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Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of Switzerland and attended school in Nyons, Switzerland. His parents divorced in 1948, at which time he returned to Paris to attend the Lycée Rohmer. In 1949 he studied at the Sorbonne to prepare for a degree in ethnology. However, it was during this time that he began attending with François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, and Éric Rohmer.
In 1950 Godard, with Rivette and Rohmer, founded "Gazette du cinéma", which published five issues between May and November. He wrote a number of articles for the journal, often using the pseudonym "Hans Lucas". After Godard worked on and financed two films by Rivette and Rohmer, Godard's family cut off their financial support in 1951, and he resorted to a Bohemian lifestyle that included stealing food and money when necessary. In January 1952 he began writing film criticism for "Les cahiers du cinéma". Later that year he traveled to North and South America with his father and attempted to make his first film (of which only a tracking shot from a car was ever accomplished).
In 1953 he returned to Paris briefly before securing a job as a construction worker on a dam project in Switzerland. With the money from the job, he made a short film in 1954 about the building of the dam called Operation Concrete (1958). Later that year his mother was killed in a motor scooter accident in Switzerland. In 1956 Godard began writing again for "Les cahiers du cinéma" as well as for the journal "Arts". In 1957 Godard worked as the press attache for "Artistes Associés", and made his first French film, All Boys Are Called Patrick (1959).
In 1958 he shot Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958), his homage to Jean Cocteau. Later that year he took unused footage of a flood in Paris shot by Truffaut and edited it into a film called A Story of Water (1961), which was an homage to Mack Sennett. In 1959 he worked with Truffaut on the weekly publication "Temps de Paris". Godard wrote a gossip column for the journal, but also spent much time writing scenarios for films and a body of critical writings which placed him firmly in the forefront of the "nouvelle vague" aesthetic, precursing the French New Wave.
It was also in that year Godard began work on Breathless (1960). In 1960 he married Anna Karina in Switzerland. In April and May he shot The Little Soldier (1963) in Geneva and was preparing the film for a fall release in Paris. However, French censors banned it due to its references to the Algerian war, and it was not shown until 1963. In March 1960 Breathless (1960) premiered in Paris. It was hugely successful both with the film critics and at the box office, and became a landmark film in the French New Wave with its references to American cinema, its jagged editing and overall romantic/cinephilia approach to filmmaking. The film propelled the popularity of male lead Jean-Paul Belmondo with European audiences.
In 1961 Godard shot A Woman Is a Woman (1961), his first film using color widescreen stock. Later that year he participated in the collective effort to remake the film The Seven Deadly Sins (1962), which was heralded as an important project in artistic collaboration. In 1962 Godard shot Vivre sa vie (1962) in Paris, his first commercial success since "Breathless". Later that year he shot a segment entitled "Le Nouveau Monde" for the collective film Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963), another important work in the history of collaborative multiple-authored art.
In 1963 Godard completed a film in homage to Jean Vigo entitled The Carabineers (1963), which was a resounding failure with the public and stirred furious controversy with film critics. Also that year he worked on a couple of collective films: The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964) (from which Godard's sequence was later cut) and Six in Paris (1965). In 1964 Godard and his wife Anna Karina formed their own production company, Anouchka Films. They shot a film called A Married Woman (1964), which censors forced them to re-edit due to a topless sunbathing scene shot by Jacques Rozier. The censors also made Godard change the title to "Une femme marié" so as to not give the impression that this "scandalous" woman was the typical French wife. Later in the year, two French television programs were produced in devotion to Godard's work.
In the spring of 1965 Godard shot Alphaville (1965) in Paris; in the summer he shot Pierrot the Fool (1965) in Paris and the south of France. Shortly thereafter he and Anna Karina separated. Following their divorce, Godard shot Made in U.S.A (1966), "Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle (1966)", "L'amour en l'an 2000" (1966) (a sequel to "Alphaville" shot as a sketch for the collective film "L'amour travers les ages" (1966)).
In 1967 Godard shot The Chinese (1967) in Paris with Anne Wiazemsky, who was the granddaughter of French novelist François Mauriac. During the making of the film Godard and Wiazemsky were married in Paris. Later in the year he was prevented from traveling to North Vietnam for the shooting of a sequence for the collective film Far from Vietnam (1967). He instead shot the sequence in Paris, entitled "Camera-Oeil". Also during 1967 Godard participated (as the only Frenchman) on an Italian collective film called Love and Anger (1969).
