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2 episodes with Mike Figgis
2 episodes with Mike Figgis
3 episodes with Mike Figgis
2 episodes with Mike Figgis
Drunk numb stumbling Ben burns his life away to drive into oblivion. The tarnished angel he finds along the way dotes lovingly. She is a caretaker for the walking dead, captive to their gravity. Grey Ben, resisting, married to the bottle, the hell of his life, singes the angel's wings. And, despite it all, in the end, she mounts him as he dies and says her goodbyes to the early morning light. "Sera... what you don't understand is - no, see, no. You can never, never ask me to stop drinking. Do you understand?"
Prepare yourselves for some deep love of depressing movies. This week we have guests Carlos and Hornback to talk 1995's Leaving Las Vegas and 2013's Joe. We get into Sting's crappy music, Mike Figgis sax and discrete bong usage. Find out our first beers and which of us would fuck a Merle. This is Cage Match.Intro music by: Bill Panks
Caesars Woman by Caesars World (1988) + Mike Figgis's Leaving Las Vegas (1995) + Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien (1990) with Adam Lehrer of Safety Propaganda and System of Systems 9/25/24 S6E75 To hear this episode and the complete continuing story of The Perfume Nationalist please subscribe on Patreon.
Can art vanquish evil?In a largely secular culture what are we to make of evil? In a rational and relativistic climate without superstitutions, have we lost a cultural space in which to engage with evil? Should we abandon the notion altogether as anachronistic or is it essential in the fight for a better world?Filmmaker Mike Figgis, Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith, Sean Holmes, and philosopher Robert Eaglestone explore the nature of evil and our response to it.There are thousands of big ideas to discover at IAI.tv – videos, articles, and courses waiting for you to explore. Find out more: https://iai.tv/You can find everything we referenced here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Can art vanquish evil?In a largely secular culture what are we to make of evil? In a rational and relativistic climate without superstitutions, have we lost a cultural space in which to engage with evil? Should we abandon the notion altogether as anachronistic or is it essential in the fight for a better world?Filmmaker Mike Figgis, Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith, Sean Holmes, and philosopher Robert Eaglestone explore the nature of evil and our response to it.There are thousands of big ideas to discover at IAI.tv – videos, articles, and courses waiting for you to explore. Find out more: https://iai.tv/You can find everything we referenced here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. For this episode, we're joined by Swiss director Peter Luisi for a fascinating discussion about his new film The Last Screenwriter, the first film scripted entirely by A.I. – specifically ChatGPT4.0 Now, before you grab your pitchforks and burning torches and lay siege to Rogue Commentary HQ, hear me out: I'm staunchly, even militantly anti-A.I. in the arts. But when I heard that London's beloved Prince Charles Cinema had called off what was to be the world premiere of The Last Screenwriter because of blowback it receive online, I was disheartened, because it seemed that Peter's film was a genuine attempt to engage with the question of A.I. in film specifically, and that we desperately needed to have the kind of conversation the film should have, and would have, provoked. Instead, by shelving the screening, conversation as shut down. As I said in my subsequent piece for Time Out, I don't think the screening would have been cancelled if the film was being presented as an experimental film by a known quantity such as a Michael Winterbottom, a Steven Soderbergh or Mike Figgis. While not exactly a household name in his native Switzerland, Peter co-wrote his country's excellent Oscar entry for 2007, Vitus, and is the writer, director and producer of last year's Bonjour Switzerland, the 8th most successful Swiss film of all time, and the biggest-grossing film in Switzerland since the advent of streaming. The Last Screenwriter is now available online, for free, at lastscreenwriter.com and there's no need to have seen it before listening to Peter's commentary, but whether or not you've seen the film – and I would urge you to give it a watch – I think you'll find Peter's commentary as fascinating as I did. Thanks Peter! Comments? Feedback? Suggestions? Email David *at * Rogue-Commentary *dot* com or send us a tweet. We have lots of exciting episodes in the works, so if you like what you hear – or just the idea – please subscribe, and remember to rate us wherever you hear this podcast – it'll really help us to keep going. Oh, and follow us on Twitter and/or Instagram to stay up-to-date on our forthcoming releases. Thanks for listening! A Synchronicity production, conceived and presented by David Hughes. Produced by Sam Ibrahim. Music by Olli Oja. All content © 2024 Synchronicity II Ltd. All rights reserved.
To replace the lost episode (stolen laptop) we are back with Gary and Rox to talk 1995's Kiss of Death and Leaving Las Vegas. How much did Mike Figgis change from the O'Brien book? Is Kiss of Death best watched in a janky YouTube clip or spanish language import Blu Ray? Do male pasties exist? Also, if you're Michael Rapaport you legally have to tell us. This is Cage Match
In this episode, we welcomed James Mockoski, Film Archivist and Restoration Supervisor at American Zoetrope. Over the last twenty years, James has worked on and restored The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, One from the Heart, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, The Cotton Club, and The Conversation for its 50th Anniversary in 2024. In addition, James restored the Talking Heads concert film “Stop Making Sense” for its 40th Anniversary last year — and is producing Mike Figgis' documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis. In our chat, James shares his backstory, how he entered the field of film restoration, his cinematic inspirations, and his perspectives on preservation.The Making Of is presented by AJA Video Systems.Maximize the production power of AJA BRIDGE LIVEWhether facilitating remote production, two-way interviews, live event streaming, multi-cam backhaul, field contribution, confidence monitoring, collaborative production, or ABR ladder profiles, AJA BRIDGE LIVE supports many streaming and contribution codecs, including NDI, H.265, H.264, MPEG-2, JPEG 2000, and now JPEG XS. The device also includes support for RTMP, ST2022-7 hitless redundancy, and input auto-reconfiguration for video and audio formats.Check it out hereFrom our Friends at Videoguys…The Atomos Ninja bundled with Atomos Connect combines the newest 5" monitor/recorder & playback device with the latest Atomos Cloud features enabled by Atomos Connect. The free 6-month subscription to Atomos Cloud Studio enables camera-to-cloud, remote collaboration and review, cloud editing, live production and streaming. This complete solution will even include an accessory kit with rechargeable batteries, fast-charger, screen protector, travel case and more!Learn more hereZEISS CinCraft ScenarioMeet the only real-time camera tracking system that works indoors and outdoors, on film sets, with green and blue screens and in LED volumes. That uses natural markers, reflective markers, and even digital markers on LED screens. That provides camera tracking data for real-time use and records it for post-production. And that integrates lens characteristics to skip the cumbersome lens calibration process. Meet ZEISS CinCraft Scenario.New Life Cine is a marketplace committed to getting specialized, professional cinema equipment into the hands of creators and provides a safe, transparent, solution to sell gear that no longer has a place on your set. NLC is known for their technical expertise and consultations, intimate knowledge of used and resale values, and friendly ‘white glove' service. They offer financing + escrow services for new and used gear. NLC believes that taking the uncertainty out of buying and selling used cinema equipment makes for happier filmmakers and lets the creativity flow!Check out the gear herePodcast Rewind:Jan. 2024 - Ep. 23…The Making Of is published by Michael Valinsky.To promote your products to over 8,500 leading film & TV industry pros, email us at mvalinsky@me.com Get full access to The Making Of at themakingof.substack.com/subscribe
“Charming. Seductive. Deadly. Your deepest secret is his most dangerous weapon.” “Internal Affairs is a 1990 American crime thriller film directed by Mike Figgis, written by Henry Bean, and starring Richard Gere and Andy García.” Show Links Trailer: https://youtu.be/_BOo1XQ7Ltk?si=qW7LLlhchvNGxZuY Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Affairs_(film) Just Watch: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/internal-affairs Socials Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/@moviewavepod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moviewavepod Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/moviewavepod/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/moviewavepod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@moviewavepod Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/moviewavepod Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/moviewavepod Intro/Outro Sample Credits “Aiwa CX-930 VHS VCR Video Cassette Recorder.wav” by Pixabay “Underwater Ambience” by Pixabay “waves crashing into shore parkdale beach” by Pixabay Movie Wave is a part of Pie Hat Productions.
