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Gregg Wesley Toland, A.S.C. (May 29, 1904 – September 28, 1948) was an American cinematographer known for his innovative use of techniques such as deep focus, examples of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941), William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, and The Long Voyage Home (both, 1940). He is also known for his work as a director of photography for Wuthering Heights (1939), The Westerner (1940), Ball of Fire (1941), The Outlaw (1943), Song of the South (1946) and The Bishop's Wife (1947). Toland earned six Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography, and won for his work on Wuthering Heights. He was voted one of the top ten most influential cinematographers in the history of film by the International Cinematographers Guild in 2003. Career Toland was born in Charleston, Illinois, on May 29, 1904, to Jennie, a housekeeper, and Frank Toland. His mother moved to California several years after his parents divorced in 1910. Toland got his start in the film industry at the age of 15, working as an office boy at the Fox studio. He became an assistant cameraman a year later. His trademark chiaroscuro, side-lit style originated by accident: while shooting the short film The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1928), one of two available 400W bulbs burned out, leaving only a single bulb for lighting. During the 1930s, Toland became the youngest cameraman in Hollywood, but soon became one of its most sought-after cinematographers. Over a seven-year span (1936–1942), he was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, winning only once, for his work on Wuthering Heights (1939). He worked with many of the leading directors of his era, including John Ford, Howard Hawks, Erich von Stroheim, King Vidor, Orson Welles and William Wyler. Just before his death, he was concentrating on the "ultimate focus" lens to make near and far objects equally distinct. "Just before he died he had worked out a new lens with which he had made spectacular shots. He carried in his wallet a strip of film taken with this lens, of which he was very proud. It was a shot of a face three inches from the lens, filling one-third of the left side of the frame. Three feet from the lens, in the center of the foreground, was another face, and then, over a hundred yards away was the rear wall of the studio, showing telephone wires and architectural details. Everything was in focus, from three inches to infinity". Toland died in his sleep in Los Angeles, California, on September 28, 1948, of coronary thrombosis at the age of 44. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. Citizen Kane Some film historians believe Citizen Kanes visual brilliance was due primarily to Toland's contributions, rather than director Orson Welles'. Many Welles scholars, however, maintain that the visual style of Kane is similar to many
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Gary Foss Graver (July 20, 1938 – November 16, 2006) was an American film director, editor, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was a prolific filmmaker, working in various roles on over 300 films, but is best known as Orson Welles' final cinematographer, working over a period of six years on Welles' epic film The Other Side of the Wind which was released in 2018, 48 years after it was started. Graver began his career in the late 1960s as a cinematographer and editor of various B-movies, including several films by Roger Corman, before providing additional camerawork on John Cassavetes's A Woman Under the Influence (1974). He continued to serve as the cinematographer of numerous horror films from the late 1970s and through the 1980s, including The Toolbox Murders (1978), Trick or Treats (1982), which he also wrote, edited, and directed; Mortuary (1983), They're Playing with Fire (1984), and Twisted Nightmare (1988). Under the pseudonym of Robert McCallum, Graver was also a prolific director of adult films, working as a cinematographer and director on 135 features. Early life Graver was born July 20, 1938, in Portland, Oregon, to Raleigh and Frances Graver. His father was a native Oregonian, while his mother was born in Washington state. Graver was raised in Portland, where he attended Grant High School. As a teenager, he produced and starred in his own radio show, and built a movie theatre in his parents' basement where he showed his own 16 mm films. He also acted in stage productions for the Portland Civic Theatre. At age twenty, Graver moved to Hollywood to become an actor, and studied acting with Lee J. Cobb. He was drafted into the U.S. military in the early 1960s and was assigned to the Navy Combat Camera Group, where he was trained as a professional cameraman while touring in Vietnam, the Philippines, and Japan. Career Feature films After returning to civilian life, Graver began his career in Los Angeles working on documentaries for a year before starting to work on larger budget features. Graver wrote and directed his first film, The Embracers, in 1966. He would subsequently serve as the cinematographer and editor on the B-films The Mighty Gorga, The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago, and Satan's Sadists (all 1969). In 1970, Graver made an unannounced inquiry to Orson Welles, saying he wanted to work with the director. Welles told Graver that only one other person had ever called him to say they wanted to work with him—Gregg Toland who, had worked with Welles on Citizen Kane. Graver's work for Welles was unpaid, and during the shooting of one scene in The Other Side of the Wind, Welles used as a prop his 1941 Oscar that he won as the co-writer of Citizen Kane. When shooting was finished, he handed the statuette to Graver saying, "Here, keep this." Graver understood this to be a gift in lieu of payment for his work. Graver held onto the award for several years until he ran into financial trouble
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Once Upon a Castle is a symphonie concertante for organ and orchestra composed in 2003 and revised in 2015 by American composer Michael Daugherty. The music is inspired by both the life and times of American media mogul William Randolph Hearst, Hearst Castle, and the Hollywood lore of Charles Foster Kane, a fictional character based on Hearst in the movie Citizen Kane. Origin and performance history The composition was commissioned by the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and a consortium consisting of the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra, the Rockford Symphony Orchestra and the West Michigan Symphony Orchestra. The world premiere was given by the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arie Lipsky, with Steven Ball, organ, at the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, Michigan on November 15, 2003. The world premiere of the revised version was given by the Nashville Symphony conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero, with Paul Jacobs, organ, at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, Tennessee on November 6, 2015. Recording and reception The concerto was recorded in 2015 with the Nashville Symphony and released on the Naxos label. Many critics reviewed the recording favorably, including a 10/10 for both categories of artistic quality and sound quality from music critic David Hurwitz and 4 out of 5 stars from critic James Manheim. Donald Rosenberg of Gramophone wrote: Bob McQuiston of Classical Lost and Found wrote: The album won the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium. Four movements of the composition The music of the four movements is programmatic, and is based on the composer's framing of different architectural, geographical and fictional aspects of the Hearst/Kane history and lore. The composer's published score includes descriptive program notes explaining the imagery and inspiration for each movement. I. The Road to San Simeon The music of this movement is meant to represent the winding drive to Hearst Castle from San Simeon. Hearst's opulent antique collection. The composer explains his intent for his music in this movement to occasionally remind the listener of a musical “antique”. II. Neptune Pool This movement is dedicated to William Albright (1944-98), who was the composer's colleague at the University of Michigan and who is recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest composers of contemporary organ music. The music is meant to portray the vast, grandiose architecture of the famous pool at Hearst Castle. III. Rosebud In his program notes the composer states: "...the ground breaking film [Citizen Kane] starring and directed by Orson Welles, presents a caricature of Randolph Hearst...[the] music for this movement echoes a brilliant scene in the film where the boisterous Kane (the organ) and lonely Susan (the solo violin) argue from opposite ends of a cavernous empty room of the castle." Sleigh bells are used as a musical representation of "rosebud," the famous final word of the fictional character Citizen Kane. IV. Xanadu This movement is composed to capture the spirit of the bombastic, lavish parties famously held at Hearst Castle, the likes of which Winston Churchill and famous film stars of the day
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Linwood G. Dunn, A.S.C. (December 27, 1904 in Brooklyn, New York – May 20, 1998 in Los Angeles, California) was an American pioneer of visual special effects in motion pictures and an inventor of related technology. Dunn worked on many films and television series, including the original 1933 King Kong (1933), Citizen Kane (1941), and Star Trek (1966–69). Early career Dunn is noted as being very interested in cinema from as early as age 14, going so far as to compile his own rating scale for the movies he watched. This interest initiated his career, which began in 1923 in his home state as a projectionist. He was hired as an assistant camera operator by the Pathé company in 1925 and eventually moved to Hollywood, where he continued to work for Pathé until 1929. His early contributions in this capacity were for film serials such as The Green Archer (1925), Snowed In (1926), Hawk of the Hills (1927), and Queen of the Northwoods (1929). He was then hired by RKO Radio Pictures as a cinematographer and as head of the photographic effects department, where he would work from the late 1920s until 1956. His early contributions in camera work and special effects at RKO included films such as The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930), Danger Lights (1930), and Cimarron (1931), an Academy Award-winner for Best Picture, and The Monkey's Paw (1933). This early experience led to the World War II development of the first practical commercially manufactured optical printer, a device consisting of cameras and projectors allowing for the accurate compositing of multiple images onto a single piece of film. Body of work Dunn photographed the rotating RKO radio tower trademark used at the beginning of all RKO films. In the early 1930s, Dunn became part of the effects team responsible for the creation of the original King Kong (1933). He advanced his special effects techniques through extensive cutting between a miniature Kong model in full shots and fully-scaled body parts in close-ups, a technique he would repeat for later movies, including the sequel, Son of Kong (1933). Dunn worked under model animator Willis O'Brien and would go on to work with O'Brien on other projects. Dunn did optical/photographic composites for the airplane-wing-dance sequence in the first Astaire-Rodgers musical Flying Down to Rio (1933). The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) and Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) were other well-remembered RKO films on which Dunn worked before America entered the second world war. In Citizen Kane, Dunn's composites open the film and many of cinematographer Gregg Toland's deep-focus shots utilize Dunn's skill for creating optical composites. For Bringing Up Baby (1938), separate footage of Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and a leopard were photographically combined by Dunn. Dunn's work became so highly sought after by other studios that he formed his own company, Film Effects of Hollywood, in 1946. He served as the company's president until 1980, working that business at the same time as working at RKO. Eventually, Dunn sold his
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane is a 1996 American documentary film directed and produced by Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein, from a screenplay by Lennon and Richard Ben Cramer, who also narrates. It chronicles the clash between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over the production and release of Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane, which has been considered the greatest film ever made. The Battle Over Citizen Kane was released as an episode of the eighth season of the television series American Experience, airing on PBS on January 29, 1996. It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 68th Academy Awards. The documentary was the basis for the 1999 film RKO 281, which won Best Miniseries or Television Film at the 57th Golden Globe Awards. Synopsis In Citizen Kane, Welles plays Charles Foster Kane, whose fictional life partially mirrors that of Hearst's, as well as Hearst's longtime rival, Joseph Pulitzer. However, Chicago inventor and utilities magnate Samuel Insull, Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, and even Welles's own life were used in creating Kane. In 1939, based partly on the strength of his imaginative and successful New York plays, which were produced under the aegis of the Mercury Theatre (such as an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, which featured an all-black cast and was set in the jungle), and the infamy of his October 30, 1938, radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, which sent residents of Grover's Mill, New Jersey into a panic, Orson Welles was able to negotiate a virtually unheard-of two-picture deal with RKO Pictures, the smallest of the 'big five' major studios in this era. The deal gave him creative control under a budget limit. The Battle Over Citizen Kane also details the lives of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst before Citizen Kane, and Hearst's manipulation of the heads of the four largest Hollywood studios—Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, and Warner Bros.—to combine their efforts and financial strength to buy the camera negative of the film from RKO with the express purpose of destroying it, and how the film affected their lives after the release of the film. During this period, however, William Randolph Hearst was actually millions of dollars in debt, mainly owing to his excessive spending, particularly on his continuing construction of his already sprawling mansion near San Simeon, California, which was located on a property approximately half the size of the state of Rhode Island. While married to Millicent Hearst, he kept a mistress over twenty years his junior, the actress Marion Davies. Davies had been a silent film-era star, who worked on a number of talkies, but with less success. After the release of Citizen Kane to relatively positive critical reviews and largely indifferent popular response, Orson Welles moved on to his second project, The Magnificent Ambersons. However, after Citizen Kane did not become a money-maker, The Magnificent Ambersons was wrested from his control; this time he did not have the right of final cut. RKO
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Ruth Elizabeth Warrick (June 29, 1916 – January 15, 2005) was an American singer, actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on All My Children, which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005. She made her film debut in Citizen Kane, and years later celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of the film. Early life and career Ruth Warrick was born June 29, 1916, in Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Frederick Roswell Warrick and Annie Louise Warrick, née Scott. By writing an essay in high school called "Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis", Warrick won a contest to be Miss Jubilesta, Missouri's paid ambassador to New York City. There she began her career as a radio singer, and met her first husband Erik Rolf. Warrick's first big break was being hired by a young Orson Welles for Citizen Kane (1941), in which she played Emily Monroe Norton, niece of the President of the United States and Kane's first wife. Welles pulled her photograph from the hundreds he had been sent by agents; he recognized her from a radio show they had worked on together in 1938. He spoke with her in New York: "I'm not looking for an actress that can play a lady," he said, "I want an actress who is a lady." She was in California within days, making several screen tests including one with Welles, and was regarded as perfect for the role. Warrick was expecting her first child during the filming of Kane, which prevented her being cast in The Magnificent Ambersons; but she worked on a 1942 episode ("My Little Boy") of Welles's radio series, and Welles hired her again for Journey into Fear (1943). She appeared in The Corsican Brothers, The Iron Major, Mr. Winkle Goes to War, and Guest in the House. Following World War II, she had a role in the Academy Award-winning Disney film Song of the South; she also appeared in Daisy Kenyon, which starred Joan Crawford and Henry Fonda, but by the late 1940s her film roles were becoming infrequent and less notable. After playing Betty Hutton's sister-in-law in Let's Dance, she starred as a troubled wife looking back at her life in the religious drama Second Chance and an alcoholic wife and mother in One Too Many (all 1950). In the 1950s, she befriended soap opera executives Irna Phillips and Agnes Nixon. Warrick became a cast member on the soap opera The Guiding Light, playing Janet Johnson, R.N. from 1953 to 1954. Phillips was impressed by Warrick's performance and hired her for her new soap opera, As the World Turns when the show debuted in 1956. Her character, Edith Hughes, was madly in love with a married man, Jim Lowell. Phillips wanted the characters to live happily ever after, but Procter & Gamble, which owned the show, demanded that the characters not endorse adultery, so Jim "died". She stayed on the show until 1960. From 1959 to 1960,
