Coming from a middle-class background, Charles Ryder aspires to be an artist. He studies history at Oxford University, where he meets the wealthy aristocrat Lord Sebastian Flyte, a homosexual and aspiring alcoholic. Sebastian's mother, Lady Marchmain, disapproves of her son's inclinations - she is a zealous Catholic. The young people become friends, and Sebastian invites Charles to visit his wealthy home. Ryder becomes fascinated by the Flyte family estate, known as Brideshead. His life is now inextricably linked with the Flyte family.

Lord Marchmain invites his children Sebastian and Julia to visit him in Venice, Lady Marchmain approves of the trip, but only if she is accompanied by Charles, hoping that the friend will have a positive influence on her son. However, Charles becomes increasingly infatuated with Julia and soon kisses her in a dark alley - a scene Sebastian observes. Jealous, Sebastian interrupts the friendship. When Charles returns to England, Lady Marchmain announces to him that Julia will never marry him as he is an atheist.

Sebastian's personal account is frozen by his mother, who is also concerned about his increasing alcoholism. Visiting Brideshead again, Charles gives Sebastian money, which he immediately spends on booze. During Julia and Rex Mottram's engagement party, an intoxicated Sebastian does break down, but Lady Marchmain blames Charles for her son's inappropriate behaviour and refuses to see him in the future. Years pass. Lady Marchmain, who is terminally ill, appears at Ryder's house and asks Charles to bring her son home. He travels to Morocco, where Sebastian has escaped to. Charles finds his former friend in the hospital completely drunk and ill. Sebastian refuses to return. His mother soon dies.

Years later, Charles is married, reputed to be a successful painter. On an ocean liner travelling from New York to England he meets Julia. The lovers realise they are meant to be together, they decide to leave their families and go to live in Italy. The pair return to Brideshead, where Charles persuades Rex to let Julia go. Mottram agrees in exchange for two paintings by Charles. However, this arrangement shocks and outrages Julia, who feels like a mere thing. At the same time, another event occurs: the dying Lord Marchmain is brought to Brideshead to spend his last days in his former home. On his deathbed, he, a former atheist, returns to his faith and dies. Deeply moved by her father's move, Julia realises that she cannot break church rules and marry a second time.

Years later, during the Second World War, Charles finds himself back in Brideshead, where a military base has been deployed. A corporal informs him that Julia is serving in the reserves, her older brother murdered. In the final scene of the film, Charles visits the family chapel where he finds the only lighted candle. He dips his hand in holy water and is about to put it out, but changes his mind and leaves it lit.

Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold. The screenplay by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh, which previously had been adapted in 1981 as the television serial Brideshead Revisited.

The last screening of the 2021 Festival de Cannes was the new film by Gaspard Noé, starring Dario Argento, Alex Lutz and Françoise Lebrun. It was probably the best out-of-competition film at the Cannes Film Festival. Noé is loved and always well-received in Cannes. As Thierry Frémaux jokes, Gaspard Noé always makes a film for the Festival and it's always shown at the very end as he starts filming at the last minute. The irony of Noé's working methods is not without reason: his previous film Lux Æterna - which also premiered out of competition at Cannes - took five days to shoot without a fixed script.

Whereas Eternal Light was stigmatised as a meaningless and merciless provocation and the director himself was accused of narcissistic self-repetition, Vortex is completely devoid of both, and the whole is sustained in halftones. However, Noé does return here to certain elements of his own directing: the quasi-Godardian inside-out credits he uses in almost every film, the splitting of the frame into two parallel unfolding stories - the protagonist's parents played by Francoise Loebren and Dario Argento, the master of Italian giallo. Unlike Noé's previous work, split-screen is used here throughout the narrative. In his interview for Troiscouleurs, Noé admits that this decision was not the original one, but it was a very true one, as it most accurately conveys the idea of being alone for two. At times when watching it, you get the persistent feeling that the characters - father and mother - live in different houses or, if this film were a little more psychedelic, in parallel worlds.

Hell is different, and it's here. Noé's film leaves no hope for the best but reassures us that the best of the possible has already happened. The paternal and maternal figures are equally autonomous, each placed in a space where they are destined to live alone and die alone. With the character's death, light squares off and there is a plunge into eternal darkness. Noé is Argentinean by birth, but French by vocation, which means he is anti-clerical, secular and by the grace of God an atheist - as states in his previous film quoting Buñuel. So there will be no retribution in this life or the next: Noé's films are as hostile to the viewer as the world is to man. It is impossible to be spiritual without becoming breathless. A meaningless life is accompanied by an equally meaningless death. People are horrible, not nice. The world is full of madmen and villains but still - if only for a moment - we may not be alone, and this is why it's all worth it.

