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Oh and a recommendation, check out the movie Boyhood by Richard Linklater. Best thing I saw in a very long time!
Il mio volto lo conoscete, non voglio nasconderlo. Nulla è cambiato…ma per un piccolo periodo non ho comunicato…e soprattutto ho avuto paura di non poter più parlare.
I miei sonni, finalmente, si sono liberati dagli incubi, ho la mia voce e anche colorata dai miei pensieri e dalle mie passioni: l’arte e la fotografia.
“La voce è la nostra parte più segreta perché viene da dentro e tutto quello che attraversa porta con sé. La voce è l’identità più marcata della persona.”
Nella mia vita, ho dato finalmente una svolta…ma per poter tirare un respiro di sollievo devo aspettare ancora qualche giorno e …..
Consiglio di ascoltare
PODCAST DEL 27/05/2019 - LA VOCE NATURALE, OSPITI ALESSANDRO FABRIZI E KRISTIN LINKLATER
La Noria de Viena, también conocida como Wiener Riesenrad ("Noria de Viena" en alemán), o simplemente Riesenrad, es una noria ubicada a la entrada del Parque de Atracciones del Prater, ubicado en el parque homónimo, en el segundo distrito de Viena, Leopoldstadt.
Fue una de las primeras norias, construida en 1897 para celebrar el quincuagésimo aniversario del reinado de Francisco José de Austria. El diseño corrió a cargo del inglés Walter Bassett, lo que explica que su altura sea de 61 metros, 200 pies exactos.
La Riesenrad es, hoy en día, uno de los principales atractivos turísticos de Viena. Era considerada la noria más alta existente en el mundo, de los años 20 hasta 1985, año en que la noria Technocosmos (ahora demolida) fuera construida en Tsukuba, Japón.
Originalmente, la noria contaba con 30 góndolas, pero debido a los daños ocasionados durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, durante la reconstrucción, solo se recolocaron 15 de estas cabinas.
La noria está formada por cables de acero, los cuales trabajan a tracción. El movimiento se ejerce desde la base, moviendo la estructura perimetral de acero.
Ha sido escenario de películas tales como El tercer hombre, The Living Daylights o Antes del amanecer.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noria_de_Viena
The Wiener Riesenrad (German for Vienna Giant Wheel), or Riesenrad, is a 64.75-metre (212 ft) tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna. It is one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions, and symbolises the district as well as the city for many people. Constructed in 1897, it was the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel from 1920 until 1985.
The Wiener Riesenrad was designed by the British engineers Harry Hitchins and Hubert Cecil Booth and constructed in 1897 by the English engineer Lieutenant Walter Bassett Bassett (1864-1907), Royal Navy, son of Charles Bassett (1834-1908), MP, of Watermouth Castle, Devon. Its purpose was to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I, and it was one of the earliest Ferris wheels ever built. Bassett's Ferris wheel manufacturing business was not a commercial success, and he died in 1907 almost bankrupt.
A permit for its demolition was issued in 1916, but because of a lack of funds with which to carry out the destruction, it survived.
It was built with 30 gondolas, but was severely damaged in World War II and when it was rebuilt only 15 gondolas were replaced.
The wheel is driven by a circumferential cable which leaves the wheel and passes through the drive mechanism under the base, and its spokes are steel cables, in tension.
When the 64.75-metre (212 ft) tall Wiener Riesenrad was constructed in 1897, both the original 80.4-metre (264 ft) Ferris Wheel in the US (constructed 1893, demolished 1906) and the 94-metre (308 ft) Great Wheel in England (constructed 1895, demolished 1907) were taller. The 100-metre (328 ft) Grande Roue de Paris, constructed in 1900, was taller still. However, when the Grande Roue de Paris was demolished in 1920, the Riesenrad became the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel, and it remained so for the next 65 years, until the construction of the 85-metre (279 ft) Technostar in Japan in 1985.
In popular culture
The Riesenrad appeared in the post-World War II film noir The Third Man (1949)
The wheel is featured in the 1973 spy thriller Scorpio (1973)
The 1987 James Bond film, The Living Daylights features scenes throughout the Prater, around the wheel, and a lengthy romantic scene on the wheel.
