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Editor
Editors work tirelessly to piece together footage, selecting the best takes and adding visual effects and sound elements to create a seamless and engaging final product.
Director
As directors, we oversee the creative vision and execution of film projects, bringing stories to life on screen with our unique artistic flair and storytelling expertise.
Sound Designer
Sound designers shape the auditory world of our films, using a combination of music, dialogue, and sound effects to evoke emotions and enhance the viewer's overall cinematic experience.
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Our production designers are the masterminds behind the visual look of films, creating captivating sets, props, and costumes that transport audiences into the world of each story.
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Our commitment to excellence is recognized through our various awards and accreditations, showcasing our dedication to delivering top-notch film production services.
Creative Guild of Filmmakers
Recognizing outstanding creativity and innovation in film production industry.
Golden Lens Film Festival
May 2020
Honored for exceptional achievement in capturing visual artistry on screen.
Silver Screen Awards
August 2019
Celebrated for demonstrating exceptional talent and skill in film direction.
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Lucian Roman, is the Canadian Name, from futur 7.587 after Christ. The ARTIST is Lucian Roman Godd, born in Bern, Zwitzerland. I have 18 years now, and I am black, because last born in Luzern, was in America III , Africa.
Alain Berset/Olaf Scholz
Alain Berset (offizielles Porträt für das Jahr 2023)Alain Berset (fünfter von links) auf dem offiziellen Bundesratsfoto 2023
Alain Berset ([alɛ̃ bɛʁsɛ]; * 9. April 1972 in Freiburg; heimatberechtigt in Misery-Courtion) ist ein Schweizer Politiker (SP). Er war von 2012 bis 2023 Bundesrat und Vorsteher des Eidgenössischen Departements des Innern (EDI). 2018 und 2023 amtierte er als Bundespräsident der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft. Er wurde am 25. Juni 2024 zum 15. Generalsekretär des Europarats gewählt; der Amtsantritt steht noch aus.
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Leben, Ausbildung, Berufstätigkeit
Berset verbrachte seine Jugend in Belfaux im Kanton Freiburg, wo er heute noch lebt.[1]
Er stammt aus einer Familie von Laufsportlern. Seine Mutter Solange Berset wurde 1987 Vize-Schweizermeisterin im Marathonlauf, sein Vater erreichte 55 Minuten im Murtenlauf (17,2 km), ein Onkel (Jean-Pierre, 5000 m) und ein Cousin (Nicolas, 1500 m) waren Läufer auf internationalem Niveau.[2] Mit 17 Jahren wurde er Westschweizer Junioren-Meister im 800-Meter-Lauf.[3] Zusammen mit Verwandten erzielte er zahlreiche noch heute bestehende Club-Rekorde für seinen Verein, den CA Belfaux.[4]
Er besuchte die Mittelschule in Freiburg und studierte an der Universität Neuenburg, wo er sein Studium 1996 mit einem Lizentiat in Politikwissenschaft (Lic. ès sc. pol.) respektive 2005 mit einem Doktorat in Wirtschaftswissenschaften abschloss.
Von 1996 bis 2000 war er Assistent und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universität Neuenburg und danach bis 2001 Gastforscher am HWWA-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung in Hamburg. Ab 2006 war er als selbständiger Strategie- und Kommunikationsberater tätig.