Cinematographer Declan Quinn (HAMILTON, LEAVING LAS VEGAS, MONSOON WEDDING) speaks with Team Deakins on this episode of the podcast. A first generation immigrant from Ireland, Declan first reflects on his youth bouncing between America and his family's home country. We then ruminate on Declan's decision to spend part of his early career in Ireland and on the function of pubs as watering holes wherein a young filmmaker could, back when Roger and Declan were starting out at least, find a community with which to celebrate and commiserate over work and life. Later, Declan shares his experiences working with directors Mike Figgis and Neil Jordan and on the myriad of other films he helped bring to life. Towards the end, Declan describes the process of Broadway captures and how he filmed HAMILTON at the height of its popularity with its original cast. - This episode is sponsored by Fiilex Instagram: @fiilexled
One of our themes this month is “Strange Love” and we're getting a double dose of Uncle Nicky this week and why not sit down with the whole family and watch a movie where Nicholas Cage drinks himself to death while Elizabeth Shue watches? Yeah, we're talking about the Mike Figgis movie “Leaving Las Vegas” from 1995. It also stars French Stewart, Aunt Jackie from “Roseanne”, Mister Ernst from “Hey Dude” and Lou Rawls as “Concerned Cabbie”. Sexy, sleazy and sad as shit. Just the way we like it. Now slurp this bourbon out of my navel. Subscribe to our Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/moviehumpers
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Welcome to DEATH BY ADAPTATION, a bi-weekly book club where we choose one classic book and compare and contrast it against its cinematic adaptations. In this episode, we discuss the 1990 semi-autobiographical novel LEAVING LAS VEGAS by John O'Brien, and the 1995 Mike Figgis adaptation starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue. Host: Nicolò Grasso Featuring: Ewan Gleadow Music: "The Jazz Piano" Royalty Free Music from Bensound, Remix by Nicolò Grasso Follow the Death by Adaptation podcast on Twitter (@DeathAdaptation) and Instagram (@DeathByAdaptationPod).
Leaving Las Vegas writer-director Mike Figgis told The Hollywood Reporter that both Cage and himself were promised $100,000 each for the movie but the checks never came.
Leaving Las Vegas writer-director Mike Figgis told The Hollywood Reporter that both Cage and himself were promised $100,000 each for the movie but the checks never came.
El director de la película Leaving Las Vegas, Mike Figgis, reveló que a él y a Nicolas Cage no les pagaron la cantidad establecida tras participar en la cinta del año 1995
This week between Rob losing power and Christine getting sick, we're late. But we're here to talk about Epcot's 40th, Ian and Disney World, and the Figment movie! Thanks for listening and have a GBBT! Also, past Rob: Timecode was Mike Figgis, not Paul Haggis. Get it together, Rob. (-2) Check out Christine's Discord here! Have a question for us or your own two cents on a topic? Leave a message over at the TTA Podcast website or leave a message at (516) 900-4628.
Mike Figgis joins Seth to retell the process of making the gritty and dark 16mm film that gave Nicolas Cage his Oscar, 'Leaving Las Vegas.' Theme music composed by: Paul Masvidal and Sean Malone Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
ANGEL LADY director Edgar Pablos tells great stories about the directors and the movie stars who impacted his career. Joe Dante, Mike Figgis, Jamie Blanks, Antoine Fuqua. Actors James Earl Jones, James Coburn, Selma Hayek, Jared Lehto. 60 min. Edgar comes from the U.S./Mexico borderlands of El Paso, Texas. Born to a Spanish-speaking family, he not only learned to speak English watching American movies but also to assimilate and understand the world through storytelling. He made his short film directorial debut with his magical realist western, Agua Dulce, which won several awards nationally and internationally, including Jury Prize/Best Short Film at the Ajijic International Film Festival in Mexico, Silver Award at the Houston International Film Festival, and Finalist at the 33rd Annual USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas. Agua Dulce was the Featured Short Film at the Hispanic Cultural Center Inauguration Ceremonies in Albuquerque, NM, and was an Official Selection at several more U.S. film festivals, including New York, Chicago, Santa Monica and Santa Fe. With writing and producing partner Judith Cummings, Pablos formed Tribesmen Pictures, a production company where he directs, writes, edits, and produces in multiple formats including: documentaries, commercials, PSAs, and educational programming. Clients include: Time Warner Cable, USC Latino Alumni Association, Charming Asia Tours, SABEResPODER, TELACU, California State University, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, AECOM, and MALDEF, the nation's leading Latino civil rights organization. https://tribesmenpictures.com #angelladymovie #angellady
In 1995 Mike Figgis decided everyone seemed too happy, so he released his story of lost hope and radical acceptance with, Leaving Las Vegas. Nick Cage stars as Ben Sanderson, a disgraced screenwriter who has lost his family and his job and so he heads to the gym and decides to get his life together…just kidding, obviously he heads to Vegas to drink himself to death. While in Vegas he meets a prostitute and they form an unlikely relationship with one stipulation, they don't try to change the other. Do they fall in love and live happily ever after, or do they fall deeper into despair and misery? You'll have to watch! The film and the two lead actors were nominated for a ton of awards (Cage won the Oscar), as this film was a critical and box office hit. But, does it hold up? Listen in as Jon, Colin, and Brent discuss suicidal best practices and whisky dick as we try to decide if this flick is a party or a bad hangover.
Filmshake will tell YOU when we've had enough! This week, by listener request, we're covering 1995 Oscar winner, Leaving Las Vegas. We can quit whenever we want, but we're also covering 2006's Wicker Man for a minute too because the performances of Sir Nicolas Cage are an addictive substance.Officer, I promise, we're only covering two movies. Okay, maybe we're covering three, as Jordan also briefly recaps the original 1973 Wicker Man. Throw back another Filmshake! We (probably) won't give you a hangover.Music Heard this Episode:"Corn Rigs" by Magnet"Leaving Las Vegas" by Mike Figgis"My One and Only Love" written by Robert Mellin and Guy Wood; performed by Sting"Bossa Vega" by Mike FiggisSupport the show
“Leaving Las Vegas” #25Ben and Danielle discuss the 1995 drama, Leaving Las Vegas, directed by Mike Figgis. The movie stars Nicolas Cage as Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who loses everything and decides to escape to Las Vegas and indulge in his alcohol addiction. It also stars Elisabeth Shue who plays Sera, a sex worker who develops a relationship with Ben. The hosts examine the themes of addiction, the effects of addiction to the person inflicted and those around them, and falling in love with an addict. What do they think? Well, grab some popcorn, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!Check out our website and social media pages!Website: https://www.podpage.com/reely-random-movie-reviews/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reelyrandommoviereviewsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelyrandommoviereviews/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MovieReelyMusic: "Nightmares Inn" by RKVCCasino Roulette Sound Effect: https://www.soundfishing.eu/sound/fortune-wheel
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Welcome to Mike Figgis's first Podcast.Mike and Ali talk about Mike's Soho Photo Series, the evolution of street photography, documentaries today, the film business, Jean-Luc Godard and David Lynch's Inland Empire.
Did anybody in this movie...see a movie? Today we're contemplating 2003's Cape Farm, aka Cold Creek Manor, aka 33 1/3 Short Sound Drops That Shouldn't Have Made SDB Laugh. A putative thriller in which Dorff On Golf somehow manages to haul a dead pony into a swimming pool, our "city slicker" hero tries to charm the psychotic locals with Brandy Alexanders, children have eyeteeth the size of quarters, and a cemetery is added to the kids' chore wheel, Cold Creek Manor is mostly bad -- but at least Dennis Quaid doesn't make it any worse, so while you're fleeing the godless city for Sling Blade-on-Hudson, cue up an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 3 QQQ score: 5.25 Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 0 SHOW NOTES Follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/quaidinfullpod) Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Ebert's 1.5/4 review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cold-creek-manor-2003) Edward Guthmann's for SFGate (https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Quiet-fixer-upper-w-view-psycho-House-full-of-2587813.php) The Bill-ogy begins (https://quaidinfull.fireside.fm/16) Fatal Instinct (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106873/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_114)
The History of Rock N Roll Part IX - English Blood Runs Hot: The Rolling Stones This week Ibrahim & I continue our examination of The History of Rock N Roll with a look at one of the greatest of Rock N Roll bands - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Brian Jones, Mick Taylor, and Bill Wyman . . . The Rollings Stones. This is a great episode, looking at Oliver Murray's The Quiet One (2019), Mike Figgis's Ronnie Wood - Someone Up There Likes Me (2020), Jean Luc Godard's Sympathy for the Devil (1968), Danny Garcia's Brian Jones - Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones (2020), and Martin Scorsese's Shine a Light (2008). A whole lot to watch and a whole lot of talk. Take a listen and enjoy the celebration. Questions, Comments, Complaints, & Suggestions can be directed to gondoramos@yahoo.com. Many, Many Thanks.
