#mili avital

[in-love-with-movies]

After the Storm (2001)

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Arabian Nights - ABC / BBC One - April 30, 2000 - May 1, 2000

Fantasy (2 episodes)

Running Time: 175 minutes total

Stars:

Mili Avital as Scheherazade

Dougray Scott as Shahryar and Amin the Beggar

Alan Bates as The Storyteller

James Frain as Schahzenan and Sultan Haroun Abraschild (character based on the historical Caliph Harun al-Rashid)

Peter Guinness as The Chief Executioner

Jason Scott Lee as Aladdin

Pik-Sen Lim as Aladdin's Mother

John Leguizamo as The Genie of the Lamp and The Genie of the Ring

Vanessa-Mae as Princess Zubaïda

Hugh Quarshie as Mustappa

Jim Carter as Ja'Far

Amira Casar as Morgiana

Rufus Sewell as Ali Baba

Tchéky Karyo as Black Coda

Andy Serkis as Kasim

Alexis Conran as Prince Ali

James Callis as Prince Ahmed

Hari Dhillon as Prince Hussain

Alexei Sayle as BacBac

Oded Fehr as Robber #2

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First and last time Daniel speaks Abydonian with Sha're

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[boomgers]

Su gracia cambió el mundo y su valentía iluminó el camino… “María”

A través de los ojos de María, este épico relato bíblico sobre el fin de la adolescencia se centra en una de las figuras más trascendentales de la historia y en el extraordinario viaje que conduce al nacimiento de Jesús.

Elegida para traer al Mesías al mundo, María es marginada tras una concepción milagrosa y se ve obligada a esconderse.

Cuando el rey Herodes ordena una cacería mortal de su recién nacido, María y José huyen, unidos por la fe e impulsados por el valor, para salvar la vida del bebé a toda costa.

Estreno: 6 de diciembre de 2024 en Netflix.

Dirigida por D.J. Caruso y guionizada por Timothy Michael Hayes, la película cuenta con las actuaciones de Noa Cohen, Ido Tako, Anthony Hopkins, Stephanie Nur, Susan Brown, Ori Pfeffer, Eamon Farren, Hilla Vidor, Mili Avital, Gudmundur Thorvaldsson, entre otros.

[ibrithir-was-here]

“There was and there was not…”

Another idea from Discord, if Dream was a patron to The Bard he most certainly could have been one to Scheherazade, one of the greatest storytellers ever known. And honestly how could he not be drawn to the combination of beauty, bravery and creativity that is the teller of the 1,001 nights?

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Stargate is a 1994 science fiction action-adventure film directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich. The film is the first entry in the Stargate media franchise and stars Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, and Viveca Lindfors. The plot centers on the titular "Stargate", an ancient ring-shaped device that creates a wormhole, enabling travel to a similar device elsewhere in the universe. The central plot explores the theory of extraterrestrial beings having an influence upon human civilization.

Less than Zero is a 1987 American drama film directed by Marek Kanievska, loosely based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis. The film stars Andrew McCarthy as Clay, a college freshman returning home for Christmas to spend time with his ex-girlfriend Blair (Jami Gertz) and his friend Julian (Robert Downey Jr.), both of whom have become drug addicts. The film presents a look at the culture of wealthy, decadent youth in Los Angeles.

Key Takeaways:

– James Spader recollects his time working with Robert Downey Jr. during ‘Less Than Zero'.

– The co-star noticed how Downey Jr.'s destructive lifestyle influenced his performance.

– Spader admired Downey Jr.'s turnaround when they next met on the set of Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Globally acclaimed actor Robert Downey Jr. is widely acknowledged for his phenomenal roles in the Hollywood film industry. Within his illustrious career, his portrayal of Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), starting with Iron Man, stands out. However, even successful journeys have challenging beginnings. For Robert Downey Jr., his journey was marred by a period of drug abuse and legal troubles.