The film anticipates Noé's inherently controversial dedication to all those whose brains decay faster than their hearts. But despite the implied nihilistic pathos, the film is very personal. Noé saw his grandmother lose her mind when he was a child, and thirty years later his mother was in the same situation. He confessed in an interview that everyone who has buried their parents must be familiar with the same melancholy and discomfort that the film communicates to the viewer: posters, books and other bohemian messes that have no meaning or value after the demise of their owners. The decaying and then emptying flat in the film's finale is like a memory erasing itself reminding of a left-wing psychiatrist, an activist of May '68. The owner was fascinated by Fritz Lang, Frederico Fellini and Luis Buñuel, and the interior has largely absorbed all of this, but it has not become more humanised. To be more precise, it has ceased to be a human dwelling and has become a mere pile of things. The prototype of this labyrinthine room depicted in the film was the flat of film critic Jean-Claude Romer, a fellow director who passed away earlier this year. By Noé's own admission, the deceased had the most book-filled flat he had ever seen.

Vortex is a 2021 French drama film directed by Gaspar Noé. The film was shown in the Cannes Premiere section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

In the 1991 release of Arizona Dream, Kusturica appeared in a small cameo playing a man in a bar. White ice appears in the opening shots of the film, with an inappropriate caption featuring the name of the Arizona state near Mexico in the background. Then comes the name of the familiar Balkan director, with In The Death Car in the background. Later, we will hear this inappropriate tune more than once, allowing scenes to become memorable.

The film is like a canvas woven out of dreams. Paul wants to become a famous actor, so he doesn't let anyone near his face and doesn't miss an opportunity to play dialogues from iconic films. Grace often contemplates death which would give her eternal life in the body of a sea turtle. Leo fantasises about building a road to the moon from the Cadillacs he sells. Helen is sure she can fly and will definitely make it to Papua New Guinea. The protagonist - Axel doesn't know exactly what he wants and therefore is in conflict. He tries to tap into the dreams of the characters around him: he threatens Grace with a gun, learns to sell cars, builds an aeroplane, and applauds Paul's spontaneous performances. He puts his dream into an Eskimo story and thinks of his personal happiness hiding in the ice of Alaska.

In Arizona Dream, we see the director as an outside observer-player who finds himself on someone else's turf but still playing by his own rules. This creates a pretense. Kusturica's work cannot be called American, it is a mirror that reveals all the irregularities and roughness of the typical American dream. The eccentric at the car park hints that big cars are not environmentally friendly - an abandoned car showroom with muddy glass doors and a pack of hungry puppies inside appears at the end of the film. The image of an extremely abandoned place here is of an American dream that no one else wants. Grace - in the tradition of the classic Russian novel - puts on a white chintz and walks out into the downpour with a gun in her hands, ending her life under a lonely tree in the wasteland. Leo - as an exemplary representative of the capitalist businessman - commits suicide when he realises that it takes longer to reach his dream than the proverbial moon and no Cadillac will help him.

Kusturica hands the characters musical instruments. Grace periodically appears in the frame with a misplaced accordion intrusively playing melodies from her head and the music of Goran Bregovic here and there tries to fit into the narrative landscape. The director tries to flirt with Mexican motifs, a folk orchestra appears in the second half of the film but even it becomes like a gypsy tabor in the mirror of the American dream. The scene by the fireplace, where the characters sit down after celebrating Ellen's birthday, is saturated with music. This is particularly felt by Paul, who gets angry at his friends when they leave him in the middle of a song.

Johnny Depp's character, Axel, has a lot of scenes with internal dialogue - we often get to hear his reflections, which he may or may not be able to articulate. The film's ending is looped. In the final episodes, Kusturica takes us back to an icy wasteland, where we learn why fish have such a physiological peculiarity. In the dialogue, we are hinted that Axel himself becomes this fish. On the one hand, such an ending could be considered open-ended. Leo is dead, Axel mourns his death in the car. Here they are - the two of them - surrounded by white light sitting as if in an icy paradise, reflecting on human life from the perspective of a fish that has chosen a destiny on one side of its face.

