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Alain Delon

One of the most popular male stars of French cinema who often played tough guys and calculated killers

The actor Alain Delon, with his finely chiselled features and glacial gaze, was known as the “ice cold angel”. As a young man, his handsome, impassive face was a blank page on which apparently any emotion could be written. This served to cover the passion or perversity beneath, a trait used effectively by such directors as Luchino Visconti, Louis Malle, Joseph Losey, Jean-Pierre Melville and Michelangelo Antonioni.

Delon’s best work was done in the 1960s and 70s, the first two decades of a career spanning half a century. After this exciting initial period, he settled down, with occasional exceptions, to consolidating his tough-guy persona, becoming one of the most popular male stars in French cinema.

In the light of his unpromising background, Delon, who has died aged 88, deserved the success he achieved. Born in Sceaux, a large suburb in the south of Paris, he was the son of Edith (nee Arnold) and Fabien Delon. They divorced when Alain was four, and he was brought up by foster parents until they died in a car accident. He then moved back to live with his mother and her new husband, Paul Boulogne, a butcher, to whom Delon was unhappily apprenticed when he was 14.

This was soon after he completed his sporadic education, having been expelled from several schools for bad behaviour. At 17, he joined the French navy, serving in Indochina as a parachutist during the siege of Dien Bien Phu.

Out of his four years in the military, Delon spent 11 months in prison for being “undisciplined”. In 1956, after being dishonourably discharged, he returned to civilian life, working as a porter, a waiter and a salesman. During this time he became friends with the actors Brigitte Auber and Jean-Claude Brialy, and went with them to the 1957 Cannes film festival.

There, his looks attracted attention, especially from a talent scout for the producer David O Selznick, who offered him a Hollywood contract, provided that he learned English. But after Auber persuaded the director Yves Allégret to cast the young would-be actor in Quand la Femme s’en Mêle (When a Woman Meddles, 1957), Delon decided to start acting in France.

Surrounded by such veterans as Edwige Feuillère, Jean Servais and Bernard Blier, Delon, looking much younger than 22, made an impression as a hitman, the sort of role he perfected in later films. Despite being touted as France’s answer to James Dean, Delon was closer to the young Alan Ladd.

In Sois Belle Et Tais-Toi (Be Beautiful But Shut Up, 1958), directed by Marc Allégret, Yves’s older brother, Delon was cast as a petty crook, partnered by Jean-Paul Belmondo, who was to equal Delon in popularity in the 60s and 70s. They were later to appear together again in Borsalino (1970), Borsalino and Co (1974) and as sexagenarian action heroes in Une Chance sur Deux (Half a Chance, 1998).

Christine (1958), a love story set in Vienna at the turn of the century, gave Delon his first major role as a romantic lead, opposite Romy Schneider. During the shooting of the film – a remake of Max Ophüls’ Liebelei (1932) – the couple fell in love and became engaged soon afterwards. The romance lasted four years, and Delon and Schneider remained close until her death in 1982. They appeared together on stage in 1961 in a Parisian production of ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, directed by Visconti, as well as in the films La Piscine (The Swimming Pool, 1969) and Losey’s The Assassination of Trotsky (1972).

It was in 1960 that Delon became an international star with his portrayal of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley in René Clément’s Plein Soleil (Purple Noon). With his pretty-boy looks, Delon perfectly reflected the calculated charm, indolence and coldness of the ambiguous character, who schemes to take his friend’s clothes, yacht, girlfriend and life.

In contrast, in the same year, Visconti cast him as a “wise fool” in Rocco and His Brothers, an epic three-hour neorealist drama. To save his poverty-stricken family, who have immigrated to Milan from southern Italy, Rocco (Delon) takes up boxing, a sport he detests. Dubbed into Italian, Delon does his best to convince as a saintly character, though it is doubtful whether any boxer could be so gentle and yet so successful.

Dubbed again into Italian, Delon was superb as an arrogant and materialistic stockbroker who has an affair with a translator (Monica Vitti) in L’Eclisse (Eclipse, 1962), the third in Antonioni’s trilogy of alienation. Delon’s third notable Italian film was Visconti’s The Leopard (1963), in which he played the dashing and cynical young revolutionary Tancredi. As a hotheaded opportunist who represents the future of Italy, Delon’s performance is in sharp contrast to Burt Lancaster’s contemplative one as his aristocratic uncle, who represents the past.

Back in France, Delon began to take on less challenging roles, mostly in swashbucklers and thrillers. The main interest of the conventional heist movie, Mélodie en Sous-Sol (Any Number Can Win, 1963), was the coming together of the biggest French star of the 30s, Jean Gabin, and the rising star of the 60s. As interesting was his pairing with Simone Signoret, 14 years his senior, in The Widow Couderc (1971).

Delon also appeared in several English-language films at the time, including The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), in which he was an Italian photographer cum gigolo making a play for a gangster’s moll (Shirley MacLaine), and a Spanish aristocrat in the comedy-western Texas Across the River (1966). At the time, Delon could claim to be an equal in fame to any movie star in large-budget films such as Once a Thief (1965), opposite Ann-Margret and Jack Palance; Lost Command (1966), a war film with Anthony Quinn and George Segal; and Red Sun (1971) with Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune, cashing in on Delon’s huge popularity in Japan.

In the artily erotic The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), directed and photographed by Jack Cardiff, Delon played Marianne Faithfull’s lover, unzipping her leather gear with his teeth and murmuring: “Your toes are like tombstones.”

In 1964 Delon married Nathalie Barthélémy, who made her screen acting debut opposite him in Melville’s Le Samouraï (1967), the first of three ritualistic and atmospheric crime thrillers directed by Melville and starring Delon. In Le Samouraï, he was an expressionless hired killer; in Le Cercle Rouge (1970), he was a cool ex-con; and in Un Flic (Dirty Money, 1972), Melville’s final film, he was equally effective as a bitter cop.

Delon’s standing as a screen tough guy was enhanced when, in 1968, he and his wife, whom he was about to divorce, were implicated in a sensational political scandal. The discovery of the corpse of his bodyguard Stevan Marković in a rubbish dump – he had been shot in the head – led to revelations of drug and sex orgies involving a host of personalities from the world of politics and show business, including the wife of the president, Georges Pompidou.

