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23 hours ago · Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film [8] written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an alternate history story of two converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany 's leadership at a Paris cinema ...
- Hans Landa
Character summary. Standartenführer (SS Colonel) Hans Landa...
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Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: Motion Picture...
- Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz (German: [ˈkʀɪstɔf ˈvalts]; born 4 October...
- Bridger Family
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- Matthäus Hetzenauer
Matthäus Hetzenauer (German pronunciation: [maˈtɛːʊs...
- Jana Pallaske
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- Sylvester Groth
Sylvester Groth (born 31 March 1958) is a German theater,...
- Alexander Fehling
Alexander Fehling (born 29 March 1981) is a German film and...
- Christian Berkel
Life and career. Berkel was born on 28 October 1957 in...
- Omar Doom
Omar Doom (born June 29, 1976) is an American actor,...
- Hans Landa
23 hours ago · Life and career 1965–1984: Early life and career beginnings. Björk was born on 21 November 1965 in Reykjavík. She was raised by her mother, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir (7 October 1946 – 25 October 2018), an activist who protested against the development of Iceland's Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, having divorced from Björk's father, Guðmundur Gunnarsson, an electrician and union leader ...
23 hours ago · Early life and marriage Adelaide Hall was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, to Elizabeth and William Hall in 1901. Adelaide and her sister Evelyn attended the Pratt Institute, where William Hall taught piano. Her father died on March 23, 1917. Three years later, Evelyn died of pneumonia on March 25, 1920 leaving Adelaide to support herself and her mother. In 1924, Hall married the ...
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Inside a small shack, a robed figure – dubbed "God Killing Himself" in the film's credits – disembowels himself using a straight razor. After removing some of his internal organs, the character dies. A woman, Mother Earth, emerges from his mutilated remains. She brings the corpse to arousal and uses his semen to impregnate herself. Time passes and ...
Critics have identified several major themes in Begotten. In interviews, Merhige himself has acknowledged that he intentionally incorporated these themes into the film, while also inviting viewers to form their own interpretations of the film.
Merhige was informed by the theories and ideas of Antonin Artaud and Friedrich Nietzsche, which in his opinion had not been developed on film to the fullest extent. His key cinematic influences included Munk, Eisenstein, and Buñuel. In a 1993 interview with art historian Scott MacDonald, Merhige also listed Georges Franju's documentary short Blood ...
Development and pre-production
Begotten was written, produced, and directed by Merhige, with development for the film beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, although some sources list the date as 1984. Merhige had studied at New York State University, and soon developed an interest in the theater after attending several performances while in Manhattan. Merhige would later state in an interview that he had been drawn towards the use of performers creating a highly visualized form of storytelling through dramatic movement to pr...
Filming
Principal photography took place in the mid-to-late 1980s, over a period of three-and-a-half months[Note 3] in several different locations. Merhige filled multiple roles in the film's production, including work on cinematography, and special effects, the latter using a 16mm Arriflex camera on black-and-white reversal film. He had previously worked on several short film subjects before developing Begotten. The opening sequence depicting the robed figure (listed in the credits as "God Killing H...
Post-production and visual effects
Before Begotten, Merhige had worked as a special effects designer for various companies, including a brief job for a Disney television series that involved rotoscoping. These jobs had provided him with the technical knowledge—and savings—he needed to handle the film's post-production and visual effectson his own. The visuals have a decayed look, as if the film itself were an artifact that has been damaged and degraded over vast stretches of time; Merhige said Before and during the film's shoo...
Distribution
Once editing for Begotten was completed, Merhige spent two years trying to find a distributor willing to market and release it. Merhige screened the film to possible distributors but most refused to release the film as it did not fit into a specific genre, making it difficult to bring the film to market. Merhige later recalled, "When I first went looking for distribution, everyone laughed at me, saying 'We don't know what this is...'" Merhige then took it to a number of museums in hopes of ev...
Theatrical screenings
Unable to find a distributor, Begotten did not attain either wide or limited theatrical release. However it became a popular underground film, as a film released outside of conventional commercial channels, especially one with subversive or transgressive content. Lacking a standard theatrical release, Merhige booked one-off screeningsat various film festivals and art museums. The earliest public screening took place at the Goethe-Institut in Montreal on October 24, 1989, as part of the Montre...
Home media and bootlegging
Begotten has received very limited home media distribution after its theatrical release. The film is out of print and difficult to acquire in secondhand markets.Initially, Merhige did not intend for the film to be released on home video at all, stating in an interview with Scott MacDonald that he had previously hated the concept of home video as a medium. Merhige eventually changed his mind and felt that the original soundtrack mix, with which he had not been completely satisfied, could be en...
Critical reception
Begotten has received little to no attention from film critics, with most mainstream reviewers ignoring the film entirely. Merhige was initially afraid that audiences would misunderstand parts, or the entire film altogether, "When I finished the film, I felt sure it would be misunderstood and consigned to the underground again. I see it as a very serious, very beautiful work of art, but when it was first finished, I was always thinking, 'What if everybody just laughs? What if they don't see a...
Begotten has gradually developed a cult following over the years and is considered by some to be the director's masterpiece. It was listed in the 2011 book 100 Cult Films by Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik over Mendik's objections, as he felt its following was too small to merit inclusion. However, it ultimately made it in because, to Mathijs, its...
Louv, Jason (April 17, 2018). John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World. Inner Traditions/Bear. ISBN 978-1-62055-590-3 – via Google Books.Thacker, Eugene (April 24, 2015). Tentacles Longer Than Night: Horror of Philosophy. John Hunt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78279-888-0 – via Google Books.Tucker, Betty (2001). Confessions of a Movie Addict. Hats Office. ISBN 978-1-58736-085-5 – via Google Books.White, Armond (1995). The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture that Shook the World. Overlook Press. ISBN 978-0-87951-586-7 – via the Internet Archive (registration required).Begotten links
1. Begotten at AllMovie 2. Begotten at IMDb 3. Begotten at Rotten Tomatoes 4. Begotten at the TCM Movie Database
Din of Celestial Birds links
1. Din of Celestial Birds at IMDb 2. Din of Celestial Birds at the TCM Movie Database
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23 hours ago · Jay-Z. Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known by his stage name Jay-Z, [a] is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. [8] Known for his involvement in the success of other artists, [9] [10] he was named the greatest rapper of all time by Billboard and Vibe in 2023. [11]
23 hours ago · Zheng Shang-Chi, also known as the Master of Kung Fu and Brother Hand, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.The character was created by writer Steve Englehart and artist Jim Starlin, debuting in Special Marvel Edition #15 (December 1973) in the Bronze Age of Comic Books, and starring in his own solo title until 1983.
23 hours ago · Terminology. The name of the site is disputed, primarily between Muslims and Jews, in the context of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict.Some Arab-Muslim commentators and scholars attempt to deny Jewish connection with the Temple Mount, while some Jewish commentators and scholars attempt to belittle the importance of the site in Islam.
