#paul krantz

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Here's to one of the best actors of his generation, the versatile and multilingual king who's been pulling heartstrings for three decades with a variety of roles, faces, and languages... Happy 46th birthday, Daniel Brühl!

p.s. who's your favorite Danny character? Sound off in the comments or the tags—or don't. I'm not your mother. 😋

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EXCLUSIVE: Tom Hiddleston (Thor franchise) and Mark Hamill (Star Wars) are set to star in new Stephen King adaptation The Life Of Chuck, which will be a hot package at the upcoming Cannes market.

Doctor Sleep and The Haunting Of Hill House helmer Mike Flanagan is directing, scripting and producing for Intrepid Pictures alongside fellow producer Trevor Macy.

FilmNation will handle international sales with WME Independent handling domestic.

Based on the short story from King’s 2020 anthology If It Bleeds, The Life of Chuck is three separate stories linked to tell the biography of Charles Krantz in reverse, beginning with his death from a brain tumour at 39 and ending with his childhood in a supposedly haunted house.

The script, which was adapted prior to the WGA strike, has been in the works for several months with Hiddleston set to play the title character and Hamill joining for the role of Albie.

According to the production, the genre project will draw tonally from Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.

Golden Globe and Olivier winner Hiddleston is best known for Thor, Avengers and TV series The Night Manager, as well as stage projects such as Betrayal and Hamlet for Ken Branagh.

Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars movies and reprised his role in both the sequels as well as the second season of The Mandalorian and season one of The Book of Boba Fett. He recently appeared in Netflix’s Sandman and will star in Intrepid and Netflix’s House Of Usher, which will air later this year.

Stephen King, aka ‘The King Of Horror’, is among the all-time best-selling authors. Among his books and short stories to have been adapted into hit movies are Carrie, The Shining, Pet Sematary, It, Stand By Me, The Running Man, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile.

This is the latest project to join a bumper Cannes market slate for FilmNation. Also on the lineup are Amy Adams-Paul Rudd comedy The Invite, Dave Bautista action-thriller The Cooler, and Andrew Garfield project Voyagers, among others.

Hiddleston is represented by UTA (US), Hamilton Hodell (UK), and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; Hamill is represented by Gersh and Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo; Flanagan, Macy and Intrepid are represented by WME, with VanderKloot Law also representing Flanagan and Reder & Feig handling Macy.

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Tom Hiddleston & Mark Hamill To Star In Stephen King Adaptation ‘The Life Of Chuck’ For Director Mike Flanagan

Tom Hiddleston (Thor franchise) and Mark Hamill (Star Wars) are set to star in new Stephen King adaptation The Life Of Chuck, which will be a hot package at the upcoming Cannes market.

Doctor Sleep and The Haunting Of Hill House helmer Mike Flanagan is directing, scripting and producing for Intrepid Pictures alongside fellow producer Trevor Macy.

FilmNation will handle international sales with WME Independent handling domestic.

Based on the short story from King’s 2020 anthology If It Bleeds, The Life of Chuck is three separate stories linked to tell the biography of Charles Krantz in reverse, beginning with his death from a brain tumour at 39 and ending with his childhood in a supposedly haunted house.

The script, which was adapted prior to the WGA strike, has been in the works for several months with Hiddleston set to play the title character and Hamill joining for the role of Albie.

According to the production, the genre project will draw tonally from Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.

Golden Globe and Olivier winner Hiddleston is best known for Thor, Avengers and TV series The Night Manager, as well as stage projects such as Betrayal and Hamlet for Ken Branagh.

Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars movies and reprised his role in both the sequels as well as the second season of The Mandalorian and season one of The Book of Boba Fett. He recently appeared in Netflix’s Sandman, and will star in Sony’s upcoming The Machine and in Intrepid and Netflix’s House Of Usher, which will air later this year.

Stephen King, aka ‘The King Of Horror’, is among the all-time best-selling authors. Among his books and short stories to have been adapted into hit movies are Carrie, The Shining, Pet Sematary, It, Stand By Me, The Running Man, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile.