Arizona Dream is a 1993 French-American surrealist indie comedy drama film co-written and directed by Emir Kusturica and starring Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Lili Taylor and Vincent Gallo.

The actor's wardrobe is notable primarily for the way it has changed over the decades, reflecting both the spirit of the era and the changes in Pitt's personal life. The Eighties: denim and leather jackets. Brad Pitt's late eighties and early nineties outfits are a study of the youth trends of the time. Pitt began his acting career in 1987, at the same time he started appearing at parties and premieres, respectively, in the images of media photographers. In those years, his dress code was much simpler: archive photos show Pitt in worn leather jackets, wide denim shirts tucked into high-waisted jeans and cubans.

The Nineties: shirts, mackintoshes, grunge. The same for the Nineties: Pitt managed to wear both stretchy grunge jumpers with dapper corduroy trousers, coloured shirts with rolled-up sleeves and the unbuttoned collars and the iconic attributes of nineties fashion - leather mackintoshes. The frequent style shift goes hand in hand with a burgeoning career: it was in 1994, after his Interview with the Vampire and a Golden Globe nomination, that Pitt began to gain recognition and new roles. He changed for them, and it's as if his image in life outside of the film studios became part of his cinematic reincarnation.

The Noughties: classics. After 1999, when Pitt played one of his most famous characters in Fight Club, the actor's style has become more solid. Now, on the red carpet, you can see him only in formal suits, however, disregarding the bow ties or replacing them with scarves slung over his shoulders. Perhaps one of the reasons for this change was indeed the alliance with Angelina Jolie: in the 2000s the actress had already gone through a period of leather trousers à la Lara Croft and started to dress like a true Hollywood diva. It could be uncomfortable for Pitt wearing hippy shirts and corduroy trousers next to her.

The Tens: classic, but without the tension. Talking about imposed beauty standards and unreasonably high demands on the appearance of public figures have been going on for years. The world once again seemingly allows celebrities to relax, and Brad Pitt enjoys exploiting this. Even on formal occasions, he does not wear a fitted blazer with rigid shoulders but a soft blazer and a t-shirt underneath the suit. He doesn't change his favourite accessory - a narrow scarf. Today, the famous actor's wardrobe is relatively casual, comfortable, vital and without the slightest pretense of standing out. After all, apparently, he doesn't like to draw attention to himself: I don't like it when people talk about me. Let's talk about something important. 

Over the years, the actor has not only changed dozens of screen appearances, but he has also developed his own way of dressing.

Brad Pitt's Style Evolution Through the Years

David Lynch is an American film director, screenwriter, artist, musician, photographer and actor. He is a representative of American independent cinema. He has won the Palme d'Or (1990) and the Director's Prize (2001) at the Cannes Film Festival as well as the Golden Lion for his contribution to cinema (2006) and an Honorary Academy Award for outstanding contribution to cinema (2019). Lynch is the Legion of Honour officer (2007). British newspaper The Guardian called him the most important filmmaker of the current era. AllMovie has named him the Renaissance Man of modern American cinema and the success of his films has earned him the title of the First Pop-Surrealist.

Analyses of Lynch's films are often referred to by followers of Freud and Lacan, who see in them a demonstration of compulsive repetition: the inevitable return of the psychotrauma caused by the first scene. The characters in Lynch's films often refuse to accept the painful truth about themselves, but their displaced consciousness invariably returns to their lives in even more bizarre and frightening forms. The director's style is characterised by films filled with vivid details of a surrealist, psychedelic or mystical nature. This lineage goes back to the experimental short films of Maya Deren. Lynch himself avoids giving any interpretation of his films, saying that cinema is a special experience which one has to go through, preferably on a big screen, but which cannot be retold in words.

It is believed that certain shots, perspectives and mise-en-scenes in David Lynch's films are directly or indirectly borrowed from pictorial works, and that the pictorial element is part of the content of his works. Images from the director's films find direct parallels in the works of Francis Bacon, Diego Velasquez, Claude Monet, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte and Edward Hopper. The pictorial system remains a fundamental element of David Lynch's films, defining the content of the film and the specificity of its cinematic language.

