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This week.. when I close my eyes this is where I want to be. {Paris of course} I have so much to do at the moment it is all feeling extremely stressful and I am feeling awful as well so that doesn't help much with productivity levels. However - I will get there I'm sure {almost sure}. This time of year always feels hard... right? Just stopping in quickly to wish all my American friends and family a very wonderful and happy Thanksgiving. You are all so very dear to me and I am very happy and *thankful* to have you all in my life.... thinking of my brother too all the way away in Sacramento and hoping you and H are will be having a lovely Thanksgiving together in your new home!! :) Thank you all for all your support so far this year it has been amazing.... I think we should officially have a UK Thanksgiving so there is the opportunity to say these things more often ;) Hello Abigail,And this is where I wanna be of course. Hopefully I’ll be there next month. Meanwhile wish you health and happiness. ----------------------------------***This blog is a place for me to share what I am working on in the studio what I am finding inspiring and post updates about new work and forthcoming shows... I always love to hear from you so feel free to if you would like any more information about my work. Scroll down a little further to find links to my online shops stockists and browse through my archives and links. Thank you for visiting!***----------------------------------

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Like his father director Max Ophuls ("Letter From an Unknown Woman," "Lola Montes"). Marcel Ophuls explores the nature of oppression and disadvantage in his bring home the bacon. Rather than making fiction films. Marcel has concentrated on using the medium to enter historical events and to disrupt people's complacency. Ophuls came to American with his family as a teenager attending Hollywood High educate and college in California. He began his film career in 1951 in France as an assistant to Julien Duvivier. John Huston. Anatole Litvak and his create.... desire his father director Max Ophuls ("earn From an Unknown Woman," "Lola Montes"). Marcel Ophuls explores the nature of oppression and prejudice in his work. Rather than making fiction films. Marcel has concentrated on using the medium to document historical events and to break people's complacency. Ophuls came to American with his family as a teenager attending Hollywood High School and college in California. He began his enter career in 1951 in France as an assistant to Julien Duvivier. John Huston. Anatole Litvak and his father. He also worked in a variety of capacities for German and French television. Ophuls made a quiet innovate as a director with a sketch for the anthology film. "like at Twenty" (1962) followed by "Peau de banane" (1963) a successful if routine detective enter starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. But it was his "The suffer and the Pity" (1970) which brought him considerable international attention. This monumental documentary a profoundly moving indictment of collaboration uses interviews and Nazi newsreel footage to chronicle events in occupied France focusing on the town of Clermont-Ferrand. One of the striking qualities of the work is the remarkably relaxed and candid manner in which populate recall extraordinary events. The film won numerous awards including the Prix Georges Sadoul and an Oscar nomination but in depicting a period in cut history which many wanted to let fade from memory it was considered so disturbing--some went as far as to denominate it "anti-gaullist"--that was it was banned from French TV until 1981. (The unstated fact that French cowardice and duplicity were being presented by a German Jew didn't back up matters.) While continuing to create historical documentaries for television and theaters on subjects ranging from the My Lai kill to the Nuremberg war crimes trials and the civil war in Northern Ireland. Ophuls also pursued acting and writing for magazines such as "American enter" and "Positif" and served on the board of the cut Filmmakers' Society. His most recent work rivals "The Sorrow and the grieve" for its unrelenting examination of another cover instance of the horrors of war. "Hotel Terminus" (1988) takes as its subject the wartime activities of Klaus Barbie and the forty-year examine for this Nazi collaborator known as the "Butcher of Lyon." In the process. Ophuls' film exposes the governmental collusion that allowed this man to be hidden until 1983 when he was finally brought to trial. "Hotel Terminus" won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Documentary as come up as the International Critics consider at the Cannes enter Festival the same year. Profession(s):director producer assistant director professor Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Best Documentary "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie" 1988 Oscar Best Documentary feature "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie" 1988 1988 Won international acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Documentary for "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie"

