Passage 1:Come on DangerCome on Danger is a 1942 American Western film directed by Edward Killy. It was a remake of a 1932 Tom Keene film. The story was bought for Holt in June 1941.Plot summaryCastTim Holtas Jack MasonFrances E. Neal as Ann Jordan (as Frances Neal)Ray Whitley as SmokeyLee 'Lasses' White as WhopperKarl Hackett as Ott RamseyMalcolm 'Bud' McTaggart as RussGlenn Strange as Henchman SloanEvelynDockson as Aunt Fanny (as Evlynn Dockson)Davison Clark as Ranger Captain BlakeJohn Elliott as SaundersSlim Whitaker as Sheriff (as 'Slim' Whitaker)Kate Harrington as MaggieHenry Roquemore as JedPassage2:Come On Danger!Come On Danger! is a 1932 Pre-Code Western film, and the first film Tom Keene would make at RKO Studios. It made a profit of $30,000.It was remade in 1942 under the similar title, Come onDanger.PlotJim Madden, a Texas Ranger, is gunned down while investigating the murder of a local rancher. His younger brother, Larry, vows to track down the suspected killer, another rancher named Joan Stanton.While looking into the murders, he stumbles on a battle between Stanton and a group of men working for another rancher, Frank Sanderson. Stanton takes money from Sanderson that she feels is due to her.RescuingStanton from the altercation, he keeps his identity as a Ranger secret, while attempting to learn the truth of what is going on. Through talks with Stanton, Madden learns that Sanderson has been setting her up for boththe murder of the other rancher, and Jim's death.Convinced by Stanton's story, Madden tells Stanton she must turn herself in, and she agrees. Before they can reach the Rangers, they are captured by Sanderson's men.Sanderson plans to kill Madden, and take Stanton to Mexico. With the help of the Rangers' cook, Rusty, as well as several of Stanton's men, Madden overcomes Sanderson and his men, and takes a vindicated Stantonback to the Rangers.Cast(cast list as per AFI database)Tom Keene as Larry MaddenJulie Haydon as Joan StantonRosco Ates as RustyRobert Ellis as Frank SandersonWilliam Scott as Jim MaddenFrank Lackteen asPiuteWade Boteler as TexRoy Stewart as Inspector ClayHarry Tenbrook as BillPassage 3:Sam White (film producer)Sam White (October 16, 1906 – August 8, 2006) was an American film producer, film director andactor.White was born in Los Angeles on October 16, 1906 to parents who had immigrated from Austria and Hungary.  In 1937, he  married  Claretta Ellis, a studio contract dancer.  They were married for 65 years untilher death in 2002.For much of the 1930s, Sam White directed numerous musical sequences in films such as Roberta with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Irene Dunne; Old Man Rhythm with Betty Grable and BuddyRogers; Top of the Town with George Murphy; and Hooray for Love, with Ann Sothern.During World War II, Sam made six training films for the U.S. Armed forces.  Also in the 1940s, the feature films he produced anddirected included Reveille with Beverly, starring Ann Miller (Frank Sinatra's first film); People Are Funny, starring Jack Haley and Rudy Vallée; The Return of the Vampire, starring Bela Lugosi; The Girl in the Case,starring Edmund Lowe; After Midnight with Boston Blackie, starting Chester Morris; Louisiana Hayride, starring Judy Canova; and Tahiti Nights, starring Jinx Falkenburg for RKO, Columbia, Universal and ParamountStudios.During the next two decades, Sam directed commercials and produced and directed early television series such as Perry Mason, The Outer Limits, Oh! Those Bells, My Friend Flicka, Boston Blackie, PhilipMarlowe, and Big Town, among many others.  In 1969 he produced and directed White Comanche with William Shatner and Joseph Cotten.  He was also a successful businessman with his production facility in PioneerTown and commercial real estate ventures in Los Angeles.Throughout his later years, Sam remained interested in world affairs and traveled extensively as a valued ombudsman for the Directors Guild to cementrelations between foreign and American filmmakers. In 1990, the Directors Guild of America published an oral history entitled The White Brothers which tells the history of the family as well as the history of early moviemaking in Los Angeles.Sam White, one of the famous White Brothers film and television pioneers, died peacefully at his Encino home just short of his 100th birthday.  A retrospective was held in 2003 at the MotionPicture and Television Home where a wall of honor was dedicated to him. His professional memorabilia was positioned alongside those of his renowned brothers, Jack White and Jules White.SelectedfilmographyLouisiana Hayride (1944)Swing Out the Blues  (1944)Kickin' the Crown Around (1933)Passage 4:I Live on DangerI Live on Danger is a 1942 film noir thriller film directed by Sam White and starring ChesterMorris and Jean Parker.PlotJeff Morrell is an ambitious radio reporter. The news of the day is the prison release of gambler Eddie Nelson, who was the fallguy for a criminal named Joey Farr.While exclusively covering aship's fire, Jeff falls for Susan Richards, and knows her to be Eddie's companion. It turns out she's Eddie's sister, not his girl, and Susan resents it when Jeff's reporting gets Eddie arrested and convicted on a newcharge.District Attorney Lamber is in cahoots with the crooks. Farr tries to flee, and is tracked to a Pennsylvania coal mine. Jeff gets there first and manages to broadcast Farr's confession, then barely gets away whenFarr sets off a blast of TNT. Susan loves Jeff for heroically rescuing her brother.CastChester Morris as Jeff MorrellJean Parker as Susan RichardsElisabeth Risdon as Mrs. MorrellEdward Norris as Eddie NelsonDick Purcellas Norm ThompsonRoger Pryor as Bert JanningsDouglas Fowley as Joey FarrRalph Sanford as Angie MossEdwin Maxwell as Wingy KeefePatsy Nash as DillyJoe Cunningham as Inspector ConlonBernadene Hayes asJonesyBilly Nelson as George "Longshot" HarrisonVickie Lester as Keefe's secretaryWilliam Bakewell as MacCharlotte Henry as NurseAnna Q. Nilsson as Mrs. ShermanProductionThe film was based on a story called I'll BeBack in a Flash by Alex Gottlieb. He sold it to Pine Thomas Productions in August 1941. They bought it as the second in a three-picture deal Chester Morris had with Pine-Thomas Productions. Lewis Foster was assignedto write the script.Morris' 38-year-old brother Arthur was meant to play a role in the film but died shortly before filming of a brain haemorrhage.Jean Parker signed to make the film as the first in a three-picture deal shehad with Pine Thomas.Filming took place in December 1941. Anna Q. Nilsson had her first role in 13 years.ReceptionThe Los Angeles Times called it "a pretty good B".The New York Times said the film showed "very littlethan what we have already seen."Passage 5:Sirak M. SabahatSirak M. Sabahat (Hebrew:  . ; born December 5, 1981) is an Israeli actor. He is known for his role in the film Live andBecome.FilmographyLive and Become (2005)Comme au cinéma (2005)The Children of СССР (2007)Further readingRosen, Steve (2006-12-19). ""Inland Empire" and "Volver" Keep Top Spots; "Live and Become" OpensBig". IndieWireBot. Archived from the original on 2007-01-10. Retrieved 2006-12-19."The Evening Class: 2006 SFJFF—The Evening Class Interview with Sirak M. Sabahat". Theeveningclass.blogspot.com. 2006-08-04.Retrieved 2010-08-03.Passage 6:Brian Kennedy (gallery director)Brian Patrick Kennedy (born 5 November 1961) is an Irish-born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and worksin the United States.  He was the director of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem for 17 months, resigning December 31, 2020. He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019. He was thedirector of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra) from 1997 to 2004.CareerBrian Kennedy currently lives and works in the United States after leaving Australia in2005 to direct the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. In October 2010 he became the ninth Director of the Toledo Museum of Art. On 1 July 2019, he succeeded Dan Monroe as the executive director and CEO ofthe Peabody Essex Museum.Early life and career in IrelandKennedy was born in Dublin and attended Clonkeen College. He received B.A. (1982), M.A. (1985) and PhD (1989) degrees from University College-Dublin,where he studied both art history and history.He worked in the Irish Department of Education (1982), the European Commission, Brussels (1983), and in Ireland at the Chester Beatty Library (1983–85), GovernmentPublications Office (1985–86), and Department of Finance (1986–89). He married Mary Fiona Carlin in 1988.He was Assistant Director at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin from 1989 to 1997. He was Chair of theIrish Association of Art Historians from 1996 to 1997, and of the Council of Australian Art Museum Directors from 2001 to 2003. In September 1997 he became Director of the National Gallery of Australia.NationalGallery of Australia (NGA)Kennedy expanded the traveling exhibitions and loans program throughout Australia, arranged for several major shows of Australian art abroad, increased the number of exhibitions at themuseum itself and oversaw the development of an extensive multi-media site.  Although he oversaw several years of the museum's highest ever annual visitation, he discontinued the emphasis of his predecessor, BettyChurcher, on showing "blockbuster" exhibitions.During his directorship, the NGA gained government support for improving the building and significant private donations and corporate sponsorship. However, the initialdesign for the building proved controversial generating a public dispute with the original architect on moral rights grounds.  As a result, the project was not delivered during Dr Kennedy's tenure, with a significantlyaltered design completed some years later.  Private funding supported two acquisitions of British art, including David Hockney's A Bigger Grand Canyon in 1999, and Lucian Freud's After Cézanne in 2001. Kennedy builton the established collections at the museum by acquiring the Holmgren-Spertus collection of Indonesian textiles; the Kenneth Tyler collection of editioned prints, screens, multiples and unique proofs; and theAustralian Print Workshop Archive. He was also notable for campaigning for the construction of a new "front" entrance to the Gallery, facing King Edward Terrace, which was completed in 2010 (see reference to thebuilding project above).Kennedy's cancellation of the "Sensation exhibition" (scheduled at the NGA from 2 June 2000 to 13 August 2000) was controversial, and seen by some as censorship. He claimed that the decisionwas due to the exhibition being "too close to the market" implying that a national cultural institution cannot exhibit the private collection of a speculative art investor. However, there were other exhibitions at the NGAduring his tenure, which could have raised similar concerns. The exhibition featured the privately owned Young British Artists works belonging to Charles Saatchi and attracted large attendances in London and Brooklyn.Its most controversial work was Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, a painting which used elephant dung and was accused of being blasphemous. The then-mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, campaigned against theexhibition, claiming it was "Catholic-bashing" and an "aggressive, vicious, disgusting attack on religion." In November 1999, Kennedy cancelled the exhibition and stated that the events in New York had "obscureddiscussion of the artistic merit of the works of art". He has said that it "was the toughest decision of my professional life, so far."Kennedy was also repeatedly questioned on his management of a range of issues duringthe Australian Government's Senate Estimates process - particularly on the NGA's occupational health and safety record and concerns about the NGA's twenty-year-old air-conditioning system. The air-conditioning wasfinally renovated in 2003. Kennedy announced in 2002 that he would not seek extension of his contract beyond 2004, accepting a seven-year term as had his two predecessors.He became a joint Irish-Australian citizenin 2003.Toledo Museum of ArtThe Toledo Museum of Art is known for its exceptional collections of European and American paintings and sculpture, glass, antiquities, artist books, Japanese prints and netsuke. Themuseum offers free admission and is recognized for its historical leadership in the field of art education.  