This is the latest project to join a bumper Cannes market slate for FilmNation. Also on the lineup are Amy Adams-Paul Rudd comedy The Invite, Dave Bautista action-thriller The Cooler, and Andrew Garfield project Voyagers, among others.

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I forgot to post this back in August !! Have this angsty edit of Günter Scheller and Paul Krantz to Nintendo 64 by Alex G XP

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Happy New Years everyone! Best wishes from all the Tiny Brühlies, they’re having a New Year’s party XD jfjdkdkdkd — December 31

List of Brühlies (please refer to December 22 post to see the number references)

1. Paul Krantz - Love in Thoughts

2. Lt Horstmayer - Joyeux Noël

3. Matthias Erzberger - all quiet on the western front

4. Tonda - Krabat

5. István Thurzó - The Countess

6. Checo - Schlaraffenland/Paradise mall

7. Jan - Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei/The Edukators

8. Father Antonio - The Intruders

9. Other Dirk - All together

10. David Kern - Lila Lila

11. Daniel Weltz - Nebenan

12. Niki Lauda - Rush

13. Sebastian Zöllner - Ich und Kaminski

14. Konrad Koch - Der ganz große Traum

15. Alex Kerner - Goodbye Lenin

16. Andrea - Ladies in lavender

17. Daniel - Colonia

18. Hans Krämer - Die kommenden Tage

19. Wilfried Böse - 7 days in Entebbe

20. Ernst Schmidt - The Cloverfield Paradox

21. Iván Pelayos - The Pelayos

22. Dr Laszlo Kreizlier - the Alienist

23. Daniel Berg - the fifth estate

24. Alex Garel - Eva

25. Thomas Lang - The face of an Angel

26. Lukas - das weiße rauschen/The white sound

27. Dirk Brûlée - Everything at once

28. Hubertus Czernin - Woman in Gold

29. Marko - Elefantenherz

30. Baron Zemo - Marvel

31. Tony Balerdi - Burnt

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Daniel Bruhl as Paul Krantz in Love in Thoughts

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The Wonderful Stories of Professor Kitzel is a 1972 educational animated series. Produced by Shamus Culhane for Krantz Films, the program combined film clips, animation, and commentary to teach the viewers about historic and cultural events. It was "hosted" by the eccentric scientist Professor Kitzel, whose voice was provided by Paul Soles, with occasional appearances by his grandfather or his parrot.

[justforbooks]

The guitarist Gary Rossington, who has died aged 71, was the last surviving original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, who formed in Florida in the mid-1960s. He was a pivotal part of the group as both musician and songwriter, his most arresting claim to fame being his slide guitar work on the band’s imperishable theme song, Free Bird. He also co-wrote their most successful single, the US Top 10 hit Sweet Home Alabama, and wrote songs regularly throughout the band’s career, up to their final studio album, Last of a Dyin’ Breed (2012).

Lynyrd Skynyrd reached the US Top 30 with each of their first five albums, three reaching double platinum status, but the group was plagued by a horrific litany of tragedies. Rossington, under the influence of drugs and alcohol, had survived a road accident in 1976 in which his car hit a tree, prompting Skynyrd’s lead vocalist, Ronnie Van Zant, to write the song That Smell – “Ooh that smell / The smell of death surrounds you”.

Then, in October 1977, Rossington survived an air crash in Mississippi in which Van Zant, the guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister, the backing singer Cassie Gaines, died. The chartered aircraft in which they were flying had previously had engine failure; despite a mechanic having supposedly fixed it, both engines failed on the next flight.

“I remember most of it,” Rossington told Guitar.com in 2020. “The rapid descent, the screaming, my friends in pain like something out of Vietnam. Waking up with the plane door on top of me … The main thing is we lost our best friends – that’s the hardest part. Our motto when we started was ‘If we don’t make it we’ll die trying.’ And we made it but at a terrible cost.”

Rossington recovered, after having steel rods inserted in his right arm and right leg, but for several years fought an addiction to painkillers, acquired during his convalescence. He later formed the Rossington Collins Band with his fellow Skynyrd guitarist Allen Collins, but they split in 1982 after Collins’ wife died.