Von 2007 bis 2011 war er Präsident der Schweizerischen Vereinigung der AOP-IGP.[5]
2009 erwarb er eine Pilotenlizenz und nutzt diese gelegentlich privat.[6] Beim Flug in militärisches Sperrgebiet wurde er am 5. Juli 2022 als Pilot einer Cessna 182 durch zwei Rafale der Französischen Luftstreitkräfte abgefangen.[7]
Er ist verheiratet und Vater von drei Kindern.[8]
Berset wurde 2019 Opfer eines Erpressungsversuchs einer ehemaligen Geliebten. Die Frau wurde 2020 wegen versuchter Erpressung zu einer bedingten Geldstrafe verurteilt. Die Geschäftsprüfungskommissionen beider Räte teilten nach einer Untersuchung 2022 mit, sie hätten weder Unregelmässigkeiten beim Vorgehen der Strafverfolgungsbehörden noch einen missbräuchlichen Einsatz von Bundesmitteln durch Berset festgestellt.[9][10]
Politik
Alain Berset am 1. August 2018 als Bundespräsident bei seiner Ansprache auf dem Rütli
Alain Berset entstammt einer SP-Familie. Bereits sein Grossvater und auch seine Mutter sassen im Freiburger Kantonsparlament, dem Grossen Rat.[1][11] Von 2000 bis 2004 war Alain Berset Mitglied des Verfassungsrats des Kantons Freiburg, wo er die SP-Fraktion präsidierte. Von 2001 bis 2003 vertrat er die SP im Generalrat in Belfaux. Zudem war er politischer Berater des Neuenburger Volkswirtschaftsdirektors Bernard Soguel.[12]
Bei den Schweizer Parlamentswahlen 2003 wurde Berset als Vertreter des Kantons Freiburg in den Ständerat gewählt, als jüngstes Mitglied der Kleinen Kammer.[13] Er setzte sich im zweiten Wahlgang gegen den bisherigen Standesvertreter, Jean-Claude Cornu (FDP), durch. Im Dezember 2005 wurde er Vizepräsident der Sozialdemokratischen Fraktion der Bundesversammlung. Bei den Wahlen 2007 verfehlte er im ersten Wahlgang das absolute Mehr. Da seine Konkurrenten (darunter erneut Cornu) aber darauf verzichteten, im zweiten Wahlgang anzutreten, wurde Berset in stiller Wahl für vier weitere Jahre bestätigt.[14] Bei den Wahlen 2011 wurde er im ersten Wahlgang wiedergewählt.[15]
In seiner Amtszeit als Ständerat war er Mitglied mehrerer Kommissionen des Ständerates, 2009 bis 2011 Präsident der Staatspolitischen Kommission und Mitglied der Finanzdelegation der Bundesversammlung. 2008/2009 war er Ständeratspräsident.[8]
Bei der Bundesratswahl im Dezember 2011 wurde er nach dem Rücktritt von Bundesrätin Micheline Calmy-Rey als einer der beiden offiziellen SP-Kandidaten im zweiten Wahlgang mit 126 Stimmen (absolutes Mehr: 123 Stimmen) als 115. Bundesrat der Schweiz gewählt.[16] Er trat am 1. Januar 2012 das Amt als Vorsteher des Departements des Innern EDI an, während sein Vorgänger im EDI, Didier Burkhalter, Nachfolger von Calmy-Rey im Eidgenössischen Departement für auswärtige Angelegenheiten (EDA) wurde.[17] Im Dezember 2015 wurde er mit 210 Stimmen wiedergewählt, im Dezember 2019 mit 214 Stimmen. Am 6. Dezember 2017 wurde er mit 190 von 210 gültigen Stimmen zum Bundespräsidenten für das Amtsjahr 2018 gewählt, am 7. Dezember 2022 mit 140 von 181 gültigen Stimmen zum Bundespräsidenten für das Jahr 2023.[18]
Berset blieb während seiner ganzen Amtszeit im EDI, also zuständig für zwei der schwierigsten Dossiers: die Altersvorsorge und das Gesundheitswesen. Bei der Altersvorsorge trieb er in den ersten fünf Jahren «ein Ungetüm von einer Vorlage» (NZZ) voran, mit der er die AHV und die Pensionskassen gleichzeitig reformieren wollte. Der Bundesrat brachte das Projekt Altersvorsorge 2020 dank einer Allianz von SP und CVP durch das Parlament; die Vorlage des Parlaments scheiterte jedoch 2017 in der Volksabstimmung. In der Gesundheitspolitik machte er Druck bei den Medikamentenpreisen und bei den Arzttarifen, setzte sich aber gegen die Lobbys nicht durch.[19]