During his tenure, Kennedy has focused the museum's art education efforts on visual literacy, which he defines as"learning to read, understand and write visual language."   Initiatives have included baby and toddler tours, specialized training for all staff, docents, volunteers and the launch of a website, www.vislit.org. In November2014, the museum hosted the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) conference, the first Museum to do so. Kennedy has been a frequent speaker on the topic, including 2010 and 2013 TEDx talks on visualand sensory literacy.Kennedy has expressed an interest in expanding the museum's collection of contemporary art and art by indigenous peoples. Works by Frank Stella, Sean Scully, Jaume Plensa, Ravinder Reddy andMary Sibande have been acquired.  In addition, the museum has made major acquisitions of Old Master paintings by Frans Hals and Luca Giordano.During his tenure the Toledo Museum of Art has announced the returnof several objects from its collection due to claims the objects were stolen and/or illegally exported prior being sold to the museum.  In 2011 a Meissen sweetmeat stand was returned to Germany followed by anEtruscan Kalpis or water jug to Italy (2013), an Indian sculpture of Ganesha (2014) and an astrological compendium to Germany in 2015.Hood Museum of ArtKennedy became Director of the Hood Museum of Art in July2005. During his tenure, he implemented a series of large and small-scale exhibitions and oversaw the production of more than 20 publications to bring greater public attention to the museum's remarkable collections ofthe arts of America, Europe, Africa, Papua New Guinea and the Polar regions. At 70,000 objects, the Hood has one of the largest collections on any American college of university campus. The exhibition, BlackWomanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, toured several US venues. Kennedy increased campus curricular use of works of art, with thousands of objects pulled from storage for classes annually.Numerous acquisitions were made with the museum's generous endowments, and he curated several exhibitions: including Wenda Gu: Forest of Stone Steles: Retranslation and Rewriting Tang Dynasty Poetry, SeanScully: The Art of the Stripe, and Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons.PublicationsKennedy has written or edited a number of books on art, including:Alfred Chester Beatty and Ireland 1950-1968: A study in cultural politics,Glendale Press (1988), ISBN 978-0-907606-49-9Dreams and responsibilities: The state and arts in independent Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland (1990), ISBN 978-0-906627-32-7Jack B Yeats: Jack Butler Yeats,1871-1957 (Lives of Irish Artists), Unipub (October 1991), ISBN 978-0-948524-24-0The Anatomy Lesson: Art and Medicine (with Davis Coakley), National Gallery of Ireland (January 1992), ISBN978-0-903162-65-4Ireland: Art into History (with Raymond Gillespie), Roberts Rinehart Publishers (1994), ISBN 978-1-57098-005-3Irish Painting, Roberts Rinehart Publishers (November 1997),  ISBN978-1-86059-059-7Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe, Hood Museum of Art (October 2008), ISBN 978-0-944722-34-3Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons, 1965-1966, Hood Museum of Art (October 2010), ISBN978-0-944722-39-8Honors and achievementsKennedy was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in 2001 for service to Australian Society and its art. He is a trustee and treasurer of the Association of Art MuseumDirectors, a peer reviewer for the American Association of Museums and a member of the International Association of Art Critics. In 2013 he was appointed inaugural eminent professor at the University of Toledo andreceived an honorary doctorate from Lourdes University. Most recently, Kennedy received the 2014 Northwest Region, Ohio Art Education Association award for distinguished educator for art education.== Notes==Passage 7:Peter LevinPeter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.CareerSince 1967, Levin has amassed a large number of credits directing episodic television and television films. Some of histelevision series credits include Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, James at 15, The Paper Chase, Family, Starsky & Hutch, Lou Grant, Fame, Cagney & Lacey, Law & Order and Judging Amy.Some of his television filmcredits include Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case (1980), A Reason to Live (1985), Popeye Doyle (1986), A Killer Among Us (1990), Queen Sized (2008) and among other films. He directed "Heart in Hiding", writtenby his wife Audrey Davis Levin, for which she received an Emmy for Best Day Time Special in the 1970s.Prior to becoming a director, Levin worked as an actor in several Broadway productions. He costarred with SusanStrasberg in "[The Diary of Ann Frank]" but had to leave the production when he was drafted into the Army. He trained at the Carnegie Mellon University. Eventually becoming a theatre director, he directed productionsat the Long Wharf Theatre and the Pacific Resident Theatre Company. He also co-founded the off-off-Broadway Theatre [the Hardware Poets Playhouse] with his wife Audrey Davis Levin and was also an associate artistof The Interact Theatre Company.Passage 8:Logan SandlerLogan Sandler is an American writer and director who is best known for his first feature film Live Cargo.Early life and educationSandler graduated from SFTVwithin Loyola Marymount University's Film School in 2011 with a B.A. in Film Production, and three years later, while earning an M.F.A. from AFI in Film Directing, he developed his first feature film, Live Cargo. Hedeveloped the script with the late Seth Winston and co-writer Thymaya Payne. In 2015, Sandler was awarded the Institute's Franklin J. Schaffner Fellow Award for his short film, Tracks.CareerSandler's senior thesis, AllIt Will Ever Be premiered at the Bermuda International Film Festival in 2012. Sandler's second short film Tracks screened at various festival around the world, including AFI FEST, Marfa Film Fest, Cambridge FilmFestival, and the Miami International Film Festival. The film won the Lexus Audience Award for Best Short film at the Miami International Film Festival and best actor for Keith Stanfield at the 24 FPS International FilmFestival.Sandler's debut feature film Live Cargo was filmed in the Bahamas, and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016. The film stars Dree Hemingway, Keith Stanfield, and Robert Wisdom. In addition to the2016 Tribeca Film Festival, Live Cargo had its European premiere at the Warsaw International Film Festival, then went on to screen at the American Film Festival in Poland, the São Paulo International Film Festival, theDenver Film Festival, the Key West Film Festival, the Torino Film Festival, the Bahamas International Film Festival, and AFI FEST.Sandler has collaborated with Stanfield on music videos, co-directing the group MOORS’single Gas. The music video premiered on Vice’s music channel Noisey.IONCINEMA.com chose Sandler as their IONCINEPHILE of the Month for April 2017, a feature that focuses on an emerging filmmaker from theworld of cinema. When asked about his favorite films of his formative years Sandler said, "I fell in love with Jean Luc Godard’s Contempt and Weekend. I was blown away by Agnes Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7. MichelangeloAntonioni’s films really struck a chord with me as well. After seeing L’Avventura and Blowup, I went online and ordered every film of his I could find. The Passenger’s penultimate shot blew me away. I watched that 7minute shot over and over. It’s probably my favorite shot in the history of cinema."Critical receptionAngelica Jade Bastien for Roger Ebert wrote of the film, "In 'Live Cargo,' director/co-writer Logan Sandler strives to tella story that finds poetry in the commonplace by shirking narrative conventions."Chuck Wilson for The Village Voice wrote, "The well-acted Live Cargo, which also features Robert Wisdom and Sam Dillon, is at its bestwhen it observes character acting silently against landscape, as when Nadine goes snorkeling and uses a spear gun to jab at sharks, a juxtaposition of natural beauty and human fury typical of Sandler’s poeticapproach.” Wilson as well called Sandler "a filmmaker to watch."Katie Walsh in her IndieWire review wrote, ”Anchored by a quartet of equally strong and understated performances, LIVE CARGO proves itself to be a


Passage 1:Born into BrothelsBorn into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids is a 2004 Indian-American documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district. The widely acclaimedfilm, written and directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, won a string of accolades including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005.PlotBriski, a documentary photographer, went to Kolkata tophotograph prostitutes. While there, she befriended their children and offered to teach the children photography to reciprocate being allowed to photograph their mothers. The children were given cameras so they couldlearn photography and possibly improve their lives. Their photographs depicted a life in the red light district through the eyes of children typically overlooked and sworn off to do chores around the house until they wereable to contribute more substantially to the family welfare.  Much of their work was used in the film, and the filmmakers recorded the classes as well as daily life in the red light district. The children's work was exhibited,and one boy was even sent to a photography conference in Amsterdam. Briski also recorded her efforts to place the children in boarding schools although many of the children did not end up staying very long in theschools they were placed in. Others, such as Avijit and Kochi, not only went on to continue their education but were graded well.AftermathThere is debate about the extent to which the documentary has improved thelives of the children featured in it.The filmmakers claim that the lives of children appearing in Born into Brothels have been transformed by money earned through the sale of photos and a book on them. Ross Kauffman,co-director of the documentary, says that the amount earned is $100,000 (about Rs.4.5 million), which will pay for their tuition and for a school in India for children of prostitutes. Briski has started a non-profitorganization to continue this kind of work in other countries, named Kids with Cameras. A film is being made on the life story of a high-profile trio of call girl sisters, Shaveta, Khushboo and Himani, born in one of thebrothels of Haryana.In November 2006, Kids with Cameras provided an update on many of the children's conditions, asserting that they had entered high schools or universities in India and the United States or foundemployment outside of prostitution. Kids with Cameras continues to work toward improving the lives of children from the Calcutta red light district with the plan to build a Hope House. Updates for 2010 and 2009  werealso published.In 2004, REACT to FILM organized a screening for Born into Brothels  at the SoHo House in Manhattan, NY.  