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The movies you must see before you die
Posted: May 18, 2012 (11:41:55 AM)

Che is a two-part 2008 biopic about Ernesto 'Che' Guevara directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro. Rather than follow a standard chronological order, the films offer an oblique series of interspersed moments along the overall timeline. Part One is entitled The Argentine and focuses on the Cuban revolution from the landing of Fidel Castro, Guevara, and other revolutionaries on Cuba to their successful toppling of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista two years later. Part Two is entitled Guerrilla and focuses on Guevara's attempt to bring revolution to Bolivia and his demise. Both parts are shot in a cinéma vérité style, but each has different approaches to linear narrative, camerawork, and the visual look.

Filmmaker Terrence Malick originally worked on a screenplay limited to Guevara's attempts to start a revolution in Bolivia. When financing fell through, Malick left the project, and subsequently Soderbergh agreed to direct the film. He realized that there was no context for Guevara's actions in Bolivia and decided that his participation in the Cuban revolution and his appearance at the United Nations in 1964 should also be depicted. Peter Buchman was hired to write the screenplay: the script was so long that Soderbergh decided to divide the film into two parts, one chronicling Cuba and other depicting Bolivia. Soderbergh shot the films back-to-back starting at the beginning of July 2007, with Guerrilla first in Spain for 39 days, and The Argentine shot in Puerto Rico and Mexico for 39 days.

Che was screened as a single film at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Del Toro won the Best Actor Award, and the film received mostly positive reviews. IFC Films, which holds all North American rights to Che, initially released the combined film for one week on December 12, 2008 in New York City and Los Angeles to qualify for the year's Academy Awards. Strong box office performance led to the "special roadshow edition" being extended in New York and Los Angeles and later expanded into additional markets. The film was released as two separate films, titled Che Part 1: The Argentine and Che Part 2: Guerrilla, and distribution expanded further after that. The Independent Film Channel released the films via video on demand and on Region 1 DVD exclusively from Blockbuster. As of October 2009, Che parts I and II had grossed US$40,779,241 worldwide.[2]
Part 1: The Argentine

In Havana 1964, Che Guevara (Benicio del Toro) is interviewed by Lisa Howard (Julia Ormond) who asks him if reform throughout Latin America might not blunt the "message of the Cuban Revolution". In 1955, at a gathering in Mexico City, Guevara first meets Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir). He listens to Castro's plans and signs on as a member of the July 26th Movement. There is a return to 1964 for Guevara's address before the United Nations General Assembly, where he makes an impassioned speech against American imperialism, and defends the executions his regime has committed, declaring "this is a battle to the death".

March 1957, Guevara deals with debilitating bouts of asthma as his group of revolutionaries meet up with Castro's group. Together, they attack an army barracks in the Sierra Maestra on May 28, 1957. On October 15, 1958, the guerrillas approach the town of Las Villas. The Battle of Santa Clara is depicted with Guevara demonstrating his tactical skill as the guerrillas engage in street-to-street fighting and derail a train carrying Cuban soldiers and armaments. Near the film's end, they are victorious. With the Cuban Revolution now over, Guevara heads to Havana, remarking "we won the war, the revolution starts now".
Part 2: Guerrilla

The second part begins with Guevara arriving in Bolivia disguised as a middle-aged representative of the Organization of American States hailing from Uruguay, who subsequently drives into the mountains to meet his men. The film is organized by the days that he was in the country. On Day 26, there is solidarity among Guevara's men despite his status as foreigner. By Day 67, Guevara has been set up for betrayal. He tries to recruit some peasants only to be mistaken for a cocaine smuggler. On Day 100, there is a shortage of food and Guevara exercises discipline to resolve conflicts between his Cuban and Bolivian followers.

By Day 113, some of the guerrillas have deserted and the Bolivian army has discovered their base camp. Much to Che's disappointment Tamara "Tania" Bunke (Franka Potente), Guevara's revolutionary contact, has botched elaborate preparations and given away their identity. On Day 141, the guerrillas capture some Bolivian soldiers that refuse to join the revolution and are free to return to their villages. CIA advisers arrive to supervise anti-insurgent activity and training. On Day 169, Guevara's visiting friend, the French intellectual Régis Debray, is captured at Muyupampa by members of the Bolivian Army, which launch an aerial attack on Day 219.

Guevara grows sick and by Day 280 can barely breathe as a result of his acute asthma. On Day 302 Tania Bunke, Juan Acuña Ñunez, and several others in Che's forces are massacred by the Bolivian Army as they attempt to cross the Vado del Yeso. By Day 340, Guevara is trapped by the Bolivian army in the Yuro Ravine near the village of La Higuera. Che is wounded and captured. The next day, a helicopter lands and a Cuban-American CIA agent Félix Rodríguez emerges. The Bolivian high command are then phoned and give approval for Guevara's execution. He is shot on October 9, 1967, and his corpse lashed to the landing skids of a helicopter and flown out.
Cast
From right to left: Benicio del Toro as Che Guevara, Elvira Minguez as Celia Sanchez, Rodrigo Santoro as Raúl Castro, and Demian Bichir as Fidel Castro

Benicio del Toro as Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Franka Potente as Tamara "Tania" Bunke
Catalina Sandino Moreno as Aleida March
Julia Ormond as Lisa Howard
Lou Diamond Phillips as Mario Monje
Benjamín Benítez as Harry "Pombo" Villegas
Armando Riesco as Benigno
Demian Bichir as Fidel Castro
Rodrigo Santoro as Raúl Castro
Santiago Cabrera as Camilo Cienfuegos
Elvira Minguez as Celia Sanchez
Edgar Ramirez as Ciro Redondo
Alfredo De Quesada as Israel Pardo
Roberto Santana as Juan Almeida Bosque
Victor Rasuk as Rogelio Acevedo
Kahlil Mendez as Urbano
Matt Damon as Fr. Schwarz
Unax Ugalde as Roberto "El Vaquerito" Rodríguez

Production
Development

Originally, Che was intended to be a much more traditional film based on Jon Lee Anderson's 1997 biography Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. Actor Benicio del Toro and producer Laura Bickford optioned the film rights to Anderson's book. However, after two years they had not found a suitable writer and the rights expired.[3] During this time Del Toro and Bickford researched the events depicted in Guerrilla with the idea of exploring Guevara's attempts to start a revolution in Bolivia.[4] Del Toro has said that he previously only thought of Guevara as a "bad guy".[5] For his role, Del Toro spent seven years "obsessively researching" Guevara's life, which made him feel like he "earned his stripes" to interpret the character.[6] Preparation included looking at Guevara's photographs and reading his personal writings. Del Toro read Don Quixote, one of Guevara's favorites, and the first book published and given out free after the Cuban Revolution.[6] Del Toro then personally met with people from different stages of Guevara's life, including Guevara's younger brother and childhood friends,[7] traveling to Cuba where Del Toro met Guevara's widow, family, and "tons of people that loved this man".[5] The visit included a five-minute encounter at a book fair with Fidel Castro, who expressed that he was happy for the "serious" research being undertaken.[8] Such research included collaborating with the three surviving guerrillas from Guevara's ill-fated Bolivian campaign, and with several guerrillas who fought alongside him in Cuba. While researching for both films, Soderbergh made a documentary of his interviews with many of the people who had fought alongside Guevara.[9] In his encounters with people ranging from fellow guerrillas to Guevara's driver, Del Toro described the reaction as "always the same", stating that he was "blown away" by the "bucketful of love" they still harbored for Guevara.[6] In an interview, Del Toro described Guevara as "a weird combination of an intellectual and an action figure, Gregory Peck and Steve McQueen, wrapped in one".[10] After the film's production concluded, Del Toro professed that "when you tell the story of Che, you're telling a story of the history of a country, so you have to be very careful".[7]
Screenplay

Del Toro and Bickford hired screenwriter Benjamin A. van der Veen to write the first drafts of the screenplay, and their extensive research took them to Cuba where they met with several of the remaining members of Guevara's team in Bolivia as well as the revolutionary's wife and children. It was during this phase of development that the filmmakers discovered Terrence Malick had been in Bolivia as a journalist in 1966 working on a story about Che. Malick came on as director and worked on the screenplay with van der Veen and Del Toro, but after a year-and-a-half, the financing had not come together entirely and Malick left to make The New World, a film about Jamestown, Virginia.[1] Afraid that their multi-territory deals would fall apart, Bickford and Del Toro asked Steven Soderbergh, who was previously on board as producer, to direct.[1] The filmmaker was drawn to the contrast of "engagement versus disengagement. Do we want to participate or observe? Once Che made the decision to engage, he engaged fully. Often people attribute that to a higher power, but as an atheist, he didn't have that. I found that very interesting".[11] Furthermore, he remarked that Guevara was "great movie material" and "had one of the most fascinating lives" that he could "imagine in the last century".[12] Bickford and Del Toro realized that there was no context for what made Guevara decide to go to Bolivia. They began looking for someone to rewrite the screenplay; Peter Buchman was recommended to them because he had a good reputation for writing about historical figures, based on a script he worked about Alexander the Great.[13] He spent a year reading every available book on Guevara in preparation for writing the script. The project was put on hold when Bickford and Del Toro made Traffic with Soderbergh.[4]

