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Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard (born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, film director and music video director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both bands over three decades. Some of his works include music videos for Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" (1990), U2's "One" (version 1) (1991), Bryan Adams' "Do I Have to Say the Words?", Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" (1993) and Coldplay’s "Talk" (2005) and "Viva la Vida" (2008), as well as the Ian Curtis biographical film Control (2007), The American (2010) and A Most Wanted Man (2014), based on John le Carré's 2008 novel of the same name. Photography Corbijn began his career as a music photographer when he saw the Dutch musician Herman Brood playing in a café in Groningen around 1975. He took a lot of photographs of the band Herman Brood & His Wild Romance and these led to a rise in fame for Brood and in exposure for Corbijn. From the late 1970s the London-based New Musical Express (NME), a weekly music paper, featured his work on a regular basis and would often have a photograph by him on the front page. One such occasion was a portrait of David Bowie wearing a loincloth backstage in New York when starring in The Elephant Man. In the early years of London-based The Face, a glossy monthly post-punk life style / music magazine, Corbijn was a regular contributor. He made his name photographing in black-and-white but in May 1989 he began taking pictures in colour using filters. His first venture in this medium was for Siouxsie Sioux. Between 1998–2000, in collaboration with the painter Marlene Dumas, he worked on a project called "Stripping Girls", which took the strip clubs and peep shows of Amsterdam as their subject; while Corbijn later exhibited photographs, Dumas took Polaroids which she then used as sources for her paintings. Corbijn has photographed Bob Dylan, Joy Division, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, Prāta Vētra, Peter Hammill, Miles Davis, Kate Bush, Björk, Captain Beefheart, Kim Wilde, Marc Almond, Robert De Niro, Stephen Hawking, Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Morrissey, Peter Murphy, Simple Minds, Clint Eastwood, The Cramps, Roxette, Herbert Grönemeyer, Annie Lennox, and Eurythmics, amongst others. Perhaps his most famous and longest standing associations are with Depeche Mode and U2. Corbijn's work relationship with Depeche Mode began with the filming of a music video for their 1986 A Question of Time single. Corbijn says that he soon "started to realise that [his] visuals and their music went really well together. Then [he] did some live photos, and it eventually turned into designing the whole live set. That's what [he's] been doing for them since 1993." Corbijn has directed 20 of the bands music videos, the most recent of his works being Depeche Mode's 2017 Where's the Revolution. He has also designed most of the covers for Depeche Mode's albums and singles from 1990's Violator album and onwards. Corbijn's work with U2 includes taking pictures of the band on their first US tour, taking pictures for their albums The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby albums (et al.), and directing a number of accompanying videos. Other album covers featuring work by Corbijn include those for Springsteen, Nick Cave, Siouxsie's second band The Creatures, Bryan Adams, Metallica, Therapy?, The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, The Killers, Simple Minds, R.E.M., The Bee Gees, Saybia, Clannad and Moke. Film directing Corbijn began his music video directing career when Palais Schaumburg asked him to direct a video. After seeing the resulting video for Hockey, the band Propaganda had Corbijn direct Dr. Mabuse. After that he directed videos for David Sylvian, Echo & the Bunnymen, Golden Earring, Front 242, Depeche Mode, Roxette and U2. His first video in colour was made for U2 in 1984 for their single "Pride (In the Name of Love)". In 2005 Palm Pictures released a DVD collection of Corbijn's music video output as part of the Director's Label series. In 1994 Corbijn directed a short film about Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet for the BBC called Some Yoyo Stuff. He made his feature film debut with Control, a film about the life