Orpheus (film)
Orpheus( also the title used in the UK) is a 1950 French film directed by Jean Cocteau and starring Jean Marais.
It is the central part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of" The Blood of a Poet"( 1930)," Orpheus"( 1950) and" Testament of Orpheus"( 1960).
Elliot Silverstein
Elliot Silverstein( born August 3, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American director, who is best known for being the director of the movie" Cat Ballou"( 1965).
Glass Lips
Glass Lips( Szklane Usta) is a feature film with almost no words, directed by Lech Majewski.
The film began life as an installation of interrelated short films, entitled" Blood of a Poet"( alluding to Jean Cocteau ’s surreal film" The Blood of a Poet").
The installation had its world premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on May 3, 2006, curated by Laurence Kardish.
Its Polish debut was at the in Łódź from 2006- 05- 19 to 2006- 06- 18( Polish- language name “ Krew poety ”).,
The installation also was exhibited at the Wrocław Opera House from 2006- 07- 20 to 2006- 07- 30 during the Era New Horizons Film Festival; and, in the same year, in Gallery 2Πr, Poznań, and National Museum, Szczecin.
It was described there as:" Blood of a Poet" was further exhibited as a video installation from 2007- 02-08 to 2007- 02-18 in Berlin, during Berlinale.
There it was described as “ a circuit of 33 short films and a series of interrelated photographic works ”.
On June 6, 2007, Blood of a Poet installation became a part of the 52nd Venice Biennale.
For almost six month, until November 21, it was shown in two locations: as the non-stop outside projection on Campo San Pantalon, and on 19 screens inside the Teatro Junghans on Giudecca.
The short films of the video installation" Blood of a Poet" were assembled into a single feature film entitled" Glass Lips", premiering in that form in February 2007 in Vancouver.,
In Poland the film in its feature- length format is known as" Szklane usta" and premieres on 2007- 03- 23.," Glass Lips" played also in Boulder, Colorado at the University of Colorado International Film Series in March/ April 2007, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and Locarno Film Festival in August 2007; The Art Institute of Chicago showed it in September 2007; the UCLA Film Archive in October, and in November it was presented by SIFF Seattle; Portland Art Museum; Cleveland ’s Wexner Arts Center; and Berkeley Art Museum/ Pacific Film Archive.
On November 7, 2007, Glass Lips opened in New York City.
The New York Times critic, Jeannette Catsoulis, wrote: “ Lech Majewski creates an aesthetic of dysfunction that ’s as beautiful as it is disturbing.
After a while the film ’s expressiveness becomes so hypnotic that it ’s difficult not to make your own connections. ”
Joe Leydon of Variety wrote: “ Glass Lips exerts a chilly fascination from minute to minute …
Experimental pic by noted Polish- born artist- filmmaker is a harshly beautiful, dialogue- free meditation on the indelible influence of childhood trauma. ”
New York
Post film critic, V. A.
Musetto, gave the film three and a half stars( out of four) and wrote:
“ The hypnotic, painterly images of Glass Lips combine with haunting music in one of the most unusual, beautiful films of the year. ”
The film stars Patryk Czajka as Sebastian, Joanna Litwin as Sebastian ’s mother, and Grzegorz Przybył as Sebastian ’s father.
As the film begins, Sebastian is in a mental asylum; he recalls events from his life beginning with his birth.
Many of the sequences of the film are surrealistic.
None of the actors speak any words, but the electronic voice of an answering machine gives the date at one point, and there is a voice- over song that gets repeated.
The film includes some shocking images, such as a woman who gives birth to a large bloody rock, and a man eating dog food.
In addition to directing, Majewski is credited as the writer, producer, and cinematographer.
Mandie Fletcher
Mandie Elizabeth Fletcher( born 27 December 1954) is an English television and film director.
Fletcher began her career at the BBC as an assistant floor manager and later production manager on comedy programmes, becoming a director of situation comedy while working on the final series of" Butterflies"( 1983).
She followed this with the second( 1986) and third( 1987) series of" Blackadder", for which she won the Best Comedy Series award at the 1988 BAFTAs.
She also directed episodes of" Only Fools and Horses"( 1986).
Her debut feature was" Deadly Advice"( 1994).
Fletcher has continued to work in television with" Hamish Macbeth"( 1996 – 1997) and" Jam and Jerusalem"( 2006 – 2009).
Most recently she directed the critically acclaimed BBC 2 series" Roger& Val Have Just Got In", which was broadcast in Spring 2012, and starred Dawn French and Alfred Molina.
She also directed the latest episodes of" Absolutely Fabulous" including the Olympic special.
In 2013, she directed the pilot episode of" In and Out of the Kitchen".
In 2016, was directed by her.
The Blood of a Poet
The Blood of a Poet( 1930) is an avant- garde film directed by Jean Cocteau, financed by Charles de Noailles and starring Enrique Riveros, a Chilean actor who had a successful career in European films.
Photographer Lee Miller made her only film appearance in this movie, which features an appearance by the famed aerialist Barbette.
It is the first part of the Orphic Trilogy, which is continued in" Orphée"( 1950) and concludes with" Testament of Orpheus"( 1960).
Rumbi Katedza
Rumbi Katedza is a Zimbabwean Film Producer and Director who was born on 17 January 1974.
Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic.
Cocteau is best known for his novels "Le Grand Écart" (1923), "Le Livre Blanc" (1928), and "Les Enfants Terribles" (1929); the stage plays "La Voix Humaine" (1930), "La Machine Infernale" (1934), "Les Parents terribles" (1938), "La Machine à écrire" (1941), and "L'Aigle à deux têtes" (1946); and the films "The Blood of a Poet" (1930), "Les Parents Terribles" (1948), from his own eponymous "piéceBeauty and the Beast" (1946), "Orpheus" (1949), and "Testament of Orpheus" (1960), which alongside "Blood of a Poet" and "Orpheus" constitute the so-called Orphic Trilogy.
He was described as "one of [the] avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers" by AllMovie.
Abhishek Saxena
Abhishek Saxena is an Indian Bollywood and Punjabi film director who directed the movie Phullu.
The Phullu movie was released in theaters on 16 June 2017, in which film Sharib Hashmi is the lead role.
Apart from these, he has also directed Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi film.
This film was screened in cinemas in 2014.
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Absolutely Fabulous:
The Movie is a 2016 British comedy film directed by Mandie Fletcher and written by Jennifer Saunders, based on the television series" Absolutely Fabulous".
It stars Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield in her final film role and Jane Horrocks, reprising their roles from the series.
The film finds the drug-addicted, alcoholic PR agent Edina Monsoon and her best friend/ codependent Patsy Stone on the run from the authorities after it's suspected they killed supermodel Kate Moss.
The film serves as a de facto series finale for the show.
Principal photography began on 12 October 2015 in the south of France.
The film premiered in London on 29 June 2016.
Theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2016, the film is distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures worldwide.
Hassan Zee
Hassan Zee is a Pakistani- American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan.

Question: Which film has the director who was born earlier, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie or The Blood Of A Poet?
Answer: The Blood Of A Poet