Soderbergh wanted to incorporate Guevara's experiences in Cuba and at the United Nations in 1964. Buchman helped with the structure of the script, which he gave three storylines: Guevara's life and the Cuban revolution; his demise in Bolivia; and his trip to New York to speak at the U.N. Buchman found that the problem with containing all of these stories in one film was that he had to condense time and this distorted history.[4] Soderbergh found the draft Buchman submitted to him "unreadable" and after two weeks decided to split the script into two separate films.[1] Buchman went back and with Del Toro expanded the Cuban story for The Argentine.[1] Additional research included reading Guevara's diaries and declassified documents from the U.S. State Department about his trip to New York and memos from the time he was in Bolivia.[4]

Soderbergh found the task of researching such a popular historical figure as Guevara a daunting one: "If you go to any bookstore, you'll find an entire wall of Che-related material. We tried to go through all of it, we were overwhelmed with information. He means something different to everyone. At a certain point we had to decide for ourselves who Che was".[11] The original source material for these scripts was Guevara's diary from the Cuban revolution, Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, and from his time in Bolivia, Bolivian Diary.[1] From there, he drew on interviews with people who knew Guevara from both of those time periods and read every book available that pertained to both Cuba and Bolivia.[14] Bickford and Del Toro met with Harry "Pombo" Villegas, Urbano and Benigno—three men who met Guevara during the Cuban revolution, followed him to Bolivia, and survived.[4] They interviewed them individually and then Pombo and Benigno together about their experiences in Cuba and Bolivia. Urbano was an adviser while they were filming in Spain and the actors often consulted with him and the others about specific details, like how to hold their guns in a certain situation, and very specific tactical information.[4]

In December 2008, Ocean Press, in cooperation with the Che Guevara Publishing Project, released Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara, with a movie tie-in cover.[15] The book's aim was to compile all the original letters, diary excerpts, speeches and maps on which Soderbergh relied for the film. The text is interspersed with remarks by Benicio del Toro and Steven Soderbergh.[15]
Financing

Initially, Che was going to be made in English and a strong interest in financing it was met; however, when the decision was made to make it in Spanish and break it up into two films, the studios' pay-TV deals, which were for English-language product only, "disappeared", according to Bickford, "and, at that point, nobody wanted to step up".[16] The director defended his decision to shoot almost all of the film in Spanish in an interview: "You can't make a film with any level of credibility in this case unless it's in Spanish. I hope we're reaching a time where you go make a movie in another culture, that you shoot in the language of that culture. I'm hoping the days of that sort of specific brand of cultural imperialism have ended".[17] Both films were financed without any American money or distribution deal; Soderbergh remarked, "It was very frustrating to know that this is a zeitgeist movie and that some of the very people who told me how much they now regret passing on Traffic passed on this one too".[18] Foreign pre-sales covered $54 million of the $58 million budget.[1] Wild Bunch, a French production, distribution and foreign sales company put up 75% of the budget for the two films, tapping into a production and acquisition fund from financing and investment company Continental Entertainment Capitol, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based Citigroup. Spain's Telecinco/Moreno Films supplied the rest of the budget.[19]
Principal photography

In 2006, shortly before the UN Headquarters underwent major renovations, Del Toro and Soderbergh shot the scenes of Guevara speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in 1964.[4] The director wanted to shoot the first part of The Argentine in Cuba, but was prevented from travelling there by the United States government's embargo.[20] Doubling Santa Clara proved to be difficult because it was a certain size and had a certain look. Soderbergh spent four to five months scouting for a suitable replacement, looking at towns in Veracruz/Yucatán before settling on Campeche, which had the elements they needed.[20]

The original intention was for The Argentine to be shot using anamorphic 16 mm film because, according to the director, it needed "a bit of Bruckheimer but scruffier".[18] He kept to his plan of shooting the first film "The Argentine" anamorphically, and the second film "Guerrilla" with spherical lenses.[18] Soderbergh wanted to use the new RED One rather than 16 mm film because of its ability replicate film stock digitally but initially it was not going to be available on time.[4] However, their Spanish work papers and visas were late and Del Toro and Soderbergh were grounded in Los Angeles for a week. The director was meanwhile informed that the prototype cameras were ready.[4]

The film is a tribute to the Marxist notion of advancement through two conflicting ideas, known as dialectics, with its division into halves, with two tempos, two color schemes, two aspect ratios and two approaches to chronology. Each half focuses on a different revolution, both fundamentally the same in theory but vastly different in outcome.[21] Soderbergh wanted the two parts of the film to mimic the voice of the two diaries they were based on; the Cuban diaries were written after the fact and, according to the director, "with a certain hindsight and perspective and a tone that comes from being victorious", while the Bolivia diaries were "contemporaneous, and they're very isolated and have no perspective, at all. It's a much more tense read, because the outcome is totally unclear".[22]

Soderbergh shot the films back-to-back in the beginning of July 2007 with Guerrilla shot first in Spain for 39 days and The Argentine shot in Puerto Rico and Mexico for 39 days. The director conceived The Argentine as "a Hollywood movie" shot in widescreen 'scope aspect ratio, with the camera either fixed or moving on a dolly or a Steadicam.[1] Guerrilla was shot, according to Soderbergh, "in Super-16, 1.85:1. No dollies, no cranes, it's all either handheld or tripods. I want it to look nice but simple. We'll work with a very small group: basically me, the producer Gregory Jacobs and the unit production manager".[18] According to the director, the portion set in Cuba was written from the perspective of the victor and as a result he adopted a more traditional look with classical compositions, vibrant color and a warm palette.[20] With Guerrilla, he wanted a sense of foreboding with hand-held camerawork and a muted color palette. Soderbergh told his production design Antxon Gomez that the first part would have green with a lot of yellow in it and the second part would have green with a lot of blue in it.[20]

At the end of The Argentine, Soderbergh depicts Guevara's derailing of a freight train during the Battle of Santa Clara. In filming the sequence, Soderbergh balked at the digital effects solution and managed to reallocate $500,000 from the overall $58 million budget to build a real set of tracks and a train powered by two V-8 car engines. To film the scene, they had six rehearsals, and could only shoot the scene once.[23]

Many aspects of Guevara's personality and beliefs affected the filming process. For instance, close-ups of Del Toro were avoided due to Guevara's belief in collectivism, with Soderbergh remarking, "You can't make a movie about a guy who has these hard-core sort of egalitarian socialist principles and then isolate him with close-ups."[21] According to Edgar Ramirez, who portrays Ciro Redondo, the cast "were improvising a lot" while making The Argentine, and he describes the project as a "very contemplative movie", shot chronologically.[24] While filming outdoors, Soderbergh used natural light as much as possible.[4] Del Toro, who speaks Puerto Rican Spanish, tried to speak the best Argentinean Spanish (Rioplatense Spanish) he could without sounding "stiff".[5] Prior to shooting the final scenes of the film that depict Guevara's time in Bolivia at the end of his life, Del Toro shed 35 pounds to show how ill Guevara had become. The actor shaved the top of his head rather than wear a bald cap for the scenes depicting Guevara's arrival in Bolivia in disguise.[25]

Soderbergh has said that with Che, he wanted to show every day tasks, "things that have meaning on a practical level and on an ideological level", as a "way of showing what it might have been like to be there".[1] While addressing the issue after at the Toronto International Film Festival, Soderbergh remarked that he was trying to avoid what he felt were typical scenes for a biographical film and that he would tell screenwriter Peter Buchman, that he was "trying to find the scenes that would happen before or after the scene that you would typically see in a movie like this".[21] Soderbergh was not interested in depicted Guevara's personal life because he felt that "everybody on these campaigns has a personal life, they all left families behind, that doesn't make him special and why should I go into his personal life and nobody else's?"[13]

Soderbergh decided to omit the post-revolution execution sentences of "suspected war criminals, traitors and informants" that Guevara reviewed at La Cabana Fortress because "there is no amount of accumulated barbarity that would have satisfied the people who hate him".[26] Soderbergh addressed the criticism for this omission in a post release interview where he stated: "I don't think anybody now, even in Cuba, is going to sit with a straight face and defend the events. La Cabana was really turned into a Roman circus, where I think even the people in power look back on that as excessive. However, every regime, in order to retain power when it feels threatened, acts excessively ... This is what people do when they feel they need to act in an extreme way to secure themselves".[26] The filmmaker noted as well that, "with a character this complicated, you’re going to have a very polarized reaction".[21] Furthermore, he was not interested in depicting Guevara's life as "a bureaucrat", stating that he was making a diptych about two military campaigns, declaring the pictures "war films".[26] Soderbergh said, "I'm sure some people will say, 'That's convenient because that's when he was at his worst.' Yeah, maybe — it just wasn't interesting to me. I was interested in making a procedural about guerrilla warfare".[16]

Soderbergh described the Cuban revolution as "the last analog revolution. I loved that we shot a period film about a type of war that can't be fought anymore".[27] Soderbergh has said that he is open to making another film about Guevara's experiences in the Congo but only if Che makes $100 million at the box office

The movies you must see before you die
Posted: May 18, 2012 (05:24:18 AM)

Che is a two-part 2008 biopic about Ernesto 'Che' Guevara directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro. Rather than follow a standard chronological order, the films offer an oblique series of interspersed moments along the overall timeline. Part One is entitled The Argentine and focuses on the Cuban revolution from the landing of Fidel Castro, Guevara, and other revolutionaries on Cuba to their successful toppling of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista two years later. Part Two is entitled Guerrilla and focuses on Guevara's attempt to bring revolution to Bolivia and his demise. Both parts are shot in a cinéma vérité style, but each has different approaches to linear narrative, camerawork, and the visual look.