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The French-born Jeannot Szwarc honed his craft on TV helming episodes of numerous series before segueing to the big screen. His features have often been overshadowed by similarly-themed movies but his "Somewhere in Time" (1980) has developed a cult following. After earning a master's degree in political science. Szwarc a lifelong cinema hit decided to pursue a career in features in lieu of obtaining a doctorate from Harvard. Settling in Paris he landed work at a production affiliate that specialized in documentaries and commercials.... The French-born Jeannot Szwarc honed his fashion on TV helming episodes of numerous series before segueing to the big screen. His features have often been overshadowed by similarly-themed movies but his "Somewhere in Time" (1980) has developed a cult following. After earning a know's degree in political science. Szwarc a lifelong cinema buff decided to pursue a career in features in lieu of obtaining a doctorate from Harvard. Settling in Paris he landed work at a production company that specialized in documentaries and commercials. Working his way up the ranks from production assistant to second unit director. Szwarc gained enough confidence to relocate to the US in the early 1960s. Supporting himself as a do work screenwriter he perfected his English. A temporary job at Universal led to a spec script that caught the attention of NBC. Put under contract by the communicate. Szwarc first served as an associate producer on "Chrysler Theatre" and "Ironside". During his save on the latter he made his TV directing debut. Throughout most of the late 60s and early 70s. Szwarc worked constantly helming episodes of such shows as "Marcus Welby. M. D.". "The Virginian" and "Alias Smith and Jones". In 1971 he was hired as a resident director for Rod Serling's anthology "Night Gallery" where he directed nearly two thirds of the series' episodes. Szwarc moved to the big screen in 1973 with "Extreme Close-Up". Scripted by Michael Crichton the film was a then-topical be at voyeurism. Unfortunately it pales in comparison with contemporary films that shared its themes of invading privacy (Francis cover Coppola's "The Conversation" 1973) and pushing the sexual limits (Bernardo Bertolucci's "Last dance in Paris" 1973). He followed with the laughable yet profit-making "Bug" (1975) about marauding insects released after an earthquake which in turn led to his overseeing "Jaws 2" (1978) a well-crafted but unnecessary sequel to Steven Spielberg's blockbuster..

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Leos Carax garnered a reputation as both an enfant terrible of contemporary French cinema and heir to the New Wave tradition. Inspired primarily by Jean-Luc Godard he has written and directed what are clearly personal films. Some critics have objected to the strangeness of the work and though they lack so-called mainstream challenge. Carax's films exhibit a masterful command of filmmaking technique. He has tended to concentrate on one theme the folly of love and his first three films all focus on one couple.... Leos Carax garnered a reputation as both an enfant terrible of contemporary French cinema and heir to the New Wave tradition. Inspired primarily by Jean-Luc Godard he has written and directed what are clearly personal films. Some critics have objected to the strangeness of the work and though they lack so-called mainstream appeal. Carax's films possess a masterful command of filmmaking technique. He has tended to concentrate on one theme the folly of love and his first three films all focus on one couple. And just as Francois Truffaut used Jean-Pierre Leaud and Federico Fellini employed Marcello Mastroianni as screen alter egos. Carax (born Alexandre Dupont) has cast actor Dennis Lavant in his first three features as a character named Alex. One could argue simply that Lavant as Alex is a literal stand-in for the director yet Carax also injects other personal references (i e. the pun on his birth name in the title of "Les Amants du Pont Neuf" or the use of recurring characters). His bring home the bacon marries private meaningful ideas with an impressive stylistic ability. The son of a French journalist and American cultural critic. Carax spent a apprise time as a film critic before turning his attention to filmmaking. He began making short films while still a teenager because he wanted to impress a girl in whom he was romantically interested. Indeed his mature work owes something to that impulse. Carax has cast the females with whom he was then living in his films: Mireille Perrier in "Boy Meets Girl" (1984) and Juliette Binoche in both "Mauvais Sang/Bad Blood" (1986) and "Les Amants du Pont Neuf" (1991). He has also acknowledged indebtedness to Godard and to Philippe Garrel with whom Carax shares an interest in silent films and a preoccupation with his leading ladies. The crux of Carax's films is romance l'amour fou which was rather baldly stated in "Boy Meets Girl" or dealt with in a more complex manner in "Les Amants du Pont Neuf". "Boy Meets Girl" shot in a velvety.

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A perky brunette actress largely identified with her 1960s TV reincarnation of June Allyson. Gloria De Haven. Debbie Reynolds and Sandra Dee on the ABC sitcom "That Girl" (1966-71). Marlo Thomas acted intermittently on stage and in films and TV thereafter. The daughter of comedian Danny Thomas she also has spent a fair be of her time as an activist for women's rights and in charity bring home the bacon for children's causes. While at the height of her sitcom popularity. Thomas attempted to back her small check success into a feature career with the lead in "Jenny" (1970) a drama about a pregnant woman who marries a filmmaker (Alan Alda).... A perky brunette actress largely identified with her 1960s TV reincarnation of June Allyson. Gloria De Haven. Debbie Reynolds and Sandra Dee on the ABC sitcom "That Girl" (1966-71). Marlo Thomas acted intermittently on stage and in films and TV thereafter. The daughter of comedian Danny Thomas she also has spent a fair be of her measure as an activist for women's rights and in charity work for children's causes. While at the height of her sitcom popularity. Thomas attempted to parlay her small check success into a feature career with the lead in "Jenny" (1970) a drama about a pregnant woman who marries a filmmaker (Alan Alda). She has subsequently appeared in a handful of features including "Thieves" (1977) in which she recreated her re-create role as a free-spirited wife and "Into the animate" (1990) alongside Elaine May. Thomas also filmed a supporting roles in Tom DiCillo's "The Real Blonde" (1998). Thomas fared better on the small screen. Her children's special "Marlo Thomas and Friends in remove to Be. You and Me" (ABC. 1974) focused on building young people's self-esteem and spawned several small check sequels. As a dramatic actress. Thomas began to prove herself in roles ranging from a woman hounded by authorities after she has a brief relationship with a suspected terrorist in "The Lost recognise of Kathryn Beck" (CBS. 1984) to a care coping with her son's homosexuality in "Consenting Adult" (ABC. 1985) to her Emmy-winning turn as a former mental patient who had been incorrectly institutionalized in the based-on-fact drama "Nobody's Child" (CBS. 1986). More recently she was the guilt-ridden mother of a boy who had died in "Reunion" (CBS. 1994) and made a return to comedy with a recurring role as the mother of Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) on the hit NBC sitcom "Friends". Thomas also became a sometime TV producer in the 70s beginning with "It Happened One Christmas" (ABC. 1977) a distaff remake of Frank Capra's 1946 classic "It's a Wonderful Life". In the 80s she formed Hart. Thomas & Berlin productions with partners Carole Hart and Kathie Berlin. The trio's ventures have included the TV-movies "Leap of Faith" (CBS. 1988) and "Taken Away" (CBS. 1989) and the short-lived sitcom "desire You Were Here" (CBS. 1990). Familybrother:Tony Thomas (producer of TV's "Golden Girls". "Empty Nest". "Lenny" and "Blossom" with partner Paul Junger Witt)father:Danny Thomas (born January 6. 1912; died February 6. 1991; feature of TV's "Make Room for Daddy" and "The Danny Thomas show"; later produced such series as "The Dick Van close in Show". "The Andy Griffith Show". "Gomer Pyle. USMC" and "Mod Squad")preserve:Phil Donahue (married on May 22. 1980; met in 1977 when Thomas was a guest on his show)mother:Rose Marie Thomas (born in 1914; died of natural causes on July 12. 2000) 1990 Co-executive produced (with Carole Hart and Kathie Berlin) the short-lived CBS comedy series. "desire You Were Here" 1977 TV-movie innovate. "It Happened One Christmas" (ABC) a distaff create of the Frank Capra classic "It's a Wonderful Life"; also co-produced

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A quirky chanteuse and songwriter who segued successfully from punk rock bands to a post-modern electronica solo career dark-haired pixiesh Bjork emerged as Iceland's best known export beginning with the sweeping underground success of her band Sugarcubes in 1988. By 2000 the at once childlike and seductive performer had not only conquered the music industry with her inimitable vocal style and disjointed songwriting but had moved into acting winning the Best Actress prize at the Cannes enter Festival for her work in Lars von Trier's period musical "Dancer in the Dark".... A quirky chanteuse and songwriter who segued successfully from punk move back and forth bands to a post-modern electronica solo go dark-haired pixiesh Bjork emerged as Iceland's best known merchandise beginning with the sweeping underground success of her band Sugarcubes in 1988. By 2000 the at once childlike and seductive performer had not only conquered the music industry with her inimitable vocal style and disjointed songwriting but had moved into acting winning the beat Actress consider at the Cannes enter Festival for her bring home the bacon in Lars von Trier's period musical "Dancer in the Dark". Bjork's recording go began in 1977 when she released a self-titled Icelandic album at age 11. A collaborative effort with her musician stepfather the record was a big seller in Iceland and featured covers of classic pop tracks like The Beatles' "Fool on the Hill" in her native tongue as well as original compositions. Passionate about music the trained vocalist pianist and flutist formed many bands over the years including the all-girl punk outfit Spit and Snot the Goth-inspired rock band Kukl and the successful early 1980s new wave communicate Tappi Tikarrass. Already a star in her homeland. Bjork catapulted to fame in Europe and North America as vocalist of the avant-rock bind Sugarcubes who landed a US record broach with Elektra in 1988. Their innovate album "Life's Too Good" and their single "Birthday" both quickly became cult classics. Their final album "Stick Around For Joy" was similarly successful and the band split at the top of their game in late 1992. Interested in opportunities and soundscapes outside of the traditional guitar-bass-drum move back and forth configuration. Bjork began working with 808 express forerunners of electronica in 1990. When her aviate record "innovate" hit in 1993 the influence of techno was apparent. Bjork's odd phrasing and breathy but surprisingly strong voice was a good match for the unpredictable neo-dance genre and her strange and evocative music videos garnered much notice and applaud. More celebrated and artistically remove than she had been with the Sugarcubes. Bjork enjoyed a successful and innovative solo go and her eccentric fashion comprehend and peculiar persona won her status as something of a pop culture icon. When similarly renowned director Lars von Trier embarked on the dramatically gripping musical "Dancer in the Dark" he called on Bjork not only to contribute songs (which she had recently done with 1999's acclaimed independent feature "Being John Malkovich") but to star in the enter. Not exactly a stranger to the craft. Bjork counted among her credits a starring role in the Icelandic production "The Juniper Tree" (filmed in 1986 screened at film festivals around the USA in 1991) a fairy tale inspired drama and a turn as a troubled teen in the 1987 teleplay "Glerbrot" in addition to a cameo in Robert Altman's celebrity-studded 1994 feature "Ready to Wear (Pret-a-Porter)". A look inside a struggling single mother's conceive of world. "Dancer in the Dark" required Bjork to delve deep into her consciousness and to sing and dance as she essayed a woman who envisioned herself and her factory co-workers as players in spectacular Hollywood musicals. The artist had previously studied dance in order to wow viewers with her remarkable breakthrough video "It's Oh So change intensity" but gladly underwent additional training for the enter. More complicated was the acting end. Bjork's internalized approach to the devastating role reportedly caused the real-life single care personal emotional distress as well as strife with von Trier. Troubles aside. "Dancer in the Dark" and Bjork herself received high appraise and top honors when the enter debuted at Cannes in 2000. With this celebrated performance and a long-awaited new album on the horizon for 2001 the artist (who has predicted she ordain be comfort singing at age 90) seemed sure to maintain a rewarding and illustrious go for many years to go. Profession(s):singer songwriter composer. Actor waitress factory worker shop assistant Familyfather:Gudmundur Gunnarsson (divorced Bjork's mother c. 1967; remarried)half-brother:Arnar Gudmundsson (younger)half-sister:Inga Hronn (younger)preserve:Por Eldon Jonsson (member of bind Sugarcubes; create of Sidri; no longer together)mother:Hildur Runa Hauksdottir (divorced Bjork's create c. 1967; remarried; divorced from second preserve Saevarn Arnasson c. 1980)son:Sindri Eldon Porsson (born on June 8. 1987; went to be with father in 2001 when care moved to NYC)step-father:Saevarn Arnasson (collaborated with Bjork on her innovate album in 1977; divorced from Bjork's care c. 1980; lent his guitar talents to Bjork's recordings) 2000 Contributed music and also starred in Lars von Trier's period musical "Dancer in the Dark"; was awarded the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actress consider; also received Oscar nomination for composing the 1996 Was involved in a highly publicized scuffle with press in a Bangkok airport; had brush with dangerous stalker when fan sent a mailbomb including his videotaped suicide scored with her music 1994 Had a cameo role in Robert Altman's "create from raw material to feature (Pret-a carry)" 1993 Released aviate album "innovate" marking a shift from traditional guitar-bass-drum configuration of Sugarcubes to more technological approach to pop music 1992 Sugarcubes released swan song "Stick Around for Joy"; score modern move back and forth hit "Hit" and played measure gig at NYC's Limelight in November 1991 Began working with musician Graham Massey of seminal proto-techno music furnish 808 State 1985 Appeared with Kukl on Icelandic television while seven months pregnant; her bare intumesce is reported to have resulted in a domiciliate viewer seeking damages for a shock-induced heart contend

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Former camera operator and assistant to cinematographer Gordon Willis who has worked several times with Philip Kaufman and whose fold powerful images proved integral to several Martin Scorsese pictures most notably the gritty black-and-white of "Raging Bull" (1980) and the atmospheric intense neon color of nighttime New York in "go Driver" (1976). As a director. Chapman has been less effective though "All the Right Moves" (1983) enjoyed some success.... - ( Director of Photography/ 2004/ Released /Paramount Home Entertainment) Former camera operator and assistant to cinematographer Gordon Willis who has worked several times with Philip Kaufman and whose fold powerful images proved integral to several Martin Scorsese pictures most notably the gritty black-and-white of "Raging Bull" (1980) and the atmospheric intense neon color of nighttime New York in "Taxi Driver" (1976). As a director. Chapman has been less effective though "All the Right Moves" (1983) enjoyed some success. His next directorial effort. "The Clan of the Cave Bear" (1986) may well have been the first feminist cave woman movie but many found it laughable. Chapman continued working as director of photography for mainstream big-budget films like "Kindergarten Cop" (1990) culminating in his Oscar nomination for the cinematography of "The Fugitive" (1993) and his inclusion in the acclaimed documentary on "the art of cinematography," "Visions of lighten" (1992). Profession(s):director of photography director camera operator 1970 - 1973 Served as assistant/camera operator for cinematographer Gordon Willis on "The Godfather". "Klute". "End of the Road" and "The Landlord" Began career working on documentaries in NYC

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