Ebertfest
Films -- 2013
Table:
Title

Director

Year

Starring

Notes

Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick

1978

Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz

Post-film Q&A included Haskell Wexler (cinematographer)

I Remember (short)

Grace Wang

2012

Lily Huang, Chris Chang

Pre-film introduction included Wang and June Kim (director of photography)

Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh

Paul Cox

1989

John Hurt, Marika Rivera, Gabriella Trsek

To Music (short)

Sophie Kohn, Feike Santbergen

2013

Paul Cox, Roger Glanville-Hicks, Henriett Tunyogi, Tamás Vásáry

Pre-film introduction included Kohn and Santbergen

In the Family

Patrick Wang

2012

Sebastian Banes, Patrick Wang, Trevor St. John

Post-film Q&A included Wang and St. John

Bernie

Richard Linklater

2011

Jack Black, Shirley McLaine, Matthew McConaughey

Post-film Q&A included Linklater and Black (via conference call)

Oslo, August 31st

Joachim Trier

2011

Anders Danielsen Lie

Post-film Q&A included Trier

The Ballad of Narayama

Keisuke Kinoshita

1958

Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yūko Mochizuki

Post-film Q&A included David Bordwell (film historian)

Julia

Erick Zonca

2008

Tilda Swinton, Aidan Gould, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo

Post-film Q&A included Swinton

Blancanieves

Pablo Berger

2012

Maribel Verdú

Post-film Q&A included Berger

Kumaré

Vikram Gandhi

2011

Vikram Gandhi

Post-film Q&A included Gandhi

Escape from Tomorrow

Randy Moore

2013

Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, Katelynn Rodriguez, Annet Mahendru, Danielle Safady, Alison Lees-Taylor

Post-film Q&A included Moore, Soojin Chung (producer), Abramsohn, Schuber, Mahendru

The Spectacular Now

James Ponsoldt

2013

Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Brie Larson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kyle Chandler