The wheel appears in the novel The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
The wheel appears in Max Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948).
Scenes in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995) were filmed around the Prater and on the wheel.
The wheel appears in The Glass Room by Simon Mawer.
The Riesenrad appears in the film Woman in Gold (2015), about the repatriation of a Klimt portrait stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish Viennese family.
The wheel appears in Kommissar Rex the Austrian television series
Winter City in Burnout 3: Takedown is based on Vienna and includes the Riesenrad.
La Noria de Viena, también conocida como Wiener Riesenrad ("Noria de Viena" en alemán), o simplemente Riesenrad, es una noria ubicada a la entrada del Parque de Atracciones del Prater, ubicado en el parque homónimo, en el segundo distrito de Viena, Leopoldstadt.
Fue una de las primeras norias, construida en 1897 para celebrar el quincuagésimo aniversario del reinado de Francisco José de Austria. El diseño corrió a cargo del inglés Walter Bassett, lo que explica que su altura sea de 61 metros, 200 pies exactos.
La Riesenrad es, hoy en día, uno de los principales atractivos turísticos de Viena. Era considerada la noria más alta existente en el mundo, de los años 20 hasta 1985, año en que la noria Technocosmos (ahora demolida) fuera construida en Tsukuba, Japón.
Originalmente, la noria contaba con 30 góndolas, pero debido a los daños ocasionados durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, durante la reconstrucción, solo se recolocaron 15 de estas cabinas.
La noria está formada por cables de acero, los cuales trabajan a tracción. El movimiento se ejerce desde la base, moviendo la estructura perimetral de acero.
Ha sido escenario de películas tales como El tercer hombre, The Living Daylights o Antes del amanecer.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noria_de_Viena
The Wiener Riesenrad (German for Vienna Giant Wheel), or Riesenrad, is a 64.75-metre (212 ft) tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna. It is one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions, and symbolises the district as well as the city for many people. Constructed in 1897, it was the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel from 1920 until 1985.
The Wiener Riesenrad was designed by the British engineers Harry Hitchins and Hubert Cecil Booth and constructed in 1897 by the English engineer Lieutenant Walter Bassett Bassett (1864-1907), Royal Navy, son of Charles Bassett (1834-1908), MP, of Watermouth Castle, Devon. Its purpose was to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I, and it was one of the earliest Ferris wheels ever built. Bassett's Ferris wheel manufacturing business was not a commercial success, and he died in 1907 almost bankrupt.
A permit for its demolition was issued in 1916, but because of a lack of funds with which to carry out the destruction, it survived.
It was built with 30 gondolas, but was severely damaged in World War II and when it was rebuilt only 15 gondolas were replaced.
The wheel is driven by a circumferential cable which leaves the wheel and passes through the drive mechanism under the base, and its spokes are steel cables, in tension.
When the 64.75-metre (212 ft) tall Wiener Riesenrad was constructed in 1897, both the original 80.4-metre (264 ft) Ferris Wheel in the US (constructed 1893, demolished 1906) and the 94-metre (308 ft) Great Wheel in England (constructed 1895, demolished 1907) were taller. The 100-metre (328 ft) Grande Roue de Paris, constructed in 1900, was taller still. However, when the Grande Roue de Paris was demolished in 1920, the Riesenrad became the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel, and it remained so for the next 65 years, until the construction of the 85-metre (279 ft) Technostar in Japan in 1985.
In popular culture
The Riesenrad appeared in the post-World War II film noir The Third Man (1949)
The wheel is featured in the 1973 spy thriller Scorpio (1973)
The 1987 James Bond film, The Living Daylights features scenes throughout the Prater, around the wheel, and a lengthy romantic scene on the wheel.
The wheel appears in the novel The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
The wheel appears in Max Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948).
Scenes in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995) were filmed around the Prater and on the wheel.
The wheel appears in The Glass Room by Simon Mawer.