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William Alland (March 4, 1916 – November 11, 1997) was an American actor, film producer and writer, mainly of Western and science-fiction/monster films, including This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula!, The Deadly Mantis, The Mole People, The Colossus of New York, The Space Children, and the three Creature from the Black Lagoon films. He worked frequently with director Jack Arnold. Alland is also remembered for his acting role as reporter Thompson, who investigates the meaning of "Rosebud" in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941). Biography Alland was born in Delmar, Delaware. Alland entered films as an actor, perhaps best remembered as the reporter Jerry Thompson, who investigates the life of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941). He also directed the film Look in Any Window. In his early 20s, Alland arrived in Manhattan and took courses at the Henry Street Settlement House, where he met Orson Welles. He lent his voice to Welles's The War of the Worlds. Alland won a Peabody Award as producer of Doorway to Life. Alland's role as reporter Jerry Thompson in Citizen Kane (1941) is unusual because the camera never closes up on his face; in fact, for the majority of his scenes in the film, he shows his back to the camera, and whenever his face can be seen, it is always in long-shot and almost always clouded in shadow. As noted by film critic Roger Ebert on the DVD commentary of Citizen Kane, Alland once reportedly told an audience that they would probably recognize him if he were to show his back to them. In addition to his role as Thompson in Citizen Kane, Alland announces the "News on the March" newsreel segment, a spoof of the then-popular March of Time newsreels. In later years, Alland twice provided voiceovers for pastiches of this News on the March segment: once for the 1974 Orson Welles film F for Fake and again for a 1991 Arena documentary for the BBC titled The Complete Citizen Kane. In 1953, Alland appeared before a meeting of the House Un-American Activities Committee in Los Angeles, acknowledging that he had been a member of the Communist Party and naming other people who were involved with the party. The meeting was held behind closed doors, but Alland talked with reporters after his appearance. He said that he was a party member from 1946 to 1949. Alland was a decorated combat pilot in the Air Force, flying 56 missions in the Pacific. On radio, Alland wrote for Doorway to Life and acted on The Mercury Theatre on the Air. He died of complications of heart disease. Filmography The Green Goddess (1939) – (uncredited); short film by Orson Welles Citizen Kane (1941) – Jerry Thompson (credited); Voice of "News on the March" Newsreel Announcer (uncredited) Tom Dick and Harry (1941) – voice of Newsreel Announcer (uncredited) The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) – Guide (uncredited, scenes deleted) The Falcon Takes Over (1942) – Reporter (uncredited) Riff-Raff
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The Hearts of Age is an early film made by Orson Welles. The film is an eight-minute short that he co-directed with friend William Vance in 1934. The film stars Welles's first wife, Virginia Nicolson, and Welles himself. He made the film while still attending the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Illinois, at the age of 19. Plot An elderly woman sits on a bell as it rocks back and forth, while a servant in blackface pulls at a rope. A dandified gentleman appears at the top of a stairway and doffs his hat to the lady; he smiles and courts her attention. She does not respond, but the servant hangs himself. The scene changes to a darkened interior: the gentleman sits at a grand piano and plays, but something is wrong. He opens the piano's lid and finds the woman lying inside, dead. He leafs through a number of tombstone-shaped cards with different inscriptions - "Sleeping", "At Rest", "With The Lord" - and finally chooses one that says "The End". Cast Orson Welles as Death Virginia Nicolson as the Old Woman/Keystone Kop William Vance as the Indian in blanket Edgerton Paul as the Bell-ringer in blackface Blackie O'Neal Background The film's action, such as it is, is intercut with random shots of bells, headstones, a church cross and other images, sometimes printed in negative. Many years later Welles acknowledged that the film was an imitation of the early surrealist films of Luis Buñuel and Jean Cocteau. He did not consider it a serious piece of work, and was amused at the idea of its being added to his creative canon. Many point to The Hearts of Age as an important precursor to Welles's first Hollywood film, Citizen Kane. Welles and Vance were college friends. The latter's only other film on record is another student short – an adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1932. Cast member Charles "Blackie" O'Neal became a screenwriter (The Seventh Victim) and the father of actor Ryan O'Neal. Rediscovery Vance kept the original copy of The Hearts of Age, and he eventually donated it to the Greenwich Public Library (Connecticut) as a part of the Vance Collection. Acting on a tip from University of Wisconsin film Professor Russell Merritt, film historian Joseph McBride rediscovered the film in the late 1960s. McBride announced his discovery in the Spring 1970 issue of Film Quarterly in an article, entitled “Welles Before Kane." In McBride's later book, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles: A Portrait of an Independent Career, he stated that “Welles seemed bemused and somewhat irritated by the discovery" of The Hearts of Age, quoting Gary Graver, Welles’ longtime cinematographer: "Orson kept saying, "Why did Joe have to discover that film?" The American Film Institute eventually preserved the 16mm copy and deposited a print in the Library of Congress. Home media The Hearts of Age is a home movie and no copyright was ever filed. The film is in the public domain. The once-rare
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Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey is a 2016 non-fiction book written by Harlan Lebo about the making of Citizen Kane, the motion picture produced, directed, co-written, and starring Orson Welles that is ranked by the American Film Institute as the best motion picture ever made. Summary Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey describes Welles' rise to prominence, the creative control he received in his first Hollywood contract, studio infighting over the project at RKO Radio Pictures, the pressurized production schedule, the plot by the Hearst Corporation – critical of the similarity between real-life publisher William Randolph Hearst and the character of Charles Foster Kane – to suppress or destroy the film and discredit Welles, and the ascent of Citizen Kane in the rankings of American motion pictures. The book is notable for using previously unused documents from the Hearst and Welles archives, the University of Michigan, and the Museum of Modern Art (New York), to examine six new topics about the film: Welles' role in writing the screenplay, which was larger than formerly understood; previously-unreleased information provided by Welles’ assistant Kathryn (Trosper) Popper, which describes Welles’ struggles with creating the film; the impact on the production of a previously-unexplored script that Welles created after the studio approved a final draft; eyewitness accounts of last-second writing by Welles; new scenes written during production to fix flaws in the story; and information about the plans by the Hearst organization to suppress or destroy Citizen Kane and discredit Welles. Reception Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey received consistently positive reviews, with critics citing the book for its comprehensive narrative, clarifying misconceptions and inaccuracies, and new factual information about the film. Kirkus Reviews reported, "Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey is everything you wanted to know about the greatest film of all time – and then some." Although The New York Times review said although the book seemed “quaint” when compared to the biography by Simon Callow on Orson Welles’ middle years that was published the same month, The Times also said that Lebo’s book was “The most thorough account yet of the genesis, production, and release of Welles's most famous film. . .it's never been presented this comprehensively.” See also Citizen Kane Screenplay for Citizen Kane Sources for Citizen Kane TheGuardian.com: Scale of Hearst plot to discredit Orson Welles and Citizen Kane revealed Notes References 2016 non-fiction books Books about individual films Citizen Kane Thomas Dunne Books books
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Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles. Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote the screenplay. Citizen Kane is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made. Kane was the only film made under Welles's original contract with RKO Pictures, which gave him complete creative control. Welles's new business manager and attorney permitted the contract to lapse. In July 1941, Welles reluctantly signed a new and less favorable deal with RKO under which he produced and directed The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), produced Journey into Fear (1943), and began It's All True, a film he agreed to do without payment. In the new contract Welles was an employee of the studio and lost the right to final cut, which later allowed RKO to modify and re-cut The Magnificent Ambersons over his objections. In June 1942, Schaefer resigned the presidency of RKO Pictures and Welles's contract was terminated by his successor. The European release of Kane was delayed until after World War II, premiering in Paris in 1946. Initial reception by French critics was influenced by negative views from Jean-Paul Sartre and Georges Sadoul, who criticized Hollywood's cultural sophistication and the film's nostalgic use of flashbacks. However, critic André Bazin delivered a transformative speech in 1946 that shifted public opinion. Bazin praised the film for its innovative use of mise-en-scène and deep focus cinematography, advocating for a filmic realism that allows audiences to engage more actively with the narrative. Bazin's essays, especially "The Technique of Citizen Kane," played a crucial role in enhancing the film's reputation, arguing it revolutionized film language and aesthetics. His defense of "Citizen Kane" as a work of art influenced other critics and contributed to a broader re-evaluation of the film in Europe and the United States. In the U.S., the film was initially neglected until it began appearing on television in the 1950s and was re-released in theaters. American film critic Andrew Sarris was significant in reviving its reputation, describing it as a profoundly influential American film. Over the decades, "Citizen Kane" has been consistently ranked highly in critical surveys and polls, often cited as the greatest film ever made. The film's narrative structure, cinematography, and themes have influenced countless filmmakers and films worldwide, asserting its place as a cornerstone in the history of cinema. Notable film directors and critics have acknowledged its impact on their work and the broader film landscape, underscoring its enduring legacy in both theory and practice. Release in Europe During World War II, Citizen Kane was not seen in most European countries. It was shown in France for the first time on July 10, 1946, at the Marbeuf theater in Paris. Initially most French film critics were influenced by the negative reviews of Jean-Paul Sartre in 1945 and Georges Sadoul in 1946. At that time many French intellectuals and filmmakers shared Sartre's negative opinion that Hollywood filmmakers were uncultured. Sartre criticized the film's flashbacks for its nostalgic and romantic preoccupation with the past instead
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Kane or KANE may refer to: Art, entertainment and media Fictional entities Kane (comics), the main character of the eponymous comic book series by Paul Grist Kane (Command & Conquer), character in the Command & Conquer video game series Kane (fantasy), fantasy character created by Karl Edward Wagner Kane, a character in the Doctor Who story, Dragonfire Adam "Kane" Marcus, one of the title characters in Kane & Lynch: Dead Men Kane, a character in the science fiction film Alien Kane, a character in the Outlanders science fiction novel series Kane family, a fictional family on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children Kane family in The Kane Chronicles, book series by Rick Riordan Charles Foster Kane, lead character in the film Citizen Kane Daniel "Dan" Kane (Captain Terror), ally of Puck Garrison Kane, a Marvel Comics character Reverend Henry Kane, a fictional villain from the Poltergeist film series Lord Kane of Runefaust, from the video game Shining Force Killer Kane, a villain character in the Buck Rogers film series Marcus Kane, the vice chancellor on the TV series The 100 Roland Kane, the main antagonist of the 2008 videogame Turok Will Kane, lead character in the film High Noon Music Kane (instrument), Japanese bell Kane (American band), American Southern rock band Kane (Dutch band), Dutch rock band Other uses in arts, entertainment and media KANE (AM), radio station licensed to New Iberia, Louisiana, United States Kane 103.7 FM, community radio station in Guildford, United Kingdom Kane (video game), 1986 home computer game published by Mastertronic Citizen Kane, a 1941 film directed by Orson Welles Kane & Abel (novel), a 1979 novel by Jeffrey Archer Gods Kāne, major Hawaiian god Kāne Milohai, minor Hawaiian god People Kane (given name), shared by several notable people Kane (surname), shared by several notable people Kane (wrestler) (born 1967), ring name of American professional wrestler and Knox County, Tennessee mayor Glenn Jacobs Stevie Ray, American professional wrestler Lash Huffman (born 1958), who has used the ring name Kane The Undertaker, American professional wrestler Mark Calaway, who briefly used the ring name Kane in November 1990 immediately upon his arrival in the WWF (hence its later use by alleged "brother" Jacobs) Big Daddy Kane (born 1968), rapper Daniel "Kane" Garcia, of the American hip hop duo Kane & Abel Harry Kane (Born 1993), English football player Places Kane (ancient city), Turkey America Illinois Kane, Illinois, US Kane County, Illinois, US Elsewhere Kane Township, Benton County, Iowa Kane, Pennsylvania, US, founded by American Civil War general Thomas L. Kane Kane County, Utah, US Kane Mountain, mountain in Fulton County, New York Anoka County–Blaine Airport, Minnesota, US (ICAO airport code: KANE) Cape Kane, Greenland See also Cain (disambiguation) Cane (disambiguation) Kain (disambiguation) Kaine (disambiguation)
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The sources for Citizen Kane, the 1941 American motion picture that marked the feature film debut of Orson Welles, have been the subject of speculation and controversy since the project's inception. With a story spanning 60 years, the quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a fictional character based in part upon the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick. A rich incorporation of the experiences and knowledge of its authors, the film earned an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles. Charles Foster Kane Orson Welles never confirmed a principal source for the character of Charles Foster Kane. John Houseman, who worked with screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz on the early draft scripts, wrote that Kane is a synthesis of different personalities, with Hearst's life used as the main source. "The truth is simple: for the basic concept of Charles Foster Kane and for the main lines and significant events of his public life, Mankiewicz used as his model the figure of William Randolph Hearst. To this were added incidents and details invented or derived from other sources." Houseman adds that they "grafted anecdotes from other giants of journalism, including Pulitzer, Northcliffe and Mank's first boss, Herbert Bayard Swope." Welles said, "Mr. Hearst was quite a bit like Kane, although Kane isn't really founded on Hearst in particular, many people sat for it so to speak". He specifically acknowledged that aspects of Kane were drawn from the lives of two business tycoons familiar from his youth in Chicago — Samuel Insull and Harold Fowler McCormick. William Randolph Hearst The film is commonly regarded as a fictionalized, unrelentingly hostile parody of William Randolph Hearst, in spite of Welles's statement that "Citizen Kane is the story of a wholly fictitious character." Film historian Don Kilbourne has pointed out that much of the film's story is derived from aspects of Hearst's life that had already been published and that "some of Kane's speeches are almost verbatim copies of Hearst's. When Welles denied that the film was about the still-influential publisher, he did not convince many people." The most identifiable anecdote from Hearst's life used in the film is his famous but almost certainly apocryphal exchange with illustrator Frederic Remington. In January 1897 Remington was sent to Cuba by Hearst's New York Journal, to provide illustrations to accompany Richard Harding Davis's reporting about an uprising against Spain's colonial rule. Remington purportedly cabled Hearst from Havana that he wished to return since everything was quiet and there would be no war. Hearst is supposed to have replied, "Please remain. You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war". Although Hearst denied the truth of the now legendary story, a milestone of yellow journalism, the ensuing Spanish–American War has been called "Mr. Hearst's War". Hearst biographer David Nasaw described Kane as "a cartoon-like caricature of a man who is hollowed out on the inside, forlorn, defeated,
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Charles Foster Kane is a fictional character who is the subject of Orson Welles' 1941 film Citizen Kane. Welles played Kane (receiving an Academy Award nomination), with Buddy Swan playing Kane as a child. Welles also produced, co-wrote and directed the film, winning an Oscar for writing the film. Inspiration The general consensus is that publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst is the primary inspiration behind Charles Foster Kane. In the film, Kane is given the line "You provide the prose poems; I'll provide the war," undeniably similar to "You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war," a quote widely attributed to Hearst. Also, an overhead shot of Hearst's ranch is shown in the film as Xanadu, the lavish estate where Kane resides. In addition, Kane's unsuccessful attempt to make his second wife an opera star parallels Hearst's effort to make his mistress Marion Davies a serious dramatic movie actress despite critics' complaints that she was miscast and better in light comedy roles. The connection with Hearst is strengthened by the fact that Welles's co-writer, Herman J. Mankiewicz, was a frequent guest of Davies at Hearst Castle. Some biographies of Welles posit that Welles himself was a source of inspiration for the character. Some of the character's dialogue on how to run a newspaper are direct quotes from Welles's comments on how to make a motion picture (though this was his first). Mankiewicz included dialogue about Kane's voracious appetite, also a reference to Welles. Later news media figures including Sumner Murray Redstone, Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, and Elon Musk have been compared to Kane. Fictional character biography Citizen Kane explores the life of the titular character. We are given an overview of his public career in the pastiche News on the March newsreel, with some parts then shown in more detail through the flashback recollections of those who knew him. Early years Kane is born of humble origins in the fictional settlement of Little Salem, Colorado, in 1862 or 1863. A supposedly worthless mine given to his mother in 1868—to settle a bill for room and board by Fred Graves — is discovered to be rich in gold, making the family suddenly fabulously wealthy. In 1871, in return for an annual income of $50,000, Kane's mother puts her son and the money under the guardianship of New York City banker Walter Parks Thatcher, who raises Kane in luxury. Kane resents Thatcher for ripping him away from his family, and spends most of his early adult life rebelling against him. He attends prestigious colleges such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell and a college in Switzerland—and gets himself expelled from all of them. At the age of 25 Kane acquires control of the money, the world's sixth-largest private fortune. He returns from a trip abroad to take control of the New York Daily Inquirer, a struggling newspaper acquired on his behalf by Thatcher as a result of a foreclosure on a debt, thinking that "it would be fun to run a newspaper".