Post-film Q&A included Ponsoldt and Woodley

Not Yet Begun to Fight

Sabrina Lee, Shasta Grenier

2012

Navy SEAL Elliott Miller, Sgt. Erik Goodge, Col. Eric Hastings

Post-film Q&A included Lee and Goodge

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Days of Heaven is a 1978 American romantic period drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Richard Gere , Brooke Adams , Sam Shepard , and Linda Manz . Set in 1916 , it tells the story of Bill and Abby , lovers who travel to the Texas Panhandle to harvest crops for a wealthy farmer . Bill encourages Abby to claim the fortune of the dying farmer by tricking him into a false marriage . Days of Heaven was Malick 's second feature film , after Badlands ( 1973 ) , and was produced on a budget of $ 3 million . Production was particularly troublesome , with a tight shooting schedule in Canada in 1976 and significant budget constraints . Additionally , editing took Malick a lengthy two years , due to difficulty with achieving a general flow and assembly of the scenes . This was eventually solved with an added , improvised narration by Linda Manz . The film was scored by Ennio Morricone and photographed by Néstor Almendros and Haskell Wexler . Days of Heaven received positive reviews on its original theatrical release ; its photography was widely praised , although a small number of critics considered only this aspect to be worthy of high praise . It was not a significant commercial success , but did win an Academy Award for Best Cinematography along with three nominations for the score , costume design and sound . Malick also won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival . Days of Heaven has since become one of the most acclaimed films of its decade , noted particularly for its cinematography .
Terrence Frederick Malick ( born November 30 , 1943 ) is an American film director , screenwriter , and producer . Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood film-making wave with the films Badlands ( 1973 ) , about a murderous couple on the run in 1950s American Midwest , and Days of Heaven ( 1978 ) , which detailed the love-triangle between two labourers and a wealthy farmer in the First World War , before a lengthy hiatus . He returned to directing with films such as The Thin Red Line ( 1998 ) , The New World ( 2005 ) , and The Tree of Life ( 2011 ) , being awarded the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival and the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival , respectively . Malick 's films have been noted for exploring themes such as individual transcendence , nature , and conflicts between reason and instinct . They are typically marked by broad philosophical and spiritual overtones , as well as the use of meditative voice-overs from individual characters . The stylistic elements of the director 's work have inspired divided opinions among film scholars and audiences ; some praised his films for their cinematography and aesthetics , while others found them lacking in plot and character development . His first five films have nonetheless ranked highly in retrospective decade-end and all-time polls .
Richard Tiffany Gere ( IPA : /ɡɪər/ GEER ; born August 31 , 1949 ) [ citation needed ] is an American actor and producer . He began in films in the 1970s , playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar ( 1977 ) and a starring role in Days of Heaven ( 1978 ) . He came to prominence with his role in the film American Gigolo ( 1980 ) , which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol . He went on to star in many well-received films , including An Officer and a Gentleman ( 1982 ) , The Cotton Club ( 1984 ) , Pretty Woman ( 1990 ) , Sommersby ( 1993 ) , Primal Fear ( 1996 ) , Runaway Bride ( 1999 ) , I 'm Not There ( 2007 ) , Arbitrage ( 2012 ) and Norman : The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer ( 2016 ) . For portraying Billy Flynn in the Academy Award-winning musical Chicago ( 2002 ) , he won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the cast .
Brooke Adams ( born February 8 , 1949 ) is an American actress . She is best known for her film roles as Abby in Days of Heaven ( 1978 ) , Elizabeth Driscoll in Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1978 ) and Sarah Bracknell in The Dead Zone ( 1983 ) .
Samuel Shepard Rogers III ( November 5 , 1943 - July 27 , 2017 ) , known professionally as Sam Shepard , was an American actor , playwright , author , screenwriter , and director whose career spanned half a century . He won ten Obie Awards for writing and directing , the most won by any writer or director . He wrote 44 plays as well as several books of short stories , essays , and memoirs . Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff . He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009 . New York magazine described Shepard as the greatest American playwright of his generation . Shepard 's plays are known for their bleak , poetic , surrealist elements , black comedy , and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society . His style evolved from the absurdism of his early off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class .
