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Cannes 2023 :: Killers of the Flower Moon :: Martin Scorsese’s Bitterest Crime Epic Martin Scorsese triumphs yet again. A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Full Winners List This year’s jury, headed by Kristen Stewart, gave
the Golden Bear award to the French documentary “On the Adamant..” The Silver Bear for
Best Lead Performance notably went to child star Sofia Otero for “20,000 Species of Bees.”
Philippe Garrel's “The Plough” was.. |
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BAFTA 2023 :: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
Dominates BAFTA Awards With Seven Wins “All Quiet on the Western Front” dominated the BAFTA Awards in London on
Sunday night with a record-breaking seven wins for a film not in the English languag,
including for Best Director.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Golshifteh Farahani :: Talks Role Of
Art In Iran “In A Dictatorship Like
Iran, Art Is Essential, It’s Like Oxygen.” Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who is at the
Berlin Film Festival as a member of Kristen Stewart’s jury, has talked passionately about the
importance of art.. |
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SIFF 2023 :: Shirin Ebadi :: Until We Are Free
This is the amazing, at times harrowing,
simply astonishing story of a woman who would never give up, no matter the risks. The first
Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around
the globe.. |
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IFFR 2023 Awards :: 'Le spectre de Boko Haram' and
'Endless Borders' are the victors Cyrielle Raingou’s documentary took home the Tiger Award, whilst Abbas
Amini’s feature won the VPRO Big Screen Award, as the Dutch gathering celebrated its in-
person comeback.. |
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Winners of the 2022 ‘Sepanta Awards’ :: 15th Annual
Iranian Film Festival This year, the
festival presented 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video.. |
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Opinion :: Will Venice Protests Help or Hurt filmmakers
in Iran? As the Venice Film Festival
celebrates Iranian cinema — with four Iranian films screening at the 79th Biennale — back
home in Tehran, Iranian filmmakers and artists are facing the harshest crackdown in
decades.. |
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Biennale Cinema 2022 :: Awards Ceremony
Official Awards of the 79th Venice Film Festival.
Announced by the five international Juries, chaired by Julianne Moore, during the Awards
Ceremony that was held on Saturday 10th September at 7:00 pm..
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Coming: 15th Annual Iranian Film Festival! : San
Francisco: Sep. 17-18 This year, the
festival presents 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video. We are happy and proud to.. |
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Carax, Leos
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Birth name
Alexandre Oscar Dupont
Date of birth
22 November 1960, Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Mini biography
Léos Carax (22 November 1960, Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France)
Leos Carax is a French film director, critic, and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love.
His first major work was Boy Meets Girl (1984), and his notable works include Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), the controversial Pola X (1999) and Holy Motors (2012).
His professional name is an anagram of his first name 'Alex', and 'Oscar', a reference to the Academy Awards. It can also be read as Le Oscar à X - in English, the Oscar goes to X.
“I perceive 'Pierre' (Pola X) in the same way that I perceive my own life: I understand both 'poorly' but I’m obliged to explore them. That’s what a project is: a heavy question mark. You’re the dot under that mark and you mustn’t let it crush you.”
An unpredictable French filmmaker whose poetic style earned him a critically sound reputation on the heels of his debut feature, Boy Meets Girl (1984), Leos Carax has since gone on to explore the tortured ramifications of love in the modern world with such features as Lovers on the Bridge (1991) and the controversial Pola X.
A native of Suresnes who was born to an American mother and a French father, Alexandre Oscar Dupont (his professional name an anagram of his first and middle names) directed a series of short films and dabbled in cinema criticism before putting his celluloid where his mouth is with his debut feature, Boy Meets Girl.
A dramatic exploration of modern love, the film provided undeniable proof of Carax’s already assured, mature visual style and proved the first teaming of the director and his cinematic alter ego, Denis Lavant.
In addition, Boy Meets Girl also found Carax forming a long working relationship with renowned cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier, a partnership that would no doubt provide an indispensable contribution to the development of Carax’s signature visual style.
His follow-up, 1986’s Bad Blood, provided a science fiction angle that at first left some audiences wondering if he had abandoned the personal issues that made Boy Meets Girl so effective, though it was soon obvious that Carax was only using the criminal angle of the story to once again explore the complexities of modern relationships.
His New Wave style and use of such actresses as Juliette Binoche proved a warm and telling tribute to such major influences as Jean-Luc Godard.
It was five long years before Carax would return to the screen with Lovers on the Bridge, and expensive production delays forced the cinematic perfectionist who had previously received permission to shoot on the actual Pont-Neuf bridge to reconstruct the entire bridge on a lake in Southern France.
Despite rumors that the construction nearly bankrupt three producers, the enthusiastic critical reception to the offbeat tale of love among the down and out ensured Carax’s continuing reputation as a filmmaker of remarkable vision would continue to flourish.
An even longer period separated Lovers on the Bridge and Carax’s fourth feature, Pola X, and by the time the film was released in 1999, longtime fans were more than eager to see what the director had been cooking up in the 1990s.
A controversial adaptation of a Herman Melville’s tale of incest, Carax’s use of hardcore pornography in Pola X isolated many viewers with others commenting that, sexuality aside, the movie was simply a bore.
Though it would spark the most heated debated to date among Carax fans, Pola X would ultimately be regarded as a failed experiment on the part of the director. --allmovie guide
Director - Selected filmography
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Holy Motors (2012)
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Tokyo! (2008)
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Pola X (1999)
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The Lovers on the Bridge - Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)
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Boy Meets Girl (1984)
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