BEST OF SEASON 1 - MIKE FIGGIS Mike Figgis is an iconic film director, screenwriter, and composer. Figgis began his career as a musician. Growing up he was exposed to music early as his father was a jazz musician. In the late 60's he started out playing trumpet and guitar in the People Band and is audible in their first record (produced by Charlie Watts) in 1968. He played keyboard with Bryan Ferry in an R & B band, Gas Board and then moved to London to study music and became involved in the fringe theatre group, before forming his own company, The Mike Figgis Group, in 1980. After over 20 years as a musician, he got involved in theater including experimental theater and performance art using film rear projection in his presentations. He bought a 16mm film camera and started shooting film and began cultivating his path to become a filmmaker. Figgis made his feature film debut with the low budget Stormy Monday in 1988. The film earned him attention as a director who could get interesting performances from established Hollywood actors. His first American film was Internal Affairs, which helped to revive the career of Richard Gere. This was followed by his next Hollywood feature, Mr. Jones, was misunderstood by the studio, who attempted to market the downbeat story as a feelgood film, resulting in a box office flop. Figgis poured his disenchantment with the film industry into Leaving Las Vegas, which starred Nicholas Cage and Elisabeth Shue, which earned Figgis Academy Award nominations for Best Directing and Best Screenplay. He followed this up with the romantic drama One Night Stand and The Loss of Sexual Innocence. ALL ACCESS + CLIPS + FULL EPISODES + SUBSCRIPTION https://linktr.ee/thepodmatrix FOLLOW us on SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: @thepodmatrixnyc https://www.instagram.com/thepodmatrixnyc/ Linkedin: THEPODMATRIX https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepodmatrix/ Facebook: @thepodmatrixABOUT THE PODCAST “Conversations with Charlie” is a podcast about the people that make up the film, broadcast and entertainment industry. Actors, directors, cinematographers, producers and other fascinating characters that inhabit this world. Hosted by CHARLIE HERZFELD a veteran of the film and broadcast industry who has worked on over 100 feature film and broadcast projects with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Darren Aronofsky, Spike Lee, John Turturro and many more. Support this podcast
Revenons aux sources avec la terreur du Delta Blues, Howlin' Wolf. Cet immense gaillard impose le respect par son vécu à travers l'Amérique ségrégationniste du début du XXe siècle, sans compter une situation familiale déplorable dont il s'arracha avec un courage exemplaire. Wolf avait une force de caractère hors du commun qu'il injecta dans un blues guerrier et revanchard, une musique si puissante et évocatrice qu'elle inspira le monde entier. Durant son parcours hallucinant, Wolf croisa le chemin de toutes les légendes du Mississippi : Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters... Des musiciens au talent surnaturel qui changèrent la donne. Howlin Wolf en fut l'un des emblèmes, un artiste parmi les plus importants de l'histoire de la musique moderne. Publié pour la première fois en octobre 2015. Article disponible sur le site Chicane Magazine : http://www.chicane-magazine.com/2017/03/10/gdvhw/ Quelques références... Des bouquins : "Moanin' at Midnight, The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf" de James Segrest et Mark Hoffman, chez Tunder's Mouth Press (livre en anglais) "Love in Vain" de Jean Michel Dupont (scénariste) et Mezzo (dessins), chez Gléna. Biographie romancée de Robert Johnson en bande dessinée "Le Peuple du Blues" de LeRoi Jones, chez Folio "Feel Like Going Home" de Peter Guralnick, chez Rivages Rouges. Série de portraits de bluesmen. De la musique : Smokestack Lightning, The Complete Chess Master - Howlin' Wolf (4 CDs, enregistrements de 1951 à 1960) The Rockin' Chair album - Howlin' Wolf (1962) The Backdoor Wolf - Howlin' Wolf (1973) Electric Mud - Muddy Waters (1968) "Screamin' and Cryin'" - Muddy Waters (enregistrements de 1947 à 1953) Complete Recordings - Robert Johnson (2CDs, enregistrements de 1936 à 1938) The Definitive Charley Patton - Charley Patton (Enregistrements de 1929 à 1934) Death Letter - Son House (1965) Harmonica Wizard - Sonny Boy Williamson (enregistrements de 1951 à 1956) Et du gros doc : Martin Scorsese Presente The Blues, une collection de 7 documentaires fantastiques réalisés par Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Clint Eastwood, Marc Levin, Mike Figgis, Charles Burnett, Richard Pearce et Robert Kenner. Retrouvez la playlist avec tous les morceaux utilisés pour l'épisode ici : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jXiFkU2B0J4XXATtGp4k7?si=8cca9590150e4dee facebook twitter Instagram
Austin and Allan lean into the bar for this next film. Leaving Las Vegas (1995) Directed by Mike Figgis
Thief is based on real stories about post-natal depression. Framed as an interview via WhatsApp audio messages conducted by the author, a conversation becomes a confession of 3 women about their challenging and dark experiences of motherhood. In making Thief, we invited women to put their voices to the largely undivulged experience of post-natal depression with the promise of anonymity, on one condition: speak candidly. Thief is a characterization of all the stories collected. Expressed through the views of four women from different walks of life. Fictional, but refreshingly raw. “...So many fears… I need to protect her from so many things...And teach her so many things. Before, I only taught myself. Why nobody warned or said how awful this is going to be? I feel cheated…”Written and directed by Kristina Pakhomova Cast: Helen: Emma WoodTasha: De Xin ChiaPoline: Sophia AssaadiHusband: Jon CancioMother: Irina AndersonKristina Pakhomova as herself Composer | Sound Designer | Sound Engineer: Jack BurmeisterSpecial thanks to all the women who shared their stories.Please check our website www.krispproduction.comKristina Pakhomova, is an international actress, theatre producer, writer, founder, and director of her own creative theatre company in Hong Kong “KrisP. Production” (https://www.krispproduction.com/ )Being trained in both traditional and contemporary theatre in Russia, Asia, and Europe Kristina is always interested in experimenting with different performance techniques, genres, and styles, exploring the possibilities of performance. She likes art that is daring, adventurous, and multidisciplinary. With KrisP Kristina hopes to give other creatives, who struggle to find their voices, the opportunities too.Her last written play Lady Death was successfully produced in Hong Kong last December 2019. Kristina's most recent appearance as an actress was in a feature film Mother Tongue directed by Mike Figgis, Feature film Hong Kong 1942 by Mccourry Films, a theatre play Discord Of Discourse, performed at The Camden Fringe Festival in London, in two one-woman shows Dark Room and What's Wrong With Me? written, directed, produced and performed by Kristina in Singapore and Hong Kong.Kristina is also a facilitator of her own acting and creative workshops and feels very honored being able to share her knowledge about acting and theatre-making with actors in Russia, Hong Kong, and Singaporehttp://www.theatreofothers.com
Thief is based on real stories about post-natal depression. Framed as an interview via WhatsApp audio messages conducted by the author, a conversation becomes a confession of 3 women about their challenging and dark experiences of motherhood. In making Thief, we invited women to put their voices to the largely undivulged experience of post-natal depression with the promise of anonymity, on one condition: speak candidly. Thief is a characterization of all the stories collected. Expressed through the views of four women from different walks of life. Fictional, but refreshingly raw. “...So many fears… I need to protect her from so many things...And teach her so many things. Before, I only taught myself. Why nobody warned or said how awful this is going to be? I feel cheated…”Written and directed by Kristina Pakhomova Cast: Helen: Emma WoodTasha: De Xin ChiaPoline: Sophia AssaadiHusband: Jon CancioMother: Irina AndersonKristina Pakhomova as herself Composer | Sound Designer | Sound Engineer: Jack BurmeisterSpecial thanks to all the women who shared their stories.Please check our website www.krispproduction.comKristina Pakhomova, is an international actress, theatre producer, writer, founder, and director of her own creative theatre company in Hong Kong “KrisP. Production” (https://www.krispproduction.com/ )Being trained in both traditional and contemporary theatre in Russia, Asia, and Europe Kristina is always interested in experimenting with different performance techniques, genres, and styles, exploring the possibilities of performance. She likes art that is daring, adventurous, and multidisciplinary. With KrisP Kristina hopes to give other creatives, who struggle to find their voices, the opportunities too.Her last written play Lady Death was successfully produced in Hong Kong last December 2019. Kristina's most recent appearance as an actress was in a feature film Mother Tongue directed by Mike Figgis, Feature film Hong Kong 1942 by Mccourry Films, a theatre play Discord Of Discourse, performed at The Camden Fringe Festival in London, in two one-woman shows Dark Room and What's Wrong With Me? written, directed, produced and performed by Kristina in Singapore and Hong Kong.Kristina is also a facilitator of her own acting and creative workshops and feels very honored being able to share her knowledge about acting and theatre-making with actors in Russia, Hong Kong, and Singaporehttp://www.theatreofothers.com
Welcome to this week's episode where we talk about the 1993 Mike Figgis film “Mr. Jones,” where Richard Gere plays a man with bipolar disorder and Lena Olin plays the worst psychiatrist in the entire world. We talk about how much less offensive this movie was than expected, puzzle over another Bill Pullman appearance, sing the praises of the true hero of this film, and announce our new Twitter page. Follow us at @Gereheads!
This week on Truth & Movies we're drinking in Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round, Azazel Jacob's French Exit and in our film club, a drinking companion from the 90s, Mike Figgis' Leaving Las Vegas.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club. All brought to you by the people behind Little White Lies, the world's most beautiful film magazine.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter: @LWLiesInstagram: @LWLiesProduced by Little Dot Studios See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
What if you nut so hard that you fucking died? That's pretty much all we want to talk about this week, as we "review" Leaving Las Vegas. It's a disaster episode for a disaster movie!