He then formed the Rossington Band with his wife, Dale Krantz-Rossington, before rejoining the rebuilt Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1987, with Ronnie’s brother Johnny Van Zant on lead vocals. The group continued to tour and make albums for the next three decades, despite the deaths of several members. They were due to embark on a 22-city tour with ZZ Top in July 2023, though Rossington’s participation was uncertain because of health problems.

He was born in Jacksonville, Florida. His father was serving in the US army but died shortly after Gary’s birth, leaving his mother, Berniece, to raise him single-handedly. He would later name his favourite 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar “Berniece” in her honour.

A keen baseball player, he had an early ambition to play for the New York Yankees, but the arrival on US shores of the “British Invasion” bands, especially the Rolling Stones, fired in him a desire to become a musician.

His twin enthusiasms combined when he met Van Zant and the drummer Bob Burns while they were playing on rival baseball teams in Jacksonville. They formed a band, and the first song they attempted to play was the Rolling Stones’ hit Time Is on My Side. They added Collins on guitar and the bass player Larry Junstrom, and went by various names including the Noble Five, the One Percent and My Backyard, playing in clubs and bars across the south before becoming Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1969.

The name was adapted from their PE teacher, Leonard Skinner, at Robert E Lee high school in Jacksonville. The New York Times reported how Van Zant’s father, Lacy, had asked teaching staff to allow Rossington to keep his long hair, since his musician’s earnings helped pay the household bills and he could not rock successfully with short hair. On the other hand, as Rossington told Rolling Stone magazine, “some places we’d get into fights – they didn’t like us ’cause our hair was long”.

It was not until 1973 that they released their debut album, (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-’nérd). They had been rejected by nine record companies before the musician and producer Al Kooper signed them to MCA, after seeing them play a storming live show at a club called Funocchio’s in Atlanta. It was Kooper who helped the group turn Free Bird into a nine-minute epic, which became their anthemic calling card.

They had already made a couple of attempts at recording the song, but Kooper added the hymn-like organ passage at the beginning, and helped Rossington to achieve the distinctive sound of his mournful slide guitar theme. “It’s actually me playing the same thing twice, recording one on top of the other, so it sounds kind of slurry, echoey,” he revealed. He had taken inspiration from the slide wizard Duane Allman, of the Allman Brothers Band, who had also formed in Jacksonville.

The band’s single Sweet Home Alabama (1974), co-written by Rossington, became their biggest hit, reaching No 8 on the US chart and 31 in the UK. It was an irresistibly exuberant riposte to Neil Young’s songs Southern Man and Alabama, which the group deemed unreasonably damning of the American south, and in his 2012 autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace, Young admitted he had been “accusatory and condescending”. The song was later used to promote tourism in Alabama as well as supplying the movie Sweet Home Alabama with its story and title.

The band scored four successive US Top 20 albums with Second Helping (1974), Nuthin’ Fancy (1975), Gimme Back My Bullets (1976) and Street Survivors (1977). Lynyrd Skynyrd were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. The event prompted Rossington to say: “I don’t think of it as tragedy – I think of it as life. I think the good outweighs the bad.”

In 2018, Stephen Kijak’s documentary about the band, If I Leave Here Tomorrow, was released. Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash was a dramatisation of the Mississippi air disaster, released in 2020.

Rossington is survived by Dale, whom he married in 1982, and their two daughters.

🔔 Gary Robert Rossington, guitarist and songwriter, born 4 December 1951; died 5 March 2023

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The Best Picture Oscar My Way (2000-2022)

After doing this list, I suddenly got inspired to do this sort of thing for some of the other Academy Award categories. For this project I got the following things to say:

Many of the win/nomination changes will be based more on some infamous or otherwise perceived snubs (i.e. Martin Scorsese needing to wait until The Departed for a Best Director win). In general, the changes are based on what the frequent consensus seems to be from what I’ve seen.

