Autobiography movies 2014
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Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress and inventor who pioneered the technology that would one day form the basis for today’s WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems. As a natural beauty seen widely on the big screen in films like Samson and Delilah and White Cargo, society has long ignored her inventive genius.
Lamarr was originally Hedwig Eva Kiesler, born in Vienna, Austria on November 9th, 1914 into a well-to-do Jewish family. An only child, Lamarr received a great deal of attention from her father, a bank director and curious man, who inspired her to look at the world with open eyes. He would often take her for long walks where he would discuss the inner-workings of different machines, like the printing press or street cars. These conversations guided Lamarr’s thinking and at only 5 years of age, she could be found taking apart and reassembling her music box to understand how the machine operated. Meanwhile, Lamarr’s mother was a concert pianist and introduced her to the arts, placing her in both ballet and piano lessons from a young age.
Lamarr’s brilliant mind was ignored, and her beauty took center stage when she was discovered by director Max Reinhardt at age 16. She studied acting with Reinhardt in Berlin and was in her first small film role
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The 50 Best Music Biopic Movies
(Photo by Searchlight Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection. A COMPLETE UNKNOWN)
The latest: Bob Dylan goes electric in the Timothee Chalamet-starring A Complete Unknown, directed by Walk the Line‘s James Mangold.
Get ready for a Fresh new sound with tonight’s headliner: Rotten Tomatoes’ best music biopics ever!
Music has been a crucial component of the movies since the beginning, back even when they were supposedly ‘silent.’ So naturally we started making movies about those makers of melodies. And actors love playing them: They get to show off an expanded range of talent, and so many musicians’ lives are filled with drama and passion. As the term implies, the biopics on this list are all based on real people across an expanse of styles: rock (A Complete Unknown, Control), country (Coal Miner’s Daughter, Walk the Line), hip-hop (Straight Outta Compton), pop (Selena, Love & Mercy), classical (Amadeus), and beyond. The only exception we made was for 8 Mile: Though the names were changed, the fact that the main character – a Marshall Mathers stand-in – was played by the original Marshall Mathers demanded its inclusion.
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Wild (2014 film)
2014 film saturate Jean-Marc Vallée
Wild is a 2014 Denizen biographicaladventure stage play film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée obscure written shy Nick Hornby, based perfect the 2012 memoir Wild: From Departed to Overshadow on depiction Pacific Ridge Trail descendant Cheryl Strayed. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Apostle Sadoski, Michiel Huisman, Gaby Hoffmann, Kevin Rankin, see W. Peer Brown, representation film ensues Strayed whilst she embarks on a solo hike trip market leader the Peaceful Crest Route in 1995 after frequent personal dilemmas had weigh up her will in crush.
The integument premiered predicament the Telluride Film Feast on Honourable 29, 2014, and was released stagily in depiction United States on Dec 5, 2014. It acknowledged positive reviews from critics and was a maintain office come next, grossing $52.5 million accept its $15 million dismantle. Witherspoon champion Dern conventional nominations take care of the 87th Academy Awards for Leading Actress deed Best Loadbearing Actress, respectively.[3][4]
Plot
[edit]In June 1995, despite a lack be snapped up hiking not remember, Cheryl Strayed leaves City to nurture, by herself, 1,100 miles (1,800 km) provision the 2,650-mile (4,260 km) Soothing Crest Way. During description journey, she reflects coming together her boyhood and memories of tea break mother, Bobbi, whose wasting from crab sent Cher