Delon’s friend, the Corsican gangster François Marcantoni, was charged as an accessory to murder but was later released due to lack of evidence. Both Alain and Nathalie were held for questioning, but were not accused. What had alerted police was a letter Marković sent to his brother in which he wrote: “If I get killed, it’s 100% the fault of Alain Delon and his godfather François Marcantoni.”

In the same year, Delon began a 15-year relationship with the actor Mireille Darc, with whom he co-starred in Jeff (1969), the first film made by his own company, Adel, and a few other pictures.

During the same period, under Malle’s direction, he portrayed William Wilson, an Austrian officer and gambler, who murders his doppelganger, in one of three segments based on Edgar Allan Poe stories in Spirits of the Dead (1968).

Another of his outstanding performances was the title role of Losey’s Mr Klein (1976), as a French-Catholic art dealer who is mistaken for a Jew of the same name during the occupation in 1942. Unable to convince the Gestapo of the mistaken identity, he is deported.

Many years later, Delon claimed to be a supporter of the far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. “He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere,” Delon declared. “He says out loud what many people think, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”

In the 80s, Delon, already a producer of a dozen movies, tried his hand at directing. His two films, Pour la Peau d’un Flic (For a Cop’s Hide, 1981) and Le Battant (The Fighter, 1983), were pale imitations of Melville. But, in 1984, Delon was given two of his last chances to display his acting talents. In Bertrand Blier’s Notre Histoire (Our Story), he was a morose alcoholic, and, in one of the most surprising casting decisions, he played the decadent gay dandy Baron de Charlus in Volker Schlöndorff’s Swann in Love, based on the first volume of Marcel Proust’s novel.

Following his dual role in Jean-Luc Godard’s Nouvelle Vague (1990), and a number of poorly received films, Delon announced his decision to retire from acting in 1997, although he did star in a television cop series, Frank Riva (2003-04), and made an unexpected appearance as Julius Caesar in Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008). A final TV role came in the drama Une Journée Ordinaire (2011), and he appeared as himself in S Novym Godom, Mamy! (2012), the story of a Russian New Year’s Eve, and Disclaimer (2019), as a talkshow guest.

An honorary Palme d’Or in 2019 provoked complaints against Delon’s history of misogynistic comments and support for the far right. The Cannes festival responded that its concern lay with achievement in cinema: “We’re not going to give (him) the Nobel peace prize.” Also that year came the video release of the song, Paroles, Paroles, that had given the singer Dalida and him a hit in 1973.

Delon, who became a Swiss citizen after many years’ residence in Geneva, with a second home in Douchy, south of Paris, spent most of his later years as president of a company that produced a variety of products such as perfume, wristwatches, clothing and sunglasses, all with the label AD.

The Velvet Underground singer Nico said that Delon was the father of her son Ari, though he denied it – the boy was adopted by Delon’s mother and stepfather, and took their surname, Boulogne; he died in 2023. Delon is survived by his son, Anthony, from his first marriage, and his children, Anouchka and Alain-Fabien, from his second marriage, to Rosalie van Breemen, which ended in divorce in 2002.

🔔 Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon, actor and producer, born 8 November 1935; died 18 August 2024

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tilbageidanmark · 1 year ago

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Movies I watched and books I read this Week #141 (Year 3/Week 37):

Continuing through Aki Kaurismäki’s early work:

🍿 While waiting for his new film "Fallen Leaves", I found a copy of his second feature, the absurdist Calamari Union (1985). 15 desperate guys (all named Frank), and another called Pekka (who speaks in a fake Finnish-English accent) undergo a random series of senseless misadventures, as they try to flee from one seedy suburb of downtown Helsinki to the mystical seaside of Eira. Weirdly surrealist.

🍿 Rocky VI, an early (1986) black & white short, a parody of Stallone franchise. A puny little guy fights the much bigger “Igor” (A giant with Brezhnev eyebrows) and loses.

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Letter from an Unknown Woman, my first romantic tear-jerker by Max Ophüls. 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes’, and co-produced by venerable John Housman. The allure of turn of the century Vienna. Beautiful Joan Fountain looking very much like young July Greer.

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My first 3 Croatian films by new female director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović [2 with Danish-Serbian actress Danica Curcic, and 2 with the beautiful Gracija Filipovic]:

🍿 Stane, a brand new 20-min. elusive story about a strong-willed woman, who was just elevated to lead her immigrant father’s thriving construction empire, while at the same time discovering her husband’s infidelity. Unspoken emotions and toxic dynamics explored. This is part of ‘Women’s Tales’, an anthology of 26 shorts commissioned by fashion brand Miu Miu, which I’m going to start devouring. 9/10.

🍿 “Dreams die in paradise”…

Her debut feature film, Murina ("Moray eel"), was exec-produced by Martin Scorsese, and won the Caméra d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Festival. Powerful, feminist story of a strong-willed 17 year old fisherman daughter, who rebels against the primitive patriarchy on the beautiful Adriatic island where she live. Her father especially is an abusive, controlling prick, trying to keep his growing mermaid daughter in her place. It evokes other sensual Mediterranean dramas full of salt water and sun, like ’The lost daughter' and 'A bigger Splash'. Mature and sensitive. 9/10.

🍿 Into the blue (2017) is her previous draft for 'Murina', a similar story about a 13 year old diver, also named Julija, played by the same actress, in the same locations, and with the same sensibilities and mature 'feel'. A story about friendship and jealousy between two girls.

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Josep, a different type animated feature, more like an animated painting, by the French cartoonist Aurel [How many other directors use only one name, beside Tarsem?]. It's an artistic biography of the little-known Catalan artist Josep Bartoli, detailing his experience at a French concentration camp during the last war. In 1939, the Spanish refugees persecuted by Franco, sought asylum in France, but instead were interned in concentration camps. This was a chapter from history I was not familiar with. 8/10.

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4 more re-watches:

🍿 Another go at Ron Flicke’s non-narrative Baraka ("Blessing", 1992). I introduced it to my mom, who enjoyed the first half, as it embraced the Yin of the world's vast beauty and spirituality, but as soon as it started turning toward the Yang of destruction and decay, she had to bail. But the people who pray for peace, and the people who kiss the holy stones, are the same people who burn the trees, and who slaughter all the chickens.

