Is it the game of life or a life of games?
Plot
It's not just any day at the factory for our shady but somehow admirable hero Iulica (Gabriel Spahiu), Health and Safety Chief, but the morning after the glorious victory of underdogs Steaua Bucharest in the European Champions Cup over the mighty Barcelona - the only Romanian team ever to win it. Everyone, or at least the men, really wants to be celebrating this, but in fact it's Romanian Communist Party Day which is taking centre stage in the works canteen. Various lacklustre official events are on the cards, including a hilarious rendition of 'The Power of Love' by a stolid under-rehearsed factory choir, and a couple of official films Iulica's made, one a warning about the perils of disrespecting Health and Safety, the other the eponymous Adalbert's Dream, a clunky surreal effort, so named by Iulica 'because it sounds like a foreign film'. Always on the dodgy edge of things, ever cheerful, Iulica the family man is also managing a rather unenthusiastic one-eyed mistress (star of his H&S; film) and getting the factory to run him off a few little items for personal use, as well as possessing a possibly illicit video recorder, which he's brought along to work to show the tape he's made of the football to his boss when the festivities allow. But the darkness really descends and the revels are ended when there's a real accident in the factory, and a 'reenactment' film has to be made about it to seek out where the blame lies and warn others. Just one week earlier the biggy in Health and Safety disasters happened, at Chernobyl.
Keywords: black-comedy, communist, film-in-film, health-and-safety
A work accident is re-enacted, but the re-enactment turns into a new accident: the worker playing the victim gets his hand cut off, as well.
Plot
Set in a trendy London nightclub, the film follows two 20 something socialites Jay and Adrian on their quest to win the attention and possible one night-stand bed posts of feisty university club queens Roxanne and Hannah. The adventure turns sour when the boys' squeaky clean mate David sticks his nose in.
Give up. It's over.
There is no why. There just is.
It's a twin thing!
Plot
A young Canadian man, Adrian, goes to a job interview looking to broaden his experience and career. His life dilemma has been about not being able to confront anybody who takes advantage of him. Adrian is puzzled with a mind-boggling coincidence that he instantly perceives as a personality test.
Plot
Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.
Keywords: actor-playing-himself, assistant, baby, based-on-novel, battle, boots, breaking-the-fourth-wall, child-nudity, circumcision, diaper
Because everyone loves an accurate period piece.
He's About To Play The Role Of His Life.
Jennie: 'Fear Eats The Soul,' there's more truth in that title than most whole films.
Tony Wilson: Why "Tristram Shandy"? This is the book that many people said is unfilmable.::Steve Coogan: I think that's the attraction. "Tristram Shandy" was a post-modern classic written before there was any modernism to be post about. So it was way ahead of its time and, in fact, for those who haven't heard of it, it was actually listed as number eight on the Observer's top 100 books of all time.::Tony Wilson: That was a *chronological* list.
Rob Brydon: [Rob shows Steve his teeth] What do you think? Have a look at the color.::Steve Coogan: I saw the color the last time I looked. It registered.::Rob Brydon: It's what they call "not white." What color would you call it?::Steve Coogan: I would, I'd concur with "not white." I'd go further.::Rob Brydon: I mean, it's not yellow.::Steve Coogan: I, you know, I mean, there's a sliding scale, isn't there, you know.::Rob Brydon: Hint of yellow.::Steve Coogan: I think you're closest to...::Rob Brydon: Barley meadow. Tuscan sunset.::Steve Coogan: You're getting laughs, but it's not making your teeth look any better.
Steve Coogan: [Steve is hanging upside down in the model womb] How about filming the other way around, the right way up, and then just flip the image?::Leo: Well, maybe, but I'd have to have a word with Mark about that. I mean, I think he wanted the realism.::Steve Coogan: He wants realism?::Leo: Yeah.::Steve Coogan: Yeah, I'm a grown man, talking to the camera, in a fucking womb!
Steve Coogan: Do you know there's a good Groucho Marx story about, see, he meets a woman with seven children and says "Why've you got seven kids?" and she says "Because I love my husband." And he says, "Well, I love my cigar, but I take it out now and again."
