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The Dark Horse is a 2014 New Zealand drama film written and directed by James Napier Robertson and starring Cliff Curtis and James Rolleston.It won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Score at the 2014 New Zealand Film Awards, Best Film at the 2015 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), 2015 San Francisco International Film Festival ...
In 2014, Curtis played the lead role in The Dark Horse, which the National Radio review called "one of the greatest New Zealand films ever made." [12] The New Zealand Herald praised him for his "towering performance" [13] as real-life Gisborne speed chess player and coach Genesis Potini, who died in 2011. Curtis studied chess and deliberately ...
Universal Pictures / Dark Horse Entertainment / Mutual Film Company / Valhalla Motion Pictures: Mystery Men: Universal Pictures / Dark Horse Entertainment / Golar Productions: 2000: G-Men from Hell: Sawmill Entertainment: Direct-to-video. 2003: American Splendor: Fine Line Features / Dark Horse Entertainment / HBO Films / Good Machine: Received ...
James William Napier Robertson [1] (born 24 March 1982) is a New Zealand writer, film director, actor and producer, who wrote and directed 2009 film I'm Not Harry Jenson, and 2014 film The Dark Horse, for which he won Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Film at the 2014 New Zealand Film Awards, and which was declared by New Zealand critics "One of the greatest New Zealand films ever made".
Curtis then starred with then-wife Janet Leigh in Houdini (1953), in which Curtis played the title role. His next movies were more "B" fare: All American (1953), as a football player; Forbidden (1953), as a criminal; Beachhead (1954), a war film; Johnny Dark (1954), as a racing car driver; and The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), a medieval ...
Curtis took a step back from acting for a spell in the late-2000s and early-2010s to prioritize her family, though she still earned credits for films such as Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) and ...
Curtis at the World of Color premiere at Disney California Adventure Park, June 2010. The following is a list of film and television performances by American actress, producer, and children's author Jamie Lee Curtis.
In 1985, Curtis was cast opposite John Travolta as a workout instructor in the film Perfect. While her role earned her a reputation as a sex symbol, [5] the film was a critical and commercial flop. It has since earned a cult following, and in a 1994 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Quentin Tarantino called the movie "greatly ...