In 2010, the film's director, Zana Briski, joined the advisory board of REACT toFILM.CriticismsThe Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a prostitutes' organization active in Sonagachi, has criticized the film for presenting the children's parents as abusive and for ignoring the prostitutes' efforts toprovide  education programs and career building activities for their children. In addition, the film has been criticized in India for perceived racist stereotyping, and has also been viewed as exploiting the children for thepurposes of Indophobic propaganda in the West. A review in Frontline, India's national magazine, summarized this criticism, remarking:IF Born Into Brothels were remade as an adventure-thriller in the tradition ofIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade, its posters might read: "New York film-maker Zana Briski sallies forth among the natives to save souls.Some critics joined the Sonagachi prostitute-advocacy groups in condemningthe film for exploitation of the plight of the prostitutes for profit. Other criticisms were raised about "ethical and stylistic" problems, by Partha Banerjee, interpreter between the filmmakers and thechildren.ReceptionCritical responseBorn into Brothels has an approval rating of 95% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 108 reviews, and an average rating of 7.83/10. The website's criticalconsensus states, "A powerful and uplifting documentary". Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 78 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".Awards2004 BermudaInternational Film Festival Audience Choice Award - Briski, Kauffman; Documentary Prize - Briski, Kauffman2004 Cleveland International Film Festival Best Film - Briski, Kauffman2004 Full Frame Documentary FilmFestival Audience Award - Briski, Kauffman (tied with Word Wars)2004 International Documentary Association Award for Feature Documentaries - Briski, Kauffman, Geralyn Dreyfous-White, Pamela Boll (tied withFahrenheit 9/11)2004 National Board of Review Award for Best Documentary Feature - Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman2004 Seattle International Film Festival Golden Space Needle Award for Best Documentary - Briski,Kauffman2004 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Documentary - Kauffman2005 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Briski, Kauffman2005 Raindance Film Festival Closing Night FilmNominations2005Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary - Briski, Kauffman2005 Golden Satellite Award for Best Motion Picture, Documentary2004 Los Angeles Film Critics AssociationAwards for Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film - Kauffman, Briski2004 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, Documentary - Kauffman, Briski2013 Calcutta Film Festival (funded by Walt Disney Pictures),Documentary - Spielberg, Steven. Lucas, George. Abrams, J. J.PreservationBorn into Brothels was preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive and the UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction with theSundance Institute from a D5, a DigiBeta, a 35mm print and a Magneto Optical Disk. Restoration funding provided by the Sundance Institute and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The restoration had itsU.S. West Coast premiere at the UCLA Festival of Preservation in 2022.Passage 2:Antonio Rinaldi (cinematographer)Antonio Rinaldi was an Italian cinematographer and camera operator.  He worked exclusively fordirector Mario Bava on several films, including Planet of the Vampires (1965), Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966), and Danger: Diabolik (1968).FilmographyPlanet of the Vampires (1965)Knives of the Avenger(1966)Kill, Baby, Kill! (1966)Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966)Danger: Diabolik (1968)Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970)Roy Colt and Winchester Jack (1970)Four Times That Night (1971)Baron Blood(1972)External linksAntonio Rinaldi at IMDbPassage 3:Hassan ZeeHassan "Doctor" Zee is a Pakistani-American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan.Early lifeDoctor Zee grew up in Chakwal, a small village inPunjab, Pakistan. as one of seven brothers and sisters  His father was in the military and this fact required the family to move often to different cities. As a child Zee was forbidden from watching cinema because hisfather believed movies were a bad influence on children.At age 13, Doctor Zee got his start in the world of entertainment at Radio Pakistan where he wrote and produced radio dramas and musical programs.  It wasthen that he realized his passion for storytelling At the age of 26, Doctor Zee earned his medical doctorate degree and did his residency in a burn unit at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences. He cared for womenwho were victims of  "Bride Burning," the archaic practice used as a form of punishment against women who fail to provide sufficient dowry to their in-laws after marriage or fail to provide offspring.  He also witnessedhow his country’s transgender and intersex people, called “hijras”, were banned from having jobs and forced to beg to survive. These experiences inspired Doctor Zee to tackle the issues of women’s empowerment andgender inequality in his films.In 1999, he came to San Francisco to pursue his dream of filmmaking and made San Francisco his homeEducationHe received his early education from Jinnah Public School, Chakwal. He gothis medical doctor degree at Rawalpindi Medical College, Pakistan.Film careerDoctor Zee's first film titled Night of Henna was released in 2005. The theme of the film dealt with "the conflict between Old World immigrantcustoms and modern Western ways..." Night of Henna focused on the problems of Pakistani expatriates who found it hard to adjust in American culture. Many often landed themselves in trouble when it came tomarrying off their children.His second film Bicycle Bride came out in 2010, which was about "the clash between the bonds of family and the weight of tradition." His third film House of Temptation that came out in 2014was about a family which struggles against the temptations of the Devil. His fourth film “Good Morning Pakistan”, concerned a young American’s journey back to Pakistan where he confronts the contradictory nature of abeautiful and ancient culture that's marred by economic, educational and gender inequality His upcoming fifth film, "Ghost in San Francisco" is a supernatural thriller starring Felissa Rose, Dave Sheridan, and KyleLowder where a soldier comes home from Afghanistan to discover that his wife is having an affair with his best friend. While battling with his inner ghosts and demons, he meets a mysterious woman in San Franciscowho promises him a ritual for his cure.Passage 4:Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini MachineDr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine is a 1965 Pathécolor comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and distributed by AmericanInternational Pictures. Starring Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart and Jack Mullaney, and featuring Fred Clark, the film is a parody of the then-popular spy trend (the title is a spoof of twoJames Bond films: the 1962 film Dr. No and the 1964 hit Goldfinger), made using actors from AIP's beach party and Edgar Allan Poe films. The film was retitled Dr G. and the Bikini Machine in England due to athreatened lawsuit from Eon, holder of the rights to the James Bond series.Despite its low production values, the film has achieved a certain cult status for the appearance of horror legend Price and AIP's beach partyfilm alumni, its in-jokes and over-the-top sexuality, the claymation title sequence designed by Art Clokey, and a title song performed by The Supremes. Its success led to a sequel, produced in 1966, entitled Dr.Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs.PlotPrice plays the titular mad scientist who, with the questionable assistance of his resurrected flunky Igor, builds a gang of female robots who are then dispatched to seduce and robwealthy men. Avalon and Hickman play the bumbling heroes who attempt to thwart Goldfoot's scheme. The film's climax is an extended chase through the streets of San Francisco.CastCast notesFrankie Avalon andDwayne Hickman play the same characters they did in the previous year's Ski Party, except that the characters' names were swapped.Annette Funicello makes a brief cameo appearance as a girl locked in medievalstocks in Dr. Goldfoot's lair. Frankie Avalon lifts her head, then looks at the camera and says, "It can't be!"  Pregnant with her first child at the time, Funicello was placed in the stocks in order to hide herstomach.Harvey Lembeck also makes a cameo appearance as his Eric Von Zipper character, enchained along with his motorcycle in Goldfoot's lair. Lembeck also appeared as Goldfoot's assistant, Hugo, in the TV specialThe Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot.Among the girls who play Goldfoot's robots are Deanna Lund, three years before joining the cast of Irwin Allen's science fiction series Land of the Giants; China Lee, a formerPlayboy Playmate married to Mort Sahl; Luree Holmes and Laura Nicholson, the daughters of James H. Nicholson; and Alberta Nelson, who was also in all seven of AIP's Beach Party films as a member of Eric VonZipper's motorcycle gang, The Rat Pack.ProductionDevelopmentThe original idea for this motion picture came from James H. Nicholson, the President of American International Pictures, who wanted to showcase theversatile talents of AIP contract player Susan Hart. Nicholson provided the story, and is credited as "James Hartford". He hired Robert Kaufman to write the first draft. Director Norman Taurog hired Elwood Ullman to doa rewrite, and Taurog remained intimately involved with the content. Deke Heyward later claimed, without substantiation, that he completely rewrote Robert Kaufman's script.The original title was announced as DrGoldfoot and the Sex Machine, and the film was to be directed by William Asher. Taurog shortly thereafter assumed the helm as director, and Dwayne Hickman joined the cast. Filming began in late summer 1965, withone of AIP's largest-ever budgets. It was the first AIP movie to cost over a million dollars.Vincent Price stated in a 1987 interview with David Del Valle that the original script was a camp musical, comparing it to LittleShop of Horrors. Price stated, "It could have been fun, but they cut all the music out", though it is not clear whether the footage was actually shot or the idea was abandoned during production. According to SusanHart:One of the best scenes I've seen on film was Vincent Price singing about the bikini machine – it was excellent. And I was told it was taken out because Sam Arkoff thought that Vincent Price looked too fey. But hischaracter was fey! By taking that particular scene out, I believe they took the explanation and the meat out of that picture... It was a really unique explanatory scene and Vincent Price was beautiful in it, right on themoney.According to Norman Taurog's biographer:The original plan had been to follow the AIP formula and have songs integrated throughout the film, but Norman brought in Elwood Ullman to do a rewrite ... and thefinal script read like a good-natured spoof on the James Bond films with no songs. This apparently disappointed Vincent Price, who had been looking forward to singing.ShootingThe film is notable for its scenicphotography of San Francisco. The streetcar scene was filmed at the West Portal tunnel. Filming went for over 30 days, taking place on location in San Francisco and on the backlots at the Producers Studio andMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. The day after the company returned from San Francisco, rioting broke out in Watts in South Los Angeles. On August 30, the unit moved to MGM Studios Lot 2 to shoot on their "New YorkStreet" set for a couple of days before returning to the Producers Studio.The climactic chase sequence was filmed in the Bay Area. The stuntmen included Carey Loftin, Paul Stader, Troy Melton, Jerry Summers, RonnieRon-dell, Bob Harris, Louis Elias, David Sharpe, Harvey Parry, and Bill Hickman.When designing Goldfoot's lair, Daniel Haller re-used some of his designs from 1961's The Pit and the Pendulum.  