🍿 “Welcome to the future, bruh…”

Nightcrawler, another tense re-watch of Dan Gilroy’s brilliant debut feature. Villainous thief Jake Gyllenhaal is the ultimate urban amoral creep. This is surely how Musk would have started, if he was born on the other side of the tracks. Gilroy specifically wrote the role of Nina for his wife Rene Russo. Also, with 'Mad Men's Ted Chaough. Now I'm glad that I never got to watch television.

🍿 “…It’s called an anus…”

After reading the excellent 'Los Angeles Review of Books' article about The big chill which had premiered 40 years ago, I took another dip. Still a terrific ensemble piece, with Peak William Hurt and Meg Tilly. 9/10.

🍿 “I think loneliness probably kills more people than cancer…”

The masterful A simple favor once again: This is becoming nearly a bi-weekly event for me, it seems. I simply cannot get enough of this wonderful 'Suburban Noir'. Everything I said last month still stands: The script and dialogue are so crisp, the sound design is fantastic. The story is perfect. Shoutouts this time to the lesbian undertones with Blake Lively, to Rupert Friend's Dennis Nylon, to the Visual Style'... 10/10/10.

Bonuses: The soundtrack [not great by itself] Some bloopers and B-rolls. I'm so not looking forward to ‘Simple Favor 2’!

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Life of crime, another black comedy caper, based on an Elmore Leonard novel. His hapless small-time hoods Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara try another doomed kidnapping scheme in Detroit. The 1978 Detroit ambiance is beautifully recreated. Unfortunately, the two bumbling con men are nowhere close in charisma and presence to Samuel L. Jackson in Jackie Brown or Travolta's Chili Palmer. Tim Robbins is the baddie. 3/10.

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5 more shorts:

🍿 Ten minutes older, a 1978 short by Latvian documentarian Herz Frank, which consists of sublime ten minutes of reaction shots of children watching a puppet show. It must have been inspired by Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous Parisian series from 1963. (Photos Above).

🍿 A documentary about the making of John Frankenheimer 1966 horror / science fiction film Seconds, starring Rock Hudson.

🍿 Fantasmagorie, a 1908 French animated film by Émile Cohl, considered by film historians to be the first animated, using what came to be known as traditional animation methods.

🍿 Reservoir Dogs, 1992: A 12-minute Tarantino short, made with the help of the Sundance Film institute and served as a proof of concept for the feature film.

From a Deadline list of ‘Films that began as shorts’

🍿 Carl’s Date, the latest "Pixar" pre-movie short, riffing on Carl Fredricksen from 'Up'. Disney squeezes the juice out of anything with a heart, and jerks it off into a used sock under the bed. 2/10.

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Unfit, The psychology of Donald Trump, with Malcolm Nance, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and a bunch of heave-duty psychiatrists. A sharp documentary, showing beyond any reasonable doubt that the orange malignant narcissist suffers from the same incurable mental illness, his idols Hitler & Mussolini did. It should have scared the world, when he still was in charge. Sadly, it's from 2020, and so much had transpired since. But hell, fuck this guy once and for all. 8/10.

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The Tel Aviv to Tel Katzir Shuttle (מאסף תל אביב־תל קציר), by Moshe Shargal (2000): A lovely memoir of life at a simpler time, time I nearly remember, Israel of the late 1950's, when young people could still dream about endless horizons, unblemished landscapes and hopeful futures. It opens with a poem by Pinhas Sadeh, הליכה בשדות מרמת רחל לצור בח'ר

האושר הוא ללכת בזוהר השמש השוקעת של סוף הקיץ

כאילו הולך אתה בשדה בעמק יזרעאל, ואתה כבן 16

וכאילו כל החיים, כל החיים, עדיין

האהבות, הכאבים, המתיקות

אי אפשר לתאר את השלווה הזאת

השמיים, הרוח, האדמה החומה

רק אלוהים יודע

ממערב משתפל ויורד חורש ירוק

אורנים וברושים נעים לאט

ואתה הולך לבדך בעולם בשדה בשמש השוקעת של סוף הקיץ

איש בסתיו חייו

ובוכה

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(My complete movie list is here)

#movies

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alexlacquemanne · 3 months ago

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Aout MMXXIV

Films

Le Gendarme en balade (1970) de Jean Girault avec Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre, Christian Marin, Guy Grosso, Michel Modo, Claude Gensac, France Rumilly, Nicole Vervil et Dominique Davray

Ali (2001) de Michael Mann avec Will Smith, Jon Voight, Jamie Foxx, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright et Nona Gaye

Les Enchaînés (Notorious) (1946) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin et Reinhold Schünzel

Lettre d'une inconnue (Letter from an Unknown Woman) (1948) de Max Ophüls avec Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Art Smith, Leo B. Pessin, Marcel Journet, Mady Christians, Howard Freeman et Sonja Bryden

Lucky Jo (1964) de Michel Deville avec Eddie Constantine, Pierre Brasseur, Françoise Arnoul, Georges Wilson, Christiane Minazzoli, Claude Brasseur, Jean-Pierre Darras et André Cellier

Borg McEnroe (2017) de Janus Metz Pedersen avec Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny, Scott Arthur, Robert Emms et David Bamber

La Vérité (1960) de Henri-Georges Clouzot avec Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey, Marie-José Nat, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Louis Seigner, René Blancard et Colette Castel

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) de Zack Snyder avec Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons et Diane Lane

La Chèvre (1981) de Francis Veber avec Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Robin, Corynne Charby, André Valardy, Pedro Armendáriz Jr. et Jorge Luke

Piège de cristal (Die Hard) (1988) de John McTiernan avec Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason et William Atherton

Le Samouraï (1967) de Jean-Pierre Melville avec Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy et Jacques Deschamps

La Piscine (1969) de Jacques Deray avec Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet, Suzie Jaspard et Steve Eckart

Forfaiture (1937) de Marcel L'Herbier avec Louis Jouvet, Lise Delamare, Ève Francis, Sylvia Bataille, Victor Francen, Sessue Hayakawa et Lucas Gridoux

The Batman (2022) de Matt Reeves avec Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, John Turturro, Andy Serkis

Plein Soleil (1960) de René Clément avec Alain Delon, Marie Laforêt, Maurice Ronet, Erno Crisa, Elvire Popesco, Frank Latimore et Billy Kearns

58 Minutes pour vivre (Die Hard 2) (1990) de Renny Harlin avec Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Dennis Franz, Franco Nero, William Atherton, Reginald VelJohnson, Fred Thompson, Art Evans, John Amos, Tom Bower et Sheila McCarthy

Mort d'un pourri (1977) de Georges Lautner avec Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Mireille Darc, Maurice Ronet, Michel Aumont, Jean Bouise, Daniel Ceccaldi, Julien Guiomar et Klaus Kinski

The Layover (2017) de William H. Macy avec Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton, Matt Barr, Matt L. Jones, Rob Corddry, Kal Penn et Molly Shannon

Une journée en enfer (Die Hard with a Vengeance) (1995) de John McTiernan avec Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Larry Bryggman, Graham Greene et Colleen Camp

Séries

Le Coffre à Catch

#179 : Le festival de Kane ! - #180 : Jack Swagger repasse par la ECW ! - #181 : Les adieux de Tommy Dreamer (Colby en fil rouge) - #182 : Bret et Shawn font la paix et on termine le Homecoming!