James Spader, co-star of Robert Downey Jr. in the 1987 drama ‘Less Than Zero', recently shed some light on his experience working with Downey Jr. during these testing times. Spader elucidates upon the heartbreaking moment he observed Downey Jr., a talented actor, struggling with destructive habits on the set of ‘Less Than Zero'. His concern for his co-star was compounded by the character Downey Jr. played – an addict.

“I'm gonna go drain the snake,” Downey Jr. would often mumble to himself during filming, leaving his co-star and others on set perplexed.

Downey Jr.'s character in ‘Less Than Zero' is often viewed as a mirror reflection of the actor's tumultuous past, with real-life drug abuse issues being mirrored on-screen. An actor of Downey Jr.'s caliber and his involvement borderline signaled a cry for help that resonated with his audience. This deep connection between his life's challenges and his screen roles turned Downey Jr. into Hollywood's dark horse at that time.

Spader retold his experience about Downey Jr.'s deplorable state during the filming of ‘Less Than Zero', “I found him heartbreaking in ‘Less Than Zero,' and I found him heartbreaking at the time.”

RDJ's physical deterioration, evidenced by patches of dead skin, only made the situation look grim.

However, as they say, every cloud has a silver lining. Downey Jr. made a remarkable turnaround with his life and career. His subsequent meeting with Spader on the set of Avengers: Age of Ultron as a changed person would have been a proud moment for the Blacklist actor. His journey from self-destruction to being one of the biggest stars in Hollywood is nothing short of inspirational.

In the film, the Avengers fight Ultron (Spader)—an artificial intelligence created by Tony Stark (Downey) and Bruce Banner (Ruffalo)—who plans to bring about world peace by causing human extinction.

I don't need to say ONE WORD. The crap loads of Predictive Programming from just three projects says it all. I mean... besides milking it for more sympathy, why keep bringing up RDJ's past drug use? It's pretty humiliating, but also must have a purpose.

Bonus:

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Johnny Depp in Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995) Cast: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Jared Harris, Billy Bob Thornton, Mili Avital, Gabriel Byrne, Crispin Glover, Alfred Molina. Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch. Cinematography: Robby Müller. Production design: Bob Ziembicki. Music: Neil Young. It was probably inevitable that Jim Jarmusch and Johnny Depp, two of American film's best-known off-beat artists, would collaborate, and it seems appropriate that they should do it in that quintessentially off-beat American genre, the "stoner Western."* Unfortunately, for some viewers the film just feels stoned: slow, meandering, and fixated on images that refuse to yield up their significance. It is, I think, one of those films that are more involving to think about after watching them, which is why its reputation has grown since its initial release, when Roger Ebert, among other critics, dismissed it as "unrewarding." It opens with a long montage of young accountant William Blake's (Depp) westward train journey from Cleveland to the end-of-the-line factory town called Machine, a name that suggests the real manifest destiny of the United States was the spread of industrial capitalism. Blake is on his way to a job with the Dickinson Metalworks in Machine, and is unaware that he shares a name with the poet and artist who was one of the great enemies of industrial capitalism. He dozes through spectacular scenery that has filled the great Westerns -- a reminder that before there were movies there were train windows. But when he arrives in Machine, no job is waiting for him, and his protests are futile when he demands to see Mr. Dickinson, who turns out to be the always-formidable Robert Mitchum in his last screen role. Moreover, that night he kills Dickinson's son in self-defense and, wounded himself, flees town on a stolen horse. Dickinson immediately hires a trio of gunmen to kill him. Blake is found half-dead from his wound by an Indian (Gary Farmer), who patches him up but also tells him that the bullet is lodged near his heart and he will die from it eventually. The Indian is called Nobody because he belongs to no tribe, having been abducted by white men as a child and taken to England to be exhibited. He was educated there and learned to love the art and poetry of William Blake, so naturally he proclaims the hapless accountant a reincarnation of the poet. And so Blake and Nobody begin an odyssey toward the Pacific, a picaresque in which Jarmusch manages to cross an adventure story with a satiric look at the failure of American ideals, using bits of Blake's prophetic verse as a running commentary. (Remarkably, quotations from Blake turn out to sound much like the kind of wisdom usually ascribed to Native Americans in the movies.) It's to Jarmusch's credit that this high-concept blend becomes as moving as it often is, especially, as I've suggested, in retrospect. *Jarmusch referred to Dead Man as a "psychedelic Western," but aside from the scene in which Nobody, under the influence of peyote, sees the skull beneath William Blake's skin, it doesn't have the conventional distortions and hallucinations associated with movie psychedelia.

