"This is not to say it isn't gorgeous to look at or occasionally extremely entertaining. It's both of those things. But for all the movie's grand style, it falls short in terms of substance and soul."" ""Newsweek""s David Ansen wrote, ""It's gorgeous. It's epic. It's spectacular. But two hours later, it also proves to be emotionally impenetrable."" Giving the film a C- rating, Owen Gleiberman of ""Entertainment Weekly"" criticized Parker's direction, stating, """"Evita"" could have worked had it been staged as larger-than-life spectacle ... The way Alan Parker has directed ""Evita"", however, it's just a sluggish, contradictory mess, a drably"
"Arthur Albert Arthur Albert (born Arturo Albert on July 9, 1946 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an American cinematographer, television director, and actor. As a cinematographer, he has photographed for number of notable films including ""Night of the Comet"" (1984), ""The Principal"" (1987), ""Surf Ninjas"" (1993), ""Dirty Work"" (1998), ""Max Keeble's Big Move"" (2001) and among other films. He has worked with director Dennis Dugan on three films ""Happy Gilmore"" (1996), ""Beverly Hills Ninja"" (1997) and ""Saving Silverman"" (2001). Albert has also worked in episodic television. Working as cinematographer on the television series ""The Wonder Years"", ""ER"" and ""The Gates"". He"
"Ghosts of Mississippi Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American biographical courtroom drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods. The plot is based on the true story of the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. James Woods was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role of Byron De La Beckwith. The original music score was composed by Marc Shaiman and the cinematography is by John Seale. Medgar Evers was a black civil"
"Angela's Ashes (film) Angela's Ashes is a 1999 Irish drama film based on the memoir of the same name by Frank McCourt. An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, it was co-written and directed by Alan Parker, and stars Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, and Michael Legge, the latter three playing the Young, Middle and Older Frank McCourt respectively. ""Angela's Ashes"" tells the story of Frank McCourt and his childhood after his family are forced to move from the United States back to Ireland because of financial difficulties and family problems caused"
"for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction: Albert Brenner Albert Brenner (born February 17, 1926) is an American production designer and art director. His numerous credits include ""Bullitt"" (1968), ""Monte Walsh"" (1970), ""The Goodbye Girl"" (1977), ""Coma"" (1978), ""The Presidio"" (1988), ""Pretty Woman"" (1990), ""Backdraft"" (1991), and ""Mr. Saturday Night"" (1992). Born in New York, Brenner is a graduate of the New York School of Industrial Arts and he worked on department store window displays before World War II. After the war, he was a graduate student at the Yale Drama School and later taught scenic design, costume design"
"""Mississippi Burning"" (1988), ""Come See the Paradise"" (1990) and ""Angela's Ashes"" (1999); family dramas, including ""Shoot the Moon"" (1982), and horrors and thrillers including ""Angel Heart"" (1987) and ""The Life of David Gale"" (2003). His films have won nineteen BAFTA awards, ten Golden Globes and six Academy Awards. Parker was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the British film industry and knighted in 2002. He has been active in both British cinema and American cinema, along with being a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain and lecturing at various"
"Edward Burns Edward Fitzgerald Burns (born January 29, 1968) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director best known for appearing in several films including ""Saving Private Ryan"" (1998), ""15 Minutes"" (2001), ""Life or Something Like It"" (2002), ""Confidence"" (2003), ""A Sound of Thunder"" (2005), ""The Holiday"" (2006), ""One Missed Call"" (2008), ""27 Dresses"" (2008), ""Man on a Ledge"" (2012), ""Friends with Kids"" (2012), and ""Alex Cross"" (2012). Burns directed movies such as ""The Brothers McMullen"" (1995), ""She's the One"" (1996), ""Sidewalks of New York"" (2001), ""Purple Violets"" (2007), and ""The Fitzgerald Family Christmas"" (2012). He also starred as Bugsy"
"Mississippi (film) Mississippi is a 1935 American musical comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields, and Joan Bennett. Written by Francis Martin and Jack Cunningham based on the novel ""Magnolia"" by Booth Tarkington, the film is about a young pacifist who, after refusing on principle to defend his sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer and acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which a villain accidentally kills himself with his own gun. The film was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures."
