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Tribute to the greatest writer who has inspired me in many ways. Charcoal sketch on Art paper....4 hours
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part of the shoot for my new website design, which hopefully will be up and running in a few weeks. i'll let y'all know when it is!
Amjad Javed was born in Hasilpur (BWP) pakistan in 22-04-1966. he write sevrel stories and articals. basicaly he is the jurnalist. he wrote many books now publish by ilmoirfan publisher Lahore.urdu novel / urdu writer/ urdu amjad javed hasilpur
The Writers Building is a colonial era building which continues to house governmental services. I was shouted at in Bengali by the security guards outside the building for taking this photograph. When I tried to walk in front of it (not taking any photographs), I was brusquely told to cross the street in Hindi and pidgin English by a guard.
French poster postcard by Sonis, no. C. 1678. Image: Europacorp / TFI Films Production / Appoulai Prod. Poster for Angel-A (Luc Besson, 2005).
Luc Besson (1959) is a French film director, writer and producer associated with the 'Cinéma du Look' film movement. Eight of his 50 films are among the 100 most successful French films in the world. He made a name for himself with his first films, Le Dernier Combat (1983) and Subway (1985). He then triumphed at the French box office with Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue (1988), which sold more than 9 million tickets and gave him an international reputation. Then followed a string of successful films: Nikita (1990), Léon (1994), Le Cinquième Élément/The Fifth Element (1997), for which he won a César for Best Director, and Jeanne d'Arc/The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). After several failures, he returned to international success with Lucy (2014), which became the biggest successful French film worldwide. Among his other major commercial successes are three film series: Taxi (1998–2007), Taken (2008-2014), and Le Transporteur/The Transporter (2002–2008).
Luc Paul Maurice Besson was born in Paris in 1959. He was the son of two Club Méditerranée scuba diving instructors in Greece and former Yugoslavia. Luc planned to become a marine biologist. The family returned to France when he was 10. His parents divorced, and both remarried. At age 17, Besson had a diving accident that left him unable to dive and finished his dream of becoming a marine biologist. He decided to go for a film career. Besson soon made his first short film and wrote the first versions of what would grow into his films Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue (1988) and the Sci-Fi epic Le Cinquième Élément/The Fifth Element (1997). From 1976 to 1982, Besson did various jobs in the film industry and was an assistant to directors including Claude Faraldo and Patrick Grandperret. He directed three short films, a commissioned documentary, and several commercials. In the early 1980s, Besson met Éric Serra and asked him to compose the score for his first short film, L'Avant dernier. He subsequently had Serra compose for other films. For three years, he worked in Hollywood. Then Besson debuted with Le Dernier Combat/The Last Battle (1983), a post-apocalyptic drama with similarities to Mad Max, co-written with Pierre Jolivet. Inspired by Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962), Besson filmed it in CinemaScope and black and white and without dialogue. It features Jean Reno's first prominent role. Reno later appeared in several films by Besson, including Subway (1985), Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue (1988), La Femme Nikita (1990), and Léon (1994). Le Dernier Combat won an award at the Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival in 1983. That same year, Besson directed Isabelle Adjani's video clip, Pull Marine. He signed a contract with Gaumont and two years later directed Subway (1985), starring Isabelle Adjani and Christophe Lambert. The film imposed a cartoon-like world of music videos and when it was presented at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, where it was shown out of competition, some of the public hissed at the film's advertising-like style. However, the film won three Césars and was a huge box office hit. Then Besson had his breakthrough in France with Le grand bleu/The Big Blue (1988). Critics counted him among the French movement ‘Cinema du Look’, with a strong focus on art direction. Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue and his later film Le Cinquième Élément/The Fifth Element (1997), are seen as examples of this movement and as Hollywood productions from France. Besson fought against the rules and beliefs imposed by French film producers and distributors. |He wanted to show that French cinema was capable of more than what he considered pseudo-intellectual films. Through his films, he wanted to show how the French film industry could compete against Hollywood, by making films that cut across French and American cultures. The producer co-financed the films, shot his films in English and left control with the director. Eventually, he got his own production company: Les Films De Dauphins, he designed a lightweight camera and developed the use of the Louma crane.