[itsnothingbutluck]

Directed by Guy Ferland.

Story by Ernest Hemingway.

Teleplay by A.E. Hotchner.

Original Music by Bill Wandel.

Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Mili Avital, Armand Assante, Simone-Elise Girard.

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Stargate Movie and TV shows

Stargate movie (1994)

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Plot and background:  Stargate is a 1994 science fiction adventure film[6] directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich. The film is the first entry in the Stargate media franchise and stars Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, and Viveca Lindfors. 

The plot centres on the premise of a "Stargate," an ancient ring-shaped device that creates a wormhole, enabling travel to a similar device elsewhere in the universe. The film's central plot explores the theory of extraterrestrial beings having an influence upon human civilization.

Originally theatrically released on October 28, 1994, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the film received mixed reviews, with its atmosphere, story, characters, and graphic content both praised and criticized. The film grossed $196.6 million worldwide against a production budget of $55 million.

In 1928, at Giza, Egypt, archaeologist Professor Paul Langford, accompanied by his daughter Catherine, unearths cover stones (also called pyramidion or capstone) engraved with Egyptian hieroglyphs and other markings. Beneath, he discovers a large metallic ring of unknown purpose.

In 1994, Catherine invited Egyptologist and linguist Daniel Jackson, Ph.D. to translate the hieroglyphs. The stones are now part of a U.S. Air Force classified project overseen by Special Operations Colonel Jack O'Neil. Jackson determines that the hieroglyphs refer to a "stargate" that uses constellations as spatial coordinates. He is then shown the Stargate, the ring device from Giza. They use his coordinates to align the Stargate's rotating inner track with markings (or "chevrons") along its outside. When all seven chevrons are locked in, a wormhole opens, connecting the Stargate with a distant planet. Jackson joins O'Neil and his team (Reilly, Porro, Freeman, Brown, Ferretti, and Kawalsky) as they pass through the wormhole.

They emerge inside a pyramid on the arid desert planet of Abydos. Jackson attempts to locate the symbols required for the return journey through the Stargate but fails. O'Neil orders Kawalsky to set up camp. Jackson sees a large animal with a harness, which drags him off when he approaches it to investigate. O'Neil, Kawalsky, and Brown follow, and they discover a tribe of humans working to mine a strange mineral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_(film)

Stargate SG1

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Plot and background:: Stargate SG-1 (often stylized in all caps, or abbreviated SG-1) is a military science fiction adventure television series within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 science fiction film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.

The television series was filmed in and around the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The series premiered on Showtime on July 27, 1997, and moved to the Sci Fi Channel on June 7, 2002; the final episode first aired on Sky1 on March 13, 2007.

The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets and in space. SG-1 is an elite United States Air Force special operations team, one of about 20 teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, the Replicators and the Ori. The series draws upon Egyptian, Greek, and Norse mythology, as well as the legend of King Arthur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_SG-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stargate_SG-1_episodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stargate_SG-1_characters

Stargate Atlantis

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Plot and background:: Stargate Atlantis (usually stylized in all caps and often abbreviated SGA) is an adventure and military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. The show was created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper as a spin-off series of Stargate SG-1, which was created by Wright and Jonathan Glassner and was itself based on the feature film Stargate (1994). All five seasons of Stargate Atlantis were broadcast by the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States and the Movie Network in Canada. The show premiered on July 16, 2004; its final episode aired on January 9, 2009. The series was filmed in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The story of Stargate Atlantis follows the events of Stargate SG-1's seventh season finale episode "Lost City" and eighth season premiere episode "New Order", in which the cast of that series discovered an Antarctic outpost created by the alien race known as the Ancients. 