Stock footage ofbattleships from another AIP release, Godzilla vs. The Thing appears during the climax.Susan Hart's hair was done by Jon Peters.AccidentDuring filming in Los Angeles, the city was gripped by a heatwave. Sometimestemperatures on one of the sound stages reached over 100 °F (38 °C) by mid-afternoon. On the afternoon of August 15, 1965, the company was returning from lunch when one of the electricians, Roy Hicks, passed outfrom the heat and fell to his death from a catwalk.Theme songThe theme song was recorded by The Supremes as a single-sided unreleased promotional single.ReceptionThe film had its premiere at the Golden GateTheatre in San Francisco, where Nicholson had been a manager. The key cast members embarked on a 30-day tour of 18 cities in 13 countries to promote the film.Box officeAccording to Norman Taurog's biographer,the film "was a moderate success in the United States, but did quite well in Europe, particularly in Italy".Critical responseThe Los Angeles Times said the film "has enough fresh, amusing gags to make it entertaining...Price is splendid".SequelAIP Television produced a musical TV special episode promoting Doctor Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine that appeared for one night in temporary place of the ABC scheduled show Shindig! Thisshow, called The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot, starred Vincent Price, Tommy Kirk and Susan Hart, and featured many songs that may have been cut from the cinema release. Louis M. Heyward and Stanley Rosswrote the 30-minute short comedy musical TV special which aired Nov 18, 1965 on the ABC network.In July 1965, a sequel was announced to be made the following year called Dr. Goldfoot for President, to beginfilming on May 14, 1966, for a September 14 release. Vincent Price returned for the 1966 sequel, Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, directed by Mario Bava.See alsoList of American films of 1965Passage 5:ZanaBriskiZana Briski (born 25 October 1966) is a British photographer and filmmaker, best known for Born into Brothels, the 2004 Oscar winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, which she directed.She founded Kids with Cameras, a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities throughout the world. Her interest in photography began at age 10.After earning amaster's degree at the University of Cambridge, she studied documentary photography at International Center of Photography in New York. In 1995, she made her first trip to India, producing a story on femaleinfanticide. In 1997, Briski returned to India and began her project on the prostitutes of Calcutta's red-light district, which led to her work with the children of prostitutes.Her latest project Reverence is an experientialmultimedia exhibit about transformation. Inspired by dreams of a praying mantis, she was led around the world to collaborate with living insects, taking their portraits in photographs and film. "My work is a tribute toinsects, to their intelligence, personality and elegant beauty," she says. The project raised initial funds through the crowdsourcing site Kickstarter in 2010.Briski has won numerous awards and fellowships including theOpen Society Institute Fellowship, the Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 2000 to research and photograph in the Brothels of India, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Howard Chapnick Grant and1st Prize in 1999 in the World Press Photo foundation competition in the category "Daily Life stories". Briski and co-director Ross Kauffman were awarded grants from the Sundance Institute, the Jerome Foundation, andthe New York State Council on the Arts for Born into Brothels.Passage 6:Dr VictorVictor Khojane, better known as Dr Victor or Dr Vic, is a reggae and R&B musician, who was born in Kimberley, SouthAfrica.CareerKhojane began playing when he was a student, in a band called CC Beat, mainly influenced by afropop stars such as Blondie and Papa, Harare Mambo Band and Jonathan Butler, as well as someAfro-American acts (mainly the Jackson Five). In 1984, CC Beat began playing nightclubs in Johannesburg; at the time, they managed to sign with label CCP Records (an affiliate of EMI), but the contract was laterdismissed. Another label, Dephon Records, put them under contract shortly thereafter. CC Beat changed their name to 'Taxi' and did sessions for Lucky Dube and other bands.In 1991, the band changed label again,signing for independent label CSR. They recorded their first album, an Eddy Grant tribute entitled The Rasta Rebels. This work was highly successful, to the point that they decided to change the name of the band toRasta Rebels. At about the same time, Khojane adopted the pseudonym Dr Victor.Dr Victor then recorded a few solo albums, such as Badayo, Hello Afrika, and One Goal, One Wish. All these works were quite successfulin South Africa, and Dr Victor was invited to open for international stars such as Paul Simon, Gloria Estefan and Janet Jackson. In 1997, Dr Victor's album Faya was his first work to get international attention, selling wellin France, Mexico, Japan and the Middle East.At the end of the 1990s, Dr Victor reunited the Rasta Rebels, and a collection, The Best of the Rasta Rebels with one unreleased track, "I Love to Truck", was released. Boththe collection and the new song, published as a single, sold well. In the following years, Dr Victor has alternated solo productions (such as Sunshine Daze in 2003 and If You Wanna Be Happy in 2004) and Rasta Rebelsalbums (When Somebody Loves You Back, 2006).DiscographyThe Rasta Rebels (1991)BadayoHello AfrikaFaya (1997)The Best of the Rasta Rebels (raccolta)Stress (2000)Sunshine Daze (2003)If You Wanna Be Happy(2004)When Somebody Loves You Back (2006), ElectromodePassage 7:Micheline BernardiniMicheline Bernardini (born 1 December 1927) is a French former nude dancer at the Casino de Paris who agreed to model, on5 July 1946, Louis Réard's two-piece swimsuit, which he called the bikini, named four days after the first test of an American nuclear weapon at the Bikini Atoll.Réard's bikiniDesigner Louis Réard could not find a runway


Passage 1:Battle for BrooklynBattle for Brooklyn is a 2011 documentary that follows the stories of a Brooklyn neighborhood as the residents fight to save their homes from being destroyed by an impending real estateproject. The film attempts to show the unjust outcomes that are possible when moneyed interests partner up with government entities to outweigh the rights of citizens.Film contentSet in the years between 2003 and2011, the story follows graphic designer Daniel Goldstein, the last defiantly remaining homeowner in his building, as he battles Bruce Ratner's Forest City real estate company and their plans to complete the AtlanticYards Project in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. The massive building project – according to the filmmakers, the densest real estate development in U.S. history – required the procurement of 22 acres ofland, and would bring a sports complex to house the New Jersey Nets along with 16 high-rise buildings to the heart of Brooklyn. Initially tasked with filling the behemoth 22 acre complex was architect Frank Gehry, whoNPR calls "American architecture's prince of wasted space". The film documents that the land was obtained by the developers through various means including the controversial declaration of the buildings in the area as"blighted", and the utilization of eminent domain to seize land from businesses and homeowners in the proposed project area.Director Michael Galinsky explained that it was their intention to create an immersiveexperience devoid of excessive commentary by "talking heads" in order to allow the viewer some latitude to experience the events of the film for themselves.  The result of this immersive experience after 7 years offilming can be seen as a character study of Daniel Goldstein – in the background of the story of the formation of Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn and the fight against the development, Goldstein, through the course ofthe filming, experiences personal triumphs and great sadness, including the death of his mother, the breakup with his fiancée, the formation of a new relationship, and the birth of his child. The film documents his"evolution from a bewildered property owner to sophisticated spokesman and property rights activist."The formation of the community activism group Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) with the help of NYCCouncilmember Letitia James helped bring Goldstein's cause into the public eye, quickly gaining the support of Brooklyn-based actors like Steve Buscemi, Rosie Perez and John Turturro, and conservative columnistGeorge Will.ProductionThe film, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2012 for the 84th Academy Awards, was produced and directed by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley. Hawley and Galinsky beganproduction in 2003, when they came across a flyer explaining the protest. Galinsky started shooting the very same afternoon. The film's importance extends beyond Goldstein's fight against the abuse of eminentdomain, Galinsky describes the film as being "really about the people retaking narratives from the media which is faltering ... in these situations."  The film received its initial financing from the New York-basednon-profit Moving Picture Institute.In a 2011 interview, Galinsky described the events that led to the start of filming:I saw an article in the paper that said, "A development project is coming to Brooklyn. Hooray!" Ithought, "This seems a little bit weird." I knew the area it was coming to. It seemed it was impossible. It's in the middle of playgrounds and neighborhoods. My daughter went to daycare a block from there. So, when Isaw a flyer saying, "stop the project," I immediately picked it up, called the number on the flyer, and the woman who answered was Patti Hagan, who I could tell right away was an interesting character. So I startedshooting that afternoon. That was eight years ago.On April 30, 2011, Battle for Brooklyn premiered in Toronto at the HotDocs Film Festival.Critical receptionAndrew O'Hehir of Salon says of the film's appeal, "No doubt"Battle for Brooklyn" will be of most interest to New Yorkers, and particularly to people who live or work in the city's most populous borough. But the film's basic situation — local residents and community activists vs.the development schemes of major politicians and big business — is an archetypal element of urban life, one that can be found in almost any city, large or small, from Maine to California."S. James Snyder of Time OutNew York writes, "Nothing propels a documentary like injustice, and Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley's infuriating chronicle of an outer-borough David-versus-Goliath saga plays like a marathon of inequity."GaryGoldstein of the Los Angeles Times said that although the film is "not exactly even-handed, the movie proves a deft look at a reluctant crusader and how financial sway and political override can so effectively trump thepower of the average citizen."Awards and recognition2011 Best Documentary & Best Film – Brooklyn Film FestivalNew York Times Critics' PickFilm Festivals2011 Chicago Underground Film Festival2011 Rooftop FilmsSummer Series2011 Brooklyn Film Festival (United States Premiere)2011 HotDocs (World Premiere)Passage 2:List of artists from BrooklynBrooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, New York. Manyartists have originated from Brooklyn or have relocated there.Brooklyn-based fine artistsPaintersRuth Abrams (1912 – 12 March 1986) – New York School painter who was born in Brooklyn. As a painter, she belonged tothe New York School. After her death, a critic from The New York Times remarked that she was "a woman unfairly neglected in a macho era." Her papers are held at the