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Mark Romanek is a Actor, Director, Writer, Executive producer and Second Assistant Director American born on 18 september 1959 at Chicago (USA)

Mark Romanek

Mark Romanek
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Nationality USA
Birth 18 september 1959 (64 years) at Chicago (USA)

Mark Romanek (born September 18, 1959) is an American filmmaker, whose directing work includes feature films, music videos and commercials.

He wrote and directed the 2002 film One Hour Photo starring Robin Williams, and Never Let Me Go, the latter adapted from the Kazuo Ishiguro novel of the same name. His most notable music videos include "Hurt" (Johnny Cash), "Closer" (Nine Inch Nails), "Criminal" (Fiona Apple), "Scream" (Michael & Janet Jackson) and "Bedtime Story" (Madonna). His music videos have garnered 20 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Direction for Jay-Z's "99 Problems", and he has won three Grammy Awards for Best Short Form Music Video — more than any other director.

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Filmography of Mark Romanek (5 films)

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Actor

One Hour Photo, 1h36
Directed by Mark Romanek
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Films about pornography, Photographie
Actors Robin Williams, Michael Vartan, Connie Nielsen, Dylan Smith, Gary Cole, Eriq La Salle
Rating67% 3.399043.399043.399043.399043.39904
Seymour "Sy" Parrish (Robin Williams) is a photo technician at SavMart's one-hour photo developing clinic. He leads a solitary life outside of the "heaven-like" hyperreality atmosphere of the department store. Every day he labors to ensure his customers get the best quality photos possible. His work is his life, as he has no one and nothing to go home to at the end of each day; he spends his evenings sitting alone in his barren living room, watching television. The only thing in Sy's apartment he has for companionship is a hamster, caged in his bedroom. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family: husband Will (Michael Vartan), wife Nina (Connie Nielsen), and their son Jake (Dylan Smith). He has developed their photos for years and has developed an obsession with the family. He idolizes their happiness and affluence, memorizing every personal detail about them, and begins to associate with them more and more hoping to become a part of their lives.

Director

Never Let Me Go, 1h43
Directed by Mark Romanek
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Romance
Themes Clonage, Political films, Dystopian films, Alternate history films
Actors Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Izzy Meikle-Small, Élisabeth Ventura, Sally Hawkins
Rating70% 3.5481953.5481953.5481953.5481953.548195
The film begins with on-screen captions explaining that a medical breakthrough in 1952 has permitted the human lifespan to be extended beyond 100 years. It is narrated by 28-year-old Kathy H (Carey Mulligan) as she reminisces about her childhood at a boarding school called Hailsham, as well as her adult life after leaving the school. The first act of the film depicts the young Kathy (Izzy Meikle-Small), along with her friends Tommy (Charlie Rowe) and Ruth (Ella Purnell), spending their childhood at Hailsham in the late 1970s. The students are encouraged to create artwork, and their best work gets into The Gallery run by a mysterious woman known only as Madame (Nathalie Richard). One day, a new teacher, Miss Lucy (Sally Hawkins) quietly informs the students of their fate; they are destined to be organ donors and will die, or "complete", in their early adulthood. Shortly afterward she is sacked by the headmistress (Charlotte Rampling) for her revelation. As time passes, Kathy falls in love with Tommy, but Ruth and Tommy begin a relationship and stay together throughout the rest of their time at Hailsham.
One Hour Photo, 1h36
Directed by Mark Romanek
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Films about pornography, Photographie
Actors Robin Williams, Michael Vartan, Connie Nielsen, Dylan Smith, Gary Cole, Eriq La Salle
Rating67% 3.399043.399043.399043.399043.39904
Seymour "Sy" Parrish (Robin Williams) is a photo technician at SavMart's one-hour photo developing clinic. He leads a solitary life outside of the "heaven-like" hyperreality atmosphere of the department store. Every day he labors to ensure his customers get the best quality photos possible. His work is his life, as he has no one and nothing to go home to at the end of each day; he spends his evenings sitting alone in his barren living room, watching television. The only thing in Sy's apartment he has for companionship is a hamster, caged in his bedroom. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family: husband Will (Michael Vartan), wife Nina (Connie Nielsen), and their son Jake (Dylan Smith). He has developed their photos for years and has developed an obsession with the family. He idolizes their happiness and affluence, memorizing every personal detail about them, and begins to associate with them more and more hoping to become a part of their lives.
Static
Static (1985)
, 1h33
Directed by Mark Romanek
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Amanda Plummer, Bob Gunton, Keith Gordon
Rating66% 3.3403853.3403853.3403853.3403853.340385
A quirky, out-of-of place worker (Keith Gordon) at a crucifix factory in the Bible Belt invents a device he claims can show pictures of Heaven. Discouraged and confused by the inability of those around him to see anything but a screenful of static, he charismatically hijacks a bus of friendly elderly people in order to get media attention for his invention.