Linda Manz ( born August 20 , 1961 ) is a retired American actress , mainly active from 1978 to 1985 . She is best known for her roles in Days of Heaven ( 1978 ) , Out of the Blue ( 1980 ) and Gummo ( 1997 ) .
Haskell Wexler , ASC ( February 6 , 1922 - December 27 , 2015 ) was an American cinematographer , film producer and director . Wexler was judged to be one of film history 's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild .
Vincent : The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh is a documentary film by Australian director Paul Cox , exploring the last eight years of the artist 's life . Cox was attracted to the project because of his personal admiration for Vincent van Gogh :
Paulus Henrique Benedictus Cox ( 16 April 1940 - 18 June 2016 ) as Paul Cox , was a Dutch-Australian filmmaker , who has been recognized as Australia 's most prolific film auteur .
Sir John Vincent Hurt CBE ( 22 January 1940 - 25 January 2017 ) was an English actor whose career spanned more than 50 years . Hurt came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Seasons ( 1966 ) and gained BAFTA Award nominations for his portrayals of Timothy Evans in 10 Rillington Place ( 1971 ) and Quentin Crisp in television film The Naked Civil Servant ( 1975 ) - winning his first BAFTA for the latter . He played Caligula in the BBC TV series I , Claudius ( 1976 ) . Hurt 's performance in the prison drama Midnight Express ( 1978 ) brought him international renown and earned Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards , along with an Academy Award nomination . His BAFTA-nominated portrayal of astronaut Kane , in the science-fiction horror film Alien ( 1979 ) , yielded a scene where an alien creature burst out of his chest . It has been named by several publications as one of the most memorable moments in cinema history . Hurt earned his third competitive BAFTA , along with his second Oscar and Golden Globe nominations , as John Merrick in David Lynch 's biopic The Elephant Man ( 1980 ) . Other significant roles during the 1980s included Bob Champion in biopic Champions ( 1984 ) , Mr. Braddock in the Stephen Frears drama The Hit ( 1984 ) , Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1984 ) and Stephen Ward in the drama depicting the Profumo affair , Scandal ( 1989 ) . Hurt was again BAFTA-nominated for his work in Irish drama The Field ( 1990 ) and played the primary villain , James Graham , in the epic adventure Rob Roy ( 1995 ) . His later films include the Harry Potter film series ( 2001-11 ) , the Hellboy films ( 2004 and 2008 ) , supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key ( 2005 ) , western The Proposition ( 2005 ) , political thriller V for Vendetta ( 2005 ) , sci-fi adventure Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ) and the Cold War espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ( 2011 ) . Hurt reprised his role as Quentin Crisp in An Englishman in New York ( 2009 ) , which brought his seventh BAFTA nomination . He portrayed the War Doctor in BBC TV series Doctor Who in 2013 .
Marika Rivera ( November 13 , 1919 - January 14 , 2010 ) was a French-born film and stage actress and dancer .
Tamás Vásáry ( Hungarian pronunciation : [ ˈtɒmaːʃ ˈvaːʃaːri ] ; born 11 August 1933 ) is a Hungarian concert pianist and conductor .
In the Family is an independent 2011 drama film that was the directorial debut of Patrick Wang . It tells the story of the surviving partner 's attempt to maintain his relationship with his dead partner 's young son .
Patrick Wang is an American writer , economist , director and actor . His first feature film , In the Family , was released in 2011 .
Trevor Marshall St. John ( born September 3 , 1971 ) is an American actor . He portrayed Todd Manning/Victor Lord Jr. on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live , and has starred in various primetime shows and films . He is also known for his performances in Patrick Wang 's critically acclaimed independent drama films In the Family and The Grief of Others .
Bernie is a 2011 American dark comedy film directed by Richard Linklater , written by Linklater and Skip Hollandsworth . The film stars Jack Black , Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey . It is based on a 1998 Texas Monthly magazine article by Hollandsworth , Midnight in the Garden of East Texas , that chronicles the 1996 murder of 80-year-old millionairess Marjorie Nugent in Carthage , Texas by her 39-year-old companion , Bernhardt Bernie Tiede . Tiede proved so highly regarded in Carthage that , in spite of Tiede 's confession to the police , the district attorney was eventually forced to request a rare prosecutorial change of venue in order to get an impartial jury . The film received critical acclaim for its direction , accuracy to the real-life event , Town Gossips element , and particular praise for Jack Black 's portrayal of Tiede , with many calling it his best performance to date .