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Beyond Citizen Kane is a 1993 British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and first broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Globo media group, the largest in Brazil, and discusses the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho was criticised and compared to the fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in manipulation of news to influence public opinion. TV Globo (known as Rede Globo at the time of filming) objected to the film's position and tried to buy Brazilian rights, but Hartog had already made agreements to give non-television rights to political and cultural groups in Brazil. However, the documentary cannot be broadcast on television in Brazil since it contains large sections of footage owned by Globo. Nevertheless, copies sold in Britain reached Brazil in the 1990s and circulated widely there. In addition, since the internet boom of the early 21st century, the film has been released on video-sharing websites such as YouTube and Google Video. Plot summary The documentary tracks Globo's involvement with and support of the Brazilian military government; its illegal partnership of the 1960s with the American group Time-Life; Marinho's political connections (notably its owner's connections with Antonio Carlos Magalhães, Minister of Telecommunications) and manoeuvres (such as airing in Jornal Nacional, the network's prime time news programme since 1969, highlights of a 1989 presidential debate edited in a way as to favour Fernando Collor de Mello); and a controversial deal involving shares of NEC Corporation and government contracts. It features interviews with 21 people, including noted Brazilian politicians and cultural figures, such as politicians Leonel Brizola and Antonio Carlos Magalhães, singer-songwriter Chico Buarque, former Justice Minister Armando Falcão, politician Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (who would serve as President from 2003 to 2010 and again since 2023); and former employees Walter Clark, Wianey Pinheiro and Armando Nogueira. The title refers to the 1941 film, Citizen Kane, whose fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane was created by the director and actor Orson Welles. He was believed to have been based on the American publisher William Randolph Hearst, noted for creating yellow journalism and exploiting the press. The 1993 British documentary criticised Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho for his close ties to the military dictatorship and suggestively compared him to the Kane figure for manipulation of news. Controversy Dispute with Globo over British rights The documentary was first shown on 10 May 1993 in the United Kingdom, broadcast of the programme had been delayed for a year as Rede Globo disputed the programme makers' right under British law to use short extracts from Globo programmes without permission, for the purposes of "critical comment and review". During this period of legal manoeuvring, Simon Hartog, the director, died after a long illness. The process of editing was taken over by his co-producer John Ellis. When the film was
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The Citizen Kane trailer''' is a four-minute, self-contained, "making of" promotional short film by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre, released in 1940 to promote the film Citizen Kane. Unlike other standard theatrical trailers of the era, it did not feature any footage of the actual film itself, but was a wholly original pseudo-documentary piece. It is considered by numerous film scholars such as Simon Callow, Joseph McBride and Jonathan Rosenbaum to be a standalone short film, rather than a conventional "trailer", and to represent an important stage in developing Welles's directorial style. Content The film takes the form of a tour around the film set, while the precise nature of the film is kept under wraps, in keeping with the secrecy built up around the Mercury Theatre's debut feature. This was partly born out of necessity, to prevent William Randolph Hearst from knowing in advance that the film was a parallel of his life. The film's producer, director, co-writer and star Orson Welles— then an established radio star—does not appear in person, but serves as the unseen narrator, introducing members of the cast. There are several specially filmed excerpts of the film in rehearsal, with each member of the principal cast out of costume, reciting a signature line of their character, and stressing that the film's title character prompts extreme reactions from different people. The trailer also contains a number of trick shots, including one of Everett Sloane appearing at first to be running into the camera. Sloane actually runs into the reflection of the camera in a mirror. The music heard throughout the trailer is the publisher's theme, "Oh, Mr. Kane". Welles heard the tune, "A Poco No" by Pepe Guízar, in Mexico. The special lyrics were written by Herman Ruby. The music was arranged by Conrad Salinger and is heard during the end titles of Citizen Kane. Cast Production The promotional short was filmed at the same time as Citizen Kane itself, and offers the only existing behind-the-scenes footage of the film. It had a slightly different crew, with the director of photography being Harry J. Wild rather than Citizen Kanes Gregg Toland. The trailer was filmed at Toland's suggestion. "I wrote the outline of the trailer and shot stuff for it while we were still shooting the movie," Welles recalled. "Because you see something that you're doing, and you say, 'That would be good for the trailer, you know?' Even if it wouldn't work in the film." As it is classified as a trailer, no copyright was ever registered on the work, and it is now in the public domain. Consequently, it can now be freely viewed on YouTube, and other video websites. Critical reception and legacy Numerous film critics have treated the trailer as a cinematic work in its own right, arguing it represents a critical stage in the development of Welles's directorial style. Jonathan Rosenbaum has argued that all of Welles's films can be divided into narrative stories and documentary essays. He points to
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"Raising Kane" is a 1971 book-length essay by American film critic Pauline Kael, in which she revived controversy over the authorship of the screenplay for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. Kael celebrated screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, first-credited co-author of the screenplay, and questioned the contributions of Orson Welles, who co-wrote, produced and directed the film, and performed the lead role. The 50,000-word essay was written for The Citizen Kane Book (1971), as an extended introduction to the shooting script by Mankiewicz and Welles. It first appeared in February 1971 in two consecutive issues of The New Yorker magazine. In the ensuing controversy, Welles was defended by colleagues, critics, biographers and scholars, but his reputation was damaged by its charges. The essay and Kael's assertions were later questioned after Welles's contributions to the screenplay were documented. Background One of the long-standing controversies about Citizen Kane has been the authorship of the Academy Award-winning screenplay.Orson Welles conceived the project with screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who was writing radio plays for Welles's CBS Radio series, The Campbell Playhouse. Mankiewicz based the original outline on the life of William Randolph Hearst, whom he knew socially and came to hate after he was exiled from Hearst's circle. In February 1940 Welles supplied Mankiewicz with 300 pages of notes and put him under contract to write the first draft screenplay under the supervision of John Houseman, Welles's former partner in the Mercury Theatre. Welles later explained, "I left him on his own finally, because we'd started to waste too much time haggling. So, after mutual agreements on storyline and character, Mank went off with Houseman and did his version, while I stayed in Hollywood and wrote mine." Taking these drafts, Welles drastically condensed and rearranged them, then added scenes of his own. The industry accused Welles of underplaying Mankiewicz's contribution to the script, but Welles countered the attacks by saying, "At the end, naturally, I was the one making the picture, after all—who had to make the decisions. I used what I wanted of Mank's and, rightly or wrongly, kept what I liked of my own." The terms of the contract stated that Mankiewicz was to receive no credit for his work, as he was hired as a script doctor. Before he signed the contract Mankiewicz was particularly advised by his agents that all credit for his work belonged to Welles and the Mercury Theatre, the "author and creator". As the film neared release, however, Mankiewicz began threatening Welles to get credit for the film—including threats to place full-page ads in trade papers and to get his friend Ben Hecht to write an exposé for The Saturday Evening Post. Mankiewicz also threatened to go to the Screen Writers Guild and claim full credit for writing the entire script by himself. After lodging a protest with the Screen Writers Guild, Mankiewicz withdrew it, then vacillated. The question was resolved in January 1941 when the studio, RKO Pictures, awarded Mankiewicz credit. The guild credit form listed Welles first,
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RKO 281 is a 1999 American historical drama television film directed by Benjamin Ross, written by John Logan, and starring Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Roy Scheider, and Liam Cunningham. The film depicts the troubled production behind the 1941 film Citizen Kane. The film's title is a reference to the original production number of Citizen Kane. It premiered on HBO on November 20, 1999. Plot In 1940, Orson Welles, RKO studio head George Schaefer, and screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz struggle in making what will be considered the greatest American film, Citizen Kane. Welles and Mankiewicz attend a party at Hearst Castle where meeting the hypocritical and tyrannical William Randolph Hearst gives Welles the inspiration to make a film about Hearst's life. Mankiewicz is against it because he knows Hearst's wrath will be horrible, but Welles says this is the film. Mankiewicz finally agrees. At first, Welles tries to take credit for everything, including the script, and Mankiewicz is furious with Welles—he faces him, and Welles says he has every right and cuts ties with Mankiewicz. Orson later reconsiders and asks Mankiewicz to continue re-drafting the screenplay, giving him a joint credit. After learning from the gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, who had viewed a press screening, that Welles' film is actually a thinly veiled and exceptionally unflattering biography of him, publishing tycoon Hearst uses his immense power and influence to try to deny the release of the picture. Hearst's mistress, actress Marion Davies, endures the embarrassment of having their private lives exposed and vilified. Hopper threatens to do the same to the studio executives of Hollywood if they release the film. Later on in their relationship many years after the release of Citizen Kane Marion gives Hearst money when his finances begin to diminish (by selling all the jewelry he gave her and giving him the money in the form of a check). In the end, after considerable delays and harassment, plus the disintegration of the professional relationship between Welles and Mankiewicz and a costly blow to Schaefer's career, the film is finally released. Its publicity is muted by Hearst's ban on its mention in all his publications and its commercial success is limited. Welles ultimately has the satisfaction of having created one of the most critically acclaimed films of all time. Cast Liev Schreiber as Orson Welles John Malkovich as Herman J. Mankiewicz Roy Scheider as George Schaefer James Cromwell as William Randolph Hearst Melanie Griffith as Marion Davies Liam Cunningham as Gregg Toland David Suchet as Louis B. Mayer Brenda Blethyn as Louella Parsons Fiona Shaw as Hedda Hopper Anastasia Hille as Carole Lombard Roger Allam as Walt Disney Simeon Andrews as John Houseman Jay Benedict as Daryl Zanuck Ron Berglas as David O. Selznick Sarah Franzl as Dorothy Comingore Joseph Long as Harry Cohn Oliver Pierre as Sam Goldwyn Adrian Schiller as Paul Stewart Kerry Shale as Bernard Herrmann Tim Woodward as Jack Warner Angus Wright as Joseph Cotten Bobby Valentino as Clark Gable Lucy
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13th National Board of Review Awards December 20, 1941 The 13th National Board of Review Awards were given on 20 December 1941. Best American Films Citizen Kane How Green Was My Valley The Little Foxes The Stars Look Down Dumbo High Sierra Here Comes Mr. Jordan Tom, Dick and Harry Road to Zanzibar The Lady Eve Winners Best Documentary: Target for Tonight Best Foreign Film: Pépé le Moko (1937), France Best Picture: Citizen Kane Best Acting: Sara Allgood - How Green Was My Valley Mary Astor - The Great Lie and The Maltese Falcon Ingrid Bergman - Rage in Heaven Humphrey Bogart - High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon Patricia Collinge - The Little Foxes Gary Cooper - Sergeant York George Coulouris - Citizen Kane Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley Bing Crosby - Road to Zanzibar and Birth of the Blues Bette Davis - The Little Foxes Isobel Elsom - Ladies in Retirement Joan Fontaine - Suspicion Greta Garbo - Two-Faced Woman James Gleason - Meet John Doe and Here Comes Mr. Jordan Walter Huston - All That Money Can Buy (aka The Devil and Daniel Webster) Ida Lupino - High Sierra and Ladies in Retirement Roddy McDowall - How Green Was My Valley Robert Montgomery - Here Comes Mr. Jordan and Rage in Heaven Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle and Tom, Dick and Harry James Stephenson - The Letter and Shining Victory Orson Welles - Citizen Kane Notes External links National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards for 1941 1941 film awards 1941 1941 in American cinema
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Thomas Furneaux Lennon (born November 3, 1951) is a documentary filmmaker. He was born in Washington, D.C., graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1968 and Yale University in 1973. Thomas F. Lennon's films, broadcast on PBS and HBO, have won an Academy Award and have been nominated for the Oscar four times. He has also received two George Foster Peabody Awards, two national Emmys and two DuPont-Columbia Journalism awards. With filmmaker Ruby Yang, he mounted a vast multi-year AIDS prevention campaign seen over a billion times on Chinese television. Together they made a trilogy of short documentary films about modern China, including The Blood of Yingzhou District, which won an Oscar in 2007, and The Warriors of Qiugang, nominated in 2011, which profiles an Anhui Province farmer's multi-year campaign to halt the poisoning of his village water by a nearby factory. Three weeks after the Oscar nomination, the local government of Bengbu, in Anhui, announced a 200 million yuan (US$30 million) clean-up of the toxic site shown in the film. He produced two historical series on PBS: The Irish in America: Long Journey Home (1998) and Becoming American: The Chinese Experience with Bill Moyers (2003). The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996) co-written with the late Richard Ben Cramer, marked his first Oscar nomination. It premiered at Sundance and was adapted into a fiction film, RKO 281, starring John Malkovich and Melanie Griffith. In 2017, he completed Knife Skills about the launch of Edwins, an haute cuisine French restaurant in Cleveland, staffed by men and women recently released from prison; in January 2018, this was nominated for an Oscar. "Sacred" (2016) explores the use of prayer and ritual in daily life. More than 40 filmmakers around the world contributed scenes to the film, which premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival, showed at 25 festivals worldwide and aired on PBS in December 2018. Since 2018, Thomas Lennon has served as the Director of the Documentary Film Lab at Rutgers University. In 2021, Variety profiled him as one of the "top 50 film instructors from around the world." Lennon lives and works in New York City. He is married to the medical researcher Joan Reibman, best known for her work on the health of 9/11 survivors. He is at times confused with the writer-comedian Thomas Lennon and has twice had to send back large royalty checks. Filmography "We Are Suns" (2021) Producer. Sarasota Film Festival Montclair Film Festival "Knife Skills" (2017) (Producer-Director-Cinematographer) Academy Award nomination. Winner Audience Award, Traverse City Film Festival. San Francisco's Doc Stories, DocNYC and other festivals. "Sacred" (2016) Producer & Director. Shot by 40 filmmaking teams worldwide. Film Festivals: Hong Kong, DocNYC, Amsterdam (IDFA), Biarritz (FIPA), Sebastopol, etc. Aired on PBS 2018 "The Trail from Xingjiang" (2013) Senior Creative Consultant "Angle of Attack" (2011) – writer, cinematographer, producer —Public Television The Warriors of Qiugang (2010) – writer, producer. Oscar nominee, Documentary Short Subject Tongzhi in Love (2008) – producer. Jury Prize, San Francisco Int'l Film Festival The Supreme Court,
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Ashley Greyson (sometimes credited as Ash Greyson) is a film and music video director, cinematographer, editor, and producer, who usually works with the band Hanson. He attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Greyson worked with Hanson on the documentary film Strong Enough To Break, about the -year struggle the band went through to make a record. It documents meetings from 2000 to 2004 and the start of the band's record company, 3CG Records, along with the release and success of their album Underneath. The film was nominated for a 2006 Hollywood Film Festival award (Best Documentary). Now living in Nashville Tennessee, Greyson, along with his wife, Mindy, have 7 children: Jax (born October 13, 2005) Catcher (born May 28, 2007) Finn (born February 1, 2009) LulaBelle (born September 13, 2010) Holiday (born November 24, 2012) Petunia (born 2014) and Rockford (born 2016). Selected filmography Life Happens (2010 - Director, Writer) Bleed Into One: The Story of Christian Rock (2010 post-production - Director, Cinematographer) Strong Enough to Break (2005 - Director, Producer, Cinematographer) The Road to Albertane (1998 - Director, Producer) Tulsa, Tokyo, and the Middle of Nowhere (1997 - Director, Cinematographer, Videographer, Editor) Live From Albertane (Videographer, Director, Editor) Live at the Fillmore (Videographer, Director, Editor) Underneath Acoustic Live (Videographer, Director, Editor) "Save Me" music video (Director) "Go" music video (Director) "The Great Divide" (Director) External links American documentary filmmakers American music video directors Videographers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni 21st-century American artists
