sho Sakurai.
Come January 2011, Horikita starred in the movie adaptation of Byakuyakou, a widely read novel that was adapted into a television drama in 2006 starring Haruka Ayase and Takayuki Yamada. Produced by WOWOW FILMS, the movie was screened at the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama category. In the summer of 2011, Horikita led the cast of a family drama called Umareru.—Wikipedia
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Takuya Kimura (木村 拓哉 Kimura Takuya) (born November 13, 1972), nicknamed Kimutaku (キムタク), is a Japanese singer and actor. He is also a member of the Japanese idol group SMAP. Most of the TV dramas he starred in produced high ratings in Japan. He has become one of the most well-known and successful actors/singers/entertainers in Japan and other Asian countries.
The year 1993 can be considered to be a breakthrough year for Kimura and SMAP. After years of starring in low-budget dramas, Kimura played a leading role in the teen drama Asunaro Hakusho (あすなろ白書) as Osamu Toride, a college freshman in love with a friend Narumi Sonoda. The series, based on a then-popular manga of the same name, quickly became a hit. SMAP also released their hit single $10. In 1994, a phrase “Kimutaku Syndrome” started to be observed in some media. The term refers to a phenomenon in which some young boys copy his fashion. In 1995, he played a role in a movie Kimi o Wasurenai (君を忘れない). In 1996 he starred with Yamaguchi Tomoko in a TV series Long Vacation, which also became a hit. Kimura played a young shy pianist “Sena,” who falls in love with an older ex-model. In the same year, SMAP began to host a weekly Japanese variety show SMAP×SMAP. During 1997, Kimura continued his streak of hit dramas with Gift and Love Generation. However, Gift was criticized for its violent plot, which allegedly promoted teenage crime. In 2000, he played a leading role in a TV series Beautiful Life. He also announced his marriage with Shizuka Kudo, another idol. By the time of the announcement, Shizuka was pregnant. In 2001, Kimura starred in Hero, which set a record with its high TV ratings of about 36.8%. He enjoyed more success in string of many hit series after Hero, such as Sora Kara Furu Ichioku no Hoshi, Good Luck!!, Pride, and “ENGINE.” “Good Luck” topped 2003’s TV view ratings at 37.6%.
In 2004 Kimura appeared as a supporting actor in the Cannes-nominated movie 2046. The cast of this Hong Kong film included Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, and Faye Wong. The film won many awards including Best Art Direction and Best Original Film Score at Golden Horse Film Festival in 2004 and scored Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design and Make-Up, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Film Score at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2005. In the original version shown in the Cannes Film Festival, his scene lasted about 7 minutes, although in the final edition, which was played in Japan, it was extended to approximately 20 minutes. In 2005 he voiced Howl in Hayao Miyazaki’s animation Howl’s Moving Castle. In July 2006, Fuji TV aired a 2 hour long HERO special. Along with the original cast, he revived his role as prosecutor Kuryu Kohei. Additional big name stars were also seen in this drama, including Socrates in Love star Haruka Ayase. Kimura’s latest movie is Bushi no Ichibun, released in December 2006. Directed by Yoji Yamada he played a young blind samurai during the Edo period. He earned a Japan Academy Prize nomination for Best Actor. However, he declined it because his agency, Johnny & Associates, was reluctant to have him compete with the other nominees, who are experienced film actors. This has been said to be the first case of decline for such reason. The film is the final in the trilogy, which includes The Twilight Samurai (2002) and The Hidden Blade (2004). In 2007, Kimura starred in TBS’ 55th Anniversary drama, Karei-naru Ichizoku, which stars other big-name actors and actresses. In September, the movie sequel to 2001’s HERO was released, continuing the story from where the last episode on TV special in 2006 left off. It has proved a major success, sparking rumours that a sequel will be produced. Kimura appeared in the 2009 joint U.S.-French film I Come with the Rain with Hollywood actor Josh Hartnett.