"two European political documentaries narrated by Robert Kee and a film about Elvis fronted by David Frost. Green is now a major figure in the British and American film and television industries, having worked on motion pictures and TV projects in virtually every genre.His moviedirecting credits include the award-winning romantic comedy and crime-drama ""Buster"" featuring Phil Collins and Julie Walters, and the $22m action adventure ""Wings of the Apache"" starring Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young (released in the USA as ""Fire Birds"" by Touchstone). Other feature film directing credits include the psychological thriller ""Breathtaking"" with Joanne Whalley"
"multiple Academy Award-winning blockbuster ""Forrest Gump"" (1994). His other Executive Producing credits include: Zookeeper (2011) ; Brad Silberling's ""City of Angels"" (1998) starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan; Rob Reiner's true-life drama ""Ghosts of Mississippi"" (1996) with Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods; ""The American President"" (1995), also for director Rob Reiner, starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening and Jon Turteltaub's ""Phenomenon"" (1996) starring John Travolta. He also served as a co-producer on the Barry Levinson films ""Toys"" (1992), the multiple Oscar-nominated ""Bugsy"" (1991) and as an associate producer on Barry Levinson's ""Avalon"" (1990). Raised in Scarsdale, New York,"
"Burning Annie Burning Annie is an American independent comedy film starring Gary Lundy, Sara Downing, Kim Murphy, Brian Klugman, Jay Paulson, Rini Bell, Todd Duffey, and Kathleen Rose Perkins. It is the directorial debut of Van Flesher. The film was produced by Randy Mack of Armak Productions and in 2007 was distributed by Lightyear Entertainment via Warner Bros. In 2017 it was re-distributed by the filmmakers through Sundance Institute's Creative Distribution Initiative. A dysfunctional romantic comedy about Max, a college student in 1998 who's obsessed with Woody Allen's film Annie Hall. He believes the film holds all the answers to"
"Kenny Ortega Kenneth John Ortega (born April 18, 1950) is an American producer, director and choreographer. He directed the films ""Newsies"" (1992), ""Hocus Pocus"" (1993), the ""High School Musical"" trilogy (2006–2008), ""Michael Jackson's This Is It"" (2009) and the ""Descendants"" trilogy (2015–2019). Ortega has choreographed films including ""St. Elmo's Fire"" (1985), ""Pretty in Pink"" (1986), ""Ferris Bueller's Day Off"" (1986), ""Dirty Dancing"" (1987). He has also directed multiple concert tours, including tours for Cher, Gloria Estefan and Michael Jackson. Ortega was born in Palo Alto, California, the son of Madeline, a waitress, and Octavio ""Tibby"" Ortega, a factory worker. Both"
"Robert Engels Robert Engels (born 1949) is an American born writer, producer, and director as well as being a professor of screenwriting at Cal State Fullerton. He graduated from Saint John's Preparatory School in Collegeville, Minn. in 1967. He wrote several episodes of and produced ""Twin Peaks"" and also co-wrote the 1992 film """". He is also credited with writing and producing several other television series, such as ""seaQuest DSV"" and Gene Roddenberry's ""Andromeda"". In 1993, he was nominated (with David Lynch) for a Saturn Award for best writing, for his work on ""Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me"". His"
"Michelle Manning Michelle Manning is an American film director, producer and television director. Manning attended USC Film School. She began her career working with John Hughes, producing the films ""Sixteen Candles"" (1984) and ""The Breakfast Club"" (1985). In 1986, she made her directorial debut with the film ""Blue City"" based on the Ross Macdonald novel of the same name. The film starred Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy and remains the only film she has directed to date. In addition, she also directed episodes of """" and ""Miami Vice"". In 1991, Manning began working for Paramount Pictures as senior vice president"
"Allison Burnett Allison Burnett (born December 16, 1958) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. Allison Burnett was born in Ithaca, New York. He graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois before attending Juilliard where he studied playwriting. Allison's first screenplay to be produced was the kick-boxing prison drama, (1992), which he co-wrote with Charles Mattera. He also wrote Gregory Hines' directorial debut, Bleeding Hearts (1994), and the film Red Meat (1997), which he directed, starring John Slattery, Jennifer Grey, and Lara Flynn Boyle that had its first world premiere on Sundance Channel. Allison's next film was Autumn in"
"including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor; its closest rivals were ""Rain Man"" leading with eight nominations, and ""Dangerous Liaisons"", which also received seven nominations. On March 29, 1989, at the 61st Academy Awards, the film won only one of the seven awards for which it was nominated: Best Cinematography. At the 43rd British Academy Film Awards, the film received five nominations, ultimately winning for Best Sound, Best Cinematography and Best Editing. In 2006, the film was nominated by the American Film Institute for its 100 Years...100 Cheers list. Mississippi Burning Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller"
"is indicated in parenthesis. Gerry Hambling Gerry Hambling (14 June 1926 – 5 February 2013) was a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he had also worked as a sound editor and a television editor. Hambling's editing of three films, ""The Commitments"" (1991), ""Mississippi Burning"" (1988), and ""Midnight Express"" (1978), has been honored by BAFTA Awards for Best Editing. In 1976, Hambling began a notable collaboration with the director Alan Parker that extended over nearly all of Parker's films. The three BAFTA awards noted above were all for films directed by Parker. Chris Routledge has described"
"In August 1973, Mrs. Miller and Donald Crisp attended the dedication of the Arthur Miller Memorial Fountain and Arbor at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills. <nowiki>*</nowiki> - according to silentera.com Arthur Miller (cinematographer) Arthur Charles Miller, A.S.C. (July 8, 1895 – July 13, 1970) was an American cinematographer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography seven times, winning three times: for ""How Green Was My Valley"" in 1941, ""The Song of Bernadette"" in 1944, and ""Anna and the King of Siam"" in 1947. He was born in Roslyn, New York."