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Harry J. Wild, A.S.C. (July 5, 1901 – February 24, 1961) was a film and television cinematographer. Wild worked at RKO Pictures studios from 1931 through the 1950s. In total Wild was involved in 91 major film projects and two extended television series. In 1931, he began his career and was hired as second cameraman and operator on nine projects, most notably Fred Niblo's Young Donovan'a Kid (1931). In 1936, Wild shot his first feature, Wallace Fox's sports drama The Big Game. Two years later he shared an Academy Award nomination for the Republic Pictures film Army Girl (1938). According to film critic Spencer Selby, Wild was a prolific film noir cinematographer, shooting 13 of them, including: Dmytryk's Murder, My Sweet (1944), Johnny Angel (1945), Nocturne (1946), the Jean Renoir-directed The Woman on the Beach (1947), They Won't Believe Me (1947), and others. He was also, in the early 1950s, Jane Russell's cinematographer; he worked on seven of her movies as an actress, three of which were released by other studios: His Kind of Woman (1951) and Son of Paleface (1952) for Paramount, and, his most widely seen movie, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) for Twentieth Century-Fox. Filmography The Big Game (1936) Racing Lady (1937) Don't Tell the Wife (1937) Portia on Trial (1937) Lady Behave! (1938) Painted Desert (1938) Army Girl (1938) Lawless Valley (1938) The Renegade Ranger (1938) Arizona Legion (1939) The Rookie Cop (1939) Racketeers of the Range (1939) Timber Stampede (1939) The Fighting Gringo (1939) The Marshal of Mesa City (1939) Trouble in Sundown (1939) The Fargo Kid (1940) Bullet Code (1940) Millionaires in Prison (1940) Laddie (1940) Legion of the Lawless (1940) Prairie Law (1940) Wagon Train (1940) The Saint in Palm Springs (1941) Cyclone on Horseback (1941) Robbers of the Range (1941) Citizen Kane (1941, additional photography; uncredited) The Bandit Trail (1941) Dude Cowboy (1941) Valley of the Sun (1942) Riding the Wind (1942) Land of the Open Range (1942) Come on Danger (1942) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, additional photography; uncredited) Six Gun Gold (1942) It's All True (1942) Rookies in Burma (1943) So This Is Washington (1943) Tarzan Triumphs (1943) Stage Door Canteen (1943) Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943) Nevada (1944) Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) Murder, My Sweet (1944) The Falcon Out West (1944) Radio Stars on Parade (1945) Cornered (1945) Johnny Angel (1945) West of the Pecos (1945) Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945) First Yank Into Tokyo (1945) The Woman on the Beach (1946) Till the End of Time (1946) Nocturne (1946) The Falcon's Adventure (1946) They Won't Believe Me (1947) Tycoon (1947) Pitfall (1948) Station West (1948) Strange Bargain (1949) The Big Steal (1949) Easy Living (1949) The Threat (1949) Walk Softly, Stranger (1950) Gambling House (1951) His Kind of Woman (1951) Two Tickets to Broadway (1951) My Forbidden Past (1951) The Las Vegas Story (1952) Macao (1952) Son of Paleface (1952) The French Line (1953) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Affair with a Stranger (1953) She Couldn't Say No (1954) Top of World (1955)
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Francis Fisher Kane (June 17, 1866March 27, 1955) was an American lawyer who served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Family and Education Kane was born in Philadelphia in 1866, the son of Robert Patterson Kane and Elizabeth Fisher. He was the cousin of surgeon Evan O'Neill Kane and nephew of Eckley B. Coxe. He was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord. He attended Princeton University, graduating in 1886, before getting a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Political career From 1896 to 1900, Kane worked as first assistant to U.S. Attorney James M. Beck in Philadelphia. Kane was the Democratic candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia in the 1903 election, but lost to John Weaver. In September 1913, he was appointed by Woodrow Wilson as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, succeeding John C. Swartley. Kane and his office were active in investigating German-American residents of Philadelphia between 1917 and 1918 for pro-German sympathies. Activism Kane resigned from his position in 1920, in protest of the Palmer Raids. Kane sent a letter to A. Mitchell Palmer warning that his actions were "generally unwise and very apt to result in injustice." Two weeks after his resignation, Kane began speaking publicly about his actions in front of groups like the Young Democracy Club and the Philadelphia Club. He was active in the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927, serving on the Citizens' National Committee for Sacco-Vanzetti. Kane worked with the Voluntary Defenders' Association in the 1930s, an organization that provided legal representation for defendants who were unable to afford an attorney. He received the Philadelphia Award in 1936 because of his work with the Association. References 1866 births 1955 deaths United States Attorneys for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Lawyers from Philadelphia Princeton University alumni
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Visions of Light (also known as Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography) is a 1992 documentary film directed by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy and Stuart Samuels. The film covers the art of cinematography since the conception of cinema at the turn of the 20th century. It features numerous filmmakers and cinematographers as interview subjects, presenting their views and discussing the importance of cinematography in the craft of filmmaking. Synopsis The film includes interviews with many modern-day directors of photography and cinematographers, who illustrate via examples their best work and the scenes from films that influenced them to pursue their art. These subjects include Néstor Almendros, John Bailey, Conrad Hall, Michael Chapman, and László Kovács. Among the pioneers they pay homage are Gregg Toland, Billy Bitzer, James Wong Howe and John Alton. The practitioners also explain the origins behind many of their most indelible images in cinema history. Cinematographer interviews Sandi Sissel Ernest Dickerson Michael Chapman Allen Daviau Caleb Deschanel Conrad Hall William A. Fraker John Bailey Néstor Almendros Vilmos Zsigmond Stephen H. Burum Charles Lang Sven Nykvist László Kovács James Wong Howe Haskell Wexler Vittorio Storaro John A. Alonzo Victor J. Kemper Owen Roizman Gordon Willis Bill Butler Michael Ballhaus Frederick Elmes Filmography The following films are featured in clips or discussed: The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1895) Repas de bébé (1895) L'Arrivée d'un train à la Ciotat (1895) The Kiss (1896) Le Spectre rouge (1907) The Birth of a Nation (1915) Intolerance (1916) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Way Down East (1920) Der Letzte Mann (1924) Ben-Hur (1925) Napoléon (1927) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) The Crowd (1928) The Cameraman (1928) The Cocoanuts (1929) Applause (1929) The Locked Door (1929) Possessed (1931) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) Shanghai Express (1932) As You Desire Me (1932) What Price Hollywood? (1932) Red Dust (1932) Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Queen Christina (1933) Becky Sharp (1935) Peter Ibbetson (1935) Desire (1936) Camille (1936) Jezebel (1938) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Midnight (1939) The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Gone with the Wind (1939) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Rebecca (1940) The Sea Hawk (1940) The Long Voyage Home (1940) Citizen Kane (1941) How Green Was My Valley (1941) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Mildred Pierce (1945) The Killers (1946) Out of the Past (1947) T-Men (1947) The Naked City (1948) Oliver Twist (1948) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) Young Man with a Horn (1950) Sunset Boulevard (1950) On the Waterfront (1954) The Big Combo (1955) The Night of the Hunter (1955) Picnic (1955) Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Touch of Evil (1958) Jules et Jim (1962) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Hud (1963) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) The Professionals (1966) Cool Hand Luke (1967) In Cold Blood (1967) The Graduate (1967) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Easy Rider (1969) Midnight Cowboy (1969) The
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William Henry Medill was an American major and journalist who was a commander of the 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment during the earlier battles of the American Civil War before dying from wounds after his wound Battle of Williamsport. He was also a compositor of the Chicago Tribune which was edited by his own brother, Joseph Medill. Biography Journalism career William was born on November 6, 1835. The family later moved to Cleveland where he managed to become an apprentice of his father and became a journalist when he was 15. William was successful in his career as he rose from compositor to foreman in 1852 of the Cleveland newspaper Leader. Around 1855, he moved to Chicago after his older brother Joseph Medill became the editor of the Chicago Tribune to become a compositor there until 1858. American Civil War Around the beginning of the American Civil War, Medill left his journalism career to pursue a military career as he recruited the Fremont Dragoons which would be later known as Barker's Dragoons. The Dragoons were sent to Camp Defiance where the regiment were given mounts as well as equipment. After some training there, Medill and the dragoons were sent to Clarksburg, Virginia to keep the border with Virginia and Ohio secure. He then participated in the First Battle of Bull Run as well as the Battle of Philippi but wouldn't see active combat. The first battle where Medill experienced actual combat was at the Battle of Rich Mountain as he fought in dismounted fighting and fired his first shots in anger using revolving carbines as he managed to capture his first prisoner from Georgia after a duel between them. After showing his achievements to his brother, an issue of the Chicago Tribune stated the Barker's Dragoons as "There, those are my Chicago boys." Medill was a major critic of George B. McClellan's tactics and methods with the misuse of his men, stating: With later events in the campaign no longer needing the escort of the dragoons, the Barker's Dragoons returned to Chicago on August 10, 1861, and were mustered out. Although Medill complained about his military service, he was also deeply patriotic and had an intense hatred for the Confederates. Due to his previous military experience, he was allowed to return to military service as commissioned captain of Company G of the 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment. Medill and Company G were trained at Camp Kane near St. Charles, Illinois. However some citizens of St. Charles began to sell liquor at the camp to take advantage of the boredom of soldier life. This got so rampant and excessive that there was a potential illegal citizen-arrest conducted on the city by breaking in the houses of liquor distributors, confiscating the liquor and dumping it all in the streets. When the time came for the 8th Illinois to head for D.C., they were greeted with the cheers of local citizens throughout their march. They also managed to pass by John F. Farnsworth's mansion and
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Video Phillips is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away, played by Sam Atwell. He made his first appearance in an episode aired on 9 April 2001 and made his final appearance on 5 March 2009. In 2004, viewers saw Kane undergo a battle with testicular cancer. Storylines 2001-05 Kane is first seen in school at Summer Bay High when a group of Year 9 students talks about a Dance party he is hosting. Kane tries to woo one of his teachers, Shauna Bradley (Kylie Watson), by getting her tickets to see Savage Garden in concert, but she declines. Kane's brother, Scott (Nathaniel Dean), kidnaps Shauna, and Kane becomes an accessory. However, he later saves Shauna. Kane tries his luck with Dani Sutherland (Tammin Sursok), who is currently on a break from Will Smith (Zac Drayson). This leads to Kane raping Dani one day while they are alone at her house. Will finds out and starts a fight with Kane but is jumped by several of his friends. Local headmaster Donald Fisher (Norman Coburn) intervenes but is given a kick for his troubles. Kane stands trial with Morag Bellingham (Cornelia Frances) presiding as the judge and is found not guilty, leaving Dani distraught. After Kane tearfully apologises to Dani, he leaves the bay. The following year, Kane returns to the bay and agrees to a mediation session with Dani and the local counselor, Flynn Saunders (Martin Dingle-Wall). This fails when Dani refuses to forgive him as she still has nightmares. Kane later takes a job aboard a boat named The Mirgini, which is to set sail for the sesquicentenary celebrations of Summer Bay. It doesn't sit well when Dani's family and boyfriend, Josh West (Daniel Collopy), discover this. The boat begins sinking, and Kane is washed up on a deserted beach with Dani's mother, Shelley (Paula Forrest) and sister Kirsty for a week. Kane saves Shelley from a snake, and the three of them are eventually rescued. Kane begins a relationship with Kirsty, which they must keep secret. Eventually, Shelley finds out and tells her husband, Rhys (Michael Beckley), and he warns Kane off. The couple then runs away as they can't live without each other. During their escape, Kane faces challenges in locating their workplace, and Kirsty comes dangerously close to a sexual assault from an intoxicated individual. Kane eventually comes to the realization that he must return Kirsty to her home, but she vehemently declines. In a tough love approach, Kane refers to her as a child and forcibly ejects her from his vehicle. Kane soon returns to win Kirsty back. Seb Miller (Mitch Firth), Kirsty's current boyfriend, takes exception to Kane and punches him. Kirsty can't fight her feelings for Kane, and they reunite, breaking Seb's heart. When Kane and Kirsty become common knowledge again, Dani accepts it as she feels that trying to keep them apart will only bring them closer together. When Dani drives back from university one night,
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Two police officers in West Memphis, Arkansas were shot and killed during a traffic stop on May 20, 2010. Police killed two suspects, 45-year-old Jerry R. Kane Jr. (b. 1964), and his 16-year-old son Joseph T. Kane (b. 1993). The two were later identified as members of the sovereign citizen movement. Footage of the shooting and ensuing shootout with police was shown in a season 5 episode of World's Wildest Police Videos. Details Around 11:36 a.m. CDT, a white Plymouth Voyager minivan traveling east on Interstate 40 toward Airport Road was pulled over by West Memphis police officer Bill Evans. According to a spokesperson for the Arkansas State Police, Officer Evans was "running drug interdiction"; the vehicle, driven by Jerry Kane, had unusual Ohio license plates. Sergeant Brandon Paudert provided backup for Evans. As a sovereign citizen, Jerry Kane did not have a driver's license and his van was not properly registered. He was also carrying a brick of marijuana and there were two arrest warrants for him, one in Ohio and one in New Mexico. Upon Paudert's arrival at the scene, Evans attempted to frisk Jerry Kane. Suddenly, Kane turned and attacked Evans in a scuffle down an embankment into a ditch. At that moment, Joe Kane emerged from the passenger door of the van and opened fire with an AK-47 variant. Paudert ran to the rear of Evans' police cruiser and returned fire with three shots from his .40-caliber Glock 22 handgun through the windows and taillight of Evans' cruiser, in an attempt to hit Kane firing from the other side. He then took cover behind the hood of his cruiser which was parked directly behind Evans' cruiser. Paudert fired four more times at Kane, but missed. Kane then fired multiple shots from his AK-47 variant through the hood of the car, striking Paudert in the head with a ricochet. Both officers were fatally wounded; Paudert, 39, died at the scene, and Evans, 38, died at the hospital. The suspects returned to their van and sped away. Vincent Brown, a FedEx driver from Houston, witnessed the shooting and called 911; neither officer could make an "officer down" call due to their fatal injuries. Approximately 2 hours after the incident, Crittenden County Sheriff Dick Busby and Chief Enforcement Officer W. A. Wren stopped a minivan believed to be the suspects' at a Walmart Supercenter. Officers Busby and Wren were wounded in gunfire exchanged with the suspects and were later hospitalized in critical condition. Wildlife Officer Michael K. Neal, responding to the brief standoff, rammed the suspect's vehicle, preventing their escape and saving the lives of Busby and Wren. Officer Neal exchanged fire with the Kanes through his windshield using his patrol rifle, killing Jerry Kane and wounding Joe Kane before exiting his vehicle and continuing the gun battle. Dozens of officers then surrounded the van, and after several more minutes of gunfire, Joe Kane was shot to death by police. For his heroics, Officer Neal was awarded Law Enforcement
