#tom tellefsen

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"Kolleksjonen" (1963) - Pål Løkkeberg

(Orig. title: "The Collection")

Films I've watched in 2023 (102/119)

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The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2004).

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A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Valerie Plame: Naomi Watts Joseph Wilson: Sean Penn Sam Plame: Sam Shepard Bill: Noah Emmerich Jack: Michael Kelly Jim Pavitt: Bruce McGill Scooter Libby: David Andrews Paul: Tim Griffin Dr. Zahraa: Liraz Charhi Hammad: Khaled El Nabawy Chanel Suit: Sonya Davison Tabir Secretary #1: Vanessa Chong Hafiz: Anand Tiwari Tabir Secretary #2: Stephanie Chai Fred: Ty Burrell Sue: Jessica Hecht Steve: Norbert Leo Butz Lisa: Rebecca Rigg Diana: Brooke Smith Jeff: Tom McCarthy Samantha Wilson: Ashley Gerasimovich Trevor Wilson: Quinn Broggy CIA Tour Leader: Nicholas Sadler CPD Agent: Iris Bahr Minister of Mines – Niger: Ghazil Joe Turner: Kristoffer Ryan Winters Nervous Analyst #1: Louis Ozawa CIA Analyst #1: Sean Mahon Professor Badawi: Mohamed Abdel Fatah Kim: Rashmi Rao Nervous Dave: David Denman Nervous Analyst #2: Remy Auberjonois Ali: Sunil Malhotra Jordan Officer #1: Kevin Makely Mukhabarat Officer: Mousa Al Satari Hammad’s Son: Rafat Basel Hammad’s Wife: Maysa Abdel Sattar B.U. Professor: Judith Resnik B.U. Student #1: Ben Mac Brown B.U. Student #2: Satya Bhabha Iraqi Scientist #1: Nabil Koni Iraqi Scientist #2: Mohammad Al Sawalqa Beth: Jenny Maguire Pete: David Warshofsky Ari Fleischer: Geoffrey Cantor Journalist #1: David Ilku Journalist #2: Deidre Goodwin Journalist #3: Donna Placido Karl Rove: Adam LeFevre Steven Hadley: Brian McCormack Andrew Card: James Rutledge Cathie Martin: Tricia Munford David Addington: Michael Goodwin Mr. Tabir: Nassar Dir. of CIA Operations: Chet Grissom Internal Security Officer: James Joseph O’Neil Supporter #1: Danni Lang Supporter #2: Jane Lee Field Reporter #1: James Moye Field Reporter #2: Judy Maier Diane Plame: Polly Holliday Businessman #1: Kola Ogundiran Businessman #2: Byron Utley Right Wing Reporter: Anastasia Barzee DC Cab Driver: Sanousi Sesay Barista (uncredited): Angela Lewis Deceased Soldier’s Daughter (uncredited): Michelle E. Mancini UN Diplomat (uncredited): Rebekah Paltrow Neumann Iraqi Server (uncredited): Barbara Grace Romano Four Seasons Waitress (uncredited): Satu Runa Warehouse Supervisor (uncredited): Kaipo Schwab Head Paparazzo (uncredited): Harry L. Seddon Turkish Diplomat (uncredited): Kent Sladyk Vietnam Vet at Rally (uncredited): Bill Walters Film Crew: Producer: Doug Liman Screenplay: John-Henry Butterworth Producer: Jez Butterworth Book: Joseph Wilson Associate Producer: Sean Gesell Makeup Department Head: Michal Bigger Line Producer: Pete Singh Key Hair Stylist: Amanda Miller Line Producer: Anadil Hossain Line Producer: Bruce Wayne Gillies Line Producer: Carson Ng Original Music Composer: John Powell Executive Producer: Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei Associate Producer: Gerry Robert Byrne Line Producer: Wesam Seif Elislam Hairstylist: Lisa Hazell Book: Valerie Plame Executive Producer: Jeff Skoll Co-Producer: Avram Ludwig Stunt Coordinator: G. A. Aguilar Stunt Coordinator: Peter Bucossi Co-Producer: Kim H. Winther Casting: Joseph Middleton Producer: Bill Pohlad Co-Producer: David Sigal Producer: Janet Zucker Set Decoration: Sara Parks Executive Producer: David Bartis Executive Producer: Mari-Jo Winkler Costume Design: Cindy Evans Producer: Jerry Zucker Editor: Christopher Tellefsen Stunts: Anthony Vincent Producer: Akiva Goldsman Art Direction: Kevin Bird Production Design: Jess Gonchor Stunts: Stephen A. Pope Executive Producer: Kerry Foster Movie Reviews:

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Cast: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols, Alison Parisi, Dylan Hundley, Bryan Leder, Isabel Gillies, Will Kempe, Ellia Thompson. Screenplay: Whit Stillman. Cinematography: John Thomas. Film editing: Christopher Tellefsen. Costume design: Mary Jane Fort. Music: Tom Judson, Mark Suozzo.

