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- Writer
- Director
- Editor
Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from
university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic
designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of
Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and this
started his career as a filmmaker at the age of 30. Since then he has
made many movies and has become one of the most important figures in
contemporary Iranian film. He is also a major figure in the arts world,
and has had numerous gallery exhibitions of his photography, short
films and poetry. He is an iconic figure for what he has done, and he
has achieved it all by believing in the arts and the creativity of his
mind.- Art Department
- Composer
- Set Decorator
Behzad Yahaghi was born in Theran, Iran in 1950 to a family of
musicians.
He graduated at the Theran High School of Fine Arts, and then traveled
in many places and met many people in the industry.
He went to work in Rome, and in New York (for The New York Times)as
well as many other works.
Behzad has devoted his life to his art and beliefs in spirituality, and
maintains them in his works of art.
In the late 1990s he worked on the film by Joao Botelho film _Quem És Tu? (2000)_ as
set decorator and artist (the film won at Venice).
Currently of the way is a film about the art and Spirituality of Behzad
"The Art and Spirituality in Behzad Yahaghi" (2005), which will allow a
special insight to the life and work of the man.- Frederick Oxby was born in London, England, moved at a young age to
Belgium and joined a drama class. He was selected and cast as "Young
Robert" in the 1999 film "A Dog of Flanders". However, he gave up
acting to join a punk rock band called Ducttape. - Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Jan de Bont was one of 17 children born into a Roman Catholic Dutch family in Eindhoven on 22 October 1943. Credited with being creative and having a good mentality for camera techniques, he became a popular cinematographer. He worked on a huge number of films before finding himself on the production of Speed (1994), his first film as a director. He has resided in Los Angeles since 1968.
The film was a success and took him onto the next
set for Twister (1996), which he also directed. But then the total flops started coming his way: firstly, Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), which he wrote and directed but without the company of Keanu Reeves. He also directed the star-packed The Haunting (1999) but that also failed at the box office. Later, he directed Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003). He is still active in cinema.- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Michael Francis Moore was born in Flint, Michigan on April 23, 1954,
and was raised in its Davison suburb. He is the son of Helen Veronica
(Wall), a secretary, and Francis Richard Moore, who worked on an auto
assembly line. He has Irish, as well as English and Scottish, ancestry.
Moore studied journalism at the University of Michigan-Flint, and also
pursued other hobbies such as gun shooting, for which he even won a
competition. Michael began his journalistic career writing for the
school newspaper "The Michigan Times," and after dropping out of
college briefly worked as editor for "Mother Jones."
He then turned to filmmaking, and to earn the money for the budget of
his first film Roger & Me (1989) he
ran neighborhood bingo games. The success of this film launched his
career as one of America's best-known and most controversial
documentarians. He has produced a string of documentary films and TV
series predominantly about the same subject: attacks on corrupt
politicians and greedy business corporations. He landed his first big
hit with
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
about the bad points of the right to bear arms in America, which earned
him an Oscar and a big reputation. He then shook the world with his
even bigger hit
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), making
fun of President George W. Bush. This is
the highest-grossing documentary of all time. Michael is known for
having the guts to give his opinion in public, which not many people
are courageous enough to do, and for that is respected by many.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Winner was an only child, born in Hampstead, London, England, to Helen (née Zlota) and George Joseph Winner (1910-1975), a company director. His family was Jewish; his mother was Polish and his father of Russian extraction. Following his father's death, Winner's mother gambled recklessly and sold art and furniture worth around £10m at the time, bequeathed to her not only for her life but to Michael thereafter. She died aged 78 in 1984.
He was educated at St Christopher School, Letchworth, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he read law and economics. He also edited the university's student newspaper, Varsity (he was the youngest ever editor up to that time, both in age and in terms of his university career, being only in the second term of his second year). Winner had earlier written a newspaper column, 'Michael Winner's Showbiz Gossip,' in the Kensington Post from the age of 14. The first issue of Showgirl Glamour Revue in 1955 has him writing another film and showbusiness gossip column, "Winner's World". Such jobs allowed him to meet and interview several leading film personalities, including James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. He also wrote for the New Musical Express.