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“We need to keep our feet solidly planted in our own soil and portray situations we know and which foreigners cannot portray. In brief, we have to draw inspiration from our own Norwegian culture.”
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Rasmus Breistein made his mark in the annals of Norwegian cinema history in more ways than one. Most importantly he played a huge part in the period 1920-1930, that later was known as “the national breakthrough for Norwegian films.” Until 1920, ironically the only dramatization of Norwegian literature was made by Swedish and Danish filmmakers, a trend that shifted when Breistein made his debut as a feature filmmaker and screenwriter with 1920’s “Fante-Anne”, based on a story by Norwegian writer Kristofer Janson. Historians would later claim that “Fante-Anne” marked the true beginning for the serious and dedicated Norwegian film-industry.
It was in the 1920s that the Norwegian film industry started to get a self-awareness that would also lead to a wave of respected stage actors finally taking a leap into the art of moving pictures, and thereby helping to improve the productions. It was considered quite a historical feat when Breistein got his “Fante-Anne” cast with professional stage actors from Det Norske Teatret (until then Norwegian theaters had actually forbidden it’s actors to work in the film industry!). The days when theatres looked down upon the new media was over, and Breistein helped play a part by directing som of the best Norwegian movies of the decade (a total of five feature films until 1930), and even challenging and finally weakening the powerful Swedish film industry’s grip on the Norwegian public.
After the invention of sound Breistein would seal his reputation as a popular director with classical box-office hits such as “Ungen” (1938) and “Trysil-Knut” (1942). His documentary features “Jorden rundt på to timer” (1949) and “Tirich Mir til topps” (1952) are considered classics in the history of Norwegian documentary filmmaking. “Jorden rundt på to timer” was also the first Norwegian feature in color. The latter, “Tirich Mir til topps” (also in color) was shot on location in Pakistan, and would prove to be the last production from Breistein, who subsequently retired from the industry all-together. He lived on for another 24 years, earning much admiration and respect from his colleagues, before passing away in 1976 at the age of 86.—IMDb
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George Loane Tucker (12 June 1872 – 20 June 1921) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 61 films between 1911 and 1921. Tucker had been an actor before moving to directing. In 1913 he directed Traffic in Souls, which concerned the topic of white slavery. The film, over 70 years later, remains an early influential example of realism in early cinema. Tucker continued working in feature productions. He made several films with actress Jane Gail. In 1919 he made what would probably be his most famous and financially successful film, The Miracle Man. This film featured Lon Chaney in a breakout role as a fake cripple. Tucker made one more film after The Miracle Man.
Tucker was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA and died in Los Angeles, California. He was married to Elisabeth Risdon.—Wikipedia
The actual picture for My Wife is a Gangster (2001) is from the sequel. Here is a picture from the first movie.
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“Only two people in America would bring every reporter in New York to the docks to see them off. One is the President. The other is Imogene “Bubbles” Wilson (Mary Nolan)." [Mark Hellinger]
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Born Mary Imogene Robertson in Kentucky, Robertson’s childhood was beset with hardship that included the death of her mother in 1908 and an absent father. As a child, she worked as a farm laborer, before moving to New York City in 1919 where she worked as a model. She was discovered by Florenz Ziegfeld, who hired her under the name Imogene Wilson (the first of three name changes she was to have) as a dancer in his follies. As a showgirl in New York she was called Bubbles. Her impact as a dancer was so profound that columnist Mark Hellinger once said of her in 1922: "Only two people in America would bring every reporter in New York to the docks to see them off. One is the President. The other is Imogene “Bubbles” Wilson."
It was at this point that she began a long and abusive relationship with comedian Frank Tinney, which would culminate in being hospitalised for injuries he inflicted on her during an argument. Because Tinney was married to another woman, the affair caused a scandal. Nolan was fired from the Ziegfeld Follies and subsequently moved to Germany for two years. While in Germany, she made a large number of films, including Das Panzergewölbe and Verborgene Gluten.