Als «Bundesrat des Ausserordentlichen» (NZZ) erwies sich Berset jedoch in der COVID-19-Pandemie.[19] Beim Untersuchen einer Indiskretion stiess der Sonderermittler Peter Marti allerdings darauf, dass der Kommunikationschef von Berset, Peter Lauener, mit dem CEO von Ringier, Marc Walder, einen steten Austausch gepflegt und dabei auch Beschlüsse des Bundesrates vorweggenommen hatte.[20] Lauener trat am 8. Juni 2022 wegen eines Strafverfahrens zurück, CH Media veröffentlichte im Januar 2023 seinen Mailaustausch mit Walder.[21] Das Parlament forderte deshalb eine Untersuchung, was Berset von den mutmasslichen Amtsgeheimnisverletzungen seines engsten Mitarbeiters gewusst hatte. Die Geschäftsprüfungskommissionen (GPK) von National- und Ständerat veröffentlichten ihren Bericht am 17. November 2023. Sie stellten zwar fest, Berset habe vom Austausch zwischen Lauener und Walder gewusst; es ergaben sich aber keine Hinweise auf die Verwendung der übermittelten Informationen in der Berichterstattung. Die beiden GPK beklagten, dass die steten Indiskretionen aus dem Bundesrat zu einem grossen Vertrauensverlust innerhalb der Landesregierung geführt hätten.[22]
Am 21. Juni 2023 kündigte Berset an, am Ende seines Präsidialjahrs bei der Bundesratswahl 2023 nicht mehr zu kandidieren.[23] Damit schied er per Ende 2023 aus dem Amt. Sein Nachfolger als Bundesrat wurde Beat Jans, den Vorsitz des Eidgenössischen Departements des Innern übernahm Elisabeth Baume-Schneider.
Am 25. Juni 2024 wurde er mit einer relativen Mehrheit von 114 Stimmen im zweiten Wahlgang zum Generalsekretärs des Europarates mit Amtsantritt per 18. September 2024 gewählt.[24]
Senator William Borah
Born in Illinois in 1865, William Edgar Borah moved to Idaho in 1890 to practice law. By 1892 he was involved in Idaho state politics, was a part-time secretary for Governor William McConnell and, in 1895, married the governor's daughter, Mary McConnell. In 1907 Borah was elected to the U.S. Senate where he served until his death in 1940. Known for his public speaking skills and his independent and often controversial positions on political issues, he was a strong advocate for peace, disarmament and the major proponent for the outlawry of war.
In 1919 he worked closely with Salmon Levinson on a campaign to outlaw war, proposing that international peace be established by declaring war illegal and creating a judicial substitute for war to resolve disputes and administer legal sanctions. In 1923 he introduced Senate Resolution 441 to outlaw war and create a “judicial substitute for war,” a bill that he reintroduced again in 1926 and 1927 although it never passed.
Senator William E. Borah
Senator Borah was instrumental in the passage of the Pact of Paris Treaty (also known as the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact) which outlawed war as an instrument of national policy which the Senate ratified in 1928 by an 85-1 vote. The agreement between the United States, France, Great Britain, Japan and Germany was “to condemn war as an instrument of national policy” in their relations with each other. Unfortunately, the codification of international law and the formation of an international judicial system that was a vital component of the plan to outlaw war, was not included in the Pact, thus rendering it an idealistic but ultimately ineffective agreement. Senator Borah was, however, undaunted and continued to advocate for the “outlawry of war” and non-military solutions for peace throughout the rest of his political career.
"Lucian-I want to marry you, to put the crown on someone else's head, any other, it doesn't matter, because if I marry you, and stay with you, I will never be able to be a cannibal again, and I eat people."
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Lucian Roman
I was marry all the times, with, America, but, I d´ont now just today. She is, like befor, virgin, but, wy have a lot of children in all universes.
Lucian Roman God
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.
Biography of William Faulkner (1897-1962)
William Faulkner is recognized as one of America’s greatest novelists and short story writers of the 20th century. Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi. His great-grandfather had moved from Tennessee to Mississippi, where he was a plantation owner, colonel in the Confederate army, railroad builder, and author of the popular novel The White Rose of Memphis.