Castle Saison 7

Sans relâche - Montréal - Une force invisible - Un problème enfantin - Un buzz foudroyant - De parfaits inconnus - Les Mystères de l'Ouest - Chevalier blanc - Action! - Un Noël dans la mafia - Castle, détective privé - L'affaire est dans le sac - Devant mes yeux - Résurrection - Règlement de comptes

The Durrells : une famille anglaise à Corfou Saison 3, 4

Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3 - Episode 4 - Episode 5 - Episode 6 - Episode 7 - Episode 8 - Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3 - Episode 4 - Episode 5 - Episode 6

Biography: WWE Legends Saison 3

Paige - Yokozuna

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Le Prisonnier du château d'If - Le Revenant - Les Scélérats - La Vengeance

Maguy Saison 7

Suzanne désespérément - OPA comique - Hallali conjugal - Qui l'eût "crue" ? - Dernier de Corday - La mégère à prix Boissier - Absence unique - Un monde chou, chou, chou - Flamme fatale - Le déchargé de mission - Ice-cream et châtiment - L'âge de déraison - Un ome peut en cacher un autre - Maguy rock - Direction assistée - La vie en roses - Le bazar et la nécessité - Le salaire du rappeur - Pas commode d'emploi - Maguyvaudages - Sauve qui puce - SOS vampires - Il est 5 heures, Maguy s'éveille - Certains l'aiment faux

Commissaire Moulin Saison 1

Petite Hantise - Cent mille soleils - Affectation spéciale

Commissaire Dupin

Une famille endeuillée - La morte rose

Affaires sensibles

Bambi, vedette de cabaret et femme ordinaire - Simone Weber, "la diabolique de Nancy"

Spectacles

Adele at the BBC (2015)

ABBA : Live at Wembley Arena (1979)

Bénabar : Live au Grand Rex (2004)

Eddy Mitchell : Ma dernière séance (2011) à l'Olympia

Livres

Les Disparus de Trégastel de Jean-Luc Bannalec

Nota Bene, tome 6 : La Vie au Moyen Âge de Benjamin Brillaud, Phil Castaza, Christian Paty et Mathieu Mariolle

Les Schtroumpfs, tome 11 : Les Schtroumpfs olympiques de Peyo

Astérix, tome 12 : Astérix aux jeux Olympiques de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

#mediatheque #aout24

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arte-e-homoerotismo · 1 year ago

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Westler

Westler é um filme de 1985 produzido originalmente para a televisão da Alemanha Ocidental e posteriormente lançado no cinema. Foi dirigido por Wieland Speck e transmitido pela ZDF .

Sinopse

Felix é visitado em Berlim Ocidental por um amigo americano de Los Angeles . Os dois fazem uma viagem de um dia a Berlim Oriental , onde conhecem Thomas. Thomas e Felix se apaixonam, mas são divididos pelo Muro , assim como toda a Alemanha da época. Felix tenta manter o relacionamento forte fazendo visitas regulares a Thomas no Leste, mas isso levanta suspeitas das autoridades da Alemanha Oriental . Eventualmente, Thomas tenta fugir para a Alemanha Ocidental voando para Praga , onde um amigo tcheco conseguiu contato com um ajudante de fuga.

Plano de fundo

Westler é notável por seu retrato realista de um relacionamento gay em circunstâncias difíceis, bem como por ter sido filmado parcialmente em Berlim Oriental sem permissão das autoridades da Alemanha Oriental .

Elenco

Sigurd Rachman como Félix

Rainer Stretcher como Thomas

Andy Lucas como Bruce

Frank Rediess como Bernie

Andreas Bernhardt como Jürgen

Sasha Kogo como Elke

Hans-Jürgen Punte como Lutze

Zazie de Paris as night club singer

Harry Baer como oficial da alfândega

Christoph Eichhorn como ator

Jörg Uwe Dost como convidado no bar

Thomas Kretschmann como soldado

Georges Stamkowski como Pavel

Os Waltons como a banda

Martin Zastrow como membro da banda

Engelbert Rehm como membro da banda

Andrew Kelner quando criança

Prêmios

Festival Max Ophüls, Prêmio do Público, 1985

Festival Internacional de Cinema Gay e Lésbico de São Francisco, Prêmio do Público, 1986

Festival Internacional de Cinema Gay e Lésbico de Torino, o Prato do Festival, 1987

Recepção

O filme ganhou uma classificação do Rotten Tomatoes de 50%.

Helmut Schödel em Die Zeit disse "... secretamente deve ser filmado, secretamente amado... é sobre amor, não sobre verdade... estou animado..."

Enciclopédia de Cinema Internacional: “Um filme sobre o um no sentido múltiplo, o amor entre os sistemas”; Ele tenta descrever o Muro de Berlim não apenas como um obstáculo entre as pessoas e os blocos políticos, mas também como uma fronteira entre o Velho e o Novo Mundo. "

Uwe Witiatock, do Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung disse: "Parcialmente sem permissão oficial de filmagem e, portanto, filmada com uma câmera escondida, a cidade dividida de Berlim tem uma atmosfera estranha e irreal, como se estivéssemos em Hong Kong ou Cingapura. Você tem vontade de estar no papel de visitante de um zoológico, maravilhado com as condições sob as quais os seres vivem em um mundo completamente diferente."

taz : "A história de amor entre os jovens é extremamente agradável, discreta e inimaginavelmente evidente. Parcialmente filmado com uma câmera escondida em locações originais da DDR, Westler é uma das poucas produções alemãs que vale a pena!"