I may STILL keep a few of those same snubs if it simply lines up more with the film’s initial reactions at the time (i.e. Clockwork Orange).

There are some changes that the Oscars applied to certain categories over the years (i.e. Sound Mixing & Sound Editing becoming just Best Sound). For this list’s sake, I’ll apply some of my OWN cases of said changes applying (such as the Best Picture expansion from 5 to 10 occurring earlier since, in hindsight, they probably should’ve done that sooner). In case of that change, I’ll just apply it earlier (starting in 1997).

Said expansion has resulted in no less than 8 nominations in Best Picture at a time, so that’ll be my minimum (until 2021, where it was officially made the set amount no questions asked).

Gonna try to keep EGOTs as best as I can. Luckily for this category, there’s currently only one that’ll matter.

More inclusive wins (POC; LGBT) will be more likely to stay. There may be some exceptions after I’ve already made my own inclusive alternatives.

For the early years where Best Picture went to the studio instead (for some godforsaken reason), I’ll just pretend that’s not the case.

Due to some weird, borderline convoluted rules with Best International Feature Film (Mainly that this category doesn’t require US theater plays, but most other ones do), I’ll often go off of an eligible film’s year of original release unless they managed nominations the following year (City of God; Spirited Away)

For Best Picture, I’m only gonna list the nominated producer for newly added films (here’s the Wikipedia page for the rest). I will mostly go with the ones credited as “produced by” or “p.g.a.” (if the latter is shown) on IMDB as the nominees. Limit is five.

Italicized film titles are the ones I added. Bold ones are winners.

2000

Gladiator (still)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Erin Brockovich

Memento - Jennifer Todd; Suzanne Todd

Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe; Ian Bryce

Amores perro - Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Traffic

American Psycho - Christian Halsey Solomon; Chris Hanley; Edward R. Pressman

Requiem for a Dream - Eric Watson; Palmer West

2001

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

A Beautiful Mind

Moulin Rogue!

Shrek - Aron Warner; John H. Williams; Jeffrey Katzenberg

The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson; Barry Mendel; Scott Rudin

Mulholland Drive - Tony Krantz; Michael Polaire; Alain Sarde; Mary Sweeney

Amélie - Claudie Ossard

In The Bedroom

Gosford Park

Monsters, Inc. - Darla K. Anderson

2002

Spirited Away - Toshio Suzuki

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Pianist

Gangs of New York

Punch-Drunk Love - Paul Thomas Anderson; Daniel Lupi; JoAnne Sellar

Chicago!

Catch Me If You Can - Steven Spielberg; Walter F. Parkes

The Hours

2003

The Lord of the Ring: Return of the King (still)

The Barbarian Invasions - Daniel Louis; Denise Robert

Lost in Translation

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

City of God - Andrea Barata; Mauricio Andrade

Finding Nemo - Graham Walters

Mystic River

Seabiscuit

2004

Before Sunset - Anne Walker-McBay

Million Dollar Baby

The Aviator

The Incredibles - John Walker

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Anthony Bergman; Steven Golin

Sideways

Ray

The Motorcycle Diaries - Michaek Nozik; Edgard Tenembaum; Karen Tenkhoff

Shrek 2 - David Lipman; Aron Warner; John H. Williams

Shaun of the Dead - Nira Park

2005 (well crap, seems like in hindsight, a struggle to find many picks might have been part of the problem. Still don’t excuse that bullshit with Crash)

Brokeback Mountain

Good Night, and Good Luck

Munich

Capote

Pride and Prejudice - Tim Bevan; Debra Hayward

Howl’s Moving Castle - Toshio Suzuki

Memoirs of a Geisha - Lucy Fisher; Steven Spielberg; Douglas Wick

V for Vendetta - Lana and Lilly Wackowski; Joel Silver; Grant Hill

2006

Pan’s Labyrinth - Guillermo del Toro; Alfonso Cuaron; Bertha Navarro; Frida Torresblanco

