Mendes called it " the most satisfying end to journey there could possibly have been ".

Presumably following Herodotus ' description, the occultist Eliphas Levi in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ( 1855 ) called his goat-headed conception of Baphomet the " Baphomet of Mendes ", thus popularizing and perpetuating this incorrect attribution, which has given rise to a flood of spurious connections, such as " The Goat of Mendes " by the blackened death metal band Akercocke.

Lévi called his image " The Goat of Mendes ", presumably following Herodotus ' account that the god of Mendes — the Greek name for Djedet, Egypt — was depicted with a goat's face and legs.

In April 2008, Os Mutantes released their first song in more than 30 years, called " Mutantes Depois ", with new female vocalist Bia Mendes and male vocalist Fabio Recco, available for digital download and online stream.

This movement was called Música Nova ( New Music ) and was led by Gilberto Mendes and Willy Corrêa de Oliveira.

The immediate cause of her embassy was her brother's attempt to get the Portuguese to withdraw the fortress of Ambaca that had been built on his land in 1618 by the Governor Mendes de Vasconcelos, to have some of his subjects ( semi-servile groups called kijiko ( plural ijiko ) in Kimbundu and sometimes called slaves in Portuguese ) who had been taken captive during Governor Mendes de Vasconcelos ' campaigns ( 1617 – 21 ) returned and to persuade the governor to stop the marauding of Imbangala mercenaries in Portuguese service.

From his crisis, Sousa Mendes emerged on June 17, 1940, determined to obey what he called a " divine power " and grant visas to everyone in need, at whatever cost to himself.

Returning to Trinidad Gomes established a literary magazine called The Beacon, the first of its kind in the country and whose contributors included CLR James, Alfred Mendes and Ralph de Boissière.

Broadway called upon Secada once again in 2003, where he played the Emcee role in Sam Mendes ' acclaimed version of Cabaret.

In 1984, the Portuguesa chairman of that time, called Manoel Mendes Gregório, renamed the stadium to Estádio Oswaldo Teixeira Duarte.

** Eva Mendes, American actress

Next he teamed up with American Beauty director Sam Mendes for the adaptation of Max Allan Collins's and Richard Piers Rayner's graphic novel Road to Perdition, in which he played an anti-hero role as a hitman on the run with his son.

American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball.

American Beauty marked acclaimed theater director Mendes ' film debut ; courted after his successful productions of the musicals Oliver!

Mendes is indecisive, saying the script seemed to be about something different each time he read it: " a mystery story, a kaleidoscopic journey through American suburbia, a series of love stories ... it was about imprisonment ... loneliness beauty.

He contends that in American Beautys case it is neither Mendes nor Ball.

Mendes ' song choices " progress through the history of American popular music ".

Mendes came across American Beauty in a pile of eight scripts at Swofford's house, and knew immediately that it was the one he wanted to make ; early in his career, he had been inspired by how the film Paris, Texas ( 1984 ) presented contemporary America as a mythic landscape and he saw the same theme in American Beauty, as well as parallels with his own childhood.

Ball felt that Mendes liked to look under the story's surface, a talent he felt would be a good fit with the themes of American Beauty.

Mendes ' dominating visual style was deliberate and composed, with a minimalist design that provided " a sparse, almost surreal feeling — a bright, crisp, hard edged, near Magritte-like take on American suburbia "; Mendes constantly directed his set dressers to empty the frame.

Mendes was directing Cruise's then-wife Nicole Kidman in the play The Blue Room during pre-production on American Beauty, and had already storyboarded the whole film.

Critically acclaimed, American Beauty was widely considered the best film of 1999 by the American press ; it received overwhelming praise, chiefly for Spacey, Mendes and Ball.

McCarthy believed American Beauty a " stunning card of introduction " for film débutantes Mendes and Ball.

Turan suggested that American Beauty may have benefited from Mendes ' inexperience, as his " anything's possible daring " made him attempt beats that more seasoned directors might have avoided.

In 2005, Premiere named American Beauty as one of 20 " most overrated movies of all time "; Mendes accepted the inevitability of the critical reappraisal, saying, " I thought some of it was entirely justified — it was a little overpraised at the time.

