Française (film)
Française is a 2008 film.
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock,( 13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Known as" the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology" Alfred Hitchcock Presents"( 1955 – 1965).
His films garnered a total of 46 Oscar nominations and six wins.
Born in Leytonstone, Essex, Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph- cable company.
He made his directorial debut with the silent film" The Pleasure Garden"( 1925).
His first successful film,( 1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film," Blackmail", was the first British.
Two of his 1930s thrillers," The 39 Steps"( 1935) and" The Lady Vanishes"( 1938), are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century.
By 1939 Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood.
A string of successful films followed, including" Rebecca"( 1940)," Foreign Correspondent"( 1940)," Suspicion"( 1941)," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943), and" Notorious"( 1946).
" Rebecca" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director; he was also nominated for" Lifeboat"( 1944) and" Spellbound"( 1945), although he never won the Best Director Academy Award.
The" Hitchcockian" style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers into voyeurs, and framing shots to maximise anxiety and fear.
The film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film" is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot.
A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole."
After a brief lull of commercial success in the late 1940s, Hitchcock returned to form with" Strangers on a Train"( 1951) and" Dial M For Murder"( 1954).
By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time:" Rear Window"( 1954)," Vertigo"( 1958)," North by Northwest"( 1959), and" Psycho"( 1960) with the first and last of these garnering him Best Director nominations.
In 2012," Vertigo" replaced Orson Welles's" Citizen Kane"( 1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its world- wide poll of hundreds of film critics.
By 2018 eight of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943).
He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979 and was knighted in December that year, four months before he died.
Arugba
Arugba is a 2008 film.
Siddiq Barmak
Siddiq Barmak( born September 7, 1962 in Panjshir, Afghanistan) is a Golden Globe- winner Afghan film director and producer.
He received an M.A degree in cinema direction from the Moscow Film Institute( VGIK) in 1987.
His first feature film" Osama", won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2004.
Louis Jourdan
Louis Jourdan( born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor.
He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including Alfred Hitchcock's" The Paradine Case"( 1947)," Letter from an Unknown Woman"( 1948)," Gigi"( 1958)," The Best of Everything"( 1959)," The V.I.P.s"( 1963) and" Octopussy"( 1983).
He played Dracula in the 1977 BBC television production" Count Dracula".
C'est dimanche!
C'est dimanche!
is a 2008 film.
Khamsa (film)
Khamsa is a 2008 film.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Opium War (2008 film)
Opium War is a 2008 Afghan black comedy film directed by Golden Globe winner, Siddiq Barmak.
The film was shot entirely in Afghanistan and revolves around the experiences of two American soldiers( Peter Bussian and Joe Suba), who crash their helicopter in the Afghan desert and find themselves at the mercy of the natural elements and an eclectic family of Afghan opium farmers.
In order to create a realistic setting of an opium poppy field, Barmak had to obtain permission from the Afghan government to plant the crop because growing opium poppies was declared illegal in Afghanistan in 2002.
Several challenges were faced by the filmmakers, with regards to the poppy field, before filming was completed.
Most notably, Afghan poppy eradication teams attempted to destroy his film set twice and the lack of rain forced Barmak to drill a well for irrigation as well as to bring in water tankers from as far away as 30 km.
The film was Afghanistan's official submission to the 2009 Academy Awards.
" Opium War" was screened at several international film festivals, including the 2008 edition of Rome Film Festival, where it won the Golden Marc’ Aurelio Critics ’ Award for Best Film.
The Paradine Case
The Paradine Case is a 1947 American film noir courtroom drama film, set in England, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by David O. Selznick.
The screenplay was written by Selznick and an uncredited Ben Hecht, from an adaptation by Alma Reville and James Bridie of the novel by Robert Smythe Hichens.
The film stars Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore and Louis Jourdan.
It tells of an English barrister who falls in love with a woman who is accused of murder, and how it affects his relationship with his wife.

Question: Which film whose director was born first, The Paradine Case or Opium War (2008 Film)?
Answer: The Paradine Case