The Departed

Babel

Letters from Iwo Jima

Little Miss Sunshine

Children of Men - Marc Abraham; Eric Newman; Hilary Shor; Iain Smith; Tony Smith

The Prestige - Christopher Nolan; Emma Thomas; Aaron Ryder

The Lives of Others - Quirin Berg; Max Wiedemann

The Queen

2007

No Country For Old Men (still)

There Will Be Blood

Ratatouille - Bradford Lewis

Juno

Atonement

Zodiac - Ceán Chaffin; Bradley J. Fischer; Mike Medavoy; Arnold Messer; James Vanderbilt

Persepolis - Xavier Rigault; Marc-Antoine Robert

Hot Fuzz - Tim Bevan; Eric Fellner; Nira Park

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - Cristian Mungiu; Oleg Mutu

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford  - Ridley Scott; Dede Gardner; Brad Pitt; David Valdes; Jules Daly

2008

Wall-E - Jim Morris; Lindsey Collins

The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan; Charles Roven; Emma Thomas

Slumdog Millionaire

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Milk

Frost/Nixon

Synecdoche, New York - Charlie Kaufman; Spike Jonze; Sidney Kimmel; Anthony Bregman

Departures - Toshiaki Nakazawa; Ichiro Nobukuni; Toshihisa Watai

The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky; Scott Franklin

Doubt - Mark Roybal; Scott Rudin

2009

Inglorious Basterds

The Hurt Locker

Mother - Tae-joon Park; Woo-sik-Seo

Up

Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson; Allison Abbate; Scott Rudin; Jeremy Dawson

A Serious Man

The White Ribbon - Stefan Arndt; Veit Heiduschka; Margaret Menegoz; Andrea Occhipinti

The Secret in Their Eyes - Mariela Besuievsky; Juan Jose Campanella

Avatar

District 9

2010

Inception

Incendies - Kim McCraw; Luc Dery

True Grit

Toy Story 3

The Social Network

Black Swan

Biutiful - Alejandro G. Inarritu; Jon Kilik

The Kids Are All Right

127 Hours

The King’s Speech

2011

The Artist (still)

The Tree of Life

The Descendants

A Separation - Asghar Farhadi

Hugo

Moneyball

The Help

Midnight in Paris

War Horse

2012

Amour

Django Unchained

Life of Pi

Argo

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan; Can Yilmaz

Moonrise Kingdom

Lincoln

Les Miserables

Silver Linings Playbook

The Intouchables - Nicolas Duval Adassovsky; Laurent Zeitoun; Yann Zenou

2013

12 Years a Slave (still)

Her

Prisoners - Kira Davis; Broderick Johnson; Adam Kolbrenner; Andrew A. Kosove

The Great Beauty - Francesca Cima; Nicola Giuliano

Before Midnight - Richard Linklater; Sara Woodhatch; Christos V. Konstantakopoulos

The Wind Rises - Toshio Suzuki

The Wolf of Wall Street

Gravity

Nebraska

American Hustle

2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Gone Girl - Ceán Chaffin; Joshua Donen; Arnon Milchan; Resse Witherspoon

Tale of the Princess Kaguya - Yoshiaki Nishimura; Seiichiro Ujiie

Whiplash

Selma

Intersteller - Christopher Nolan; Lynda Obst; Emma Thomas

American Sniper

Boyhood

2015

Carol - Elizabeth Karlsen; Christine Vachon; Stephen Woolley

The Big Short

Mad Max: Fury Road

Inside Out - Jonas Rivera

Spotlight

Bridge of Spies

The Revenant

Room

2016

Moonlight (still)

Arrival

Fences

La La Land

Hidden Figures

The Salesman - Asghar Farhadi; Alexandre Mallet-Guy

The Handmaiden - Park Chan-wook; Syd Lim

Your Name - Koichiro Ito; Genki Kawamura; Katsuhiro Yumiya

Hell or High Water

Manchester by the Sea

2017

Lady Bird

The Shape of Water

Call Me By Your Name

Phantom Thread

Get Out

Coco - Darla K. Anderson

Blade Runner 2049 - Broderick Johnson; Andrew A. Kosove; Bud Yorkin; Cynthia Sikes

