"Own Private Idaho"""", and concluded, ""But with all the various interpretations and influences, this is definitely a film worth talking about"". In 2015 The Criterion Collection released the film in Blu-ray, based on a restored 4K digital transfer. My Own Private Idaho My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 American independent adventure drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on Shakespeare's ""Henry IV, Part 1"", ""Henry IV, Part 2"", and ""Henry V"", and starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves. The story follows two friends, Mike and Scott, as they embark on a journey of personal discovery"
"large budget (for Van Sant, at least) of $8.5 million and a large, eclectic cast including Uma Thurman, John Hurt, Keanu Reeves and a newcomer in the form of River Phoenix's younger sister Rain (at Phoenix's suggestion), the film was worked and then reworked, but the finished product nonetheless resulted in something approaching a significant disaster. Van Sant's 1995 film ""To Die For"" helped to restore his luster. An adaptation of Joyce Maynard's novel, the black comedy starred Nicole Kidman as a murderously ambitious weather girl; it also stars Matt Dillon as her hapless husband and, the third Phoenix sibling"
"script was deemed 'too risky' by studios). Now New Line Cinema had given Van Sant the green light, he was on a mission to get the ""Idaho"" script to his first choices for his two young leads. After months of struggle with agents and managers over the content of the script, Van Sant finally secured River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in the roles of Mike Waters and Scott Favor. Centering around the dealings of two male hustlers (played by Phoenix and Reeves), the film was a compelling examination of unrequited love, alienation, and the concept of family (a concept Van"
"Sant repeatedly explores in his films). The film won him an Independent Spirit Award for his screenplay (he had won the same award for his ""Drugstore Cowboy"" screenplay), as well as greater prestige. The film also gained River Phoenix best actor honors at the Venice Film Festival among others. In addition, it helped Reeves—previously best known for his work in the ""Bill and Ted"" movies—to get the critical respect that had previously eluded him. Van Sant's next film, a 1993 adaptation of Tom Robbins' ""Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"", was an excessive flop, both commercially and critically. Featuring an unusually"
"""City of Night"" and concluding that Rechy's treatment of the subject of street hustlers was better than his own. Over the years, Van Sant rewrote the script, which comprised two stories: that of Mike and the search for his mother, and Scott's story as a modern update of the ""Henry IV"" plays. Van Sant had difficulty getting Hollywood financing, and at one point considered making the film on a minuscule budget with a cast of actual street kids. After Van Sant sent copies of his script to Reeves and then Reeves showed it to Phoenix, both agreed to star in"
"with a cast of actual street kids filling out the roles including Michael Parker and actor Rodney Harvey, who was going to play Scott. Van Sant faced the problem of casting the two central roles. He decided to send the script to the agents of Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix, figuring that their agents would reject the script. Reeves' agent was amenable to the project, but Phoenix's agent would not even show the screenplay to the young actor. Not to be deterred, Van Sant got the idea for Reeves to personally deliver the film's treatment to Phoenix at his home"
"wrote, ""While Phoenix vanishes with reckless triumph into his role, Reeves stands, or occasionally struts, uneasily beside his, unable to project even the self-mocking wit of Matt Dillon's star turn in ""Drugstore Cowboy""."" Hal Hinson from ""The Washington Post"" wrote ""Gus Van Sant's sensibility is wholly original, wholly fresh. My Own Private Idaho adds a new ingredient: a kind of boho sweetness. I loved it."" However, ""USA Today"" gave ""My Own Private Idaho"" two and half stars out of four, criticizing Van Sant's film for being ""nothing but set pieces; tossed into a mix whose meaning is almost certainly private""."