Scriptwriter

One Hour Photo, 1h36
Directed by Mark Romanek
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Films about pornography, Photographie
Actors Robin Williams, Michael Vartan, Connie Nielsen, Dylan Smith, Gary Cole, Eriq La Salle
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.399043.399043.399043.399043.39904
Seymour "Sy" Parrish (Robin Williams) is a photo technician at SavMart's one-hour photo developing clinic. He leads a solitary life outside of the "heaven-like" hyperreality atmosphere of the department store. Every day he labors to ensure his customers get the best quality photos possible. His work is his life, as he has no one and nothing to go home to at the end of each day; he spends his evenings sitting alone in his barren living room, watching television. The only thing in Sy's apartment he has for companionship is a hamster, caged in his bedroom. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family: husband Will (Michael Vartan), wife Nina (Connie Nielsen), and their son Jake (Dylan Smith). He has developed their photos for years and has developed an obsession with the family. He idolizes their happiness and affluence, memorizing every personal detail about them, and begins to associate with them more and more hoping to become a part of their lives.
Static
Static (1985)
, 1h33
Directed by Mark Romanek
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Amanda Plummer, Bob Gunton, Keith Gordon
Roles Writer
Rating66% 3.3403853.3403853.3403853.3403853.340385
A quirky, out-of-of place worker (Keith Gordon) at a crucifix factory in the Bible Belt invents a device he claims can show pictures of Heaven. Discouraged and confused by the inability of those around him to see anything but a screenful of static, he charismatically hijacks a bus of friendly elderly people in order to get media attention for his invention.

Producer

Bee Season
Bee Season (2005)
, 1h44
Directed by Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche, Max Minghella, Flora Cross, Kate Bosworth, Anna Maria Perez de Taglé
Roles Executive Producer
Rating54% 2.7485552.7485552.7485552.7485552.748555
Saul Naumann (Gere) is a somewhat controlling Jewish husband and father. A Religious Studies professor at UC Berkeley, Saul wrote his graduate thesis on the Kabbalah. Because he was a devout Jew, his wife Miriam (Binoche) converted to Judaism when they married, and he nurtured his son Aaron (Max Minghella) as a traditional studious Jew like himself. When Eliza (Flora Cross) wins her class spelling bee, they embark on a course of Kabbalah study to help her win. The film follows the family and the spiritual quests upon which they journey, in large part because of Saul: Miriam's attempt to make herself whole, Aaron's religious uncertainty, and Eliza's desire to be closer to her father.

Director

Home Movies, 1h30
Directed by Brian De Palma
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Kirk Douglas, Nancy Allen, Vincent Gardenia, Keith Gordon, Gerrit Graham, Theresa Saldana
Roles Second Assistant Director
Rating50% 2.511072.511072.511072.511072.51107
Denis Byrd, un jeune homme créatif, vit dans une famille complètement délurée et névrotique. Il tente d'oublier son quotidien en réalisant un petit film. Un professeur d'université égocentrique, "The Maestro", lui prodigue des conseils dans sa tâche...