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Cannes 2023 :: Killers of the Flower Moon :: Martin Scorsese’s Bitterest Crime Epic Martin Scorsese triumphs yet again. A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Full Winners List This year’s jury, headed by Kristen Stewart, gave
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BAFTA 2023 :: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
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Berlinale 2023 :: Golshifteh Farahani :: Talks Role Of
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SIFF 2023 :: Shirin Ebadi :: Until We Are Free
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IFFR 2023 Awards :: 'Le spectre de Boko Haram' and
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Winners of the 2022 ‘Sepanta Awards’ :: 15th Annual
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Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video.. |
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Opinion :: Will Venice Protests Help or Hurt filmmakers
in Iran? As the Venice Film Festival
celebrates Iranian cinema — with four Iranian films screening at the 79th Biennale — back
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Biennale Cinema 2022 :: Awards Ceremony
Official Awards of the 79th Venice Film Festival.
Announced by the five international Juries, chaired by Julianne Moore, during the Awards
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Coming: 15th Annual Iranian Film Festival! : San
Francisco: Sep. 17-18 This year, the
festival presents 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video. We are happy and proud to.. |
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Tom Waits |
Birth name
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits
Date of Birth
7 December 1949, Pomona, California, United States
Tom Waits (December 7, 1949, Pomona, California, United States)
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor.
Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."
With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona.
He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.
Tom Waits Interview on NPR 2010
Lyrically, Waits' songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesque, often seedy characters and places – although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads.
He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support.
His songs are best-known to the general public in the form of cover versions by more visible artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by Bruce Springsteen and "Downtown Train", performed by Rod Stewart.
Tom Waits reads "The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski
Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries.
He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations.
In 2010, Waits was chosen to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
Waits currently lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and three children.
Selected Filmography (As an actor)
2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 2006 Wristcutters: A Love Story 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1986 Down by Law
Tours
1973: Closing Time touring 1974–1975: The Heart of Saturday Night touring 1975–1976: Small Change touring 1977: Foreign Affairs touring 1978–1979: Blue Valentine touring 1980–1982: Heartattack and Vine touring 1985: Rain Dogs touring 1987: Big Time touring 1999: Get Behind the Mule Tour 2004: Real Gone Tour 2006: The Orphans Tour 2008: Glitter and Doom Tour
Discography and filmography
Tom Waits discography -- Wikipedia (Read more)
Selected works of
Tom Waits
2016
Razor’s Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses (2016)
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