In 1968 Godard was commissioned by French television to make Joy of Learning (1969). However, television producers were so outraged by the product Godard produced that they refused to show it. In May of that year Henri Langlois was fired by the head of the French Jean-Pierre Gorin to form the Dziga-Vertov group, infuriating Godard. He became increasingly concerned with socialist solutions to an idealist cinema, especially in providing the proletariat with the means of production and distribution. Along with other militantly political filmmakers in the Dziga-Vertov group, Godard published a series of 'Ciné-Tracts' outlining these viewpoints. In the summer of 1968 Godard traveled to New York City and Berkeley, California, to shoot the film "One American Movie", which was never completed. In September he made a trip to Canada to start another film called "Communication(s)", which also went unfinished, and then made a visit to Cuba before returning to France.
In 1969 Godard traveled to England, where he made the film See You at Mao (1970) for BBC Weekend Television, but the network later refused to show it. In the late spring he traveled with the Dziga-Vertov group to Prague to secretly shoot the film "Pravda". Later that year he shot Lotte in Italia (1971) ("Struggle for Italy") for Italian television. It was never shown, either.
In 1970 Godard traveled to Lebanon to shoot a film for the Palestinian Liberation Organization entitled "Jusque à la victoire" (1970) ("Until Victory"). Later that year he traveled to dozens of American universities trying to raise money for the film. In spite of his efforts, it was never released.- Actor
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Jack Charles, a member of the Stolen Generations, was born on 5 September 1943 at the Cummeragunja Mission Station, NSW, Australia, to a Bunuronong mother and a Wiradjuri father. His great-great-grandfather, a Djadjawurrung man, was one of the activists who resisted government policy at the Corranderrk reserve in Victoria in 1881. He was a victim of the Australian Government's forced child removal program, and was taken from his mother as a four-month-old baby. He was raised in the Salvation Army Boys' Home at Box Hill in suburban Melbourne, where he was the only Aboriginal child and was sexually abused.
Jack is an actor, a musician, a potter, and an Aboriginal elder. His screen credits include the landmark Australian film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), Bedevil (1993), Blackfellas (1993), Tom White (2004) and Pan (2015), among others.
For a large part of his early life, he was a drug addict and petty thief. He started his acting career in 1970, and in 1971 co-founded Nindethana ('place for a corroboree') at The Pram Factory in Melbourne, Australia. Nindethana was Australia's first Indigenous theatre group. Their first hit play, in 1972, was called Jack Charles is Up and Fighting, and included music composed by him.
Jack was the subject of Amiel Courtin-Wilson's remarkable 2008 documentary Bastardy, which followed his life for seven years. The film's tagline described him as: "Addict. Homosexual. Cat burglar. Actor. Aboriginal." The film was an official selection for the Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney and Sheffield Doc/Fest film festivals.
In 2010, Ilbijerri Theatre staged Charles' one-man show called Jack Charles v The Crown at the Melbourne Festival. Charles was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play for his performance. Jack Charles v The Crown has since toured across Australia and internationally. In 2012, he performed in the Sydney Festival production I am Eora. He played Chief Great Little Panther in Joe Wright's 2015 film Pan.
In April 2014, Jack received a Lifetime Achievement award from Victoria's Green Room Awards; he was the first Indigenous recipient. In 2016, he played the role of Uncle Paddy in two episodes of the ABC television horror drama series Wolf Creek. Also in 2016, he played the role of Uncle Jimmy in the ABC television drama series Cleverman.
In 2019, he was awarded the Red Ochre Award from the Australian Council for the Arts. This award is presented to an outstanding Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander) artist for lifetime achievement.
Jack's memoir Jack Charles: Born-Again Blakfella, was written with Namila Benson. It has a Foreword by Dr Gary Foley and a Preface by Amiel Courtin-Wilson. The book was first published in hardback by Viking in 2019, and republished in paperback by Penguin Books in 2020. It was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards 2020 Biography Book of the Year.- Actor
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Kostas Kazakos was born in 1935, in Pyrgos Ilias, Greece. He studied at the Drama School of "Theatro Technis" under the supervision of Carolos Koun. He made his stage debut in 1957 and then collaborated with many serious stage groups. He also played supporting roles in some films. But his real breakthrough came in 1967, when he was offered the lead in the film Kontserto gia polyvola (1967), opposite Jenny Karezi. He married Karezi in 1968 and they created their own stage company; their repertory included, among others, Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (in which he played George), Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" (title role) and Euripides' "Medea" (in which he played Jason). He also starred in a few more movies, including the widely acclaimed _Iphigenia (1977)_. After Karezi's death (in 1992), he continued his stage activity; he won raves for his work in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman".- Linda Albertano was born on 17 April 1942 in Utah, USA. She was an actress, known for The Rapture (1991), The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966) and Beach Red (1967). She was married to Frank Lutz. She died on 13 September 2022 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Günter Kütemeyer was born on 15 February 1928 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for Fernfahrer (1963), Tatort (1970) and Die Anstalt (1978). He died on 13 September 2022 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Ken Starr was born on 21 July 1946 in Vernon, Texas, USA. He was married to Alice Jean Mendell. He died on 13 September 2022 in Houston, Texas, USA.