Richard Stuart Linklater ( /ˈlɪŋkleɪtər/ ; born July 30 , 1960 ) is an American filmmaker . He is known for films that revolve mainly around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time . His films include the observational comedy film Slacker ( 1990 ) ; the coming-of-age comedy film Dazed and Confused ( 1993 ) ; the romantic drama Before trilogy , Before Sunrise ( 1995 ) , Before Sunset ( 2004 ) , and Before Midnight ( 2013 ) ; the music-themed comedy School of Rock ( 2003 ) ; the animated films Waking Life ( 2001 ) and A Scanner Darkly ( 2006 ) ; the epic coming-of-age drama Boyhood ( 2014 ) ; and the comedy film Everybody Wants Some ! ! ( 2016 ) . In 2015 , Linklater was included on the annual Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world . Linklater is known to have a distinct style and method of filmmaking . Many of his films are noted for their loosely structured narrative ; several of his projects - the Before . films and Boyhood - feature the same actors filmed over an extended period of years .
Thomas Jacob Jack Black ( born August 28 , 1969 ) is an American actor , comedian , singer , musician , songwriter , and YouTuber . He is known for his roles in films such as High Fidelity ( 2000 ) , Shallow Hal ( 2001 ) , School of Rock ( 2003 ) , King Kong ( 2005 ) , Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny ( 2006 ) , The Holiday ( 2006 ) , the Kung Fu Panda franchise ( 2008-2016 ) , Tropic Thunder ( 2008 ) , Gulliver 's Travels ( 2010 ) , Bernie ( 2011 ) , Goosebumps ( 2015 ) , Jumanji : Welcome to the Jungle ( 2017 ) and its sequel , Jumanji : The Next Level ( 2019 ) . For his work in School of Rock and Bernie , he gained Golden Globe nominations , and was inducted into Hollywood 's Walk of Fame in 2018 . Outside of acting , Black is the lead vocalist of the Grammy Award-winning comedic rock duo Tenacious D , which he formed in 1994 with Kyle Gass . They have released the albums Tenacious D , The Pick of Destiny , Rize of the Fenix , and Post-Apocalypto . In December 2018 , Black launched his YouTube channel Jablinski Games .
Shirley MacLaine ( born Shirley MacLean Beaty ; April 24 , 1934 ) is an American film , television , and theater actress , singer , dancer , activist , and author . An Oscar winner , MacLaine received the 40th AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 2012 , and received the Kennedy Center Honors for her lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts in 2013 . She is known for her New Age beliefs , and has an interest in spirituality and reincarnation . She has written a series of autobiographical works that describe these beliefs , document her world travels , and describe her Hollywood career . Her first film was Alfred Hitchcock 's The Trouble With Harry in 1955 . A six-time Academy Award nominee , MacLaine received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature for The Other Half of the Sky : A China Memoir ( 1975 ) , and Best Actress nominations for Some Came Running ( 1958 ) , The Apartment ( 1960 ) , Irma la Douce ( 1963 ) , and The Turning Point ( 1977 ) , before winning Best Actress for Terms of Endearment ( 1983 ) . She twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress , for Ask Any Girl ( 1959 ) , and The Apartment ( 1960 ) ; and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Special for the 1976 TV special , Gypsy In My Soul . She has also won five competitive Golden Globe Awards , ( from nineteen nominations ) , and received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 1998 ceremony .
Matthew David McConaughey ( /məˈkɒnəheɪ/ ; born November 4 , 1969 ) is an American actor and producer . He first gained notice for his supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused ( 1993 ) , considered by many to be his breakout role . After a number of supporting roles in films including Angels in the Outfield ( 1994 ) and Texas Chainsaw Massacre : The Next Generation ( 1994 ) , his breakthrough performance as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill ( 1996 ) . He followed this with leading performances in the science fiction film Contact ( 1997 ) and the historical drama Amistad ( 1997 ) , the comedy-drama The Newton Boys ( 1998 ) , the satire EDtv ( 1999 ) , the war film U-571 ( 2000 ) , and the psychological thriller Frailty ( 2001 ) . In the 2000s , McConaughey became best known for starring in romantic comedies , including The Wedding Planner ( 2001 ) , How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ( 2003 ) , Failure to Launch ( 2006 ) , Fool 's Gold ( 2008 ) , and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past ( 2009 ) , establishing him as a sex symbol . After a two-year hiatus from film acting , McConaughey began to appear in more dramatic roles beginning with the legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer ( 2011 ) . He was acclaimed for his supporting performances in Bernie ( 2011 ) , Magic Mike ( 2012 ) and The Wolf of Wall Street ( 2013 ) , and for his leading roles in Killer Joe ( 2011 ) and Mud ( 2012 ) . McConaughey 's portrayal of Ron Woodroof , a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS , in the biopic Dallas Buyers Club ( 2013 ) earned him widespread praise and numerous accolades , including the Academy Award for Best Actor . In 2014 , he starred as Rust Cohle in the first season of HBO 's crime anthology series True Detective , for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series . His film roles since have included Interstellar ( 2014 ) , The Sea of Trees ( 2015 ) , Free State of Jones ( 2016 ) , Gold ( 2016 ) , and The Dark Tower ( 2017 ) , earning varying degrees of commercial and critical success , as well as voice work in Kubo and the Two Strings ( 2016 ) and Sing ( 2016 ) .