Yeshiva University Museum and the SmithsonianArchives of American Art.Alexander Brook (July 14, 1898 – February 26, 1980) – American artist and critic who was born in Brooklyn. During his twenties, Brooks painted still lifes and posed figures with vigor andsensuality. He later began to emulate the style of Jules Pascin. From 1924 to 1927 he was the assistant director of Whitney Studio Club. His realist painting was exhibited widely and he won multiple awards. GeorgiaJungle won the Carnegie Prize at the Carnegie International art exhibition. Unfortunately for Brook, the realist style fell out of favor late in the 1940s.Marion Greenwood (April 6, 1909 – August 20, 1970) – painter andengraver who had lived in Brooklyn.Breuk Iversen (born July 25, 1964) – lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and is the founding member of the art collaborative known as "Offalists", using common refuse as a medium.NellChoate Jones (1879–1981) – artist who had lived in Brooklyn Jones was awarded an honorary doctorate by the State University of New York in 1972 and received the Distinguished Citizen Award from the BrooklynMuseum of Art in 1979. She exhibited regularly across North America in the 1940s and 1950s as well as overseas in France, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, and Japan. Her work can be found in many museums,including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia.Tim Okamura (born 1968) – painter based in Brooklyn Okamura is known for his depiction of African-Americanand minority subjects in urban settings, and his combination of graffiti and realism. His work has been featured in several major motion pictures and in London's National Portrait Gallery. He was also one of severalartists to be shortlisted in 2006 for a proposed portrait of Queen Elizabeth of England.Michael Anthony Pegues (born May 11, 1962) – artist and designer, born and raised in Brooklyn. Self-taught, modern-day Fauve,Expressionist as well as Pop artist, contemporary of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, his work is strongly influenced by Hip Hop and Graffiti.David Salle (born September 28, 1952) – painter and leadingcontemporary figurative artist, Salle helped define postmodern sensibility. His paintings and prints comprise what appear to be randomly juxtaposed images, or images placed on top of one other with deliberatelyham-fisted techniques.Walter Satterlee (January 18, 1844 – May 28, 1908) – American figure and genre painter who was born in Brooklyn. He was a member of the American Water Color Society and of the New YorkEtching Club, and was an excellent teacher. Satterlee died in Brooklyn in 1908.Susan Sills – drawings and portraits.Danny Simmons (born August 17, 1953) – abstract-expressionist painter who was a Brooklyn residentin 2009 Simmons is the co-founder and Chairman of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation (since 1995), which provides disadvantaged urban youth with arts access and education. Simmons also founded Rush Arts Galleryand soon thereafter converted part of his loft in Brooklyn into the Corridor Gallery. Both galleries provide exhibition opportunities to early and mid-career artists who do not have commercial representation throughgalleries or private dealers.Andrea Zittel (born September 6, 1965) – installation artist who has lived in Brooklyn Zittel produced her first "Living Unit"—an experimental structure intended to reduce everythingnecessary for living into a simple, compact system—as a means of facilitating basic activities within her 200-square-foot (19 m2) Brooklyn storefront apartment.Photographers and video artistsStephen Shames (born1968) – photographer who was living in Brooklyn in 2008Ka-Man Tse – photographer, video artist, and educator based in Brooklyn.See alsoList of people from BrooklynLists of artists by nationalityPassage 3:Battle forRomeBattle for Rome may refer to:The title under which the series Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire was transmitted on the Discovery ChannelOne of the alternative names for what is now more commonlyreferred to as the Battle of Monte CassinoSee alsoCapture of Rome (1870) by the Kingdom of SardiniaBattle of Rome (disambiguation)Siege of Rome (disambiguation)Sack of Rome (disambiguation)Fall of Rome(disambiguation)Battle (disambiguation)Rome (disambiguation)Passage 4:Battle for EarthBattle for Earth may refer to:Alien invasionTransformers: Battle for Earth, a book in the Transformers franchise.MarvelAvengers: Battle for Earth, a 2012 motion-controlled fighting video game.Planet of the Apemen: Battle for Earth, a 2011 BBC documentary.Maelstrom: The Battle for Earth Begins, a 2007 real-time strategygame.Godzilla vs. Mothra, or Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth, a 1992 Japanese kaiju film.Battle for Terra, a 2007 animated science fiction film.Battle for Earth (Wing Commander), a fictional event in the WingCommander novel series.Passage 5:John Nelson PartridgeJohn Nelson Partridge (1838 – April 8, 1920)  was the Police Commissioner for Brooklyn and Fire Commissioner for Brooklyn in the 1880s before the merger intoNew York City. He was the New York Superintendent of Public Works, and the New York City Police Commissioner from 1902 to 1903.BiographyHe was born in 1838 In Leicester, Massachusetts. From 1886 to 1887 hewas president of the Brooklyn City and Newtown Railroad.He was the New York City Police Commissioner from 1902 to 1903. During his tenure he wanted to move the New York City police headquarters from MulberryStreet to Times Square.In 1906 he married Charlotte Held.They then moved to Westport, Connecticut. He died on April 8, 1920, in Westport, Connecticut.Passage 6:CrimebusterCrimebuster or crime busters orvariation, may refer to:ComicsCrimebuster (Boy Comics), alter-ego of Chuck Chandler, fictional boy hero of the 1940s-1950sCrimebuster (Marvel Comics)Crimebusters (DC Comics), a short-lived team appearing inWatchmenFilmsThe Crimebusters, a 1961 crime filmCrimebusters (film), a 1976 crime filmCrime Busters, a 1977 action-comedy filmCrimebuster: A Son's Search for His Father (2012 film) award-winning documentaryfilm by Lou DematteisTelevisionCrime Buster (television series), 1968 UK television series"Crimebusters" (1989 TV episode), season 4 number 12 episode 62 of Perfect Strangers"Crimebusters" (1992 TV episode),season 5 number 2 episode 56 of ChuckleVision"Crimebusters" (2009 TV episode), season 19 number 13 episode 434 of Law & Order,Other uses"CRIME BUSTER", cover art for the Evil Empire (1996) albumcoverCrimebusters, fictional characters from Mighty Mouse: The New AdventuresCrimebusters FC, a soccer team from Eugu, Nigeria; from the Nigeria Nationwide LeagueThe American series of The ThreeInvestigators#Crimebusters (1989–1990)See alsoAll pages with titles containing crime bustersAll pages with titles containing crime busterAll pages with titles containing crimebustersAll pages with titles containingcrimebusterCrime Busters x 2, a 2008 Singaporean Chinese dramaCrimebusters + Crossed Wires: Stories from This American Life, a compilation albumBuster (disambiguation)Crime (disambiguation)LawenforcementPassage 7:1908 in organized crime== Events ==A gang war breaks out between Paul Kelly's Five Points Gang and "Kid Twist" Max Zwerbach's Eastman Gang.By the end of the year Johnny Torrio's twodozen Brooklyn brothels earn over $5,000 a week.Frankie Yale is allowed to join Johnny Torrio's Black Hand organization in New York.Hymie Weiss is first arrested for burglary. It is this incident that, while caughtrobbing a perfume store, he is dubbed the "Perfume Burglar" by Chicago reporters.Joseph Petrosino arrests Neapolitan camorrista Enrico Costabili, who is later deported to Italy.Sicilian mafiosi Raffaele Palizzolo, wantedfor murder, escapes Sicily and  arrives in New York. He later leaves the city before Joseph Petrosino can arrest him.Then 17-year-old Salvatore Sabella, future boss of the Philadelphia crime family, is sentenced to threeyears imprisonment in Milan for the murder of a local butcher, of which he was an apprentice, in 1905.April 25 – Frank Costello is arrested for assault and robbery but is released.May 14 – Eastman Gang leader MaxZwerbach and lieutenant Vach Lewis are killed in an ambush by members of the Five Points Gang after an argument between Zwerbach and Louis Pioggi over Coney Island dance hall girl Carrol Terry.July 23 – Laborracketeer Cornelius Shea is sentenced to six months in prison for abandoning his wife and two young children.BirthsErnest Rupolo, Genovese crime family assassinMarch 17 – Raymond L. S. Patriarca, boss of thePatriarca crime familyMay 24 – Sam (Salvatore) Giancana, boss of the Chicago OutfitJune 30 – Samuel "Teets" Battaglia, member of the Chicago OutfitSeptember 6 – Anthony Joseph Biase, leader of the Omaha factionof the National Crime SyndicateOctober 7 – Harry "Happy" Maione, Murder, Inc. hitmanDeathsMay 14 – Max Zwerbach, leader of New York City's Eastman GangMay 14 – Vach Lewis, Eastman Gang lieutenantPassage8:Crime in the StreetsCrime in the Streets is a 1956 film about juvenile delinquency, directed by Don Siegel and based on a television play written by Reginald Rose. The play first appeared on the Elgin Hour and wasdirected by Sidney Lumet.The film, starring James Whitmore and John Cassavetes, also featured actor Sal Mineo, who had previously appeared in Rebel Without A Cause.  From his role in Crime in the Streets, Mineoearned a Hollywood nickname, "The Switchblade Kid." Malcolm Atterbury, Virginia Gregg and future director Mark Rydell had prominent roles.Siegel adapted the play to a film by expanding some sequences but keepingmuch of the same cast.  His credited dialogue coach on the film was Sam Peckinpah.PlotAfter a rumble between New York City street gangs, the Hornets and Dukes, a youth is taken captive and threatened with a zipgun by Lenny Daniels, one of the Hornets. The act is witnessed by a neighbor, McAllister, who tells the cops.Lenny is arrested and sentenced to a year in jail. Hornets leader Frankie Dane decides to get even. Seeminglyincorrigible, 18-year-old Frankie resists all efforts to get through to him by social worker Ben Wagner or his worried mother, who was abandoned by Frankie's father when he was eight.Frankie threatens McAllister, whoisn't afraid of Frankie. McAllister even slaps him, then walks away. An angry Frankie then enlists friends Lou Macklin and Angelo "Baby" Gioia to assist in killing McAllister, which frightens Frankie's 10-year-old brotherRichie, who overhears the plotting.Baby is slapped by his father who orders, then pleads, with him to stop hanging out with the no-good Frankie. An effort is made by Wagner to understand the boys rather than beangry with them, and Richie tells him of Frankie's plans to commit a murder. Wagner talks to Frankie, seemingly to no avail. The three conspirators go to bed, to later use as their alibi, and wait until the agreed upontime to act. McAllister is trapped in an alley at 1:30 in the morning by the three. Richie stops his brother just-in-time, but ends up with a knife held to his throat by angry Frankie, while McAllister and other two run off,as the intended victim yells for help.Wagner appears due to the commotion, and watches as Frankie finally comes to his senses and lets his brother go. He is then accompanied by Wagner to the approachingpolice.CastJames Whitmore as Ben WagnerJohn Cassavetes as Frankie DaneSal Mineo as Angelo "Baby" GioiaVirginia Gregg as Mrs. DaneMalcolm Atterbury as McAllisterMark Rydell as Lou MacklinDenise Alexander asMaria GioiaPeter J. Votrian as Richie DaneHome mediaWarner Bros. released the film on DVD on July 13, 2010, in its Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 5.Passage 9:The Wrong DoyleThe Wrong Doyle is a mystery crimenovel by Robert Girardi.Plot summaryTim Doyle returns to the Eastern Shore of Virginia after the death of his Uncle Buck.  He meets the keeper of Uncle Buck's inheritance, Maggie Peach.


