Splice

Disturbante. E non è un termine che uso spesso, associato ad un film.
Splice sembra aver diviso molto il (poco) pubblico che - specie in America - pare non averlo digerito molto.

Peccato, perché è uno dei rari esempi recenti di fantascienza fatta come si deve: con uno spunto interessante e capace di stupire. E con le palle, cosa davvero non da tutti, di questi tempi in cui ci si appiattisce regolarmente sul minimo sindacale, per non pestare i piedi a nessuno.

Brillante coppia di genetisti mette a punto un paio di singolari creature capaci di sintetizzare tutta una serie di molecole utili all'industria farmaceutica. Un inopportuno cambiamento manda però a gambe all'aria la presentazione agli azionisti ed i due cadono in disgrazia.
Riusciranno però a portare avanti un loro personalissimo piano, creando qualcosa di davvero nuovo che contiene in sé anche geni umani.
Come prevedibile si affezioneranno alla creatura, che cresce e cambia in fretta, trascinando i due scienziati (che già non erano sanissimi di loro, se vogliamo ) in un incubo senza fine.

Come detto: disturbante. La piega che ad un certo punto prende il film rasenta il sordido, e non faccio fatica a credere che parecchi abbiano storto il nasino delicato.
VM 14 meritatissimo, per la cronaca.

Molto ben diretto (giù il cappello a Vincenzo Natali), creativo ed inventivo alla David Cronenberg e con un make-up intrigante, il film soffre però anche di una serie di indubbi difetti: partenza piuttosto lenta, qualche dialogo rivedibile, un po' di ingenuità assortite e - soprattutto prove attoriali scadenti.
Così-così Sarah Polley e continuo a pensare malissimo di Adrien Brody; mooolto brava invece Delphine Chanéac nel ruolo della creatura adulta.

Detto ciò, avercene di film del genere.

Voto: 9. NB: se poi vi fa cacare, non fatevela con me.
Tags: fantascienza, horror, drammatico, thriller, Vincenzo Natali, creatura, genetica, genetisti, scienziati, coppia, gene, mutazione, multinazionale, affetto, granaio, fuga, omicidio, veleno, ali, anfibio, morte, gatto, violenza, stupro, sesso, esperimento, madre, fratello, nudo, chimera, etica, gravidanza, sangue.

Chanéac, Delphine

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Data di nascita: 14 November 1978

Ultimi lavori:

• Mens Insana (2011) .... Eva Von Nagel (rumored) [attrice]
• L'amour vache (2010) (TV) .... Lili [attrice]
• The Big Black (2010) .... Eve [attrice]
• Splice (2009) .... Dren [attrice]
• Verso (2009) .... Anja Lagrange [attrice]
• "Madame Hollywood" (2007) .... Sybille [attrice]
• Trenhotel (2007) (TV) .... Chloé [attrice]
• Incontrôlable (2006) .... Laura [attrice]
• "Laura, le compte à rebours a commencé" (2006) (mini) .... Laura [attrice]
• The Pink Panther (2006) .... Ticket Checker (as Délphine Chaneac) [attrice]

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Cronenberg, David

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Nome di battesimo: Cronenberg, David Paul
Data di nascita: 15 March 1943
Altezza: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Coniuge: Carolyn Zeifman::(1979 - present) 2 children, Margaret Hindson::(1970 - 1977) (divorced) 1 child

Ultimi lavori:

• A Dangerous Method (2011) .... [regista]
• London Fields (2010) .... (writer) [scrittore]
• The Plan (2008/I) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (2007) .... (segment "At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World") [regista]
• Eastern Promises (2007) .... [regista]
• A History of Violence (2005) .... [regista]
• Spider (2002) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Jason X (2001) .... Dr. Wimmer [attore]
• Short6 (2001) .... (writer) (segment "Camera") [scrittore]
• The Judge (2001) (TV) .... Det. Stobel [attore]