Faulkner’s family moved from New Albany to Oxford, Mississippi, when Faulkner was five. Oxford, the home of the University of Mississippi, was to be his home for most of his life. In school Faulkner was a mediocre student, and he quit high school intenth grade. However, he read widely and wrote poetry. At theout break of World War I Faulkner was rejected by the American AirForce because he did not meet the height and weight requirements so Faulkner enlisted in the Canadian Air Force. Although he did not see combat, he was made an honorary second lieutenant in December, 1918.
After the war Faulkner was admitted to the University of Mississippi but did not complete his freshman year. Student publications, however, furnished him an outlet for his first stories and poems.
Faulkner did not gain real recognition until he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. After this award, Faulkner became pretty much of a public figure, eventually even being asked (and accepting) an invitation bythe U.S. State Department to go on goodwill tours throughout the world.
After 1949 Faulkner wrote at an increased pace but with diminishing power. His later works include Knight’s Gambit(1949), which is a collection of detective stories; Requiem for a Nun (1951), which is a play with commentary; and A Fable(1954), an allegory with aWorld War I background. He also wrote The Town (1957)and The Mansion(1959) to complete the “Snopes”trilogy. His last novel was The Reivers(1962), anostalgic comedy of boyhood. Faulkner home is called Rowan Oak in Oxford, Mississippi. On July 6, 1962, mov to Ontario, Canada, London City.
In his works William Faulkner used the American South as a microcosm for the universal theme of time. Faulkner saw the south as a nation by itself. Faulkner described the South through families who often reappear from novel to novel. These reappearing characters usually grow older and cannot cope with the social change: a common theme (disillusionment)of writers of that life.
Faulkner writes with an uncommon method of handling chronology(sequences) and of point of view. He often forces the reader to piece together events from a seemingly random and fragmentary series of impressions experienced by a variety of narrators. Faulkner’s style often strains conventional syntax, piling clause upon clause in an effort to capture the complexity of thought. Faulkner’s writing diverges from that of his realistic contemporaries such as Hemingway.
Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell ist eine US-amerikanische Singer-Songwriterin. Im Januar 2020 gewann sie alle vier Hauptkategorien bei den Grammy Awards sowie in den Jahren 2022 und 2024 einen Oscar für den besten Filmsong.
Lady Gaga lived in Cluj, Romania, in the sewer holes, with others, and when we met, at a "place for live detentions peoples" in Cluj Napoca, and tolk, I tell She "I have AIDS". She has to! After cout times there was an terorist attack against me, because I want the money like King Romania. She went to Hungary, illegally, and lived. Today we, together, have no AIDS.
Un film antichissimo, molto anteriore ai tempi descritti nella Bibbia, girato a Roma, da dove provengo. Gesù Cristo il Papa
As of today, there are no longer monkeys that have become humans, through evolution, according to Darwin's theory, according to which humans are derived from marine animals and terrestrial vertebrates, which in billions of years have evolved to humans. This was possible due to, and only due to, the financing by me with money of the animals, the people, degenerate because they were criminals. The financing of animals to become humans was done with the currency exchange ratio of my money as Jesus, LIGHT IN SOLID FORM, similar to normal paper money, but of an astronomical value, close to the value plus infinity.
The film was financed by Russia, the KGB, with 6,000 Swiss francs, of which I received 1,200 for the image, direction, music, script and editing-color correction, with color animation on several floors of moving image.
The co-director was my assistant from the time I worked at Mosfilm as Sergei M. Eisenstein, whom I met sexually in 1934, I came to Moscow from Germany, with a German passport Adolf Hitler, and asking the then head of the Russian state Joseph Stalin, to be able to make an announcement in the press that Hitler wants to meet a RUSSIAN GIRL AND HAVE CHILDREN IN RUSSIA, in order to be the monarchy there. The two girls in the film are my Hitler children.