Steve Coogan: Given that the story's about Walter's love for his son, I really think that Walter should be there at the birth.::Joe: It's the 18th Century. Men just didn't do that. You're a 21st Century man, but Walter can't be.::Steve Coogan: He talks to the fucking camera. He can be emotional. If you saw Walter for an instant holding the baby in his arms, then you would forgive him all his flaws.::Joe: Yeah, but it would look terrible. It'd be like the scene in Robin Hood where Kevin Costner delivers a baby.::Steve Coogan: Because he's got a stupid mullet haircut.
Rob Brydon: [Rob shows Steve his teeth] What do you think? I've had them done.::Steve Coogan: I know you have.::Rob Brydon: What do you think? Feel that one. There's no crevice. Feel it.::Steve Coogan: Don't ask me to feel your teeth.::Rob Brydon: Just close your eyes and feel it.::Steve Coogan: No. It's your fucking teeth. Christ!::Rob Brydon: What is the matter with you? You've got such a thing about, whenever there's a hint of something gay, you immediately...::Steve Coogan: What? This has nothing to do with "gay". I'm very cautious.::Rob Brydon: That's what it is. You don't want to touch another man's teeth, because you're worried you might be attracted to me. Just touch my teeth.
Steve Coogan: I've got to be able to kick and stretch. That's what foeti do.::Leo: Yeah, but not when they're full term.::Steve Coogan: He wants realism. Yeah. I'm a grown man, talking to the camera, in a womb.
Rob Brydon: The thing is, I can't act...::Steve Coogan: I know that.::Rob Brydon: ...with Gillian Anderson. I have a sexual thing for Gillian Anderson.
Tristram Shandy: That is a child actor, pretending to be me. I'll be able to play myself later. I think I could probably get away with being eighteen, nineteen. Until then, I'll be played by a series of child actors. This was the best of a bad bunch.
Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Hadrianus (see Hadrian). Several saints and six popes have borne this name, including the only English pope, Adrian IV, and the only Dutch pope, Adrian VI. As an English name, it has been in use since the Middle Ages, though it was not popular until modern times. It is also a very popular name in Romania.
Jesús Adrián Romero is a Mexican author, Christian music singer, composer and pastor from Hermosillo, Sonora in Mexico.
Jesús Adrián Romero was born in Hermosillo, Sonora, México. It was around the age of 16 when he first became a Christian, after he and his mother had an invitation to go to a Bible study.
In the late '80s, Jesús Adrián Romero began a musical group called 'Grupo Creación'. He and the band began playing and ministering to people through their music. Some time later, he founded the Christian community "Amistad y Vida" ("Friendship and Life") in Agua Prieta, Sonora. Currently, "Amistad y Vida" is a congregation ministering to its city, under the leadership of Pastor Santiago and Carmen Acosta.
Jesús Adrián was also an assistant pastor in "Vino Nuevo" ("New Wine" in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua), for four years, under the direction of pastor Victor Richards, where he was in charge of Bible studies in different homes and directed one of the worship groups of the congregation. For three years, he worked as praise director of the group "Hombre a Hombre" ("From man to man").
Adrián Marcelo Romero González (born June 25, 1977 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan football defender currently playing for Club Olimpia in the Paraguayan Primera Division.
Romero started his playing career in 1999 with Cerro and in 2004 he joined Nacional.
Romero moved to Argentina in 2004 where he played with Estudiantes de La Plata and then Tiro Federal. In 2006 he returned to Uruguay to rejoin Nacional.
Between 2003 and 2004 Romero played in 8 games for the Uruguay national team, on November 15, 2003 he scored the winning goal in a World Cup qualifier against Chile, and in the next game against Brazil on November 19 he was the captain of the Uruguayan team.
Adrian Minune (real name Adrian Simionescu, born September 24, 1974) is a Romani-Romanian manele singer.
Adrian Minune married his long time life-partner Cati in 2004 and has two daughters (Caren and Adriana) and a son (Adrian Jr.) with her. His mother Florenţa, who raised him alone since he was two years old, also lives with them...