In 1980, near the beginning of his career, he founded his own production company, Les Films du Loup, which later, in 1990 was renamed Les Films du Dauphin. It was followed by a second company in 1992, called Leeloo Productions. With his thriller Nikita/La Femme Nikita (1990) starring Anne Parillaud, he made again a hyper-violent, stylised and visually present film about a society in decline. His sixth film was the action-thriller Léon/Léon: The Professional (1994) starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman in her film debut. The plot centres on a professional hitman who reluctantly takes in a twelve-year-old girl after her family is murdered by a corrupt agent. Besson gave the film an emotional undertone and added conscience and hope to the violence. The exterior shots were filmed in New York and most of the interior shots were in France. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics and brought him international recognition. In 1997, he moved to Los Angeles with his wife, actress Maïwenn, and their daughter Shanna, to work with Gaumont on what was to become the biggest commercial success for a French film in the United States, Le Cinquième Élément/The Fifth Element (1997), starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich. The success was later surpassed by his production Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008). The film's sets and creatures were designed by Moebius and Jean-Claude Mézières, and the costumes by Jean-Paul Gaultier. The film won him the César for Best Director in 1998, and Milla Jovovich soon became his new wife. In 1998, Besson supervised the action comedy Taxi directed by Gérard Pirès. Besson's first production as a non-director, the film was a success. Meanwhile, Jeanne d'Arc/The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), his new version of Joan of Arc, attracted three million cinema-goers. Jeanne d'Arc was played by Milla Jovovich, from whom he divorced the year the film was released. At the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, he was appointed President of the Jury.
In the 2000s, Luc Besson seemed to give up directing and to become a full-time producer. He and longtime collaborator Pierre-Ange Le Pogam changed the name of the film company from Leeloo Productions to EuropaCorp, They wanted to develop a new trend in mainstream cinema based on successful films such as the Taxi series (1998–2007), the Transporter series (2002–2008), and the Jet Li films Kiss of the Dragon (Chris Nahon, 2001) and Unleashed/Danny the Dog (Louis Letterier, 2005). Their English-language films Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008), Taken 2 (Olivier Megaton, 2012), and Taken 3 (Olivier Megaton, 2014), all starring Liam Neeson, were major successes, with Taken 2 becoming the largest-grossing export French film. At the same time, he was overseeing the adaptation of the Arthur series of children's novels that he cowrote with Céline Garcia. Now at the head of a highly profitable studio, he nonetheless continued to direct films. The experimental black-and-white film Angel-A (2005), starring Jamel Debbouze and Rie Rasmussen, received mixed reviews from critics and failed to match the success of its predecessors with audiences. The Children’s film Arthur and the Minimoys (2006) was his 10th film. The live-action/animated fantasy film drew a French audience of six million and was exported worldwide. He decided to shoot the two sequels himself at the same time. But Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009), and Arthur 3: War of Two Worlds (2010), only attracted half the audience of the first. Lucy (2014), starring Scarlett became the biggest success for a French feature film, with $459 million. At the same time, Besson enjoyed success by producing the Taken saga between 2008 and 2015 starring Liam Neeson. His blockbuster Valérian et la Cité des mille planets/Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2016) was adapted from the comic book series ‘Valérian et Laureline’ by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières. The film had the biggest budget in the history of French cinema, but the investment proved impossible to make a return on. The failure was repeated with his next film, Anna (2019). At the same time, Taxi 5 (Frank Gastambide, 2019), also disappointed. These three failures left EuropaCorp almost bankrupt. Besson had to sell it to a creditor and close the free, no-credentials scriptwriting and directing school he had founded in 2012. Following the Covid-19 pandemic, which interrupted a large part of film production, and the accusation of rape by Dutch-Belgian actress Sand Van Roy, who appeared in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the filmmaker did not shoot for three years but announced that he had written 17 