In the pilot episode "Rising," Dr. Daniel Jackson discovers the location of Atlantis, the legendary city created by the Ancients, and Stargate Command sends an international team to investigate it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Atlantis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stargate_Atlantis_episodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stargate_Atlantis_characters

Stargate Universe

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Plot and background: Stargate Universe (often abbreviated as SGU) is a military science fiction drama television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. 

It follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team travelling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny several billion light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. 

They are now trying to figure out a way to return to Earth while simultaneously trying to explore and to survive in their unknown area of the universe. 

The series, created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper premiered in the United States on Syfy on October 2, 2009. The series featured an ensemble cast and was primarily filmed in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A second season of 20 episodes was announced by Syfy in December 2009.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stargate_Universe_episodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stargate_Universe_characters

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_(device)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_of_Stargate

https://mgm.com/franchise/stargate

https://www.gateworld.net/

https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Stargate_Wiki

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6.5 / 10

Título Original: Stargate

Año: 1994

Duración: 121 min

País: Estados Unidos

Dirección: Roland Emmerich

Guion: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich

Música: David Arnold

Fotografía: Karl Walter Lindenlaub

Reparto: James Spader, Kurt Russell, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors, Mili Avital, Alexis Cruz, Djimon Hounsou, Richard Kind, Erick Avari, John Diehl

Productora: Carolco Pictures, Canal+, Centropolis Film Productions. Productor: Mario Kassar. Distribuidora: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), United Artists

Género: Action; Adventure; Sci-Fi

TRAILER:

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Mili Avital as Scheherazade and Dougray Scott as Shahryar in "Arabian Nights"

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Famous March 30, 2023 birthdays:

John Astin (American actor & director), 93

Henry Beatty (American actor & director), 86

Jerry Lucas (American basketball player & writer), 83

Bob Smith (American naval ensign & senator), 82

Eric Clapton (British singer & guitarist)(pictured), 78

William Little (American baseball player & coach), 73

Paul Reiser (American actor & comedian)(pictured), 67

Maurice LaMarche (Canadian voice actor), 65

MC Hammer (American rapper), 61

Piers Pughe-Morgan (British tv host & journalist), 58

Sylvain Charlebois (Canadian researcher & writer), 53

Mili Avital (Israeli-American actress), 51

Ty Conklin (American hockey player), 47

Norah Jones (American singer & pianist), 44

Jammal Brown (American football player), 42

Marc-Édouard Vlasic (Canadian hockey player), 36

Richard Sherman (American football player), 35

Chris Sale (American baseball player), 34

Anitta (Brazilian singer & actress), 30

Alex Bregman (American baseball player), 29

Anastasia Potapova (Russian tennis player), 22

[hopefulkidshark]

Arabian Nights (TV Mini Series 2000)

Arabian Nights: With Mili Avital, Alan Bates, James Frain, Tchéky Karyo. To cure a Prince's murderous madness, Scheherezade tells him a series of wondrous 

The Arabian Nights is a story straight out of a romance novel. It's an epic collection of Arabic folk tales written during the Islamic Golden Age. Scorned by an unfaithful wife, Shahryar is the king of a great empire, but is brokenhearted. Shahryar chose to marry a new woman every day only to kill her the next morning.

Casting principal

Mili Avital

Alan Bates

James Frain

Amira Casar

Les mille et une nuits (Mini-série télévisée 2000) - IMDb

If I lose interest for one moment, I see your face and I can’t leave - Arabian Nights (2001)

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Mili Avital and Johnny Depp in Dead Man (1995, Jim Jarmusch

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Nobody: 'Did you kill the white man who killed you?' William Blake: 'I'm not dead.’

Dead Man Dir: Jim Jarmusch