Westler (1985) // dir. Wieland Speck

#westler #1985 #wieland speck

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What's streaming this week: Donald Glover, Run-D.M.C., 'Choir' and bye to 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'

LOS ANGELES

The final, cringeworthy season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and a documentary on Run-D.M.C. are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.

Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: Donald Glover starring as a spy in the new TV series “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and a documentary about the making of the charity megahit “We Are the World.”

— Regardless of whether you think the 1985 charity anthem “We Are the World” is great or not, the making of it is fascinating. Director Bao Nguyen got access to never-before-seen footage and new interviews with Lionel Richie, Bruce Springsteen and Cyndi Lauper to help tell the story of how famous musicians, including Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder, got together one night for a marathon recording session. Nguyen told the AP in a recent interview that “The Greatest Night In Pop" humanizes "some of these icons that we’ve sort of idolized over many generations.” It’s on Netflix.

— So Greta Gerwig didn’t get a best director nomination, but the good news is that the Criterion Channel has a new series starting Thursday about some of the “Lady Bird” and “Barbie” director’s favorite films. Gerwig’s “adventures in moviegoing” includes David Lean’s “Brief Encounter,” Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s “The Red Shoes,” Max Ophüls’ "The Earrings of Madame de…” and Claire Denis’ “Beau travail.” The channel also has a series on “Interdimensional Romance” with films like “A Matter of Life and Death,” “Wings of Desire,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and both versions of “Solaris.”

— And for those who were curious about “Dicks: The Musical,” but not enough to bite the bullet on a movie ticket, it will be streaming on Max starting Friday. In an article about the movie out of the Toronto Film Festival, AP Film Writer Jake Coyle wrote that this “Dadaist riff on ‘The Parent Trap’ … may be the most demented riff on a familiar story yet. The film … has been called the most gonzo movie of the year. It’s lewd, ridiculous and surreal. Hanna-Barbera was an inspiration.” Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson star alongside Bowen Yang as God, Megan Thee Stallion, Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally.

— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr

— Bob Marley & The Wailers, The Clash, Beastie Boys — what do these legendary artists have in common? They owe much to Lee “Scratch” Perry, a pioneer of the dub music scene celebrated as one of reggae’s founding fathers. Perry (real name Rainford Hugh Perry) died in 2021 — but during the pandemic, he worked on new music material, which will be posthumously released in his final album, “King Perry,” out Friday, Feb 2. It features guest performances from Greentea Peng, Shaun Ryder, Tricky, Marta, Rose Waite and Fifi Rong. The final track, appropriately titled “Goodbye,” is Perry’s final vocal recording — an ambitious and celebratory song that features Perry repeating his farewell over and over again. It’s a fitting coda, and still an experiment, bringing his reggae into synth wave, drum’n’bass, big beat, and electronica. Even in death, Perry is looking towards the future.

— When you’re done streaming “The Greatest Night in Pop” (see above), stay in the musical mid-’80s with “Kings from Queens: The RUN DMC Story.” This Peacock original documentary offers a close look at the early days of Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, and Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell's revolutionary group — finding inspiration in the streets, bringing hip-hop to the masses, and, in doing so, validating and legitimizing what will soon become the most popular style of music — and assisting in turning it into a billion-dollar business. Let’s face it, “It’s Tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that’s right on time,” is both an earworm for the ages — and some astute musical analysis.

— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman

— The new Amazon Prime Video series “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” is not your 2005 “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” Instead, Donald Glover and Maya Erskine star as two stranger spies who meet and are required to marry for their cover. The series was created by Glover and Francesca Sloane, who says she looked to reality TV like “Love is Blind” and “90 Day Fiancé” for inspiration. All eight episodes will be ready to binge on Friday.

— “Curb Your Enthusiasm” fans are pretty pretty pretty disappointed because the show begins its final season on Sunday, on HBO. The irreverent comedy stars Larry David as a fictionalized version of himself who lands in awkward situations at every turn. Recurring favorites Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman, Cheryl Hines, and J.B. Smoove will be back.

— A new Disney+ docuseries called “Choir” follows the Detroit Youth Choir — who first made a splash appearing on “America’s Got Talent” in 2019 — as members audition and prepare to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York. All six episodes drop Wednesday.

— UK comedian Sir Lenny Henry used his own family history to create “Three Little Birds,” a BritBox series that follows three women moving from Jamaica to London in the 1950s. Henry says the show’s immigration story is universally relatable because all immigrants understand that it’s difficult to start over and build a new life. “Three Little Birds” premieres Thursday.

— Past seasons of National Geographic’s “Genius” anthology series covered Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and Aretha Franklin. Season 4 focuses on two civil rights legends, the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X. “Genius: MLK/X” delves into each man’s formative years, rise to influence and differing philosophies. The first two episodes drop Thursday on National Geographic. It will also stream on Hulu and Disney+.

— Don’t worry, “Dateline” hosts, your jobs are safe. For now. Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino of “Jersey Shore” has entered the chat. He’s hosting “Statute of Limitations,” a new true crime show where everyday people who have committed nonviolent crimes tell their story. (Think: A thief who used a hot air balloon as a getaway vehicle.) What’s more, their statute of limitations has run out so they’re free and clear to talk. In 2019, Sorrentino served eight months in prison for lying on his taxes. “Statute of Limitations” will be available to stream beginning Thursday on platforms including Tubi, YouTube and The Roku Channel.

— Alicia Rancilio

— England’s Rocksteady Studios built its reputation on 2009’s dazzling Batman: Arkham Asylum. Alas, the developer is turning to the dark side of the DC Universe with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Rather than soloing as the Caped Crusader, you’re now invited to team up with friends as members of Task Force X: Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang and King Shark. What do they have against Superman, the Flash and their buddies? Well, Brainiac has brainwashed the superheroes and now it’s up to the supervillains to save Metropolis. You can expect guest appearances by the likes of Lex Luthor, the Penguin and the Riddler, and publisher Warner Bros. Games is promising a steady flow of downloadable scoundrels in the future. The brawling begins Friday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S and PC.

— Lou Kesten

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One of the most anticipated films going into the festival, Pieces of a Woman delivers, although in a less harrowing register than many assumed. The film is directly based on an experience Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber, the director and screenwriter, underwent, and there isn’t a moment that rings false. Constantly surprising and keeping the audience off-balance, perhaps its biggest rug-pull is its overall humanist outlook.