"H4 (film) H4 is an independent American film directed by Paul Quinn; actor Harry Lennix produced the film and stars in the title role. It had its world premiere in competition at the 49th Chicago International Film Festival in 2013. In November 2014, the film was shown at the Indie Memphis Film Festival. The film is an adaptation that combines William Shakespeare's plays ""Henry IV, Part 1"" and ""Henry IV, Part 2"" and sets them in contemporary Los Angeles. The screenplay was adapted by Dr. Ayanna Thompson, Professor of English at Arizona State University, retaining Shakespeare's original language. According to"
"Oscar nominations at the 81st Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning two for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Penn and Best Original Screenplay for writer Dustin Lance Black. Van Sant was nominated for Best Director. Van Sant later stated that his experience with Sean Penn on the film was ""amazing"". His 2011 project ""Restless"" was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, and starred Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper, the son of actor Dennis Hopper. Van Sant's film, ""Promised Land"", was released on December 28, 2012. The film stars Frances McDormand, Matt"
"1952, and his MA in theater arts from Stanford University. He was a Fulbright Fellow in England and is the recipient of the Oregon Governor’s Arts Award. the Hollywood Drama-Logue Critics Award, the Portland, Oregon, Critics Circle Drammy Award, and was selected as the first recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology. He has been listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the West, Who’s Who in Entertainment, and Theatrical Designers: An International Biographical Dictionary. He has appeared in small roles in Henry IV, Part One, The Comedy of Errors, Titus"
"""Avand-Garde Cinema"" series. A Blu-ray was released by Kino Lorber on January 13, 2015. River's Edge River's Edge is a 1986 American independent crime film directed by Tim Hunter, written by Neal Jimenez, and starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck, and Dennis Hopper. It follows a group of teenagers in a Northern California town who are forced to deal with their friend's murder of his girlfriend, and the subsequent disposal of her body. Screenwriter Jimenez partially based the film's script on the 1981 murder of Marcy Renee Conrad in Milpitas, California. Shot in Los Angeles in 1986,"
"also inserts himself into the novel (as a character). The novel was made into a 1993 film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Pat Morita, Angie Dickinson, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, Rain Phoenix, Ed Begley, Jr., Carol Kane, Victoria Williams, Sean Young, Crispin Glover, Roseanne Arnold, Buck Henry, Grace Zabriskie, and Treva Jeffryes. Robbins himself was the narrator. """"Cowgirls ..."""" has been considered by Gus Van Sant to be a 'hippy' novel. Robbins writes short chapters filled with philosophical asides and quips (such as noting that because amoebae reproduce by binary fission, the first amoeba"
"Heaven Is a Playground (film) Heaven Is a Playground is a 1991 film based on Rick Telander's book of the same name. It was written and directed by Randall Fried, and stars Michael Warren, D.B. Sweeney, Victor Love, Bo Kimble, Richard Jordan and Janet Julian. Telander himself has a cameo appearance in the movie. The film was released on October 4, 1991, by New Line Cinema. Byron Harper operates a non-profit farming system on a playground in the Cabrini Green neighborhood of Chicago with the aim of landing black kids into college basketball programs. He focuses most of his energy"
"1. Paris Is Burning<br> 2. """"<br> 3. ""American Dream""<br> 3. """" 1991 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 26th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 1992, honored the best filmmaking of 1991. 1. Life Is Sweet<br> 2. ""Naked Lunch""<br> 3. ""Bugsy"" 1. David Cronenberg – ""Naked Lunch""<br> 2. Mike Leigh – ""Life Is Sweet""<br> 3. Jonathan Demme – ""The Silence of the Lambs"" 1. River Phoenix – ""My Own Private Idaho""<br> 2. Warren Beatty – ""Bugsy""<br> 3. Nick Nolte – ""The Prince of Tides"" 1. Alison Steadman – ""Life Is Sweet""<br> 2. Jodie Foster –"
"four stars), praised the cinematography by Alex Thomson, but stated that ""Branagh essentially gives a stage performance that is nearly as over-the-top as some of his directorial touches."" Kenneth Branagh's ""Hamlet"" ranks No. 3 on Rotten Tomatoes list of Greatest Shakespeare Movies, just behind Akira Kurosawa's ""Ran"" (1985, based on ""King Lear""), which ranks in second place, and Branagh's own ""Henry V"" (1989), which ranks in first place. Hamlet (1996 film) Hamlet is a 1996 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"", adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars as Prince Hamlet. The film also features Derek Jacobi"
"the former sitcom, at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Franco reunited with ""Milk"" director Van Sant to make ""Unfinished"", a project that features two movies: ""Endless Idaho"" and ""My Own Private River"". ""Endless Idaho"" showcases edited outtakes, deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes footage from the 1991 movie ""My Own Private Idaho"", while ""My Own Private River"" focuses on the late actor River Phoenix. The idea for the exhibition was conceived after Van Sant introduced unused footage from the 1991 film to Franco, inspiring him to turn it into something more. ""Unfinished"" opened from February 26 to April 9 at the Gagosian"
