Thomas Burstyn

Nacimiento : 1954-01-01, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Películas

Los descendientes
Director of Photography
Un reino de hoy en día idílico donde el hijo adolescente benevolente del rey Adam y la reina Bella, Ben, ofrece una oportunidad de redención de los descendientes de los villanos clásicos de Disney: Cruella de Vil (Carlos), Maléfica (Mal), la Reina Malvada (Evie) y Jafar (Jay).
Some Kind of Love
Self / Narrator
Artist and designer Yolanda Sonnabend resides in decaying splendor in the last un-renovated house in a posh suburb of London. Surrounded by fifty years of painting, sculpture, frames, fabric, books, the archeologia and the ephemera of her frenzied imagination, Yolanda says "I'm a prisoner of rubbish". Meanwhile, her older brother has moved in with his grand piano.
Some Kind of Love
Director
Artist and designer Yolanda Sonnabend resides in decaying splendor in the last un-renovated house in a posh suburb of London. Surrounded by fifty years of painting, sculpture, frames, fabric, books, the archeologia and the ephemera of her frenzied imagination, Yolanda says "I'm a prisoner of rubbish". Meanwhile, her older brother has moved in with his grand piano.
Avalon High
Director of Photography
Sigue la historia de Allie, una estudiante de intercambio que ha llegado a "Avalon High", y que curiosamente descubre que sus nuevos compañeros de clase son la reencarnación del Rey Arturo su corte y de los caballeros de la mesa redonda. Adaptación contemporánea de la leyenda del Rey Arturo.
This Way of Life
Director
Peter Karena, his wife Colleen, their six children and many horses live almost wild in the stunning beauty of New Zealand's rugged Ruahine Mountains. Until, that is, Peter's escalating battle with his own father has profound consequences for the whole clan.
Víboras asesinas
Director of Photography
Un grupo de científicos, en un intento de encontrar cura para el cáncer, manipula el ADN de una especie de víbora muy agresiva, haciéndola más letal. La mutación no sólo no acabará ahí, sino que las serpientes serán unos enemigos peligrosos para todo ser vivo que se acerque a ellas. En un intento de robo para hacerse con las víboras mutadas, las serpientes escapan y se convierten en un peligro para los habitantes de la isla de Eden Cove.
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Producer
One man, One cow, One planet exposes globalization and the mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and human disaster. But across India marginal farmers are fighting back. By reviving biodynamics an arcane form of agriculture, they are saving their poisoned lands and exposing the bio-colonialism of multinational corporations. One man, One cow, One planet tells their story through the teachings of an elderly New Zealander many are calling the new Gandhi.
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Director of Photography
One man, One cow, One planet exposes globalization and the mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and human disaster. But across India marginal farmers are fighting back. By reviving biodynamics an arcane form of agriculture, they are saving their poisoned lands and exposing the bio-colonialism of multinational corporations. One man, One cow, One planet tells their story through the teachings of an elderly New Zealander many are calling the new Gandhi.
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Director
One man, One cow, One planet exposes globalization and the mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and human disaster. But across India marginal farmers are fighting back. By reviving biodynamics an arcane form of agriculture, they are saving their poisoned lands and exposing the bio-colonialism of multinational corporations. One man, One cow, One planet tells their story through the teachings of an elderly New Zealander many are calling the new Gandhi.
Marco Polo
Director of Photography
Edad Media, Siglo XIII. El veneciano Marco Polo no sólo fue un brillante explorador, sino que abrió una ruta comercial, que hizo posible el intercambio cultural entre China y Europa. El intrépido veneciano (Ian Somerhalder) viajó a Oriente y consiguió ganarse el favor de Kublai Khan, que lo nombró su consejero. Durante los dieciséis años en que sirvió al Khan, conoció no sólo las vastas regiones de China, sino también los grandes avances de esa civilización. Cuando un embajador persa le pide a Kublai Khan una princesa para su rey, Polo decide acompañarla y aprovecha el viaje para regresar a Venecia.
Ciudad maldita 436
Director of Photography
Rockwell Falls es una ciudad pequeña y apacible, que parece el Paraíso en la Tierra. Pero cuando Steve Kady (Jeremy Sisto), un investigador del gobierno, es enviado allí para averiguar por qué esta pequeña y perdida población siembre tiene el mismo censo, 436 residentes, desde hace 100 años, pronto descubre lo que se esconde realmente bajo una superficie aparentemente perfecta. Atrapado en una red de fervor religioso y tradiciones puritanas de la que nadie ha podido escapar nunca, Kady debe encontrar una salida o se arriesga a perder la vida...
Invasión (Últimos días del planeta)
Director of Photography
Un arqueólogo descubre una extraña estancia en el interior del alcantarillado de Nueva York. Cuando comunica el hallazgo, las autoridades sepultan inmediatamente la excavación impidiendo su acceso. Tan solo una atractiva empleada del Ayuntamiento tiene intención de ayudarle en lo que se ha convertido una persecución contra él. Pronto descubre que su hallazgo está relacionado con un terrible secreto que guarda el comandante de una expedición espacial que desde entonces permanece recluido en un extraño lugar...
