John Huston
John Marcellus Huston( August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist.
Huston was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced U.S. citizenship to become an Irish citizen and resident.
He returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life.
He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics:" The Maltese Falcon"( 1941)," The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"( 1948)," The Asphalt Jungle"( 1950)," The African Queen"( 1951)," The Misfits"( 1961)," Fat City"( 1972)," The Man Who Would Be King"( 1975) and" Prizzi's Honor"( 1986).
During his 46- year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins.
Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years.
He explored the visual aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting.
While most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, with little editing needed.
Some of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting an" heroic quest," as in" Moby Dick", or" The Red Badge of Courage".
In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a common goal, would become doomed, forming" destructive alliances," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension.
Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism, and war.
Huston has been referred to as" a titana rebel", and a" renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry.
Author Ian Freer describes him as" cinema's Ernest Hemingway" — a filmmaker who was" never afraid to tackle tough issues head on."
Creed (film)
Creed is a 2015 American sports drama film directed by Ryan Coogler and written by Coogler and Aaron Covington.
Both a spin- off and sequel in the" Rocky" film series, Michael B. Jordan stars as Adonis Johnson Creed, Apollo Creed's son, with Sylvester Stallone reprising the role of Rocky Balboa.
It also features Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Tony Bellew, and Graham McTavish.
The film reunites Jordan with" Fruitvale Station" writer- director Coogler, as well as Wood Harris, with whom Jordan had worked on" The Wire".
Filming began in Liverpool on January 19, 2015, and later also took place in Philadelphia, Rocky's hometown.
" Creed" was released in the United States on November 25, 2015, the 40th anniversary of the date of the opening scene in 1976's" Rocky".
The seventh installment of the series and sequel to 2006's" Rocky Balboa", the film received acclaim from critics, who called it the best" Rocky" film in many years, and was chosen by National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2015.
For his performance, Stallone was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his first Oscar nomination since the original film.
He also won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor, Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.
A sequel, titled" Creed II", was released in November 2018, directed by Steven Caple Jr.
The Roots of Heaven
The Roots of Heaven may refer to:
Edge of Heaven (disambiguation)
Edge of Heaven is a 2014 British sitcom.
Edge of Heaven or The Edge of Heaven may also refer to:
Ryan Coogler
Ryan Kyle Coogler( born May 23, 1986) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
His first feature film," Fruitvale Station"( 2013), won the top audience and grand jury awards in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
He has since co-written and directed the seventh film in the" Rocky" series," Creed"( 2015), and the Marvel film" Black Panther"( 2018), the latter of which broke numerous box office records and became the highest- grossing film of all time by a black director.
Coogler's films have received significant critical acclaim and commercial success.
In 2013, he was included on" Time"'s list of the 30 people under 30 who are changing the world.
His work has been hailed by critics for centering on often overlooked cultures and characters —most notably black people.
He frequently collaborates with actor Michael B. Jordan, who has appeared in all of his feature films, as well as composer Ludwig Göransson, who has scored all of his films.
In 2018, he was named the runner- up of" Time's" Person of the Year.
Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine
Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine is a history of the roots of the Arab – Israeli conflict by Shmuel Katz.
The book analyzes the roots of the conflict and what he sees as the inseparable connection between modern and biblical Israel.
Kingdom of Heaven
Kingdom of Heaven may refer to:
Images of Heaven
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The Roots of Heaven (film)
The Roots of Heaven is a 1958 American adventure film in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color made for 20th Century Fox, directed by John Huston and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.
The screenplay by Romain Gary and Patrick Leigh Fermor is based on Romain Gary's 1956 Prix Goncourt winning novel" The Roots of HeavenLes racines du ciel").
The film starred Errol Flynn, Juliette Gréco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles, Paul Lukas, Herbert Lom and Gregoire Aslan.
The film itself was shot on location in French Equatorial Africa.
Huston later said" Roots of Heavencould have been a very fine film.
And largely owing to me was not a good film at all."
Gauss–Lucas theorem
In complex analysis, a branch of mathematics, the Gauss – Lucas theorem gives a geometrical relation between the roots of a polynomial" P" and the roots of its derivative" P′".
The set of roots of a real or complex polynomial is a set of points in the complex plane.
The theorem states that the roots of" P ′" all lie within the convex hull of the roots of" P", that is the smallest convex polygon containing the roots of" P".
When" P" has a single root then this convex hull is a single point and when the roots lie on a line then the convex hull is a segment of this line.
The Gauss – Lucas theorem, named after Carl Friedrich Gauss and Félix Lucas, is similar in spirit to Rolle's theorem.

Question: Are the directors of films Creed (film) and The Roots of Heaven (film) both from the same country?
Answer: yes