Filmmaker Terrence Malick originally worked on a screenplay limited to Guevara's attempts to start a revolution in Bolivia. When financing fell through, Malick left the project, and subsequently Soderbergh agreed to direct the film. He realized that there was no context for Guevara's actions in Bolivia and decided that his participation in the Cuban revolution and his appearance at the United Nations in 1964 should also be depicted. Peter Buchman was hired to write the screenplay: the script was so long that Soderbergh decided to divide the film into two parts, one chronicling Cuba and other depicting Bolivia. Soderbergh shot the films back-to-back starting at the beginning of July 2007, with Guerrilla first in Spain for 39 days, and The Argentine shot in Puerto Rico and Mexico for 39 days.

Che was screened as a single film at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Del Toro won the Best Actor Award, and the film received mostly positive reviews. IFC Films, which holds all North American rights to Che, initially released the combined film for one week on December 12, 2008 in New York City and Los Angeles to qualify for the year's Academy Awards. Strong box office performance led to the "special roadshow edition" being extended in New York and Los Angeles and later expanded into additional markets. The film was released as two separate films, titled Che Part 1: The Argentine and Che Part 2: Guerrilla, and distribution expanded further after that. The Independent Film Channel released the films via video on demand and on Region 1 DVD exclusively from Blockbuster. As of October 2009, Che parts I and II had grossed US$40,779,241 worldwide.[2]
Part 1: The Argentine

In Havana 1964, Che Guevara (Benicio del Toro) is interviewed by Lisa Howard (Julia Ormond) who asks him if reform throughout Latin America might not blunt the "message of the Cuban Revolution". In 1955, at a gathering in Mexico City, Guevara first meets Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir). He listens to Castro's plans and signs on as a member of the July 26th Movement. There is a return to 1964 for Guevara's address before the United Nations General Assembly, where he makes an impassioned speech against American imperialism, and defends the executions his regime has committed, declaring "this is a battle to the death".

March 1957, Guevara deals with debilitating bouts of asthma as his group of revolutionaries meet up with Castro's group. Together, they attack an army barracks in the Sierra Maestra on May 28, 1957. On October 15, 1958, the guerrillas approach the town of Las Villas. The Battle of Santa Clara is depicted with Guevara demonstrating his tactical skill as the guerrillas engage in street-to-street fighting and derail a train carrying Cuban soldiers and armaments. Near the film's end, they are victorious. With the Cuban Revolution now over, Guevara heads to Havana, remarking "we won the war, the revolution starts now".
Part 2: Guerrilla

The second part begins with Guevara arriving in Bolivia disguised as a middle-aged representative of the Organization of American States hailing from Uruguay, who subsequently drives into the mountains to meet his men. The film is organized by the days that he was in the country. On Day 26, there is solidarity among Guevara's men despite his status as foreigner. By Day 67, Guevara has been set up for betrayal. He tries to recruit some peasants only to be mistaken for a cocaine smuggler. On Day 100, there is a shortage of food and Guevara exercises discipline to resolve conflicts between his Cuban and Bolivian followers.

By Day 113, some of the guerrillas have deserted and the Bolivian army has discovered their base camp. Much to Che's disappointment Tamara "Tania" Bunke (Franka Potente), Guevara's revolutionary contact, has botched elaborate preparations and given away their identity. On Day 141, the guerrillas capture some Bolivian soldiers that refuse to join the revolution and are free to return to their villages. CIA advisers arrive to supervise anti-insurgent activity and training. On Day 169, Guevara's visiting friend, the French intellectual Régis Debray, is captured at Muyupampa by members of the Bolivian Army, which launch an aerial attack on Day 219.

Guevara grows sick and by Day 280 can barely breathe as a result of his acute asthma. On Day 302 Tania Bunke, Juan Acuña Ñunez, and several others in Che's forces are massacred by the Bolivian Army as they attempt to cross the Vado del Yeso. By Day 340, Guevara is trapped by the Bolivian army in the Yuro Ravine near the village of La Higuera. Che is wounded and captured. The next day, a helicopter lands and a Cuban-American CIA agent Félix Rodríguez emerges. The Bolivian high command are then phoned and give approval for Guevara's execution. He is shot on October 9, 1967, and his corpse lashed to the landing skids of a helicopter and flown out.
Cast
From right to left: Benicio del Toro as Che Guevara, Elvira Minguez as Celia Sanchez, Rodrigo Santoro as Raúl Castro, and Demian Bichir as Fidel Castro

Benicio del Toro as Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Franka Potente as Tamara "Tania" Bunke
Catalina Sandino Moreno as Aleida March
Julia Ormond as Lisa Howard
Lou Diamond Phillips as Mario Monje
Benjamín Benítez as Harry "Pombo" Villegas
Armando Riesco as Benigno
Demian Bichir as Fidel Castro
Rodrigo Santoro as Raúl Castro
Santiago Cabrera as Camilo Cienfuegos
Elvira Minguez as Celia Sanchez
Edgar Ramirez as Ciro Redondo
Alfredo De Quesada as Israel Pardo
Roberto Santana as Juan Almeida Bosque
Victor Rasuk as Rogelio Acevedo
Kahlil Mendez as Urbano
Matt Damon as Fr. Schwarz
Unax Ugalde as Roberto "El Vaquerito" Rodríguez

Production
Development

Originally, Che was intended to be a much more traditional film based on Jon Lee Anderson's 1997 biography Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. Actor Benicio del Toro and producer Laura Bickford optioned the film rights to Anderson's book. However, after two years they had not found a suitable writer and the rights expired.[3] During this time Del Toro and Bickford researched the events depicted in Guerrilla with the idea of exploring Guevara's attempts to start a revolution in Bolivia.[4] Del Toro has said that he previously only thought of Guevara as a "bad guy".[5] For his role, Del Toro spent seven years "obsessively researching" Guevara's life, which made him feel like he "earned his stripes" to interpret the character.[6] Preparation included looking at Guevara's photographs and reading his personal writings. Del Toro read Don Quixote, one of Guevara's favorites, and the first book published and given out free after the Cuban Revolution.[6] Del Toro then personally met with people from different stages of Guevara's life, including Guevara's younger brother and childhood friends,[7] traveling to Cuba where Del Toro met Guevara's widow, family, and "tons of people that loved this man".[5] The visit included a five-minute encounter at a book fair with Fidel Castro, who expressed that he was happy for the "serious" research being undertaken.[8] Such research included collaborating with the three surviving guerrillas from Guevara's ill-fated Bolivian campaign, and with several guerrillas who fought alongside him in Cuba. While researching for both films, Soderbergh made a documentary of his interviews with many of the people who had fought alongside Guevara.[9] In his encounters with people ranging from fellow guerrillas to Guevara's driver, Del Toro described the reaction as "always the same", stating that he was "blown away" by the "bucketful of love" they still harbored for Guevara.[6] In an interview, Del Toro described Guevara as "a weird combination of an intellectual and an action figure, Gregory Peck and Steve McQueen, wrapped in one".[10] After the film's production concluded, Del Toro professed that "when you tell the story of Che, you're telling a story of the history of a country, so you have to be very careful".[7]
Screenplay

Del Toro and Bickford hired screenwriter Benjamin A. van der Veen to write the first drafts of the screenplay, and their extensive research took them to Cuba where they met with several of the remaining members of Guevara's team in Bolivia as well as the revolutionary's wife and children. It was during this phase of development that the filmmakers discovered Terrence Malick had been in Bolivia as a journalist in 1966 working on a story about Che. Malick came on as director and worked on the screenplay with van der Veen and Del Toro, but after a year-and-a-half, the financing had not come together entirely and Malick left to make The New World, a film about Jamestown, Virginia.[1] Afraid that their multi-territory deals would fall apart, Bickford and Del Toro asked Steven Soderbergh, who was previously on board as producer, to direct.[1] The filmmaker was drawn to the contrast of "engagement versus disengagement. Do we want to participate or observe? Once Che made the decision to engage, he engaged fully. Often people attribute that to a higher power, but as an atheist, he didn't have that. I found that very interesting".[11] Furthermore, he remarked that Guevara was "great movie material" and "had one of the most fascinating lives" that he could "imagine in the last century".[12] Bickford and Del Toro realized that there was no context for what made Guevara decide to go to Bolivia. They began looking for someone to rewrite the screenplay; Peter Buchman was recommended to them because he had a good reputation for writing about historical figures, based on a script he worked about Alexander the Great.[13] He spent a year reading every available book on Guevara in preparation for writing the script. The project was put on hold when Bickford and Del Toro made Traffic with Soderbergh.[4]