Pictorial thinking can be considered one of the essential features of David Lynch's cinematic works. The proximity of Lynch's films to baroque painting is an interesting circumstance. A baroque spirit is inherent in Lynch's films which affects not only the structure of the shot but the character of Lynch's films as a whole. The baroque system of Lynch films can be supported and demonstrated in two main ways. The first is the literal resemblance or quotation of famous Baroque works. The second is the use of Baroque pictorial principles: excessiveness, redundancy, a mismatch between the effort and the result achieved.

David Lynch is an American filmmaker, painter, visual artist, and writer. A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and the César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival.

Peacock is an American film released in 2010 directed by Michael Lander, written by Lander and Ryan Roy, and starring Cillian Murphy, Elliot Page and Susan Sarandon. The film's protagonist, John Skillpa, who lives in the small town of Peacock, Nebraska, suffers from dissociative identity disorder. After the death of his overbearing and abusive mother, he begins dressing up in her clothes and putting on a wig. She is more outgoing and charming than he is, while he is withdrawn and has no sense of purpose in life.

This is how John's life goes from day to day until a train accident happens near his house: a derailed train rides into his yard. People who have rushed to see if he is all right find him dressed in a woman's dress. John introduces himself as Emma Skillpa. The case is read in the paper by his longtime friend, Maggie, who comes to John's house with her two-year-old son, asking him to help her with the money. In the course of the film, it is revealed, that Maggie and John met three years ago thanks to his mother who seeing Maggie in need of money offered her to meet her reserved son by paying for it.

John is finally confused about life and decides to fake his death. As Emma Skillpa, he lures a visiting man to a motel, kills him and burns down the motel room rented in his real name. Everyone thinks the man's corpse is John. The protagonist goes on to exist as a woman named Emma Skillpa. The filming of the train derailment scene took place at a local set of train tracks; line producer Brian Bell explained that this particular shot was a visual effects shot, where the train would eventually be digitally edited to appear as if it was passing through Skillpa's backyard, even though it is not physically there. Although the shooting took four hours to complete, it only comprises about 10 to 15 seconds of the film.

Cillian Murphy is an Irish stage, film and television actor and musician. Murphy is often noted by critics for his expressive blue eyes and cheekbones. He was born in 1976 in Douglas and grew up in Ballintemple, the two suburbs of Cork, Ireland. Murphy is the eldest of four children in a family of educators: his father works for the Irish Department of Education and Skills and his mother teaches French in school. Killian's uncles, aunts and grandfather also work as teachers. The actor received his secondary education at Presentation Brothers College in Cork. The family was musical and Killian had a passion for music from a young age. In 1992, at the age of 16, Killian found himself in a drama class taught by Pat Kiernan - an Art Director of Cork's Corcadorca Theatre Company.

Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor. He started his performing career as the lead singer, pianist, and songwriter of a rock band named The Sons of Mr. Green Genes. Murphy turned down a record deal in the late 1990s and began acting on stage and in short and independent films.

Gaspar Noé is a French and Argentinian film director and screenwriter. He became world-famous in 2002 with Irréversible starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. He is a frequent participant in competition programs of leading international film festivals. Gaspar Noé was born in Buenos Aires, in the family of the Spanish painter Luis Felipe Noé and the social worker Nora Murphy. He spent his childhood in Buenos Aires and New York and moved with his parents to Paris, France at the age of 12. At 17, Noé entered and graduated from the Collège Louis Lumière, but instead of studying filmmaking, he decided to continue his studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Paris.

In 1991, Noé directed the short film Carne, which was screened in several competitions at the Festival de Cannes and received positive reviews. By 1993, he decided to direct an extended version of this film but abandoned the idea when he faced financing problems. In 1995, Noé tried his hand as a music video maker and television programme editor at Canal+. In 1997, he played a cameo Doberman at the request of his friend, director Jan Kounen. In 1998, Noé directed his first feature film - Seul Contre Tous. The film was presented at Cannes in 1998 where it won the Mercedes-Benz Award, as well as a special prize established by a number of journalists in France.

In August 2001, Gaspar Noé finished shooting Irréversible starring Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel and Albert Dupontel. The film is a cut of thirteen episodes of varying length. It is the story of a pregnant woman and her boyfriend, told in reverse chronological order: the viewer moves from the tragic finale to the moment when the characters were happy and serene. Le temps detruit tout - Time destroys everything - is the catchphrase that is periodically repeated throughout the film. Screened in Competition at Cannes in 2002, the film caused a scandal because of two scenes: the nine-minute rape of Monica Bellucci's character and the brutal murder of a gay-club client.