Biografia:
David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father was a journalist, and his mother was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early age (he wrote and published eerie short stories, thus following his father's path) and for music (playing classical guitar until he was 12), Cronenberg graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Literature after switching from the science department. He reached the cult status of horror-meister with the gore-filled, modern-vampire variations of Shivers (1975) and Rabid (1977), following an experimental apprenticeship in independent filmmaking and in Canadian television programs. Cronenberg gained popularity with the head-exploding, telepathy-based Scanners (1981) after the release of the much underrated, controversial, and autobiographical The Brood (1979). Cronenberg become a sort of a mass media guru with Videodrome (1983), a shocking investigation of the hazards of reality-morphing television and a prophetic critique of contemporary aesthetics. The issues of tech-induced mutation of the human body and topics of the prominent dichotomy between body and mind were back again in The Dead Zone (1983) and The Fly (1986), both bright examples of a personal filmmaking identity, even if both films are based on mass-entertainment materials: the first being a rendition of a Stephen King best-seller, the latter a remake of famous American horror movie. With Dead Ringers (1988) and Naked Lunch (1991), the Canadian director, no more a mere genre movie-maker but a fully realized auteur, got the acclaim of international critics. Such profound statements on modern humanity and ever-changing society are prominent in the provocative Crash (1996) and in the virtual reality essay of eXistenZ (1999), both of which well fared at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals. In the last two filmic projects Spider (2002) and A History of Violence (2005), Cronenberg avoids expressing his teratologic and oniric expressionism in favour of a more psycological exploration of human contradictions and idiosyncrasies.

Trivia random: Deferred his own salary to make Spider (2002).
Citazione random: I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You're looking for every shot in the movie to have resonance and want it to be something you can see a second time, and then I'd like it to be something you can see 10 years later, and it becomes a different movie, because you're a different person. So that means I want it to be deep, not in a pretentious way, but I guess I can say I am pretentious in that I pretend. I have aspirations that the movie should trigger off a lot of complex responses.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Natali, Vincenzo

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Data di nascita: 6 January 1969

Ultimi lavori:

• Splice (2009) .... (screenplay) (story) [scrittore]
• Rip Cage (2007) .... Marcus Fiehls [attore]
• Paris, je t'aime (2006) .... (segment "Quartier de la Madeleine") [scrittore]
• Getting Gilliam (2005) .... [regista]
• Tideland (2005) .... (director: making of documentary 'Dreamland') [misc]
• Nothing (2003) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Cypher (2002) .... [regista]
• Made in Canada, Volume 1: Best of the CFC (2002) (V) .... [regista]
• Cube (1997) .... (written by) [scrittore]
• Elevated (1997) .... (writer) [scrittore]

Trivia random: The Twilight Zone Episode: "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" was an inspiration for his film "Cube".

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Brody, Adrien

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Data di nascita: 14 April 1973
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)

Ultimi lavori:

• Detachment (2011) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Midnight in Paris (2011) .... [attore]
• Sweet Baby Jesus (2011) .... Joe (rumored) [attore]
• Waco (2011) .... Steve Schneider [attore]
• High School (2010) .... Psycho Ed [attore]
• Predators (2010) .... Royce [attore]
• The Experiment (2010/I) .... Travis [attore]
• Wrecked (2010) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) .... Rickity the Field Mouse (voice) [attore]
• Giallo (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]

Biografia:
The son of Hungarian-born photographer Sylvia Plachy and retired history professor Elliot Brody, Adrien Brody grew up an only child in the Woodhaven section of Queens, New York, where he accompanied his mother on assignments for the Village Voice. He credits her with making him feel comfortable in front of the camera. He attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts in New York. Despite a strong performance in The Thin Red Line (1998), time constraints forced the director to edit out much of Adrien's part. In spite of his later work with Spike Lee and Barry Levinson, he never became the star many expected he would become until Roman Polanski called on him to play a celebrated Jewish pianist in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. He pulled off a brilliant performance in The Pianist (2002), drawing on the heritage and rare dialect of his Polish grandmother, as well as his father, who lost family members during the Holocaust, and his mother, who fled Communist Hungary as a child during the 1956 uprising against the Soviet Union.