He has made appearances in:
Adrian Gaxha (Macedonian: Адриан Гаџа) (born 13 February 1984[citation needed] in Skopje, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Macedonian pop musician of Albanian ethnicity. He started playing the viola at an early age and also graduated from a Music High School. He is currently studying English language in Skopje.
He represented Republic of Macedonia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, performing the English language version of the song "Vo Ime Na Ljubovta" along with Tamara Todevska and Rade Vrčakovski.
Gaxha started singing in 2001 in the festival of pop music Nota Fest organised by the Macedonian Albanian community. There, he won the first prize, the first time a newcomer won both the jury and the audience votes. Within a short time, Adrian became one of the most popular singers in Macedonia and Albania. Until today he has recorded four albums, three in Albanian and one in Macedonian.
His performances usually include a lot of skillful dance choreography. He has also participated in festivals such as Videofest in Tirana as a winner twice, Makfest in Štip, and has won the first prize at Ohrid Fest. In 2006, he finished second at the Macedonian national preselection for Eurovision, singing the song "Ljubov e" with Esma Redzepova.
Adrian came home again last summer
Things just haven't been the same around here
People talk
People stare
Oh, Adrian, come out and play
An unfortunate accident in a canoe
Dr. said, 'I'm sorry not much I can do'
The air was so still
His eyes did not blink
Oh, Adrian, come out and play
Little Mary Epperson liked him and
She vowed always to watch after him
Still he did not move
Dr. said it's no use
Oh, Adrian, come out and play
She sat by his side,and watched the years fly by
He looked so fragile, he looked so small and
She wondered why he was still alive at all
Everyone in town had that 'I'm sorry look'
They talked in a whispered hush, said
'I'd turn the machines off'
But still she sat by his side
Said,she said 'Life he won't be denied
Oh, Adrian, come out and play
Yellow flowers decorate his bedroom
Sign above his door says 'Welcome Home'
But he just sits and stares
He's awake but he's still not there
Oh, Adrian, come out and play
She sat by his side,and watched the years fly by
He looked so fragile, he looked so small and
She wondered why he was still alive at all
Little Mary Epperson grew up lovely and
She still comes to visit him on Sundays
He's like an unused toy
He's got big hands but the mind of a little boy
Oh, Adrian, come out and play
Adrian came home again last summer
Adrian, don't you understand
Fools like us are always dreaming?
And when you go to bed, and cover up your head
It's better if you try to stop remembering
And the world is slowly dawning
To wake up to a new clear morning
Some of them just half your age
Get written off, page by page
Adrian, don't you understand
Fools like us are always dreaming?
And when you go to bed, you cover up your head
It's better if you try to stop remembering
Some of them just half your age
Get written off page by page
And the world is softly sleeping
While your fears are in their keeping
All the planet's making haste
To blow to bits in outer space
Looking down from the apple tree
My hands tied in back of me
With this rope below my chin
We don't fear death my adrian
Trust me son that one day soon
You'll be on the bottom where the boat breaks through
To let our freedom in again
We don't fear death my adrian
From now on i am part of you
I am the story that you'll tell
Let my life empower you
Let my troubles teach you well
Let your burning hatred go
Learn yourself until you know
That fear is where all hatred begins
We don't fear death my adrian
From now on i am part of you
I am the story that you'll tell
Let my life empower you
Let my troubles teach you well
As they set my last breath free
Turn your eyes but don't fail to see
The love you feel inside your skin
We don't fear death my adrian
Not 'cause you're older or 'cause you're better
Although you're older and you're better
Yes it's truly thrilling
But also 'cause you just let me love you
Adrian, Adrian
This is my first time
So, I hope you mean to love me well
I never looked for this, I never asked for that
No matter where I kiss your body
Keeps on kissing me back
It's good cause maybe you feel like I do and maybe
Adrian, Adrian
This is my first time
So, I hope you mean to love me well
Come down from your high chair and speak to me
This complicated situation does not fade me
All I wanna do is lie next to your heartbeat
And I would wait forever on this dirty street for
Adrian, Adrian
This is my first time