Moving back to the United States in 1927, Robertson adopted the stage name Mary Nolan and had a brief film career, starring in films such as The Foreign Legion, Shanghai Lady, and Docks of San Francisco. She made Sorrell and Son for United Artists in 1927, but her film career declined afterwards. In 1928 she co-starred with two great actors, Lon Chaney and Lionel Barrymore, in West of Zanzibar directed by legendary Tod Browning in what is arguably today her most well-known and heartbreaking silent film role as Chaney’s defiled daughter raised in the dives of an African coastal town. In 1933, she made her final screen appearance in File 113. The same year, she sued Hollywood producer Eddie Mannix for $500,000 in damages. She accused him of beating her. In 1937, Nolan was jailed for an unpaid dress bill.
She turned up “sick and broke” at the Actor’s Fund Home in Amityville, New York. She regained her health and returned to Hollywood in 1939. She lived there in obscurity with her sister, Mrs. Mabel Rondeau.
Unable to gain work, she became addicted to heroin and died of cardiac arrest on Halloween, October 31, 1948. She suffered from a chronic gall bladder ailment and had recently been discharged from Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. She was 42 years old and reportedly weighed only 90 pounds when she died in a small stucco bungalow at 1504 South Mansfield Avenue, Los Angeles, California.
Her tiny apartment was simply furnished except for a single possession. There was a huge antique piano formerly owned by Rudolph Valentino, which almost filled her living room. She bought it from the possessions which were once a part of Falcon Lair, Valentino’s home. Nolan revered the deceased film actor and kept his photo on the music rack. Nolan had only recently completed negotiations for the sale of her life story, in screenplay and novel form. She previously sold a similar account to a popular magazine, the second installment of which had only recently been printed. When she died, the former dancer was still married to Wallace McCreary, who likewise had a tumultuous Hollywood career.—Wikipedia
A nice quote suggested by Clive.R.Watson for Nicolas Winding Refn
“Art is an act of violence.”
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“An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.”
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Nancy Mitford was born on 28 November 1904 in London, the eldest of the six legendary Mitford sisters. Their father, Lord Redesdale, a countryman at heart, worked in London at the office of The Lady until 1914. After the war he moved his family to Oxfordshire.
Nancy and her sisters were educated at home and relied mainly on one another for company. Her high spirits and funniness lit up the family atmosphere but she was also a remorseless tease. The jokes, rivalries and passions of the Mitford childhood went straight into her highly autobiographical novels.
Nancy grew up partly in the 1920s of The Bright Young Things and partly in the politically polarized 1930s. Her sisters Diana and Unity were drawn to the extreme Right and Jessica to the Left. Nancy wavered between the two but could never take politics – or indeed anything– very seriously. Nancy started writing for magazines in 1929 and became a regular contributor to The Lady. In 1931, she published her first novel, Highland Fling.
During the war she worked at Heywood Hill, the Mayfair bookshop, which became a meeting place for London literary society and her friends.
Nancy fell in love with three un- satisfactory men. The first, Hamish Erskine, was homosexual but her infatuation with him lasted five years. In 1933 she married Peter Rodd, a clever, delinquent bore. They separated after the war and were divorced in 1958. In London during the war she met Gaston Palewski, a Free French officer and General de Gaulle’s chief of staff, at whose feet she laid all her passion and loyalty for over thirty years. Gaston never returned her love but they remained friends until her death.
‘If one can’t be happy one must be amused don’t you agree? ’ Nancy wrote to a friend. It could stand as the motto for her life. She hid her deepest feelings behind a sparkling flow of jokes and witty turns of phrase, and was the star of any gathering.
Childless and unfulfilled in love she may have been, but Nancy found huge success as a writer. Her fifth novel, The Pursuit of Love (1945), was a phenomenal best seller and made her financially independent for the first time.