The Post

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Dunkirk

2018

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse - Avi Arad; Phil Lord; Chris Miller; Amy Pascal; Christina Steinberg

Roma

BlacKkKlansman

The Favourite

Hereditary - Kevin Scott Frakes; Lars Knudsen

Black Panther

Bohemian Rhapsody

Shoplifters - Kore-eda Hirokazu; Kaoru Matsuzaki; Hijiri Taguchi; Akihiko Yose

A Star is Born

Vice

2019

Parasite (still)

Jojo Rabbit

Joker

Little Woman

1917

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 

Marriage Story

Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Benedicte Couvreur

The Irishman

The Lighthouse - Lourenco Sant’Anna; Rodrigo Teixeira; Michael Volpe; Robert Eggers

2020

Nomadland (still)

The Father

Soul - Dana Murray

Judas and the Black Messiah

Minari

Sound of Metal

Mank

Wolfwalkers - Tomm Moore; Stephan Roelants; Nora Twomey; Paul Young

2021

Drive My Car

CODA

Belfast

Dune

The Power of the Dog

West Side Story

Nightmare Alley

Licorice Pizza

King Richard

Titane - Amaury Ovise; Jean-Christophe Reymond

2022

Everything Everywhere All At Once (still)

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Banshees of Inisherin

The Fabelmans

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio - Guillermo del Toro; Alexander Bulkley; Gary Ungar

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On - Andrew Goldman; Edward Chiodo; Caroline Kaplan; Dean Fleischer Camp; Jenny Slate

Nope - Ian Cooper; Jordan Peele

Aftersun - Barry Jenkins; Mark Ceryak; Amy Jackson; Adele Romanski

Top Gun: Maverick

Triangle of Sadness

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LOVE IN THOUGHTS (2004) Daniel Brühl as Paul Krantz August Diehl as Günther Scheller

Gonna tell my kids this was the original adaptation of Call Me By Your Name.

[baron-zemo-barnes]

Fuck Marry Kiss

Paul Krantz

Helmut Zemo

Laszlo Kreizler

[ulkaralakbarova]

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club’s MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club’s female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Francis: Bruce Greenwood Christina: Mia Kirshner Eric: Elias Koteas Thomas: Don McKellar Tracey Brown: Sarah Polley Zoe: Arsinée Khanjian Harold: Victor Garber Inspector: David Hemblen Customs Officer: Calvin Green Man in Taxi: Peter Krantz Scalper: Jack Blum Man at opera: Billy Merasty Doorman: Ken McDougall Man at Opera: Damon D’Oliveira …: Maury Chaykin …: C.J. Lusby …: Nadine Ramkisson Film Crew: Screenplay: Atom Egoyan Editor: Susan Shipton Producer: Camelia Frieberg Set Dresser: Linda Del Rosario Set Dresser: Richard Paris Costume Design: Linda Muir Director of Photography: Paul Sarossy Assistant Director: David Webb Production Manager: Sandra Cunningham Assistant Production Manager: Roberta Pazdro Production Coordinator: Roland Schlimme Second Assistant Director: Fergus Barnes Third Assistant Director: Michele Rakich Other: Simone Urdl Other: Hussain Amarshi Assistant Production Coordinator: Carolynne Bell Extras Casting: Scott Mansfield Camera Trainee: Joseph Micomonaco Other: Mark Willis Focus Puller: Paul Boucher Steadicam Operator: David Crone Gaffer: David Owen Electrician: George Kerr Script Supervisor: Joanne T. Harwood Grip: Harper Forbes Boom Operator: Peter Melnychuk Set Dresser: Garth Brunt Makeup Artist: Nicole Demers Hair Designer: Debra Johnson Original Music Composer: Mychael Danna Sound Designer: Steve Munro Movie Reviews: badelf: The best psychological drama I’ve seen in a long time. I can’t even remember anything that comes close. Filipe Manuel Neto: **Something abstract and disconnected, not worth seeing more than once in our life.** This is one of those films that puts such a huge barrier between the audience and the screen that it seems like we’re not even being taken into consideration by the producers. Despite the attempts, there is not a single sympathetic or palatable character, the script does not help and the feeling that hangs in the air is of a lack of connection and solidity in the final product that can only be explained if we think about the way the director wanted to be. abstract by force. Everything takes place around a chic striptease club, Exotica, in Toronto. There is a dancer who enchants not only a client who goes to see her every day, but also the presenter, who is her ex-boyfriend and one of the most possessive and unhappy people we can imagine. Add to this an animal trafficker with problems admitting homosexuality who is forced to participate in a revenge plan, and we have a film that we probably won’t want to see more than once. Atom Egoyan gives us firm direction, but a much less secure and solid script. I like the way it addresses loss, trauma, the feeling of denial of reality and grief. However, to believe that a woman would set up an elegant strip club and her daughter would have the courage to take over the “family business” is to completely ignore the realities of these commercial establishments, where legality and illegality sometimes go hand in hand. A real luxury house would never hold private sessions on tables in the main room for a low price, but in separate rooms for a much higher price, and real strippers don’t usually dance to the same music and use the same stage number constantly. There are also huge holes that the script never explains and that are left hanging. For example, why did Christina decide to become a stripper if it is clear, from the characters’ words, that that is not the place she deserved to be. Bruce Greenwood is the actor who deserves the most praise for his work here. He is the only one trying to break the ice and reach out to the public in some way, and that deserv...