Soderbergh wanted to incorporate Guevara's experiences in Cuba and at the United Nations in 1964. Buchman helped with the structure of the script, which he gave three storylines: Guevara's life and the Cuban revolution; his demise in Bolivia; and his trip to New York to speak at the U.N. Buchman found that the problem with containing all of these stories in one film was that he had to condense time and this distorted history.[4] Soderbergh found the draft Buchman submitted to him "unreadable" and after two weeks decided to split the script into two separate films.[1] Buchman went back and with Del Toro expanded the Cuban story for The Argentine.[1] Additional research included reading Guevara's diaries and declassified documents from the U.S. State Department about his trip to New York and memos from the time he was in Bolivia.[4]

Soderbergh found the task of researching such a popular historical figure as Guevara a daunting one: "If you go to any bookstore, you'll find an entire wall of Che-related material. We tried to go through all of it, we were overwhelmed with information. He means something different to everyone. At a certain point we had to decide for ourselves who Che was".[11] The original source material for these scripts was Guevara's diary from the Cuban revolution, Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, and from his time in Bolivia, Bolivian Diary.[1] From there, he drew on interviews with people who knew Guevara from both of those time periods and read every book available that pertained to both Cuba and Bolivia.[14] Bickford and Del Toro met with Harry "Pombo" Villegas, Urbano and Benigno—three men who met Guevara during the Cuban revolution, followed him to Bolivia, and survived.[4] They interviewed them individually and then Pombo and Benigno together about their experiences in Cuba and Bolivia. Urbano was an adviser while they were filming in Spain and the actors often consulted with him and the others about specific details, like how to hold their guns in a certain situation, and very specific tactical information.[4]

In December 2008, Ocean Press, in cooperation with the Che Guevara Publishing Project, released Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara, with a movie tie-in cover.[15] The book's aim was to compile all the original letters, diary excerpts, speeches and maps on which Soderbergh relied for the film. The text is interspersed with remarks by Benicio del Toro and Steven Soderbergh.[15]
Financing

Initially, Che was going to be made in English and a strong interest in financing it was met; however, when the decision was made to make it in Spanish and break it up into two films, the studios' pay-TV deals, which were for English-language product only, "disappeared", according to Bickford, "and, at that point, nobody wanted to step up".[16] The director defended his decision to shoot almost all of the film in Spanish in an interview: "You can't make a film with any level of credibility in this case unless it's in Spanish. I hope we're reaching a time where you go make a movie in another culture, that you shoot in the language of that culture. I'm hoping the days of that sort of specific brand of cultural imperialism have ended".[17] Both films were financed without any American money or distribution deal; Soderbergh remarked, "It was very frustrating to know that this is a zeitgeist movie and that some of the very people who told me how much they now regret passing on Traffic passed on this one too".[18] Foreign pre-sales covered $54 million of the $58 million budget.[1] Wild Bunch, a French production, distribution and foreign sales company put up 75% of the budget for the two films, tapping into a production and acquisition fund from financing and investment company Continental Entertainment Capitol, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based Citigroup. Spain's Telecinco/Moreno Films supplied the rest of the budget.[19]
Principal photography

In 2006, shortly before the UN Headquarters underwent major renovations, Del Toro and Soderbergh shot the scenes of Guevara speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in 1964.[4] The director wanted to shoot the first part of The Argentine in Cuba, but was prevented from travelling there by the United States government's embargo.[20] Doubling Santa Clara proved to be difficult because it was a certain size and had a certain look. Soderbergh spent four to five months scouting for a suitable replacement, looking at towns in Veracruz/Yucatán before settling on Campeche, which had the elements they needed.[20]

The original intention was for The Argentine to be shot using anamorphic 16 mm film because, according to the director, it needed "a bit of Bruckheimer but scruffier".[18] He kept to his plan of shooting the first film "The Argentine" anamorphically, and the second film "Guerrilla" with spherical lenses.[18] Soderbergh wanted to use the new RED One rather than 16 mm film because of its ability replicate film stock digitally but initially it was not going to be available on time.[4] However, their Spanish work papers and visas were late and Del Toro and Soderbergh were grounded in Los Angeles for a week. The director was meanwhile informed that the prototype cameras were ready.[4]

The film is a tribute to the Marxist notion of advancement through two conflicting ideas, known as dialectics, with its division into halves, with two tempos, two color schemes, two aspect ratios and two approaches to chronology. Each half focuses on a different revolution, both fundamentally the same in theory but vastly different in outcome.[21] Soderbergh wanted the two parts of the film to mimic the voice of the two diaries they were based on; the Cuban diaries were written after the fact and, according to the director, "with a certain hindsight and perspective and a tone that comes from being victorious", while the Bolivia diaries were "contemporaneous, and they're very isolated and have no perspective, at all. It's a much more tense read, because the outcome is totally unclear".[22]

Soderbergh shot the films back-to-back in the beginning of July 2007 with Guerrilla shot first in Spain for 39 days and The Argentine shot in Puerto Rico and Mexico for 39 days. The director conceived The Argentine as "a Hollywood movie" shot in widescreen 'scope aspect ratio, with the camera either fixed or moving on a dolly or a Steadicam.[1] Guerrilla was shot, according to Soderbergh, "in Super-16, 1.85:1. No dollies, no cranes, it's all either handheld or tripods. I want it to look nice but simple. We'll work with a very small group: basically me, the producer Gregory Jacobs and the unit production manager".[18] According to the director, the portion set in Cuba was written from the perspective of the victor and as a result he adopted a more traditional look with classical compositions, vibrant color and a warm palette.[20] With Guerrilla, he wanted a sense of foreboding with hand-held camerawork and a muted color palette. Soderbergh told his production design Antxon Gomez that the first part would have green with a lot of yellow in it and the second part would have green with a lot of blue in it.[20]

At the end of The Argentine, Soderbergh depicts Guevara's derailing of a freight train during the Battle of Santa Clara. In filming the sequence, Soderbergh balked at the digital effects solution and managed to reallocate $500,000 from the overall $58 million budget to build a real set of tracks and a train powered by two V-8 car engines. To film the scene, they had six rehearsals, and could only shoot the scene once.[23]

Many aspects of Guevara's personality and beliefs affected the filming process. For instance, close-ups of Del Toro were avoided due to Guevara's belief in collectivism, with Soderbergh remarking, "You can't make a movie about a guy who has these hard-core sort of egalitarian socialist principles and then isolate him with close-ups."[21] According to Edgar Ramirez, who portrays Ciro Redondo, the cast "were improvising a lot" while making The Argentine, and he describes the project as a "very contemplative movie", shot chronologically.[24] While filming outdoors, Soderbergh used natural light as much as possible.[4] Del Toro, who speaks Puerto Rican Spanish, tried to speak the best Argentinean Spanish (Rioplatense Spanish) he could without sounding "stiff".[5] Prior to shooting the final scenes of the film that depict Guevara's time in Bolivia at the end of his life, Del Toro shed 35 pounds to show how ill Guevara had become. The actor shaved the top of his head rather than wear a bald cap for the scenes depicting Guevara's arrival in Bolivia in disguise.[25]

Soderbergh has said that with Che, he wanted to show every day tasks, "things that have meaning on a practical level and on an ideological level", as a "way of showing what it might have been like to be there".[1] While addressing the issue after at the Toronto International Film Festival, Soderbergh remarked that he was trying to avoid what he felt were typical scenes for a biographical film and that he would tell screenwriter Peter Buchman, that he was "trying to find the scenes that would happen before or after the scene that you would typically see in a movie like this".[21] Soderbergh was not interested in depicted Guevara's personal life because he felt that "everybody on these campaigns has a personal life, they all left families behind, that doesn't make him special and why should I go into his personal life and nobody else's?"[13]

Soderbergh decided to omit the post-revolution execution sentences of "suspected war criminals, traitors and informants" that Guevara reviewed at La Cabana Fortress because "there is no amount of accumulated barbarity that would have satisfied the people who hate him".[26] Soderbergh addressed the criticism for this omission in a post release interview where he stated: "I don't think anybody now, even in Cuba, is going to sit with a straight face and defend the events. La Cabana was really turned into a Roman circus, where I think even the people in power look back on that as excessive. However, every regime, in order to retain power when it feels threatened, acts excessively ... This is what people do when they feel they need to act in an extreme way to secure themselves".[26] The filmmaker noted as well that, "with a character this complicated, you’re going to have a very polarized reaction".[21] Furthermore, he was not interested in depicting Guevara's life as "a bureaucrat", stating that he was making a diptych about two military campaigns, declaring the pictures "war films".[26] Soderbergh said, "I'm sure some people will say, 'That's convenient because that's when he was at his worst.' Yeah, maybe — it just wasn't interesting to me. I was interested in making a procedural about guerrilla warfare".[16]

Soderbergh described the Cuban revolution as "the last analog revolution. I loved that we shot a period film about a type of war that can't be fought anymore".[27] Soderbergh has said that he is open to making another film about Guevara's experiences in the Congo but only if Che makes $100 million at the box office

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Jessica Claire Biel (born March 3, 1982) is an American actress, model, and occasional singer. Biel is known for her television role as Mary Camden in the long-running family-drama series 7th Heaven. She has also appeared in several Hollywood films, including Summer Catch, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Illusionist, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and The A-Team.

