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How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (French: Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer) is a 1989 French-language Canadian drama film directed by Jacques W. Benoit [], starring Isaach de Bankolé and Maka Kotto, and written by Haitian author Dany Laferrière based on his novel of the same name. [1]
The film received the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film Festival [11] and collected in world box office over $75 million with a budget of about $700,000 [12] [13] [14] and received a sequel, Missing, in 2023. Also in 2014, another screenlife film Open Windows by Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo was released.
The film was shot in Paris and in the Yonne department, including the communes Collemiers, Sens and Pont-sur-Yonne. Julie's house in the film is located in Collemiers, a commune familiar to the director Éric Gravel, who lives in the Sens area, and whose many residents – like Julie – commute to Paris by train every day for work.
Sur (South) is a 1988 Argentine drama film written and directed by Fernando E. Solanas. The film features Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, Lito Cruz, Ulises Dumont among others. [1] Following its debut at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, Sur collected a host of awards from prestigious international film festivals.
Some film theorists have argued that a director should be entirely unconcerned with the source, as a novel is a novel and a film is a film, and the two works of art must be seen as separate entities. Since a transcription of a novel into film is impossible, even holding up a goal of "accuracy" is absurd.
Countries like South Korea released films on VHS until December 2010, with Inception being the last Hollywood film to be released on VHS in the country. A market for pre-recorded VHS tapes has continued, and some online retailers such as Amazon still sell new and used pre-recorded VHS cassettes of movies and television programs. None of the ...
Tapert co-founded film production company Ghost House Pictures in 2002. Their first release, The Grudge , grossed nearly $200 million internationally. [ 3 ] They followed up that success with Boogeyman , Rise , The Messengers , 30 Days of Night , Drag Me to Hell which Raimi directed, The Possession , [ 4 ] and a remake of Tobe Hooper 's seminal ...
Luis Miguel Valdez (born June 26, 1940) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and actor. Regarded as the father of Chicano film and playwriting, Valdez is best known for his play Zoot Suit, his movie La Bamba, and his creation of El Teatro Campesino.