Twenty-six years after Metropolitan, his debut film, Whit Stillman made one of the best Jane Austen movies ever, his adaptation of her unpublished epistolary novel Lady Susan, which he retitled (borrowing and slightly altering the title of another unpublished Austin novel) Love & Friendship. It's a witty look at the manners and mores of an insular privileged class, which almost exactly describes Metropolitan as well. Instead of Regency gentry, the privileged class in Stillman's first film consists of young Manhattan preppies, all of them well-educated, many of them wealthy, as they make the rounds of parties during debutante season. It's not surprising, too, that Jane Austen makes her own presence known in this scene, through conversations between Tom Townsend and the young woman he finds himself escorting through these parties, Audrey Rouget. She's a lover of Austen's novels who is shocked to find, first, that Tom thinks Mansfield Park is Austen's worst book and, second, that he's never read it or any other novel by her, but is just echoing the criticism by Lionel Trilling: "I don't read novels," he says. "I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelist's ideas as well as the critic's thinking." Metropolitan floats along through the debutante season as Tom, Audrey, and their friends skim the surface of ideas about class and society and sex in their blithe, unformed way. Nothing really happens in the movie, though Audrey develops a crush on Tom to which he remains mostly oblivious until he finally sets out to "rescue" her from the clutches of the film's villain, Rick Von Slonecker, whom the cynical Nick Smith describes as "tall, rich, good looking, stupid, dishonest, conceited, a bully, drunk, and thief, an egomaniac, and probably psychotic. In short, highly attractive to women." Metropolitan has some rough edges -- its young, inexperienced cast, many of them making their film debuts, are sometimes not quite up to making polished delivery of Stillman's lines -- but it's mostly a delight.

Manhattan in METROPOLITAN — 1990 cinematography by John Thomas, dir. Whit Stillman

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Jennifer Lawrence in Joy (David O. Russell, 2015)

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen, Isabella Rossellini, Dascha Polenco, Elisabeth Röhm, Susan Lucci. Screenplay: David O. Russell, Annie Mumolo, Cinematography: Linus Sandgren. Production design: Judy Becker. Film editing:  Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Tom Cross, Christopher Tellefsen. Music: David Campbell, West Dylan Thordson.

A thoroughly conventional movie with an exceptional cast that features what seems to be the core of writer-director David O. Russell's stock company, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, Joy is the kind of feel-good underdog-against-the-odds movie with screwball touches that could have been made at almost any time in Hollywood history. I can easily imagine it in the 1940s with Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray, for example. Joy Mangano (Lawrence) was a brilliant student in high school, but she didn't go on to college, and now struggles to make ends meet, while dabbling with ideas for inventions. A divorcee, she lives in an unusual household: In addition to her two children and her grandmother (Diane Ladd), the ménage also includes Joy's mother (Virginia Madsen), who spends her days in bed watching soap operas, and Joy's ex-husband (Edgar Ramirez), who lives in the basement. Joy's father (Robert De Niro) also joins the household after splitting from his latest wife, but he soon takes up with Trudy, a wealthy widow (Isabella Rossellini). When Joy comes up with the idea for a self-wringing mop, Trudy agrees to help finance it. Joy has to contract the manufacture of some of the mop's parts, and she struggles to market it until the idea comes to sell it on TV. She approaches the QVC shopping channel, where an executive, Neil Walker (Cooper), takes an interest in the product. It becomes a big seller, but then the company Joy contracted to make the parts claims ownership of the design. Facing bankruptcy, Joy fights the claim, wins, and becomes a huge success, marketing other household products. There's a real-life Joy Mangano on whose story the film is based, with the usual disregard for accuracy. Lawrence got an Oscar nomination for her performance, which is, as always, wonderful. She gives the film more than it deserves, and the supporting cast measures up to her. But there are few surprises in the story or in Russell's treatment of it, unlike his previous films with Lawrence and Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and American Hustle (2013).

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I’m the only girl of my species?

Light of My Life, Casey Affleck (2019)

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Cast: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols, Alison Parisi, Dylan Hundley, Bryan Leder, Isabel Gillies, Will Kempe, Ellia Thompson. Screenplay: Whit Stillman. Cinematography: John Thomas. Film editing: Christopher Tellefsen. Costume design: Mary Jane Fort. Music: Tom Judson, Mark Suozzo.