The Riesenrad appears in the film Woman in Gold (2015), about the repatriation of a Klimt portrait stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish Viennese family.
The wheel appears in Kommissar Rex the Austrian television series
Winter City in Burnout 3: Takedown is based on Vienna and includes the Riesenrad.
Akuma Aizawa:
"When I say 'love', the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brain, you know, through their memories of love, or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying and they say 'Yes, they understand'..but how do I know they understand because words are inert. They're just symbols. They're dead, you know... and so much of our experience is INTANGIBLE. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed, it's unspeakable. And yet, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we have connected and we think that we're understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion, and that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for".
- Richard Linklater, Waking Life
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One of several cast concrete sculptures by North Bay, Ont., artist Duane Linklater, along the Don River Trail
The series is called wintercount . . . And so in my culture my Omaskeko Cree culture, we ask each other this question of how old are you ? And when we ask each other that question in Cree, if we were to translate, that would literally be saying, how many winters are you? If we are looking at a lifetime of a person, that person as half winter, the sort of way I look at it, right? And so this [is a] really beautiful way to think about the presence of winter.
— Duane Linklater
Artist - Duane Linklater / 2017 .... Striking installation of cast concrete gargoyles on the Lower Don Trail. The sculptures are cast replicas of gargoyles adorning prominent buildings in downtown Toronto ....
Featuring more than 150 works from the early 19th century to the present, this exhibition brings together Indigenous, Canadian settler and European perspectives on the subject.
Winter Count delves into concepts of tradition, identity and heritage as it explores how individual artists engage with winter motifs through objects, paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Historic Indigenous belongings are juxtaposed with works by contemporary artists like Inuit printmaker Pitseolak Ashoona and Cree artists Duane Linklater and Kent Monkman, highlighting ancestral knowledge, storytelling and contemporary critique. The exhibition then draws comparisons between Canadian painters such as Maurice Cullen and Clarence Gagnon and French Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, focusing on their distinct approaches to capturing the effects of light on snow. Finally, it reveals a shared visual language among Canadian artists like J.E.H. MacDonald and Lawren S. Harris and their Canadian and Scandinavian counterparts through the lens of winter.
Named for the pictorial records used by Indigenous nations from the Plains like the Lakota, Winter Count reflects on themes of survival, adaptation and kinship, portraying winter as a transformative force that shapes human experience.
Personaggio: Io mi considero un lubrificatore sociale del mondo dei sogni. Aiuto le persone a diventare lucide, senza problemi. In pratica elimino le paure, le angosce, e lascio solo il bello, lo spasso.
Protagonista: Con diventare lucidi, intendi sapere che si sta sognando, giusto?
Personaggio: Sì, così puoi controllare i sogni. E i sogni controllati sono più realistici dei sogni non lucidi.
Protagonista: Io mi sono appena svegliato da un sogno, ma non era di quelli tipici, era come se fossi entrato in un universo alternativo..
Personaggio: Sì, è un sogno reale. Tecnicamente sognare, è un fenomeno del sogno, ma ci si può anche divertire un casino nei propri sogni! Perché tutti sanno che divertirsi è il massimo [...]Che succedeva nel tuoi sogno?
Protagonista: Ah, c'erano un sacco di persone che parlavano, qualcuno diceva cose assurde. Sembrava quasi uno strano film. Più che altro, pontificavano su qualsiasi argomento, con molta intensità [...]
Personaggio: Questi sogni li puoi controllare.[...] Il trucco è renderti conto che stai sognando, fin dall'inizio. Devi essere capace di riconoscerlo. Devi essere capace di chiederti: oh cavolo ma è un sogno? Sai, quasi nessuno si fa queste domande, né da sveglio, né tantomeno quando dorme. È come se tutti fossero sonnambuli quando sono svegli, e vegliambuli quando dormono. In entrambi i casi, non ne traggono vantaggio.
Protagonista: Quello che mi ha fatto rendere conto che stavo sognando, è stato il mio orologio digitale. Non riuscivo a leggerlo, come se i circuiti si fossero completamente guastati.