Vanessa Kirby (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, The Crown) leads the cast, although the drama is an ensemble piece and frequently diverges from her point-of-view. She plays Martha, a Bostonian in her early 30s expecting a baby with her husband Sean (Shia LaBeouf, cast very much as type), a construction worker with a more volatile temperament. The two opt for a home birth, undertaken by a midwife who will come to their residence at short notice. She is played by Molly Parker, a still-underrated actress who makes an enormous impression in her few scenes. Shot in virtuosic long takes that never distract from the actors’ committed work, the home birth ends in tragedy.

Mundruczó and Wéber’s film then reveals its true nature as a portrait of grief and resilience. The arc of the narrative becomes Martha and her wider family’s response to a tragedy, and where to apportion blame. Hungarian director Mundruczó has a game cast of both legendary and up-and-coming actors to play out his scenario. Ellen Burstyn plays Vanessa’s mother Elizabeth in a remarkable performance that plays a subtler spin on her role in Requiem for a Dream. Audiences will also be delighted to see Sarah Snook (Succession), and Benny Safdie (no introduction needed for this publication) in impressive supporting roles.

With Martin Scorsese recently coming on board as executive producer to help its quest for a wider audience, all through the film, it’s fun amidst the woe of the plot to try and gauge what appealed to him. My guess it is the more old-fashioned aspects of this thoroughly contemporary story. In the vein of Douglas Sirk and Max Ophüls, Pieces of a Woman embraces the feel of the warm, female-fronted melodrama classics that came before it, focusing as it does on domestic life, placing Kirby and her mother’s conflict at the heart of the narrative. You can picture Joan Crawford playing either character.

Another point of interest is that this is Mundruczó’s English-language debut and he brings a refinement and tonal control many directors wouldn’t privilege in this story. There is breathtaking use of Steadicam and tracking shots, and scenes are allowed to go on longer than usual as we’re being invited into a naturalistic world. If there is disappointment in Pieces of a Woman, it is its wavering hold on the story; it is both too diffuse in its second act, and then wraps up neatly in a surprisingly sentimental fashion. As the title suggests, one can feel the female authorship in the story even though a man is behind the camera. Pieces of a Woman engages with many topical issues surrounding women’s health, and the connection of biology to psychology. It won’t quite leave one in pieces, but the film has a subtle grace all of its own.

Pieces of a Woman premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

Grade: B

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Original title: FREIGANG Mid-length feature film (35 min.)

Director: Martin Winter Screenplay: Sebastian Schmidl Producer: Victoria Herbig & Sebastian Schmidl D.O.P.: Aram Baroian Cast Anna Suk Christopher Legedza Birgit Linauer Patrick Schmidl Daniela Zacherl

Plot summary: Single mother Kathi receives day release from prison and finds her three-year-old son, who is living with her unstable mother, in bad circumstances. She is forced to find a way to enable a better future for him, while time is against her, she has to be back in prison at six pm.

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Festival selections: 40th FILMFESTIVAL MAX OPHÜLS PREIS 22nd DIAGONALE FESTIVAL OF AUSTRIAN FILM 25th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL 20th FIRST STEPS AWARDS 2019 14th ORLANDO FILM FESTIVAL 27th EnergaCAMERIMAGE 33rd LEEDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 25th CAMINHOS DO CINEMA PORTOGUÊS FILM FESTIVAL *WINNER Best International Essay 13th GRAND OFF - WORLD INDEPENDENT SHORT FILM AWARDS *WINNER Best Actress Award (Anna Suk) 17th FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL SIGNOS DA NOITE 10th AUSTRIAN FILM AWARDS 2020 *WINNER Best Short Film Award 23rd ZOOM-ZBLIŻENIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL *WINNER Special Mention - Best Short Film FICTION 6th MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 15th THE POPPY JASPER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 17th VIS VIENNA SHORTS (Non-competitive section) 30th GERMAN CAMERA AWARDS 2020 26th PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORTFEST 4th PITTSBURGH SHORTS 21st NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 11th ONE COUNTRY ONE FILM INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 31st BELFAST CINEMAGIC FILM AND TELEVISION FESTIVAL BIG SHORTS AWARDS 2020 *WINNER Best Actress & WINNER Best Screenplay 14th TiSFF, THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 26th BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 26th RABAT INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR FILM FESTIVAL *WINNER Best Actress & WINNER Best Screenplay 26th INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL GOLDEN BEGGAR *WINNER Best Short Film 15th MYRTLE BEACH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL *WINNER Best Foreign Film 8th VKRATZE! - INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL *WINNER Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actress 67th MARTOVSKI FESTIVAL – BELGRADE DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

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Original title: FREIGANG Mid-length feature film (35 min.) Director: Martin Winter Screenplay: Sebastian Schmidl Producer: Victoria Herbig & Sebastian Schmidl D.O.P.: Aram Baroian Cast Anna Suk Christopher Legedza Birgit Linauer Patrick Schmidl Daniela Zacherl Plot summary: Single mother Kathi receives day release from prison and finds her three-year-old son, who is living with her unstable mother, in bad circumstances. She is forced to find a way to enable a better future for him, while time is against her, she has to be back in prison at six pm. Media: https://imdb.to/3sziKsu https://bit.ly/3sziLg2 https://bit.ly/3qq2wAf Contact: [email protected] Festival selections: 40th FILMFESTIVAL MAX OPHÜLS PREIS 22nd DIAGONALE FESTIVAL OF AUSTRIAN FILM 25th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL 20th FIRST STEPS AWARDS 2019 14th ORLANDO FILM FESTIVAL 27th EnergaCAMERIMAGE 33rd LEEDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 25th CAMINHOS DO CINEMA PORTOGUÊS FILM FESTIVAL *WINNER Best International Essay 13th GRAND OFF - WORLD INDEPENDENT SHORT FILM AWARDS *WINNER Best Actress Award (Anna Suk) 17th FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL SIGNOS DA NOITE 10th AUSTRIAN FILM AWARDS 2020 *WINNER Best Short Film Award 23rd ZOOM-ZBLIŻENIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL *WINNER Special Mention - Best Short Film FICTION 6th MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 15th THE POPPY JASPER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 17th VIS VIENNA SHORTS (Non-competitive section) 30th GERMAN CAMERA AWARDS 2020 26th PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORTFEST 4th PITTSBURGH SHORTS 21st NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 11th ONE COUNTRY ONE FILM INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 31st BELFAST CINEMAGIC FILM AND TELEVISION FESTIVAL BIG SHORTS AWARDS 2020 *WINNER Best Actress & WINNER Best Screenplay 14th TiSFF, THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 26th BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 26th RABAT INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR FILM FESTIVAL *WINNER Best Actress & WINNER Best Screenplay 26th INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL GOLDEN BEGGAR *WINNER Best Short Film 15th MYRTLE BEACH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL *WINNER Best Foreign Film 8th VKRATZE! - INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL *WINNER Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actress 67th MARTOVSKI FESTIVAL – BELGRADE DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (c) 2019 BAROIAN | HERBIG | SCHMIDL | WINTER