METROPOLITAN — 1990 dir. Whit Stillman

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Trump donors closely watch the daily fracas, whether it’s Comey or Israel

Washington (CNN)The scandals that are metastasizing around the Trump administration are rankling some of the President’s largest contributors, who were already in short supply after his insurgent campaign.

The political fallout of President Donald Trump’s decision to fire James Comey grew messier this week when news emerged that he had allegedly urged the FBI director to drop an investigation into Trump’s former aide. It’s another distraction for Trump’s legislative agenda, which many Republican donors embraced as a reason to support him even given their distaste for his personality.

And Trump perhaps threw fuel to the fire on Wednesday when Trump administration officials said he would not soon announce his move of the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jersualem — a major issue to many of his top Jewish supporters.

“People think it’s a disaster. Wouldn’t mind seeing (Vice President Mike) Pence take over,” said one fundraiser close to pro-Israel givers, including Sheldon Adelson, Trump’s largest single benefactor.

An Adelson spokesman did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday on his reaction. But in a strong signal of his thinking, a close Adelson confidant Morton Klein, the head of an organization heavily funded by Adelson, was livid. Klein does not speak for Adelson, though he is unlikely to speak out of turn.

“We are deeply disappointed in Trump’s mistaken action,” Klein, the head of the Zionist Organization of America, told CNN. Klein said the Arab world would now feel emboldened to change Trump’s thinking on other issues. “This also harms the credibility of President Trump.”

Other Adelson allies were less nervous. Matt Brooks, the head of the Republican Jewish Coalition, a group funded heavily by Adelson, said he took comfort in that the White House decision was not final and that only “they decided they will not immediately do it.”

“At the end, I believe that President Trump will eventually honor his commitment to move the embassy,” Brooks told CNN. He said the RJC did not receive a heads up from the administration.

On Tuesday, Adelson, 83, was seen entering the Capitol Hill office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — it is unclear what message he delivered in the rare in-person visit.

Adelson is said to be closely watching Trump’s upcoming trip to Israel — the casino magnate will be in the country at the same time as Trump, and the person close to him said that while he may be “disappointed” now, the overseas trip will be “telling.” Thirty-five RJC donors and leaders are expected to be in Israel at the same time.

Other givers — including those who flocked to Trump early and are not traditional GOP donors — say they are less perturbed by the continual fracas.

“I am not troubled at all by all of bedlam surrounding the noise being generated by the Comey story,” said Tom Tellefsen, a major California Republican fundraiser. “I expected it from all of the anti-Trump forces out there, find it partisan in nature and am disappointed in the media’s level of attention to it.”

Tellefsen was courted by the bevy of outside pro-Trump groups during the campaign. One now seems to have the momentum: America First Policies, an outside group organized by White House allies to provide political cover for the administration, on Tuesday evening hosted a fundraiser attended by donor-favorite Pence.

And Pence on Wednesday created a new donor vehicle, a PAC called Great America Committee, to help fund his political travel. It is also intended to help transfer state-controlled political assets to the federal level.

The likeliest givers to these groups are the Trump true believers. Peter Zieve, a Seattle aerospace engineer, who had barely donated money to politics before he cut a $1 million check to a Trump group last fall, said he was not worried about the FBI firing interfering with his agenda.

“I support him 200%,” he said, adding a piece of Trump-esque advice: “Trump should fire everybody that was appointed by Obama.”

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"Venner" (1960) - Tancred Ibsen

(Eng. title: "Struggle for Eagle Peak")

Films I've watched in 2024 (37/?)

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"Tre søstre" (1973) - Sverre Udnæs

(Orig. title: "Три сeстры́", transl.: "Three Sisters")

Films I've watched in 2023 (97/119)

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"Kolleksjonen" (1963) - Pål Løkkeberg

Films I've watched in 2022 (45/210)

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"Tyven Tyven..." (1970) - Aloysius Valente

Films I've watched in 2022 (5/210)