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Kane is a comic book series created, written and drawn by Paul Grist and self-published through Dancing Elephant Press. Grist put out 31 issues of Kane from 1993 to 2001. Overview Kane concerns a police detective who works in the 39th precinct of the fictional American city of New Eden, which seems to be located on the West Coast. Despite being a UK citizen, Grist appears to have modeled New Eden and its police force in the style of American cop shows such as Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue. Another clear influence is the work of Frank Miller, particularly his Sin City comics. Cerebus was another formative influence, particularly because it proved to Grist that self-published comics were a viable proposition; the first issue of Cerebus that Grist read was #39, hence the designation of Kane's precinct. Kane has a difficult relationship with his co-workers due to a violent encounter with his former partner, which unfolds gradually and in flashback during the series. Police corruption is a recurring theme. Kane is also densely intertextual and brims with references to popular culture, particularly characters from British television, comics, and films. Since the end of 2001 Grist has concentrated on his superhero character Jack Staff, although he has announced plans to continue Kane as a series of original graphic novels. Reception Kane won the 1998 National Comics Award for Best Self-Published/Independent comic. Collections Kane has been collected in the following trade paperbacks from Image Comics: References External links Kane @ Paul Grist Comics Index British comics Defunct British comics Image Comics titles 1993 comics debuts 2001 comics endings
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Vijay C. Kumar is an Indian cinematographer, who works in the Telugu cinema. He won the Nandi Award for Best Cinematographer for the film Godavari (2006). He is the son of cinematographer C. Nageshwara Rao. Vijay Kumar's work is most noted for innovative use of lighting, subject specific visualization, use of natural colors on screen, Tele-focus shots, balancing the depth of focus between the subject and objects and many more techniques. Some of his films in Telugu cinema are Vivaha Bhojanambu, Ammoru, Agraham, Dollar Dreams, Anand and Happy Days. Background C. Vijay Kumar's father, C. Nageswara Rao, was a famous cinematographer, who worked for classics like Pandava Vanavasam, Paramanandayya Sishyula Katha, Gudi Gantalu, Aastulu - Anthastulu, and Aradhana. Unfortunately Nageswara Rao expired at the age of 42, when Vijay Kumar was only seven years old. As his mother, C. Sanadhana, wanted him to carry on in his father's footsteps and continue in the same profession, he joined Sarada Enterprises (currently known as Anand Cine Services) outdoor unit at the age of thirteen as an apprentice. His son, Pawan Ch, was a protégé of A. R. Rahman and made his debut as a music director with Love Story (2021). Career Vijay Kumar worked under various cinematographers like S. Venkataratnam, V. S. R. Swamy, Ravikant Nagaich, S. S. Lal, and S. Gopal Reddy in Telugu. He worked with Shomandar Roy, Eshaan Arya, Baba Azmi, and Behran Mukherjee in Hindi for eight years and earned a lot of practical knowledge in different kinds of lightning and exposures. In 1984, he joined as an operative cameraman under Lok Singh, for Vijetha (1985). Producer Jaya Krishna gave Vijay Kumar his first break as cinematographer with Vivaha Bhojanambu (1988) film under Jandhyala, which was a blockbuster hit. He later went out to work for Neeku Naaku Pellanta with the same team. Producer Shyam Prasad Reddy offered him to do unfinished work of Ankusam (1989), even though the official cinematographer was K. S. Hari. He worked for Agraham and Ammoru (1995), which went on to be path-breaking Telugu films, in terms of technical work. Later on, he went on to work many successful films like Bachelors, Sampangi, Sreevarante Mavare and Jai Bhajaranga Bhali. He met Sekhar Kammula when they worked for Dollar Dreams which was the first film in their collaboration, following which, they worked together for all of his films: Anand (2004), Godavari (2006), Happy Days (2007), Leader (2010), Life is Beautiful (2012), Anaamika (2014), Fidaa (2017), and Love Story (2021). Filmography Love Story (2021) Nartanasala (2018) Balakrishnudu (2017) Fidaa (2017) Anamika (2014; Telugu & Tamil bilingual) Life is Beautiful (2012) Leader (2010) Victory (2008) Happy Days (2007) Sree Mahalakshmi Samanyudu (2006) Godavari (2006) Andhrudu Anand (2004) Dil (2003) Dollar Dreams (1999) Jai Bhajaranga Bhali Sreevarante Mavare Sampangi Prema Palaki Shivaji College Love Bachelors Ammoru (1995) Agraham Ankusam (1990) Neeku Naaku Pellanta (1988) Vivaha Bhojanambu (1988) Awards Nandi Award for Best Cinematographer - Godavari References External links Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Tamil
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Mad Love (also released as The Hands of Orlac) is a 1935 American body horror film, an adaptation of Maurice Renard's novel The Hands of Orlac. It was directed by German-émigré film maker Karl Freund, and stars Peter Lorre as Dr. Gogol, Frances Drake as Yvonne Orlac and Colin Clive as Stephen Orlac. The plot revolves around Doctor Gogol's obsession with actress Yvonne Orlac. When Stephen Orlac's hands are destroyed in a train accident, Yvonne brings him to Gogol, who claims to be able to repair them. As Gogol becomes obsessed to the point that he will do anything to have Yvonne, Stephen finds that his new hands have made him into an expert knife thrower. Mad Love was Freund's final directorial assignment and Lorre's American film debut. Critics praised Lorre's acting, but the film was unsuccessful at the box office. Film critic Pauline Kael found the film unsatisfactory, but argued that it had influenced Citizen Kane. Cinematographer Gregg Toland was involved in the production of both films. Mad Love'''s reputation has grown over the years, and it is viewed in a more positive light by modern film critics, gaining the status of cult classic. Plot Actress Yvonne Orlac rests after her final performance at the "Théâtre des Horreurs" (styled after the Grand Guignol) in Paris, France. As she listens to her husband Stephen Orlac play the piano on the radio, she is greeted by Dr. Gogol, who has seen every show featuring Yvonne, and unaware of her marriage, is aghast to learn that she is moving to England with her husband. Gogol leaves the theater heartbroken, buys the wax figure of Yvonne's character, refers to it as Galatea (from the Greek myth), and arranges that it be delivered to his home the following day. Stephen Orlac is on a train journey from Fontainebleau to Paris, where he sees murderer Rollo the Knife Thrower, who is on the way to his execution by guillotine. Gogol later witnesses the execution, along with the American reporter Reagan. Orlac's train crashes later that night, and Yvonne finds her husband with mutilated hands. She takes Stephen to Gogol in an attempt to reconstruct his hands, and Gogol agrees to do so. Gogol uses Rollo's hands for the transplant, and the operation is a success. The Orlacs are forced to sell many of their possessions to pay for the surgery, while Stephen finds he is unable to play the piano with his new hands. When a creditor comes to claim the Orlacs' piano, Stephen throws a fountain pen that barely misses his head. Stephen seeks help from his stepfather, Henry Orlac. Henry denies the request, upset that Stephen did not follow in his line of business as a jeweler. A knife thrown in anger by Stephen misses Henry, but breaks the shop front's window. Gogol meanwhile asks Yvonne for her love, but she refuses. Stephen goes to Gogol's home and demands to know about his hands, and why they throw knives. Gogol suggests that Stephen's
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Donald William Peterman, (January 3, 1932 – February 5, 2011) was an American cinematographer whose numerous feature film credits included Flashdance, Cocoon, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Point Break, and Men in Black. He was a regular collaborator of directors like Ron Howard, Ron Underwood and Barry Sonnenfeld. He was a two-time Academy Award nominee and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Society of Cinematographers since 1984. Life and career Donald William Peterman was born in Los Angeles, on January 3, 1932. He graduated from Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, California, before serving in the United States Army during the early 1950s. Peterman began shooting documentaries for the U.S. Army during his time in the service. Peterman began his professional career as a clapper loader for Hal Roach Studios at the age of 22 after leaving the U.S. Army. He departed Hal Roach Studios for Cascade Studios, where he worked the optical printer and animation camera. Peterman left Cascade Studios to work on the Lassie television series, but later returned to Cascade Studios to become director of photography for the studio's television commercial productions. Peterman made his film debut as director of photography in the 1979 horror film, When a Stranger Calls. The film, described by Peterman as a "a down-and-dirty production," was shot in 25 days with a $1.7 million budget. Peterman was able to shoot nighttime scenes in six foot-candles of soft light without the aid of high-speed film stock or lenses. Peterman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography on the 1983 film, Flashdance, starring Jennifer Beals. However, he lost to Sven Nykvist at the 56th Academy Awards. Peterman received his second nomination in 1986 for his work on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which was directed by Leonard Nimoy, but lost to Chris Menges at the 59th Academy Awards in 1987. Peterman's many other film credits included Splash in 1984, Cocoon in 1985, 1991's Point Break and the comedy Get Shorty, which was released in 1995, and Men In Black in 1997. In 1997, Peterman suffered head injuries, a broken leg and broken ribs in an accident on the film set of Mighty Joe Young. Peterman was on a platform suspended eighteen feet from the ground when the crane holding the platform snapped, throwing Peterman to the ground. A cameraman working with Peterman was also injured in the accident. Production was delayed for two days, and Peterman was replaced by Oliver Wood for the remainder of principal photography. Peterman's last film was Ron Howard's How the Grinch Stole Christmas in 2000. Donald Peterman died at his home in Palos Verdes Estates, California, of myelodysplastic syndrome on February 5, 2011, at the age of 79. Filmography References External links 1932 births 2011 deaths Deaths from myelodysplastic syndrome American cinematographers Film people from Los Angeles People from Redondo Beach, California People from Palos Verdes Estates, California Redondo Union High School alumni
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Justin Schein is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. He has been cinematographer on over 60 films and is the co-founder of Shadowbox Films. He is best known for his work on cinéma vérité films that include America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero, No Impact Man, and Left on Purpose. Early life and education Schein was born in New York and attended Horace Mann School in The Bronx prior to enrolling in Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1990 and began working as an intern at Great Projects, a film company in New York City. He later returned to school where he earned a master's degree in documentary filmmaking from Stanford University. Career Schein has been involved in directing and cinematography for more than 20 years. He has been the cinematographer on over 60 films that have appeared on networks such as The BBC, The Discovery Channel, HBO, and PBS. Schein is also the founder of Shadownbox Films, a film studio he started in 1998 along with co-founder David Mehlman, a fellow Stanford graduate. One of Schein's more notable early projects is America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero, a documentary that looked at the cleanup of Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks as well as the debate over what should replace the Twin Towers. He collaborated on the project with Daniel Polin, president of Great Projects Film Company, the company where he interned after graduating from Johns Hopkins. Polin was producer on the documentary while Schein worked as co-producer and cinematographer. America Rebuilds was narrated by Kevin Spacey and appeared on PBS on the one year anniversary of the attacks. In 2009, Schein released No Impact Man, a documentary film he directed with Laura Gabbert based on the book of the same title by Colin Beavan. The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and opened theatrically September 4, 2009, follows Colin Beavan and his family during their year-long experiment to have sustainable zero impact on the environment. The rights of the film were picked up by Oscilloscope Laboratories. Schein worked as the cinematographer for the documentary My So-Called Enemy. Released in 2010, filming began in the summer of 2002 and documents the relationships between six Jewish and Palestinian girls who come to the United States for a leadership camp. The film documents the bonds that grow between the girls in absence of the violence where the girls live back home. It screened at numerous film festivals, including winning a Cine Golden Eagle and being awarded the Best Documentary at the 2010 Boston Jewish Film Festival. Schein's most recent projects include Left On Purpose, a documentary on the life of political activist Mayer Vishner. Schein originally wanted to document the rebellious legacy of Vishner when he finds out Vishner has severe depression and wants to end his own life as his last political act. Schein and Vishner become friends during the filming and Vishner did not reveal his wishes until
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Gail Kane (born Abigail Kane; July 10, 1885 – February 17, 1966) was an American stage and silent movie actress. Early years Kane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended a private school in Newburgh, New York, but eschewed additional education to become an actress. She became a dedicated student of the art of pantomime. She stood 5'7" tall, weighed 142 pounds, and had dark brown hair and eyes. Theatrical actress Kane performed at the Lyceum Theatre in Heap Game Watch in January 1914. She had a significant role in Seven Keys To Baldpate Astor, which was staged at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in May 1914. The comedy was brought to the stage by George M. Cohan. She paired with George Nash in The Miracle Man at the Astor Theatre. The play was produced on Broadway in the fall of 1914. Kane acted in a presentation of The Hyphen Knickerbocker in April 1915. She returned to the stage at the Broadhurst Theatre in July 1920. She was paired with Earle Fox, another actor who had been spending much of his time in movies. They appeared in the comedy Come Seven. The production was an adaptation by Octavus Roy Cohen of stories he had contributed to The Saturday Evening Post. The play was the first ever featuring an entirely caucasian cast in black face. Lawful Larceny (1922) was a comedy adapted from the writing of Samuel Shipman. It was presented at the Republic Theater, built by Oscar Hammerstein in 1900, at 42nd Street. The players included Kane, Margaret Lawrence, Ida Waterman, and Lowell Sherman. The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart was staged at the Klaw Theatre, West 45th Street, New York City, in August 1923. The plot concerned amnesia with the setting (fiction) moving from New York to Wyoming and back. Kane, Regina Wallace, Reginald Barlow, and McKay Morris were the principal actors in the drama. She played Ellen Halpin in the 1925 comedy Loggerheads at the Cherry Lane Theatre. The Booth Theatre produced Paid, written by Sam Forrest, in November 1925. Kane portrayed Mrs John Ramsey in a play which endured for twenty-one performances. Arrest Kane was arrested following a performance of The Captive at the Empire Theater on Broadway in February 1927. The production was considered indecent and a violation of Section 1140A of the New York City Criminal Code for its depiction of homosexuality, although the play had been tried and acquitted of immorality a short time earlier by a citizen's play jury. It was in its fifth month of production. Forty-one arrests were made in total. Two other productions were raided on the same night. They were Sex, playing at Daly's 63rd St. Theater, and The Virgin Man, which was being performed before an audience at the Princess Theater. Among the actors taken to Night Court were Basil Rathbone, Helen Menken, Ann Trevor, Winifred Fraser, John Miltern, and Arthur Lewis. Menken was comforted by Kane as she made her exit after becoming agitated by the glares
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Suburban Wildlife is a 2019 Australian independent coming-of-age drama film directed by Imogen McCluskey in her feature film debut. It was written by McCluskey and Béatrice Barbeau-Scurla. The film stars Maddy McWilliam, Hannah Lehmann, Priscilla Doueihy, and Alex King. It had its world premiere on 9 March 2019 at the Cinequest Film Festival in California. Plot Nina, Louise and Alice are recent university graduates living in Sydney. They celebrate their graduation with Kane, their high school friend who didn't attend university. The mood is dampened as the group struggles to come to terms with Louise's impending move to London for two years. Louise convinces the others to join her on a road trip into regional New South Wales before she leaves. Tensions continue to rise as the friends question what their relationships will be like after Louise moves away. Cast Maddie McWilliam as Nina Hannah Lehmann as Louise Priscilla Doueihy as Alice Alex King as Kane Adrian Giribon as Ravi Madeleine Jurd as Phoebe Emily Havea as Aleea Daniela Haddad as Flora Adam Kovarik as Dylan Divya Vaman as Shivani Production McCluskey and co-writer-producer Béatrice Barbeau-Scurla were students at AFTRS when they started work on the film, and used the school's equipment for the first stages. Suburban Wildlife's production budget of was raised through crowdfunding efforts. Shooting took place over 14 days in Sydney, with post-production (involving two production companies) taking another 18 months. The four main actors – Maddy McWilliam, Hannah Lehmann, Priscilla Doueihy and Alex King – were unknowns and inexperienced. Principal photography took place in February 2017 and lasted fourteen days. Cinematographer Lucca Barone-Peters is a close collaborator and friend of director McCluskey. Release Suburban Wildlife had its world premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival on 9 March 2019. It later had its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival on 8 June 2019. In 2020, US film distributor Gravitas Ventures picked up the film for digital distribution. It became available internationally for video-on-demand rental on 1 December 2020. Reception The Curb gave the film a good review, saying "Suburban Wildlife is low-fi storytelling delivered by knowing storytellers. Nina, Louise, Alice, and Kane, are inhabited characters who are real and lived in...", and posits "Maybe this is a new wave of Australian film – the Sydney millennial angst genre". Blake Howard of Graffiti with Punctuation writes "The moment that you realise you're watching something with key generational insight is as Priscilla Doueihy's Alice delivers a despondent thought about travelling the world to be enriched..." and concludes that the film "may be a debut, but it’s one filled with promise; plying great craft while dwelling in the frustrations and the potentially disastrous actions of the directionless" Awards and nominations Debut Director Award, London Australian Film Festival Runner-up, Audience Award, Sydney Film Festival References 2019 drama films 2019 films 2019 independent films Australian drama films Australian independent films Films set in Sydney 2019 directorial debut films