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Content warning for discussions about suicide, sexual violence, and domestic abuse. In this episode, Alyssa and Jeanette dive probably too deeply into the film that earned Nicolas Cage his Oscar, Leaving Las Vegas (1995). While this film was an overall critical success for its time, we’ve got some beef with the director, Mike Figgis. Listen as we lose our minds over this piece of crap but find a silver lining in Nic’s award-winning performance, with a sprinkle of bonus Cage fun facts on the side. We DON’T recommend watching Leaving Las Vegas, but that’s just our personal opinion. If you want to avoid spoilers then it’s probably a good idea to watch it before listening to us smash it to pieces.
Amanda Blue is a BAFTA-nominated director with over 18 years' experience in documentary, comedy and commercials. She began her career in drama, working with BAFTA and Oscar-nominated director Mike Figgis, and later produced his documentary arts films, before directing her own work. Early in her documentary career, Blue directed the award-winning series Young Black Farmers (2006). In 2008, she received a BAFTA nomination in the Director – Factual category at the British Academy Television Craft Awards for Prescott: The Class System and Me. Her other documentary directing credits include Twincredibles, which examined growing up mixed-race in Britain, The Town That Caught Tourette's, The Big School Lottery, comedy-documentary series, The Greatest Shows on Earth, and multi-award winning feature length drama documentary After The Wave, to name just a few. She has also been awarded numerous awards for her commercials work including a Bronze Lion at Cannes. In 2016, Blue wrote and directed the feature length drama documentary Deep Water for Screen Australia and SBS, which has been nominated for 14 awards to date including 4 AACTA's (Australia's Bata's), a NSW Premier Literary Award and an Australian Directors Guild award for Best Director. Amanda Blue is currently developing several TV drama projects and a feature film.
Películas: "Internal affairs" (Mike Figgis, 1990), "Bad lieutenant" (Abel Ferrara, 1992) y "En retirada" (Juan Carlos Desanzo, 1984) Conducción: Diego Cirulo. Con un poco de tristeza, les dejamos un nuevo capítulo. Esta vez nos adentramos en los márgenes, puntualmente de la ley. Policías corruptos, malandras, estructuras paraestatales. Acompañanos. Producción general: Diego Cirulo, Fabio Villalba. Locución: Daniela Jorquera Música: Bahía Blanca Webmaster: Andrés Cirulo
Películas: "Internal affairs" (Mike Figgis, 1990), "Bad lieutenant" (Abel Ferrara, 1992) y "En retirada" (Juan Carlos Desanzo, 1984) Conducción: Diego Cirulo. Con un poco de tristeza, les dejamos un nuevo capítulo. Esta vez nos adentramos en los márgenes, puntualmente de la ley. Policías corruptos, malandras, estructuras paraestatales. Acompañanos. Producción general: Diego Cirulo, Fabio Villalba. Locución: Daniela Jorquera Música: Bahía Blanca Webmaster: Andrés Cirulo
Director Mike Figgis talks about the challenges of working in Hollywood. https://linktr.ee/thepodmatrix YOUTUBE: https://tinyurl.com/vrtzr64 SPOTIFY: https://tinyurl.com/wvjfav4 APPLE PODCASTS: https://tinyurl.com/w7n8br2 WEBSITE: www.thepodmatrix.com Support this podcast
Somebody Up There Likes Me traces Wood’s 50-year musical history, from The Birds, The Jeff Beck Group, The Faces (with Rod Stewart), and The New Barbarians, to becoming a permanent member of The Rolling Stones. Additionally, Mike Figgis captures Wood’s charismatic warmth, energy and honesty as he speaks openly about his battles with drink and drugs. The film takes its title from a conversation with Wood about surviving his chronic smoking habit: “When they operated on my cancer, they took away my emphysema. They said my lungs were as if I’d never smoked. I thought: ‘How’s that for a Get Out Of Jail Free card?’ Somebody up there likes me, and somebody down here likes me too.” The documentary features brand new interviews with Wood’s Rolling Stones bandmates Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, as well as his Faces bandmate, Rod Stewart. Other interviewees include Wood’s wife Sally Wood, singer Imelda May and artist Damien Hirst, alongside both present-day performances and archive footage from Wood's stellar multi-band career. These interviews and performance segments blend with footage of Wood playing guitar and harmonica (a reminder of his talents as a versatile instrumentalist), as well as quiet, personal moments while he paints in his studio. It climaxes with Wood giving a beautiful, intimate performance of “Breathe On Me” from his 1975 solo album New Look. Somebody Up There Likes Me is a fresh look at Ronnie Wood – a rewarding and compelling insight into one of music’s most likable, successful and complex key players. Ronnie describes the film as summing up “the essence of survival” in a life he continues to live to the fullest, without regrets, “I wouldn’t change anything except I’d do it with my eyes open a bit more,” he says, “I was in the hands of destiny all my life…and being in the right place at the right time”.
English film director Mike Figgis talking about his new documentary on Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, "Somebody Up There Likes Me". He also discusses his relationship with the band going back decades, not getting paid for "Leaving Las Vegas" staring Nicholas Cage and is "Avengers: Endgame" really the greatest movie every made.
Somebody Up There Likes Me traces Wood’s 50-year musical history, from The Birds, The Jeff Beck Group, The Faces (with Rod Stewart), and The New Barbarians, to becoming a permanent member of The Rolling Stones. Additionally, Mike Figgis captures Wood’s charismatic warmth, energy and honesty as he speaks openly about his battles with drink and drugs. The film takes its title from a conversation with Wood about surviving his chronic smoking habit: “When they operated on my cancer, they took away my emphysema. They said my lungs were as if I’d never smoked. I thought: ‘How’s that for a Get Out Of Jail Free card?’ Somebody up there likes me, and somebody down here likes me too.” The documentary features brand new interviews with Wood’s Rolling Stones bandmates Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, as well as his Faces bandmate, Rod Stewart. Other interviewees include Wood’s wife Sally Wood, singer Imelda May and artist Damien Hirst, alongside both present-day performances and archive footage from Wood's stellar multi-band career. These interviews and performance segments blend with footage of Wood playing guitar and harmonica (a reminder of his talents as a versatile instrumentalist), as well as quiet, personal moments while he paints in his studio. It climaxes with Wood giving a beautiful, intimate performance of “Breathe On Me” from his 1975 solo album New Look. Somebody Up There Likes Me is a fresh look at Ronnie Wood – a rewarding and compelling insight into one of music’s most likable, successful and complex key players. Ronnie describes the film as summing up “the essence of survival” in a life he continues to live to the fullest, without regrets, “I wouldn’t change anything except I’d do it with my eyes open a bit more,” he says, “I was in the hands of destiny all my life…and being in the right place at the right time”.
Special: The Cinematography Podcast- War Stories Vol. 4 In our fourth War Stories Special, we feature eleven guest's harrowing, hilarious or heartwarming stories they had while on set, or a formative career experience that led them to cinematography. Find full interviews with each of our featured cinematographers in our archives! Cinematographer Quyen Tran on her life-changing experience after 9/11 in New York; Mike Figgis and a nearly disastrous screening of Timecode; Dan Laustsen tells the story of how his sister influenced him to go to film school; Abe Martinez serendipitously found the perfect house while staying in Kenya; Bill Wages was dissuaded early on from becoming a National Geographic Magazine photographer; Larry Fong talks about getting his big break with JJ Abrams on Lost; Vanja Černjul on his secret to decompressing after wrapping on a big shoot; Rachel Morrison's story of making a huge mistake as a set P.A. with Matty Libatique; Linus Sandgren on his early days working as a gaffer with a seasoned electrician; Stefan Ciupek talks about the blooper in the single-take film, Russian Ark; and finally, Matty Libatique on getting real concert footage for A Star Is Born. Do you have a War Story you'd like to share? Send us an email or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! Find out even more about this episode, with extensive show notes and links: http://camnoir.com/warstories4/ Sponsored by Hot Rod Cameras: www.hotrodcameras.com Website: www.camnoir.com Facebook: @cinepod Instagram: @thecinepod Twitter: @ShortEndz
Film Director and producer, Mike Figgis, joined the show to promote his new documentary about the Rolling Stones "Somebody Up There Likes Me", which closely covers the life of Ronnie Wood and the band, which releases September 18th. Mike also covered some of his other famous documentaries and some stories he details in the film.
