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04-03-2007, 12:42 AM
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the USA on May 6, 1915. Son of Richard Head Welles and Beatrice Ives, from whom he inherited the passion for the music. Early he felt influenced by the art, the painting and the drawing. Shakespeare in his infancy was the center of admiration.
In 1933 it was employed at the "Gate Theatre" of Ireland, later to make début in Broadway with " Byzantine and Julieta ". With John Houseman it created the "Mercury Theatre" in this place represented "Macbeth" and "To "stop". Then he would bet on the radiotelephony, where it would achieve great event with " The war of the worlds ", his program based on a few aliens who were invading New Yersey, abundance of realism and followed by many listeners. In 1940, at the age of 25, the filming begins of his firstly movie, in a beginning named "American", then to rename her " Citizen Kane ". A film of excellent story, scenic putting and unpublished expression given by his angular one, depth of field, lighting, sound and montage.
He was loved by the critics but his distributor took charge making it fail. In 1942 with " The fourth order ", another great movie in any sense. He was employed at Brazil at a documentary that it did not finish. Then he devoted himself to the performance, being employed at several films as " I Hur to the Sun ". In 1946 he films his third production called "The Stranger". At " The lady of Shangai " it was employed together with his wife Rita Hayworth of the one that then would separate, a black movie considered by many people a masterpiece.
The Land Of The Basques - Link in English (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eifb43c1_J8)
Julio Medem
Julio Medem Lafont was born in San Sebastian on October 21, 1958. In his blood they are mixed up to four origins. On the part of his paternal grandparents Germany and Valencia, on the part of the mother ones the Basque Country and France. After spending part of his infancy in his natal city his family moved to Madrid after the birth of his brother Alberto. There he studied in the College of The Prop, where it received an elitist education in the bosom of a bourgeois and well-off environment.
His interest for the cinema was born to the side of the camera of súper 8 mm with which his father was rolling the life of the family. In the nights, clandestinly, In July it was taking the camera to experiment with the magic of the light and the images together with his sister Ana.
The Basque conflict is analyzed and commented by seventy persons before Medem's camera in typical spaces of the geography of Basque Country: frontons, cliffs, beaches, mounts of hamlets. From the diversity of these voices Julio Medem composes a complex woven of opinions and historical moments conceived from a double ethical commitment: the opposition to the violence and the invitation to a political dialogue.
Link to The Basque Ball, The skin against the skin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURqk8w-5w8)
George Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the USA on May 6, 1915. Son of Richard Head Welles and Beatrice Ives, from whom he inherited the passion for the music. Early he felt influenced by the art, the painting and the drawing. Shakespeare in his infancy was the center of admiration.
In 1933 it was employed at the "Gate Theatre" of Ireland, later to make début in Broadway with " Byzantine and Julieta ". With John Houseman it created the "Mercury Theatre" in this place represented "Macbeth" and "To "stop". Then he would bet on the radiotelephony, where it would achieve great event with " The war of the worlds ", his program based on a few aliens who were invading New Yersey, abundance of realism and followed by many listeners. In 1940, at the age of 25, the filming begins of his firstly movie, in a beginning named "American", then to rename her " Citizen Kane ". A film of excellent story, scenic putting and unpublished expression given by his angular one, depth of field, lighting, sound and montage.
He was loved by the critics but his distributor took charge making it fail. In 1942 with " The fourth order ", another great movie in any sense. He was employed at Brazil at a documentary that it did not finish. Then he devoted himself to the performance, being employed at several films as " I Hur to the Sun ". In 1946 he films his third production called "The Stranger". At " The lady of Shangai " it was employed together with his wife Rita Hayworth of the one that then would separate, a black movie considered by many people a masterpiece.
The Land Of The Basques - Link in English (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eifb43c1_J8)
Julio Medem
Julio Medem Lafont was born in San Sebastian on October 21, 1958. In his blood they are mixed up to four origins. On the part of his paternal grandparents Germany and Valencia, on the part of the mother ones the Basque Country and France. After spending part of his infancy in his natal city his family moved to Madrid after the birth of his brother Alberto. There he studied in the College of The Prop, where it received an elitist education in the bosom of a bourgeois and well-off environment.
His interest for the cinema was born to the side of the camera of súper 8 mm with which his father was rolling the life of the family. In the nights, clandestinly, In July it was taking the camera to experiment with the magic of the light and the images together with his sister Ana.
The Basque conflict is analyzed and commented by seventy persons before Medem's camera in typical spaces of the geography of Basque Country: frontons, cliffs, beaches, mounts of hamlets. From the diversity of these voices Julio Medem composes a complex woven of opinions and historical moments conceived from a double ethical commitment: the opposition to the violence and the invitation to a political dialogue.
Link to The Basque Ball, The skin against the skin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURqk8w-5w8)