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- Michelangelo Antonioni. L’avventura. My favorite among Antonioni’s trilogy of alienation (La notte and L’eclisse are the other two). For me, these films capture the slow and painful death of love with astonishing intuition and almost no dialogue.
- Jean-Luc Godard. Contempt. This was a film I watched again and again before making The Two Faces of January. Not only for the Mediterranean backdrop and colors but for the way it showed a woman falling out love with her husband over a single incident.
- Louis Malle. The Fire Within. The best film about alcoholism I’ve ever seen. Not so much about drinking as the alcoholic’s search for meaning in a world that is slowly losing definition.
- Federico Fellini. La dolce vita. For all its other virtues, it is the party scenes that have stuck with me. I feel like I’ve been to many parties like these.
Jul 23, 2024 · by George Louis Bartlett. Forced out of Iran as a refugee following the revolution in 1979, Hossein Amini, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Wings of a Dove and 2011’s insta-cool-flick Drive, writer-director of The Two Faces of January, and co-creator of crime series McMafia, has forged himself a spot as an industry staple with a honed ability to adapt his craft to all types of stories, across ...
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Hossein Amini (Persian: حسین امینی; born 18 January 1966) is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director who has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. He was nominated for numerous awards for the 1997 film The Wings of the Dove , including an Academy Award for Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay .
Drive. (2011 film) Drive is a 2011 American action drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The screenplay, written by Hossein Amini, is based on James Sallis 's 2005 novel. The film stars Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. He quickly grows fond of his neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan), and ...
8 Photos. Hossein Amini was born in Iran, and when he was 11 years old, he and his family moved to England. Amini's first screenplay was for the 1994 TV movie The Dying of the Light, which was directed by Peter Kosminsky. The TV movie covered the murder of Sean Devereux, an aid worker who was murdered in Somalia in 1993 for criticizing arms sales.
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The Two Faces of January: Directed by Hossein Amini. With Oscar Isaac, Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Daisy Bevan. A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who flee Athens after one of them is caught up in the death of a private detective.
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Jun 16, 2018 · When Misha Glenny’s non-fiction book McMafia was first published in 2008, Iran-born Hossein Amini was fascinated by the overview it offered of how organised crime has flourished in the age of ...