Episode 2: Mike Figgis I am joined by the incredible academy award nominated director Mike Figgis who is best known for feature film' Leaving Las Vegas' for which Nicolas Cage won the Oscar for best actor while Mike was nominated for both best director and adapted screenplay. He has directed a host of other films and TV shows including an episode of The Sopranos. Outside of film he is a passionate music lover with a deep affection for Jazz and has written much of the music for his own films. His selection is broad and exciting take in specific recordings of Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong as well as a classic album by Joni Mitchell. Check out the Spotify playlist for his selection here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5XufW3srQmu9UUYTNVeYRY?si=ILevUpjNRTKDVv7lAfWgrw YouTube links for selections not on Spotify are… Bridge Over The Congo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H795dyG1JbQ Billie Holiday ‘Fine & Mellow' The Sound of Jazz on CBS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJQiqTZfakQ Louis Armstrong “Back O'Town Blues' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP9T_76URhk Discogs Links To Purchase these Songs / Albums: Bridge Over The Congo - https://www.discogs.com/Various-Bridge-Over-The-Congo/master/1028313 Miles Davis ‘Someday My Prince Will Come' - https://www.discogs.com/Miles-Davis-Sextet-Someday-My-Prince-Will-Come/master/122262 The Sound of Jazz - https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Sound-Of-Jazz/release/10054191 Joni Mitchell ‘Blue' - https://www.discogs.com/Joni-Mitchell-Blue/master/47744 Please like and subscribe to the podcast and follow us on all socials @TheTop5RecordsPodcast
Efter Tom Hanks i episode 91 er det blevet tid til at adore Nicolas Cage - en mystisk mand med mange talenter. Overraskende for Tobias og Anders viser det sig, at Peter er et Nicolas Cage-encyklopædi, og han har bl.a. et indgående kendskab til Nics privatliv. Udover Peters Nicolas Cage-besættelse gennemgår vi også Nics bedste film i kategorierne Action, Drama og Komedie. Og så skal I bare ignorere, at vi siger, det er Tobias' comeback, da denne episode er optaget før episode 135 og 136 af 'Vi streamer op ad åen', hvor Tobias også er med! Følgende Nic Cage-film fra episoden kan findes på streamingtjenester: Adaptation (Viaplay) Con Air (Viaplay) Face/Off (Viaplay) It Could Happen to You (Netflix) Kick-Ass (Netflix/HBO) Lord of War (Filmstriben) The Rock (Viaplay) The Weather Man (Viaplay) Vi høres på åen. Forresten... Vi er på Twitter - og Instagram-mediet: @streamaaen Og også Facebook: www.facebook.com/streamaaen. Kontakt os gerne: streamaaen@gmail.com. Bag podcasten står Peter Vistisen, Tobias Iskov Thomsen og Anders Zimmer Hansen - alle tidligere dagsrejser i Peters tale. Yderligere noter: Citat fra film i episoden: The Family Man (Beacon Pictures, Saturn Films, Universal Pictures - Composer: Danny Elfman), Adaptation (Columbia Pictures, Good Machine Intermedia, Propaganda Films, Sony Pictures Releasing), Vampire's Kiss (Hemdale Film Corporation), It Could Happen to You (TriStar Pictures - Composers: Carter Burwell, Joe Mulherin), Leaving Las Vegas (United Artists - Composers: Anthony Marinelli, Mike Figgis), The Rock (Hollywood Pictures, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution)
Mike Figgis is an iconic film director, screenwriter, and composer. Figgis began his career as a musician. Growing up he was exposed to music early as his father was a jazz musician. In the late 60’s he started out playing trumpet and guitar in the People Band and is audible in their first record (produced by Charlie Watts) in 1968. He played keyboard with Bryan Ferry in an R & B band, Gas Board and then moved to London to study music and became involved in the fringe theatre group, before forming his own company, The Mike Figgis Group, in 1980. After over 20 years as a musician, he got involved in theater including experimental theater and performance art using film rear projection in his presentations. He bought a 16mm film camera and started shooting film and began cultivating his path to become a filmmaker. Figgis made his feature film debut with the low budget Stormy Monday in 1988. The film earned him attention as a director who could get interesting performances from established Hollywood actors. His first American film was Internal Affairs, which helped to revive the career of Richard Gere. This was followed by his next Hollywood feature, Mr. Jones, was misunderstood by the studio, who attempted to market the downbeat story as a feelgood film, resulting in a box office flop. Figgis poured his disenchantment with the film industry into Leaving Las Vegas, which starred Nicholas Cage and Elisabeth Shue, which earned Figgis Academy Award nominations for Best Directing and Best Screenplay. He followed this up with the romantic drama One Night Stand and The Loss of Sexual Innocence. SUBSCRIBE to THEPODMATRIX on YOUTUBE : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChLk... WATCH ALL EPISODES for FREE here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... LISTEN to ALL EPISODES for FREE here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/64oI... iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-co... Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=469698 FOLLOW us on SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @thepodmatrix https://twitter.com/thepodmatrix Instagram: @thepodmatrixnyc https://www.instagram.com/thepodmatri... Linkedin: THEPODMATRIX https://www.linkedin.com/company/thep... Facebook: @thepodmatrix. https://www.facebook.com/thepodmatrix/ ABOUT THE PODCAST “Conversations with Charlie” is a podcast about the people that make up the film, broadcast and entertainment industry. Actors, directors, cinematographers, producers and other fascinating characters that inhabit this world. Hosted by CHARLIE HERZFELD a veteran of the film and broadcast industry who has worked on over 100 feature film and broadcast projects with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Darren Aronofsky, Spike Lee, John Turturro and many more.
In the first episode of the new '74PODCAST Series, "What Is Coming? Conversations for Tomorrow" Alphan Eşeli hosts Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, screenwriter, musician, and composer Mike Figgis. The podcast raises questions about how did we get where we are now, how can we move on from this point in a positive way and rethinking what film is in the days of isolation.
In this episode of the podcast, we talk the directorial debut of Mike Figgis and his 1995 film "Leaving Las Vegas" starring Nicholas Cage and Elisabeth Shue.
An Award-winning Czech director, screenwriter, and producer Eva Doležalová (born May 5, 1991) speaks English, French, Czech, Italian and Polish. Eva is also an ambassador of the White Ribbon Foundation and speaks to encourage women to follow their dreams. At the age of 10, Eva Doležalová began acting in Czech films and theatrical productions as an actor and co-writer of plays. At 18, she moved to London to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Eva worked as well on films with well-known directors such as Shane Black or Mike Figgis with whom she co-wrote and camera-operated a film Kudelksi. After completing her studies, she moved to Paris where she began to find her own artistic voice and realized her longtime dream for filmmaking, and started pursuing her writing and directing skills. Eva moved to Los Angeles in January 2016, where she quickly completed her first film, SOUND OF SUN, starring Suki Waterhouse, Sean Penn, and herself, released by NOWNESS. The film was met with critical acclaim within the industry. Eva has since directed other shorts such as CARTE BLANCHE (18min), starring Dylan Sprouse, Suki Waterhouse, Jack Kilmer for which she’s received an Audience Award in Mammoth Film Festival in February 2019 and a Breakout Director Award in Capri Hollywood Film Festival 2020. Eva also wrote and directed a horror-driven short BUTCHER BOY (9min), starring Jack Kilmer & Camille Rowe which was released by DAZED. In March 2020 Eva will be releasing her new 20min short MAESTRO starring Karel Dobry, Clara McGregor, Lucky Blue-Smith, and another short ANIMA US (7min) inspired by Carl Jung’s theory of Anima Animus. Centre Pompidou Foundation in Paris screened Eva’s trilogy of transformational shorts SOUND OF SUN, SOMNIO & SAMICE for which she also received an award from 7000 magazine. Eva is currently in the development of her first feature film, MANTIS. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1748384/
Plus c'est long, plus c'est bon ? Pour notre premier numéro de l'année 2020, nous revenons sur la question du plan-séquence et plus précisément sur les films tournés (ou qui donnent l'impression d'être tournés) en un seul plan. La démarche représente-t-elle un réel intérêt ? S'agit-il d'un simple exercice de démonstration ? Quels sont les films qui sont parvenus à dépasser la seule idée du challenge technique pour justifier ce dispositif particulier en le mettant au service de ce qu'ils avaient à raconter ? -- DÉFINITION DU PLAN-SÉQUENCE et les plans-séquence qui nous ont marqués (00:01:30) -- LE FILM D'ACTUALITÉ (00:18:02) 1917, Sam Mendes --- LA THÉMATIQUE APPROFONDIE (01:06:25) Les films tournés (ou qui donnent l'impression d'être tournés) en un seul plan LA CORDE, Alfred Hitchcock, 1948 (01:07:15) TIME CODE, Mike Figgis, 2000 (01:17:28) L'ARCHE RUSSE, Alexandre Sokourov, 2002 (01:28:22) BIRDMAN, Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2014 (01:38:20) FISH + CAT, Shahram Mokri, 2013 (01:41:55) VICTORIA, Sebastian Schipper, 2015 (01:50:30) BUSHWICK, Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion, 2017 (01:54:50) UTOYA, 22 JUILLET, Erik Poppe, 2018 (01:55:48) --- LES CONSEILS (02:07:21) Alex : LA CASA LOBO (Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León, 2018) Thomas : Jeu de cartes évolutif MARVEL CHAMPIONS, édité par Fantasy Flight Games Séb : BACURAU (Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2019) --- RÉFÉRENCES : Autres films évoqués : POLICE FÉDÉRALE LOS ANGELES (William Friedkin, 1985), BREAKING NEWS (Johnnie To, 2004), LA SOIF DU MAL (Orson Welles, 1958), L'HONNEUR DU DRAGON (Prachya Pinkaew, 2006), REVIENS-MOI (Joe Wright, 2007), PROFESSION : REPORTER (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975), LES AFFRANCHIS (Martin Scorsese, 1990), BOOGIE NIGHTS (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1998), SOY CUBA (Mikhaïl Kalatozov, 1964), A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (David Cronenberg, 2005), THE REVENANT (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2015), DUNKIRK (Christopher Nolan, 2017), IL FAUT SAUVER LE SOLDAT RYAN (Steven Spielberg, 1998), APOCALYPTO (Mel Gibson, 2006), GERRY (Gus van Sant, 2003), LE GENIE DU MAL (Richard Fleischer, 1959), INVASION (Shahram Mokri, 2017), 22 JUILLET (Paul Greengrass, 2018) Musique : Æøå de Kollektivet Titre d'outro : Destruction Babies, Shutoku Mukai Exposed est un podcast animé par l'équipe de www.filmexposure.ch : Sébastien Gerber, Thomas Gerber, Alexandre Rallo.