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Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990) Cast: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols, Alison Parisi, Dylan Hundley, Bryan Leder, Isabel Gillies, Will Kempe, Ellia Thompson. Screenplay: Whit Stillman. Cinematography: John Thomas. Film editing: Christopher Tellefsen. Costume design: Mary Jane Fort. Music: Tom Judson, Mark Suozzo. Twenty-six years after Metropolitan, his debut film, Whit Stillman made one of the best Jane Austen movies ever, his adaptation of her unpublished epistolary novel Lady Susan, which he retitled (borrowing and slightly altering the title of another unpublished Austin novel) Love & Friendship. It's a witty look at the manners and mores of an insular privileged class, which almost exactly describes Metropolitan as well. Instead of Regency gentry, the privileged class in Stillman's first film consists of young Manhattan preppies, all of them well-educated, many of them wealthy, as they make the rounds of parties during debutante season. It's not surprising, too, that Jane Austen makes her own presence known in this scene, through conversations between Tom Townsend and the young woman he finds himself escorting through these parties, Audrey Rouget. She's a lover of Austen's novels who is shocked to find, first, that Tom thinks Mansfield Park is Austen's worst book and, second, that he's never read it or any other novel by her, but is just echoing the criticism by Lionel Trilling: "I don't read novels," he says. "I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelist's ideas as well as the critic's thinking." Metropolitan floats along through the debutante season as Tom, Audrey, and their friends skim the surface of ideas about class and society and sex in their blithe, unformed way. Nothing really happens in the movie, though Audrey develops a crush on Tom to which he remains mostly oblivious until he finally sets out to "rescue" her from the clutches of the film's villain, Rick Von Slonecker, whom the cynical Nick Smith describes as "tall, rich, good looking, stupid, dishonest, conceited, a bully, drunk, and thief, an egomaniac, and probably psychotic. In short, highly attractive to women." Metropolitan has some rough edges -- its young, inexperienced cast, many of them making their film debuts, are sometimes not quite up to making polished delivery of Stillman's lines -- but it's mostly a delight.

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Trump donors closely watch the daily fracas, whether it’s Comey or Israel

Washington (CNN)The scandals that are metastasizing around the Trump administration are rankling some of the President’s largest contributors, who were already in short supply after his insurgent campaign.

The political fallout of President Donald Trump’s decision to fire James Comey grew messier this week when news emerged that he had allegedly urged the FBI director to drop an investigation into Trump’s former aide. It’s another distraction for Trump’s legislative agenda, which many Republican donors embraced as a reason to support him even given their distaste for his personality.

And Trump perhaps threw fuel to the fire on Wednesday when Trump administration officials said he would not soon announce his move of the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jersualem — a major issue to many of his top Jewish supporters.

“People think it’s a disaster. Wouldn’t mind seeing (Vice President Mike) Pence take over,” said one fundraiser close to pro-Israel givers, including Sheldon Adelson, Trump’s largest single benefactor.

An Adelson spokesman did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday on his reaction. But in a strong signal of his thinking, a close Adelson confidant Morton Klein, the head of an organization heavily funded by Adelson, was livid. Klein does not speak for Adelson, though he is unlikely to speak out of turn.

“We are deeply disappointed in Trump’s mistaken action,” Klein, the head of the Zionist Organization of America, told CNN. Klein said the Arab world would now feel emboldened to change Trump’s thinking on other issues. “This also harms the credibility of President Trump.”

Other Adelson allies were less nervous. Matt Brooks, the head of the Republican Jewish Coalition, a group funded heavily by Adelson, said he took comfort in that the White House decision was not final and that only “they decided they will not immediately do it.”

“At the end, I believe that President Trump will eventually honor his commitment to move the embassy,” Brooks told CNN. He said the RJC did not receive a heads up from the administration.

On Tuesday, Adelson, 83, was seen entering the Capitol Hill office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — it is unclear what message he delivered in the rare in-person visit.

Adelson is said to be closely watching Trump’s upcoming trip to Israel — the casino magnate will be in the country at the same time as Trump, and the person close to him said that while he may be “disappointed” now, the overseas trip will be “telling.” Thirty-five RJC donors and leaders are expected to be in Israel at the same time.

Other givers — including those who flocked to Trump early and are not traditional GOP donors — say they are less perturbed by the continual fracas.

“I am not troubled at all by all of bedlam surrounding the noise being generated by the Comey story,” said Tom Tellefsen, a major California Republican fundraiser. “I expected it from all of the anti-Trump forces out there, find it partisan in nature and am disappointed in the media’s level of attention to it.”

Tellefsen was courted by the bevy of outside pro-Trump groups during the campaign. One now seems to have the momentum: America First Policies, an outside group organized by White House allies to provide political cover for the administration, on Tuesday evening hosted a fundraiser attended by donor-favorite Pence.

And Pence on Wednesday created a new donor vehicle, a PAC called Great America Committee, to help fund his political travel. It is also intended to help transfer state-controlled political assets to the federal level.

The likeliest givers to these groups are the Trump true believers. Peter Zieve, a Seattle aerospace engineer, who had barely donated money to politics before he cut a $1 million check to a Trump group last fall, said he was not worried about the FBI firing interfering with his agenda.

“I support him 200%,” he said, adding a piece of Trump-esque advice: “Trump should fire everybody that was appointed by Obama.”

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