Jessica Claire Biel was born in Ely, Minnesota. Her mother, Kimberly, is a homemaker and spiritual healer. Her father, Jonathan Biel, worked for GE and was also an entrepreneur and business consultant.She is of German, French, English, and Choctaw ancestry and has a younger brother, Justin, born in 1985.Biel's family moved frequently during her childhood, living in Texas, Connecticut, and Woodstock, Illinois, before finally settling in Boulder, Colorado. While growing up, Biel played soccer and also trained as a gymnast.From 2000 to 2002, she attended Tufts University.

Career :--
1997–2002 :--
Biel on board the USS Abraham Lincoln on June 18, 2004

Biel landed her first feature film role as Peter Fonda's granddaughter in the critically acclaimed drama Ulee's Gold, released in 1997. Her performance earned her a Young Artist Award. In spring 1998, during a break from filming 7th Heaven, Biel starred in I'll Be Home for Christmas, playing the love interest of Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

She posed semi-nude for the cover of Gear magazine. The shoot sparked considerable controversy as Biel was still under eighteen at the time. Producers of 7th Heaven were outraged, and brought legal action against Gear magazine. She later stated that she regrets the Gear shoot but considers it a learning experience.

In 2001, Biel played the love interest of Freddie Prinze, Jr. in the baseball-themed film Summer Catch. The next year, she starred as promiscuous college student Lara in the ensemble film The Rules of Attraction, an adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel.

2003–2005 :--
Biel was cast in her first top-billing role in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The film met with negative reviews but it was a commercial success, scoring the number-one spot in its opening week and going on to earn more than $80 million in the U.S. In 2003, Biel began work on the third installment of the Blade film series, Blade: Trinity. Almost immediately after finishing it in 2004, she headed to Australia to shoot the action-thriller Stealth.

Biel also made a cameo appearance in the 2004 film Cellular.

Biel was cast in the role of Ellen Kishmorein the romantic comedy Elizabethtown. She then played the title character in the indie film London.

2006–present :--
Biel's film career blossomed when she played a turn-of-the-century duchess in the period piece The Illusionist, co-starring Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti.

Biel played an Iraq War veteran in the 2006 film Home of the Brave, a drama about soldiers struggling to adjust back into society after facing the hardships of war.

In Next, Biel played alongside Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore. She then played in the summer comedy, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, co-starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James.

In late 2007, Biel signed on to play a stripper in Powder Blue, alongside Forest Whitaker (who also produced the film), Ray Liotta and Patrick Swayze. Biel with Josh Lucas on the Stealth set.

At the start of 2008, Biel shot Easy Virtue, an adaptation of the play by Noël Coward. Like the play, the film is set in the 1920s and Biel plays young widow Larita, who impulsively marries John Whittaker in France and must face her disapproving in-laws on returning to England. The film premiered in September 2008 at the Toronto International Film Festival. Critics praised Biel for her performance, with Todd McCarthy of Variety saying Biel "more than kept up" with veterans Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth and praising her "sparkling" performance. The Hollywood Reporter described her performance as "an irresistible force of nature — a kind, witty, supremely intelligent and beautiful woman who ... is capable of rejoinders that thoroughly undercut her opponent's withering criticism." Biel also performed two songs on the film's soundtrack, "Mad About the Boy" and "When the Going Gets Tough".

In 2009, Biel lent her voice to the animated science fiction film Planet 51.

In April 2008, Biel began working on the political satire Nailed, with Jake Gyllenhaal. The film centers around a woman who accidentally gets a nail lodged in her head, then travels to Washington D.C. to fight for better health care.

Biel performed the role of "Sarah Brown" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a fully staged concert production of Guys and Dolls during the 2009 season at the Hollywood Bowl. On the last night, she received a rousing standing ovation from 17,000 people. She subsequently landed a part in Lincoln Center Theater's two-week-long workshop of the musical version of the Pedro Almodóvar classic Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, along with Salma Hayek.

Excellent news TORONTO – Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto...
Posted: May 17, 2012 (07:09:00 PM)
Excellent news

TORONTO – Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, announced today that the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema has been added as a screening venue for this year’s Festival. The new venue will be used from September 7–16, 2012, and can accommodate approximately 710 guests.

“We’re thrilled to have a foot in Toronto's Annex neighbourhood for our 2012 Festival,” said Bailey. “Screening at the newly renovated Bloor Hot Docs Cinema is an extension of our valuable relationship with Hot Docs — we were happy to host some of their screenings at TIFF Bell Lightbox during their festival, and now they’ll be hosting us in September. We go way back with the Bloor Cinema; in the ’80s and ’90s it was one of the Festival’s most loved venues. Now that Hot Docs has renovated it, we're looking forward to bringing some of that old Festival flavour back — but with better seats. With an emphasis on Vanguard films and documentaries, we think our audience will love seeing smart, hip Festival films in a grand neighbourhood cinema.”

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Toronto International Film Festival takes place September 6 to 16, 2012

In Toronto, Canada to attend Punjabi International Film Festival starting...
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In Toronto, Canada to attend Punjabi International Film Festival starting 18th May. It is a big event for Punjabi cinema and the opening film of the festival is CHANN PARDESEE. After 31 years of it's release it is still being honoured. Feels good
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It’s That Time of the Year – Toronto International Film...
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It’s That Time of the Year – Toronto International Film Festival Puts Out Call For Volunteers For #TIFF12 http://bit.ly/JZ5H7h

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Sawtell Chilli Festival, you have to be there We have reached 100 Likes.. Keep telling your friends about our page

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Rescaldos Da Comunidade Portuguesa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=6LyqVPwb5F8 Episode 34 1/2 Toronto International Portuguese Film Festival

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Richard Louissaint shared a link. Trailer Chico and Rita Genre: animation Regie / directed by: Fernando Trueba , Javier Mariscal , Tono Errando Darsteller / cast: Synopsis (provided by TIFF) ...

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OMG!!!! Daniel Radcliffe is going to be in Canada!!!!!! for the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of The Woman In Black which will occur at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, Ontario on January 26, 2012!!!!!! I want to go sooooooo bad!!!!!!! I mean come on it's Dan and the coolest horror movie so far this year or what I think will be the coolest horror movie this year and I'm finding out about this now!

Posted: Dec 31, 1969 (05:00:00 PM)
Geri Joy & I saw this at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010. I bought tickets for this movie not knowing it was animated, but it ws a fun surprise, and the music was great.

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At first, I questioned the animation style, but this gets points for it's seemingly well though out plot.
Trailer Chico and Rita Genre: animation Regie / directed by: Fernando Trueba , Javier Mariscal , Tono Errando Darsteller / cast: Synopsis (provided by TIFF) ...

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Uma belo trailer de uma das animações indicadas ao oscar , para uma garota que eu sei que adora animações.

May : ) Trailer Chico and Rita Genre: animation Regie / directed by: Fernando Trueba , Javier Mariscal , Tono Errando Darsteller / cast: Synopsis (provided by TIFF) ...

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Posted: Dec 31, 1969 (05:00:00 PM)
Reframe International Film Festival is very pleased to present films sponsored by the Trent University Frost Centre for Canadian Studies.
www.reframefilmfestival.ca for details. Weekend pass $25 and $12 for Students and the unwaged

Keepers of the Water
Friday, January 28, 2012
4:30 p.m. Showplace
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Directed by Ayelen Liberona
Canada, 4:27 min. 2011

“We should have a voice, our voice should be heard” – Robyn, 12 years old.

A young group of Native children in Fort Chipewyan got up one morning and decided that they had had enough. Their town had a problem and they wanted to do something about it.
The town sits directly downstream from the Alberta Tar Sands – the most environmentally polluting industrial project in the world. Members of the community are dying of rare forms of cancer; the fish and moose meat have tested positive for highly toxic levels of arsenic; the water is no longer drinkable; there is no end in sight.
On their own initiative these kids came together to protest this environmental crime when Syncrude came to town. This is their story.

Nominated for Best Emerging Filmmaker & Fan Favourite Award, TIFF, Toronto, 2010.

Sponsored by Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, Trent University; The Unitarian Fellowship of Peterborough ReFrame is an international film festival showcasing film and video about social issues.

Posted: Dec 31, 1969 (05:00:00 PM)
Keeping up with the Oscar season buzz... Trailer Chico and Rita Genre: animation Regie / directed by: Fernando Trueba , Javier Mariscal , Tono Errando Darsteller / cast: Synopsis (provided by TIFF) ...

Posted: Dec 31, 1969 (05:00:00 PM)
Got invited to partake in a terrorist stimulation at San Jose international airport in March by the cert organization. Law enforcement ain't ready for me to be a hero like in Die Hard.

