A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor
Регина Ильинична Спектор
Birthplace:
Moscow, Russia
Born:
February 18, 1980
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian-American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Spektor was born in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, to a musical Russian-Jewish family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateur violinist. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Soviet college of music and teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York. Spektor has a brother, Boruch (also known as Bear). Growing up in Moscow, Regina started taking piano lessons when she was seven and learned how to play the piano by practicing on a Petrof upright that her grandfather gave her mother. She grew up listening to classical music and famous Russian bards like Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava. Her father, who obtained recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union, also exposed her to rock and roll bands such as the Beatles, Queen, and the Moody Blues.
Art Direction:
2004 The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
Director:
2004 The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
2006 Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories
Lyricist:
2004 The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
2006 Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories
2010 Regina Spektor: Live in London
2017 Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage
Music:
2004 The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
2006 Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories
2010 Regina Spektor: Live in London
2017 Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage
Producer:
2004 The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
2006 Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories
2010 Regina Spektor: Live in London
2017 Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage
Writer:
2004 The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
2006 Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories
2010 Regina Spektor: Live in London
2017 Regina Spektor: Live on Soundstage
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At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.