The Agony and the Ecstasy (film)
The Agony and the Ecstasy is a 1965 American film directed by Carol Reed and starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II (reigned 1503-1513).
The film was partly based on Irving Stone's biographical novel "The Agony and the Ecstasy".
This film deals with the conflicts of Michelangelo and Pope Julius II during the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
It also features a soundtrack co-written by prolific composers Alex North and Jerry Goldsmith.
The film was shot in Todd-AO and Cinemascope versions.
The Todd-AO version was used for the DVD release because of its superior picture quality.
Vittorio Nino Novarese
Vittorio Nino Novarese( May 15, 1907 in Rome, Italy – October 17, 1983 in Los Angeles, United States) was an Italian costume designer who found great success in Hollywood after decamping there in 1949.
In his first year there he scored an Oscar nomination for his work on the film" Prince of Foxes", winning the Academy Award 14 years later for the grandiose epic" Cleopatra".
He was also nominated twice in 1965 for both" The Agony and the Ecstasy" and" The Greatest Story Ever Told", and won a second Oscar in 1970 for" Cromwell".
Novarese was trained as a militarist, but contrary to what one might think from the name, this only gave him the classical training to know how soldiers of different ranks were dressed and armed throughout history.
His daughter is the actress Letícia Román who starred with John Saxon in" The Girl Who Knew Too Much" and with Elvis Presley in" G.I. Blues".
Alfio Bruno Tempera
Alfio Bruno Tempera is a property master and buyer of Italian cinema.
Started in the early sixties with films such as" It Started in Naples" by Melville Shavelson with Clark Gable, and" The Agony and the Ecstasy" by Carol Reed, with Charlton Heston.
In the years following among many work is also some movies like Federico Fellini," And the Ship Sails OnGinger and Fred The Voice of the Moon".
He often worked with set designers as Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo.
Has also collaborated in the creation of" Gangs of New York" by Martin Scorsese and" Cold Mountain" by Anthony Minghella.
Currently continues to carry out his work exclusively for a note television platform.
On 23 July 2009, at Sannio FilmFest, the International Festival of production and costume design, receives the honorary award for his long career.
Vikram Jayanti
Vikram
Teja Jayanti is an Indian- American documentary filmmaker responsible for a number of well known full- feature documentary films.
Two of his films, for which he has production credits, have received Academy Awards for Best Full- Feature Documentary; the 1997 blockbuster" When We Were Kings" and 2005's" Born Into Brothels".
A sampling of his other work includes" Innocents Abroad The Man Who Bought MustiqueJames Ellroy's Feast of DeathLincoln" and" The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector".
He and his films have also won a number of other awards, including the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and have been nominated for others.
Jayanti is currently a Film Studies tutor at University College London.
He is a frequent collaborator with the award- winning film- maker Anthony Wall, Editor of BBC" Arena".
Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey( born January 21, 1976) is an American monologist, author, and actor.
His monologue" The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs", about the labor conditions under which Apple devices are made, was used as the basis for a widely shared episode of the radio program" This American Life", but the episode was later retracted for its factual inaccuracy after it was discovered that Daisey had lied about his experiences.
Carol Reed
Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for "Odd Man Out" (1947), "The Fallen Idol" (1948), "The Third Man" (1949), and "Oliver!"
(1968).
For "Oliver!", he received the Academy Award for Best Director.
"Odd Man Out" was the first recipient of the BAFTA Award for Best British Film; filmmaker Roman Polanski has repeatedly cited it as his favourite film.
"
The Fallen Idol" won the second BAFTA Award for Best British Film.
The British Film Institute voted "The Third Man" the greatest British film of the 20th century.
Malinee Peris
Malinee Jayasinghe- Peris( born 30 June 1929) is a Sri Lankan classical pianist.
" I think of music as a language without the impediment of words.
Despite my limited ability in spoken languages I have played in countries and concert halls all over the world.
Yet, I have had no difficulty in communicating with people through the wonderful medium of music.
" I try to study and understand each composition- no, I try to go beyond that- to be the medium through which the agony and the ecstasy of the composer and his writing can be communicated to an audience.
It is a formidable task.
I do not succeed every time, but when I do, I realize with humility that is not that I play the music- but that the music has taken over- and in that zone of wonder, I thank God for the gift of music."
- Malinee Peris, 2012
Irving Stone
Irving Stone( born Tennenbaum, July 14, 1903, San Francisco, California – August 26, 1989, Los Angeles) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians and intellectuals; among the best known are" Lust for Life"( 1934), about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and" The Agony and the Ecstasy"( 1961), about Michelangelo.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Philip Dunne (writer)
Philip Ives Dunne( February 11, 1908 – June 2, 1992) was a Hollywood screenwriter, film director and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965.
He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox crafting well regarded romantic and historical dramas, usually adapted from another medium.
Dunne was a leading Screen Writers Guild organizer and was politically active during the" Hollywood Blacklist" episode of the 1940s- 1950s.
He is best known for the films" How Green Was My Valley"( 1941)," The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"( 1947)," The Robe"( 1953) and" The Agony and the Ecstasy"( 1965).
Dunne received two Academy Award nominations for screenwriting:" How Green Was My Valley"( 1941) and" David and Bathsheba"( 1951).
He also received a Golden Globe nomination for his 1965 screen adaptation of Irving Stone's novel" The Agony and the Ecstasy", as well as several peer awards from the Writers Guild of America( WGA), including the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.
Many notable directors worked with Dunne's screenplays, including Carol Reed, John Ford, Jacques Tourneur, Elia Kazan, Otto Preminger, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Michael Curtiz, among others.

Question: Which country the director of film The Agony And The Ecstasy (Film) is from?
Answer: British