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Michael Cunningham is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Executive Producer American born on 6 november 1952 at Cincinnati (USA)

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham
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Nationality USA
Birth 6 november 1952 (71 years) at Cincinnati (USA)
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship

Michael Cunningham, né le 6 novembre 1952 à Cincinnati, en Ohio, est un écrivain et scénariste américain, auteur de plusieurs succès d'édition et lauréat du prix Pulitzer de la fiction et du PEN/Faulkner Award.

Biography

Né à Cincinnati, en Ohio, il grandit à Pasadena, en Californie. Il étudie la littérature anglaise à l'Université Stanford, où il obtient une licence ès-lettres. Il poursuit ses études à l'Université de l'Iowa, et commence par publier des nouvelles dans The Atlantic Monthly et The Paris Review. Michael Cunningham est enseignant au Fine Arts Work Center à Provincetown (Massachusetts) et au Brooklyn College.

Très impliqué dans la lutte contre le sida, il participe à la naissance d'Act-up. Activiste, il est arrêté par la police plusieurs fois, notamment pour s'être enchaîné aux grilles de la Maison-Blanche et pour avoir interrompu un discours de George H. W. Bush.

Il vit à New York.


L'écrivain
Son premier roman, La Maison du bout du monde, est un relatif succès commercial. En 1995, il reçoit le Whiting Writers' Award. Il n'accède toutefois à une véritable notoriété qu'avec un roman explicitement inspiré de Mrs Dalloway, l'un des chefs-d'œuvre de Virginia Woolf, intitulé Les Heures, qui est distingué par le prix Pulitzer de la fiction, le PEN/Faulkner Award et le Stonewall Book Award.

Bien qu'homosexuel, Michael Cunningham n'apprécie guère être étiqueté comme « écrivain gay » (selon un article de Out) : certes son homosexualité a fortement influencé son œuvre, mais il ne la ressent pas comme une caractéristique susceptible de le définir exclusivement. Ses romans explorent essentiellement la relation étroite qu'entretiennent ces trois sentiments que sont l'amour, l'amitié et la haine, en s'appuyant sur des exemples tirés de sa génération, c'est-à-dire la génération tiraillée entre son besoin de liberté individuelle et de fortes pressions familiales. Deux de ses best-sellers, La Maison du bout du monde et De chair et de sang, illustrent cette problématique. Un autre thème majeur de l'œuvre de Cunningham est l'amour qu'il porte à sa ville adoptive New York, présente dans tous ses écrits, mais transcendée par le personnage de Mrs Dalloway dans The Hours . Ce dernier roman est adapté au cinéma en 2003 par Stephen Daldry sous le même titre, The Hours.

Best films

The Hours (2002)
(Novel)

Usually with

Claire Danes
Claire Danes
(2 films)
Susan Minot
Susan Minot
(1 films)
Ann Roth
Ann Roth
(2 films)
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
(2 films)
Eileen Atkins
Eileen Atkins
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Michael Cunningham (8 films)

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Actor

A Short History of Decay
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Bryan Greenberg, Linda Lavin, Harris Yulin, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Benjamin King
Roles Himself
Rating58% 2.9002052.9002052.9002052.9002052.900205
It is a comedy from an original script by Michael Maren, about a failed Brooklyn writer, Nathan Fisher, played by Bryan Greenberg, who visits his ailing parents in Florida. His mother (Lavin) has Alzheimer's and his father (Yulin) has recently had a stroke.
The Hours
The Hours (2002)
, 1h54
Directed by Stephen Daldry
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about families, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, LGBT-related films, Films about psychiatry, Political films, LGBT-related films, Sida et LGBT, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, John C. Reilly, Lyndsey Marshal
Rating74% 3.748753.748753.748753.748753.74875
With the exception of the opening and final scenes, which depict the 1941 suicide by drowning of Virginia Woolf in the River Ouse, the action takes place within the span of a single day in three different years and alternates between them throughout the film. In 1923, Virginia has begun writing the book Mrs Dalloway in her home in the town of Richmond outside London. In 1951, troubled Los Angeles housewife Laura Brown escapes from her conventional life by reading Mrs Dalloway. In 2001, New Yorker Clarissa Vaughan is the embodiment of the novel's title character, as she spends the day preparing for a party she is hosting in honor of her former lover and friend Richard, a poet and author living with AIDS who is to receive a major literary award. Richard tells Clarissa he has stayed alive for her sake, and the award is meaningless because he didn't get it sooner, until he was on the brink of death. She tells him she believes he would have won the award regardless of his illness. Richard often refers to Clarissa as "Mrs. Dalloway" - her namesake - because she distracts herself from her own life the way the Woolf character does.
State of Grace, 2h14
Directed by Phil Joanou
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright, John C. Reilly, John Turturro
Roles Frankie's Man
Rating71% 3.5983653.5983653.5983653.5983653.598365
Terry Noonan (Penn) returns to Hell's Kitchen in New York City after a 10-year absence, where his unpredictable childhood friend Jackie Flannery (Oldman) is involved in an Irish crime organization (based on The Westies) run by his older brother Frank/Frankie (Harris). Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen (Wright).
Die Hard 2
Die Hard 2 (1990)
, 2h3
Directed by Renny Harlin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Christmas films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Children's films
Actors Bruce Willis, Franco Nero, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, John Amos, Art Evans
Roles Sheldon
Rating70% 3.548853.548853.548853.548853.54885
On Christmas Eve two years after the Nakatomi Tower Incident, John McClane is waiting at Washington Dulles International Airport for his wife Holly to arrive from Los Angeles. Reporter Richard Thornburg, who exposed Holly's identity to Hans Gruber in the Nakatomi Tower, is assigned a seat across the aisle from her. In the airport bar McClane spots two men in army fatigues carrying a package, one of whom has a gun. He follows them into the baggage area. After a shootout, he kills one of the men while the other escapes. Learning the dead man is a mercenary thought killed in action, McClane relates the situation to airport police Captain Carmine Lorenzo, but Lorenzo has McClane ejected from his office.
Lost Angels, 1h56
Directed by Hugh Hudson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Donald Sutherland, Ad-Rock, Amy Locane, Celia Weston, Graham Beckel, Patricia Richardson
Roles D.A.B. Kid
Rating59% 2.9518652.9518652.9518652.9518652.951865
Tim Doolan (Horovitz), a troubled youth from a broken home in Los Angeles, is sent to a private psychiatric hospital after an altercation with the police turns violent. In the hospital, he makes a connection with Dr. Charles Loftis (Sutherland), a man with issues of his own.