"of work is in danger of slipping over the horizon."" Japanese film director Kiyoshi Kurosawa noted Aldrich's influence on him. Robert Aldrich Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His notable credits include ""Vera Cruz"" (1954), ""Kiss Me Deadly"" (1955), ""The Big Knife"" (1955), ""Autumn Leaves"" (1956), ""Attack"" (1956), ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" (1962), ""Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte"" (1964), ""The Flight of the Phoenix"" (1965), ""The Dirty Dozen"" (1967) and ""The Longest Yard"" (1974). Aldrich was portrayed by Alfred Molina in the anthology television series ""Feud"" (2017),"
"the families of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner for its fictionalization of history. Critical reaction was mixed, though the performances of Hackman, Dafoe, and Frances McDormand were generally praised. ""Mississippi Burning"" grossed $34.6 million in North American box-office revenue. The film received seven Academy Awards nominations, including Best Picture, and won for Best Cinematography. In 1964, three civil rights workers — two Jewish and one black — go missing while organizing a voter registry for African Americans in Jessup County, Mississippi. The FBI sends two agents, Rupert Anderson, a former Mississippi sheriff, and Alan Ward, to investigate. The pair find it"
"John Malkovich John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, director, producer and fashion designer. He has appeared in more than 70 films. For his roles in ""Places in the Heart"" and ""In the Line of Fire"", he received Academy Award nominations. He appeared in such films as ""Empire of the Sun"", ""The Killing Fields"", ""Johnny English"", ""Con Air"", ""The Sheltering Sky"", ""Of Mice and Men"", ""Rounders"", ""Ripley's Game"", ""Knockaround Guys"", ""Being John Malkovich"", ""Shadow of the Vampire"", ""Burn After Reading"", ""Red"", ""Red"" ""2"", ""Mulholland Falls"", ""Dangerous Liaisons"", and ""Warm Bodies"", as well as producing films such"
"David Lynch David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, musician, actor, and photographer. He has been described by ""The Guardian"" as ""the most important director of this era"", while AllMovie called him ""the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking"". His films ""Blue Velvet"" (1986) and ""Mulholland Drive"" (2001) are widely regarded by critics to be among the greatest films of their respective decades, while the success of his 1990–91 television series ""Twin Peaks"" led to his being labeled ""the first popular Surrealist"" by film critic Pauline Kael. He has received three Academy Award nominations for"
"Vincente Minnelli Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as ""Meet Me in St. Louis"" (1944), ""Gigi"" (1958), ""The Band Wagon"" (1953), and ""An American in Paris"" (1951). ""An American in Paris"" and ""Gigi"" both won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Minnelli winning Best Director for ""Gigi"". In addition to having directed some of the most famous and well-remembered musicals of his time, Minnelli made many comedies and melodramas. He was married to Judy Garland from 1945 until 1951; they were"
"Gerry Lively Gerry Lively is a cinematographer and film director, known for directing ""Darkness Falls"" (1999), """" (2005) and ""Body Armour"" (2007). As a director his early work was an Italian/American drama called ""Hot steps - passi caldi"" released in 1990. The film starred Lindsley Allen and Nicole Kidman. Lively directed the 2002 film ""Shattered Lies"", a film about corrupt policemen and a man and a woman who are after 3 million dollars. It starred Frank Zagarino, Elizabeth Giordano and James Russo. He directed the horror film ""All Saints Eve"", a film about a curse from the 1800s and a"
"Robert Aldrich Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His notable credits include ""Vera Cruz"" (1954), ""Kiss Me Deadly"" (1955), ""The Big Knife"" (1955), ""Autumn Leaves"" (1956), ""Attack"" (1956), ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" (1962), ""Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte"" (1964), ""The Flight of the Phoenix"" (1965), ""The Dirty Dozen"" (1967) and ""The Longest Yard"" (1974). Aldrich was portrayed by Alfred Molina in the anthology television series ""Feud"" (2017), which received highly positive reviews. Robert Burgess Aldrich was born in Cranston, Rhode Island into a family of wealth and"