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Faisal Saif started his career following the cinema school of south Indian film maker Balu Mahendra. As a college student he was never interested in studying and was always a harassing spoiled brat! He used to go to see movies instead of attending his lectures. Always flirting with girls and a mischievous and most notorious person on earth (As written in the Biography Section of his Official Website).
Faisal Saif started his independent directorial career by directing music videos for various companies. Faisal made his first feature film in English titled "Pick Me" a.k.a Come December (2006). Faisal was lucky enough to convince British Actress Hayley Cleghorn to play the principal lead role in this movie. The movie went in various film festivals and gave him some critical acclaims.
It was Jigyaasa (2006) (Indian-Hindi-English Subtitled)(Released Worldwide 10th March 2006). That brought Faisal Saif into the limelight of Bollywood (Indian Film Industry). The huge publicity and controversies surrounding this film gave a noticing turn to his career. Jigyaasa was one of the most controversial and talked about film of the year. The press and media however did not gave encouraging reviews but the audiences loved it. Some also said that Jigyaasa was an indirect attack to big names in the film industry who exploits young aspirants for their sexual pleasures.- Actor
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Jesse Powell was born in 1971 in Gary, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998), Motown Live (1998) and Showtime at the Apollo (1987). He died on 13 September 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Composer
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Kornell Kovach (Kornelije Kovac) was born in Nis, Yugoslavia. He comes from a prominent artistic family - his grandfather was a conductor, his father a music professor and a violinist, his mother a singer in the opera choir.
Kornell Kovach received his early music education at his hometown's Subotica College Of Music, after which he entered The Academy Of Music Art in Sarajevo. He graduated from the Theory And Piano Department.
Along with his classical music education, he was devoting a great deal of his time to the pop and rock music.
His career as a professional musician started in 1961. Profoundly educated, he was able to exercise successfully in various fields of activities: as composer, pianist, keyboard player, producer and arranger.
In 1961 he formed his first band, BKB, which became a prominent jazz trio at the time. In 1963 they entered The Yu Jazz Festival, that took place in Bled (Slovenia).
After conducting the various orchestras in Bosnia, he finally joined Sarajevo's most popular pop band Indexi. With them he had a 2-months long tour in Russia.
In 1968 he moved to the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade, where he founded one of the most significant Yugoslav pop-rock bands ever, Korny Group.
As a composer and a musician, he won many music contests that took place in former Yugoslavia. With Korny Group he entered some music festivals in Europe.
Kornell Kovach has been writing music for theater, movies and television. Like the composer of pop and rock music he has been greatly successful. His songs were released on numerous LP-s in Yugoslavia, Spain, France, USA, Holland, Sweden, Finland, Norway etc. Many of them were Golden or Platinum Records.
Since 1979 Kornell Kovach has participated in many projects in Spain, as a producer, composer or arranger.
He collaborated with various TV networks in Spain, such as: *TELE 5 - Music production of TELE 5 star singer THALIA /Mexico/ *ANTENA 3- Music director of the popular TV show "De Tu A Tu".
Also, Kornell Kovach spent two years as the keyboard player of the popular Spanish "Caco Senante salsa-band".- Additional Crew
Roxanne Lowit was born on 2 February 1942 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She is known for I Am Divine (2013), Roxanne Lowit Magic Moments (2016) and The Fran Drescher Show (2010). She died on 13 September 2022 in Valhalla, New York, USA.- Additional Crew
Giuseppe Pino is known for The Miles Davis Story (2001). Giuseppe died on 13 September 2022 in Bellagio, Lombardy, Italy.- Fred Franzia was born on 24 May 1943 in Modesto, California, USA. He died on 13 September 2022 in Denair, California, USA.
- Toshiko Taira was an actress, known for Karakara (2012). She died on 13 September 2022 in Okinawa, Japan.
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Gabrielle Upton, Canada, 1922, was a screenwriter for various motion pictures and daytime serials and an actress. Ms. Upton was head writer and thrice nominated for Writer's Guild of America Outstanding Writing Achievement Awards for the daytime serials Love of Life (under pseudonym Gillian Houghton) and the Secret Storm. She has over forty prime-time TV scripts to her credit as well. Ms. Upton specialized in medical, legal and suspense shows. Her first major motion picture solo writer's credit was for the initial "Gidget" movie with Sandra Dee in 1959. This movie was followed by several more including Escape From East Berlin in 1962 and The Beach Boys: An American Band in 1985.- Tessa Keswick was married to Henry Keswick and Hugh Mackay. She died on 13 September 2022 in the UK.
- Al Cingolani was an actor, known for Falcon Crest (1981), Scarecrow (1973) and Hardcore (1979). He died on 13 September 2022 in the USA.