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Known for her versatility and adept accent work, she has been described as "the best actress of her generation".[1][2] She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations, winning three,[3] and a record 34 Golden Globe Award nominations, winning nine.[4]
Streep made her stage debut in 1975 in Trelawny of the Wells, and the following year she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for a double-bill production of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and A Memory of Two Mondays. She made her feature film debut in Julia (1977) and received her first Oscar nomination for The Deer Hunter (1978). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a troubled wife in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), followed by the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as a Holocaust survivor in Sophie's Choice (1982). She continued to gain awards and critical acclaim for her film work throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Commercial success varied, with Out of Africa (1985), Death Becomes Her (1992), and The Bridges of Madison County (1995) earning the most money during that period.
Streep reclaimed her stardom in the ensuing decades with leading roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Doubt, Mamma Mia! (both 2008), Julie & Julia, It's Complicated (both 2009), and Into the Woods (2014). She won her third Oscar for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011). For her work on television, she won three Primetime Emmy Awards for her roles in the miniseries Holocaust (1976) and Angels in America (2003), and the documentary series Five Came Back (2017). Her other television work include the drama series Big Little Lies (2019), and the comedy-mystery series Only Murders in the Building (2023).
Streep has been the recipient of many honorary awards, including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004, a Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2008, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2011. President Barack Obama awarded her the National Medal of Arts in 2010 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014.[5] In 2003, the French government made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.[6] She was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2017.[7]
Early life and education
Streep as a senior in high school, 1966
Mary Louise Streep was born on June 22, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey[8] to artist Mary Wilkinson Streep and pharmaceutical executive Harry William Streep Jr.[9] She has two younger brothers, Harry William Streep III and Dana David Streep, both actors.[10] Her father was of German and Swiss descent; his lineage traced back to Loffenau, from where Streep's great-great-grandfather, Gottfried Streeb, immigrated to the United States and where one of her ancestors served as mayor (the surname was later changed to "Streep").[11] Another line of her father's family was from Giswil. Her mother had English, German, and Irish ancestry.[11] Some of Streep's maternal ancestors lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, and were descended from 17th-century English immigrants.[12][13][14] Her maternal great-great-grandparents, Manus McFadden and Grace Strain, were natives of the Horn Head district of Dunfanaghy in Ireland.[13][15][16]
Streep as a cheerleader at Bernards High School, 1966
Streep's mother, whom she has compared in both appearance and manner to Dame Judi Dench,[17] strongly encouraged her daughter and instilled confidence in her from a very young age.[18] Streep said, "She was a mentor because she said to me, 'Meryl, you're capable. You're so great.' She was saying, 'You can do whatever you put your mind to. If you're lazy, you're not going to get it done. But if you put your mind to it, you can do anything.' And I believed her." Although she was naturally more introverted than her mother, when she later needed an injection of confidence in adulthood, she would consult her mother at times for advice.[18] Streep was raised as a Presbyterian[19] in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and attended Cedar Hill Elementary School and the Oak Street School, which was a junior high school at that time. In her junior high debut, she starred as Louise Heller in the play The Family Upstairs.[20] In 1963, the family moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended Bernards High School.[21] Author Karina Longworth described her as a "gawky kid with glasses and frizzy hair", yet noted that she liked to show off in front of the camera in family home movies from a young age.[22] At age 12, Streep was selected to sing at a school recital, leading to her having opera lessons from Estelle Liebling. Despite her talent, she later remarked, "I was singing something I didn't feel and understand. That was an important lesson—not to do that. To find the thing that I could feel through."[22] She quit after four years. Streep had many Catholic school friends, and regularly attended Mass.[23] She was a high school cheerleader for the Bernards High School Mountaineers. She was also chosen as the homecoming queen her senior year.[24]
