Unknown of Monte Carlo
Unknown of Monte Carlo( French: L'inconnue de Monte Carlo) is a 1939 French drama film directed by André Berthomieu and starring Dita Parlo, Albert Préjean and Jules Berry.
A separate Italian version" The Woman of Monte Carlo" was also made.
Curse of the Queerwolf
Curse of the Queerwolf is a 1988 comedy horror film directed by Mark Pirro.
Michael Palazzolo and Kent Butler starred in the film.
Terminal (Cook novel)
Terminal is a medical thriller written by Robin Cook.
The novel peeps into the boom and curse of biotechnology.
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo( or colloquially" Monte- Carl") is officially an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/ Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is located.
Informally, the name also refers to a larger district, the Monte Carlo Quarter( corresponding to the former municipality of Monte Carlo), which besides Monte Carlo/ Spélugues also includes the wards of La Rousse/ Saint Roman, Larvotto/ Bas Moulins, and Saint Michel.
The permanent population of the ward of Monte Carlo is about 3,500, while that of the quarter is about 15,000.
Monaco has four traditional quarters.
From west to east they are: Fontvieille( the newest), Monaco- Ville( the oldest), La Condamine, and Monte Carlo.
Monte Carlo is situated on a prominent escarpment at the base of the Maritime Alps along the French Riviera.
Near the quarter's western end is the world- famous Place du Casino, the gambling center which has made Monte Carlo" an international byword for the extravagant display and reckless dispersal of wealth".
It is also the location of the Hôtel de Paris, Café de Paris and Salle Garnier( the casino theatre which is the home of the Opéra de Monte- Carlo).
The quarter's eastern part includes the community of Larvotto with Monaco's only public beach, as well as its new convention center( the Grimaldi Forum), and the Monte- Carlo Bay Hotel& Resort.
At the quarter's eastern border, one crosses into the French town of Beausoleil( sometimes referred to as Monte- Carlo- Supérieur), and just to its east is the western border of Italy.
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz (born Manó Kaminer(1886-1905)
Mihály Kertész (1905); December 24, 1886 April 11, 1962) was a Hungarian-born American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history.
He directed classic films from the silent era and numerous others during Hollywood's Golden Age, when the studio system was prevalent.
Curtiz was already a well-known director in Europe when Warner Bros. invited him to Hollywood in 1926, when he was 39 years of age.
He had already directed 64 films in Europe, and soon helped Warner Bros. become the fastest-growing movie studio.
He directed 102 films during his Hollywood career, mostly at Warners, where he directed ten actors to Oscar nominations.
James Cagney and Joan Crawford won their only Academy Awards under Curtiz's direction.
He put Doris Day and John Garfield on screen for the first time, and he made stars of Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Bette Davis.
He himself was nominated five times and won twice, once for Best Short Subject for "Sons of Liberty" and once as Best Director for "Casablanca".
Curtiz introduced to Hollywood a unique visual style using artistic lighting, extensive and fluid camera movement, high crane shots, and unusual camera angles.
He was versatile and could handle any kind of picture: melodrama, comedy, love story, film noir, musical, war story, Western, or historical epic.
He always paid attention to the human-interest aspect of every story, stating that the "human and fundamental problems of real people" were the basis of all good drama.
Curtiz helped popularize the classic swashbuckler with films such as "Captain Blood" (1935) and "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938).
He directed many dramas which today are also considered classics, "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), "The Sea Wolf" (1941), "Casablanca" (1942), and "Mildred Pierce" (1945).
He directed leading musicals, including "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), "
This Is the Army" (1943), and "White Christmas", and he made comedies with "Life With Father" (1947) and "We're No Angels" (1955).
The Woman from Monte Carlo
The Woman from Monte Carlo is an American pre-Code film produced by Warner Bros. subsidiary First National Pictures( with the Vitaphone logo) in 1931 and released on January 9, 1932.
It was directed by Michael Curtiz and gave top billing to German star Lil Dagover in her sole Hollywood film.
Leading men Walter Huston and Warren William were listed after the title in the manner of supporting players.
Quasi-Monte Carlo method
In numerical analysis, the quasi-Monte Carlo method is a method for numerical integration and solving some other problems using low-discrepancy sequences (also called quasi-random sequences or sub-random sequences).
This is in contrast to the regular Monte Carlo method or Monte Carlo integration, which are based on sequences of pseudorandom numbers.
Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods are stated in a similar way.
The problem is to approximate the integral of a function "f" as the average of the function evaluated at a set of points "xx":
Since we are integrating over the "s"-dimensional unit cube, each "x" is a vector of "s" elements.
The difference between quasi-Monte Carlo and Monte Carlo is the way the x are chosen.
Quasi-Monte Carlo uses a low-discrepancy sequence such as the Halton sequence, the Sobol sequence, or the Faure sequence, whereas Monte Carlo uses a pseudorandom sequence.
The advantage of using low-discrepancy sequences is a faster rate of convergence.
Quasi-Monte Carlo has a rate of convergence close to O(1/"N"), whereas the rate for the Monte Carlo method is O("N").
The Quasi-Monte Carlo method recently became popular in the area of mathematical finance or computational finance.
In these areas, high-dimensional numerical integrals, where the integral should be evaluated within a threshold ε, occur frequently.
Hence, the Monte Carlo method and the quasi-Monte Carlo method are beneficial in these situations.
Mark Pirro
Mark Pirro( born July 1, 1970) is an American musician( bass guitar), audio engineer, and record producer based in Dallas, Texas.
He is a founding member of Tripping Daisy, an alternative rock band that was active from 1991 to 1999.
He is an original and current performing member of The Polyphonic Spree, and also performed with the groups Menkena and Foreign Fires.
Pirro is the inventor of the Copperphone, a specialty microphone that he designed and distributes through his company Placid Audio.
List of Italian film directors
The following is a list of film directors from Italy.
A Polish Vampire in Burbank
A Polish Vampire in Burbank is a 1983 horror comedy film.
The plot involves an inexperienced vampire named Dupah(" ass" in Polish), played by director Mark Pirro, who is reluctant to bite his first victim.
Pirro had originally intended for the film to star" Grease" actor Eddie Deezen, who had agreed to appear in it as a favor to a friend, but he left the production shortly after shooting began.
Pirro reworked Deezen's scenes into flashbacks, using audio clips to voice the skeletal remains of his character, and played the lead role of Dupah himself.
Filmed for just$ 2,500, Pirro sold" A Polish Vampire in Burbank" to a home video company for$ 40,000, and it went on to gross$ 500,000 in cassette sales.
The minor character of the Queerwolf would later be featured in Pirro's 1988 film" Curse of the Queerwolf".

Question: Do both films: The Woman From Monte Carlo and Curse Of The Queerwolf have the directors from the same country?