of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. It premiered to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2007. The film is based on Deborah Curtis' book Touching from a Distance about her late husband and the biography Torn Apart by Lindsay Reade (Tony Wilson's ex-wife) and Mick Middles. Although shown outside the Palme d'Or competition, Control was the big winner of the Director's Fortnight winning the CICAE Art & Essai prize for best film, the "Regards Jeunes" Prize award for best first or second directed feature film and the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best European film in the sidebar. It also won the Michael Powell award for best new British feature at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 2010, Corbijn returned as a director with the character-based thriller The American, starring George Clooney. On 26 October 2011, Corbijn directed a webcast by Coldplay from the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, Spain. His film A Most Wanted Man was released in 2014. The John le Carré novel of the same name, which is loosely based on the true War on Terror story of Murat Kurnaz, was set in part in Hamburg, as parts of the movie were. In February 2014, he started filming his next project Life about James Dean and photographer Dennis Stock. In 23 and 25 July 2018, Corbijn filmed the last two concerts of Depeche Mode's Global Spirit Tour at the Waldbühne in Berlin. Some of this footage, intertwined with the stories of six life-long fans in the audience, became the film Spirits in the Forest, which was released in theaters worldwide on 21 November 2019. In Corbijn's interview with NME he spoke about the origins behind the idea of this movie and said that they (him and Depeche Mode) "decided to look at the reason for why Depeche Mode was still growing...they’re the biggest cult band in the world. It’s unbelievable.” He further adds that "it’s in the DNA of Depeche to have these connection to their fans...there's something unusual about it and the fans go to great lengths", which inspired him to make the film in the style that he did. en.wikipedia.org

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Name: Cara Buono Born: March, 1 1971 Birthplace: Bronx (New York City) Occupation: Actress, Screenwriter, Director Spouse: Peter Thum As a young girl growing up in New York City, Cara Buono took her family's blue-collar work ethic and began to turn it into an acting career that would later lead not only to starring roles but to screenwriting and directing. With no help from friends, family or mentors, she went out on her own, picked up a trade paper, saw an ad for a casting call and sneaked into an audition. She managed to land a role in Harvey Fierstein's play, "Spook House", despite her lack of experience. From there on, Cara's career blossomed. She continued stage work both on and off-Broadway, and started her film career opposite Ethan Hawke and Jeremy Irons in Das Geheimnis seiner Liebe (1992). Much of her work has been in indie films such as Chutney Popcorn (1999), Happy Accidents (2000), Next Stop Wonderland (1998) and Two Ninas (1999), which she co-produced. As well as acting, Cara has directed, produced and written films, including the short film, Baggage (1997), which starred Liev Schreiber. She co-wrote the screenplay, "When The Cat's Away" (1999), with Brad Anderson, and cut a deal with Miramax for a screenplay adaptation of one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's work. Most recently, Cara starred on the final season of the NBC drama, Third Watch - Einsatz am Limit (1999), as "Grace Foster", a headstrong paramedic with an unbridled ego and the skills to back it up. Cara is a graduate of Columbia University, with a double major in English and Political Science. She got her degree in three years, again helped by her blue-collar work ethic. (Source: IMDB) A few Links: Internet Movie Database Wikipedia (en) Wikipedia (de) Twitter Facebook Personal Homepage

