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Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini , 1906-77, Italian film director and producer. He first received international attention in 1946 with Open City, which was made clandestinely during the Fascist period and became the key film of the neorealist movement. He brought the real world into films by mixing non-actors... Read more |
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury , 1920-, American writer, b. Waukegan, Ill. A popular and very prolific writer of science fiction , Bradbury skillfully combines social and technological criticism with delightful fantasy. His best-known work is probably The Martian Chronicles (1950), the tale of the ruin of Martian... Read more |
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Ian Lancaster Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming 1908-64, English spy novelist, b. London. Son of a Conservative member of Parliament, Fleming was educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and Munich and Geneva universities and worked as Reuters' Moscow correspondent (1929-33), a stockbroker (1935-39), a British naval intelligence... Read more |
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Peter Greenaway
GREENAWAY, Peter Nationality:British. Born:Newport, Gwent, Wales, 5 April 1942. Education:Studied painting. Career:had first exhibition of paintings, London, 1964; worked as a film editor for the Central Office of Information, 1965–76; directed his... Read more |
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American Film Institute
American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase recognition and understanding of... Read more |
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Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner 1918-86, American lyricist and librettist, b. New York City. After two years as a radio scriptwriter, Lerner began an association with the composer Frederick Loewe that resulted in several popular musicals, including Brigadoon (1947, film 1954), Paint Your Wagon (1951, film... Read more |
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Sir Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Ustinov , 1921-2004, English writer, director, and actor, b. London. A witty, charming, and cosmopolitan man, he debuted on the London stage at 18 and subsequently moved easily between English, French, and American film and theater. He wrote more than two dozen plays, among them Romanoff... Read more |
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Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo , 1933-, French film actor, b. Neuilly-sur-Seine, studied Paris Conservatory. Belmondo made his film debut in 1957, but first gained fame in Breathless (1960), playing a restless, flippant young hoodlum. His particularly disengaged style appealed to young audiences of the day,... Read more |
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Jane Campion
Jane Campion 1954-, New Zealand film director, b. Wellington; grad. Victoria Univ., Wellington (1975), Sydney College of the Arts, Australia (1979), Australian School of Film and Television, Sydney (1984). Campion, who both wrote and directed most of her early films, is particularly adept at... Read more |
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Getting the big picture: Henry James on film.(Adapting Henry James to the...
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Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision.(book review)(Brief...
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The Angel of Darkness.
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Reading for the beach: The good, the lad and the girlie fiction
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Every year, scores of horses are mutilated in sinister ritual attacks. They...
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Getting the Big Picture: Henry James on Film
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TELEVISION DOCUDRAMA AS ALTERNATIVE RECORDS OF HISTORY
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