Trivia random: Was dressed by Zegna for the Academy Awards.
Citazione random: [On playing hero Jack Driscoll in Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005)] I've always wanted to do something like King Kong. It's a phenomenal role that any actor would kill for. I've been looking for this kind of iconic leading man guy for years, but they are hard to find.
Salario massimo: $2,750,000, per The Village (2004)

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Polley, Sarah (I)

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Data di nascita: 8 January 1979
Altezza: 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Coniuge: David Wharnsby::(10 September 2003 - present)

Ultimi lavori:

• Take This Waltz (2011) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Trigger (2010/II) .... Hillary [attrice]
• Mr. Nobody (2009) .... Elise [attrice]
• Splice (2009) .... Elsa Kast [attrice]
• Away from Her (2006) .... (written by) [scrittore]
• Beowulf & Grendel (2005) .... Selma [attrice]
• Don't Come Knocking (2005) .... Sky [attrice]
• The Secret Life of Words (2005) .... Hanna [attrice]
• Dawn of the Dead (2004) .... Ana [attrice]
• Siblings (2004) .... Tabby [attrice]

Biografia:
Sarah Polley is an actress and director renowned in her native Canada for her political activism. Blessed with an extremely expressive face that enables directors to minimize dialog due to her uncanny ability to suggest a character's thoughts, Polley has become a favorite of critics for her sensitive portraits of wounded and conflicted young women in independent films. She was born into a show business family: her father, Michael Polley, appeared with her in the movie The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) and on the television series "Road to Avonlea" (1989); and her mother, Diane Polley, was an actress and casting director. It was her mother's connections that launched Sarah, at her own insistence, on an acting career at the age of four, following in the footsteps of her older brother Mark Polley. A second brother, John Buchan, is a casting director and producer. Her career as a child actress shifted into high gear when she was cast as the Cockney waif Jody Turner in Lantern Hill (1990) (TV), for which she won a Gemini Award, the Canadian equivalent of the Emmy, in 1992. Produced by Kevin Sullivan, the film was based on the book by Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables (1985) (TV). When Sullivan created a television series based on Montgomery's work, he cast Polley in the lead role of Sara Stanley in "Road to Avonlea" (1989). The series propelled Polley into the first rank of Canadian TV stars and made her independently wealthy by the age of 14. Her personal life was deeply affected by the death of her mother Diane from cancer shortly after her 11th birthday, a development that ironically paralleled the fictional life of her character Sara. Highly intelligent and politically progressive at a young age, Polley eventually rebelled against what she felt was the Americanization of the series after it was picked up by the Disney Channel for distribution in the US, eventually dropping out of the show. Though she does not blame her parents, she remains publicly disenchanted over the loss of her childhood and, in October 2003, said she is working on a script about a 12-year-old girl on a TV show. Polley, who picked up a second Gemini Award for her performance in the TV series "Straight Up" (1996), subsequently quit acting and high school to turn her attention to politics, positioning herself on the extreme left of Canada's left-of-center New Democratic Party. The publicity ensuing from her losing some teeth after being slugged by an Ontario policeman during a protest against the Conservative provincial government, plus the stinging cynicism from some other activists unimpressed by her celebrity, led her to lower her political profile temporarily and return to acting in Atom Egoyan's film The Sweet Hereafter (1997). It was her appearance as Nicole, the teenage girl injured in a school bus accident who serves as the conscience of the small town rent by the tragedy, that first brought her to the attention of critics in the US. In Canada, the role was heralded by critics as her successful breakthrough to adult roles. It was her second film with Egoyan, who wrote the part with her in mind when he adapted the novel by Russell Banks, who, ironically, is American. Predictions of an Academy Award nomination and future stardom were part of the critical consensus, and she received her first Best Actress Genie nomination from Canada's Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television and the Best Supporting Actress award from the Boston Society of Film Critics. It was the buzz created at the Sundance Festival, where her starring role in the film Guinevere (1999) was showcased, when the entertainment media crowned her the it-girl of 1999. Intensely private and extremely ambivalent about the personal cost of celebrity and the Hollywood ethos Fame is the Name of the Game, Polley could be seen as rebelling against the expectations of mainstream cinema when she embarked on a career path that took her out of the spotlight thrown by the harsh lights of the Hollywood hype/publicity machine after shooting the film Go (1999). She dropped out of Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (2000), the US$60 million mega-hyped vehicle that was supposed to make her a mainstream star in the US, choosing to return to Canada to make the CDN$1.5 million The Law of Enclosures (2000) for Genie Award-winner John Greyson, a director she admires greatly. The film grossed poorly in Canada and was not released in the US, but it did garner Polley her second Genie nomination for Best Actress. While her replacement in Almost Famous (2000) went on to win an Oscar nomination and a career above the title in glossy Hollywood films, she took a wide variety of parts, large and small, in independent films, including significant roles in the ensemble pieces The Claim (2000) and The Weight of Water (2000); bit parts in eXistenZ (1999) and Love Come Down (2000); and the lead in No Such Thing (2001). Her choice of projects showed her to be a questing spirit more focused on learning the art of her craft than on stardom. She has said that her choice of film roles, eschewing mainstream Hollywood movies for chancier, non-commercial independent fare, was the result of an ethical decision on her part to make films with social importance. A less-observant viewer might think that the rebel Polley played in her political life that had previously manifested itself in her profession was now driving her to the verge of career suicide in terms of popularity, marketability, and choice of future roles. However, that interpretation does not recognize the extraordinary talent that will always keep her in demand by directors, if not casting agents, with an eye on the opening weekend box office. One must understand Polley's career progression in light of her attendance at the Canadian Film Centre's directors program and her production of short films, including Don't Think Twice (1999) and the highly praised I Shout Love (2001). Polley is a cinema artist. This woman wants to make, and will make films. Thus, we can understand her career choices as a desire to work with and understand the technique of some of the best directors in film, including David Cronenberg, Michael Winterbottom, and Hal Hartley. Polley is as renowned for her intelligence as for her remarkable talent. The problem of the intelligent person in the acting field is that the actor, as artist, in not ultimately in control of their medium, and it is artistic control that is the hallmark of the great artist. The controlling intelligence on a movie set is the director, and her attendance at the Canadian Film Centre has given her a new perspective on acting. The actor, she says, should not try to give a complete performance for the camera (that is, control the representation on film) but must remember that the function of the actor is to give the director as much coverage as possible as a film, as well as a performance, is made in the editing room. According to Polley, this realization, that the film actor exists to serve the director, has given her new enthusiasm for acting. Thus, her career, and her career choices, can be seen as a quest for knowledge about the art of cinema, a journey whose fruition we will see in her future feature work as both actor and director.