In 2015, Gaspar Noé directed and presented the new movie titled Love. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, out of competition. As usual with Noé, the film provoked polarised opinions. It is the story of Murphy, a young American who comes to Paris with the ambition of becoming a filmmaker. In Paris, he meets a woman called Electra whom he falls in love with but leaves because of his other mistress Omi. The latter takes part in Murphy and Electra's erotic games and accidentally gets pregnant. Electra, upon learning of Omi's pregnancy, scandalously leaves Murphy and he creates a family with Omi who soon becomes hated. Two years later, he is still unable to get over Elektra, and tries to find out what happened to her during the time they were apart - some reports suggest she may have committed suicide. Realizing that his love for Elektra was the main thing that happened in his life, he can't find himself. The film contains many extremely explicit erotic scenes, with the actors actually having sex in front of the camera rather than imitating it.

Gaspar Noé is an Argentine filmmaker based in Paris, France. He is the son of Argentine painter, writer and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé. He has directed six feature films: I Stand Alone, Irréversible, Enter the Void, Love, Climax and Vortex.

Michael Mann was born in Chicago to a Jewish family. His parents were in the grocery business. Michael's father was an immigrant from the Russian Empire and a World War II veteran. Michael's paternal grandfather, also a Russian immigrant, was a World War I veteran. As a teenager, Michael Mann was fascinated by the rapidly gaining popularity of blues music. He studied English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and developed an interest in geology, history and architecture. At the same time, he watched Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove for the first time and immediately fell in love with the movie.

In Mann's own words, this film showed the whole generation of filmmakers that the audience can speak completely openly and honestly, and then, in turn, the audience can appreciate the movie at its true value. In other words, to become part of the commercial film industry, to become a serious face in the film industry, one doesn't have to film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and suffer in low positions. That's what Kubrick had in mind. In the mid-1960′s Mann moved to London, partly to dodge the draft during the Vietnam War, though for the service he was unfit for reasons of asthma.

Mann spent seven years in the UK, graduated from London Film School and later worked on commercials alongside his contemporaries such as Alan Parker, Ridley Scott and Adrian Lyne. In 1968, one of his documentaries made it to television and he soon directed the short film Jaunpuri, which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1970. During the 1980s, Mann was active in television. He was involved in series such as Miami Vice and Crime Story. Contrary to popular belief, he is not their author, but he acted as an executive producer. One way or another, Mann influenced these projects in the selection of actors and their styles.

Michael Mann received wide acclaim in 1992 for his adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans. The film won numerous awards and nominations, including an Oscar. In 2001, Mann's new film Ali about the great American boxer Muhammad Ali was released. It was his first film shot with a digital camera. Will Smith who starred in the film was nominated for an Oscar. The gangster drama Public Enemies was released in the summer of 2009. The film tells the story of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger, starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. In 2011 after a 22-year hiatus, Michael Mann worked on television again, directing the pilot and producing the HBO series Luck. The first season of the series was a success and a sequel was announced, but following the death of the horses on the set, the decision was made to close the project.

Michael Mann is an American director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television who is best known for his distinctive style of crime drama. His most acclaimed works include the films Thief, Manhunter, The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider, Collateral, and Public Enemies.

Guillermo del Toro Gomez is a Mexican film director of Spanish origin, screenwriter, producer and writer. He was nominated for an Oscar in 2007 for Pan's Labyrinth in the categories Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Del Toro is a winner of two 2018 Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Film for The Shape of Water. Del Toro received the Nebula Award for the screenplay for Pan's Labyrinth.

Guillermo Del Toro was born on 9 October 1964 in Mexico. Trained at the Instituto de Ciencias, he was raised by his grandmother, an ultra-conservative Catholic. Del Toro became interested in film production when he was still a teenager. He later studied make-up and effects with Dick Smith, who created special effects for The Exorcist. Del Toro was a make-up artist for about 10 years, and in the early 1980s he set up his own special effects company, Necropia. At the same time, he was a producer and director of Mexican television programmes. Del Toro was also one of the founders of the Mexican Film Festival in Guadalajara. He lives in Los Angeles.