Oslo , August 31st ( Norwegian : Oslo , 31. august ) is a 2011 Norwegian drama film directed by Joachim Trier . It is loosely based on the novel Will O ' the Wisp by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle . It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival . It won the Best Film and Best Cinematography awards at the 2011 Stockholm International Film Festival , where jury president Whit Stillman called the film a perfectly painted portrait of a generation . It received widespread critical acclaim , and was one of three films on the Norwegian shortlist for submissions to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film .
Joachim Trier ( born 1 March 1974 ) is a Norwegian film director raised in Oslo , Norway . His father , Jacob Trier , was the sound technician of The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix , a notable film produced in Norway in 1975 .
Anders Danielsen Lie ( born 1 January 1979 ) is a Norwegian actor , musician and medical doctor . Danielsen Lie made his film debut when he was 11 years old in the title role of Herman ( 1990 ) by Erik Gustavson . He is best known for his leading roles in multi-award winning Reprise ( 2006 ) and Oslo , 31 August ( 2011 ) by Danish-Norwegian director Joachim Trier . Oslo , 31 August was selected for Un Certain Regard at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival . On 11 April 2011 Danielsen Lie released This is autism. , a concept album with music written , performed and produced by himself , loosely based on recordings from his childhood . Lie is the son of Amanda Award-winning actor Tone Danielsen . He is married to Norwegian model Iselin Steiro and the two have a daughter .
The Ballad of Narayama ( 楢山節考 , Narayama-bushi Kō ) is a 1958 Japanese period film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita and based on the 1956 novella of the same name by Shichirō Fukazawa . The film explores the legendary practice of obasute , in which elderly people were carried to a mountain and abandoned to die .
Keisuke Kinoshita ( 木下 惠介 , Kinoshita Keisuke , December 5 , 1912 - December 30 , 1998 ) was a Japanese film director . Kinoshita was highly prolific , turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career . For this , Kinoshita explained that he cant help it . Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket . While lesser-known internationally than contemporaries such as Akira Kurosawa , Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu , he was a household figure in his home country , beloved by both critics and audiences from the 1940s to the 1960s .
Kinuyo Tanaka ( 田中 絹代 , Tanaka Kinuyo , 29 November 1909 - 21 March 1977 ) was a Japanese actress and director . She had a career lasting over 50 years with more than 250 credited films , and was best known for her roles in collaboration with director Kenji Mizoguchi over 15 films between 1940 and 1954 . She was also a second cousin to director Masaki Kobayashi .
Yūko Mochizuki ( 望月優子 , Mochizuki Yūko , January 28 , 1917 - December 1 , 1977 ) was a Japanese actress . She won the award for best actress at the 8th Blue Ribbon Awards for The Rice People and Unagitori . She was also awarded best actress at the 1954 Mainichi Film Concours for her work on A Japanese Tragedy .
David Jay Bordwell ( /ˈbɔːrdwɛl/ ; born July 23 , 1947 ) is an American film theorist and film historian . Since receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1974 , he has written more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including Narration in the Fiction Film ( 1985 ) , Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema ( 1988 ) , Making Meaning ( 1989 ) , and On the History of Film Style ( 1997 ) . With his wife Kristin Thompson , Bordwell wrote the introductory textbooks Film Art ( 1979 ) and Film History ( 1994 ) . With aesthetic philosopher Noël Carroll , Bordwell edited the anthology Post-Theory : Reconstructing Film Studies ( 1996 ) , a polemic on the state of contemporary film theory . His largest work to date remains The Classical Hollywood Cinema : Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 ( 1985 ) , written in collaboration with Thompson and Janet Staiger . Several of his more influential articles on theory , narrative , and style were collected in Poetics of Cinema ( 2007 ) , named in homage after the famous anthology of Russian formalist film theory Poetika Kino , edited by Boris Eikhenbaum in 1927 . Bordwell spent nearly the entirety of his career as a professor of film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , where he is currently the Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies , Emeritus in the Department of Communication Arts . Notable film theorists who wrote their dissertations under his advisement include Edward Branigan , Murray Smith , and Carl Plantinga . He and Thompson maintain the blog Observations on film art for their recent ruminations on cinema .
Julia is a 2008 French crime drama film , directed by Erick Zonca , starring Tilda Swinton . It was shot in California and Mexico . The film was inspired by the John Cassavetes film Gloria .