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Breakdown: In Your House was the 24th In Your House professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; WWE as of 2002). It took place on September 27, 1998, at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Nine matches were held on the PPV, while three matches were held for the Sunday Night Heat pre-show. The promotional poster featured D-Generation X, whose entrance theme was titled "Break It Down." The event is notable for featuring the debut of Christian. The main event was a Triple Threat match between Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker, and Kane for the WWF Championship, which ended in controversy when The Undertaker and Kane simultaneously pinned Austin. Another match at the event was a Triple Threat match in a steel cage between Ken Shamrock, Mankind, and The Rock to determine the number-one contender to the WWF Championship. Production Background In Your House was a series of monthly professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) events first produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in May 1995. They aired when the promotion was not holding one of its then-five major PPVs (WrestleMania, King of the Ring, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, and Royal Rumble), and were sold at a lower cost. Breakdown: In Your House was the 24th In Your House event and took place on September 27, 1998, at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The name of the event was in reference to D-Generation X, whose entrance theme was called "Break It Down". Storylines The event comprised twelve professional wrestling matches with outcomes predetermined by WWF script writers. The matches involved wrestlers portraying their characters in planned storylines that took place before, during, and after the event. The main feud heading into the event was between "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Vince McMahon, who did not want Austin as the WWF Champion. On the September 5 episode of Raw Saturday Night McMahon criticized and insulted The Undertaker and Kane for failing to dethrone Austin. On the September 6 episode of Sunday Night Heat, McMahon apologized and scheduled Austin to defend his title at Breakdown against both in a Triple Threat match. On the September 14 episode of Raw, McMahon added a stipulation that The Undertaker and Kane could not pin each other. He then confronted Austin, who attacked him. The Undertaker and Kane broke up the attack and later that night interfered in Austin's match with Ken Shamrock. With the help of The Rock and Mankind, Austin fought off the attackers and chased after McMahon, who was watching from the aisle. On the September 21 episode of Raw, The Undertaker and Kane defeated Austin and Billy Gunn. After the match, Austin hit The Undertaker and Kane with a chair. McMahon made one more stipulation if anyone interferes in the match on Austin's behalf then Austin would automatically be stripped of the Title. On the same night, in order to prevent Shamrock, The Rock and Mankind from teaming with Austin, McMahon gave them
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The term Jack Mormon is a slang term originating in nineteenth-century America. It was originally used to describe a person who was not a baptized member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints but who was friendly to church members and Mormonism, sympathized with them, and/or took an active interest in their belief system. Sometime in the early- to mid-twentieth century, however, the term began to refer to an individual deemed by adherents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to be an inactive or lapsed member of the LDS Church who, despite their personal religious viewpoint, maintained good relations with and positive feelings toward the church. Origin of the term On April 18, 1845, the term "Jack Mormon" appeared in The Ottawa Free Trader to refer to J. B. Backenstos, the sheriff of Hancock County, who was "friendly to the Mormons, though not one himself." This early published use of the term marks perhaps the earliest appearance of "Jack Mormon" in print, though it was followed soon by other instances in papers such as the New-York Daily Tribune and the Richmond Palladium. Thomas C. Sharp, editor of the Warsaw Signal, also coined the term "Jack-Mason" to refer to those who were sympathetic toward Freemasons in the Anti-Masonic political movement. These sympathetic non-Mormons included Nauvoo Justice of the Peace Daniel H. Wells, who later joined the church, and soldier and diplomat Thomas L. Kane. Kane was identified as a sympathetic Jack Mormon by US Army officials and the media, some of whom asserted that he had been secretly baptised into the LDS faith. However friendly toward the LDS people, Kane remained a Presbyterian all of his life. Several LDS historians believe that the term was used prior to Sharp's mention, and has ties to sympathetic Democrats in Jackson County, Missouri. Their belief is that the term originated in Missouri, during the Kirtland period of Latter Day Saint history, circa 1834. When Church members were expelled from Jackson County by a mob, many fled to Clay County, where local citizens, mostly Democrats, were sympathetic and friendly toward the Mormons. These citizens were pejoratively labeled "Jack" Mormons by the antagonistic citizens of Jackson County. During the early 1980s, it was also used as a description of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church) who broke from the church, in part, over belief in plural marriage. Political usage LDS Church membership was made up predominantly of Democrats until the early 1900s, possibly due to anti-Mormon positions held by the Republican party during the latter half of the 19th century. However, the church's conservative positions on social issues such as sexuality, drug use, traditional family values, and the role of religion in government caused large numbers of previously Democratic Latter-day Saints to shift to the Republican Party by the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the LDS church took a stand against the Equal Rights Amendment, and
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Xanadu is the fictional estate of Charles Foster Kane, the title character of the film Citizen Kane (1941). The estate derives its name from the ancient city of Xanadu, known for its splendor. Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, has been considered to be the main inspiration for Xanadu, due to the William Randolph Hearst/Kane comparison that was a large source of controversy after the film's release. Appearance in the film Built on an immense "private mountain" located on the "deserts of the Gulf Coast" in Florida, Xanadu is described as being the world's largest private estate; "Cost: no man can say," according to the newsreel at the beginning of the film. The newsreel directly quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan, which tells of the title character's erection of a "stately pleasure-dome" in the city of Xanadu. The newsreel also states that Kane specifically conceived the estate for Susan Alexander, his second wife. However, Susan grew to hate Xanadu, calling it "forty-nine thousand acres [76 square miles, 200 km²] of nothing but scenery and statues." The News on the March description of Xanadu—a pastiche of the style of The March of Time news digests then regularly seen in theaters—is as follows: The estate also boasts a championship golf course and a Venetian-style canal with gondolas. The extensive zoo and aquarium were stocked with a menagerie of animals including monkeys, horses, giraffes, birds, octopuses, elephants and donkeys. The estate is enclosed by an iron fence that is entered through a gateway with a giant letter "K" above it. Central to the estate is Xanadu proper, the castle-like mansion that served as Kane's home and repository for his enormous collection of antiquities and objets d'art. Xanadu has a butler and at least a few dozen footmen and maidservants, who are shown at the end of the scene where Kane wrecks his wife's suite after she leaves him. Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York, was used for some exterior shots of Xanadu (particularly of the formal gardens) seen in the opening newsreel. However, most shots of Xanadu were surrealistic, highly stylized matte paintings. Xanadu makes great use of Gothic architecture and, except in the opening newsreel, it always appears in the film at night with fog surrounding it, giving it an ominous look; for Kane, Xanadu becomes more of a prison than a refuge. Xanadu's interior especially does not appear at all homey or cozy, symbolizing the emptiness of Kane's later life. The estate is featured in the opening and closing shots of the film, and is where Kane dies, virtually alone. Though he is still fabulously wealthy at the time of his death, Xanadu, still unfinished according to the newsreel, has already fallen into visible disrepair, presumably from neglect and its impractical size. After his death, Xanadu is abandoned and its contents are cataloged and auctioned. Kane's personal effects, including a sled that reveals the meaning of "Rosebud", are incinerated. Cultural influence Xanadu has been used in recent times to
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El Paso has been featured in many films, as well as in some TV shows and popular music. Events Fleetwood Mac held their first concert that featured Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in El Paso in 1975. Stevie Nicks attended Loretto Academy and Bassett Junior High in El Paso as a teenager. Films (Chronological) Citizen Kane (1941), during the opening News on the March segment, the front page of the fictitious El Paso Daily Journal is shown to announce the death of Charles Foster Kane. "END COMES FOR CHARLES FOSTER KANE" the headline reads. Take the High Ground! (1953), starring Richard Widmark and Karl Malden For a Few Dollars More (1965), the second film in the Dollars Trilogy, starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef, is set in El Paso. Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966), which is reputed to be one of the worst films ever made, was shot in and around El Paso. It premiered in 1966 at the downtown Capri Theater. The Getaway (1972), starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw In The Stepford Wives, El Paso is mentioned by one lady as having comparatively few murders compared to Dallas, because, as she says, they put chemicals in the water to make people passive, and thus she links this to why the women in Stepford are so passive. The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977), starring William Devane Big Wednesday (1978), starring Jan Michael Vincent and Gary Busey When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979), starring Hal Linden and Lee Grant Resurrection (1980), starring Ellen Burstyn In The Border (1982), starring Jack Nicholson and Harvey Keitel, all the border scenes, Nicholson's character's house, the refugee camp scene, and the U.S. Embassy scene were shot in and around El Paso. Wrong is Right (1982), starring Sean Connery Lone Wolf McQuade (1983), starring Chuck Norris and David Carradine Paris, Texas (1984), starring Harry Dean Stanton and Dean Stockwell Lost in America (1985), starring Albert Brooks and Julie Hagerty Extreme Prejudice (1987), starring Nick Nolte and Powers Boothe. Wild at Heart (1990), starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern Blue Sky (1994), starring Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones Last Man Standing (1996) starring Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, Christopher Walken, and Karina Lombard Lolita (1997), starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith On the Border (1998), starring Casper Van Dien, Bryan Brown, Daniel Baldwin Committed (2000), starring Heather Graham Traffic (2000), starring Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dennis Quaid and Don Cheadle The Original Latin Kings of Comedy (2002), featuring George Lopez, Cheech Marin, Joey Medina, Alex Reymundo and Paul Rodriguez was shot at the Abraham Chavez Theater. Saving Jessica Lynch (2003), starring Laura Regan In the films Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), the Two Pines Wedding Chapel massacre is set in El Paso, however the church is actually located in California. Man on Fire (2004), starring Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning The Day After Tomorrow (2004), starring Dennis Quaid and Sela Ward Glory
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Michael Slovis is an American cinematographer and television director. He is best known for his cinematography on the AMC series Breaking Bad. Career Slovis began his professional career in 1981. For many years, he worked as a camera operator on films. He became a cinematographer in 1995, working on the films Party Girl (1995), Half Past Dead (2002), Halloweentown (1998), The Thirteenth Year (1999), and Ready to Run (2000). In 2000, Slovis became a cinematographer on the series Ed, and worked on the series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, New Amsterdam, Fringe, Royal Pains, Rubicon, Running Wilde, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul. As a director, Slovis made his directorial debut with the 2001 television film Spirit. Later, he directed episodes of Ed, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Rubicon, Breaking Bad, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Hell on Wheels In 2006, Slovis won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a One Hour Series for his work on CSI. In 2014, Slovis directed the first two episodes of the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones, titled "The Wars to Come" and "The House of Black and White". In 2017, he directed episode 3 of the second season of the series Preacher. Slovis directed the episodes "Thank You", "Something They Need", and "Worth" of The Walking Dead, and returned to the franchise by directing two episodes of the spin-off series The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. Personal life Slovis currently resides in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife Maria. They have three children. He is an alumnus of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and holds a BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology. References External links American cinematographers American television directors Living people Mass media people from Montclair, New Jersey People from Plainfield, New Jersey Primetime Emmy Award winners Tisch School of the Arts alumni Year of birth missing (living people)
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Nicholas Musuraca, A.S.C. (October 25, 1892 – September 3, 1975) was a motion-picture cinematographer best remembered for his work at RKO Pictures in the 1940s, including many of Val Lewton's series of B-picture horror films. Biography Born in 1892, Nicola Musuraca left his home in Riace, province of Reggio di Calabria, Italy, and emigrated to the United States in 1907. He and his father, Cosimo Musuraca, boarded the Italian steamer Re d'Italia in July 1907, sailing from Naples on July 18 and arriving at the Port of New York on August 3, 1907. There, they were transferred to Ellis Island with their fellow steerage passengers where they underwent federal immigrant inspection. Upon being admitted the father and son set out for Brooklyn to join Cosimo's brother, Francesco. He began his film career as the chauffeur for silent film producer J. Stuart Blackton. He worked behind the scenes on numerous silent and B-movie action films before becoming one of RKO Radio Pictures prime directors of photography in the 1930s. His Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) is sometimes considered the first film-noir. While working regularly at RKO, he joined Val Lewton's unit making low-budget horror-films, being responsible for the cinematography of five of the films produced by Lewton's unit. Musuraca collaborated with director Jacques Tourneur on Cat People (1942) and, after the end of Lewton's time at RKO, Out of the Past (1947). He was nominated for a 1947 Academy Award for his work on I Remember Mama. After working briefly at Warner Bros. in the late 1950s, Musuraca joined Desilu, where he spent his last active years in TV work including the television series F Troop. According to Eric Schaefer: Nicholas Musuraca's name remains unjustly obscure among the ranks of cinematographers from Hollywood's golden age. In his prime years at RKO during the 1940s, Musuraca shuttled back and forth between A- and B-films, prestige pictures, and genre potboilers. For this reason, and because many of the motion pictures photographed by Musuraca have attained a classic or landmark status only recently, he remains a neglected master. Along with Gregg Toland's work on Citizen Kane (1941), Musuraca's cinematography for Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) defined the visual conventions for the film noir and codified the RKO look for the 1940s. Musuraca's photography begins and ends with shadows, owing a major debt to German Expressionism, and can be seen as the leading factor in the resurrection of the style in Hollywood in the 1940s. The dominant tone in his work is black, a stylistic bias that lent itself to the film noir and the moody horror films of Val Lewton. But even within the confines of the studio system Musuraca succeeded in transposing his style to other genres. The western Blood on the Moon (1948) and George Stevens's nostalgic family drama I Remember Mama (1948) are both infused with the same shadowy visuals that Musuraca brought to the horror film in Cat People (1942) and the film noir in The Locket (1946).