Del Toro achieved his first success by winning 9 awards from the Mexican Film Academy for his debut feature film Chronos (1993). Thanks largely to this success Del Toro made his first Hollywood film, Mimic (1997) and on his return to Mexico City he founded his own production company, Tequila Gang. His next film was The Devil's Backbone (2001), about the ghost of the Spanish Civil War. The film received positive reviews from critics and audiences. Del Toro returned to Hollywood again. In 2002 he directed the sequel Blade 2 starring Wesley Snipes.

In June 2009, Del Toro published The Strain in collaboration with Chuck Hogan, the acclaimed screenwriter and Dashiell Hammitt Award-winning author. The book raises the traditional Del Toro theme of the interaction between totalitarian regimes - in this case Nazism - and the dark side of the world. The theme of the child guide between worlds is also given a place in the novel.

Guillermo del Toro Gomez is a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning fantasy films Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and The Shape of Water (2017), winning the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for the latter.

Trier graduated from the National Danish Film School in 1983. Lars von Trier made his film debut in 1976 with the short film Orchideengärtnereien. His degree work was the short film Befrielsesbilleder, which won the Grand Prize at the Munich Film Festival in 1984. His first work in the big cinema was The Element of Crime (1984), which won prizes at film festivals in Cannes, Chicago and Mannheim. In this film, Lars von Trier made his first appearance as an actor, screenwriter and cameraman. Lars von Trier is known to audiences for Epidemic (1987) and Europa (1991).

From 22 July to 8 September 2010 there was a filming of Melancholia - a psychological drama about the end of the world. It premiered in Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. On May 18, during the Cannes press conference for the film, in answer to a question of The Times' critic Kate Muir about his German origins and interest in Nazi aesthetics, Trier remarked that he has long considered himself a Jew. When discussing his German origins, he jokingly called himself a Nazi and added that he was sympathetic to Hitler.

The Board of Directors demanded immediate clarification from the director and von Trier published a statement in which he apologized and explained that he was neither a Nazi nor an anti-Semite. Nevertheless, the board of directors declared von Trier persona non grata, explaining that his words were unacceptable, intolerant and contrary to the ideals of humanity and nobility. Von Trier's remarks at the press conference were also the subject of an investigation by the prosecutor of the French city of Grasse. In December 2011, the case was declared closed because the director's speech was not found to justify war crimes.

Despite this scandal, Kirsten Dunst, who starred in Melancholia, won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Critics have noted the aesthetic perfection of the film, a combination of the glossy picture, the acting of Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg and the music of Wagner. The main theme of the film was the role reversal in anticipation of the cataclysm bringing the inevitable loss: an ordinary character whose usual routine is crumbling is weak and helpless, and the second character being in a deep depression with her fatalism is the most reasonable and decent-looking person.

Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter with a prolific and controversial career spanning more than five decades. His work is known for its genre and technical innovation, confrontational examination of existential, social, and political issues, and his treatment of subjects such as mercy, sacrifice, and mental health.

Tim Walter Burton is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and animator. He is the author of modern, entertaining films, often based on black humor and macabre elements. Many researchers of Burton's work believe the women were the strongest influence on his creativity. He was influenced by the former stripper Lisa Mary, an artist and actress, whom he dated for a long time, got engaged in early 1992, and continued to live together until 2001.

During this time, some of Burton's most exemplary films were made: Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999) and others. Edward Scissorhands marks the beginning of Burton's long collaboration with actor Johnny Depp. Depp tops Burton's list of regular actors and is considered Burton's alter ego. On the set of Edward Scissorhands, Burton became very close to the idol of his youth, actor Vincent Price, whom he met while voicing the animated film Vincent. The friendship resulted in the making of the documentary film Conversations with Vincent. However, the film was left unfinished due to Price's death in 1993.

This period is also characterized by the largest number of films that were offered to Burton for filming, but for one reason or another filming was either suspended or the post of director passed to others: thus Burton could make Mary Reilly (replaced by Stephen Frears), Superman Lives (cancelled), the sequels to Beetlejuice, The Fall of the House of Usher based on the Edgar Poe story, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - a total of about a dozen projects. On top of that, Burton planned to film Lisa Marie in the remake of Mario Bava's classic horror film Black Sunday, based on Gogol's Viy.

Then, with Mary's encouragement, he became interested in Zen meditative practices, which helped him survive a number of important closed projects for him, and he became increasingly inclined towards vegetarianism. More profound was his passion for photography. Burton experimented with large-format and digital cameras. Mary was most often the subject of his photographs.