Trivia random: Her father, Michael Polley, said of his famously independent daughter in 1997, "She was at her best when she was out of kilter with society in some way."
Citazione random: I always think it's a bit of a joke when I get described as an activist. Really, for two or three months of my year I organise stuff, but I'm not as involved as I used to be.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Splice (2009)

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Regista: Vincenzo Natali
Scrittore: Vincenzo Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant, Doug Taylor
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 6.4/10 (9122 voti)
Durata: 104 min
Paese: Canada, France, USA
Lingua: English, French

Cast:

• Adrien Brody .... Clive Nicoli
• Sarah Polley .... Elsa Kast
• Delphine Chanéac .... Dren
• Brandon McGibbon .... Gavin Nicoli
• Simona Maicanescu .... Joan Chorot
• David Hewlett .... William Barlow
• Abigail Chu .... Child Dren

Trama:
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.

Trivia random: Delphine Chanéac, who plays the creature Dren, shaved her head for this film.
Citazione random: Elsa Kast: [crying] What do you want? What do you want?
Dren: Inside... you...

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

la caduta

La Caduta: gli ultimi giorni del terzo reich, con Hitler ed alcuni alti gerarchi nazisti rinchiusi nel bunker in attesa dell'inevitabile fine, in una Berlino assediata dall'armata rossa.

Film di eccezionale valore sia sotto l'aspetto storico che quello tecnico/artistico; ottima la ricostruzione, eccellenti gli attori e buona la regia (secca e cruda, molto adatta al soggetto).

Volendo entrare in cinico-mode mi verrebbe da pensare che di fatto la trama è la stessa che ci viene riproposta da anni dai vari grandi fratelli & friends, solo che vivendo noi in epoche più buie non c'è mai il lieto fine...

Voto: 10. Da mostrare nelle scuole.
Tags: storico, drammatico, berlino, guerra, ww2, bunker, Hitler, nazismo, suicidio, omicidio, pazzia, assedio, morte, distruzione, armata rossa, 1945, dittatore, antisemitismo, veleno.