Posted: Dec 31, 1969 (05:00:00 PM)
See also: Bachchan family
Bachban was born in Allahabad , Uttar Pradesh . His father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan , was a Hindi poet, and his mother, Teji Bachchan , was a Sikh from Faisalabad (now in Pakistan ). Bachchan was initially named Inquilaab, inspired from the famous phrase Inquilab Zindabad , during the Indian independence struggle. However, at the suggestion of fellow poet Sumitranandan Pant , Harivansh Rai changed the name to Amitabh which means, "the light that would never go off." Though his surname was Shrivastava , his father had adopted the pen-name Bachchan (meaning child-like in colloquial Hindi), under which he published all his works. It is with this last name that Amitabh debuted in films, and, for all public purposes, it has become the surname of all members of his family. Bachchan's father died in 2003, and his mother in 2007.

Amitabh is the eldest of Harivansh Rai Bachchan's two sons, the second being Ajitabh. His mother had a keen interest in theatre and had been offered a role in a film, but preferred her domestic duties. She had some degree of influence in Bachchan's choice of career because she always insisted that he should take the centre stage. He attended Allahabad 's Jnana Prabodhini and Boys' High School (BHS), followed by Nainital 's Sherwood College , where he majored in the art stream. He later went on to study at Kirori Mal College of the University of Delhi and completed a Bachelor of Science degree. In his twenties, Bachchan gave up a job as freight broker for the shipping firm, Bird and Co., based in Calcutta now known as Kolkata, to pursue a career in acting.

Career

Early work: 1969–1972
Bachchan made his film debut in 1969 as a voice narrator in Mrinal Sen 's National Award winning film Bhuvan Shome . Thereafter he got his first acting role as one of the seven protagonists in Saat Hindustani , a film directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and featuring Utpal Dutt , Madhu and Jalal Agha . Though the film was not a financial success, Bachchan won his first National Film Award for Best Newcomer.

Anand (1971) followed, where he starred alongside Rajesh Khanna . Bachchan's role as a doctor with a cynical view of life garned him his first Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award . He then played his first negative role as an infatuated lover-turned-murderer in Parwaana (1971). This was followed by several films including Reshma Aur Shera (1971). During this time, he made a guest appearance in the film Guddi which starred his future wife Jaya Bhaduri . He narrated part of the film Bawarchi . In 1972, he made an appearance in the road action comedy Bombay to Goa , directed by S. Ramanathan . Many of his films during this early period did not do well, but that was about to change.

Rise to stardom: 1973–1983
Director Prakash Mehra cast him in the leading role for the film Zanjeer (1973) as Inspector Vijay Khanna. The film was a sharp contrast to the romantically themed films that had generally preceded it and established Amitabh in a new persona—the "angry young man" of Bollywood cinema. He earned a Filmfare nomination for Best Actor. Filmfare considers this one of the iconic performances of Bollywood history. The year 1973 was also when he married Jaya, and around this time they appeared in several films together; not only in Zanjeer but in films such as Abhimaan which followed and was released only a month after their marriage. Later, Bachchan played the role of Vikram in the film Namak Haraam , a social drama directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and scripted by Biresh Chatterjee addressing themes of friendship. His supporting role won him his second Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award .


Bachchan in in Deewar
In 1974, Bachchan made several guest appearances in films such as Kunwara Baap and Dost , before playing a supporting role in Roti Kapda Aur Makaan . The film, directed and written by Manoj Kumar , addressed themes of honesty in the face of oppression and financial and emotional hardship. Bachchan then played the leading role in film Majboor , released on 6 December 1974, which was a remake of the Hollywood film Zigzag . The film was only a moderate success at the box office. In 1975, he starred in a variety of film genres from the comedy Chupke Chupke , the crime drama Faraar to the romantic drama Mili . 1975 was the year when he appeared in two films which are regarded as important in Hindi cinematic history. He starred in the Yash Chopra directed film Deewaar , opposite Shashi Kapoor , Nirupa Roy , and Neetu Singh , which earned him a Filmfare Nomination for Best Actor. The film became a major hit at the box office in 1975, ranking in at number 4.Indiatimes Movies ranks Deewaar amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films. Released on 15 August 1975 was Sholay (meaning flames), which became the highest grossing film of all time in India, earning INR 2,36,45,00,000 equivalent to US$ 60 million, after adjusting for inflation . Bachchan played the role of Jaidev. In 1999, BBC India declared it the "Film of the Millennium" and like Deewar, has been cited by Indiatimes movies as amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films. In that same year, the judges of the 50th annual Filmfare Awards awarded it with the special distinction award called Filmfare Best Film of 50 Years .

Bachchan starred in comedies such as Chupke Chupke (1975) and Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) and in films such as Kabhie Kabhie (1976). In 1976, he was once again cast by director Yash Chopra in his second film, Kabhi Kabhie, a romantic tale in which Bachchan starred as a young poet named Amit Malhotra who falls deeply in love with a beautiful young girl named Pooja played by actress Rakhee Gulzar . The film saw him again nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award. In 1977, he won his first Filmfare Best Actor Award for his performance in Amar Akbar Anthony where he played the third lead opposite Vinod Khanna and Rishi Kapoor as Anthony Gonsalves. In 1978 he starred in all four of the highest grossing films of India in that year. He once again resumed double roles in films such as Kasme Vaade as Amit and Shankar and Don playing the characters of Don, a leader of an underworld gang and his look alike Vijay. His performance won him his second Filmfare Best Actor Award . He also performed in Trishul and Muqaddar Ka Sikandar which both earned him further Filmfare Best Actor nominations. He was billed a "one-man industry" by the French director François Truffaut .

In 1979, for the first time, Amitabh was required to use his singing voice for the film Mr. Natwarlal in which he starred alongside Rekha . His performance in the film saw him nominated for both the Filmfare Best Actor Award and the Filmfare Best Male Playback Awards . In 1979, he also received Best Actor nomination for Kaala Patthar (1979) and then went on to be nominated again in 1980 for the Raj Khosla directed film Dostana , in which he starred opposite Shatrughan Sinha and Zeenat Aman . Dostana proved to be the top grossing film of 1980. In 1981, he starred in Yash Chopra's melodrama film Silsila , where he starred alongside his wife Jaya and rumoured lover Rekha . Other films of this period include Ram Balram (1980), Shaan (1980), Lawaaris (1981), and Shakti (1982) which pitted him against legendary actor Dilip Kumar .

1982 injury while filming Coolie
On 26 July 1982, while filming Coolie in the University Campus in Bangalore, Bachchan suffered a near fatal intestinal injury during the filming of a fight scene with co-actor Puneet Issar . Bachchan was performing his own stunts in the film and one scene required him to fall onto a table and then on the ground. However as he jumped towards the table, the corner of the table struck his abdomen, resulting in a splenic rupture from which he lost a significant amount of blood. He required an emergency splenectomy and remained critically ill in hospital for many months, at times close to death. The public response included prayers in temples and offers to sacrifice limbs to save him, while later, there were long queues of well-wishing fans outside the hospital where he was recuperating. Nevertheless, he spent many months recovering and resumed filming later that year after a long period of recuperation. The film was released in 1983, and partly due to the huge publicity of Bachchan's accident, the film was a box office success.

The director, Manmohan Desai , altered the ending of Coolie after Bachchan's accident. Bachchan's character was originally intended to have been killed off but after the change of script, the character lived in the end. It would have been inappropriate, said Desai, for the man who had just fended off death in real life to be killed on screen. Also, in the released film the footage of the fight scene is frozen at the critical moment, and a caption appears onscreen marking this as the instant of the actor's injury and the ensuing publicity of the accident.

Later, he was diagnosed with Myasthenia gravis . His illness made him feel weak both mentally and physically and he decided to quit films and venture into politics. At this time he became pessimistic, expressing concern with how a new film would be received and stated before every release, "Yeh film to flop hogi!" ("This film will flop").

Politics: 1984–87
In 1984, Bachchan took a break from acting and briefly entered politics in support of long-time family friend, Rajiv Gandhi . He contested Allahabad's seat of 8th Lok Sabha against H. N. Bahuguna , former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and won by one of the highest victory margins in general election history (68.2% of the vote). His political career, however, was short-lived: he resigned after three years, calling politics a cesspool . The resignation followed the implication of Bachchan and his brother in the "Bofors scandal " by a newspaper, which he vowed to take to court. Bachchan was eventually found not guilty of involvement in the ordeal.

His old friend, Amar Singh , helped him during a financial crisis due to the failure of his company ABCL. Therefore Bachchan started to support Amar Singh's political party, the Samajwadi party. Jaya Bachchan joined the Samajwadi Party and became a Rajya Sabha member. Bachchan has continued to do favors for the Samajwadi party, including advertisements and political campaigns. These activities have recently gotten him into trouble again in the Indian courts for false claims after a previous incident of submission of legal papers by him, stating that he is a farmer.

A 15 year press ban against Bachchan was imposed during his peak acting years by Stardust and some of the other film magazines. In his own defense, Bachchan claimed to have banned the press from entering his sets until late 1989.

