谢尔盖·帕拉杰诺夫,1924年生于前苏联格鲁吉亚的第比利斯,父母都是亚美尼亚人。从小就显示出他对色彩的敏感和天神一般的绘画天赋。除了绘画,从小他就对电影和音乐有着浓厚的兴趣。1945年,他21岁,求学莫斯科是他一生的转折点。他进入俄罗斯电影学院(VGIK)导演系学习拍片。这是一个历史悠久的著名电影学校,为欧洲大陆贡献了大批电影大师。之后成为老师杜甫仁科的助手,杜甫仁科是苏联诗电影的祖先,塔尔科夫斯基和帕拉杰诺夫都得益于他的教诲。
根据俄罗斯作家莱蒙托夫的故事改编。一个游吟诗人在路途上花了一千个白天和黑夜,随时随地尽其所能为人们带来快乐。他的流动的生活方式看似毫无目的,其实不然。他希望在一千个日日夜夜之后,能够挣到足够的钱举办婚礼......如果新娘还在等他的话。
Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights - but not before he's got the daughter to promise not to marry till his return. It's told in typical Paradjanov style, in a series of visually ravishing 'tableaux vivants' overlaid with Turkish and Azerbaijani folksongs.
在印度的一个角落里,一个男子正在梦想……他梦见他拿着500个卢比来到了他母亲的身边,希望自己和母亲不在那么痛苦,可当他正要放到母亲手里的时候,却看到了四周都是和他一样的孩子,还有十多个很老很老的老人,这些人立刻把她包围了,他慢慢的被人群吞噬……
出生于印度一座小镇上的一个中产阶级家庭,曾做过女演员。1976年,她进美国哈佛大学学习并在那里开始爱上了电影制作。学生时代她拍摄了一系列关于当代印度社会的纪录片,获得了一定的影响力。
米拉 奈儿的第一部剧情片《早安孟买》(SALLAM BOMBAY!),展现了在孟买贫民区中挣扎的一个小男孩痛苦的生活,以纪录片式的手法和现实主义风格有力地揭开了流浪儿悲惨的经历,尽管是处女作,但平稳成熟,一举摘取了1988年坎城电影节金摄影机奖。
自80年代开始,米拉步奈儿就成为了印度电影在西方的一个标志性人物。她的其他片子包括《MISSISSIPPI MASALA》、《THE PEREZ FAMILY, KAMA SUTRA》、《A TALE OF LOVE》以及最近为HBO所拍摄的纪录片 《THE LAUGHING CLUB OF INDIA》(哈哈俱乐部)。
她是第一位抱走金狮奖的女性导演。
John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. Her boyfriend has embezzled from a store insured by Forbes' company and has showered her with gifts using the loot. Forbes comes to collect the ill-gotten gifts, but the boyfriend is in jail, and Forbes falls hard for Mona and begins an affair. The only problem is that MacDonald, a private dick who freelances for the insurance company, has had his eyes on Mona first. The obsessed MacDonald turns the soon-to-be-released boyfriend against Forbes.
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge. They make him wear a uniform complete with medals and is pushed by his new friends into accepting a Hero's welcome when he gets home where he is to be immortalized by a statue that he doesn't want, has songs written about his heroic battle stories, and ends up unwillingly running for mayor. Despite his best efforts to explain the truth, no one will listen.
Evelyn Prentice is the respected wife of a high-profile New York attorney. Despite the prestige and status she enjoys, she feels neglected and out of boredom becomes involved with an unscrupulous womanizing poet, who gives her the attention she craves. She eventually finds herself a victim of blackmail and becomes involved in his murder. When another woman is accused of the crime, she begs her husband to defend her.