Passage 1:I Believe in Miracles (film)I Believe in Miracles is a 2015 film directed by Jonny Owen.PlotThe film tells the story of football club Nottingham Forest's rise, under Brian Clough and Peter Taylor, to becomingEnglish champions in 1978 and European champions in 1979 and 1980. The film features documentary footage of matches and interviews with many of the former Forest players who played at the time.The film'ssoundtrack includes funk and soul music from the 1970s, including the song from which its title is based, featuring versions from The Jackson Sisters and Mark Capanni.A book of the same name to accompany therelease of the film was written by Daniel Taylor, chief football writer of The Guardian.Passage 2:Saturday Night at the Movies (disambiguation)Saturday Night at the Movies was a Canadian weekly television series.Saturday Night at the Movies may also refer to:NBC Saturday Night at the Movies, an American weekly prime time network television series"Saturday Night at the Movies" (song), a song by The Drifters, released in1964, written by Barry Mann and Cynthia WeilSaturday Night at the Movies (album), a 2017 album by Joe McElderrySaturday Night at the Movies, a 2013 album by The OvertonesPassage 3:A Month of Sundays (2015film)A Month of Sundays is a 2015 film starring Anthony LaPaglia.PlotReal estate agent Frank Mollard won't admit it, but he can't move on. Divorced but still attached, he can't sell a house in a property boom - muchless connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary. Apart from the fact that she died a year ago.Thus blossoms a charming and unusual friendship with anelderly woman which inspires Frank to reconnect with life.CastAnthony LaPaglia as Frank MollardJulia Blake as SarahJohn Clarke as Phillip LangWayne Anthoney as Noel LangJustine Clarke as Wendy McKinnonTerenceCrawford as StuartGary Sweet as Gary SweetReceptionOn Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 63% based on reviews from 19 critics.Luke Buckmaster of The Guardian wrote "Situations, subplots andeven barely seen characters are unified with an almost cosmic sense of fate." David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews wrote "One can only hope that this marks a temporary stumble for an otherwise talented filmmaker." PaulByrnes in the Sydney Morning Herald said "A Month of Sundays is a small miracle of a film – an odd combination of modesty and ambition."Passage 4:Manhattan AngelManhattan Angel is a 1949 American comedymusical film directed by Arthur Dreifuss and starring Gloria Jean, Patricia Barry and Thurston Hall.It was originally called Sweetheart of the Blues. It was made after I Surrender Dear.PlotGloria Cole and Eddie Swensonare working to keep an old house, now being used as a youth center, from being razed to make room for a new skyscraper in Manhattan. Gloria enters a friend in a beauty contest with a $25,000 first prize and, aftersome iffy-maneuvering, her friend wins the contest and the money goes to preserving the youth center.CastGloria Jean as Gloria ColeRoss Ford as Eddie SwensonPatricia Barry as Maggie Graham (as PatriciaWhite)Thurston Hall as Everett H. BurtonAlice Tyrrell as Queenie WaltersBenny Baker as Aloysius DuffRussell Hicks as J.C. RaylandFay Baker as Vi LangdonJimmy Lloyd as ElmerToni Harper as ToniThe SweetheartChoristers as SingersSee alsoList of American films of 1949Passage 5:Amy (2015 film)Amy is a 2015 British documentary film directed by Asif Kapadia and produced by James Gay-Rees. The film covers Britishsinger-songwriter Amy Winehouse's life and her struggle with substance abuse, both before and after her career blossomed, and which eventually caused her death. In February 2015, a teaser trailer based on the life ofWinehouse debuted at a pre-Grammys event. David Joseph, CEO of Universal Music UK, announced that the documentary titled Amy would be released later that year. He further stated: "About two years ago wedecided to make a movie about her—her career and her life. It's a very complicated and tender movie. It tackles lots of things about family and media, fame, addiction, but most importantly, it captures the very heart ofwhat she was about, which is an amazing person and a true musical genius."Amy premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, being shown in the Midnight Screenings section. Distributed by the Altitude and A24, it wasreleased theatrically on 3 July 2015. The film received critical acclaim, garnering 33 nominations and winning a total of 30 awards, including Best Documentary at the 28th European Film Awards, Best Documentary atthe 69th British Academy Film Awards, Best Music Film at the 58th Grammy Awards and the Best Documentary Feature at the 88th Academy Awards. The success of Amy and the music of its soundtrack also ledWinehouse to her second posthumous nomination at the 2016 BRIT Awards for British Female Solo Artist.SynopsisThe film narrative is focused on the life of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, who was found dead on 23July 2011 from alcohol poisoning, at the age of 27 at her home in Camden, North London.The film starts with a 1998 home movie depicting a 14-year-old Winehouse singing along with her long-time friend, JulietteAshby, at the birthday party of their mutual friend, Lauren Gilbert, at a home in Southgate, London. The rest of the documentary shows the songwriter's life, in a chronological order from her early childhood, to hermusic career, which attained commercial success through her debut album, Frank (2003), and second, final album Back to Black (2006), to her troubled relationships, self-harm, bulimia, the controversial mediaattention, and her downfall with her drug and alcohol addiction, all until her death in 2011. Winehouse is featured throughout the film talking about her early influences and how she felt about fame, love, depression,family and her music career.Kapadia conducted more than 100 interviews with Winehouse's friends and family that combine to provide a narrative around the star's life and is billed as "the singer in her own words." Thefilm shows extensive unseen footage and unheard tracks Winehouse had recorded in the years before she died. Unheard tracks featured in the film are either rare live sessions, such as "Stronger Than Me", "In My Bed","What Is It About Men?" and Donny Hathaway's "We're Still Friends", a cover of Johnny Mercer's "Moon River" from when Winehouse attended the National Youth Jazz Orchestra at the age of 16 in 2000 or never-beforeheard songs the star wrote, such as "Detachment" and "You Always Hurt The Ones You Love".There are various pieces of extensive, unseen archive footage of Winehouse, such as when she is video-recorded in a cabwith friend Tyler James in January 2001 and driving to tours and on her long-term friend, Lauren Gilbert's holiday tape in Majorca, Spain in August 2005. The film also shows various interviews, such as with JonathanRoss, Tim Kash, and a funny video of when Winehouse is interviewed and talked to about singer Dido in 2004, when she promoted her debut album. The documentary also includes when Winehouse performed live fromLondon on the Grammy Awards in 2008, and won the award for "Record of the Year".The film also features footage from when she was filmed with her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, various performances, and whenshe auditioned at Island Records in February 2003, singing "I Heard Love Is Blind". Also included is footage from when she was recording her second album in March 2006 and a duet single, "Body and Soul", with TonyBennett in March 2011 as her last recording before her death. Some outtakes are also featured of her last shambolic performance in Belgrade, Serbia, a month before she died. The film concludes with long-term friendJuliette Ashby talking about her last phone call with Winehouse, footage of Winehouse's body being taken out of her home after her death, and Bennett stating: "Life teaches you really how to live it, if you live longenough." It then shows scenes from three days later of footage from Winehouse's funeral at Edgwarebury Cemetery and Golders Green Crematorium in North London. Closing clips end the film with videos of Winehousefrom her early years until her death, with Antonio Pinto's composition, "Amy Forever".ContributorsThe following heavily contributed in the documentary through archive footage andrecorded interviews:ProductionIn2012, Universal Music first approached film producer James Gay-Rees if the team behind the documentary film about Ayrton Senna would be interested in creating a project on Amy Winehouse.On 25 April 2013, it wasconfirmed and announced that the team behind the documentary film Senna (2010), including director Asif Kapadia and Universal Music, were making a film about the late singer-songwriter. It was revealed that thefilm would be very similar to Senna, and that unseen footage of Winehouse would be shown. Kapadia and Gay-Rees stated: "Everyone fell under her spell. But tragically, Amy seemed to fall apart under the relentlessmedia attention, her troubled relationships, her global success and precarious lifestyle." They introduced the project at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and it was said the documentary film would be released in2015.MusicThe documentary features various unheard tracks Winehouse had completed from when her career began in 2003 until her death. The film includes live sessions, such as: "There Is No Greater Love","Stronger Than Me", "In My Bed", "Rehab" and "What Is It About Men", covers of Johnny Mercer's "Moon River" from when Winehouse was 16 at the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in 2000 and Donny Hathaway's "We'reStill Friends" and never-before heard songs the star wrote, such as "Detachment" and the lyrics to "You Always Hurt The Ones You Love", combined with Pinto's composition "Amy Lives". Winehouse is recorded in March2006 when she is recording her 2007 single "Back to Black" and there are also cuts and edits of her well-known tracks, which helps unveil every piece of footage in the film.SoundtrackOn 8 October 2015, Island Recordsannounced that the soundtrack for the film would be released on 30 October 2015. The soundtrack includes various tracks that were included in the documentary; including classic tracks from Winehouse andcompositions that were featured in the film by composer Antonio Pinto. The soundtrack was later released for the second time on vinyl in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 1 April 2016.The twenty-three track albumincludes well-known tracks by Winehouse, such as "Stronger Than Me", "Tears Dry on Their Own", and "Back to Black", live sessions of "What Is It About Men", "Rehab", "We're Still Friends", and "Love Is a LosingGame", demo tracks; "Some Unholy War" and "Like Smoke"; a cover of The Zutons' "Valerie" performed by Winehouse and Mark Ronson and a 2011 version of "Body and Soul" performed by Winehouse and TonyBennett. The soundtrack is also the second posthumous compilation album of Winehouse's music.The commercial success and music behind the film earned Winehouse her second posthumous nomination at the 2016BRIT Awards for "British Female Solo Artist", won by singer Adele and the film won a Grammy Award for "Best Music Film" at the 2016 Grammy Awards. This was the ninth indication of Amy's career to this award andthe third posthumous. In December 2016, the