Pele biography movie on marilyn monroe
My Week With Marilyn
Redmayne is a chameleon of an actor, sometimes gritty, sometimes noble. Here he's a naif of sorts -- albeit one with noble lineage -- who finds himself struck by the phenomenon that is Marilyn Monroe. It's Redmayne's ability to come across as both in awe and yet completely in touch with Monroe's vulnerability that endears him here and makes him completely believable as Clark. It must help to have the seasoned Branagh and Dame Judi Dench to work with -- and, even more impressively, Williams, who has found a way to become a Marilyn who still holds a mystery, despite pop culture's endless examination of the actress and her life. What Williams manages to really sell is Monroe's simultaneous innocence and canniness -- a major feat.
The screenplay errs on the side of thin; we don't really get to know (or understand) Clark or his motivations for certain choices. At times, you can't help but wonder whether the vantage point from which you're watching things unfold is ever going to be questioned, and the film often seems in awe of Marilyn when we long to really get to know her. But, then again, can that be helped? Wasn't that precisely the hold the actress had on everyone in her orbit?
Country: USA, Hungary
Year: 1981
Duration: 116'
escape to victory
A soccer-loving German major recognizes John Colby, a former defender for the English national team, in a prison camp for allied soldiers. He proposes that Colby train a team of prisoners for a match against a German team. Colby accepts and is allowed to bring together soccer champions who are being held prisoner in the various camps. Nazi propaganda pushes the event and the prisoners consider escaping. A thrilling prison of war escape movie with an epic climax at the Colombes stadium in Paris. Starring Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Pelé and dozens of other champions.
John Huston
John Huston
(Nevada, MO, USA, 1906 - Middletown, RI, USA, 1987)
The son of the actor Walter Huston and the journalist Reah Gore, after his parents divorced he lived with his mother in various cities in the United States until they eventually settled down in Los Angeles. This is where he became interested in the figurative arts, in the French language and in boxing, a sport in which he excelled. In 1924, during a trip to New York to see his father who was appearing on Broadway, he debuted as a theatrical actor, a profession he soon abandoned in order to join the Mexican cavalry. He moved to Mexico City and dedicated himself to writing. He returned to the United States in 1929, after receiving the news that a short story of his had been published in the magazine “American Mercury.” He was called to Hollywood by Samuel Goldwyn and worked as a screenwriter at Metro, Universal Pictures and Gaumont-British in London. In 1938 he was hired by Warner, for whom he wrote the script of Jezebel, directed by William Wyler, and High Sierra, the film which made Humphrey Bogart an international star. The success of this film led to Huston’s debut as a director that same year with The Maltese Falcon. The next year, he directed In This Our Life and Across the Pacif Pelé, Brazilian soccer legend and three-time World Cup winner in 1958, 1962 and 1970, died yesterday, December 29, at age 82, after suffering from colon cancer which he was diagnosed with in September 2021. Pelé was hospitalized late November and was in palliative care at a São Paolo hospital. His daughter Kely Nascimento wrote on Instagram, ‘All that we are is thanks to you. We love you endlessly. Rest in peace.’ The king of soccer first made history at age seventeen when he played for Brazil in the 1958 World Cup finals in Sweden and scored in all three of Brazil’s knockout games. It was the beginning of a long and enduring career as a soccer player; he became the best and highest-paid athlete in the world. For nearly two decades, he inspired his fans and dazzled opponents with Brazilian club Santos and the Brazil national soccer team. Later he introduced Americans to soccer when he signed with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League in 1975. “Victory” (1981, trailer) He also appeared in a few movies, one of them “Victory” (1981, a.k.a. “Escape to Victory”), set in World War II, when the Nazi soccer team plays a team of Allied prisoners of war in Nazi-occupied Paris, and the French Resistance and British officers make plans for the team to escape. The POWs were played by Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, and former international soccer players such as Pelé, Bobby Moore (England), Paul Van Himst (Belgium), Osvaldo Ardiles (Argentina), and Co Prins (Holland), among others. The film was directed by then-74-year-old veteran filmmaker John Huston. When promoting the film, Pelé visited Brussels in 1981. I don’t remember the exact date nor the location; I do remember that a short, improvized and somewhat chaotic press conference was held. When it was over and he was on his way to the parking lot where cars were waiting for him and his entourage, Pele was very accessible. I talked to him briefly about the film and what On June 29, 1956, Hollywood film actress Marilyn Monroe marries playwright Arthur Miller in a four-minute civil ceremony at the Westchester County Courthouse in New York state. Writer Norman Mailer famously calls the union a meeting of “The Great American Body” and “The Great American Brain.” On July 1, 1956, the couple wed again in a Jewish ceremony at the home of Miller’s agent, Kay Brown, near Katonah, New York. Eager to fit in with Miller’s family, Monroe had studied Judaic texts with the family rabbi and converted to Judaism. Monroe and Miller were first introduced in 1951 by film and theater director Elia Kazan on the Hollywood set of As Young as You Feel. Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman” had premiered on Broadway in 1949 and garnered the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. Monroe had begun to attract attention for her minor appearances in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and All About Eve (1950). Upon meeting Miller, Monroe confided to a friend, “It was like running into a tree! You know, like a cool drink when you’ve got a fever.” The relationship, however, only really took off years later—after Monroe’s starring sex-symbol roles in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955)—and her tumultuous 274-day marriage to baseball great Joe DiMaggio. It was Miller’s second marriage and Monroe’s third. On the back of a wedding photograph, Monroe had scrawled: “Hope, Hope, Hope.” But just like with her marriage to DiMaggio, the strains began to emerge as early as their honeymoon in London. Monroe discovered notes by Miller expressing doubts about their marriage, an emotional wound from which she would never fully recover. Monroe’s pill-taking, increasingly erratic behavior and affair with French actor Yves Montand—along with Miller’s emotional withdrawal and bond with Austrian photographer Inge Morath—strained the marria
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