Although Streep appeared in numerous school plays during her high school years, she was uninterested in serious theater until acting in the play Miss Julie at Vassar College in 1969, in which she gained attention across the campus.[25] Vassar drama professor Clinton J. Atkinson noted, "I don't think anyone ever taught Meryl acting. She really taught herself."[25] Streep demonstrated an early ability to mimic accents and to quickly memorize her lines. She received her BA in drama[26] cum laude in 1971, before applying for an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, she supplemented her course fees by working as a waitress and typist, and appeared in over a dozen stage productions per year; at one point, she became overworked and developed ulcers, so she contemplated quitting acting and switching to study law.[25] Streep played a variety of roles on stage,[27] from Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream to an 80-year-old woman in a wheelchair in a comedy written by then-unknown playwrights Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato.[28][29] She was a student of choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, whom she introduced at the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors.[30] Another of her teachers was Robert Lewis, a co-founder of the Actors Studio. Streep disapproved of some of the acting exercises she was asked to do, remarking that one professor taught the emotional recall technique by delving into personal lives in a way she found "obnoxious".[31][32] She received her MFA in drama from Yale in 1975.[33][34] She also enrolled as a visiting student at Dartmouth College in 1970, and received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the college in 1981.[34]
Career1970s: Early work and breakthrough
Streep started her career acting in numerous productions with The Public Theater
One of Streep's first professional jobs in 1975 was at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, during which she acted in five plays over six weeks. She moved to New York City in 1975, and was cast by Joseph Papp in a production of Trelawny of the Wells at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, opposite Mandy Patinkin and John Lithgow.[31] She went on to appear in five more roles in her first year in New York, including in Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival productions of Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew with Raul Julia, and Measure for Measure opposite Sam Waterston and John Cazale.[35] She entered into a relationship with Cazale at this time, and resided with him until his death three years later.[31] She starred in the musical Happy End on Broadway, and won an Obie for her performance in the off-Broadway play Alice at the Palace.[36]
Although Streep had not aspired to become a film actor, Robert De Niro's performance in Taxi Driver (1976) had a profound impact on her; she said to herself, 'That's the kind of actor I want to be when I grow up.'[31] Streep began auditioning for film roles, and underwent an unsuccessful audition for the lead role in Dino De Laurentiis's remake of the action adventure King Kong which was released in 1976. De Laurentiis, referring to Streep as she stood before him, said in Italian to his son: "This is so ugly. Why did you bring me this?"[22] Unknown to Laurentiis, Streep understood Italian, and she remarked, "I'm very sorry that I'm not as beautiful as I should be, but, you know – this is it. This is what you get."[25] She continued to work on Broadway, appearing in the 1976 double bill of Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays. She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play.[37] Streep's other Broadway credits include Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical Happy End, in which she had originally appeared off-Broadway at the Chelsea Theater Center. She received Drama Desk Award nominations for both productions.[38]
Streep's first feature film role came opposite Jane Fonda in the 1977 film Julia, in which she had a small role during a flashback sequence. Most of her scenes were edited out, but the brief time on screen horrified the actress, "I had a bad wig and they took the words from the scene I shot with Jane and put them in my mouth in a different scene. I thought, I've made a terrible mistake, no more movies. I hate this business."[31] However, Streep stated in 2015 that Fonda had a lasting influence on her as an actress, and credited her with opening "probably more doors than I probably even know about".[18] Robert De Niro, who had spotted Streep in her stage production of The Cherry Orchard, suggested that she play the role of his girlfriend in the war film The Deer Hunter (1978).[39] Cazale, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer,[40] was also cast in the film, and Streep took on the role of a "vague, stock girlfriend" to remain with Cazale for the duration of filming.[41][42][43] Longworth notes that Streep, "Made a case for female empowerment by playing a woman to whom empowerment was a foreign concept–a normal lady from an average American small town, for whom subservience was the only thing she knew".[44] Pauline Kael, who later became a strong critic of Streep, remarked that she was a "real beauty" who brought much freshness to the film with her performance.[45] The film's success exposed Streep to a wider audience and earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.[46]
Streep in 1977