Gigantes del basket
Director of Photography
Lamont Carr (Richard T. Jones), un exjugador de baloncesto, entrena a un pequeño equipo de un instituto judío. Con su esperanza, conseguirá que unos pequeños sin apenas probabilidades de ganar consigan lo imposible: ganar la liga infantil.
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Director of Photography
In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.
Lost Junction
Director of Photography
A hitchhiker gets a ride with an oddball woman who has her husband's body in the trunk of the car.
Su ultima oportunidad
Director of Photography
En prisión tras un arresto por drogas y amargada de la vida por una pasado duro, a Joan Thomas (Ellen Burstyn) se le da la oportunidad de probarse a sí misma cuando la hermana Pauline Quinna (Laura Dern), una monja con un trágico pasado, le ofrece integrarse en un programa especial de rehabilitación que consiste en entrenar perros para minusválidos. (FILMAFFINITY)
First Target
Director of Photography
The Secret Service attempts to prevent an elaborately plotted assassination attempt on the President.
Race Against Time
Director of Photography
When a man faces surmounting bills for his dying son's hospital stay, he enters into an agreement to sell his body for organ transplants to pay the bills. However, when he is advised that the doctors want to claim his organs immediately, he goes on the run
Donde esté el dinero
Director of Photography
Henry es un veterano atracador de bancos que finge una parálisis cerebral para que lo trasladen de la cárcel a una residencia de ancianos. La enfermera Carol, que es la encargada de cuidarlo, es una mujer hastiada de su trabajo y de su matrimonio, y el historial de Henry despierta su curiosidad. Incitada por su ansia de emociones fuertes, fuerza a Henry a que le revele su secreto, y éste le ayuda a descubrir en sí misma una capacidad delictiva que desconocía. A partir de ese momento, Carol tienta a Henry para que lleve a cabo un último golpe.
Decisión acertada
Director of Photography
Una mujer de negocios (Seymour) de gran éxito abandona su carrera y se dedica por completo al cuidado del hijo de su hermana fallecida. Su padre natural (Brolin) desconoce su existencia hasta ocho años después. Incitados por un juez, contraen un matrimonio de conveniencia para no trastornar al niño. Poco a poco el amor surgirá entre ambos...
Cuando callan las trompetas
Director of Photography
En las postrimerías de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), el soldado David Manning abandona a su pesar a un compañero mortalmente herido para reunirse con sus compañeros de pelotón. Desgraciadamente, el Capitán Pritchett le comunica que todos han muerto. Manning es ascendido a sargento en contra la opinión del sargento Talbot, que lo considera un cobarde.
Dead Silence
Director of Photography
Después de escapar de una prisión federal de máxima seguridad, tres reclusos secuestran un autobús escolar lleno de colegiales sordos. Un negociador de secuestros del FBI colabora con un agente de policía para liberar a los rehenes y descubre que es el peón de un estremecedor juego de engaños.
Ajuste de cuentas
Director of Photography
Lee Egan, un criminal de poca monta que vive en Los Ángeles, planea atracar una joyería con el fin de empezar una nueva vida. Para dar el golpe pide ayuda a su hermano mayor, el veterano Roy, y recluta a un par de hombres más: Montana y el ambicioso Skip. La operación resulta un éxito, pero Skip, que quiere quedarse con todo el botín, asesina a sus compañeros. Sólo Roy sobrevive.
Crazy Horse
Director of Photography
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.
Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story
Cinematography
True crime story of a Wisconsin teacher's aide who hired teenaged students to murder her estranged husband.
Deadly Love
Director of Photography
Rebecca Barnes is a successful photographer who has it all—including the curse of vampiric immortality. Longing for companionship, Barnes leaves a disastrous trail of blood-less bodies in her wake. Shockingly, photographs that she snapped of one of the victims bring Rebecca into the police investigation and into the arms of Detective Sean O'Connor. As the passion between Sean and Rebecca mounts, so does the evidence against her.
Magia en el agua
Director of Photography
El Dr. Jack Black es un psiquiatra divorciado y con dos hijos. Los tres se marchan de vacaciones al lago de Glenorky, pero una vez allí se pasa el día despreocupado, sin hacer caso a sus hijos y escribiendo un libro. Las leyendas locales dicen que en las aguas del lago habita una extraña criatura a la que llaman Orky, pero en realidad es una patraña creada con la intención de ocultar el vertido de los residuos tóxicos.
Crying Freeman: Los paraísos perdidos
Director of Photography
Freeman pertenece a un culto antiguo de guerreros chinos llamados “Los hijos del dragón”. Él es su verdugo y su único hombre, porque es tal su poder que no necesitan a otro.
The Surgeon
Director of Photography
Dr. Julian Mater is suspended and gets his license revoked for performing experiments on dying patients in cellular regeneration. A couple of years later, he returns to the hospital that condemned his work to begin practicing his grizzly experiments once more.