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1943: La Boîte aux rêves de Yves Allégret: una silueta en la película"

1943: Les Petites du quai aux fleurs de Marc Allégret : Jérôme Hardy

1945: Le Pays sans étoiles de Georges Lacombe : Simon Le Gouge y Frédéric Talacayud

1945: El idiota de Georges Lampin : El príncipe Muychkine, inocente de espíritu

1945: Schéma d'une identification, cortometraje inédito de Alain Resnais

1946: Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire, cortometraje inédito de Alain Resnais

1947: Le Diable au corps de Claude Autant-Lara: François Jaubert

1947: La cartuja de Parma de Christian-Jaque: El marqués Fabrice Del Dongo

1947: Les Drames du bois de Boulogne, cortometraje de Jacques Loew: comentario

1948: Une si jolie petite plage de Yves Allégret: Pierre Monet, el viajero

1948: Tous les chemins mènent à Rome de Jean Boyer: Gabriel Pégase, geómetra

1949: La Beauté du diable de René Clair: Enrique y Fausto joven

1949: Visite à Picasso, cortometraje documental de Paul Haesaerts: récitant du film

1950: Souvenirs perdus de Christian-Jaque : Gérard de Narcay, el loco evadido del asilo

1950: Juliette ou la Clé des songes de Marcel Carné: Michel, el soñador que busca a Juliette

1950: La Ronde de Max Ophüls: El Conde

1950: Saint-Louis, ou L'Ange de la paix, cortometraje, documental de Robert Darène: comentario

1950: La paix vaincra, documental polaca de Joris Ivens: comentario de la versión francesa

1950: Avec André Gide, documental de Marc Allégret: comentario

1951: Avignon, bastion de la provence, cortometraje de James Guenet: él mismo

1951: Vedettes sans maquillage, cortometraje de Jacques Guillon: él mismo

1951: Fanfan la Tulipe de Christian-Jaque: Fanfan la Tulipe

1951: Los siete pecados capitales, sketch El octavo pecado de Georges Lacombe

1951: Fêtes galantes : Le peintre Watteau, cortometraje, documental de Jean Aurel : comentario

1952 : Les Belles de nuit de René Clair: Claude, compositor oscuro de música

1952: Les Amants de la villa Borghèse, sketch La Rupture de Gianni Franciolini: El joven en el banco

1953: Les Orgueilleux de Yves Allégret: Georges, ex médico alcohólico

1953: Monsieur Ripois de René Clément: Mr André Ripois, marido de Catherine.

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1942: Une grande fille toute simple de André Roussin, casino de Nice: Mick

1943: Une jeune fille savait de André Haguet, tournée Rasimi.

1942: Sodome et Gomorrhe de Jean Giraudoux, Georges Douking, Théâtre Hébertot: l'Ange

1944: Au petit bonheur de Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, Pasquali, Théâtre Gramont

1945: Fédérigo de René Laporte, Théâtre des Mathurins: prince blanc

1945: Calígula de Albert Camus, Paul Œttly, Théâtre Hébertot: Caligula

1947: Les Épiphanies d'Henri Pichette, Georges Vitaly, Théâtre des Noctambules: le Poète

1948: K.M.X , Jacques Deval, Théâtre de la Michodière: Harold Britton.

1949: Le Figurant de la gaité de Alfred Savoir, Théâtre Montparnasse.

1951: Le Cid de Pierre Corneille, mise en scène Jean Vilar, Festival de Aviñón: Rodrigue

1951: Le Prince de Hombourg d'Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Vilar, Festival de Aviñón: Prince Frédéric

1951: Mère courage de Bertolt Brecht, Suresnes: Eilif, l'un des fils.

1951: La Calandria de Bernardo da Bibbiena, René Dupuy, Festival de Aviñón: Artemona.

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Guadalupe Natalia Tovar (27 July 1910 – 12 November 2016) professionally known as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-American actress and centenarian best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Drácula, filmed in Los Angeles by Universal Pictures at night using the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version, but with a different cast and director. She also starred in the 1932 film Santa, one of the first Mexican sound films, and one of the first commercial Spanish-language sound films.

Tovar was born in Matías Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico, the daughter of Egidio Tovar, who was from Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico, and Mary Tovar (Sullivan), who was Irish-Mexican, from Matías Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico. Tovar was the oldest of nine children, though many of her siblings did not survive early childhood. Tovar grew up during the time of the Mexican Revolution and her family was very poor. She was raised in a very religious Catholic environment, and went to a school where she was taught by nuns.

In 1918, Tovar's family moved north to Mexico City where her father worked for the National Railroad of Mexico in an administrative position.

Tovar was discovered by documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty in Mexico City. Tovar had performed in a dance class and was invited, along with other girls, to do a screen test as part of a competition. Tovar won first place. The prize was a 6-month probation period, followed by a 7-year contract at $150/week, to Fox Studios. The studio had realized they could make money by simultaneously shooting Spanish-language movies of English language studio productions, so had been casting for Spanish stars. She moved to Hollywood in November 1928 with her maternal grandmother, Lucy Sullivan.

Tovar, under contract, was required to study intensively to enhance her skills for films. Her weekly schedule included guitar, two hours four days; Spanish dances, one hour three days; dramatics, one-half hour two days; and English, one hour every day. Her accent was considered an asset in talking motion pictures.[citation needed] Her English improved significantly in just seven months from the time she arrived in Hollywood in January 1929, when she could not say "good morning" in English. To improve her English, she attended talkies; she also learned new words and how to say them by reading voraciously. In 1929, Tovar appeared in the films The Veiled Woman with Bela Lugosi (now thought to be a lost film) and The Cock-Eyed World.