Slump and retirement: 1988–1992
In 1988, Bachchan returned to films, playing the title role in Shahenshah , which was a box office success due to the hype of Bachchan's comeback. After the success of his comeback film however, his star power began to wane as all of his subsequent films failed at the box office. The 1991 hit film, Hum , for which he won his third Filmfare Best Actor Award , looked like it might reverse this trend, but the momentum was short-lived as his string of box office failures continued. Notably, despite the lack of hits, it was during this period that Bachchan won his first National Film Award for Best Actor , for his performance as a Mafia don in the 1990 film Agneepath . These years would be the last he would be seen on screen for some time. After the release of Khuda Gawah in 1992, Bachchan went into semi-retirement for five years. In 1994, one of his delayed films Insaniyat was released but was also a box office failure.

Producer and acting comeback 1996–99
Bachchan turned producer during his temporary retirement period, setting up Amitabh Bachchan Corporation , Ltd. (A.B.C.L.) in 1996, with the vision of becoming a 10 billion rupees (approx 250 million $US) premier entertainment company by the year 2000. ABCL's strategy was to introduce products and services covering the entire section of the India's entertainment industry. Its operations were mainstream commercial film production and distribution, audio cassettes and video discs, production and marketing of television software, celebrity and event management. Soon after the company was launched in 1996, the first film was produced by the company. Tere Mere Sapne failed to do well at the box office but launched the careers of actors such as Arshad Warsi and South films star Simran . ABCL produced a few other films, none of which did well.

In 1997, Bachchan attempted to make his acting comeback with the film Mrityudata , produced by ABCL. Though Mrityudaata attempted to reprise Bachchan's earlier success as an action hero, the film was a failure both financially and critically. ABCL was the main sponsor of the 1996 Miss World beauty pageant , Bangalore but lost millions. The fiasco and the consequent legal battles surrounding ABCL and various entities after the event, coupled with the fact that ABCL was reported to have overpaid most of its top level managers, eventually led to its financial and operational collapse in 1997. The company went into administration and was later declared a failed company by Indian Industries board. The Bombay high court, in April 1999, restrained Bachchan from selling off his Bombay bungalow 'Prateeksha' and two flats till the pending loan recovery cases of Canara Bank were disposed of. Bachchan had, however, pleaded that he had mortgaged his bungalow to Sahara India Finance for raising funds for his company.

Bachchan attempted to revive his acting career and had average success with Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998), and received positive reviews for Sooryavansham (1999) but other films such as Lal Baadshah (1999) and Hindustan Ki Kasam (1999) were box office failures.

Return to prominence: 2000–present

Bachchan at the IIFA Awards in 2006
In 2000, Amitabh Bachchan appeared in Yash Chopra 's box-office hit, Mohabbatein , directed by Aditya Chopra . He played a stern, older figure that rivalled the character of Shahrukh Khan . His role won him his third Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award . Other hits followed, with Bachchan appearing as an older family patriarch in Ek Rishtaa: The Bond of Love (2001), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001) and Baghban (2003). As an actor, he continued to perform in a range of characters, receiving critical praise for his performances in Aks (2001), Aankhen (2002), Khakee (2004) and Dev (2004). One project that did particularly well for Bachchan was Sanjay Leela Bhansali 's Black (2005). The film starred Bachchan as an aging teacher of a deaf-blind girl and followed their relationship. His performance was unanimously praised by critics and audiences and won him his second National Film Award for Best Actor and fourth Filmfare Best Actor Award . Taking advantage of this resurgence, Amitabh began endorsing a variety of products and services, appearing in many television and billboard advertisements. In 2005 and 2006, he starred with his son Abhishek in the hit films Bunty Aur Babli (2005), the Godfather tribute Sarkar (2005), and Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (2006). All of them were successful at the box office. His later releases in 2006 and early 2007 were Baabul (2006),Ekalavya and Nishabd (2007), which failed to do well at the box office but his performances in each of them were praised by critics.

In May 2007, two of his films Cheeni Kum and the multi-starrer Shootout at Lokhandwala were released. Shootout at Lokhandwala did very well at the box office and was declared a hit in India, while Cheeni Kum picked up after a slow start and only had average success. A remake of his biggest hit, Sholay (1975), entitled Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag , released in August of that same year and proved to be a major commercial failure in addition to its poor critical reception. The year also marked Bachchan's first appearance in an English-language film, Rituparno Ghosh 's The Last Lear . The film premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2007. He received positive reviews from critics who hailed his performance as his best ever since Black. Bachchan was slated to play a supporting role in his first international film, Shantaram , directed by Mira Nair and starring Hollywood actor Johnny Depp in the lead. The film was due to begin filming in February 2008 but due to the writer's strike, was pushed to September 2008. The film is currently "shelved" indefinitely.Vivek Sharma 's Bhoothnath , in which he plays the title role as a ghost , was released on 9 May 2008. Sarkar Raj , the sequel of the 2005 film Sarkar , released in June 2008 and received a positive response at the box-office. His latest movie was Paa , which released at the end of 2009. Paa was a highly anticipated project as it saw him playing his own son Abhishek's Progeria-affected 13-year-old son, and it opened to favourable reviews, particularly towards Bachchan's performance. It won him his third National Film Award for Best Actor and fifth Filmfare Best Actor Award . In 2010, he debuted in Malayalam film through Kandahar , directed by Major Ravi and co-starring Mohanlal . The film was based on the hijacking incident of the Indian Airlines Flight 814 . Bachchan did not receive any remuneration for this film.

Television career
In the year 2000, Bachchan stepped up to host India's adaptation of the British television game show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? entitled, Kaun Banega Crorepati . As it did in most other countries where it was adopted, the program found immediate success. He has hosted all but one of the seasons of the show. Canara Bank withdrew its law suit against Bachchan in November 2000. Bachchan hosted KBC till November 2005, when he fell ill. At that time he was admitted to Lilavati Hospital 's ICU once more, to undergo surgery for diverticulitis of the small intestine . During the period and that following his recovery, most of his projects were put on hold, including KBC. He has hosted all but one season of the show. Its success set the stage for his return to film popularity. In 2009 Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire in the first question of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? contest "Amitabh Bachchan" was the correct answer to the question "Who was the star of Zanjeer ? Feroz Abbas Khan performed as Amitabh Bachchan in a scene in the movie while Anil Kapoor performed as the host of the contest. Bachchan hosted the third season of the reality show Bigg Boss in 2009.

Voice

Bachchan is known for his deep, baritone voice. He has been a narrator, a playback singer and presenter for numerous programmes. Renowned film director Satyajit Ray was so impressed with Bachchan's voice, that he decided to use his voice as commentary in Shatranj Ke Khilari since he could not find a suitable role for him. In 2005, Bachchan has lent his voice to the Oscar-winning French documentary March of the Penguins , directed by Luc Jacquet .

Controversies and criticism

Barabanki land case
In the runup to the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections, 2007 , Bachchan made a film extolling the virtues of the Mulayam Singh government. His Samajwadi Party was routed, and Mayawati came to power.

On 2 June 2007 a Faizabad court ruled that he had legally acquired agricultural land designated specifically for landless Dalit farmers. It was speculated that he might be investigated on related charges of forgery , as he has allegedly claimed he was a farmer. On 19 July 2007, after the scandal broke out, Bachchan surrendered the land acquired in Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh and Pune . He wrote to the chief minister of Maharashtra , Vilasrao Deshmukh, to donate the lands that were allegedly acquired illegally in Pune. However, the Lucknow Court has put a stay on the land donation and said that the status quo on the land be maintained.

On 12 October 2007, Bachchan abandoned his claim in respect of the land at Daulatpur village in Barabanki district . On 11 December 2007, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court gave a clean chit to Bachchan in a case pertaining to alleged fraudulent allotment of government land to him in Barabanki district. A single Lucknow bench of Justice said there was no finding that the actor "himself committed any fraud or manipulated any surreptitious entry in the revenue records".

After receiving a positive verdict in Barabanki case, Amitabh Bachchan intimated to Maharashtra government that he did not wish to surrender his land in Maval tehsil of Pune district.

Raj Thackeray's criticism
Main article: 2008 attacks on North Indians in Maharashtra

Bachchan featured on an advert in shopping mall in India
In January 2008 at political rallies, Raj Thackeray , the chief of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena , targeted Amitabh Bachchan, asserting that the actor was "more inclined" towards his native state than Maharashtra. He expressed his disapproval of Amitabh's inaugurating a girls' school named after his daughter-in-law, actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan , at Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh, rather than in Maharashtra. According to media reports, Raj's censure of Amitabh, whom he admires, stemmed out of his disappointment of not being invited to Amitabh's son Abhishek 's marriage to Aishwarya, despite invitations to his estranged uncle Bal and cousin Uddhav.