nominations for the 2017 Grammy Awards were announced, and Amy was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.ReleaseAmy wasreleased on 3 July 2015 in the United Kingdom, New York, and Los Angeles and worldwide on 10 July.The film had its world premiere at the midnight screenings section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival on 16 May 2015.Musicians such as HAIM, Leona Lewis, and Emeli Sandé were in attendance and gathered for the event, as well as the film crew. The film received its UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June2015.The film received a special screening in cinemas around the United Kingdom on 30 June, which was broadcast live from the London GALA Premiere at the Picturehouse. The screening provided questions from thepublic on Facebook, Twitter and from the audience. The film director Asif Kapadia, producer James Gay-Rees, and friend Nick Shymansky answered them and concluded with a tribute to Winehouse with her 2007 musicvideo "Love Is a Losing Game".MarketingOn 8 February 2015, a teaser trailer of Amy debuted at the pre-Grammy event in the build-up to the 2015 Grammy Awards. A teaser theatrical poster for the documentary filmwas released on 18 March 2015 on Twitter, and the first trailer was released on 2 April 2015, with receiving more than two million views Altitude Film's channel on YouTube. Footage from the teaser trailer showsWinehouse as a young woman at the beginning of her music career answering questions about how she sees herself as an artist and how she felt about fame.Various official teaser clips from the film were released onYouTube to the buildup and throughout the documentary's release in July by Altitude Film and A24, including clips of Winehouse talking about how she felt about depression, how she thinks she would have handled famefrom her early years, when she was recording her album Back to Black with her record producer Mark Ronson in March 2006 and when she was videotaped singing the "Happy Birthday" song at the fourteenth birthdayparty of her friend, Lauren Gilbert, in 1998 which received over one million views after 48 hours. In May 2015, the first teaser clip from the film was released. The short clip features a candid moment of Winehousemessing around with the camera and singing, while Nick Shymanksy, a member of her management team, recalls the beginning of her songwriting process; the video concludes with an unheard track Winehouse hadrecorded, "Detachment", which was arranged to be on her album Back To Black (2006).On 18 May 2015, the official theatrical poster was released on the film's Twitter page. On 20 May 2015, the first official full-lengthtrailer was released by Altitude Film. The trailer features the song "Back To Black", which was released in 2007. The video shows footage of Winehouse from her childhood to her early interviews, the rigorous mediaattention from the paparazzi, performances, various award winnings, her troubled relationship with her husband Blake Fielder-Civil and her statement of how she felt about him: "I fell in love with someone I would diefor". The trailer also contains voices from people Winehouse knew and how they felt about her, such as Tony Bennett and Mos Def. The video concludes with "Love Is a Losing Game" with footage of Winehouse, variousfive star reviews, and Winehouse saying: "I don't think I'm going to be at all famous", and, "I'm not a girl trying to be a star... I'm just a girl that sings". The trailer received more than one million views after 24 hourson A24's channel on YouTube. After the film's release, a second official trailer was released that captures the controversial fame of Winehouse's celebrity lifestyle and how she struggled with it throughout her career. On16 September 2015, another unseen clip was released of Winehouse videoed messing around with friend Nicky Shymansky in New York City in 2004, after the release of Frank (2003).Home mediaOn 16 September2015, it was announced by Universal Music that Amy would be released on DVD/Blu-ray and digital download on 2 November 2015 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was released in the United States on 1 December2015. The two-disc package includes the film feature along with special features; such as a selection of previously unseen footage of Winehouse, as well as rare performances at Metropolis Studios, the film trailers andthe making of the documentary. In November 2015, a special limited edition box set of Amy was released only in France, in which provides the film feature DVD, as well as a special booklet, a film poster, a selection ofAmy Winehouse photographs and a T-shirt themed on the film.ReceptionBox officeAmy has broken the UK box office record for the highest opening weekend of a British documentary film, grossing at £519,000 from 133cinemas three days after its release on 3 July. It also enjoyed success in the US, earning £142,000 from just six cinemas before it expanded in the following weeks. The film scored a $37,002 site average in the US inthree days. The film opened with $222,015 across six sites, with a location average of $37,002 – $10,000 more than Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) managed on its first weekend and even beating March of the Penguins(2005) 's $44,373 and the film has increased its box office peak after its initial release nationally on 10 July.Critical responseAmy received critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 95% rating based on 222reviews, with an average rating of 8.40/10. The site's consensus reads, "As riveting as it is sad, Amy is a powerfully honest look at the twisted relationship between art and celebrity—and the lethal spiral of addiction."Metacritic reports an 85 out of 100 rating based on 41 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".Robbie Collin from The Telegraph rated the film as four out of five stars and praised the fact that "Amy Winehouse's gloriousrise and heartbreaking fall is movingly documented by the director of Senna. Guy Lodge from Variety stated that: "The rise and devastating fall of the gifted British soul singer is chronicled in this deeply felt doc from'Senna' director Asif Kapadia." Heat and Stylist both also rated the film five out of five, describing the film as "brilliant" and "unmissable". Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian gave the film five out of five, describing it as"a tragic masterpiece", and saying, "This documentary about the late British soul singer is an overwhelmingly sad, intimate—and dismaying—study of a woman whose talent and charisma helped turn her into a target".Geoffrey Macnab from The Independent also rated the documentary five out of five, reviewed it as "brilliant" and "unutterably sad", and stated: "There were many, many contributory factors to Amy Winehouse going offthe rails, which are explored in the effect of Amy". According to The Guardian, Amy has been placed at no. 3 out of "The 50 Best Films of 2015 in Australia" at the end of the year and has been placed at no. 6 out of "The50 Best 2015  Films in the UK".Family's responseThe film has been heavily criticised by Winehouse's father, Mitch Winehouse. He has distanced himself from the documentary, stating the film is "misleading" and"contains some basic untruths", according to his spokesman. On 7 May 2015, Winehouse's father Mitch appeared on This Morning and described the film as "preposterous". He further stated:"The film is representing mein a not very good way. There is no balance, there's nothing about the foundation. It's portraying me and Amy in not a very good light."However, he also said that the film contains "superb" and "beautiful" footage ofWinehouse. He then added: "Half of me wants to say don't go see it.  But then the other part of me is saying maybe go see the videos, put your headphones in and listen to Amy's music while they're watching thevideos.  It's the narrative that's the problem."Universal Music instigated the documentary but they only secured the cooperation of the singer's parents, Mitch and Janis Winehouse, when they signed up Kapadia as thedirector for the film. Winehouse's father, who was a fan of the director's previous documentary film Senna (2010), wanted the same treatment to be given to his late daughter's documentary. However, upon watchingthe completed film about Winehouse, Mitch was unhappy with how the film portrayed him. Feeling he had been portrayed as the villain, Mitch threatened legal action until limited changes were made to the film.However, he has still publicly condemned the final cut of the film, claiming that Kapadia had an agenda to make him the anti-hero from the start.Mitch requested that he wants the film to be further edited, but the filmcrew have declined his wish, adding: "When we were approached to make the film, we came on board with the full backing of the Winehouse family, and we approached the project with total objectivity." They said thefilm reflects findings from around "100 interviews with people that knew Amy". On 3 July 2015 (the day Amy was initially released), the singer's father, Mitch appeared on Loose Women to defend his place against thefilm and announced that he and Winehouse's former boyfriend, Reg Traviss, are making an alternative film, entitled A Letter To Amy, so it's a "more accurate" project, to "correct all the wrongs and omissions" that werein Kapadia's film. On 24 February 2016, Winehouse's father, Mitch reappeared on This Morning once again and stated that he would prefer Adele to win the award that his late daughter was posthumously nominated for


Passage 1:Joshua SinclairJoshua Sinclair (born May 7, 1953) is an American writer, producer, actor and director born in New York City.FilmographyPassage 2:Claude WeiszClaude Weisz is a French film director born inParis.FilmographyFeature filmsUne saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (1972) with Germaine Montéro, Lucien Raimbourg, Florence Giorgetti, Jean-François Delacour, Hélène Darche, Manuel Pinto, etc.Festival de Cannes1973 - Quinzaine des réalisateursJury Prize: Festival Jeune Cinéma 1973La Chanson du mal aimé (1981) with Rufus, Daniel Mesguich, Christine Boisson, Věra Galatíková, Mark Burns, Philippe Clévenot, DominiquePinon, Madelon Violla, Paloma Matta, Béatrice Bruno, Catherine Belkhodja, Véronique Leblanc, Philippe Avron, Albert Delpy, etc.Festival de Cannes 1982 - Perspectives du cinéma françaisCompetition selections:Valencia, Valladolid, Istanbul, MontréalOn l'appelait... le Roi Laid (1987) with Yilmaz Güney (mockumentary)Valencia Festival 1988 - Grand Prix for documentaries "Laurel Wreath"Competition selections: Rotterdam,Valladolid, Strasbourg, Nyon, Cannes, Lyon, CairoPaula et Paulette, ma mère (2005) Documentary - Straight to DVDShort and mid-lengthLa Grande Grève (1963 - Co-directed CAS collective, IDHEC)L'Inconnue (1966 -with Paloma Matta and Gérard Blain - Prix CNC Hyères, Sidney)Un village au QuébecMontréalDeux aspects du Canada (1969)La Hongrie, vers quel socialisme ? (1975 - Nominated for best documentary - Césars1976)Tibor Déry, portrait d'un écrivain hongrois (1977)L'huître boudeuseAncienne maison Godin ou le familistère de Guise (1977)Passementiers et RubaniersLe quinzième moisC'était la dernière année de ma vie (1984- FIPRESCI Prize- Festival Oberhausen 1985 - Nomination - Césars 1986)Nous aimons tant le cinéma (Film of the European year of cinema - Delphes 1988)Participation jusqu'en 1978 à la réalisation de films"militants"TelevisionSeries of seven dramas in GermanNumerous documentary and docu-soap type films (TVS CNDP)Initiation à la vie économique (TV series - RTS promotion)Contemplatives... et femmes (TF1 -1976)Suzel Sabatier (FR3)Un autre Or Noir (FR3)Vivre en GéorgiePortrait d'une génération pour l'an 2000 (France 5 - 2000)Femmes de peine, femmes de coeur (FR3 - 2003)Television documentariesLa porte de Sarpest ouverte (1998)Une histoire balbynienne (2002)Tamara, une vie de Moscou à Port-au-Prince (unfinished)Hana et Khaman (unfinished)En compagnie d'Albert Memmi (unfinished)Le Lucernaire, une passion dethéâtreLes quatre saisons de la Taillade ou une ferme l'autreHistoire du peuple kurde (in development)Les kurdes de Bourg-Lastic (2008)Réalisation de films institutionnels et industrielsPassage 3:Day of the PainterDayof the Painter is a 1960 American short film directed by Robert P. Davis. It was filmed at Mamaroneck Harbor in Mamaroneck, NY.Plot and critical responseTime magazine:An extremely funny 15-minute film, may betaken as a solemn leg-pull of the recent vogue for dribble-and-splotch painters, those athletic canvas-coverers whose style owes less to Van Gogh's brush technique than to Stan Laurel's custard pie stance.  