"Martin Scorsese, Gibney was series producer for the PBS television series ""The Blues"" (2003) (producing individual episodes directed by Wim Wenders and Charles Burnett) and writer-producer of ""The Pacific Century"" (1992) (which won the News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Historical Program). Several films he directed and/or produced have been screened at the Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and Tribeca Film Festivals. In an interview with Robert K. Elder for ""The Film That Changed My Life"", Gibney credits much influence on his filming style to ""The Exterminating Angel"": [""The Exterminating Angel"" is] dark, but it's also wickedly funny and mysterious in ways"
"by Muddy Waters, Tony Bennett, Robert Johnson and B.B. King. The movie received mixed reviews from critics, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 43% rating based on 30 reviews. The film was not a theatrical success, making only half of its budget back. Ghosts of Mississippi Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American biographical courtroom drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods. The plot is based on the true story of the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar"
"John August John August (born August 4, 1970) is an American screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. He is known for writing the films ""Go"" (1999), ""Charlie's Angels"" (2000), """" (2003), ""Big Fish"" (2003), ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" (2005) and ""Frankenweenie"" (2012), and the novel ""Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire"" (2018). He hosts the popular screenwriting podcast ""Scriptnotes"" with Craig Mazin, maintains an eponymous screenwriting blog and develops screenwriter-targeted software through his company, Quote-Unquote Apps. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, voting in the Writers branch. In 2016, he was awarded"
"Ashes and Diamonds (film) Ashes and Diamonds (Polish: Popiół i diament) is a 1958 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on the 1948 novel by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski. It completed Wajda's war films trilogy, following ""A Generation"" (1954) and ""Kanal"" (1956). The title comes from a 19th-century poem by Cyprian Norwid and references the manner in which diamonds are formed from heat and pressure acting upon coal. ""Ashes and Diamonds"" is considered by film critics to be one of the great masterpieces of Polish cinema and arguably the finest Polish realist film. Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola"
"along with his plans and help him free Christine. This film is not to be confused with the 1988 film of the same title starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi. Red Heat (1985 film) Red Heat is a 1985 women in prison film starring Linda Blair and Sylvia Kristel. Christine Carlson (Linda Blair), an American college student, travels to West Germany to visit her fiancé Mike (William Ostrander), who is serving in the US Army there. She tries to convince him to marry her promptly, but he chooses to delay marriage in order to re-enlist. Distraught by Mike's decision, Christine"
"in Mississippi"" is the title of a 1964 Norman Rockwell painting depicting the same events. The painting is also known as ""Southern Justice"". Murder in Mississippi Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael ""Mickey"" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder during Freedom Summer in 1964. It starred Tom Hulce as Schwerner, Jennifer Grey as his wife Rita, Blair Underwood as Chaney, and Josh Charles as Goodman. Hulce received a nomination for Best Actor in a TV Miniseries at"
"Viva Las Vegas Viva Las Vegas is a 1964 American musical film starring Elvis Presley and actress Ann-Margret. Directed by golden age Hollywood musical director George Sidney, the film is regarded by fans and film critics as one of Presley's best movies, and it is noted for the on-screen chemistry between Presley and Ann-Margret. It also presents a strong set of ten musical song-and-dance scenes choreographed by David Winters and features his dancers. ""Viva Las Vegas"" was a hit at movie theaters, as it was #14 on the ""Variety"" year end box office list of the top-grossing movies of 1964."
"Imagining Argentina (film) Imagining Argentina is a 2003 drama historical film written and directed by Christopher Hampton and starring Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Leticia Dolera and Rubén Blades. It is based on the award-winning homonymous novel by Lawrence Thornton. It was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Film Festival. The film, centered on a couple living through the ominous last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), depicts graphic images of suffering, such as rape and torture. The closing caption states that around 30,000 Argentines disappeared during the beginning and end of the regime. During the last civil-military dictatorship"