10 Best Works of Victor Hugo (Besanzón, 1802; París, 1885) On February 26, 1802, the year in which Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed himself monarch of the First Empire, this beloved son of France is born. He had a long life, with ups and downs, but enjoyed recognition from a very young age. As a writer, he […]
10 famous movies of Woody Allen (New York, December 1, 1935, -Actuality) His real name is Allan Stewart Konigsberg and he changed it to his stage name when he started publishing jokes at the age of 16 in several newspapers in the city. He went on to work as a screenwriter for NBC and later […]
Ridley Scott (South Shields, November 30, 1937) Son of Elizabeth and Colonel Francis Percy Scott, due to the profession of his father, he was not very present in Scott’s childhood. After World War II, his family moves to Teeside He studied at the Royal College of Art, where he helped establish the Film Department. He […]
Quentin Tarantino (Knoxville, March 27, 1963, – News) Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1963, son of Tony Tarantino, actor and amateur musician born in Queens, and Connie McHugh, a nurse. The name Tarantino refers to a character in a television TV series, the mestizo blacksmith Quint played by Burt Reynolds in Gunsmoke. He was raised […]
10 famous movies of Mankiewicz(Wilkes Barre, February 11, 1909, – New York, February 5, 1993) His father, Franz Mankiewicz, a Jewish-Berliner who emigrated at the age of 17 from Germany in 1885, became a famous professor at the New York City College in the United States. He taught language, Hebrew theology and education; He also […]
Billy Wilder (Sucha Beskidza, June 22, 1906, – Hollywood, March 27, 2002) He spent his childhood and youth in Vienna, where he began to work as a journalist, a profession he continued to exercise when he moved to Berlin. In 1930 he intervened as a screenwriter on Men on Sundays, a chronicle of everyday life […]
10 famous works of Frank Gehry (Toronto, Canada, February 28, 1929) Born of Toronto, Frank Owen Gehry, is a distinguished architect and artist of polish-Jewish descent. He has been given the epithet of “the architect of forms”, his real is Ephraim Goldberg, which he would later change to his current name. At age of […]
10 Famous works of Norman Foster (Manchester, June 1, 1935) Born in Manchester, Norman Foster is considered one of the most famous exponent of modern architecture. He was raised in a humble family with few aspirations, his mother, Lilian Smith, a waitress and his father, Robert Foster, owner of a pawn shop, a situation that […]
Antoni Gaudí was a Spanish architect whose work is considered an exceptional creative contribution to the development of architecture and construction technology. He started his architecture studies in 1868, when he moved to Barcelona when he was sixteen, there he would develop his career at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, and although he was […]