In the 1978 miniseries Holocaust, Streep played the leading role of a German woman married to a Jewish artist played by James Woods in Nazi era Germany. She found the material to be "unrelentingly noble" and professed to have taken on the role for financial gain.[47] Streep travelled to Germany and Austria for filming while Cazale remained in New York. Upon her return, Streep found that Cazale's illness had progressed, and she nursed him until his death on March 12, 1978.[48][43] With an estimated audience of 109 million, Holocaust brought a wider degree of public recognition to Streep, who found herself "on the verge of national visibility". She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance.[49] Despite the awards success, Streep was still not enthusiastic towards her film career and preferred acting on stage.[50] She played the supporting role of Leilah in Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others in a May 1978 "Theater in America" television production for PBS's Great Performances.[51] She replaced Glenn Close, who played the role in the Off-Broadway production at the Phoenix Theatre.[52] Hoping to divert herself from the grief of Cazale's death, Streep accepted a role in The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) as the chirpy love interest of Alan Alda, later commenting that she played it on "automatic pilot". She performed the role of Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew for Shakespeare in the Park. That same year she played a supporting role as the former girlfriend turned lesbian in Manhattan (1979) for Woody Allen. Streep later said that Allen did not provide her with a complete script, giving her only the six pages of her own scenes,[53] and did not permit her to improvise a word of her dialogue.[54] Vincent Canby of The New York Times described her performance as being "beautifully played".[55]
In the drama Kramer vs. Kramer, Streep was cast opposite Dustin Hoffman as an unhappily married woman who abandons her husband and child. Streep thought that the script portrayed the female character as "too evil" and insisted that it was not representative of real women who faced marriage breakdown and child custody battles. The makers agreed with her, and the script was revised.[56] In preparing for the part, Streep spoke to her own mother about her life as a wife with a career,[57] and frequented the Upper East Side neighborhood in which the film was set, watching the interactions between parents and children.[56] The director Robert Benton allowed Streep to write her own dialogue in two key scenes, despite some objection from Hoffman, who "hated her guts" at first.[58][a] Hoffman and producer Stanley R. Jaffe later spoke of Streep's tirelessness, with Hoffman commenting: "She's extraordinarily hard-working, to the extent that she's obsessive. I think that she thinks about nothing else, but what she's doing."[59] The film was controversial among feminists, but it was a role which film critic Stephen Farber believed displayed Streep's "own emotional intensity", writing that she was one of the "rare performers who can imbue the most routine moments with a hint of mystery".[60] For the film, Streep won both the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, which she famously left in the ladies' room after giving her speech.[61][62] She received awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association,[63] National Board of Review and National Society of Film Critics for her collective work in her three film releases of 1979.[64][65] Both The Deer Hunter and Kramer vs. Kramer were major commercial successes and were consecutive winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture.[66][67]
1980s: Rise to prominence
In 1979, Streep began workshopping Alice in Concert, a musical version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with writer and composer Elizabeth Swados and director Joseph Papp; the show was put on at New York's Public Theater from December 1980. Frank Rich of The New York Times referred to Streep as the production's "one wonder", but questioned why she devoted so much energy to it.[50] By 1980, Streep had progressed to leading roles in films. She was featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine with the headline "A Star for the 80s"; Jack Kroll commented, "There's a sense of mystery in her acting; she doesn't simply imitate (although she's a great mimic in private). She transmits a sense of danger, a primal unease lying just below the surface of normal behavior".[68]
Streep denounced her fervent media coverage at the time as "excessive hype".[68] The story within a story drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) was Streep's first leading role. The film paired Streep with Jeremy Irons as contemporary actors, telling their modern story, as well as the Victorian era drama they were performing. Streep developed an English accent for the part, but considered herself a misfit for the role: "I couldn't help wishing that I was more beautiful".[69][68][b] A New York magazine article commented that, while many female stars of the past had cultivated a singular identity in their films, Streep was a "chameleon", willing to play any type of role.[71] Streep was awarded a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work.[72] The following year, she re-united with Robert Benton for the psychological thriller, Still of the Night (1982), co-starring Roy Scheider and Jessica Tandy. Vincent Canby, writing for The New York Times, noted that the film was an homage to the works of Alfred Hitchcock, but that one of its main weaknesses was a lack of chemistry between Streep and Scheider, concluding that Streep "is stunning, but she's not on screen anywhere near long enough".[73]