Timothy Walter Burton is an American film director, producer, writer, and artist known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Frankenweenie.

Seth Aaron Rogen is a Canadian and American film actor and screenwriter. He was born and spent his childhood in Vancouver. Rogen's mother is a social worker and his father Mark is the assistant director at Workmen's Circle, a Jewish social organisation. Seth Rogen has an older sister Danya who also does social work. Seth Rogen graduated from Talmud Torah Elementary School and also attended Point Grey Secondary School. Rogen started acting in the television series Freaks and Geeks directed by Judd Apatow before he finished school. He has been acting since he was 13. His first works were several youth comedy films.

Seth Rogen's first major role was in the TV series Freaks and Geeks, released in 1999. His next work was the TV series Undeclared. Working on this project, the actor wrote the scripts for several episodes. In 2001, Rogen starred in Donnie Darko and Dawson's Creek. In 2008, he received an award for his screenplay for Superbad. Some of Seth Rogen's recent works as an actor and voice actor include: Shrek the Third, Knocked Up, Superbad, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, Kung Fu Panda, Pineapple Express, Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

2011 saw the release of the superhero action-comedy The Green Hornet, starring Rogen as Britt Reid. In 2005, Seth Rogen was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Comedy Script. Rogen wrote the scripts for the last season of The Ali G Show. In 2006, he was nominated for MTV Movie Awards in the Best Screen Team category with his film The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

Rogen has been active in raising awareness of Alzheimer's disease. The disease runs in his wife's family and has affected his mother-in-law for several years. "I think until you see it firsthand, it's kind of hard to conceive of how brutal it is," Rogen said to CNN. "Until I saw it, you just don't get kind of how heartbreaking it can be." During the interview, he talked about how he tries to be emotionally supportive and around as much as he can for Miller's mother. Both he and Miller spoke to Larry King for A Larry King Special, Unthinkable: The Alzheimer's Epidemic, which aired in April 2011. Rogen testified about the disease and his charity before the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services on February 26, 2014. He started the Hilarity for Charity movement, to inspire change and raise awareness of Alzheimer's disease among the Millennial Generation. Rogen and his wife also initiated the Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Grant Program with Home Instead Senior Care to provide free at-home care to senior citizens. On February 25, 2016, Rogen and Miller were honoured with the unite2gether accolade from unite4:humanity for their work promoting awareness and raising money for Alzheimer's research through Hilarity for Charity.

Seth Rogen is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, and filmmaker. Having begun as a stand-up comedian in Vancouver, he moved to Los Angeles for a part in Judd Apatow's series Freaks and Geeks, and then got a part on the sitcom Undeclared, which also hired him as a writer.

Seth Rogen: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series

Matthew Paige Damon is an American film, television and voice actor, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Oscar and two Golden Globes and is also a BAFTA nominee. Best-known films starring Matt Damon include Saving Private Ryan (1998), the crime drama The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), the Ocean's Friends trilogy, the Jason Bourne tetralogy, and the films Interstellar (2014), The Martian (2015) and Ford v Ferrari (2019).

Matt Damon played his first small roles as a student. In 1996, he appeared in Courage Under Fire with Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan. Together with Ben Affleck, they went on to write the script for Good Will Hunting. The movie studios refused to buy it as Damon and Affleck wanted to play in the film. The script was eventually purchased by Miramax Films. Good Will Hunting (1997) brought Damon and Affleck an Oscar for Best Screenplay. With a budget of $10 million, the picture grossed $225 million at the worldwide box office.

In 1995, Damon turned down a role in The Quick and the Dead, which was eventually played by Leonardo DiCaprio. The actor could have played one of the roles in To Die For (1995), but the role ended up going to Joaquin Phoenix. In 1998, he played in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. In 1999, Damon starred with Ben Affleck in the two fallen angel comedy Dogma by Kevin Smith and The Talented Mr. Ripley directed by Anthony Minghella with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law. Matt Damon lost 13.5 kilograms to play the role in The Talented Mr. Ripley.

In 2015, when Damon took part in a show to promote young filmmakers as part of Greenlight project, at some point he found himself embroiled in a debate over passing a tandem of male Asian and white female directors to the next stage. Damon insisted on passing a male director duo and in the heat of the argument he has mentioned that racial and gender diversity is good in film casting, not the other side of the camera. For these words, the actor had to apologise not only to the show and the audience but also to the producers of the project, for which the actor made a statement that the selection is based solely on merit and not on colour and gender.