Érick Zonca is a French film director and screenwriter . His first films were shorts Rives ( 1992 ) , Eternelles ( 1995 ) , and Seule ( 1997 ) . Zonca is best known for his critically acclaimed and award-winning 1998 feature film debut The Dreamlife of Angels . The film won the Best Actress award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival . Zonca 's second feature was Le Petit Voleur ( The Little Thief ) ( 1999 ) . His film Julia ( 2008 ) is based on John Cassavetes ' 1980 film Gloria . It stars Tilda Swinton and was shot in California and Mexico . Other films include White Soldier , a TV movie , was released in 2014 . Zonca also made a French road safety PSA dramatic short film in 2015 . In 2018 , he directed Black Tide starring Vincent Cassel .
Katherine Matilda Swinton ( born 5 November 1960 ) is a British actress , known for her roles in both independent arthouse films and blockbusters . She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 2007 film Michael Clayton . She also won the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actress for the 2003 film Young Adam , and has received three Golden Globe Award nominations . Swinton began her career in experimental films , directed by Derek Jarman , starting with Caravaggio ( 1986 ) , followed by The Last of England ( 1988 ) , War Requiem ( 1989 ) , and The Garden ( 1990 ) . Swinton won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of Isabella of France in Edward II ( 1991 ) . She next starred in Sally Potter 's Orlando ( 1992 ) , and was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actress . Swinton was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deep End ( 2001 ) . She followed this with appearances in Vanilla Sky ( 2001 ) , Adaptation ( 2002 ) , Constantine ( 2005 ) , Julia ( 2008 ) , and I Am Love ( 2009 ) . She won the European Film Award for Best Actress and received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin ( 2011 ) . She is also known for her performance as the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia series ( 2005-2010 ) and the Ancient One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise . Swinton was given the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry . In 2013 , she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art .
Aidan Gould ( born February 26 , 1997 ) is an American actor . He is the elder brother of actor Nolan Gould .
Saul Rubinek ( born July 2 , 1948 ) is a German-born Canadian character actor , director , playwright , and producer of television , theatre , and film . He has had roles in notable films including Against All Odds ( 1984 ) , Wall Street ( 1987 ) , The Bonfire of the Vanities ( 1990 ) , True Romance ( 1993 ) , and Unforgiven ( 1992 ) . Rubinek is also known for his role as Artie Nielsen in the Syfy series Warehouse 13 and Louis B. Mayer in The Last Tycoon , and has had recurring roles on Frasier , A Nero Wolfe Mystery , and Leverage . He is a five-time Genie Award nominee , winning Best Supporting Actor for Ticket to Heaven ( 1981 ) , and a two-time Gemini Award nominee . His first play , Terrible Advice premiered in September 2011 .
Kate del Castillo Negrete Trillo ( Spanish pronunciation : [ ˈkeit ðel kasˈtiʝo neˈɣɾete ˈtɾiʝo ] ; born October 23 , 1972 ) is a Mexican-American actress . At the age of 20 , del Castillo became known for her lead role in the telenovela Muchachitas for Televisa in 1991 . Afterwards , she continued her career in film and television in Latin America . In 2011 , del Castillo earned recognition in the United States for playing the lead roles in La Reina del Sur and Netflix 's Ingobernable . Subsequently , del Castillo has worked in several American TV series and had supporting roles in the Hollywood feature films La misma luna , The 33 and El Chicano .
Blancanieves ( known as Blancaneu in Catalan ) is a 2012 Spanish black-and-white silent drama film written and directed by Pablo Berger . Based on the 1812 fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm , the story is set in a romantic vision of 1920s Andalusia . Berger calls it a love letter to European silent cinema . Blancanieves was Spain 's 85th Academy Awards official submission to Best Foreign Language category , but it did not make the shortlist . The film won the Special Jury Prize and an ex-aequo Best Actress Silver Shell Award for Macarena García at the 2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival . It was also nominated in every category for which it was eligible at the 27th Goya Awards ( except for Best Sound ) , winning ten Goya Awards , including the Best Film .
Pablo Berger Uranga ( born 1963 ) is a Spanish film director born in Bilbao , Spain .
María Isabel Verdú Rollán ( born 2 October 1970 ) , better known as Maribel Verdú ( Spanish pronunciation : [ maɾiˈβel βeɾˈðu ] ) is a Spanish actress . She played Luisa in Alfonso Cuarón 's 2001 film Y tu mamá también and Mercedes in Guillermo del Toro 's 2006 film Pan 's Labyrinth . She has also appeared in Lovers ( Amantes ) , Belle Époque , The Blind Sunflowers ( Los girasoles ciegos ) and Blancanieves .
Kūmāré is a 2011 documentary film directed by and starring American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi , who poses as an Indian guru to satirize the New Age movement .