Untergang, Der (2004)

Caduta - Gli ultimi giorni di Hitler, La

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Regista: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Scrittore: Joachim Fest, Traudl Junge
Genere: Drama, History, War
Valutazione: 8.5/10 (29438 voti) [#46 nella top250]
Durata: 156 min
Paese: Germany, Italy, Austria
Lingua: German, Russian

Cast:

• Bruno Ganz .... Adolf Hitler
• Alexandra Maria Lara .... Traudl Junge
• Corinna Harfouch .... Magda Goebbels
• Ulrich Matthes .... Joseph Goebbels
• Juliane Köhler .... Eva Braun
• Heino Ferch .... Albert Speer
• Christian Berkel .... Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
• Matthias Habich .... Prof. Dr. Werner Haase
• Thomas Kretschmann .... SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein
• Michael Mendl .... General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling

Trama:
It's the last days of Adolf Hitler, April 1945, and Hitler's personal secretary Traudl Junge finds herself in the Der Fuhrer's bunker. Facing inevitable defeat, Hilter's moods range from defiance to fight or flee, remain loyal or opt for self-preservation. Eva Braun parties while Magda Goebbels kills her children. The movie goes on to show how Hitler and Eva lived their last hours in the Bunker.

Trivia random: At the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January 2005, Bruno Ganz stated that, at first, he didn't want the role of Adolf Hitler. After viewing the film Letzte Akt, Der (1955) and Albin Skoda's portrayal of Hitler, however, Ganz realized the role could be played with some depth; he then accepted the part.
Citazione random: Albert Speer: You must be on stage when the curtain falls

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ha due difetti fondamentali: non è girato interamente a scorrimento laterale, ed abusa di close-up di quel ceppo tarlato che è Jake Gyllenhaal.

Un ragazzo di strada viene raccattato dal re saggio ed illuminato di turno per affiancare il fratello ed i propri figli alla guida del regno (guarda un po': la Persia).
Cresciuto, parteciperà alla conquista di una città santa di qualche sorta (mi chiedo: ma in quella dannata sassaia del medioriente è mai esistita una città che non fosse sacra per una qualche sotto-marca religiosa?), salvo scoprire che l'assedio è stato orchestrato con una scusa (servono scuse? Da quando?) dallo zio che mirava ad impossessarsi di un pugnale magico/mistico/sacro di plasticaccia in grado di riavvolgere il tempo.
A tal proposito: grazie per lo spiegone verbale di 5-minuti-5, ma il cinema non è un radio-dramma e certe cose di solito il pubblico riesce a capirle anche guardando le immagini.
Tornati a casa, il re muore di una morte alquanto scomposta ed il nostro principe si becca la colpa ed è costretto alla fuga.
In mezzo a tutto questo marasma, una gara di struzzi (che, in quanto a capacità recitative, vincono a zampe basse su tutto il resto del cast), dei ladroni sagaci ed onesti ed una regina o quel-che-era il cui concetto di organizzare la resistenza consiste nel porsi a pecora, salvo poi fare la preziosa. Culture differenti...

Regia ubriaca per questa trasposizione della serie di videogiochi di Jordan Mechner, viene adottato un nuovo interessante approccio alla confusione cinematografica: qui non è più la telecamera che si muove vorticosamente attorno ad una mal coreografata scena d'azione, ma sono direttamente gli attori a zompettare senza costrutto da tutte le parti. Risultato spregevole e non meno confuso - grazie per l'innovazione!
A parte i già citati primissimi piani, Gyllenhaal ci concede anche qualche fugace apparizione a sudatissimo petto nudo scarsamente funzionale alla trama (non si sa perché, invece, Gemma Arterton passa il film avvolta in un sudario). Gandhi - da tempo abbonato al ruolo del cattivo da filmaccio - ha almeno il buon gusto di risparmiarci le sue villosità, cosa che avrebbe messo a serio rischio l'eterosessualità del pubblico - specie di quello femminile...
A parte ciò, si segnala una lunghezza estenuante, dei personaggi ridicoli, e dei dialoghi da bimbi scemi.

Da evitare senza se e senza ma, a meno che non siate in vena di masochismo.

Voto: 2. poca roba anche come trash (però fa parecchio male)
Tags: azione, avventura, fantasy, Prince of Persia, videogame, tratto da un videogioco, principe, re, fratello, ragazzo, zio, Jordan Mechner, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Persia, ladroni, invasione, città, conquista, veleno, morte, fuga, inseguimento, vendetta, tempo, magia, coltello, regina, duello, struzzi, gara recitativa, trash, pugnale, pugnette.