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"Wine and Roses" is the first episode of the sixth season of Better Call Saul, the spin-off television series of Breaking Bad. Michael Morris directed the episode written by Peter Gould. It aired back-to-back with "Carrot and Stick" on April 18, 2022, on AMC and AMC+. In several countries outside the United States and Canada, it premiered on Netflix the following day. In the episode, Nacho Varga goes into hiding after aiding in the attempted assassination of Lalo Salamanca, unaware of its failure. Meanwhile, Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler proceed with their scheme to ruin Howard Hamlin's life. The episode's cold open features a glimpse into the life of Jimmy during the events of Breaking Bad when he was better known as Saul Goodman. The sequence was inspired by the classic films Citizen Kane and Sunset Boulevard. It includes an instrumental version of the song "Days of Wine and Roses". The closing shot of the opening shows a callback to an episode from the second season of Better Call Saul. Gould said it was a nod to the ending of Citizen Kane and that he wanted the moment to symbolize Saul's true character. "Wine and Roses" was met with critical acclaim for the direction, screenplay, and on-screen performances. An estimated 1.42 million viewers saw the episode during its first broadcast on AMC. Plot In a flashforward, authorities remove possessions from Saul Goodman's opulent home. As a cabinet is loaded onto a truck, Kim Wexler's souvenir tequila bottle stopper falls into the gutter. In the present, Nacho Varga flees Lalo Salamanca's compound. Tyrus Kitt calls Nacho and directs him to a motel. Lalo arrives at the home of his tenants, Sylvia and Mateo, kills them, then moves Mateo's body to his house to be identified as his. Juan Bolsa calls Gus Fring and tells him that Nacho aided in killing Lalo and that the cartel has placed a bounty on him. Gus questions the circumstances, wondering why the hit team members are all dead if they succeeded in killing Lalo. Nacho reaches the motel room, where he finds a gun, cash, and a new cell phone. He calls Tyrus, who tells him to hide until it is safe to move. Nacho attempts to call Mike Ehrmantraut, who declines to answer. The prosecutor and detective handling Lalo's murder case report that the defendant's name, address, and supposed family are fake and question whether Jimmy is complicit. Jimmy threatens to file misconduct complaints, and mistakenly refers to Lalo by his real name. He explains away the error, but afterward silently berates himself. Kim suggests that if Jimmy intends to practice law as Saul Goodman, upgrades to his home, car, and office are in order. They decide to follow through on Kim's plan to force a resolution of the Sandpiper case by ruining Howard Hamlin's reputation. Later, as Kim surveils Howard and Clifford Main during a round of golf, Jimmy attempts to sneak into the club's locker room and plant a bag resembling cocaine
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Alexander Yellen (born January 26, 1981) is an American cinematographer who is best known for his work on the Syfy zombie series Z Nation, giant monster and disaster movies such as Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus and Titanic II. The former earned praise for Yellen's photography. Early life Born in Washington D.C. to archaeologist John Yellen and anthropology professor Alison Brooks, Alexander Yellen attended St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1999. He studied film at Wesleyan University where he received a B.A. in 2003. Career After college, Yellen moved to Los Angeles. To learn the craft of cinematography, he began working as a camera assistant on a number of student films at the American Film Institute. While building his career and having joined the International Cinematographers Guild as a camera assistant, Yellen had the opportunity to shoot second unit footage under Eric Steelberg, ASC on Quinceañera. Quinceañera won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. This helped Yellen secure a job shooting films for The Asylum. The number of feature films for which he has served as Director of Photography (DP) now totals 72, including the cult classic Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus. He has been DP on 44 feature films as well as numerous commercials and other content. Yellen also shot the film Born Bad for the Lifetime (TV network) and the independent high school comedy Sports Heaven. Yellen has directed eight episodes of Z Nation, at one time Syfy's highest rated show. His most recent work includes Circus Kane and I'll be Watching. Participating in the Race Across America as a crew chief for Team Beaver Creek, Yellen and his team won the race in 2006 and 2007. References External links Official Website American cinematographers 1981 births Living people Wesleyan University alumni People from Washington, D.C. St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.) alumni
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Paul Kane (born March 23, 1950) is an American poet, critic and scholar. Awards for his work include Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, a Fulbright Award, and an honorary doctorate from La Trobe University in Australia. He is also considered an Australian poet. Kane teaches at Vassar College and lives in Warwick, New York. Life Kane was born in a small village in upstate New York and has lived most of his life in the country. Residing in Warwick, NY, since 1974, he also spends time each year in rural Australia, where he built himself a house as a retreat. He finished high school at The Hill School in Pottstown, PA, where he met visiting poet W. H. Auden, and afterwards spent a year at St. Peter's School in York, England, on an English-Speaking Union Fellowship. He subsequently attended Yale University, where he was active in the student movement. After college, he began studying at the Chardavogne Barn, under the tutelage of W. A. Nyland. He spent a decade working various jobs, including teaching, carpentry, landscaping, rug repair and bookselling. Kane received a Fulbright award to the University of Melbourne in 1984 to write a study of Australian poetry. He then spent a year as the Schweitzer Prize Preceptor in Poetics at New York University before returning to Yale in 1986, where he completed a doctorate. Since 1990, he has worked as a professor at Vassar College. Career As an undergraduate at Yale (1969–73) Kane worked with poets Mark Strand, Richard Howard, and Jean Valentine and studied literature with Cleanth Brooks and Harold Bloom. He also met Robert Penn Warren, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsburg (who visited during the student strike in 1970). After college Kane began publishing poems in journals, including Poetry, The New American Review, The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review and Grand Street. After the Fulbright year in Australia, where he befriended poets Vincent Buckley, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Gwen Harwood, Kevin Hart, Philip Hodgins and Les Murray, he worked with John Hollander, Harold Bloom and Geoffrey Hartman at the Yale Graduate School. He taught briefly at Yale before going on to Vassar College. During that time, his first book of poems was published by George Braziller in New York, The Farther Shore (1989), which Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky described as "a dark echo of Robert Frost." In 1994, Kane co-edited the Library of America edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems and Translations, and brought out the following year, Poetry of the American Renaissance: A Diverse Anthology from the Romantic Period (1995, rev. 2012). This was followed by his ground-breaking Australian Poetry: Romanticism and Negativity (1996), hailed as "magnificent" and praised for its "theoretical reach and elegance." Kane's second book of poems, Drowned Lands (2000), continued the personal and historical themes explored in his earlier collection. Harold Bloom praised Kane for adding to "the Virgilian elegance of The Farther Shore a quality of quizzical
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America's Best Dance Crew, often abbreviated as ABDC, is an American competitive dance reality television series that features both national and international dance crews. The show was produced by singer, record producer, and former American Idol judge Randy Jackson. The series premiered on February 7, 2008, on MTV. It was originally developed for NBC as World Moves. The show was hosted by actor Mario Lopez, and featured television personality Layla Kayleigh as the backstage correspondent. The judging panel consisted of hip hop recording artist Lil Mama, singer-songwriter JC Chasez, and dancer Dominic "D-Trix" Sandoval. Former judges included hip hop choreographer Shane Sparks and R&B singer Omarion. After an initial seventh season run, America's Best Dance Crew was cancelled in 2012 due to declining ratings. However, on January 10, 2015, MTV announced that the series would be revived for an eighth season. The new season, titled America's Best Dance Crew All-Stars: Road to the VMAs, premiered on July 29, 2015. Hosted by Jason Dundas, the revival features a new judging panel: hip hop artist T-Pain, recording artist Teyana Taylor, and Broadway performer Frankie Grande. Overview America's Best Dance Crew is a competitive reality show where dance crews showcase their talent and compete for a $100,000 (USD) grand prize and the golden ABDC trophy (a figure of a b-boy doing a freeze, with its legs moving like a bobblehead). Each week, the crews are given a challenge. The challenges are different for each crew, but have the same general concept or share a specific theme. To begin each episode, host Mario Lopez reveals, in no particular order, which crews are safe and which crews are at risk for elimination. After the crews in the bottom perform their routines, the judges decide which crew will advance to the next round. Another unique aspect of ABDC is the crew banner. Each banner's logo represents its respective crew, appearing during interviews, performances, and on various merchandise. It is also used as a transition effect. When a crew is eliminated, their banner falls from the top of the stadium, where the banners of the crews still in the running stand. The contestants are allowed to dance one final time on the stage as they "walk it out" to the song of the same name. Season summary Controversy MTV and Randy Jackson were sued by entertainer and activist Dwight McGhee, publicly known as rapper Citizen Charlie Kane, in 2010. Kane had pitched the show concept to MTV in 2004 and MTV "passed" on the concept. When Charlie Kane saw a commercial that depicted the 1970s Warriors' movie that looked exactly like his pitch demo DVD, he filed the suit. Many production elements between the show and Kane's 2003 copyright registration of a "break-dancing league" were identical. TMZ and NYPost were a couple among the many major media organizations to run the story. Viacom/MTV and Charlie Kane came to a mutual settlement in 2011. International distribution ABDC airs on MTV in the Caribbean, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Argentina, Russia
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An audio commentary is an additional audio track, usually digital, consisting of a lecture or comments by one or more speakers, that plays in real time with a video. Commentaries can be serious or entertaining in nature, and can add information which otherwise would not be disclosed to audience members. History The Criterion Collection introduced audio commentary on the LaserDisc format, which was able to accommodate multiple audio tracks. The first commentary track, for the 1933 film King Kong, was recorded by Ronald Haver, a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and was inspired by the stories Haver told while supervising the film-to-video transfer process. Criterion expected that the commentary would only be of interest to serious film students. It received a favorable reaction, and his commentary on King Kong is considered to ultimately have started the trend. Haver went on to provide commentaries for Criterion for the rest of his life. Excerpt of Haver's commentary for King Kong: DVD and Blu-ray audio commentaries DVDs, Blu-rays, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays have made audio commentary a key component of special features. They often include commentary from cinematographers, screenwriters, actors, producers, directors, film historians, film critics and subject matter experts. For example, American cinematographer Garrett Brown, the inventor of the steadicam, is featured throughout the audio commentary track for The Shining, where he discusses his work with the ground-breaking technology. The DVD of the science-fiction movie Sunshine, directed by Danny Boyle, contains an audio track with English physicist and professor of particle physics Brian Cox. In the cast commentary for The Silence of the Lambs, former F.B.I. criminal profiler John Douglas, an advisor to the filmmakers, offers his anecdotes about the film. The box set of The Ultimate Matrix Collection, has two audio commentaries on each film, one by philosophers who loved it; Dr. Cornel West and Ken Wilber, and one by critics who hated it; Todd McCarthy, John Powers and David Thomson. The DVD release of Ghostbusters contains a video commentary track with director Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, and Joe Medjuck, with silhouettes of the trio added to imitate Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Blu-ray edition of the film Galaxy Quest includes a tongue-in-cheek trivia commentary called "Galactopedia", by American graphic designer Michael Okuda, known for his work on Star Trek, and Denise Okuda, co-author of the Star Trek Encyclopedia. On the DVD release of Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore allowed his interns, secretary and production assistants to record the audio commentary for his documentary. In the commentary for True Romance, Quentin Tarantino, who wrote the film script, explains why he didn’t direct the movie himself, and the inspiration behind him writing the script. For The Goonies audio track, many of the original cast members, Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman and Martha Plimpton, along with director Richard Donner, reunited and watched the film together, offering their opinions on the classic comedy film. Film directors commentary Film directors can also provide their perspective into how a film
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John Mathieson (born 3 May 1961) is an English cinematographer and commercial director. He is one of a group of filmmakers who emerged from the music video industry of the late 1980s and 1990s. He is a frequent collaborator with director Ridley Scott, acting as director of photography on most of his films beginning with Gladiator (2000), for which he won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. He has worked with directors like Joel Schumacher, Rowan Joffé, Matthew Vaughn, Guy Ritchie, James Mangold, and Rob Letterman. Life and career Mathieson was born on Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England. Beginning his career in the British film industry as camera assistant to Gabriel Beristain, Mathieson worked his way through the ranks. In 1988 he garnered recognition for the ground breaking video "Peek-a-Boo" for Siouxsie and the Banshees, directed by Peter Scammell. He collaborated with John Maybury, director of the Sinéad O'Connor video "Nothing Compares 2 U", going on to photograph Maybury's award-winning film Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon. Mathieson honed his craft through the 1990s shooting numerous television commercials and music videos for artists including Madonna, Prince and Massive Attack. In the mid 1990s Mathieson photographed two feature films for director Karim Dridi, for which he was later bestowed the honour of Chevalier by the French government. He came to the attention of Tony Scott whilst shooting television commercials for the London-based company RSA Films. After working as visual effects cinematographer on Enemy of the State for Tony Scott, Mathieson photographed the film Plunkett & Macleane for Jake Scott. Having seen Mathiesons work on Plunkett, Ridley Scott invited him to work on his next project. Mathieson has photographed five films for Ridley Scott, nominated for an Academy Award for Gladiator in 2000 and won the BAFTA award for best Cinematography in the same year. His second Oscar nomination came for The Phantom of the Opera (2004) directed by Joel Schumacher. Despite a career now cemented in big budget film production, Mathieson maintains links with independent British film, working on more modest budget projects including Trauma directed by Marc Evans and Stoned directed by Stephen Woolley. Mathieson acted as cinematographer on the DC Films production Batgirl. The film was cancelled in August 2022. Personal life Mathieson lives in the United Kingdom, and is married to Maria Tarmander. He has earned a Knighthood of the Order of Arts and Letters for his contributions to the entertainment industry. Filmography Short film Feature film Television TV series TV movies Documentary works Short film Feature film TV series TV movies Music video Awards and nominations References External links New Cinematographers by Alex Ballinger The Phantom of the Opera Oscar nomination Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers 1961 births Best Cinematography BAFTA Award winners English cinematographers Living people People from Dorset