Scriptwriter

Evening
Evening (2007)

Directed by Lajos Koltai
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy
Rating63% 3.196433.196433.196433.196433.19643
The film alternates between two time periods, the 1950s and the present, in which a dying Ann Grant Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) reflects on her past. Her confusing comments about people she never mentioned before leave her daughters, reserved Constance (Natasha Richardson) and restless Nina (Toni Collette), wondering if their mother is delusional.
A Home at the End of the World, 1h37
Directed by Michael Mayer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, Sida et LGBT, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film
Actors Colin Farrell, Robin Wright, Ryan Donowho, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek, Asia Vieira
Roles Writer
Rating65% 3.2991453.2991453.2991453.2991453.299145
Enfant, Bobby Morrow perd successivement son frère en 1967, sa mère en 1973 et son père en 1974. Il est recueilli par la famille de son camarade de classe Jonathan Glover. Bobby et Jonathan entretiennent des relations intimes, puis Jonathan part à l'université de New York tandis que Bobby reste chez les parents de Jonathan dans la banlieue de Cleveland et il devient boulanger. Lorsque les parents de Jonathan partent pour Phoenix en 1982, Bobby rejoint Jonathan qui vit dans l'East Village avec Claire. Claire aime Jonathan et veut un enfant, Jonathan est homosexuel et passe son temps dehors. Finalement Claire tombe amoureuse de Bobby qui est autant attiré par Jonathan que par Claire. À la mort de Ned, le père de Jonathan, le trio se retrouve pour l'enterrement à Phoenix et Claire annonce qu'elle est enceinte. Sur le chemin du retour, elle achète une maison perdue dans la nature à Woodstock où ils s'installent tous les trois. Tandis que Claire élève sa fille Rebecca, Bobby et Jonathan ouvrent un café. Jonathan est atteint de la maladie de Kaposi, Claire vit mal l'intimité de Bobby et Jonathan. Finalement elle quitte la maison au bout du monde avec sa fille pour visiter sa mère à Philadelphie. Bobby et Jonathan comprennent qu'elle ne reviendra pas.
The Hours
The Hours (2002)
, 1h54
Directed by Stephen Daldry
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about families, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, LGBT-related films, Films about psychiatry, Political films, LGBT-related films, Sida et LGBT, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, John C. Reilly, Lyndsey Marshal
Roles Novel
Rating74% 3.748753.748753.748753.748753.74875
With the exception of the opening and final scenes, which depict the 1941 suicide by drowning of Virginia Woolf in the River Ouse, the action takes place within the span of a single day in three different years and alternates between them throughout the film. In 1923, Virginia has begun writing the book Mrs Dalloway in her home in the town of Richmond outside London. In 1951, troubled Los Angeles housewife Laura Brown escapes from her conventional life by reading Mrs Dalloway. In 2001, New Yorker Clarissa Vaughan is the embodiment of the novel's title character, as she spends the day preparing for a party she is hosting in honor of her former lover and friend Richard, a poet and author living with AIDS who is to receive a major literary award. Richard tells Clarissa he has stayed alive for her sake, and the award is meaningless because he didn't get it sooner, until he was on the brink of death. She tells him she believes he would have won the award regardless of his illness. Richard often refers to Clarissa as "Mrs. Dalloway" - her namesake - because she distracts herself from her own life the way the Woolf character does.
Splatter University, 1h18
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Roles Story
Rating40% 2.013872.013872.013872.013872.01387
A patient escapes from a mental hospital, killing one of his keepers and then stealing his uniform. Three years later, a teacher is working late and gets stabbed and killed by the same patient, after he makes his way to the local college. Next semester, the late prof's replacement and a new group of students have to deal with a new batch of killings.

Producer

Evening
Evening (2007)

Directed by Lajos Koltai
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy
Roles Executive Producer
Rating63% 3.196433.196433.196433.196433.19643
The film alternates between two time periods, the 1950s and the present, in which a dying Ann Grant Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) reflects on her past. Her confusing comments about people she never mentioned before leave her daughters, reserved Constance (Natasha Richardson) and restless Nina (Toni Collette), wondering if their mother is delusional.