Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol( born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture.
Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings" Campbell's Soup Cans"( 1962) and" Marilyn Diptych"( 1962), the experimental film" Chelsea Girls"( 1966), and the multimedia events known as the" Exploding Plastic Inevitable"( 1966 – 67).
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator.
After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist.
His New York studio,
The Factory, became a well- known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.
He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with inspiring the widely used expression" 15 minutes of fame."
In the late 1960s, he managed and produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founded" Interview" magazine.
He authored numerous books, including" The Philosophy of Andy Warhol" and.
He lived openly as a gay man before the gay liberation movement.
After gallbladder surgery, Warhol died of cardiac arrhythmia in February 1987 at the age of 58.
Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films.
The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city of Pittsburgh, which holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.
Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable.
The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$ 105 million for a 1963 canvas titled" Silver Car Crash( Double Disaster)"; his works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold.
A 2009 article in" The Economist" described Warhol as the" bellwether of the art market".
Don't Talk to Strange Men
Do n't Talk to Strange Men is a 1962 British crime thriller film directed by Pat Jackson and produced at Marylebone Film Studios and on location in Buckinghamshire.
Janina Faye
Janina Faye( Smigielski, born 1948) is an English actress and director.
She is a daughter of Florence Louisa Jonathan and Jan Smigielski.
Her father was a Polish pilot from No. 303 Squadron RAF during the Battle of Britain.
Faye began her career as an actress in 1956, and it includes theatre and television work in addition to many movie appearances.
She appeared in several major fantasy and horror films when she was young, such as Hammer Films' original version of" Dracula"( 1958), as well as the same company ’s" Never Take Sweets from a Stranger"( 1960) and" The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll"( 1960).
In 1961 she appeared on stage as Helen Keller in the William Gibson play" The Miracle Worker", and in 1962 she appeared in the film thrillers" Do n't Talk to Strange Men" and" The Day of the Triffids".
In 1998, she teamed up with director Paul Cotgrove and Hammer co-star Ingrid Pitt to make the short British horror film" Green Fingers", a story about a spinster whose garden has strange properties with an ability to grow anything, even things that are no longer living.
She often appears at signings.
Tub Girls
Tub Girls is a 1967 American avant garde film directed by Andy Warhol and starring Viva and Brigid Polk.
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.
Alec Greven
Alec Greven is a" New York Times" best- selling child self- help author.
His first book," How to Talk to Girls", was published when he was nine years old.
He has subsequently published two additional books," How to Talk to Moms" and" How to Talk to Dads".
He released his fourth book," How to Talk to Santa", in 2009, and a fifth book," Rules for School", in 2010.
He appeared on" The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in February, and December 2008 and April 2009, and on NBC's" Late Night with Conan O' Brien" in December 2008.
On February 12, 2009, he also appeared on" The Tonight Show with Jay Leno".
Greven appeared a second time on" The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in April 2009 to promote his two new books," How to Talk to Dads" and" How to Talk to Moms".
Pat Jackson
Patrick Douglas Selmes Jackson( 26 March 1916 – 3 June 2011) was an English film and television director.
Born in Eltham, to a formerly affluent family which was severely affected by the Wall Street Crash in 1929, and his father's long- term illness and early death ending Jackson's formal education.
He joined the GPO Film Unit on his 17th birthday as a messenger boy after his mother persuaded her MP, Sir Kingsley Wood, then also postmaster general, to find work for her son.
Rising to production assistant, he was part of the crew for the short film" Night Mail"( 1936).
The voice narrating the poem by W.H. Auden(" This is the Night Mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order.") was Jackson himself.
He directed a number of documentaries, the first being" The Horsey Mail"( 1938) about the rural postal service in Suffolk.
" The First Days"( 1939), co-directed by Harry Watt and Humphrey Jennings, was the first of the wartime documentaries, in this instance concerned with the' Phoney War' period.
Jackson's debut feature film was" Western Approaches"( 1944), a semi-documentary war film for what was now the Ministry of Information's Crown Film Unit.
For what became a three- year project, Jackson took on the writing, direction, editing and casting( of non-professional actors) a film about merchant seamen.
Featuring an extended period on location at sea, the lifeboat sequences alone took six- months to complete.
After the war, Jackson spent three years in Hollywood under contract to MGM, although the only film he directed during this period was" Shadow on the Wall"( 1950), based on the novel" Death in the Doll's House" by Lawrence P. Bachmann and Hannah Leessuch.
His film" Encore"( 1951) was in competition at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival." White Corridors"( 1951), a semi-documentary drama about a hospital in the regions, was critically well received at the time.
" What a Carve Up!"( 1961), a film in the old dark house genre, was the most commercially successful of Jackson's later feature films.
Jackson worked in television during the 1960s and 1970s.
Impressed by the stage work of Patrick McGoohan, he seems to have been involved in casting him for" Danger Man"( US:" Secret Agent"), episodes of which he directed.
Apart from McGoohan's" The Prisoner"( 1967), he was also involved with episodes of" The Saint" and" The Professionals".
Jackson died on 3 June 2011 aged 95.
Don't Talk to Irene
Do n't Talk to Irene is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Pat Mills.
It premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film centres on Irene( Michelle McLeod), a fat and unpopular high school student who wishes to be a cheerleader.
After being suspended from school, Irene gets sent to a retirement home for punishment.
She decides to indulge her passion for cheerleading by enrolling a group of the senior citizens for a dance competition.
The film's cast also includes Geena Davis, Scott Thompson, Bruce Gray and Anastasia Phillips.
Mills won the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Pitch This!
competition for emerging film directors in 2008 for the film's original pitch, and the film's screenplay won the award for Best Comedy Screenplay at the 2013 Austin Film Festival.
However, Mills made" Guidance"( 2015) as his feature film debut before proceeding with" Do n't Talk to Irene", which entered production in 2016.
It went on to win both the Comedy Vanguard Award and Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival, the Audience Choice at the Kingston Canadian Film Festival and the Galet d' Or at the 5th Canadian film festival of Dieppe, France.
In June 2018," Do n't Talk to Irene" won two Canadian Comedy Awards: Best Feature and Best Writing in a Feature.
Gravitas Ventures acquired the film and released it in the United States on March 2, 2018.
W. Augustus Barratt
W. Augustus Barratt( 1873- 1947) was a Scottish- born, later American, songwriter and musician.
Sepideh Farsi
Sepideh Farsi is an Iranian film director, born in Tehran in 1965.

Question: Which film has the director born later, Don'T Talk To Strange Men or Tub Girls?
Answer: Tub Girls