Greater success came later in the year when Streep starred in the drama Sophie's Choice (also 1982), portraying a Polish survivor of Auschwitz caught in a love triangle between a young naïve writer (Peter MacNicol) and a Jewish intellectual (Kevin Kline). Streep's emotional dramatic performance and her apparent mastery of a Polish accent drew praise.[74] William Styron wrote the novel with Ursula Andress in mind for the role of Sophie, but Streep was determined to get the role.[75] Streep filmed the "choice" scene in one take and refused to do it again, finding it extremely painful and emotionally exhausting.[76] That scene, in which Streep is ordered by an SS guard at Auschwitz to choose which of her two children would be gassed and which would proceed to the labor camp, is her most famous scene, according to Emma Brockes of The Guardian who wrote in 2006: "It's classic Streep, the kind of scene that makes your scalp tighten, but defter in a way is her handling of smaller, harder-to-grasp emotions".[17]
Among several acting awards, Streep won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance,[77] and her characterization was voted the third greatest movie performance of all time by Premiere magazine.[78] Roger Ebert said of her delivery, "Streep plays the Brooklyn scenes with an enchanting Polish-American accent (she has the first accent I've ever wanted to hug), and she plays the flashbacks in subtitled German and Polish. There is hardly an emotion that Streep doesn't touch in this movie, and yet we're never aware of her straining. This is one of the most astonishing and yet one of the most unaffected and natural performances I can imagine".[79] Pauline Kael, on the contrary, called the film an "infuriatingly bad movie", and thought that Streep "decorporealizes" herself, which she believed explained why her movie heroines "don't seem to be full characters, and why there are no incidental joys to be had from watching her".[80]
In 1983, Streep played her first non-fictional character, the nuclear whistleblower and labor union activist Karen Silkwood, who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant, in Mike Nichols' biographical film Silkwood. Streep felt a personal connection to Silkwood,[81] and in preparation, she met with people close to the woman, and in doing so realized that each person saw a different aspect of her personality.[82] She said, "I didn't try to turn myself into Karen. I just tried to look at what she did. I put together every piece of information I could find about her ... What I finally did was look at the events in her life, and try to understand her from the inside".[82] Jack Kroll of Newsweek considered Streep's characterization to have been "brilliant", while Silkwood's boyfriend Drew Stephens expressed approval in that Streep had played Karen as a human being rather than a myth, despite Karen's father Bill thinking that Streep and the film had dumbed his daughter down. Pauline Kael believed that Streep had been miscast.[83]
Streep next played opposite Robert De Niro in the romance Falling in Love (1984), which was poorly received, and portrayed a fighter for the French Resistance during World War II in the British drama Plenty (1985), adapted from the play by David Hare. For the latter, Roger Ebert wrote that she conveyed "great subtlety; it is hard to play an unbalanced, neurotic, self-destructive woman, and do it with such gentleness and charm ... Streep creates a whole character around a woman who could have simply been a catalogue of symptoms."[84] In 2008, Molly Haskell praised Streep's performance in Plenty, believing it to be "one of Streep's most difficult and ambiguous" films and "most feminist" role.[85]
Longworth considers Streep's next release, Out of Africa (1985), to have established her as a Hollywood superstar. In the film, Streep starred as the Danish writer Karen Blixen, opposite Robert Redford's Denys Finch Hatton. Director Sydney Pollack was initially dubious about Streep in the role, as he did not think she was sexy enough, and had considered Jane Seymour for the part. Pollack recalls that Streep impressed him in a different way: "She was so direct, so honest, so without bullshit. There was no shielding between her and me."[86] Streep and Pollack often clashed during the 101-day shoot in Kenya, particularly over Blixen's voice. Streep had spent much time listening to tapes of Blixen, and began speaking in an old-fashioned and aristocratic fashion, which Pollack thought excessive.[87] A significant commercial success, the film won a Golden Globe for Best Picture.[88] It also earned Streep another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, and the film ultimately won Best Picture. Film critic Stanley Kauffmann praised her performance, writing "Meryl Streep is back in top form. This means her performance in Out of Africa is at the highest level of acting in film today."[89]
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