Andre, una foca en mi casa
Director of Photography
Basada en hechos reales. Andre es una pequeña foca huérfana, recogida en la primavera de 1962 por el capitán del puerto, Harry, un gran amante de los animales. La llegada de Andre alterará no solo la vida familiar de Harry, sino también la del pequeño pueblo pesquero de Rockport.
The Lotus Eaters
Director of Photography
Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns a small town upside down. The soft autumn light of Galiano Island is beautifully rendered in writer/producer Peggy Thompson's The Lotus Eaters, and that's not the only elusive element that this film has captured. In revisiting its particular time and place - the Gulf Islands of the early '60s -Thompson obviously draws on her own family experiences there. For those who share Thompson's love of Gulf Islands magic, the elements she has assembled will feel as familiar as their own childhood blanket. But there are problems at the core of this story about a family's loss of innocence.
Arctic Blue
Director of Photography
Eric Desmond, un comprometido ecologista, se ve accidentalmente envuelto en el traslado de Ben Corbett, un despiadado asesino, desde un pueblo aislado de Alaska, a través de una larga ruta, hasta la civilización; pero el prisionero está decidido a escapar cueste lo que cueste.
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
Director of Photography
A teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption and, 19 years later, when she tries to contact her son, she learns that he died, under questionable circumstances when he was three years old.
Blind Man's Bluff
Director of Photography
A blind professor is accused by the police of killing his neighbor and must clear his name by finding the murderer.
Silent Motive
Director of Photography
Notorious for writing the most successful - and scandalous - scripts in Hollywood, hit screenwriter Laura Bardell suddenly finds herself implicated in a baffling series of film-industry killings. What's worse, the killer is using the same ingenious methods Laura herself employed in her latest movie about a real-life murder case. To her horror, Laura realizes her script is coming to life - and turning her fictional words into homicidal reality.
Operación: Soldados de juguete
Director of Photography
Cuando el narcotraficante Enrique Cali es extraditado, su hijo Luis idea un plan para liberarle. Este, con la ayuda de los componentes de un comando, secuestra a unos adinerados estudiantes en su propia escuela y obliga a las autoridades a soltar a Enrique Cali.
The Perfect Tribute
Director of Photography
A boy risks life and limb to travel across the war-torn southern states of America during the height of hostilities in the Civil War, hoping to visit his wounded brother in a field hospital on the other side of the country. His accidental meeting with Abraham Lincoln helps the disheartened president understand just how important the Gettysburg Address really is.
Golpe frío
Director of Photography
Un convencional relato acerca de la aventura de un agente norteamericano abocado a la lucha contra el narcotráfico y de un agente de la Real Policía Montada del Canadá que emprenden la cacería de un zar del negocio de las drogas. Esta situación degenera en la intrusión de la KGB y la CIA con el consiguiente espionaje y contraespionaje y la instrusión de la ex esposa del agente estadounidense, que se halla cantando en un night club.
The Edge
Director of Photography
Película de intriga que se divide en tres partes y cuyos personajes se enfrentan a hechos peligrosos e inesperados. Una misteriosa figura, "El Vigía", entra en escena, en cada episodio, justamente cuando está a punto de ocurrir algún extraño acontecimiento.
Question of Faith
Director of Photography
A woman struck down by terminal cancer shuns conventional medical techniques at her husband's insistence and turns to alternative treatment to combat the disease.
Foxfire
Director of Photography
Annie Nations and her husband Hector loved their life together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but when Hector dies, Annie has to decide if she can handle the wilderness on her own.
Native Son
Director of Photography
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
El enigma del jaguar gris
Director of Photography
A small town woman, fresh to the city, buys a used Jaguar haunted by the ghost of a woman who was slain in it.
Heavenly Bodies
Director of Photography
A small "Dance-ercize" studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club. The conflict boils down to a "Dance Marathon" to settle the score.
The Lost Tribe
Director of Photography
Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what could have happened, a situation complicated by their city's police suspecting that one of the brothers murdered a local prostitute who was found with a strange tribal charm on her body matching one found in Max's abandoned hut. What most certainly isn't helping matters is the strange behavior of Max's daughter as she seems to have visions beyond possibility, warnings of a supernatural threat and her uncle's fate - and she's the film's narrator, to boot. Edward decides to go to the island to find out exactly what happened, but the deeper he goes into the mystery the more perilous and unknowable his world becomes, leading towards a shocking fate that raises more questions than it answers. (cont. http://view-from-the-paperhouse.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-threat-of-ancient-echoes-lost-tribe.html)
If Brains Were Dynamite, You Wouldn't Have Enough to Blow Your Nose
Director
A documentary about Mark Trent, Montreal artist, who dedicates himself to expressing the horrors of our environment by creating shockingly realistic 'environments' of plastic resin sculpture, which depict mutilations of the human form and human condition After a public scandal over his Toronto exhibition, Trent moved to Europe, and he now works in Berlin.