Writer/Director/Composer/Photographer and experimental filmmaker Mike Figgis has never restricted his art to just one medium. In our interview, he discusses his love of filmmaking and his transition to digital after Leaving Las Vegas with the film Timecode.
An extensive discussion about art and culture with director Mike Figgis moderated by director, writer Alphan Eşeli.
In Episode 4 of Season 2, the lads discuss 'Leaving Las Vegas' a 1995 American romantic tragedy film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by John O'Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic in Los Angeles who, divorced and recently fired, has decided to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death. Once there, he develops a romantic relationship with a pretty but hardened prostitute played by Elisabeth Shue.
‘Cold Cuts’ is an unnerving exploration of how little things change over time. Gavin and Hannibal cover an episode that presents Tony at his most unlikable, and note the unexpected sympathy felt towards the traditionally unlikable Chris and Janice. Also explored: the occasionally unorthodox directorial choices of Mike Figgis, and the perils of recording a podcast after the consumption of several margaritas... Happy Holidays from ‘The Sopranos Show!’
El Blues forma parte del cine, ya que en sus inicios se utilizaron grandes temas de este estilo en multitud de películas y también se crearon partituras originales para las mismas. El director Martín Scorsese en 2003 produjo una serie de siete capítulos dedicados a explicar las raices del blues, y contó con la presencia de muchos directores para dirigir los diferentes capítulos. Desde el propio Martín Scorsese que dirige el primero "Feel Like Going Home", "The Soul of a Man" dirigida por Wim Wenders, "Red, White and Blues" dirigido por Mike Figgis y "Piano Blues" dirigido por el gran Clint Eastwood. Estos son algunos de los capitulos de un total de siete. Junto a David Líndez, en su sección Música y Cine, el cual es un amante de la música el cual toca la guitarra y el violín entre otros instrumentos, sentamos las bases para hablar del blues utilizando estos dvds como excusa para hablar de la historia de un género mítico y fundamental de la música y del cine. www.masquecine.radionova.cat es la página para tener más información de cine y si te gustan los audios puedes darle a Me gusta, comentarlos y compartirlos, así podremos crecer más. Gracias.
El Blues forma parte del cine, ya que en sus inicios se utilizaron grandes temas de este estilo en multitud de películas y también se crearon partituras originales para las mismas. El director Martín Scorsese en 2003 produjo una serie de siete capítulos dedicados a explicar las raices del blues, y contó con la presencia de muchos directores para dirigir los diferentes capítulos. Desde el propio Martín Scorsese que dirige el primero "Feel Like Going Home", "The Soul of a Man" dirigida por Wim Wenders, "Red, White and Blues" dirigido por Mike Figgis y "Piano Blues" dirigido por el gran Clint Eastwood. Estos son algunos de los capitulos de un total de siete. Junto a David Líndez, en su sección Música y Cine, el cual es un amante de la música el cual toca la guitarra y el violín entre otros instrumentos, sentamos las bases para hablar del blues utilizando estos dvds como excusa para hablar de la historia de un género mítico y fundamental de la música y del cine. www.masquecine.radionova.cat es la página para tener más información de cine y si te gustan los audios puedes darle a Me gusta, comentarlos y compartirlos, así podremos crecer más. Gracias.
El Blues forma parte del cine, ya que en sus inicios se utilizaron grandes temas de este estilo en multitud de películas y también se crearon partituras originales para las mismas. El director Martín Scorsese en 2003 produjo una serie de siete capítulos dedicados a explicar las raices del blues, y contó con la presencia de muchos directores para dirigir los diferentes capítulos. Desde el propio Martín Scorsese que dirige el primero "Feel Like Going Home", "The Soul of a Man" dirigida por Wim Wenders, "Red, White and Blues" dirigido por Mike Figgis y "Piano Blues" dirigido por el gran Clint Eastwood. Estos son algunos de los capitulos de un total de siete. Junto a David Líndez, en su sección Música y Cine, el cual es un amante de la música el cual toca la guitarra y el violín entre otros instrumentos, sentamos las bases para hablar del blues utilizando estos dvds como excusa para hablar de la historia de un género mítico y fundamental de la música y del cine.
EPISODE 38: The High Priests of Khonshu continue with the reviews of Scarlet Spider as part of the DAMNATION podcast crossover event: DAMNATION TIE-IN: BEN REILLY: THE SCARLET SPIDER Vol. 1, issue #17 This being Part 12 of the DAMNATION reviews, there are only a handful of reviews left, so please be sure to listen to the other podcasts to complete the set! The Defenders TV Podcast released Part 11 of the reviews just this weekend too, so be sure to give that a listen. For the link to that podcast episode and for a link to the entire canon of reviews, please check the Show Notes below! Apart from the OVER THE MOON review for issue #17, we also have a small dish of news served up for you Loony Listeners, the least being a proposal to commission a song as the new theme to the ITK podcast from Max Bemis himself!! Get on it! Let's make it happen! :) Also this, and more! SHOW NOTES: Ben Reilly: The Scarlet Spider Vol.1, issue #17 Rosenberg to Take Over Astonishing X-Men Max Bemis Song Shop Exclusive Preview: Iron Fist #80 Jessica Jones Renewed for Season 3 Part 11 – Doctor Strange # 388 Review by Defenders TV Podcast Damnation Podcast Crossover Event Sons of the Dragon: The Immortal Iron Fist Podcast Defenders TV Podcast Inner Demons - A Ghost Rider Podcast WHERE TO HEAR US! Podcast Page Apple Podcast Google Play Music Spotify Overcast SoundCloud Stitcher Tunein Podbean Into the Knight RSS Feed YouTube DROP US A LINE! Follow us on – Blog: www.intotheknightpodcast.wordpress.com Podcast Page: http://intotheknight.libsyn.com Email: moonknightpodcast@gmail.com FB Page: Into the Knight- A Moon Knight Podcast Page FB Group: Into the Knight- A Moon Knight Fan Base FB Chat: The Loony Bin Twitter: @ITKmoonknight Instagram: ITK Moon Knight Tumblr: Knight Shifts Blog Proud Member of The Collective The music for this episode from the Defenders TV Podcast is "Magic Hour" by Three Chain Links is licensed under an Attribution License; The music for this episode from the Sons of the Dragon: The Immortal Iron Fist Podcast is "Iron Fist theme Song" by Thomas Tisslot is licensed under an Attribution License; The music for this episode for the Bare Bones Synopsis is "Reunited (from soundtrack, 'Leaving Las Vegas' " by Mike Figgis is licensed under an Attribution License;
Rob's guest this week is the film director, writer, photographer and composer Mike Figgis
Author and photojournalist Bella Bathurst suddenly began to lose her hearing as an adult in 1997. Twelve years later, an operation enabled her to recover it. She has written a book about her experience, insights gained about listening and the science behind deafness. 2017 New Generation Thinker Daisy Fancourt researches the effect of the arts on immune response and public health.New Generation Thinker Will Abberley has curated an exhibition exploring birds in British literature. Director, screenwriter and composer Mike Figgis encourages writers to rethink plotting in his new book, The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations.Sound: Stories of Hearing Lost and Found by Bella Bathurst is available now. Stories on the Wing: British Birds in Literature runs at the Booth Museum in Brighton from 19 May to 21 September 2017. Free admission. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations by Mike Figgis is published on 1 June 2017.New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC with the Arts and Humanities Research Council to work with academics to turn their research into radio and television. You can find more broadcasts and films on the Free Thinking website. Producer: Karl Bos
Welcome to episode 95 of Love That Album. To some folks in the podcasting world, we’re in the month of Shocktober. At LTA headquarters, it’s Jazztober and Maurice is celebrating by doing the second Jazz Mystery Box episode (Check out LTA #84 with Terry Frost for the first one). Maurice has picked three jazz albums from his collection he wants to notify the podcast listening world about, and then proceeds to do just that.What are the albums? THAT is the mystery. Download the show and find out. Maurice make no claims to being a jazz expert – there are people who know a ton more than he does, both in the history and the music theory of jazz.All he's doing is using his enthusiasm for these albums to get some recommendations across. Eric Reanimator gets his jazz mojo working with his Album I Love segment to talk about the jazz soundtrack for the 1988 Mike Figgis film, “Stormy Monday”. You truly don’t have to be a jazz fan to dig this episode….but of course if you are, you should still enjoy. You can download the show by searching for Love That Album in the iTunes store or downloading streaming directly from http://lovethatalbum.blogspot.com Send the show feedback at rrrkitchen@yahoo.com.au (written or mp3 voicemail) or join the Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/lovethatalbum. If you’d consider writing an iTunes review or recommending the show to a friend, we’d be immensely grateful. If you enjoy what you hear, please tell a friend or ten to tune in.
Christopher Frayling, Guest Curator of this year's Widescreen Weekend festival at the National Media Museum, and the filmmaker Mike Figgis, famed for his technologically ground-breaking films such as Timecode, discuss the possibilities of the latest cinematic evolution - Virtual Reality. Samira hears from director Phyllida Lloyd about the final production in her trilogy of Shakespeare plays with all-female casts and set in a prison - The Tempest - with Harriet Walter playing Prospero and with Shakespeare's songs newly set by Joan Armatrading.A new exhibition of Pablo Picasso's portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in London is the first time in 20 years that so many of his representations of his family and friends have been brought together and, as the curator Prof Elizabeth Cowling explains, it reveals his wit, humour and passion as well as the extraordinary range of styles and media he employed during his life.As a child Simon Gronowski was pushed from a moving train by his mother. Her actions saved his life as the train was bound for Auschwitz, where she died along with his sister. Now his extraordinary story has been transformed into an opera by composer and librettist Howard Moody, and is being performed as part of the ROOT 1066 festival in Hastings.Presented by Samira Ahmed Produced by Ella-mai Robey.
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Cath Le Couteur is the founder of Shooting People, an online independent film network with over 38,000 members and over 200 films crewed and cast using their services every week. Patrons of Shooting People include Mike Figgis, Michael Winterbottom, Sally Potter, Kevin Smith, and Danny Boyle. Cath was the recipient of the Sundance/Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant in 2010. Her short films have won numerous awards including the Best British Short at the Edinburg International Film Festival, Best Short Film at the Barcelona Film Festival, and nominations such as Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival.
This week, Tim Cogshell sitting in for Mark who’s been captured by aliens! The Gods salute Black History Month, kneel before Branagh’s “Henry V” on blu-ray and wonder whatever happened to Mike Figgis. Digigods Podcast, 02/10/15 (MP3) -- 30.8 MB right click to save Subscribe to the Digigods Podcast In this episode, the Gods discuss: 7 Shades of Sexy (DVD) Addicted (DVD) The African Americans & Black In Latin America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (DVD) Air Supply - Live In Hong Kong (Blu-ray) Amazing Grace (Blu-ray) The Americans: Season Two (DVD) Arrested Development: Season Four (DVD) Attention Shoppers (DVD-R) Banshee: Season 2 (Blu-ray) Beneath The 12-Mile Reef; Raiders From Beneath The Sea; Down To The Sea In Ships (DVD-R) Black Sails: The Complete First Season (Blu-ray) Black Sunday (Blu-ray) The Bride Wore Black (DVD-R) The Cisco Kid; The Return Of The Cisco Kid; The Cisco Kid And The Lady (DVD) Come to the Stable / Three Blind Mice / Suez (DVD-R) Continuum: Season Three (Blu-ray) Crime Scene Cleaner (DVD) Cult of the Damned (Blu-ray) Dominion: Season One (Blu-ray) Don Matteo - Sets 7 & 8 (DVD) Downton Abbey: Seasons 1, 2, 3 & 4 (Blu-ray) The Eagle: Season 2 (DVD) The Eagle: Season 3 (DVD) Episodes: The Third Season (DVD) The Facts of Life - The Complete Series (DVD) Five on the Black Hand Side (DVD-R) Foxes of Harrow / Staircase / A Flea in Her Ear (DVD-R) Game of Thrones: Season 4 (Blu-ray) Getting Even With Dad (DVD-R) Henry V (Blu-ray) High Tension (DVD-R) A Hole in the Head (Blu-ray) Ice Cold Gold - Season One (DVD) In the Face of Crime (DVD) The Inspector and the Sea: Season 1 (DVD) The Inspector and the Sea: Season 2 (DVD) International Settlement (DVD-R) It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (DVD-R) Joe's Apartment (DVD-R) Johan Falk: Season 1 (DVD) Kill or Cure (DVD-R) The King and Four Queens (MGM Limited Edition Collection) (DVD-R) King of Burlesque (DVD-R) King: The Martin Luther King Story (Blu-ray) A Kiss Before Dying (MGM Limited Edition Collection) (DVD-R) The Knack... And How to Get It (MGM Limited Edition Collection) (DVD-R) Konga (DVD-R) Lloyds of London (DVD-R) The Man With Two Brains (DVD-R) Marie's Mind for Murder - Set 1 (DVD) Mars Needs Women (MGM Limited Edition Collection) (DVD-R) Miss Julie (DVD-R) The Monster that Challenged the World (DVD-R) The Mouse on the Moon (DVD-R) Nas: Time is Illmatic (DVD) New Faces of 1937 (DVD-R) The New Public (DVD) Nicolas Le Floch - Volume 2 (DVD) The Office: The Complete Series (DVD) Orchids to You (DVD-R) The Pleasure Seekers; Three Little Girls In Blue; The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (DVD) Pork Chop Hill (Blu-ray) Red Skies Of Montana; Siege At Red River; Untamed (DVD) Remake Rewind: D.O.A. (1950/1988) (DVD) Remake Rewind: Gloria (1980/1999) (DVD) Remake Rewind: When A Stranger Calls (1979/2006) (DVD) The Retrieval (DVD) Return to Me (Blu-ray) RIkky & Pete (DVD-R) The RKO Brown and Carney Comedy Collection (DVD-R) RKO Double Feature: Old Man Rhythm / To Beat the Band (DVD-R) Road to Glory / Earthbound / Wife, Husband and Friend (DVD-R) Running on Empty (DVD-R) RX Murder (DVD-R) Seventh Heaven (DVD-R) Stingray: The Complete Series-50th Anniversary Edition (DVD) The Story of Adele H. (MGM Limited Edition Collection) (DVD-R) Taffin (DVD-R) Take Her, She's Mine / Hit the Jackpot / No Highway in the Sky (DVD-R) Teenage Rebel / Dreamboat / Change of Heart (DVD-R) Through a Lens Darkly (2014) (DVD) Unit One: Series 1 (DVD) Unit One: Series 2 (DVD) Unit One: Series 3 (DVD) Warm Summer Rain (DVD-R) Wigstock: The Movie (DVD-R) Please also visit CineGods.com.
Mike Figgis on his time in an experimental theatre troupe. Mike Figgis is an English film director, screenwriter, and composer. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
Special Guests: Golden Globe winner - Actor/Producer/Director Matthew Modine and Producer Adam Rackoff known for award winning films and new media projects such as, Bill Plympton's Cheatin', Jesus Was a Commie, and the Full Metal Jacket Diary app. They will join Take 2 Radio on Wednesday, Dec. 17th at 8pm eastern time. We will chat about the newly released audio book for Full Metal Jacket Diary produced by Adam and narrated by Matthew and the award winning iPad app! For nearly four decades Matthew has partnered and worked with many of the film industry's most respected directors, including Oliver Stone, Sir Alan Parker, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Alan J. Pakula, John Schlesinger, Tony Richardson, Robert Falls, Sir Peter Hall, Abel Ferrara, Spike Lee, Tom DiCillo, Alan Rudolph, Mike Figgis, Jonathan Demme, and John Sayles. Matthew has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and is the recipient of one, Altman's multiple award-winning Short Cuts. Modine is well remembered for the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy which won the Cannes Film Festival's Gran Prix Award. His work in Rudolph's Equinox helped earn the film four Independent Spirit Award nominations including Best Film and Best Actor for Modine. He's also the recipient of two acting awards from the Venice Film Festival, the Volpi Cup and Golden Lion.