Or it maybe taken as an explicit set of instructions for getting rich.The film, a first-time effort by three ex-admen, begins with a loving shot of wharfs, fishing shacks and sounding sea-the sort of vista once sketched avidly byartists and now appreciated chiefly by retired couples who tour Cape Cod in late September.  The artist is a burly fellow (Ezra Reuben Baker), recognizably aesthetic in paint-smeared dungarees, scurrilous red sweaterand combat boots.  He trundles a cart filled with paint buckets along a dock, then throws an enormous sheet of wallboard down on a mud flat ten feet below.Soberly, with exquisite skill, using first a vigorous forehand,then a precisely executed backhand, the painter slops color from buckets.  Clearly he is a master, for his stroke with the long-handled hoe is sure and strong, his touch with the dribble-stick more than Japanese in itsdelicacy.  And when he fills a flare pistol with paint and fires the last accent of orange at his abstraction, he does not pull the trigger.  He squeezes.When the thing dries, he hacks it up in random rectangles with a powersaw, then carefully signs each fragment.  A seaplane, labeled "Galerie des Abstracts, Paris-New York," touches down.  A man debarks whose rich, dark overcoat obviously proclaims him an art dealer.  He strokes his jawas he examines the paintings, eventually selects a small one, shakes hands with the painter and takes off.  Pleased with himself, the painter matter-of-factly shoves the remaining works of art into the ocean.  This, asthe screen truly proclaims, is the end.New York Herald Tribune:A hilarious good - natured spoof of abstract-expressionist painting has been made the subject of a colored film-short called "Day of the Painter.".........Without sound or sub-titles (except for a delightful musical score somewhat reminiscent of that which accompanied the Alex Guinness film, "The Horse's Mouth") the film begins with the artist's awakening in acrumbling shack on a rickety pier reaching out over a picturesque stream.  His "Wall Street Journal" is delivered by boat, and, having ascertained that his investments are doing well, he loads a wheelbarrow withassorted cans of paint, long sticks, and a spray gun, has two helpers carry his enormous blank canvas, and sets off to his muddy "studio" by the side of the stream.  All day long he flings, scatters, shoots, pushes paintall over his canvas and himself.  The picture grows, and, actually, turns out to be quite handsome-in the Jackson Pollock manner, of course, but attractive for all it imitativeness.  Sea gulls and swans waddle by, theirexpressions rather suggesting that of critics.At last the painter is finished, carefully studies his work-and then proceeds to cut the enormous canvas up into pieces.At the end of the day a small seaplane comes by, docksalongside the pier, while the passenger-pilot, looking like any 57th St. dealer you care to name, surveys the day's work.  He examines carefully, he ponders, and he finally selects one small segment of the canvas,places it in the plane, and takes off.The painter takes all the other pieces, tosses them into the stream, and they float away with the gulls and swans, not unlike the unforgettable Gulley Jimson, in "The Horse's Mouth,"floating gallantly out to sea in his battered tugboat.Audiences, apparently, are enjoying the film-except for a group the other night who were plainly pro-abstract-expressionism, and hissed when the rest of the houseapplauded.  None of it was ill-natured, however, probably because the abstract-expressionism picture being kidded looks so agreeable.AwardsDay of the Painter won an Oscar at the 33rd Academy Awards in 1961 forBest Short Subject.Passage 4:Jacques DécombeJacques Décombe is a French author, actor and director born in 1953.BiographyAfter he studied at the Conservatoire national d'art dramatique, he was the director of theshows of Les Inconnus at the request of Didier Bourdon and won the Molière Award for best comedy show. (See fr:Molière du meilleur spectacle comique) in 1991. He also directed shows by Charlotte de Turckheim,Chevallier et Laspalès, Patrick Timsit, Les Chevaliers du fiel...Passage 5:Robert P. DavisRobert P. Davis (October 8, 1929 – November 7, 2005) was an American author, screenwriter, and film director whose works areprimarily centered on aviation.His 1960 short film, Day of the Painter, won an Academy Award in 1961 for Best Short Subject.Davis's 1976 novel The Pilot, about an alcohol-abusing airline captain, served as the sourcematerial for his screenplay for the motion picture of the same title, released in 1980, in which Cliff Robertson acted out the lead role and which Robertson also directed.Movies and TVDay of the Painter (short film)(1960)The Pilot (1980)Final Descent (TV) (1997), based on The Glass CockpitBooksThe Pilot (New York: Morrow, 1976)Cat Five (New York: Pocket Books, 1977)Control Tower (New York: Putnam's, 1980)The GlassCockpit (1991)Passage 6:Yolonda RossYolonda Ross is an American actress, writer and director.Life and careerRoss was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. She began her acting career in New York, appearing in theepisodes of television series New York Undercover and Third Watch. Before landing the leading role in the independent drama film, Stranger Inside (2001). The movie produced by HBO, first premiered on television, butRoss was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance. She later had supporting roles in a number of independent productions and guest-starred on Law & Order and Law & Order: CriminalIntent, and in 2011 had a recurring role of HBO's Treme.Ross co-starred alongside LisaGay Hamilton in the critically acclaimed 2013 independent drama film, Go for Sisters. She received Independent Spirit Award forBest Supporting Female nomination for her performance in film. She later was cast opposite Viola Davis in Lila & Eve. In 2015, Ross played Robyn Crawford, the friend, assistant, and reported girlfriend of WhitneyHouston, in the Lifetime movie, Whitney directed by Angela Bassett.In 2017, Ross had a recurring role opposite Viola Davis in the ABC legal thriller How to Get Away with Murder. The following year she was cast in aseries regular role in the Showtime drama series, The Chi.FilmographyFilm and TV MoviesTelevisionAwards and nominationsPassage 7:Kurt LandKurt Landesberger (19 February 1913, Vienna, Austria – 13 July 1997New York City) was an Austrian born Argentine film director of the 1950s and 1960s.Born in Vienna, Land moved to Argentina in the 1930s and began as a film editor, editing for some 20 films in the 1940s. However, bythe early 1950s he became interested in directing and directed a number of popular Argentine films in the 1950s such as the 1955 film Adiós problemas starring Enrique Muiño and the 1957 picture Alfonsina whichstarred actress Amelia Bence. He also worked regularly with classic Argentine actress Olga Zubarry.He directed his last film in 1970 in Buenos Aires. He died in New York City in 1997.Selected filmographyEditorMadameBovary (1947)Stella (1943) Credited as Kurt Land.La casta Susana (1944) Credited as Kurt Land.Villa Rica del Espíritu Santo (1945) Credited as Kurt Land.Lauracha (1946) Credited as Kurt Land.ProducerSeven Women(1944)DirectorHoy canto para ti (1950)¡Qué hermanita! (1951)Vuelva el primero (1952)Como yo no hay dos (1952)Asunto terminado (1953)Mercado negro (1953)La telaraña (1954)Los problemas de papá (1954)Adiósproblemas (1955)La Delatora (1955)Bacará (1955)Surcos en el mar (1956)Estrellas de Buenos Aires (1956)Alfonsina  (1957)Dos basuras  (1958)Evangelina (1959)El asalto  (1960)La Culpa  (1969)El sátiro  (1970)ElHombre del año  (1970)External linksKurt Land at IMDbPassage 8:Sepideh FarsiSepideh Farsi (Persian:  ; born 1965) is an Iranian director.Early yearsFarsi left Iran in 1984 and went to Paris tostudy mathematics.  However, eventually she was drawn to the visual arts and initially experimented in photography before making her first short films. A main theme of her works is identity. She still visits Tehran eachyear.Awards/RecognitionFarsi was a Member of the Jury of the Locarno International Film Festival in Best First Feature in 2009. She won the FIPRESCI Prize (2002), Cinéma du Réel and Traces de Vie prize (2001) for"Homi D. Sethna, filmmaker" and Best documentary prize in Festival dei Popoli (2007) for "HARAT".Recent NewsOne of her latest films is called Tehran Bedoune Mojavez (Tehran Without Permission).  The 83-minutedocumentary shows life in Iran's crowded capital city of Tehran, facing international sanctions over its nuclear ambitions and experiencing civil unrest.  It was shot entirely with a Nokia camera phone because of thegovernment restrictions over shooting a film.  The film shows various aspects of city life including following women at the hairdressers talking of the latest fads, young men speaking of drugs, prostitution and othersocietal problems, and the Iranian rapper “Hichkas”.  The  dialogue is in Persian with English and Arabic subtitles. In December 2009, Tehran Without Permission was shown at the Dubai International FilmFestival.FilmographyRed Rose (2014)Cloudy Greece (2013)Zire Âb / The house under the water (2010)Tehran bedoune mojavez / Tehran without permission (2009)If it were Icarus (2008)Harat (2007)Negah / TheGaze (2006)Khab-e khak / Dreams of Dust (2003)Safar-e Maryam / The journey of Maryam (2002)Mardan-e Atash / Men of Fire (2001)Homi D. Sethna, filmmaker (2000)Donya khaneye man ast / The world is myhome (1999)Khabe Âb / Water dreams (1997)Bâd-e shomal / Northwind (1993)Passage 9:Fred Roy KrugFred R. Krug is an American film and television producer-director born in Bern, Switzerland.Passage 10:DosbasurasDos basuras is a 1958 Argentine film. This black and white production was directed by Kurt Land and the script by Jose Maria Fernandez, Alfredo Unsain Ruanova, José María Fernández Unsain. It premiered onMay 2, 1958, and starred Amelia Bence, Luis Prendes, Naomi Laserre and Luis Tasca as protagonists.SynopsisA prostitute and Cloaquista try to put their lives together but a former wife complicates the relationship.Cast