Steve McQueen (director) McQueen was born in London and is of Grenadian[9] descent.[10][11] He grew up in Hanwell, West London and went to Drayton Manor High School.[12][13] In a 2014 interview, McQueen stated that he had a very bad experience in school, where he had been placed into a class for students believed best suited "for manual labour, more plumbers and builders, stuff like that." Later, the new head of the school would admit that there had been "institutional" racism at the time. McQueen added that he was dyslexic and had to wear an eyepatch due to a lazy eye, and reflected this may be why he was "put to one side very quickly".[11] He was a keen football player, turning out for the St. Bear (1993) was McQueen's first major film, presented at the Royal College of Art in London. Five Easy Pieces (1995) is a short film by McQueen. Just Above My Head (1996) is a short film which shares close ties with McQueen's preceding film with the key theme of walking. Brockington, Horace.
IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS Memento, de Christopher Nolan [Dossier] C'est l'histoire d'un film d'exception, un film qui s'affranchit de toutes les règles de narration, un film renversant qui a porté plus d'un cerveau à ébullition. Il s'agit du second long-métrage d'un réalisateur britannique qui deviendra par la suite un poids lourd à Hollywood. À la fois révolutionnaire et fondateur, "Memento" ne laisse personne indifférent. Mais quelle est son histoire, son message ? Dans quel contexte a-t-il été écrit et réalisé ? Une histoire de famille… L'histoire commence en 1996, au mois de juillet. Le puzzle "Memento"… On pourrait résumer le génie narratif de Christopher Nolan par une seule de ses idées. En réalité, il ne s'agit pas simplement de raconter l'histoire de manière anti-chronologique. C'est en grande partie la manière dont il est construit qui fait de "Memento" un grand film, un film qu'il faut avoir vu pour se prévaloir d'une quelconque culture cinématographique. On touche ici à une nouvelle particularité du cinéma de Nolan. L'ouverture… La jonction…
David O. Russell Three of Russell's most recent films were critically acclaimed and commercial hits: The Fighter (2010), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and American Hustle (2013). These films have earned Russell three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, as well as a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for Silver Linings Playbook and a Best Original Screenplay nomination for American Hustle. Early life[edit] Russell was born in New York City to Maria (née Muzio) and Bernard (Markovski)[1][2][3] Russell. Russell received his A.B. degree from Amherst College, where he majored in English and Politics, in 1981.[4][19] He wrote his senior thesis on the United States intervention in Chile from 1963 to 1973.[20] Career[edit] Early career[edit] Russell directed a documentary about Panamanian immigrants in Boston,[23] which led to a job as a production assistant on a PBS series called Smithsonian World.[8] Spanking the Monkey[edit] Flirting with Disaster[edit] Three Kings[edit] I Heart Huckabees[edit]
Christopher Nolan: "On ne laisse plus le choix aux artistes" Quelle était l’idée de départ d’Interstellar ? Christopher Nolan – Mon frère avait écrit le scénario, Steven Spielberg devait le tourner, ça ne s’est pas produit. Je l’ai récupéré et je l’ai combiné avec un autre de mes scénarios. D’où vient votre intérêt pour la conquête spatiale ? J’ai grandi à une époque où les programmes spatiaux étaient encore très actifs. Outre Star Wars, quelles sont les oeuvres de SF qui ont compté pour vous ? Plus des films que des livres. Pourriez-vous être plus précis sur 2001 : quels souvenirs gardez-vous de la première vision ? Je l’ai vu avec mon père et mon grand frère. La poussière, justement, est une référence au “Dust Bowl”, fameuse série de tempêtes qui toucha les Etats-Unis dans les années 30, mais c’est aussi une métaphore du temps qui se dépose… Pensez-vous qu’on soit amené à revivre le passé ? >> A lire aussi : Interstellar, le blockbuster visionnaire et cérébral de Christopher Nolan L’écologie vous sensibilise-t-elle ? Pas autant que je devrais.