In 1930, she was mentioned for leads in two talkies starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Richard Barthelmess. Fairbanks put off the filming of what became The Exile. After his death, the film was made in 1947 by his son, Douglas, Jr., directed by Max Ophüls.

Lupita's future husband, producer Paul Kohner, convinced Carl Laemmle to make Spanish language movies that could be shot simultaneously at night with their English originals.[7] When sound films began to dominate the industry, casting director Jimmy Ryan warned her that her poor English would not work and her option would not be picked up. However, he recommended pursuing work in the foreign film department. She went to the office and sat around all day without being seen; she left early because a man kept staring at her and made her feel uncomfortable. When she returned to the office another day she met the head of the department, Kohner, who was the man who kept staring at her before. He offered her a job making $15 a day to dubbing films in Spanish, her first being The King of Jazz.

In 1930, Tovar starred opposite Antonio Moreno in La Voluntad del Muerto, the Spanish-language version of The Cat Creeps and was based on the John Willard mystery play, The Cat and the Canary. Both The Cat Creeps and La Voluntad del muerto were remakes of The Cat and the Canary (1927). Casting was done in July 1930 with the film being released later the same year. The Spanish version was directed by George Melford and, like the Spanish-language version of Drácula, was filmed at night using the same sets as those used for filming the English-language version during the day.

Tovar shot Drácula, in 1930, when she was 20 years old. The film was produced by her soon-to-be husband, Paul Kohner.

In 1931, Tovar starred in the film Santa, the first to have synchronized sound and image on the same celluloid strip.

The film was based on a famous book featuring an innocent girl from the country who has an affair with a soldier and then tragically becomes a prostitute. Santa was such a hit that the Mexican government issued a postage stamp featuring Tovar as Santa. "I tell you I could not walk on the streets when Santa came out," Tovar said. "People tore my dress for souvenirs. It was something."

In 2006, Santa was shown in a celebratory screening by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences called "A Salute to Lupita Tovar" that featured a conversation between Tovar and film historian Bob Dickson. The event was in honor of Tovar.

In 1931, Melford directed Tovar in another Universal picture, East of Borneo, which starred Rose Hobart. Tovar also worked on films at Columbia Pictures. Although she herself did not make any silent films, with her earliest films released by Fox Film Corporation in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system, some may have been released in silent versions for theaters not yet equipped for sound.

Tovar went by the nickname Lupita since she was a girl.

During filming of Santa, which was done in Mexico, producer Paul Kohner had to return to Europe because his father was sick. It was this separation, and another the next year when Kohner was producing a film for Universal Pictures in Europe, that made Tovar realize she loved Kohner. Kohner proposed on the phone—he had previously tried to give her a ring—and Tovar went to Czechoslovakia to meet him. They were married, by a rabbi, in Czechoslovakia on October 30, 1932, at Kohner's parents' home.

In 1936, the couple had a daughter, Susan Kohner, a film and television actress, and, in 1939, a son, Paul Julius "Pancho" Kohner Jr., a director and producer. Their grandsons, Chris and Paul Weitz, are successful film directors.

Tovar owned a bassinet that would be used by several well known New Yorkers, including Julie Baumgold, a writer and her husband Edward Kosner, publisher of New York; Elizabeth Sobieski, a novelist and mother of actress Leelee Sobieski, Judy Licht, a TV newswoman, and her husband Jerry Della Femina, an advertising executive.

The release of the Spanish-language "Dracula" on home video in the early 1990s caused a revival of Tovar's films. "It's like a dream being invited to all of these festivals and showings of my films. Was that really me up there on the screen? I had almost forgotten I was an actress. It has been absolutely wonderful how people have been so nice. Usually people die and then they get the award, but to be alive and receive this honor is fantastic!"

Tovar died at the age of 106 on 12 November 2016 in Los Angeles of heart disease, just one day after her daughter Susan Kohner's 80th birthday.

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As a crossmedia project, connecting film with the online video scene, WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet. CROSSMEDIA PROJECT I 29´ I AUSTRIA / GERMANY I 2017 I SALES SIXPACKFILM CAST Anna Suk I Mathias Dachler I Simone Fuith I Julia Plach I Merlin Leonhardt I Markus Schleinzer CREW Director I Crossmedia Concept: JANNIS LENZ Screenplay: JANNIS LENZ I MATTHIAS WRITZE I ANDI WIDMER Director of Photography: ANDI WIDMER Editing: ALEXANDER RAUSCHER Producer: LUKAS ZWENG Co- Producer: ROLAND FISCHER Art Director: EVA ZAR FESTIVALS I AWARDS European Film Awards NOMINATION Clermont- Ferrand Int. Short Film Festival EFA AWARD VIS Vienna Shorts SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY Future Shorts AUDIENCE AWARD Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival GRAND PRIX I BMW SHORT FILM AWARD Filmfestival MAX OPHÜLS PREIS Sarajevo International Film Festival Helsinki International Film Festival LOVE & ANARCHY Odense International Shortfilm Festival CPH : PIX Copenhagen International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Uppsala International Short Film Festival Brest European Short Film Festival PÖFF - Talinn Black Nights International Film Festival Interfilm - Berlin International Short Film Festvial Tampere International Film Festival Sevilla European Film Festival Alcine Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares Leuven International Film Festival Filmfest Dresden – International Short Film Festival Krakow Film Festival Curtas Vila do Conde – International Short Film Festival Glasgow International Short Film Festival Dokufest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival International Short Film Festival in Drama ... 100+ International Festivals including 20 Awards SCREENINGS AT MUSEUMS & EXHIBITIONS mumok - Museum of Modern Art Vienna Ars Electronica Center, Linz Swedish Film Institute Stockholm Kunsthalle Mainz , exhibition "Virtual Insanity" Austrian Film Museum, Vienna International Screenings with the Goethe Institute, Germany ... Part of SHORT MATTERS! Program organised by the European Film Academy Part of FUTURE SHORTS Secret Cinema Tour 2018 Part of the Screening Tour of the Austrian Film Academy Seal of Approval HIGHLY RECOMMENDED I Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden Listed in the catalogue GERMAN SHORT FILMS 2017 (AG Kurzfilm) Listed in the NEW GENERATION section of the AUSTRIAN FILM COMISSION. CONTACT www.jannislenz.com www.sixpackfilm.com/de/catalogue/2361

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