Como deixar passar o número da nossa cachaça em branco? Sendo muito óbvios, Tiago, o Tigre (@tiagoplira), José Rodrigo Baldin (@JRodBaldin) e Tullio Dias (@2t_dias) fazem uma seleção de filmes altamente etílicos que você DEVE assistir: • Coração Louco (Crazy Heart, 2009, Dir Scott Cooper); • Sideways – Entre Umas e Outras (Sideways, 2004, Dir Alexander Payne); • Despedida em Las Vegas (Leaving Las Vegas, 1995, Dir Mike Figgis); e • Farrapo Humano (The Lost Weekend, 1945, Dir Billy Wilder). Há spoilers leves sobre todos os filmes. E ouça as edições anteriores em http://umtigrenocinema.com/tigrecast
Como deixar passar o número da nossa cachaça em branco? Sendo muito óbvios, Tiago, o Tigre (@tiagoplira), José Rodrigo Baldin (@JRodBaldin) e Tullio Dias (@2t_dias) fazem uma seleção de filmes altamente etílicos que você DEVE assistir: • Coração Louco (Crazy Heart, 2009, Dir Scott Cooper); • Sideways – Entre Umas e Outras (Sideways, 2004, Dir Alexander Payne); • Despedida em Las Vegas (Leaving Las Vegas, 1995, Dir Mike Figgis); e • Farrapo Humano (The Lost Weekend, 1945, Dir Billy Wilder). Há spoilers leves sobre todos os filmes. E ouça as edições anteriores em http://umtigrenocinema.com/tigrecast
In the final essay of this series, Mike Figgis reflects on the lessons he learned while working on big studio films in Hollywood and on how those experiences shaped his own approach to directing.Mike Figgis is an Academy Award nominated film director, writer, and composer. His films include, Suspension of Disbelief (2013), Love Live Long (2008), Cold Creek Manor (2003), Hotel (2001), Miss Julie (1999), One Night Stand (1997), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Browning Version (1994), Internal Affairs (1990) and Stormy Monday (1988).The series is produced by Sasha Yevtushenko.First broadcast in February 2012.
With John Wilson. Mary, Queen of Scots: betrayed Catholic martyr or murdering adulteress? A new exhibition at the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh re-examines Mary Stewart through portraits, documents, jewellery and furniture. Poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead - whose play, Mary Queen Of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, looked at the relationship between Mary and Elizabeth I - reviews the exhibition. Film director Mike Figgis is best-known for Timecode and Leaving Las Vegas, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. His latest project is Suspension Of Disbelief, a noir thriller which focuses on the art of film-making and narrative. He discusses storytelling in cinema, the current state of the UK film industry and his experiences directing James Gandolfini on the set of The Sopranos. Front Row pays tribute to stage designer Mark Fisher, who completely transformed the way that rock shows took place, and designed for The Rolling Stones, U2, Peter Gabriel and Pink Floyd, as well as for the Beijing and London Olympics, and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert. Oscar-nominated actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste, currently starring in The Amen Corner at the National Theatre, reveals her choice for Cultural Exchange: jazz trumpeter Miles Davis's influential album, Kind Of Blue. Producer Rebecca Nicholson.
Andrew is best known for working as a production designer internationally on the many feature films that he has made for over 25 years. Andrew has worked on films such as Sid and Nancy for Alex Cox, Stormy Monday for Mike Figgis, The Piano for Jane Campion for which he won an AFI and BAFTA award, and Clockers for Spike Lee. Andrew's more recent production design work over the years includes: The Reckoning, Dean Spanley, An Education, Made in Dagenham, Love Birds, Quartet, and the upcoming Half A Yellow Sun.
Programa dedicado a las películas filmadas enteramente en plano secuencia, en películas como Rope de Hitchcock, Timecode de Mike Figgis, PVC-1, La Casa Muda y Secuestrados. Además con las habituales secciones de Estrenos, Noticias, Trivia y Banda Sonora.
Programa dedicado a las películas filmadas enteramente en plano secuencia, en películas como Rope de Hitchcock, Timecode de Mike Figgis, PVC-1, La Casa Muda y Secuestrados. Además con las habituales secciones de Estrenos, Noticias, Trivia y Banda Sonora.
Matthew Sweet discusses the legacy of Sylvia Plath, who died 50 years ago this week, with her friend Ruth Fainlight and the poet Fiona Sampson. Tacita Dean and film maker Mike Figgis join Matthew in the studio to discuss the shift in film from traditional to digital technology and its implications. A review of The Bride and the Bachelors, a new exhibition of the work of Marcel Duchamp. And the science writer Marcus Chown and futurologist Anders Sandberg discuss the potential threats caused by two asteroids passing close to the Earth.
Andrew Marr talks to the British film-maker Mike Figgis about directing Donizetti's most psychologically profound opera, Lucrezia Borgia. Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell looks to the end of the world as the Mayans believed it, to discuss the communication of science. The businesswoman Margaret Heffernan asks how and why individuals and society as a whole choose to turn a blind eye to the uncomfortable truth. And society is also under the spotlight from the historian Edward Higgs, who champions the on-going importance of the census. Producer: Katy Hickman.
ONE HEAT MINUTE is the podcast examining Michael Mann's 1995 L.A crime opus HEAT minute by minute. In this very special bonus episode, the only man (besides Michael Mann) to connect HEAT and L.A Takedown joins host Blake Howard to talk about his small and unforgettable role as Ralph, Xander Berkely. Blake and Xander discuss being in the orbit of Michael Mann and casting director Bonnie Timmerman since a guest-starring role on Miami Vice, illuminating Blake on the evolution of pilot “Hannah” into “L.A Takedown,” modelling his Waingro’s physicality on the infamous Hillside Strangler and even throws in a Pacino “SIDDOWN.”GUEST BIOXander BerkeleyXander's father was a painter and his mother a school teacher who sewed, providing him with costumes (his preference over toys). School plays and Community Theater were next. An experimental theater troupe in the area (which was an offshoot from Joseph Chaikin's Open Theater in New York) took Xander under their wing when he was 16. He credits this group for shaping him as both a person and an actor, committed to taking risks and remaining open to the unknown. Xander went to Hampshire College, the progressive brainchild of Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Amherst, and the University of Massachusetts. He would continue in the theater at Hampshire, studying and doing plays at each of the other schools, all of which were there in the area.A move to New York after college brought him access to private teachers from the Royal Academy of the Arts, the Moscow Arts Theater and HB Studios. Later in Los Angeles, Xander would spend time with Lee Strasberg at The Actor's Studio during the last years of his life.Xander worked in Regional and Repertory Theaters in addition to off-Broadway while living in New York but, despite a classically trained theater background, he was increasingly drawn to the subtleties of film acting. A play, written by the great southern novelist Reynolds Price, called "Early Dark" had such a cinematic feel to it, that an agent saw the film acting potential in Xander and encouraged him to make the move out west.Soon Mommie Dearest (1981) provided Xander with his film debut in the role of "Christopher Crawford", and simultaneously gave his career a slightly cultish twist. Alex Cox with Sid and Nancy (1986), James Cameron with Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Bernard Rose with Candyman (1992), Todd Haynes with Safe (1995), Mike Figgis with Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Andrew Niccol with Gattaca (1997) all helped to further associate Xander as an actor in his own rather unusual category.Xander's choices were often determined by the opportunity to learn from directors he admired, certainly all those listed above fell into that category. Clint Eastwood with The Rookie (1990), Ron Howard with Apollo 13 (1995), Rob Reiner with A Few Good Men (1992), Michael Mann with Heat (1995), Wolfgang Petersen with Air Force One (1997), Steven Spielberg with Amistad (1997) are obvious examples of others Xander actively sought to work with and learn from.From obscure independent movies where Xander could play lead roles to the big budget studio movies where he might often play smaller character-driven parts, an education was taking place. Just as working with older directors like Michael Cacoyannis on The Cherry Orchard (1999) and Robert M. Young on Human Error (2004) (aka "Human Error") brought insights to ways of working that are being lost in pop cultures tendency to slide toward slickness. Not to mention bringing him to places like Bulgaria and China along the way.Perhaps because a life in the foreign services, or espionage was seen as a road not taken, living on location in foreign countries, working as an actor, has somewhat fulfilled the impulse. As early as 1987, a film took Xander to Nicaragua while the Contra War was taking place. It was during this three month shoot on the film Walker (1987) (starring Ed Harris) that Xander got an offer to do a film with his friend, director Jon Hess, in Chile for the following three months. Taking him straight from the revolutionary left-wing Sandanistas to Pinochet's fascist, right-wing regime.In 2001, an offer came in to play a part on a TV pilot called 24 (2001). It was another shady agent-type, and reluctant to repeat his performance from Air Force One (1997) as the turncoat secret serviceman, Xander almost passed on the job. Fortunately for him, he said yes. He met his future wife, Sarah Clarke during the first day of filming. His character, "George Mason", was just a guest star in the pilot, but the producers liked what Xander brought to it and continued to write more episodes for him. By the second season, it had become perhaps the most interesting, leveled character Xander had ever gotten to play. Sarah and Xander were married in 2002 and had their daughters, Olwyn in 2006 and Rowan in 2010.Other favorite roles of late have been "Arlen Pavich", the middle management dweeb, in Niki Caro's North Country (2005), and the Irish hooligan/railway foreman in David Von Ancken's Seraphim Falls (2006) and, more recently, "The King of Sodom" in Harold Ramis' Year One (2009), "Sonny" in David Pomes' Cook County (2008), the recovering meth head coming out of prison to discover the life he had left (and destroyed), and crazy "Uncle Doug" in David Wike's Out There (2006) (aka "Out There").- IMDb Mini Biography By: MosaicSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/donations
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