Charlie Chaplin. His most famous films are The Immigrant (1917), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), and The Great Dictator (1940). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin_filmography http://en.wikipedia.org
2.Who is Nicolas Kim Coppola? Why has he changed his name by now? Describe his movie career, add illustrations Nicolas Cage. In order to avoid the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name early in his career from Nicolas Coppola to Nicolas Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage. Other Cage roles included appearances in the acclaimed 1987 romantic-comedy Moonstruck, also starring Cher; The Coen Brothers cult-classic comedy Raising Arizona; David Lynch's 1990 offbeat film Wild at Heart; a lead role in Martin Scorsese's 1999 New York City paramedic drama Bringing Out the Dead; and Ridley Scott's 2003 quirky drama Matchstick Men, in which he played an agoraphobic, mysophobic, obsessive-compulsive con artist with a tic disorder. Cage has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, winning once for his performance as a suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas. His other nomination was for his portrayal of real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and Kaufman's fictional twin Donald in Adaptation. Despite these successes, most of his lower-profile films have performed poorly at the box office compared to his mainstream action/adventure roles. The suspense thriller 8mm (1999) was not a box office success, but is now considered a cult film. He took the lead role in the 2001 film Captain Corelli's Mandolin and learned to play the mandolin from scratch for the part. In 2005, two offbeat films he headlined, Lord of War and The Weather Man, failed to find a significant audience despite nationwide releases and good reviews for his acting in those roles. Poor reviews for The Wicker Man resulted in low box office sales. The much criticized Ghost Rider (2007), based on the Marvel Comics character, was a significant hit,[citation needed] earning more than $45 million (the top earner) during its opening weekend and over $208 million worldwide through the weekend ending on March 25, 2007. Also in 2007, he starred in Next, which shares the concept of a glimpse into an alternate timeline with The Family Man (2000). Most of Cage's movies that have achieved financial success were in the action/adventure genre. In his second-highest grossing film to date, National Treasure, he plays an eccentric historian who goes on a dangerous adventure to find treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States. Other action hits include The Rock, in which Cage plays a young FBI chemical weapons expert who infiltrates Alcatraz Island in hopes of neutralizing a terrorist threat, Face/Off, a John Woo film where he plays both a hero and a villain, and World Trade Center, director Oliver Stone's film regarding the September 11, 2001 attacks. He had a small but notable role as the Chinese criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu in Rob Zombie's fake trailer Werewolf Women of the S.S. from the B-movie double feature Grindhouse. In recent years, Cage made his directorial debut with Sonny, a low-budget drama starring James Franco as a male prostitute whose mother (Brenda Blethyn) serves as his pimp.[8] Cage had a small role in the grim film, which received poor reviews and a short run in a limited number of theatres. Cage's producing career includes Shadow of the Vampire, the first film from Saturn Films.In 2008, Cage appeared as Joe, a contract killer who undergoes a change of heart while on a work outing in Bangkok, in the film Bangkok Dangerous. The film is shot by the Pang Brothers and has a distinct South-East Asian flavor. In 2009, Cage starred in sci-fi thriller Knowing, directed by Alex Proyas. In the film, he plays an MIT professor who examines the contents of a time capsule unearthed at his son's elementary school. Startling predictions found inside the capsule that have already come true lead him to believe the world is going to end at the close of the week, and that he and his son are somehow involved in the destruction. The film received mainly negative reviews but was the box office winner on its opening weekend. Also in 2009, Cage appeared in the film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, directed by acclaimed German director Werner Herzog. He portrayed a corrupt police officer with gambling, drug and alcohol addictions. This film reunited Cage with Eva Mendes, who played his love interest in Ghost Rider. Cage will star in the period piece Season of the Witch, playing a 14th-century knight transporting a girl accused of causing the Black Plague to a monastery, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in which he will play the sorcerer.[12] It is rumored that he will star in National Treasure 3, which has a possible release date as early as 2011. He would again take the role of Benjamin Gates, a cryptologist-turned-treasure hunter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Cage http://en.wikipedia.org 3.Who was the director of the suspense film "The Birds" (1963)? What was the film about? Give the names of the actors. Alfred Hitchcock was the director. It's a horror movie about birds, who start to attack people violently. The main actors were Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_%28film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org 4.In which film does the actor in the main role say the following words: "Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get." Give the details of the film and the actors. In Forrest Gump. The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he's too stupid to realize the significance of his actions. Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly. The main actors were Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson and Sally Field. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/ http://www.imdb.com 5.While performing his onscreen stunts, this actor (born in 1954 in Hong Kong) has broken his nose three times, his ankle once, most of his fingers, both cheek bones and has had numerous skull fractures. What is his name and which MTV award has he won? Jackie Chan. He has won the MTV Movie Award 3 times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Chan http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000329/awards http://www.imdb.com 6.What is the name of American animated television sitcom series created by Matt Grening for the Fox Broadcasting Company? What are the series about? Illustrate. The Simpsons. The Simpsons are a family who live in at 742 Evergreen Terrace in the town of Springfield in the United States. Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant , a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife and mother. They have three children: Bart, a ten-year-old troublemaker; Lisa, a precocious eight-year-old acitivst ; and Maggie, a baby who rarely speaks, but communicates by sucking on a pacifier. The family owns a dog, Santa's Little Helper , and a cat, Snowball II. Both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. Despite the passing of yearly milestones such as holidays or birthdays, the Simpsons do not physically age and still appear just as they did at the end of the 1980s. Although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care a about one another. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_family http://en.wikipedia.org 7.What is the name of the moviestar, whose single "Respect Yourself" hit the Top Five ranking in American music charts in early 1987? What kind of films has this star performed? Illustrate. Bruce Willis. He has performed action movies and comedies mostly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect_Yourself#Cover_versions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Willis#Film http://www.vh1.com 8.What is the name of the left-handed American moviestar, who was once married to Jonny Lee Miller in black leather pants and a white shirt. On the white shirt she had painted her husband's name in her own blood. Who is her husband now? What are her most famous films? Angelina Jolie. Her husband now is Brad Pitt, her co-star in the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Her most famous films are Girl, Interrupted; Lara Croft: Tomb Raider; Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life; Mr. & Mrs. Smith; A Mighty Heart; Wanted and Changeling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Jolie#Filmography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Lee_Miller#Personal_life http://www.imdb.com 9.What is the name of the film, which was directed by David Yates (released in 2009) and is based on the novel of the British writer J.K.Rowling? Who play the main roles in the film? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The main roles are played by Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent, Alan Rickman, Tom Felton and Helena Bonham Carter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince_%28film%29 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946734/ http://www.imdb.com/ 10.What do you know about American actress Kristen James Stewart (born in 1990)? Illustrate her film career.Stewart's acting career began at the age of eight, after an agent saw her perform in her elementary school's Christmas play. Stewart's first role was a nonspeaking part in the film The Thirteenth Year . Then, she had another part in the film The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas as the "ring toss girl". She subsequently appeared in the independent film The Safety of Objects, in which she played the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother (Patricia Clarkson) . Stewart had a major role in the Hollywood film Panic Room , playing the diabetic daughter of a divorced mother (Jodie Foster). The film received generally positive reviews, and Stewart garnered positive notices for her performance.
After Panic Room's success, Stewart was cast in another thriller, Cold Creek Manor , playing the daughter of Dennis Quaid's and Sharon Stone's characters; the film generally failed at the box office. Her first starring role followed, in the children's action-comedy Catch That Kid, opposite Max Thieriot and Corbin Bleu. Stewart also played the role of Lila in the thriller Undertow. To date, Stewart's most critically acclaimed role may be in the television film Speak (2004), based on the novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. Stewart, 13 at the time of filming, played high school freshman Melinda Sordino, who stops almost all verbal contact after being raped and who deals with enormous amounts of emotional turmoil. Stewart received great praise for playing the character, who had only a few speaking lines, but kept up a dark-witted commentary inside her head throughout the film.
In 2005, Stewart appeared in the fantasy-adventure film Zathura, playing the role of Lisa, the irresponsible older sister of two little boys, who turn their house into a spacecraft hurtling uncontrollably in outer space by playing a board game. The film received praise by critics, but Stewart's performance did not garner much media attention, as it was noted that her character is immobilized during most of the film. The following year, she played the character Maya in Fierce People, directed by Griffin Dunne. After that film, she received the lead role of Jess Solomon in the supernatural thriller film The Messengers.
In 2007, Stewart appeared as teenager Lucy Hardwicke in In the Land of Women, a romantic drama starring Meg Ryan and The O.C. star Adam Brody. The film, as well as Stewart's performance, received mixed reviews. That same year, Stewart starred in Sean Penn's s critically acclaimed adaptation film Into the Wild. For her portrayal of Tracy — a teenage singer who has a crush on young adventurer Christopher McCandless — Stewart received generally positive reviews.Salon.com considered her work a "sturdy, sensitive performance", and the Chicago Tribune noted that she did "vividly well with a sketch of a role." Her performance was not without detractors, however; Variety's critic Dennis Harvey wrote, "It's unclear whether Stewart means to be playing hippie-chick Tracy as vapid, or whether it just comes off that way." After Into the Wild, Stewart had a cameo appearance in Jumper and also appeared in What Just Happened, which was released in October 2008. She also co-stars in The Cake Eaters an independent film that has only been screened at film festivals.
On November 16, 2007, Summit Entertainment announced that Stewart would play Isabella "Bella" Swan in the film Twilight , based on Stephenie Meyer's bestselling vampire romance novel of the same name. Stewart was on the set of Adventureland, when director Catherine Hardwicke visited her for an informal screen test which "captivated" the director. She stars alongside Robert Pattinson , who plays Edward Cullen, her character's vampire boyfriend. The film began production in February 2008 and finished filming in May 2008. Twilight was released domestically on November 21, 2008. After the release of Twilight, Kristen Stewart was awarded the MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance for her portrayal as Bella Swan. Stewart reappeared as Bella in the sequel, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and will reprise this role in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
Stewart will star in a film called K-11 with Nikki Reed, also of Twilight, and Jason Mewes . The film, which is being directed by Stewart's mother, takes place in a dorm of the Los Angeles County , and will feature both Stewart and Reed as male characters. Stewart was also cast to portray Joan Jett in The Runaways , a biopic of the titular band from writer-director Floria Sigismondi. Stewart met with Jett over the 2008-2009 New Year to prepare for the role, and ended up prerecording songs in a studio for the upcoming film. She has recently been nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star award. She also stars alongside James Gandolfini in Welcome to the Rileys , which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010.
Illustrations of her most famous films:
Twilight 
Adventureland 
The Twilight Saga: New Moon 
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