"a 1967 movie version of the Peter Weiss play (the full title is “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade”), described as “one of the most daring and unusual emotional experiences ever to be put on the stage” - meaning a very weird play. In the original play opened October 24, 1966 at Theatre Co. of Boston, Kimbrough played Marat. The movie version has Ian Richardson as Marat. Henry IV, Part One (1966) – The Milwaukee Repertory Theater's rendition of Shakespeare's 1597"
"IV, Part 1"", as well as ""Henry IV, Part 2"" (1968), ""Hamlet"" (1972, 1975–76, 2008), ""Much Ado About Nothing"" (1972–73, 2004), ""The Tempest"" (1974, 2015), ""Measure for Measure"" (1976) and ""King Lear"" (2011). Sam Waterston on screen and stage Sam Waterston is an American actor who made his film debut in the 1965 drama ""The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean"". Waterston has appeared in numerous films, television shows as well as on stage during his career. One of his early film roles was as a shoe salesman in the television drama film ""The Glass Menagerie"" (1973), for which he received"
"Impromptu (1991 film) Impromptu is a 1991 British-American period drama film directed by James Lapine, written by Sarah Kernochan, produced by Daniel A. Sherkow and Stuart Oken, and starring Hugh Grant as Frédéric Chopin and Judy Davis as George Sand. The film was shot entirely on location in France as a British production by an American company. The main location used was at the Chateau des Briottières outside of Angers, in the Loire Valley. Since getting divorced, Baroness Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, previously Baroness Dudevant, the successful and notorious writer of sensational romance novels now living under the pseudonym George Sand, in"
"Forrest Gump Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth, and stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field. The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump (Hanks), a slow-witted but kind-hearted man from Alabama who witnesses several defining historical events in the 20th century in the United States. The film differs substantially from the novel. Principal photography took place in late 1993, mainly in Georgia, North Carolina, and South"
"Best Actor. He and River Phoenix hold the distinction of being the only brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards. His other films include the satire film ""Buffalo Soldiers"" (2001), the science fiction thriller ""Signs"" (2002), the animated film ""Brother Bear"" (2003), the historical drama film ""Hotel Rwanda"" (2004), the psychological thriller ""The Village"" (2004), the documentary ""Earthlings"" (2005), the romantic drama ""Two Lovers"" (2008), the drama ""The Immigrant"" (2013), the romantic science fiction drama ""Her"" (2013), the crime comedy-drama film ""Inherent Vice"" (2014), and the thriller ""You Were Never Really Here"" (2017), for which he won the Cannes"
"dangerous lifestyle. Willem Dafoe starred as the villain John Geiger, and Glenn Plummer (who played Reeves' carjacking victim) also cameos as the same character, this time driving a boat that Alex takes control of. The film is considered one of the worst sequels of all time, scoring only 3% (based on 64 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes. Speed (1994 film) Speed is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Jan de Bont in his feature film directorial debut. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Alan Ruck, and Jeff Daniels. The film tells the story of"
"""The Nitty Gritty""; ""The Tinker's Dam""<br> 1982: ""Snow Business""<br> 1983: ""Heroes""; ""The Caprices of Marianne""; ""Goodbye Paradis Can-Can""<br> 1984: ""The Fantastic Adventures of the Count of St. Germain""; ""The Kitchen""; ""The Cloudkeeper""<br> 1985: ""Yang Zen Frogs""; ""Lulu""; ""The Bourgeois Gentleman""; ""Christopher Columbus"";<br> 1986: ""Splendid""; ""Place de Breteuil""; ""August, August, August""; ""Circus""; ""Exit the King""<br> 1987: ""Romeo and Juliet""; ""N'yawk, N'yawk, Who's There?""; ""Lorenzaccio""; ""Cafe Under the Earth""<br> 1988: ""Red Noses""; ""The 7 Dwarves""<br> 1989: ""1789: The French Revolution""; ""Holiday in Kerflooey""; ""Cyrano""; ""The Force of Habit""<br> 1990: ""Some People's Kids""; ""Il Campiello""<br> 1991: ""Puntilla and His Chauffeur Matti""; ""Crusoe, Friday,"
"found his conversation flippant. He was the New Young Man of his time and I didn't like him."" The first production of the season was ""Henry IV, Part 1"", with Gielgud as Hotspur and Richardson as Prince Hal; the latter was thought by ""The Daily Telegraph"" ""vivacious, but a figure of modern comedy rather than Shakespeare."" Richardson's notices, and the relationship of the two leading men, improved markedly when Gielgud, who was playing Prospero, helped Richardson with his performance as Caliban in ""The Tempest"": The friendship and professional association lasted until the end of Richardson's life. Gielgud wrote in 1983,"
