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Susannah York: Dramatic Art
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Susannah York war von 1960 bis 1980 mit dem Schauspieler und Autoren Michael Wells verheiratet. Aus der Ehe gingen die beiden gemeinsamen Kinder Sasha (* 1972) und Orlando Wells (* 1973) hervor, die später ebenfalls ins Schauspielfach wechselten. Neben der Arbeit als Schauspielerin war York, ein ehemaliges Mitglied der renommierten Londoner Schauspielschule Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, in den 1970er Jahren auch als Autorin von Kinderbüchern erfolgreich. 1979 gehörte sie neben Françoise Sagan und Jules Dassin zur Wettbewerbsjury der Filmfestspiele von Cannes, die Francis Ford Coppolas Apocalypse Now und Volker Schlöndorffs Die Blechtrommel mit der Goldenen Palme auszeichnete. Fast dreizehn Jahre später kürte sie gemeinsam mit Annie Girardot und Michael Verhoeven Lawrence Kasdans Drama Grand Canyon – Im Herzen der Stadt zum besten Film der Berlinale 1992.
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Susannah York movies DVDs filmography available to buy at CDUniverse are listed below. Information on films includes: other actor and actress, star cast and crew information, reviews, director, photo of cover art, product pics and more.
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Robert Altman's intensely drawn haunting experimental psychological drama is about a lonely housewife, Cathryn (Susannah York), going schizoid and having hallucinations about sex and death. It's a small film that unfortunately fell under the cracks because of its confusing story and unexplained conclusions about what's real or fantasy. It's taken from a work written by Altman, meant to be like Bergman's Persona, and from the actress Susannah York's story In Search of Unicorns written while the film was in production. It was shot in an arty style in a steely looking Technicolor by master cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, who made good use of his misty Ireland landscape shots. John Williams contributes an eerie score, in which he collaborated with avant-garde percussionist Stomu Yamashta (he provided the "sounds" from those ominous crystal chimes). Much of the story seems autobiographical, though Altman uses set pieces of shock from the thriller genre to maximize the subject's predicament and keep it from being merely an exercise in arthouse filmmaking.
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Susannah has presided as juror at the Cannes, Edinburgh, and Berlin Film Festivals, and in 1993 she was made Officer de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. She serves as director of the Children’s Film Unit .
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