[hereticpriest]

good evening! i honestly adore your works, they’re amazing and absolutely perfect written🫶

i’m wondering if you’re writing for Paul Krantz or Alex Kerner? if yes, could i please request an one-shot with Paul, which would be about him felling in love with reader, who was a sister of his friend (well, like in movie, but the reader loves him back, not like Hilde💀), and maybe it would include some intimate poems or letters from Paul. OR a NSFW one-shot with Alex, where he and reader would have their first time together (so obviously with a virginity loss and maaaybe a bit of boobies kink?🥹)

thank you!!!

Hey BB, I haven't seen their films yet, but I'm going to save this request for when I have seen them, so look out for it in the future! 💕

[blogcowboyron]

Will US climate plans affect German gas supply?

Will US climate plans affect German gas supply? Paul Krantz – news@thelocal.de Published: 1 Feb, 2024 CET.Updated: Thu 1 Feb 2024 15:54 CET A tanker loaded with liquefied natural gas (LNG) at the floating LNG terminal “Neptune” in Lubmin in the German state of Pomerania. Germany has been looking for alternative energy sources since the start of the war in Ukraine. Photo: picture alliance/dpa |…

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 1.9

Beer Birthdays

Mark Dorber (1957)

Marty Velas (1961)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Bob Denver; actor, "Gilligan" (1935)

Karel Capek; writer (1890)

Jimmy Page; rock musician,, gitarist (1944)

Les Paul; guitarist, guitar maker (1915)

Bart Starr; Green Bay Packers QB (1934)

Famous Birthdays

Joey Lauren Adams; actor (1971)

George Balanchine; dancer (1904)

Arthur Baer; writer (1886)

Joan Baez; folk singer (1941)

Simone de Beauvoir; French writer (1908)

Hayyim Nahman Bialik; poet, publisher (1873)

Dick Enberg; sportscaster (1935)

Gracie Fields; actor, comedian (1898)

Crystal Gayle; country singer (1951)

Steve Harwell; rock singer (1967)

David Johansen; singer, actor (1950)

Judith Krantz; novelist (1928)

Fernando Lamas; actor (1915)

Dave Matthews; pop musician (1967)

Kate Middleton; British royalty (1982)

Richard M. Nixon; 36th U.S. President (1913)

Jonathan Kimble "J.K." Simmons; actor (1955)

Imelda Staunton; actor (1956)

Lee Van Cleef; actor (1925)

Scott Walker, a.k.a. Engel; musician (1943)

John B. Watson; psychologist (1878)

Susannah York; actor (1941)

Chic Young; cartoonist (1901)