In 1946 she moved to Paris to be near Gaston Palewski and remained in France for the rest of her life. She adored the country and saw everything French through rose-tinted spectacles. Separation and distance from her various friends and relations produced a flood of marvellous letters that are as important a part of her literary output as her books.
In the late 1950s Nancy started writing about the history of France, describing historical characters as if they were her friends and contemporaries. These biographies were as successful as her
novels. The Sun King, a brilliant evocation of the court of Louis XIV, was a worldwide bestseller.
In the early 1950s Nancy wrote a regular column for the Sunday Times and continued to be in demand as a journalist and reviewer until the end of her life. Her friend Evelyn Waugh said that it was her true metier. A light-hearted article she contributed to Encounter on the English aristocracy in 1954 sparked a hullabaloo over upper-class and non upper-class (U and non-U) speech and was a tease that even she thought went too far.
In 1969 she moved to a house in Versailles and soon afterwards began to suffer from the onset of a rare form of Hodgkin’s disease. Except for a few periods of remission, she was in great pain for over four years, which she bore with heroic courage.
Nancy died on 30 June 1973 at home in Versailles. Her ashes are buried at the Church of St. Mary’s in Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, where her parents and her sisters Pamela, Diana and Unity also lie.—nancymitford.com
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“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.”
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Evelyn Waugh was born October 28, 1903 in London, England. After short periods as an art student and schoolmaster, he devoted himself to travel and to the writing of novels. His novels are unusually highly wrought and precisely written. Those written before 1939 may be described as satirical. During World War II his writing took a more serious and ambitious turn. Waugh also wrote travel books.
(born October 28, 1903, London, England—died April 10, 1966, Combe Florey, near Taunton, Somerset) English writer regarded by many as the most brilliant satirical novelist of his day.
Waugh was educated at Lancing College, Sussex, and at Hertford College, Oxford. After short periods as an art student and schoolmaster, he devoted himself to solitary observant travel and to the writing of novels, soon earning a wide reputation for sardonic wit and technical brilliance. During World War II he served in the Royal Marines and the Royal Horse Guards; in 1944 he joined the British military mission to the Yugoslav Partisans. After the war he led a retired life in the west of England.
Waugh’s novels, although their material is nearly always derived from firsthand experience, are unusually highly wrought and precisely written. Those written before 1939 may be described as satirical. The most noteworthy are Decline and Fall (1928), Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934), and Scoop (1938). A later work in that vein is The Loved One (1948), a satire on the morticians’ industry in California.
During the war Waugh’s writing took a more serious and ambitious turn. In Brideshead Revisited (1945) he studied the workings of providence and the recovery of faith among the members of a Roman Catholic landed family. (Waugh was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1930.) Helena, published in 1950, is a novel about the mother of Constantine the Great, in which Waugh re-created one moment in Christian history to assert a particular theological point. In a trilogy—Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955), and Unconditional Surrender (1961)—he analyzed the character of World War II, in particular its relationship with the eternal struggle between good and evil and the temporal struggle between civilization and barbarism.
Waugh also wrote travel books; lives of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1928), Edmund Campion (1935), and Ronald Knox (1959); and the first part of an autobiography, A Little Learning (1964). The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie and first published in 1976, was reissued in 1995. A selection of Waugh’s letters, edited by Mark Amory, was published in 1980.—biography.com
When will I get to see the film Noroi (The Curse) here in Mubi?? I submitted it in July, why it hasn’t been on here? When I click the link: http://mubi.com/films/noroi-the-curse, it just says that it’s not ready.. Please put the film up.. It kinda deserve being on this site. thanks.