Responding to Raj's accusations, the actor's wife, SP MP Jaya Bachchan, said that the Bachchans were willing to start a school in Mumbai, provided the MNS leader donated the land to build it. She told the media, "I heard that Raj Thackeray owns huge properties in Maharashtra, in Mumbai—Kohinoor Mills. If he is willing to donate land, we can start a school in the name of Aishwarya here." Raj responded to it saying, "Jaya bachchan claims she does not know me then how come she knows how much property I own?". Amitabh abstained from commenting on the issue. However, he apologized to Raj for controversial remarks from Jaya in some other incidence. "

Bal Thackeray refuted the allegations, stating, "Amitabh Bachchan is an open-minded person, he has great love for Maharashtra, and this is evident on many occasions. The actor has often said that Maharashtra and specially Mumbai has given him great fame and affection. He has also said that what he is today is because of the love people have given him. The people of Mumbai have always acknowledged him as an artiste. It was utter foolishness to make these parochial allegations against him. Amitabh is a global superstar. People all over the world respect him. This cannot be forgotten by anyone. Amitabh should ignore these silly accusations and concentrate on his acting."

On 23 March 2008, more than a month and half after Raj's remarks, Amitabh finally spoke out in an interview to a local tabloid saying, "Random charges are random; they do not deserve the kind of attention you wish me to give." Later, on 28 March at a press conference for the International Indian Film Academy , when asked what his take was on the anti-migrant issue, Amitabh said that it is one's fundamental right to live anywhere in the country and the constitution entitles so. He also stated that he was not affected by Raj's comments.

Awards, honours and recognitions

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Amitabh Bachchan
Apart from National Film Awards , Filmfare Awards and other competitive awards which Bachchan won for his performances throughout the years, he has been awarded several honours for his achievements in the Indian film industry. In 1991, he became the first artist to receive the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award , which was established in the name of Raj Kapoor . Bachchan was crowned as Superstar of the Millennium in 2000 at the Filmfare Awards. The Government of India awarded him with the Padma Shri in 1984 and the Padma Bhushan in 2001. France's highest civilian honour, the Knight of the Legion of Honour , was conferred upon him by the French Government in 2007 for his "exceptional career in the world of cinema and beyond". In 2011, actor Dilip Kumar blogged that Black should have been nominated for an Oscar. Kumar added: "If any Indian actor, in my personal opinion, deserves the world's most coveted award, it is you."

In 1999, Bachchan was voted the "greatest star of stage or screen" in a BBC Your Millenium online poll. The organisation noted that "Many people in the western world will not have heard of [him] ...[but it] is a reflection of the huge popularity of Indian films." In 2001, he was honoured with the Actor of the Century award at the Alexandria International Film Festival in Egypt in recognition of his contribution to the world of cinema. Many other honours for his achievements were conferred upon him at several International Film Festivals, including the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Asian Film Awards .

In June 2000, he became the first living Asian to have been immortalised in wax at London's Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. Another statue was installed in New York and Hong Kong in 2009.

In 2003, he was conferred with the Honorary Citizenship of the French town of Deauville . He was honoured with an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Jhansi , India, in 2004, the University of Delhi in 2006, the De Montfort University in Leicester , UK, in 2006, the University Brandan Foster by the Leeds Metropolitan University in Yorkshire , UK, in 2007, and the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, in 2011.

Severals books have been written about Bachchan. Amitabh Bachchan: the Legend was published in 1999,To be or not to be: Amitabh Bachchan in 2004,AB: The Legend: (A Photographer's Tribute) in 2006 /, Amitabh Bachchan: Ek Jeevit Kimvadanti in 2006,Amitabh: The Making of a Superstar in 2006,Looking for the Big B: Bollywood, Bachchan and Me in 2007 and Bachchanalia in 2009. Bachchan himself also wrote a book in 2002: Soul Curry for you and me – An Empowering Philosophy That Can Enrich Your Life.

Personal life

See also: Bachchan family
Bachchan is married to actress Jaya Bhaduri . They have two children, Shweta Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan . Abhishek is also an actor and is married to actress Aishwarya Rai .

Filmography

Latest films
Main article: Amitabh Bachchan filmography
Year Film Role Notes
2006 Family — Ties of Blood Viren Sahi
Darna Zaroori Hai Professor
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Samarjit Singh Talwar (aka. Sexy Sam) Nominated, Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award
Baabul Balraj Kapoor
2007 Eklavya: The Royal Guard Eklavya
Nishabd Vijay
Cheeni Kum Buddhadev Gupta/Ghaspus
Shootout at Lokhandwala Special appearance, Dingra
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom Special appearance, Sutradhar
Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag Babban Singh
Om Shanti Om Special appearance, Himself
2008 Jodhaa Akbar Narrator
Bhoothnath Bhoothnath (Kailash Nath)
Sarkar Raj Subhash Nagre aka Sarkar
God Tussi Great Ho God Almighty
The Last Lear Harish 'Harry' Mishra
2009 Delhi-6 Special appearance, Dadaji
Aladin Genius the Gennie
Paa Auro Winner, Filmfare Best Actor Award
Winner, National Film Award for Best Actor
2010 Rann Vijay Harshvardhan Malik
Teen Patti Venkat
Kandahar Lokanathan Sharma
2011 Department
Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap
Aarakshan Prabhakar Anand Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
Shoebite John Periera Post-production
2012 Taalismaan Filming
Producer
Year Film
1996 Tere Mere Sapne
1997 Ullaasam
Mrityudata
1998 Major Saab
2001 Aks
2005 Viruddh... Family Comes First
2006 Family — Ties of Blood
Playback singer
Year Film
1979 The Great Gambler
Mr. Natwarlal
1981 Lawaaris
Naseeb
Silsila
1983 Mahaan
Pukar
1984 Sharaabi
1989 Toofan
Jaadugar
1992 Khuda Gawah
1998 Major Saab
1999 Sooryavansham
2001 Aks
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...
2002 Aankhen
2003 Armaan
Baghban
2004 Dev
Aetbaar
2006 Baabul
2007 Nishabd
Cheeni Kum
2008 Bhoothnath
2009 Aladin
Paa
2011 Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap
Further reading

Mazumdar, Ranjani. Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
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^ "A doctorate for Big B: Rediff.com movies" . In.rediff.com. 2006-11-04. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
^ "Dr Amitabh Bachchan takes Leicester by storm – bollywood news" . glamsham.com. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
^ "Leeds University honours Bollywood icons : Bollywood News" . ApunKaChoice.Com. 2007-06-10. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
^ "News" . QUT. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
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^ Original Author: Khalid Mohamed. "To Be or Not to Be Amitabh Bachchan" . Shvoong.com. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
^ "AB: The Legend (A Photographer's Tribute)" . Exoticindiaart.com. 2008-10-02. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
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^ "Soul Curry for you and me – An Empowering Philosophy That Can Enrich Your Life by Amitabh Bachchan" . Indiaclub.com. 1942-10-11. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
External links

Amitabh Bachchan's official blog
Amitabh Bachchan at the Internet Movie Database
Amitabh Bachchan Documentary, Classic BBC Archive video and exclusive interview conducted in Amitabh's own house for BBC Asian Network
British Academy of Film and Television Arts brochure


Persondata
Name Bachchan, Amitabh
Alternative names Big B
Short description Film actor
Date of birth 11 October 1942
Place of birth Allahabad , Uttar Pradesh , India
Date of death
Place of death

Posted: Dec 31, 1969 (05:00:00 PM)
Conrad Rigor shared Palea-ITF's photo.

Posted: Dec 31, 1969 (05:00:00 PM)
een film om naar uit te kijken.. met best wel hele goede muziek ook. Trailer Chico and Rita Genre: animation Regie / directed by: Fernando Trueba , Javier Mariscal , Tono Errando Darsteller / cast: Synopsis (provided by TIFF) ...

Posted: Dec 31, 1969 (05:00:00 PM)
A few more reasons why the Reno-Tahoe International Airport is named the second-most efficient airport in the US and Canada. With more than 140 daily flights serving 17 non-stop destinations, it’s no wonder the Reno-Tahoe International Airport was recently named the second-most efficient airport in the U.S. and Canada. A quick flight into Reno Tahoe’s award winning airport grants you access to eighteen world-class ski res...

Posted: Dec 31, 1969 (05:00:00 PM)
Lyova Knyazyan shared a link. Trailer Chico and Rita Genre: animation Regie / directed by: Fernando Trueba , Javier Mariscal , Tono Errando Darsteller / cast: Synopsis (provided by TIFF) ...

Posted: Dec 31, 1969 (05:00:00 PM)
Have been waiting a while to see this (now) Oscar-nominated animation. Understand it's done the festivals here. Anyone know if a local distributor has it? Trailer Chico and Rita Genre: animation Regie / directed by: Fernando Trueba , Javier Mariscal , Tono Errando Darsteller / cast: Synopsis (provided by TIFF) ...

Posted: Dec 31, 1969 (05:00:00 PM)
My city by the Bay. San Francisco International Airport opens Yoga Room inside Terminal 2 for flyers waiting for flights. Only in California baby! Facility could possibly be the first of its kind

Posted: Dec 31, 1969 (05:00:00 PM)
SFO - San Francisco International Airport - opens Yoga Room inside Terminal 2 for flyers waiting for flights. How great!! Facility could possibly be the first of its kind




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