"the artist; he gives the character an air of befuddled unworldliness, and punctuates his readings with delicately timed tubercular coughs. Judy Davis plays Sand—a great actress in a great role."" Impromptu (1991 film) Impromptu is a 1991 British-American period drama film directed by James Lapine, written by Sarah Kernochan, produced by Daniel A. Sherkow and Stuart Oken, and starring Hugh Grant as Frédéric Chopin and Judy Davis as George Sand. The film was shot entirely on location in France as a British production by an American company. The main location used was at the Chateau des Briottières outside of Angers,"
"River's Edge River's Edge is a 1986 American independent crime film directed by Tim Hunter, written by Neal Jimenez, and starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck, and Dennis Hopper. It follows a group of teenagers in a Northern California town who are forced to deal with their friend's murder of his girlfriend, and the subsequent disposal of her body. Screenwriter Jimenez partially based the film's script on the 1981 murder of Marcy Renee Conrad in Milpitas, California. Shot in Los Angeles in 1986, the film premiered that year at the Toronto International Film Festival before being purchased"
"Eric Rosen During a short run at Northwestern University in 2004, Eric Rosen of About Face Theatre saw Clay, later sending it to an About Face production in Chicago under his direction, and later the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles. A year later, Clay was brought to Rosen's new theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, before going to the Lincoln Center in New York. Clay (musical) Clay is a 2008 Hip-hop musical loosely based on Shakespeare's ""Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2"". The central character, Sir John, is based on Falstaff. It was written and performed by Matt Sax. The"
"Prisoner of Honor Prisoner of Honor is a 1991 British made-for-television drama film directed by Ken Russell and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed and Peter Firth. It was made by Warner Bros. Television and distributed by HBO, and centers on the famous Dreyfus Affair. Richard Dreyfuss co-produced the film with Judith James, from a screenplay by Ron Hutchinson. The film documents the events that saw a French Captain, Alfred Dreyfus, sent to Devil's Island for espionage near the end of the 19th century. Colonel Georges Picquart (Richard Dreyfuss) is given the job of justifying Dreyfus' sentence. Instead, he discovers that"
"of Fire!"" (1989), Trespass (1991), ""The Firm"" (1993), ""A Family Thing"" (1996), ""The People vs. Larry Flynt"" (1996), ""The Rainmaker"" (1997), ""Cast Away"" (2000), ""The Queens of Comedy"" (2001), ""21 Grams"" (2003), ""Hustle & Flow"" (2005), ""Walk the Line"" (2005), ""Forty Shades of Blue"" (2005), ""Black Snake Moan"" (2007), ""Nothing But the Truth"" (2008), and ""The Blind Side"" (2009). Economy of Memphis, Tennessee Located on the Mississippi River, Memphis is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the Southeast, ranking 41st out of the top 75 according to a Department of Labor Release. Of the 40 metropolitan areas ahead of"
"film adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel ""Inherent Vice"" (2014). Both roles earned him nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 2017, his performance as the damaged savior of sex-trafficking victims in ""You Were Never Really Here"" netted him the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. Joaquin Phoenix filmography Joaquin Phoenix is an American actor who started his career performing as a child on television. He appeared on the shows ""Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"" (1982) and """" (1984) with his brother River Phoenix and on an episode of ""Murder, She"
"disbanded in 2004. by William Shakespeare directed by Christopher Johnson Opened Friday, November 19, 1993 at The Greenview Arts Center ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern may be dead; Defiant Theatre's ""Hamlet"" most certainly is not."" - Chicago Reader by John Guare directed by Darren Critz Opened Friday, February 11, 1994 at American Theater Company ""A smoother, more consistent presentation might not have been able to reach the emotional heights of Defiant Theatre's ""Landscape of the Body""."" - Newcity by Darren Critz directed by Joe Foust CHICAGO PREMIERE at Strawdog Theatre Company ""Defiant Theatre has come up with some splendidly gruesome, darkly comic"
"Henry IV, Part I and Part II (The Hollow Crown) Henry IV, Part I and Henry IV, Part II are 2012 British television films based on the plays of the same name by William Shakespeare. They are the second and third films in the series of television films called ""The Hollow Crown"" produced by Sam Mendes for BBC Two covering the second set of plays in Shakespeare's Henriad. They were directed and adapted by Richard Eyre and star Jeremy Irons as King Henry IV, Simon Russell Beale as Falstaff and Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal. Much of the two films'"
"cans. The movie ""River's Edge"" was inspired by the true story of a murder that happened in Milpitas in 1981. It is a story about a teenage boy that murders a classmate and shows off the body to his friends. The names and races of the individuals involved were changed. The story was ""Hollywood-ized"" for dramatic purposes. The filmmakers added stories that did not occur and characters that did not exist. It starred some relatively unknown actors at the time, including Keanu Reeves, Crispin Glover and Ione Skye, as well as veteran actor Dennis Hopper. The movie was inspired by"