Personaggio: Sì, capita abbastanza spesso. Anche le piccole scritte sono difficili da leggere, sono molto instabili. Un altro indizio è quando cerchi di regolare l'intensità della luce, non ci riesci mai! Se ti capita di vedere un interruttore, spingili e prova a vedere se funziona.
È una delle cose che non si possono fare nel sogno lucido... Ma sai che mi frega, io posso volare, posso conversare per quanto mi pare con Albert Schweitzer, posso esplorare queste nuove dimensioni della realtà...Per non parlare della possibilità di fare ogni genere di sesso che voglio! È a dir poco stupendo! Non posso regolare la luce, e allora?
Protagonista: Ma è una delle cose che servono a controllare se stai sognando, giusto?
Personaggio: Si! Come ho detto, anche tu puoi allenarti a conoscere i segni, basta che ogni tanto provi ad accendere una luce. Se la luce è accesa, e tu non riesci a spegnerla, probabilmente stai sognando. Allora puoi darti da fare, e credimi, il campo è sconfinato... Sai a cosa mi sto dedicando? Visioni a 360 gradi! Bello eh?...[...]
_Tratto da "Waking Life".2001_di Richard Linklater_
Artist - Duane Linklater / 2017 .... Striking installation of cast concrete gargoyles on the Lower Don Trail. The sculptures are cast replicas of gargoyles adorning prominent buildings in downtown Toronto ....
The series is called wintercount . . . And so in my culture my Omaskeko Cree culture, we ask each other this question of how old are you ? And when we ask each other that question in Cree, if we were to translate, that would literally be saying, how many winters are you? If we are looking at a lifetime of a person, that person as half winter, the sort of way I look at it, right? And so this [is a] really beautiful way to think about the presence of winter.
— Duane Linklater
The series is called wintercount . . . And so in my culture my Omaskeko Cree culture, we ask each other this question of how old are you ? And when we ask each other that question in Cree, if we were to translate, that would literally be saying, how many winters are you? If we are looking at a lifetime of a person, that person as half winter, the sort of way I look at it, right? And so this [is a] really beautiful way to think about the presence of winter. -
— Duane Linklater
About seventeen years ago, I asked one of my friends why she never went on vacation. She said she wouldn't because when she returns, she falls back into the same routine, and it feels as if she never left. During most of my travels, I told myself I wanted to enjoy my time and didn't want to lug the heavy camera that weighed more than I did. But as I get older, I realize I was wrong. People say we must enjoy the moment, but I believe we should put the same effort into capturing it while recording something that will be gone as soon as we leave. And this time, I did something different—I didn't let go of my Nikon. The reason is that my excitement nowadays wears off more quickly, and the more effort I put into recording and saving, the more I feel later that that moment did not just pass, it became a part of me and who I am. P.S. Before the Sunset is one of my films! That ending!!!!!! I bought a book about it from Shakespeare & Co.
Io credo che se esiste un qualsiasi Dio non sarebbe in nessuno di noi , nè in me nè in te, ma solo in questo piccolo spazio nel mezzo.
Se c'è una qualsiasi magia in questo mondo sta nel tentativo di capire qualcuno condividendo qualcosa.
Lo so , è quasi impossibile riuscirci, ma che importa in fondo.
La risposta deve essere nel tentativo.
(dal film -Prima dell'alba- di Richard Linklater)
The series is called wintercount . . . And so in my culture my Omaskeko Cree culture, we ask each other this question of how old are you ? And when we ask each other that question in Cree, if we were to translate, that would literally be saying, how many winters are you? If we are looking at a lifetime of a person, that person as half winter, the sort of way I look at it, right? And so this [is a] really beautiful way to think about the presence of winter.
— Duane Linklater
para cerrar con broche de oro unas vacaciones de ocio: un meme fruto del egocentrismo y el desocupe. Si tuviera que escoger 24 pelìculas para una isla desierta càles serìan??