Newell, Mike (I)

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Nome di battesimo: Newell, Michael Cormac
Data di nascita: 28 March 1942
Coniuge: Bernice Stegers::(? - present) 3 children

Ultimi lavori:

• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) .... [regista]
• "Untitled Tony Hawk Project" (2009) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• One of Those Days (2008) .... Person in Queue [attore]
• Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) .... [regista]
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid (2007) (V) .... (segment "Florence") [regista]
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) .... [regista]
• I Capture the Castle (2003) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Mona Lisa Smile (2003) .... [regista]
• "The Branch" (2003) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Jo (2002) (TV) .... (producer) [produttore]

Biografia:
Attended Cambridge University. Three year training course at Granada Television, with intention of going into theatre. Graduated to directing TV plays, building strong reputation for work with David Hare, David Edgar, Hohn, John Osborne, Jack Rosenthal.

Trivia random: Went to the same school (St. Albans School) as physicist Stephen Hawking and lyricist Sir Tim Rice.
Citazione random: [on making the fourth Harry Potter movie] "I was very anxious to break the franchise out of this goody-two-shoes feel. It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting basically."
Salario massimo: $1,000,000, per Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Arterton, Gemma

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Nome di battesimo: Arterton, Gemma Christina
Data di nascita: 12 January 1986
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Ultimi lavori:

• Clash of the Titans (2010) .... Io [attrice]
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) .... Tamina [attrice]
• Tamara Drewe (2010) .... Tamara Drewe [attrice]
• Perfect (2009/II) .... Poppy [attrice]
• St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009) .... Kelly Jones [attrice]
• The Boat That Rocked (2009) .... Desiree [attrice]
• The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009) .... Alice Creed [attrice]
• Quantum of Solace (2008) .... Strawberry Fields [attrice]
• RocknRolla (2008) .... June [attrice]
• Three and Out (2008) .... Frankie [attrice]

Trivia random: She was born with a crumpled ear, which was surgically corrected when she was a child.
Citazione random: When you put yourself in these huge popcorn movies you get out there, in the public arena, more than anyone else. But that also means that you're out there to be criticised more than anyone else. With Keira Knightley, she's brave to do her play. Because, for some reason, if you're successful in Britain, people tend not to like you. But if you're a successful woman, and beautiful, in Britain, you're even more disliked.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)

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Regista: Mike Newell
Scrittore: Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Romance, Adventure
Valutazione: 6.8/10 (5960 voti)
Durata: 116 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English

Cast:

• Jake Gyllenhaal .... Dastan
• Gemma Arterton .... Tamina
• Ben Kingsley .... Nizam
• Alfred Molina .... Sheik Amar
• Steve Toussaint .... Seso
• Toby Kebbell .... Garsiv
• Richard Coyle .... Tus
• Ronald Pickup .... King Sharaman
• Reece Ritchie .... Bis
• Gísli Örn Garðarsson .... Hassansin Leader

Trama:
Set in the mystical lands of Persia, a rogue prince and a mysterious princess race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time -- a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

Trivia random: In February 2008, Iranian star Golshifteh Farahani was invited to do a screen test in London along with Gemma Arterton for the role of Tamina but she was arrested at the airport by the Iranian authorities & banned from leaving the country for six months because she had played in Ridley Scott's Body of Lies (2008) Link this trivia
Citazione random: [from trailer]
Tamina: The gods have a plan for you. A destiny.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Kingsley, Ben

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Nome di battesimo: Bhanji, Krishna
Data di nascita: 31 December 1943
Altezza: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Coniuge: Daniela Lavender::(3 September 2007 - present), Alexandra Christmann::(3 October 2003 - 8 February 2005) (divorced), Alison Sutcliffe::(1 July 1978 - 1 February 1992) (divorced) 2 children, Angela Morant::(1966 - 1972) (divorced) 2 children

Ultimi lavori:

• A Birder's Guide to Everything (2011) .... [attore]
• Crossmaglen (2011) .... IRA Commander (rumored) [attore]
• Number 13 (2011) .... [attore]
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2011) .... Papa Georges/Georges Méliès [attore]
• 1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets (2010) .... Al-Jazari [attore]
• Noah's Ark: The New Beginning (2010) .... Narrator [attore]
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) .... Nizam [attore]
• Shutter Island (2010) .... Dr. Cawley [attore]
• Teen Patti (2010) .... Perci Trachtenberg [attore]
• Elegy (2008/I) .... David Kepesh [attore]

Trivia random: Was originally cast as Ephraim in Munich (2005), but later had to withdraw from the project due to scheduling conflicts.
Citazione random: on Winning the Oscar for Best Actor in Gandhi (1982): "If I knew I was going to win, I would not have gone dressed as a waiter."