Still suggestion for Maclovia
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Portuguese actor and director, who graduated from Lisbon University in romance philology and studied at the Bristol Old Vic. Internationally known for acting in Manoel de Oliveira’s films, he is associated with the distinguished theatre company Teatro da Cornucópia, which he co-founded in Lisbon in 1973 with Jorge Silva Melo. Cintra has managed the company with set designer Cristina Reis since the late 1970s. An attractive and brilliant actor, Cintra is also an imaginative director whose work is based on three major principles: the primacy of the literary text and a passionate belief in the word; the idea that theatre should be an analysis of life ‘tortured by the idea of truth and meaning’; and the assumption that theatre should accept and show its own theatricality. Choosing Portuguese classics (Vicente, Silva, and Garrett), Shakespeare (for instance Cymbeline, 2000), or contemporary writers like Edward Bond (War Trilogy, 1987) and Heiner Müller (Der Auftrag, 1984 and 1992), his aesthetic choices rely on Marcuse’s idea that great literature can be the spiritual rock against greed, relativism, and the decadence of modernity.
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Isabel Ruth (born 6 April 1940) is a Portuguese actress. She has appeared in over 50 films since 1963. She starred in River of Gold, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
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Lilian Bond (18 January 1908 – 25 January 1991) was a British film actress of the late 1920s through the 1940s, with most of her films being B-movies.
Bond was born in London, England and made her first public appearance at the age of fourteen when she was in the pantomime, Dick Whittington. Later she joined the chorus of Piccadilly Revels and continued on the stage when she went to America. She began her film career in the 1929 film No More Children. Between 1929 and 1931 she starred in nine films, most notably the 1931 western Rider of the Plains opposite Tom Tyler. In 1932 she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star, alongside future Hollywood legends Gloria Stuart and Ginger Rogers.
From 1932 to 1953, she would have roles in 39 films, some of which were uncredited, with others having her in the lead heroine role. Bond played Gladys DuCane in The Old Dark House, a chorus girl who falls in love with Roger Penderel (played by Melvyn Douglas). Possibly her best-known film role was in the 1940 film The Westerner, in which she played legendary stage actress Lillie Langtry, and which starred Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and Doris Davenport. By the 1950s her career had slowed, with her having mostly television series appearances. She retired from acting at the age of 50 in 1958.
She married three times, her first marriage being at the height of her career, to Sidney Smith. She married Smith in 1935, and the two divorced in 1944. Lilian later married Michael Fessier, a successful writer and producer. The two remained married until his death in 1988.
She died in 1991, aged 83, from a heart attack, in Reseda, California.—Wikipedia
Mila Berlinskaya
actress
biography (translated from the Russian):
Ludmila Berlinskaya (born December 30, 1960, Moscow, USSR) is a Russian pianist and actress. She is the Daughter of Valentin Berlinsky, and she is a Meritorious Artist of Russia (1996).
As a schoolgirl, Berlinskaya starred in ‘The Grand Space Voyage’ (1974), the only film of her career, in which she sang several widely known songs including ‘Do You Believe Me or Not?’ and ‘The Milky Way’.
In 1979, Berlinskaya graduated her piano studies from the Russian Gnesins Academy of Music, tutored by Anna Kantor, and in 1984 she graduated her piano studies from the Moscow Conservatory, tutored by Mikhail Voskresensky. She was also the winner of international chamber music competitions in Paris (1985) and Florence (1989).
In recent years, Berlinskaya has appeared as a piano soloist in concert, and she has also performed in chamber ensembles with outstanding musicians such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Yuri Bashmet, Viktor Tretiakov, Alexander Knyazev, Paul Mayer, Alain Meunier, Gerard Kosse, the Borodin Quartet, the Orlando Quartet and the Fine Arts Quartet.
Berlinskaya is the artistic director of the Printemps musical à Paris (Paris Spring Musical), founded in Paris in the mid-1990s under the patronage of Bernadette Chirac.
She has two children, Dmitri and Masha, both of whom are musicians and who often perform together in concert with her and Valentin Berlinsky.
A better picture for A Pinwheel Without Wind
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Is R.E.M.‘s Fall On Me available to be added onto Mubi’s catalog?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6vCjtaV1k
here’s a link to it…