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Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer.
Bloch was born in Geneva and began playing the violin at age 9. He began composing soon afterwards. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. He then travelled around Europe, moving to Germany (where he studied composition from 1900–1901 with Iwan Knorr at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt), on to Paris in 1903 and back to Geneva before settling in the United States in 1916, taking American citizenship in 1924. He held several teaching appointments in the U.S., with George Antheil, Frederick Jacobi, Bernard Rogers, and Roger Sessions among his pupils. In December 1920 he was appointed the first Musical Director of the newly formed Cleveland Institute of Music, a post he held until 1925. Following this he was director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music until 1930.
In 1941, Bloch moved to the small coastal community of Agate Beach, Oregon and lived there the rest of his life. He died in 1959 in Portland, Oregon, of cancer at the age of 78. The Bloch Memorial has been moved from near his house in Agate Beach to a more prominent location at the Newport Performing Arts Center in Newport, Oregon.
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death. Some recent scholars place him in the context of regional insurgencies of ex-Confederates following the American Civil War rather than a manifestation of frontier lawlessness or alleged economic justice.
Jesse and his brother Frank James were Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War. They were accused of participating in atrocities committed against Union soldiers. After the war, as members of one gang or another, they robbed banks, stagecoaches and trains. Despite popular portrayals of James as a kind of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, there is no evidence that he and his gang used their robbery gains for anyone but themselves.
The James brothers were most active with their gang from about 1866 until 1876, when their attempted robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, resulted in the capture or deaths of several members. They continued in crime for several years, recruiting new members, but were under increasing pressure from law enforcement. On April 3, 1882, Jesse James was killed by Robert Ford, who was a member of the gang living in the James house and who was hoping to collect a state reward on James' head.
Actors: Marie-Christine Adam (actress), Costa-Gavras (writer), Eric Naggar (actor), Daniel Martin (actor), Yvonne Gradelet (actress), Claire Nadeau (actress), Philippe Duclos (actor), Gad Elmaleh (actor), Gabriel Byrne (actor), Dominic Gould (actor), Daniel Mesguich (actor), Hippolyte Girardot (actor), Bernard Le Coq (actor), Armand Amar (composer), Jean-Claude Grumberg (writer),
Plot: When the CEO of France's Phenix Bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil is crowned as his replacement. A whirlwind of ruthless ambition, power struggles, greed and deception ensues as Tourneuil's brutal ascent is jeopardized by a hostile takeover attempt from a large American hedge fund led by Dittmar Rigule, erotic distractions from international supermodel Nassim, and adversaries with an agenda for destruction.
Keywords: bank, banker, banking, capital, capitalism, capitalist, critique-of-capitalism, extravagance, finance, financial-plotActors: Nina Companeez (writer), Philippe Morier-Genoud (actor), Catherine Samie (actress), Corinne Devaux (miscellaneous crew), Françoise Bertin (actress), Véronique Hallu (miscellaneous crew), Bernard Farcy (actor), Vincent Solignac (actor), Dominique Blanc (actress), Nina Companeez (director), Jean-Claude Drouot (actor), Didier Sandre (actor), François Sauvagnargues (miscellaneous crew), Anne-Marie Garcia (miscellaneous crew), Hervé Pierre (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Ion Caramitru (actor), Brian Fortune (actor), Laura Way (actress), Eamon Rohan (actor), Charlotte Bradley (actress), Frank Reid (editor), Mark O'Halloran (actor), Shirley Weir (producer), Shirley Weir (writer), Noel Aungier (actor), Jamie Hannigan (writer), Jamie Hannigan (director), Clodagh Reid (actress), Alex Leonard (composer), Paul Connaughton (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Shun Oguri (actor), Hidekatsu Shibata (actor), Vic Mignogna (actor), Mike McFarland (actor), Christopher Sabat (actor), Hidekatsu Shibata (actor), Scott McNeil (actor), Kyle Hebert (actor), John Gremillion (actor), Jason Douglas (actor), Greg Ayres (actor), Keiji Fujiwara (actor), Toshio Furukawa (actor), John Swasey (actor), Yasunori Matsumoto (actor),
Plot: Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist, is on the other side of the gate. He has befriended someone who resembles his brother, Al, and has met a gypsy resembling Rose. He finds out that the Germans are planning on opening the gate, and attack the other side, which is Ed and Al's home. Although Al has learned a lot, he cannot stop all of them, and Ed cannot use Alchemy while in the other side. Ed tries to stop them, and Al just tries to be able to talk to his brother again, who everyone else thinks is gone.
Keywords: alchemy, anime, based-on-comic, based-on-manga, biplane, brother-brother-relationship, cult-film, dragon, ethnic-slur, hitlerActors: Adolf Winkelmann (director), Petra Zieser (actress), Norbert Sauer (producer), Hans Zander (actor), Christian Doermer (actor), Ursula Höf (editor), Hanns Zischler (actor), Heinz Hoenig (actor), Andreas Schmidt (actor), Raymond Pellegrin (actor), Siegfried Kernen (actor), Heinrich Schafmeister (actor), Jophi Ries (actor), Jochen Kolenda (actor), Manfred Günther (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Christopher Lee (actor), Peter Vaughan (actor), Niall MacGinnis (actor), Albert Lieven (actor), Jeremy Bulloch (actor), Peter van Eyck (actor), Michael Brennan (actor), Peter Cushing (actor), Macdonald Carey (actor), Colin Gordon (actor), Marius Goring (actor), Walter Gotell (actor), Paul Hubschmid (actor), Eric Pohlmann (actor), Marianne Koch (actress),
Genres: Drama, Mystery,Actors: Maurice Teynac (actor), Akim Tamiroff (actor), Thomas Holtzmann (actor), Guy Grosso (actor), Jess Hahn (actor), Raoul Delfosse (actor), Arnoldo Foà (actor), Billy Kearns (actor), Fernand Ledoux (actor), Michael Lonsdale (actor), Anthony Perkins (actor), Wolfgang Reichmann (actor), Max Haufler (actor), Peter Sallis (actor), Orson Welles (actor),
Plot: Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason of this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the facade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this Kafkaesque nightmare.
Keywords: ambiguity, arrest, bank-clerk, based-on-novel, based-on-unfinished-work, big-brother, bureaucrat, claustrophobic-setting, confusion, courtroomActors: Georges Vitray (actor), Georges Paulais (actor), Alexandre Rignault (actor), Robert Moor (actor), Albert Malbert (actor), Palau (actor), Georges Bever (actor), Lucien Nat (actor), Roger Blin (actor), Paul Escoffier (actor), André Gabriello (actor), Harry Baur (actor), Alexandre Mihalesco (actor), Mady Berry (actress), Léon Larive (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,Actors: Joe May (writer), Armand Bernard (actor), René Pujol (director), Léon Larive (actor), Marcel Maupi (actor), Jean Murat (actor), Palau (actor), Joe May (director), Rognoni (actor), Mady Berry (actress), Paul Abraham (composer), Franz Schulz (writer), Marie Glory (actress), René Pujol (writer), André Berley (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Max Dalban (actor), Robert Gaillard (actor), Michel Simon (actor), Maria Fromet (actress), Jacques Prévert (writer), Josseline Gaël (actress), Pierre Prévert (actor), Jean Gehret (actor), Jean Mamy (director), Pierre Pradier (actor), Géo Lecomte (actor), Yvonne Scheffer (actress), George André Martin (actor), André Girard (writer), Blanche Peyrens (actress),
Genres: Comedy,