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Mechner, Jordan

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Ultimi lavori:

• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story (2003) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003) (VG) .... (writer) [scrittore]
• The Big Brass Ring (1999) .... Aide [attore]
• The Last Express (1997) (VG) .... (writer) [scrittore]
• The Low Life (1995) .... Man in Bar [attore]
• Waiting for Dark (1993) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame (1992) (VG) .... (concept by) [scrittore]
• Prince of Persia (1989) (VG) .... (writer) [scrittore]
• Karateka (1984) (VG) .... (writer) [scrittore]

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Gyllenhaal, Jake

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Nome di battesimo: Gyllenhaal, Jacob Benjamin
Data di nascita: 19 December 1980
Altezza: 6' (1.83 m)

Ultimi lavori:

• Source Code (2011) .... Colter [attore]
• Love and Other Drugs (2010) .... Jamie Reidy [attore]
• Nailed (2010) .... Howard Birdwell [attore]
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) .... Dastan [attore]
• Brothers (2009/I) .... Tommy Cahill [attore]
• Rendition (2007) .... Douglas Freeman [attore]
• Zodiac (2007/I) .... Robert Graysmith [attore]
• Brokeback Mountain (2005) .... Jack Twist [attore]
• Jarhead (2005) .... Anthony Swofford [attore]
• Proof (2005) .... Hal [attore]

Biografia:
Jacob "Jake" Gyllenhaal (last name pronounced jill-en-hall) was born in Los Angeles, California, on December 19, 1980 to director Stephen Gyllenhaal and producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner and is the brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, who played his sister in Donnie Darko (2001). His father is of partial Swedish heritage and his mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. Jake made his film debut at age eleven in City Slickers (1991) playing Billy Crystal's son and began to establish himself as an up-and-coming actor in films like as October Sky (1999) before being cast in the title role in Donnie Darko (2001), for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for best actor. Gyllenhaal's performance as a troubled psychotic won him excellent reviews, and the film quickly received cult status. He played opposite Jennifer Aniston in another Sundance favorite in The Good Girl (2002) and once again earned good reviews. Gyllenhaal also starred in the Walt Disney romantic comedy, Bubble Boy (2001) and in the science fiction blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow (2004) which also starred Dennis Quaid. Making his theater debut, Gyllenhaal appeared on the London stage with a starring role in Kenneth Lonergan's revival of "This Is Our Youth". The play, which had been a critical sensation on Broadway, ran for eight weeks in London's West End. Gyllenhaal's performance in Jarhead (2005) with Jamie Foxx came as a surprise to critics and fans, alike. Gyllenhaal played a markedly hostile, masculinely violent Marine during Gulf War I, while balancing this with the sensitive, vulnerable qualities of the lead character. Brokeback Mountain (2005), in which he co-starred with Australian actor Heath Ledger as sheep herders who fall in love in the 1960s and depicts their relationship over the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. The film went on to win four Golden Globes, four BAFTA Awards and was nominated for a leading eight Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for Gyllenhaal was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Brokeback Mountain (2005). Jake is also the godfather of Matilda Rose Ledger, daughter of actor Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams. Gyllenhaal's most notable relationship has been with actress Kirsten Dunst. He is friends with Maroon 5 front-man Adam Levine, having known him since kindergarten. He is close with his sister's boyfriend and Jarhead (2005) co-star, actor Peter Sarsgaard. Jake has two dogs: a German Shepherd named "Atticus" and a Puggle named "Boo Radley" after the characters of his favorite book, "To Kill A Mockingbird". Gyllenhaal's career is booming and he is considered one of the most promising actors of his generation.

Trivia random: Graduated Harvard-Westlake (private) high school. [1998]
Citazione random: On the one role that got away: "I'd have to say Ewan McGregor's part in Moulin Rouge! (2001). It was soooo close. I sang and everything. I went through months of auditions. It was between me, Heath Ledger and Ewan. I think it came down to age and where people were in their careers. I was the youngest and the least known. I would hope it didn't have anything to do with talent. Maybe it did".
Salario massimo: $3,000,000, per Jarhead (2005)

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