Roma - Fellini
Mary Poppins
Waking life - Linklater
Morte a Venezia - Visconti
Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind - Michel Gondry
Blade runner - Ridley Scott
One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Milos Foreman
Lost in translation - Sofia Coppola
Amarcord - Fellini
Ese obscuro objeto del deseo - Buñuel
Manhattan - Woody Allen
Doctor Zhivago - David Lean
Blue velvet - david lynch
Bande à part - Godard
Dreams - Kuroswa
The graduate - Mike Nichols
The dreamers - Bernardo Bertolucci
Mago de Oz... - Victor Fleming
Pulp Fiction - ese tipo
La jetée
Edward scissor hands - Tim burton
The Shining - Kubrick
Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly
Akuma Aizawa:
"When I say 'love', the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brain, you know, through their memories of love, or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying and they say 'Yes, they understand'..but how do I know they understand because words are inert. They're just symbols. They're dead, you know... and so much of our experience is INTANGIBLE. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed, it's unspeakable. And yet, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we have connected and we think that we're understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion, and that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for".
- Richard Linklater, Waking Life
The series is called wintercount . . . And so in my culture my Omaskeko Cree culture, we ask each other this question of how old are you ? And when we ask each other that question in Cree, if we were to translate, that would literally be saying, how many winters are you? If we are looking at a lifetime of a person, that person as half winter, the sort of way I look at it, right? And so this [is a] really beautiful way to think about the presence of winter.
— Duane Linklater
The series is called wintercount . . . And so in my culture my Omaskeko Cree culture, we ask each other this question of how old are you ? And when we ask each other that question in Cree, if we were to translate, that would literally be saying, how many winters are you? If we are looking at a lifetime of a person, that person as half winter, the sort of way I look at it, right? And so this [is a] really beautiful way to think about the presence of winter.
— Duane Linklater
The series is called wintercount . . . And so in my culture my Omaskeko Cree culture, we ask each other this question of how old are you ? And when we ask each other that question in Cree, if we were to translate, that would literally be saying, how many winters are you? If we are looking at a lifetime of a person, that person as half winter, the sort of way I look at it, right? And so this [is a] really beautiful way to think about the presence of winter.
— Duane Linklater
Born a may child
Enjoying the summer tender mild
Maybe there is a reason
For the month that I
Came into this world
Something inside my head shone and furiously whirled
May you hold in your heart faith
May you have years of hope
May you find the strength to carry on and cope
May you grow ever more
May your life present you with
So many unique portal doors
May you learn by your mistakes
May you give instead of just blindly take
May your heart find it's meaning
May you discover natures cleaner
May you heal yourself as time goes by
May you one day, learn to hold up your weighted head
And learn how to fly
May you cry, for the good times and bad
May you wish for the things you never had
And become a greater being
For all the things do didn't receive
May you learn to hold a card up your tangled sleeve
May you find the courage to up and leave
May your life give you what you need
In the presence of all things natural and nothing of greed
May you live and learn and to the heavens your heart will yern
May you find the comfort of strong arms
May you feel the breeze when your heart is running wild
May you hold the world One day in the center of your closed up palms
Maybe there is a reason that I came to be
During the month of may
Enjoy the summer tender mild.
Written By Sarah Linklater
14th May 2015
Have a Happy Memorial Day
weekend everyone =)
I'll Be Back Soon ,)
Hugs & Kisses ~♥~
© Sharon R. May ~ღ~
Artist - Duane Linklater / 2017 .... Striking installation of cast concrete gargoyles on the Lower Don Trail. The sculptures are cast replicas of gargoyles adorning prominent buildings in downtown Toronto ....
"Si vous n'aimez pas la mer, si vous n'aimez pas la montagne, si vous n'aimez pas la ville, allez vous faire foutre."
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Semantopoly is a creation of Jon Linklater-Johnson. Imagine a game of Monopoly where all the pieces are Happy Webbies, all the properties are websites or technologies and the currency is friends rather than money.
Featuring more than 150 works from the early 19th century to the present, this exhibition brings together Indigenous, Canadian settler and European perspectives on the subject.