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FEST — New Directors | New Films Festival is a film festival and training event which occurs annually in the city of Espinho, Portugal. FEST has the purpose of "promoting the work of new directors from all over the world". Parallel to the film competition, there is Training Ground, an educational event for young filmmakers. The speakers are top experts with recognized achievements. History New Directors | New Films Festival, was founded in 2004, as FEST – Youth Video and Film Festival. It was born out of the necessity to create a space where new and up-and-coming filmmakers could screen their work. Among many other objectives was the will to promote already established names alongside new one, in order to open new paths for new talents to break through. The year 2005 marked the beginning of the Film Students Encounter, the event that would later be developed and renamed Training Ground. Training Ground had its first official date in 2009. In that year Tom Stern (cinematographer of Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino) and Álex Rodríguez (film editor of Y Tu Mamá También and Children of Men) were among the speakers. This first edition had a total of 160 young filmmakers from 25 different countries. In 2013, the festival was renamed FEST New Directors | New Films Festival. Training Ground Training Ground is an educational event that takes place alongside the film festival. It welcomes internacional film experts who share knowledge about their craft, as well hundreds of film students from all over the world, who come together for a week-long learning experience. Since its beginning in 2009, Training Ground's speakers list has included: Melissa Leo (Frozen River, The Fighter), Peter Webber (Girl with a Pearl Earring, Hannibal Rising), Christian Berger (The Piano Teacher, The White Ribbon), Tariq Anwar (American Beauty, The King's Speech), Fernando Trueba (Belle Époque, Chico and Rita), Tom Stern (Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino), Martin Walsh (Chicago, Wonder Woman), Laurence Bennett (Crash, The Artist), Eugenio Caballero (Pan's Labyrinth, The Impossible), Álex Rodríguez (Y Tu Mamá También, Children of Men), Larry Smith (Eyes Wide Shut, Only God Forgives), Kjartan Sveinsson (Vanilla Sky, 127 Hours), and David Macmillan (The Right Stuff, Apollo 13). Training Ground is dedicated to all film production areas from editing, sound editing, production design, music, cinematography, screenwriting, directing, acting, among others. It is made up of an intensive week of masterclasses, workshops and other events. References External links FEST New Directors | New Films Festival (Official Page) Film festivals in Portugal 2004 establishments in Portugal
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Matthew Frank Leonetti A.S.C. (born July 31, 1941) is an American cinematographer. Accomplished and highly prolific, he has worked on dozens of well-known and acclaimed films spanning numerous genres, including Poltergeist, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Weird Science, Jagged Edge, Strange Days, and Star Trek: First Contact. He has collaborated with directors such as Tobe Hooper, Walter Hill, John Hughes, Kenneth Branagh, Kathryn Bigelow, Zack Snyder, and The Farrelly Brothers. Early life Leonetti was born in Los Angeles, California in 1941. His father Frank was a filmmaker and cinematographer who served as a gaffer and lighting technician on low-budget B-movies like The Violent Years, Frankenstein's Daughter, and Beyond the Time Barrier. Career Leonetti began his career working on a number of projects with his father, serving as a camera operator on films like Adam at 6 A.M. and The Organization. He soon fell in with Jerry Jameson, a prolific television director who dabbled in feature films. His debut as cinematographer was The Bat People, a horror B-movie directed by Jameson and starring Stewart Moss and Michael Pataki, on which he also served as an executive producer. Though the film came and went with little fanfare, it did gain a minor cult following years later after being featured on an episode Mystery Science Theater 3000. Leonetti spent much of the 1970s shooting made-for-television films directed by Jameson. In 1979, Leonetti shot his first big-budget theatrical film in the form of the Academy Award-winning Breaking Away, directed by Peter Yates. Three years later, he shot the Academy Award-nominated Poltergeist, where he was responsible for creating many of the film's iconic images. This proved to be his big break, and in the following years he quickly became one of the most prolific and accomplished DPs in the film industry, shooting films like Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Weird Science, Commando, and Jagged Edge. In 1987, he began a collaboration with director Walter Hill, which would continue of the course of several films into the 1990s. Throughout that decade, he would work with directors like Kenneth Branagh, Kathryn Bigelow, and William Dear. His work on the cult science fiction noir Strange Days earned him a nomination for Best Cinematography from the Chicago Film Critics Association. He shot two entries in the Star Trek film franchise, and served as DP on his brother John R. Leonetti's directorial debut, Mortal Kombat Annihilation. In the early 2000s, Leonetti shot a string of blockbuster thriller and action films; including Along Came a Spider, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Rush Hour 2, and The Butterfly Effect. He shot the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead, which served as the feature film debut of director Zack Snyder. Since 2006, he has mostly worked on comedy films, many of which are directed by the Farrelly Brothers. In 2015, he was the recipient of a Special Honor Prize, the President's Award, from the American Society of Cinematographers. Personal life Leonetti has a younger brother, John, who is himself a prolific cinematographer and
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The Fluffer, a 2001 American independent film. It focuses on the adult video industry. The film was written by Wash West and co-directed by West and his husband Richard Glatzer. The Fluffer features cameos from a number of figures in the adult entertainment industry, including Ron Jeremy, director Chi Chi LaRue, Karen Dior, Zach Richards, Derek Cameron, Chad Donovan, Thomas Lloyd, Jim Steel, Chris Green and Cole Tucker. The Fluffer was an official selection of and premiered in 2001 at the 51st Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlin International Film Festival). It was also selected for the Toronto International Film Festival that year, where it made its North American debut. Plot Sean McGinnis is a film student who moves to Los Angeles to break into the movie business. While looking for work, he passes the time watching rented videos, preferring classic films. He sets out to watch Citizen Kane, but the videotape has accidentally been switched with an adult movie called Citizen Cum. Sean becomes instantly obsessed with the star of Citizen Cum, Johnny Rebel. His interest in Johnny leads Sean to turn down work in the mainstream film industry to become a cameraman for Men of Janus, the production company that has Johnny under exclusive contract. On his first shoot, Sean ends up as a "fluffer" for Johnny, performing (offscreen) oral sex on him to help him maintain an erection and reach orgasm for the "money shot." He learns that Johnny's real name is Mikey, he is "gay-for-pay" and doesn't perform oral sex on other men or even kiss. Johnny has Sean fluff him on additional productions, and Sean's infatuation continues to grow. He confides his feelings for Johnny to co-worker Silver, who tells him that the relationship is hopeless because Johnny's a porn star and straight. Meanwhile, Johnny's girlfriend Julie, who works as a stripper under her stagename Babylon but who has tried to move into mainstream acting, learns she is pregnant. Trying to break from Johnny, Sean begins dating an acupuncture student named Brian. However, Brian breaks up with Sean because of his emotional unavailability, the result of his continuing obsession with Johnny, and because Brian had a bad experience with a past boyfriend who could not have sex without watching porn. Johnny's crystal meth use spirals out of control. He goes on a five-day binge and misses a scheduled film shoot. The film's producer Sam Martins forces Sean to fluff Johnny's replacement for the shoot. Johnny shows up late to the set and is fired. Julie decides to get an abortion since she cannot rely on Johnny to help raise a child. She breaks up with Johnny and changes the locks to her apartment. An expensive video camera goes missing at the studio, and company manager Chad Cox is found dead in his apartment. The police seek Johnny, under his real name Michael Rossini, for questioning. Johnny turns to Sean for help, and together they flee to Mexico. Once in Mexico, Sean sells his car for getaway money,
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Jim Frohna is an American cinematographer and director, best known for his work on the ground-breaking, award-winning Amazon series Transparent and I Love Dick as well as the Apple TV+ series Shrinking and the Emmy-winning HBO show Big Little Lies. Early life and education Frohna was born and raised in Greendale, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then transferred to New York University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Tisch School of the Arts. Career Frohna's work as a director of photography is known for conveying a palpable sense of intimacy and for capturing the female gaze. In a 2014 IndieWire interview for Transparent, cast members praised Frohna's approach:"Jim is probably the most intuitive [director of photography] I've ever worked with. He knows before you know where the action is going to go. During this one scene with an argument, he was lying in the floor just covered in sweat afterward. He's not just photographing it, he's experiencing it. He was all but a cast member."Frohna began his career as a commercial cinematographer when he stepped in for director of photography Joaquin Baca Asay on the notable Sony Bravia's Sony Balls commercial for director Nicolai Fuglsig in 2005. Frohna first collaborated with Joey Soloway as director of photography on the comedy-drama Afternoon-Delight, for which Soloway won the award for Best Director at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to Soloway, he has worked as director of photography with over 25 eminent DGA directors, including Andrea Arnold, Mike Mills, Michael Showalter, Zetna Fuentes, James Ponsoldt, Jay Duplass, Peyton Reed, Kimberley Pierce, Davis Guggenheim and Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris. From 2014 through 2019, Frohna continued with what became a long, rich collaboration with Soloway, serving as the cinematographer on all 5 seasons of the ground-breaking, Emmy-award winning Amazon series Transparent, starring Jeffrey Tambor, Gaby Hoffmann, Jay Duplass, Amy Landecker and Judith Light, In 2017, Frohna joined Soloway and acclaimed indie director Andrea Arnold on the Amazon series I Love Dick, starring Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn. In 2017 Frohna also served as cinematographer on four episodes of the Showtime series I'm Dying Up Here, starring Melissa Leo, Michael Angarano, and Sebastian Stan. In addition to cinematography, Frohna served as director for multiple episodes of Transparent, including The Book of Life and I Never Promised You a Promised Land, and of I Love Dick for the episode This Is Not A Love Letter. In February 2018, Frohna began pre-production with director Andrea Arnold for season 2 of the HBO series Big Little Lies, starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Zoë Kravitz, and Laura Dern. Awards and nominations Filmography Film Television Personal life Frohna is married to artist and producer Diana Kunce; they collaborated on the 2018 Sundance Official Selection short Eve with Susan Bay-Nimoy. and the 2019 Sundance Episodic pilot It's Not About Jimmy Keene. They have two children and reside in Los Angeles, CA. References External links Jim Frohna Official Site Year of birth unknown
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Sybil Kent Kane (1856 – February 15, 1946) was an American socialite who was prominent in New York Society during the Gilded Age. Early life Kane was born at the family home on August 28, 1844, in Newport, Rhode Island. She was the second youngest of eight children born to Oliver DeLancey Kane and Louisa Dorothea (née Langdon). Kane's brothers were Walter Langdon Kane, John Innes Kane, DeLancey Astor Kane, S. Nicholson Kane, and Woodbury Kane. Her sisters were the artist Louisa Langdon Kane, and Emily Astor Kane (who married Augustus Jay and was the mother of Peter Augustus Jay). She was a granddaughter of Walter Langdon and Dorothea (née Astor) of the Astor family and a great-granddaughter of John Jacob Astor. Kane was also a cousin of Lt. Col. John Jacob Astor IV. Her paternal lineage descended from John O'Kane who emigrated to the country in 1752 from County Londonderry and Antrim, Ireland. During the American Revolutionary War, O'Kane (who dropped the "'O" once in America) was living at Sharyvogne, his estate in Dutchess County, which was confiscated after the War due to his Loyalist times. His eldest son, John Jr., stayed and became one of the most prominent merchants in New York. In New York, the family lived at 23 West 47th Street. In Newport, the family lived at "Beach Cliffe", designed by Detlef Lienau, which was one of the earliest Newport cottages "to attain a sort of Beaux-Arts purity." Society life In 1892, Kane, as the youngest unmarried daughter of her parents, and two of her brothers (Nicholson, DeLancey, and his wife Eleanora Iselin) were included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times. Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom. Personal life Kane, who never married and had no children, lived a relatively modest life at her home in Little Neck on Long Island. She inherited from her parents and siblings, several of whom also died unmarried, upon their deaths. Kane died at her home on Long Island on February 15, 1946, and was the last surviving member of her immediate family. Her funeral services were held at the Chapel of the Comforter at 10 Horatio Street in New York City and she was buried alongside her family at the Island Cemetery in Newport. Notes References 1856 births 1946 deaths Sybil Kent Kane People from Douglaston–Little Neck, Queens People from Manhattan Kane family Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery
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