screenplays. In 2023, Besson was definitively cleared of all charges of rape, following a ruling by the Court of Cassation, the highest judicial court in France. Besson directed the film DogMan (2023), starring Caleb Landry Jones, which was released to positive reviews. However, box-office results were disappointing. His next film was the romantic comedy Weekend in Taipei, for which he co-wrote the screenplay. In 2024, while his film June and John was still in post-production, he began shooting Dracula: A Love Tale, an adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. For the occasion, he reunited with the lead actor of DogMan, Caleb Landry Jones Luc Besson has been married four times. In 1986, he wed actress Anne Parillaud who starred in his film Nikita/La Femme Nikita (1990).. They had a daughter, Juliette, born in 1987, but divorced in 1991. Besson's second wife was actress and director Maïwenn, whom he started dating when he was 31 and she 15. They married in late 1992 when Maïwenn, then 16, was pregnant with their daughter Shanna, born in 1993. Maïwenn later claimed that their relationship was the inspiration for Besson's film Léon (1994), in which the plot concerned the emotional relationship between a grown man and a 12-year-old girl. Their marriage ended in 1997, when, while filming The Fifth Element (1997), Besson got into a relationship with actress Milla Jovovich. In 1997, Besson, aged 38, married 21-year-old Jovovich. They divorced in 1999. In 2004, Besson married film producer Virginie Silla, with whom he had three children.
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The Writers' Building (Bengali: মহাকরণ Mahakaran), often shortened to just Writers', is the secretariat building of the State Government of West Bengal in India.[1] It is located in West Bengal's capital city of Kolkata. It housed the office of the Chief Minister of West Bengal till 4 October 2013. Now most of the departments has moved out to another building named Nabanna in Howrah on a temporary basis for facilitating renovation of the Writers'.
I spotted this Black and Yellow Garden Spider in the woods, while walking the dogs - I almost walked in to her web.
The NHPTV-PBS KIDS WRITERS CONTEST is part of NHPTV's commitment to promoting literacy and a love of reading, writing, and creative expression in children. Librarian and author Diane Mayr spoke about writing at the awards ceremony, which was held Saturday, May 10, 2014 at the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH.
The 19th annual Dickens Festival, December 5th, 6th & 7th, 2014, is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring costumed characters, decorated streets and shops, Victorian entertainment and food. This holiday festival offers many free and low-cost attractions.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
Charles Dickens author:
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens four shows
1. Sat 1:30pm Toast, 242 East Main
2. Sat 3:30pm Founders Park, East Broadway
3. Sun 1:00pm Frigate, Blinking Light 99A Main Street
4. Sun 3:13pm Toast, 242 East Main
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
For more information on the Port Jefferson Village, Charles Dickens Festival visit:
www.portjeff.com/featured-events/dickens-festival/
Here are links to high resolution photo albums on Flickr from The Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival - Annual Dickens Festival - Port Jefferson Village NY
2013
www.flickr.com/photos/ryanisland/sets/72157638816309875
2012
www.flickr.com/photos/ryanisland/sets/72157632156095321
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Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island New York, USA
12-06-2014
The NHPTV-PBS KIDS WRITERS CONTEST is part of NHPTV's commitment to promoting literacy and a love of reading, writing, and creative expression in children. Librarian and author Diane Mayr spoke about writing at the awards ceremony, which was held Saturday, May 10, 2014 at the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH.
Heather, one of our valued forklift service writer. She schedules the forklift's planned maintenance with our customers
Poets and Writers' 2018 Annual Dinner: In Celebration of Writers, honoring Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Steve Cannon, Richard Russo, and Rebecca Saletan, with master of ceremonies Susan Isaacs and dinner chair Richard Robinson of Scholastic Inc. March 28, 2018 at 583 Park Avenue, NYC. Photography: Margarita Corporan.
The NHPTV-PBS KIDS WRITERS CONTEST is part of NHPTV's commitment to promoting literacy and a love of reading, writing, and creative expression in children. Librarian and author Diane Mayr spoke about writing at the awards ceremony, which was held Saturday, May 10, 2014 at the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH.