Avy Kaufman, the Glossary
Avy Kaufman is an American casting director for film and television.[1]
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81 relations: A Murder at the End of the World, A Walk Among the Tombstones (film), Action film, Adventure film, American Gangster (film), Ang Lee, Atlanta, Backstage (magazine), Before I Disappear, Billions (TV series), Biographical film, Black comedy, Blow (film), Bonneville (film), Brokeback Mountain, Brothers (2009 film), Capone (2020 film), Casting (performing arts), Casting Society of America, Comedy drama, Comedy film, Crime film, Damages (TV series), Dance film, Dogville, Drama (film and television), Driveways (film), Empire Falls (miniseries), Fantasy, Garden State (film), Genre, Gossip Girl, High Fidelity (TV series), Hollywood Film Festival, Home for the Holidays (1995 film), Horror film, IMDb, Jules (film), Leaves of Grass (film), Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Let Me In (film), Life of Pi (film), List of people from New York City, Little Man Tate, Mare of Easttown, Miss Firecracker, My Blueberry Nights, New York City, Our Souls at Night, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series, ... Expand index (31 more) »
A Murder at the End of the World
A Murder at the End of the World is an American psychological mystery thriller television miniseries created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij for FX on Hulu.
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (film)
A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 2014 American neo-noir action thriller film directed and written by Scott Frank, and based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Lawrence Block.
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Action film
The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.
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Adventure film
An adventure film is a genre of film.
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American Gangster (film)
American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.
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Ang Lee
Ang Lee (born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker.
Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Backstage (magazine)
Backstage, also previously written as Back Stage, is an American entertainment industry trade publication.
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Before I Disappear
Before I Disappear is a 2014 American drama film directed by Shawn Christensen.
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Billions (TV series)
Billions is an American drama television series created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin.
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Biographical film
A biographical film or biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people.
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Black comedy
Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.
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Blow (film)
Blow is a 2001 American biographical crime drama film directed by Ted Demme, about an American cocaine kingpin and his international network.
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Bonneville (film)
Bonneville is a 2006 American comedy-drama film directed by Christopher N. Rowley and starring Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen, Tom Skerritt, and Christine Baranski.
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Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American neo-Western romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus.
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Brothers (2009 film)
Brothers is a 2009 American psychological thriller war film directed by Jim Sheridan and written by David Benioff.
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Capone (2020 film)
Capone is a 2020 American biographical drama film written, directed and edited by Josh Trank, with Tom Hardy starring as the eponymous gangster Al Capone.
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Casting (performing arts)
In the performing arts industry such as theatre, film, or television, casting, or a casting call, is a pre-production process for selecting a certain type of actor, dancer, singer, or extra to land the role of a character in a script, screenplay, or teleplay.
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Casting Society of America
The Casting Society, formerly known as Casting Society of America (CSA), was founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1982 as a professional society of about 1,200 casting directors and associate casting directors for film, television, theatre, and commercials in Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa, and the United States.
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Comedy drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.
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Comedy film
Comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor.
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Crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.
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Damages (TV series)
Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by writing and production trio Daniel Zelman, Glenn Kessler, and Todd A. Kessler.
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Dance film
A dance film (also known as screen dance) is a film in which dance is used to reveal the central themes of the film, whether these themes be connected to narrative or story, states of being, or more experimental and formal concerns.
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Dogville
Dogville is a 2003 arthouse experimental avant-garde film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan with John Hurt narrating.
Drama (film and television)
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.
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Driveways (film)
Driveways is a 2019 American drama film directed by Andrew Ahn and starring Hong Chau, Lucas Jaye, and Brian Dennehy, from an original screenplay by playwrights Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen.
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Empire Falls (miniseries)
Empire Falls is a 2005 American television miniseries directed by Fred Schepisi and written by Richard Russo, based on Russo's 2001 novel of the same name.
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Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.
Garden State (film)
Garden State is a 2004 American romantic comedy-drama film, written and directed by Zach Braff, and starring Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard and Ian Holm.
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Genre
Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.
Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the novel series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar.
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High Fidelity (TV series)
High Fidelity is an American romantic comedy television series developed by Veronica West and Sarah Kucserka for Hulu.
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Hollywood Film Festival
The Hollywood Film Festival is an annual film festival that takes place in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Home for the Holidays (1995 film)
Home for the Holidays is a 1995 American family comedy-drama film directed by Jodie Foster and produced by Peggy Rajski and Foster.
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Horror film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
Jules (film)
Jules is a 2023 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Marc Turtletaub and written by Gavin Steckler.
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Leaves of Grass (film)
Leaves of Grass is a 2009 American black comedy film written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson.
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (also simply known as A Series of Unfortunate Events) is a 2004 American black comedy adventure film directed by Brad Silberling from a screenplay by Robert Gordon, based on the first three novels of the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning (1999), The Reptile Room (1999), and The Wide Window (2000), by Lemony Snicket (the pen name of American author Daniel Handler).
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Let Me In (film)
Let Me In is a 2010 romantic horror film written and directed by Matt Reeves.
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Life of Pi (film)
Life of Pi is a 2012 adventure-drama film directed and produced by Ang Lee and written by David Magee.
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List of people from New York City
Many notable people were either born in New York City or adopted it as their home. Avy Kaufman and List of people from New York City are people from New York City.
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Little Man Tate
Little Man Tate is a 1991 American drama film directed by Jodie Foster (in her directorial debut) from a screenplay written by Scott Frank.
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Mare of Easttown
Mare of Easttown is an American crime drama television miniseries created and written by Brad Ingelsby for HBO.
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Miss Firecracker
Miss Firecracker is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Thomas Schlamme.
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My Blueberry Nights
My Blueberry Nights is a 2007 romantic drama film directed by Wong Kar-wai, his first feature in English.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Our Souls at Night
Our Souls at Night is a 2017 American romantic drama film directed by Ritesh Batra and written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber.
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series
This is a list of the winners and nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series.
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
This is a list of the winners and nominations of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
Prometheus (2012 film)
Prometheus is a 2012 science fiction horror film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott, with the screenplay co-written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof.
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Psychological thriller
Psychological thriller is a genre combining the thriller and psychological fiction genres.
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Public Enemies (2009 film)
Public Enemies is a 2009 American biographical crime drama film directed by Michael Mann, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman.
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Romance film
Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters.
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Rounders (film)
Rounders is a 1998 American drama film about the underground world of high-stakes poker, directed by John Dahl and starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton.
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Salt (2010 film)
Salt is a 2010 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer, and starring Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
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Save the Last Dance
Save the Last Dance is a 2001 American dance film produced by MTV Films, directed by Thomas Carter and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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Science fiction film
Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies.
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Scream 4
Scream 4 (stylized as SCRE4M) is a 2011 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson.
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Searching for Bobby Fischer, released in the United Kingdom as Innocent Moves, is a 1993 American drama film written and directed by Steven Zaillian in his directorial debut.
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Shame (2011 film)
Shame is a 2011 British erotic psychological drama film, set in New York, directed by Steve McQueen, co-written by McQueen and Abi Morgan, and starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan as grown siblings.
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Solitary Man (film)
Solitary Man is a 2009 American film co-directed by Brian Koppelman and David Levien.
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Spy film
The spy film, also known as the spy thriller, is a genre of film that deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way (such as the adaptations of John le Carré) or as a basis for fantasy (such as many James Bond films).
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.
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Succession (TV series)
Succession is an American satirical black comedy-drama television series created by Jesse Armstrong that aired for four seasons on HBO from June 3, 2018, to May 28, 2023.
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Sunshine Cleaning
Sunshine Cleaning is a 2008 American comedy-drama film written by Megan Holley and directed by Christine Jeffs.
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Taking Woodstock
Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American historical musical comedy-drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969, directed by Ang Lee.
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The Bourne Ultimatum (film)
The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 action-thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass.
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The Ice Storm (film)
The Ice Storm is a 1997 American drama film directed by Ang Lee, based on Rick Moody's 1994 novel of the same name.
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The Ledge (film)
The Ledge is a 2011 American thriller drama film written and directed by Matthew Chapman, starring Charlie Hunnam, Terrence Howard, Liv Tyler, Christopher Gorham, and Patrick Wilson.
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The Night Of
The Night Of is a 2016 American eight-part crime drama miniseries based on the first season of Criminal Justice, a 2008 British series.
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The OA
The OA is an American mystery drama television series with science fiction, supernatural, and fantasy elements.
The Salvation (film)
The Salvation is a 2014 Danish Western film directed by Kristian Levring and written by Anders Thomas Jensen and Levring.
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The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
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The Skeleton Twins
The Skeleton Twins is a 2014 American comedy drama film directed by Craig Johnson and starring Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig.
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The Super (1991 film)
The Super is a 1991 American comedy film directed by Rod Daniel and starring Joe Pesci as a New York City slum landlord sentenced to live in one of his own buildings until it is brought up to code.
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Thriller film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience.
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Title
A title is one or more words used before or after a person's name, in certain contexts.
Wes Craven
Wesley Earl Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and editor.
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Zathura: A Space Adventure
Zathura: A Space Adventure (also known simply as Zathura) is a 2005 American science fiction action-adventure film directed by Jon Favreau.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avy_Kaufman
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