Paul Schrader Schrader's upbringing and critical writing[edit] Schrader was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Joan (née Fisher) and Charles A. Schrader, an executive.[1] Schrader's family practiced in the Calvinist Christian Reformed Church,[2][3] and his early life was based upon the religion's strict principles and parental education. He did not see a film until he was seventeen years old, and was able to sneak away from home. In an interview he stated that The Absent-Minded Professor was the first film he saw. The September–October 2006 issue of Film Comment magazine published his essay Canon Fodder which attempted to establish criteria for judging film masterworks. Other film-makers who made a lasting impression on Schrader are John Ford, Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, Alfred Hitchcock and Sam Peckinpah. Film career[edit] In 1999, Schrader received the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America. Theatre career[edit] Themes[edit] Filmography[edit]
Christopher Nolan Né d'un père anglais et d'une mère américaine, Christopher Nolan a commencé dès son plus jeune âge à réaliser des films avec la caméra 8mm de son père, et ce malgré son daltonisme. Son court métrage en 8mm, Tarantella, est diffusé aux États-Unis sur la chaîne PBS alors qu'il est encore étudiant en lettres à l'Université de Londres.Au milieu des années 90, il tourne en 16 mm deux courts métrages, Larceny et Doodlebug, suivis de son premier long métrage à petit budget et en noir et blanc, Following (1998). Le succès de cette histoire de voyeurisme, dans différents festivals, permet à Christopher Nolan de réaliser, deux ans plus tard, Memento. Grâce à une construction ingénieuse (une succession de flash-backs), qui lui vaut d'ailleurs une nomination aux Oscars, Memento devient culte dans le monde entier. Nolan est alors courtisé par les grands studios ... Lire plus
Otto Preminger Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian American theatre and film director. Early life[edit] My father believed that it was impossible to be too kind or too loving to a child. He never punished me. After the assassination in 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne, which led to the Great War, Russia entered the war on the Serbian side. After a year in Graz, the decisive public prosecutor was summoned to Vienna, where he was offered an eminent position, roughly equivalent to that of the United States Attorney General. Career[edit] Theater[edit] As the war came to an end, Markus formed his own law practice. Preminger explained to his father that a career in theater was not just a ploy to excuse himself from school. Reinhardt may have had reservations about Preminger's acting but he quickly detected the young man's abilities as an administrator. Hollywood[edit] Sam Spiegel accompanied Preminger from Vienna to Paris by train. Laura[edit]
jfox memento Agnès Varda Agnès Varda (born 30 May 1928) is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School.[1] Her films, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style. Early life[edit] Varda was born Arlette Varda in Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium, the daughter of Christiane (née Pasquet) and Eugène Jean Varda, an engineer on May 30, 1928.[2] Her mother was French and her father came from a family of Greek refugees from Asia Minor. When she was a teenager, she escaped Belgium in 1940 and fled to Sète, France to live with the rest of her family. Personal life[edit] While living in Paris, she met her husband, Jacques Demy. Varda was one of the five people to attend Jim Morrison's burial in 1971 in Paris at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. Varda's handprints at Cannes Professional life[edit] Agnès Varda is a significant figure in modern French cinema. Involvement in the French New Wave[edit] Style[edit]
jorja fox Billy Wilder Billy Wilder (/ˈwaɪldər/; German: [ˈvɪldɐ]; June 22, 1906[1] – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people to have won Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film (The Apartment), and was the first person to accomplish this.[2] Life and career[edit] Austria and Germany[edit] Born Samuel Wilder to a Jewish family in Sucha Beskidzka, Austria-Hungary (it was the part of Poland that had been subjugated to the Austria-Hungary empire following the eighteenth-century partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and after the end of WWI Poland again) to Max and Eugenia (née Dittler) Wilder, he was nicknamed Billie by his mother (he changed that to "Billy" after arriving in America). Hollywood career[edit]