Winter Count delves into concepts of tradition, identity and heritage as it explores how individual artists engage with winter motifs through objects, paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Historic Indigenous belongings are juxtaposed with works by contemporary artists like Inuit printmaker Pitseolak Ashoona and Cree artists Duane Linklater and Kent Monkman, highlighting ancestral knowledge, storytelling and contemporary critique. The exhibition then draws comparisons between Canadian painters such as Maurice Cullen and Clarence Gagnon and French Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, focusing on their distinct approaches to capturing the effects of light on snow. Finally, it reveals a shared visual language among Canadian artists like J.E.H. MacDonald and Lawren S. Harris and their Canadian and Scandinavian counterparts through the lens of winter.
Named for the pictorial records used by Indigenous nations from the Plains like the Lakota, Winter Count reflects on themes of survival, adaptation and kinship, portraying winter as a transformative force that shapes human experience.
after a morning of heavy rain, the sun burst through with a warm glow highlighting the golden poplars and maples alongside the golf course.
Canadian postcard by Canadian Postcard, no. A 272. Photo: Winona Ryder in Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1989).
Delicate American actress Winona Ryder (1971) is known for her dark hair, brown eyes and pale skin. She starred in films such as Beetlejuice (1988),Heathers (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and the television series Stranger Things. In 1994, she won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in the film The Age of Innocence (1993), and Ryder was nominated twice for an Oscar.
Winona Ryder was born Winona Laura Horowitz in Winona (Olmsted County), Minnesota, in 1971. Yes, her name is very much the same as her birthplace. Her parents, Cindy Horowitz (Istas), an author and video producer, and Michael Horowitz, a publisher and bookseller, were part of the hippie movement. She has a brother named Uri Horowitz (1976), who got his first name after Yuri Gagarin, a half-sister named Sunyata Palmer (1968), and a half-brother named Jubal Palmer (1970) from her mother Cindy's first marriage. From 1978, Winona grew up in a commune near Mendocino in California, which had no electricity. When Winona was seven, her mother began to manage an old cinema in a nearby barn and would screen films all day. She allowed Winona to miss school to watch movies with her. In 1981, the family moved to Petaluma, California. Since Winona was considered an outsider in public school, she was sent to a public school and later to the American Conservatory Theater acting school. She was discovered at the age of thirteen by a talent scout at a theatre performance at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. In 1985, she applied for a role in the film Desert Bloom (David Seltzer, 1986) with a video in which she performed a monologue from the book 'Franny and Zooey' by J. D. Salinger. Although the casting choice was fellow actress Annabeth Gish, director and writer David Seltzer recognised her talent and cast her as Rina in his film Lucas (David Seltzer, 1986) about a teenager (Corey Haim) and his life in high school. When telephoned to ask what name she wanted to be called in the credits, she chose Ryder as her stage name because her father's Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels album was playing in the background. Her real hair colour is blonde but when she made Lucas (1986), her hair color was dyed black. She was told to keep it that colour and with the exception of Edward Scissorhands (1990), it has stayed that color since. Her next film was Square Dance (Daniel Petrie, 1987), in which the protagonist she portrays lives a life between two worlds: on a traditional farm and in a big city. Ryder's performance received good reviews, although neither film was a commercial success. Her acting in Lucas led director Tim Burton to cast her in his film Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, 1988). In this comedy, she played Lydia Deetz, who moves with her family into a house inhabited by ghosts (played by Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, and Michael Keaton). Ryder, as well as the film, received positive reviews, and Beetlejuice was also successful at the box office. In 1989, she starred as Veronica Sawyer in the independent film Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1989) about a couple (Ryder and Christian Slater) who kill popular schoolgirls. Ryder's agent had previously advised her against the role. The film was a financial failure, but Ryder received positive reviews. The Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire! (Jim McBride, 1989) was also a flop. That same year, Ryder appeared in Mojo Nixon's music video 'Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child'. At the premiere of Great Balls of Fire (1989), Ryder met fellow actor and later film partner Johnny Depp. The couple became engaged a few months later, but their relationship ended in 1993. He had a tattoo of her name and after they broke up, he had this reduced to "Wino forever".