Escape from Tomorrow is a 2013 American independent horror film written and directed by Randy Moore in his directorial debut . It tells the story of an unemployed father having increasingly bizarre experiences and disturbing visions on the last day of a family vacation at the Walt Disney World Resort . It premiered in January at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was later a personal selection of Roger Ebert , shown at his 15th annual film festival in Champaign , Illinois . The film was a 2012 official selection of the PollyGrind Film Festival , but at the time filmmakers were still working on some legal issues and asked that it not be screened . The film drew attention due to the fact that Moore had shot most of it on location at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland without permission from The Walt Disney Company , owner and operator of both parks . Due to Disney 's reputation of being protective of its intellectual property , the cast and crew used guerrilla filmmaking techniques to avoid attracting attention , such as keeping their scripts on their iPhones and shooting on handheld video cameras similar to those used by park visitors . After principal photography was complete , Moore was so determined to keep the project a secret from Disney that he edited it in South Korea . Sundance similarly declined to discuss the film in detail before it was shown . It was called the ultimate guerrilla film . Rather than suppressing the film as Moore claimed would happen , Disney chose to ignore it . It has been compared to the work of Roman Polanski and David Lynch . However , many who saw it expressed strong doubts that the film would be shown to a wider audience due to the legal issues involved and the negative depiction of the parks .
The Spectacular Now is a 2013 American coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by James Ponsoldt , written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber and starring Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley . Based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Tim Tharp about a high school senior grappling with alcoholism , the film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival , where it garnered critical acclaim . It was released in the United States on August 2 , 2013 and grossed $ 6 million worldwide .
James Adam Ponsoldt ( born 1978 ) [ citation needed ] is an American film director , actor and screenwriter , now based in Los Angeles . He directed the drama films Off the Black ( 2006 ) and Smashed ( 2012 ) , the romantic comedy-drama The Spectacular Now ( 2013 ) , and the dramas The End of the Tour ( 2015 ) and The Circle ( 2017 ) .
Miles Alexander Teller ( born February 20 , 1987 ) is an American actor . His films include The Spectacular Now , Whiplash , The Divergent Series , Bleed for This and Thank You for Your Service .
Shailene Diann Woodley ( born November 15 , 1991 ) is an American actress , film producer , and activist . Brought up in Simi Valley , California , Woodley began modeling at the age of four and began acting professionally in minor television roles . She first gained prominence for her starring role as Amy Juergens in the ABC Family drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager ( 2008-2013 ) . Woodley made her film debut in Alexander Payne 's comedy-drama The Descendants ( 2011 ) and went on to star in the coming of age film The Spectacular Now ( 2013 ) . For the former , she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture and the latter won her a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival . She achieved wider recognition for her starring role as a teenage cancer patient in the romantic drama The Fault in Our Stars ( 2014 ) and as Beatrice Prior in the science fiction film The Divergent Series ( 2014-2016 ) . From 2017 to 2019 , she played a sexual assault survivor in the HBO drama series Big Little Lies , for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award . Besides acting , Woodley is an environmental activist and has served as a board member of Our Revolution .
Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers ( born October 1 , 1989 ) , known professionally as Brie Larson , is an American actress and filmmaker . Noted for her supporting work in comedies when a teenager , she has since expanded to leading roles in independent dramas and film franchises , receiving such accolades as an Academy Award and a Golden Globe . Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019 . Born in Sacramento , California , Larson was homeschooled . At age six , she became the youngest student admitted to a training program at the American Conservatory Theater . She soon relocated to Los Angeles and began her acting career in 1998 with a comedy sketch in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno . She appeared as a regular in the 2001 sitcom Raising Dad and briefly dabbled with a music career , releasing the album Finally Out of P.E . in 2005 . Larson subsequently played supporting roles in the comedy films Hoot ( 2006 ) , Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ( 2010 ) , and 21 Jump Street ( 2012 ) , and appeared as a sardonic teenager in the television series United States of Tara ( 2009-2011 ) . Larson 's breakthrough came with a leading role in the acclaimed independent drama Short Term 12 ( 2013 ) , and she continued to take on supporting parts in the romance The Spectacular Now ( 2013 ) and the comedy Trainwreck ( 2015 ) . For playing a kidnapping victim in the drama Room ( 2015 ) , Larson won the Academy Award for Best Actress . The 2017 adventure film Kong : Skull Island marked her first big-budget release , after which she starred as Carol Danvers in the 2019 Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films Captain Marvel and Avengers : Endgame .