He began his screen career as an assistant director of BBC television programmes, cinema shorts, and full-length "B" productions, occasionally writing screenplays. In 1957 he directed his first travelogue, This is Belgium, shot largely on location in East Grinstead. His first on-screen credit was earned as a writer for the crime film Man with a Gun (1958) directed by Montgomery Tully. Winner's first credit on a cinema short was Associate Producer on the film Floating Fortress (1959) produced by Harold Baim. Winner's first project as a lead director involved another story he wrote, Shoot to Kill (1960). He would regularly edit his own movies, using the pseudonym "Arnold Crust". He graduated to first features with Play It Cool (1962), a pop musical starring Billy Fury.
Winner's first significant film was West 11 (1963), a sympathetic study of rootless drifters in the then seedy Notting Hill area of London. Filmed on location (always Winner's preference), with a script by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse, the film remains an interesting contribution to the working-class realism wave of the early 1960s. Following differences with his producer, Daniel Angel, Winner (who had wanted to cast Julie Christie in the main female role) resolved to produce as well as direct his films and set up his own company, Scimitar. The Girl-Getters (1964) and the hectic, dystopian I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967) were paired pieces starring Oliver Reed that continued Winner's exploration of alienated youth adrift in a rising tide of affluence, dreaming of an alternative life they can never achieve. These films and the exuberant 'Swinging London' comedy The Jokers (1967), also starring Reed, were well-suited to Winner's restless, intrusive camera style and staccato editing. They were followed by Hannibal Brooks (1969), a witty Second World War comedy written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, which attracted attention in America and led to Winner pursuing a Hollywood career in the 1970s.
Winner now developed a new reputation as an efficient maker of violent action thrillers, often starring Charles Bronson. The most successful and controversial was Death Wish (1974), with Bronson cast as a liberal architect who embraces vengeance after the murder of his wife and daughter. An intelligent analysis of the deep roots of vigilantism in American society, Death Wish is restrained in its depiction of violence. With his obsessive need to work, Winner accepted many inferior projects, including two weak Death Wish sequels, though occasionally he tried to make more prestigious films, notably The Nightcomers (1971), a prequel to Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, made in Britain with Marlon Brando; and A Chorus of Disapproval (1989), a satisfying version of Alan Ayckbourn's bittersweet comedy.
By the 1990s Winner had become less prolific, and reaped no benefit from the Lottery-prompted rise in genre film-making, which favoured the young and inexperienced. Dirty Weekend (1993), a rape-revenge movie with a female vigilante, aroused considerable controversy, but hardly enhanced Winner's reputation; Parting Shots (1998), a comedy revenge thriller suffused with allusions to Death Wish and restaurant scenes invoking Winner's current incarnation as a food critic, is perhaps his swan song.
In an interview with The Times newspaper, Winner said liver specialists had told him in summer 2012 that he had between 18 months and two years to live. He said he had researched assisted suicide offered at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, but found the bureaucracy of the process off-putting. Winner died at his home, Woodland House in Holland Park, on 21 January 2013, aged 77. Winner was buried following a traditional Jewish funeral at Willesden Jewish Cemetery.- Renato Terra, formally Renato Caizi, was born in Naples to a poor
family. He found a great interest in acting, and by hanging around
Cinecitta in Rome he eventually found odd jobs in films, he then
changed his professional acting name to Terra. His unfortunate event
came at the peak of his career during the shooting of a western scene
in which he fell from a horse and broke his nose, he was really upset
as he was convinced that the accident disfigured his face and ruined
the successful acting career he was hoping for, however that did not
stop him from continuing to work with some of the Italian
Cinematography's biggest stars like Toto' and director Franco
Zeffirelli (Gesus of Nazareth). He continued acting till the mid 1970s
when he retired so continue another great passion of his, Poetry, and
even published a book called "Che Strano Paese".