Film Gourmand

 On June 1, 1998 in the town of Westwood, California (USA), the premiere of the film "The Truman Show" took place. Director Peter Weir.   With a film budget of $ 60 million, the film’s box office exceeded $ 260 million, of which more than $ 125 million was earned by the film in the United States and almost $ 140 million in other countries. A fifth of the budget - $ 12 million - was made by Jim Carrey's fee. However, the usual fee for that period of his creative career was $ 20 million. However, the fee was not the main goal of the participation of this actor in the film by Peter Weir. He agreed to a lower fee as compared to the usual one, because he wanted to expand the boundaries of his acting capabilities with the help of the role in this film: add the amplua of a dramatic actor to his well-established amplua as a comedian. Initially, the premiere of the film was planned for the fall of 1997. But then the company Paramount postponed the premiere in June 1998, so as not ...

 On June 1, 1998, the premiere of the film "Crna mačka, beli mačor (Black Cat, White Cat)" took place in Yugoslavia. Director Emir Kusturica.   In September 1998, this film participated in the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for the main prize - the Golden Lion. However, as Sergey Kudryavtsev noted in his review , "because of the intrigues of the Italians, led by the chairman of the jury, the famous director Ettore Skola, it was circumvented by the main prize". Jury decided to give the main prize to a rather mediocre, but Italian, film - “Così ridevano (The Way We Laughed)”.  According to another Russian film critic, Andrei Plakhov, the public disapproved of this decision. According to him , “it was after the film of Kusturica that the applause did not calm down for a long time, they preceded the start of the director’s press conference, demonstrating the rare and therefore especially touching unity of the professional press and the audience.”  But Emir Kustu...

 On June 1, 1968, in the USSR, the premiere of the film "No Path Through Fire" took place. Director Gleb Panfilov.   This is the first full-length film by Gleb Panfilov. In this film, the great Russian actress Inna Churikova played her first major role. You can read more about their work on this film here .    In 1969, at the Locarno International Film Festival, the film received the main prize - the Golden Leopard. In fairness, it should be noted that in that year 4 Golden Leopard Prizes were awarded. Curiously, for all these four films, this Golden Leopard was the only film award received.   American cultural scientist and film expert, considered to be a specialist in Russian and Eastern European art, Dennis Grunes, noted : «The same year as the enormously expensive, spectacular War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967), another war film emerged from the U.S.S.R.—this one, modest, in black and white, and twenty times better. Gleb Panfilov’s No Path Through Fire ...

 On June 1, 1958 in Japan, the premiere of the film "Narayama bushiko  楢山節考 (The Ballad of Narayama)" took place. Director Keisuke Kinoshita. Shortly after appearing on the screens of Japanese cinemas, the film was nominated for the Golden Lion of the Venice International Film Festival in 1958, but the jury of the festival, chaired by Jean Grémillon, awarded the main prize to another Japanese film – “Muhomatsu no issho (The Rickshaw Man)”. But at the audience “The Rickshaw Man” was much less successful than “The Ballad of Narayama”. By the way, as a member of the jury of that film festival was the famous Soviet film director Sergei Vasiliev, one of the creators of the legendary film "Chapaev."   The film reached the American cinema viewer three years later. A.H. Weiler (by the way, born in Russia), who noted in his review that the film was staged in the style of the traditional Japanese Kabuki theater, unusual for the eyes of a Western audience, wrote that « viewin...

 On June 1, 1955 in Leningrad, in the family of a doctor at the hospital named after Burdenko, the future academician Pavel Simonov (the son of an officer repressed in 1937, Stanislav Stankevich), and his wife, a teacher of foreign languages, Olga Vyazemskaya, a second child was born - a girl named Evgeniya. Only Old Men Are Going to Battle. Director Leonid Bykov, 1973. Movie's Rating - 8,809, 213th Rank in the Golden Thousand. If you believe Wikipedia, then at the age of 14 Evgeniya Simonova first appeared in films - in the film of the film studio "Moldova-film" "Ten winters in one summer". However, apparently her role in this film was so fleeting that it did not even deserve a mention in the credits. And the film itself is almost impossible to find today. Afonya. Director Georgiy Daneliya, 1975. Movie's Rating - 8,027, 689th Rank in the Golden Thousand. But judging by further events, the contact of Evgeniya with the cinema was completely not accidental. A ...

 On June 1, 1926, a 24-year-old film editor from the RKO Pictures film studio Gladys Pearl Baker (née Monroe) had a third child, a girl. The girl was named Norma Jeane. Five years earlier, Gladys divorced John Newton Baker, whom she married at age 15. In a divorce, John Baker took the first two children of Gladys with him and left with them from Los Angeles to Kentucky. Norma Jeane learned about the existence of a brother and sister only at the age of 12. Two years before the birth of Norma Jean, Gladys Pearl married Martin Edward Mortensen and broke up with him very quickly. Who was the biological father of Norma Jeane remains unknown. But in the girl’s birth certificate, her name was recorded as “Norma Jean Mortenson,” and at baptism she was recorded as Norma Jeane Baker.  Some Like It Hot. Director Billy Wilder. 1959. Movie’s Rating - 8,671. 257th Rank in the Golden Thousand. Gladys Pearl practically did not participate in the education of her daughter. First, due to financ...