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EMMY AWARD NOMINATED DIRECTOR FRANCESCO CARROZZINI IS ALSO INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN FOR HIS PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY. HE HAS DIRECTED MUSIC VIDEOS FOR ARTISTS JAY-Z, BEYONCÉ AND LENNY KRAVITZ, AND COMMERCIALS FOR BRANDS SUCH AS APPLE AND FIAT. IN 2016, FRANCESCO HAD HIS FEATURE FILM DEBUT AT THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL WITH THE DOCUMENTARY “FRANCA: CHAOS AND CREATION”, WHICH WENT ON TO PLAY IN OVER TWENTY FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD INCLUDING AFI AT THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE. HIS PHOTOGRAPHS HAVE APPEARED ON THE COVERS AND PAGES OF VANITY FAIR, L’UOMO VOGUE, THE NEW YORKER, W, ROLLING STONE, NEW YORK MAGAZINE AND VOGUE ITALIA, AMONGST OTHERS. HE HAS PHOTOGRAPHED PERSONALITIES AS DIVERSE AS ROBERT DE NIRO, KANYE WEST, NAOMI CAMPBELL, ANGELINA JOLIE, KEITH RICHARDS AND JEFF KOONS, TO NAME A FEW. IN THE SUMMER OF 2021 FRANCESCO DIRECTED “THE HANGING SUN”, AN ADAPTATION OF THE NOVEL “MIDNIGHT SUN” BY JO NESBO. THE MOVIE STARS CHARLES DANCE, PETER MULLAN, JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY AND ALESSANDRO BORGHI AND IS SET TO BE RELEASED IN THE FALL OF 2022. FILMOGRAPHY “THE HANGING SUN”, FEATURE FILM, TO BE RELEASED IN 2022 “FRANCA: CHAOS AND CREATION”, FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, INTERNATIONAL VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, OFFICIAL SELECTION, 2016 “THE NEW YORK TIMES SCREEN TESTS”, EMMY AWARD NOMINATION, 2008 “1937”, INTERNATIONAL VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, SHORT FILM COMPETITION, 2008 “WIERSZALIN”, SHORT DOCUMENTARY, INTERNATIONAL LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL, OFFICIAL SELECTION, 2007 VIDEOGRAPHY YEBBA: “BOOMERANG”, 2021 JAY-Z: “MANYFACEDGOD”, 2017 MARILYN MANSON: “THE MEPHISTOPHELES OF LOS ANGELES”, 2015 NICKI MINAJ: “I LIED”, 2014 DAMIAN MARLEY: “IS IT WORTH IT?”, 2014 LENNY KRAVITZ: “NEW YORK CITY”, 2014 LANA DEL REY: “ULTRAVIOLENCE”, 2014 BEYONCÉ: “JEALOUS”, 2013 A$AP ROCKY: “PHOENIX”, 2013 francescocarrozzini.com

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Jennette Michelle Faye McCurdy was born in Long Beach, California, on June 26, 1992. Her parents, Debra and Mark McCurdy were relatively lower-middle-class Americans, active in the Mormon faith. Jennette showed early signs of social magnetism and allure growing up, naturally giddy and energetic, it seemed acting 🎭 was the innate career choice. Although beaming with comedic star power, Jennette's home life was interpreted as absent of light, and metaphorically, even of life. McCurdy, who's known for her stint on the popular teen series, iCarly, as Sam Puckett, the smart-alecky, deadpan, anomalous bestie of Carly Shay, would ostensibly be pitted against the show's lighthearted and innocuous nature. The life of a simple child actor hadn't been very simple at all. And the journey back to self-identity warranted a litany of setbacks, setups, falsehoods, reinvention, revelations, orientation, and bravery. McCurdy would find herself dabbling in many forms of artistic expression, but none would be efficacious as her authorship, denoted in her memoir, I'm GLAD MY MOM DIED. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennette_McCurdy https://www.jennettemccurdy.com/

Ever since the poster and advertising assumed a major part in our culture in the twentieth century, great creative artists have made a huge visual impact on the feeling of every era that they have filtered and formulated. The most outstanding graphic artists gave life and expression to their epoch, making an indelible mark on our memories. For more than thirty years, through drawing, poster design, photography, cinema, video and event design, Jean-Paul Goude has made an impression, in every sense, on our imagination. From the tops of the 60’s to the legendary Esquire magazine of the following decade, from the New York of Andy Warhol and mixed cultures, to Grace Jones, for whom he was Pygmalion, from the spectacular Bicentennial Parade in Paris in 1989 to the celebration of ‘Style Beur’ (Arab Style), from ads for Kodak and Chanel to working with the latest supermodels – Goude has triumphantly captured, time after time, the spirit of his age. What is perhaps less well known is that this ‘made to order’ work is merely the flipside of Goude’s profoundly individual adventure, a journey (marked in particular by his celebration of a number of remarkable women) transformed into a sort of personal mythology. Life and work for Goude are inextricably linked, and this gives his work a particularly oblique personal cachet, and lifts it above mere images. jeanpaulgoude.com