Jennifer Jason Leigh ( born Jennifer Leigh Morrow ; February 5 , 1962 ) is an American actress . She began her career on television during the 1970s before making her film breakthrough as Stacy Hamilton in Fast Times at Ridgemont High ( 1982 ) . She later received critical praise for her performances in Miami Blues ( 1990 ) , Last Exit to Brooklyn ( 1990 ) , Backdraft ( 1991 ) , Single White Female ( 1992 ) , and Short Cuts ( 1993 ) . Leigh was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle ( 1994 ) . She starred in a 1995 film written by her mother , screenwriter Barbara Turner , titled Georgia . In 2001 , she co-wrote and co-directed a film with Alan Cumming titled The Anniversary Party . In 2002 , Leigh appeared in the neo-noir crime drama film Road to Perdition . In 2007 , she starred in the family drama film Margot at the Wedding . She had a recurring role on the Showtime comedy-drama series Weeds as Jill Price-Gray . In 2015 , she received critical acclaim for her voice work as Lisa in Charlie Kaufman 's Anomalisa , and for her role as Daisy Domergue in Quentin Tarantino 's The Hateful Eight , for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Since 2017 , she has starred in the Netflix comedy-drama series Atypical . For her stage work , Leigh was nominated for a Drama Desk award for her Off-Broadway performance as Beverly Moss in Mike Leigh 's Abigail 's Party .
Mary Elizabeth Winstead ( born November 28 , 1984 ) is an American actress and singer . Her first significant role came as Jessica Bennett on the NBC soap opera Passions ( 1999-2000 ) . She went on to appear in such films as the superhero comedy Sky High ( 2005 ) and came to wider recognition as a scream queen for her roles in the supernatural horror series Wolf Lake ( 2001-2002 ) , the monster film Monster Island ( 2004 ) , the supernatural horror film Final Destination 3 ( 2006 ) , the slasher film Black Christmas ( 2006 ) , the exploitation horror film Death Proof ( 2007 ) , the science fiction horror film The Thing ( 2011 ) , the dark fantasy action horror film Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter ( 2012 ) , and the psychological horror-thriller film 10 Cloverfield Lane ( 2016 ) , among others . Further success came with her roles as John McClane 's daughter , Lucy Gennero-McClane , in the 2007 film , Live Free or Die Hard and again in 2013 in A Good Day to Die Hard . Her critically acclaimed performance as an alcoholic struggling with sobriety in the drama film Smashed ( 2012 ) was followed by numerous other well-received independent films . She was also Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ( 2010 ) , and the Huntress in Birds of Prey ( 2020 ) . Winstead returned to television with roles in the supernatural drama series The Returned ( 2015 ) , the political satire/science fiction comedy series BrainDead ( 2016 ) , the period medical drama series Mercy Street ( 2016-2017 ) , and the black comedy/drama anthology series Fargo ( 2017 ) . Since 2013 , Winstead has performed as half of the music duo Got a Girl , with Dan the Automator .
Kyle Martin Chandler ( born September 17 , 1965 ) is an American actor . Making his screen acting debut in a 1988 television film , Chandler 's first regular television role was in the ABC drama Homefront ( 1991-93 ) . This was followed by the lead role of Gary Hobson in the CBS series Early Edition ( 1996-2000 ) , for which he won a Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television . His other television roles include the short-lived sitcom What About Joan ? ( 2001 ) and the legal drama The Lyon 's Den ( 2003 ) , both short-lived , and a well-received guest appearance on the medical drama Grey 's Anatomy , for which Chandler received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination . Chandler received widespread critical acclaim for his performance as Eric Taylor in Friday Night Lights ( 2006-11 ) ; he received numerous award nominations for his portrayal of the character and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2011 for his performance in the show 's final season . Chandler 's film work has included notable supporting roles in King Kong ( 2005 ) , The Day the Earth Stood Still ( 2008 ) , Super 8 ( 2011 ) , Argo and Zero Dark Thirty ( 2012 ) , The Wolf of Wall Street ( 2013 ) , Carol ( 2015 ) , Manchester by the Sea ( 2016 ) and Game Night and First Man ( 2018 ) . Chandler 's first starring role on television since the conclusion of Friday Night Lights was as Det . John Rayburn in the Netflix thriller Bloodline ( 2015-17 ) , for which he received his tenth and eleventh Primetime Emmy Award nominations .