In 1990, Winona Ryder had her breakthrough performance alongside her boyfriend Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990). The fantasy film was an international box-office success. Ryder was selected for the role of Mary Corleone in The Godfather: Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990) but had to drop out of the role after catching the flu from the strain of doing the films Welcome Home Roxy (Jim Abrahams, 1990) and Mermaids (Richard Benjamin, 1990) back-to-back. Ryder's performance alongside Cher and Christina Ricci in the family comedy Mermaids (1990) was praised by critics and she was nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actress category. Ryder also appeared with Cher and Ricci in the music video for 'The Shoop Shoop Song', the film's theme song. Independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch wrote a role specifically for her in Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch, 1991), as a tattooed, chain-smoking cabdriver who dreams of becoming a mechanic. Ryder was cast in a dual role as Mina Murray and Elisabeta in Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992). In 1993, she starred as Blanca in the drama The House of the Spirits (Bille August, 1993) alongside Antonio Banderas, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close. It is the film adaptation of Isabel Allende's bestseller of the same name. Together with Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis, she starred in Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993), the film adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel. She was Martin Scorsese's first and only choice for the role of May Welland. For years, she kept the message he left on her voicemail, informing her she got the role. Her part earned her a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and an Oscar nomination. She also earned positive reviews for her role in the comedy Reality Bites (Ben Stiller, 1994). She received critical acclaim and another Oscar nomination the same year as Jo in the drama Little Women (Gillian Armstrong, 1994). In 1996, she starred alongside Daniel Day-Lewis and Joan Allen in The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner, 1996), an adaptation of Arthur Miller's stage play about the Puritan witch hunt in Salem. The film was not a success; however, Ryder's performance was favourably reviewed. A year later she portrayed an android in the successful horror film Alien: Resurrection (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997) alongside Sigourney Weaver's Ripley. In 1998 she starred in Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998). after Drew Barrymore turned down the role. In 1999 she starred as a psychiatric patient with borderline syndrome in the drama Girl, Interrupted (James Mangold, 1999), based on Susanna Kaysen's autobiographical novel. Girl, Interrupted, the first film on which she served as executive producer, was supposed to be Ryder's comeback in Hollywood after the flops of the past years. However, the film became the breakthrough for her colleague Angelina Jolie, who won an Oscar for her role. In this decade, she was involved with Dave Pirner, the lead singer of the group Soul Asylum, from 1993 to 1996 and with Matt Damon from December 1997 to April 2000.
Winona Ryder appeared alongside Richard Gere in Autumn in New York (Joan Chen, 2000), a romance about an older man's love for a younger woman. She also made a cameo appearance in the comedy Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2000). The comedy Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill, 2002) with Adam Sandler became her biggest financial success to date. The film failed with critics and Ryder was nominated for the Golden Raspberry award. Also in 2002, she was sentenced to three years probation and 480 hours of work for repeatedly shoplifting $5,000 worth of clothes. The incident caused a career setback. She withdrew from the public eye in the following years and did not appear in front of the camera again until 2006. In that year, she appeared in the novel adaptation A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006) alongside Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., and Woody Harrelson. In 2009, she made an appearance in Star Trek: The Future Begins (J. J. Abrams, 2009) as Spock (Zachary Quinto)'s mother Amanda Grayson. The prequel became a huge success at the box office and Ryder earned a Scream Award for Best Guest Appearance. She also appeared alongside Robin Wright and Julianne Moore in Rebecca Miller's Pippa Lee (2009), and alongside Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (2010). Ryder starred in the television film When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story (John Kent Harrison, 2010), for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She starred in the comedy The Dilemma (Ron Howard, 2011), and the thrillers The Iceman (Ariel Vromen, 2012), and The Letter (Jay Anania, 2012) opposite James Franco. In Tim Burton's Frankenweenie (2012) she lent her voice to the character Elsa Van Helsing. Since 2016, she has embodied the main character, Joyce Byers, in the Netflix series Stranger Things (2016-2022), for which she received positive responses. Her role in the series has been described by many as a comeback. Since 2011 Winona Ryder is in a relationship with Scott MacKinlay Hahn.
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