MattDamon is an American actor, producer, and screenwriter. Ranked among Forbes' most bankable stars, the films in which he has appeared have collectively earned over $3.88 billion at the North American box office, making him one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. He is the recipient of various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award from five nominations.

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Nicole Kidman is an Australian and American film and television actress, singer, producer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She won an Academy Award in 2003 for her role as Virginia Woolf in The Hours, she was the first actress from Australia to win the Best Actress nomination. Kidman is a holder of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Best-known movies and TV series starring Nicole Kidman include Billy Bathgate (1991), To Die For (1995), Batman Forever (1995), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Moulin Rouge (2001), The Others (2001), The Hours (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Birth (2004), Rabbit Hole (2010), The Paperboy (2012), Hemingway and Gellhorn (2012), Grace of Monaco (2014), Lion (2016) and Big Little Lies (2017).

Kidman is a practicing Catholic. The actress attends Mary Mackillop Chapel church in North Sydney. During her divorce from Cruise, she said she did not want her children to be raised by Scientologists. Since her divorce, she prefers not to discuss the Church of Scientology. Kidman made a donation to the US Democratic Party candidates and supported John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. Nicole Kidman has dual Australian and US citizenship.

The actress is often involved in various social causes, participating in breast cancer societies and helping homeless children. in 2004, she was named a UN citizen of the world and was nominated as a Goodwill Ambassador by UNICEF. On Australia Day 2006 the actress received the country's highest honour when she was presented with the Order of Australia Civil. She was also nominated as a Goodwill Ambassador by UNIFEM.

During the filming of Eyes Wide Shut there was a crisis in Kidman and Cruise's relationship. The couple divorced in February 2001, when there was very little left before their 10-year wedding anniversary. Thus, circumstances were unfavourable for Cruise regarding the terms of the prenuptial agreement. Cruise is rumoured to have left Kidman three months pregnant and the actress later miscarried. However, this information has never been publicly confirmed by the parties. In a 2006 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, the authors quoted the actress saying that Cruise meant a lot to Kidman, and means a lot now. To Kidman, he was just Tom, and to everyone else, he was a star. Additionally, the actress said that the news of the divorce came as a shock to her.

Nicole Kidman is an American-born Australian actress, producer and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. She has featured three times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actresses, and was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and 2018. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her fifth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century up to that point.

Jonah Hill started writing jokes in college and presenting them at the Black and White Bar, in the East Village. This helped him realize his true desire to become an actor. He became friends with Dustin Hoffman's children, Rebekah and Jake, and they introduced Hill to their father. Hoffman helped Jonah Hill make his film debut in I Heart Huckabees. Afterwards, he starred in Judd Apatow's comedy The Forty-Year-Old Virgin, with which their collaboration began. Hill played a supporting role in Knocked Up and starred in Superbad and Get Him to the Greek, both produced by Apatow, as well as supporting roles in various films.

In 2009, Hill was in talks to play Sam Witwicky's friend in Michael Bay's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen but did not get the part. In the same year, ру played in Funny People with Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen. Jonah Hill produced Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno and voiced a character in The Simpsons episode Pranks and Greens. He co-starred with Sam Worthington in the 2011 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 pre-release promo. That same year, Hill co-starred with Brad Pitt in the sports drama Moneyball, for which he was first nominated for Oscars and Golden Globes.

In 2012, Jonah Hill co-starred with Channing Tatum in the action-comedy 21 Jump Street, based on the television series. He also co-starred with Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn in The Outlaws. Due to his busy schedule on set, Hill had to give up a full role in Quentin Tarantino's western Django Unchained, where he still played a small role. In 2013, Hill starred in Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen's sci-fi black comedy This Is the End with Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride and many other Hollywood stars.

Hill also starred in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, based on the memoir of Jordan Belfort. In the film, he played the role of Belfort's financial partner, performed by Leonardo DiCaprio. For this role, Hill was unexpectedly nominated for an Oscar ousting another contender Daniel Brühl from the shortlist. In an interview with Howard Stern, the actor admitted that he only did the film for $60,000, as he would "do anything" to work with Scorsese, so he wasn't worried about the fee. In July 2018, the trailer for Jonah Hill's first feature film Mid90s was released, with Hill as director and screenwriter.

Jonah Hill Feldstein is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. He is known for his dramatic performances in Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.

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