Nancy Willen encouraged DreamWorks to produce a special about the making of American Beauty, to set up displays of the film in the communities ' bookstores, and to arrange a question-and-answer session with Mendes for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

* American Beauty ( film ), a 1999 film starring Kevin Spacey and directed by Sam Mendes

Hall received three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 ), American Beauty ( 1999 ), and Road to Perdition ( 2002 ) ( the last two directed by friend Sam Mendes, who dedicated Road to Perdition to Hall ).

Mendes made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed and box-office success American Beauty, starring Kevin Spacey.

Mendes won a Directors Guild of America Award, a Golden Globe Award, and the Academy Award for directing American Beauty.

Mendes, having recently finished 1999's acclaimed American Beauty, pursued a story that had minimal dialogue and conveyed emotion in the imagery.

Mendes sought a new project after completing American Beauty ( 1999 ), and explored prospects including A Beautiful Mind, K-PAX, The Shipping News, and The Lookout.

Cooper was generally busy in 2005, appearing in three acclaimed films: Jarhead ( which reunited him with American Beauty director Sam Mendes and October Sky actor Jake Gyllenhaal );

In 2000, he starred in To the Green Fields Beyond at the Donmar Warehouse ( directed by Sam Mendes, the man behind American Beauty ).

Mendes was announced as the international face of Australia's 30 Days of Fashion & Beauty event in July 2008.

Revolutionary Road was directed by Sam Mendes ( American Beauty ) and reunites stars from Titanic: the Oscar-winning Kate Winslet and the Oscar-nominated Leonardo DiCaprio, alongside Oscar winner and Titanic co-star Kathy Bates.

The Gnostics represented it as the fiery body of the Holy Spirit ; it was the object of adoration in the secret rites of the Sabbath and the Temple, under the hieroglyphic figure of Baphomet or the Androgyne of Mendes.

Mendes asked Hall to prepare the shot in his absence ; Hall assumed the characters would look for privacy, so he placed them in a narrow passage between a truck and the building, intending to light from the top of the truck.

In the 2005 feature film romantic comedy, Hitch, starring Will Smith, his and Eva Mendes ' characters take a jet ski to the island and explore the building.

Other contemporary British film directors include Paul W. S. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright and Matthew Vaughn.

During editing, Mendes made several changes that gave the film a less cynical tone.

Mendes said that Ricky's staring into Lester's dead eyes is " the culmination of the theme " of the film: that beauty is found where it is least expected.

Beth Swofford of the Creative Artists Agency arranged meetings for Mendes with studio figures in Los Angeles to see if film direction was a possibility.

In June 1998, DreamWorks confirmed that it had contracted Mendes to direct the film.

Mendes did not want a big star " weighing the film down "; he felt Spacey was the right choice based on his performances in the 1995 films The Usual Suspects and Seven, and 1992's Glengarry Glen Ross.

During the film, Lester's physique improves from flabby to toned ; Spacey worked out during filming to improve his body, but because Mendes shot the scenes out of chronological order, Spacey varied postures to portray the stages.

To prepare, Mendes provided Bentley with a video camera, telling the actor to film what Ricky would.

Mendes made sure to establish the line of sight early on in the film to make the audience feel a sense of familiarity with the shot.

Mendes and an assistant edited the film for ten days between the appointments.

Mendes realized during editing that the film was different to the one he had envisioned.

Instead, Mendes was drawn to the emotion and darkness ; he began to use the score and shots he had intended to discard to craft the film along these lines.

Mendes spent more time re-cutting the first ten minutes than the rest of the film taken together.

He trialled several versions of the opening ; the first edit included bookend scenes in which Jane and Ricky are convicted of Lester's murder, but Mendes excised these in the last week of editing because he felt they made the film lose its mystery, and because they did not fit with the theme of redemption that had emerged during production.

Mendes believed the trial drew focus away from the characters and turned the film " into an episode of NYPD Blue ".

He and Mendes argued, but Ball was more accepting after Mendes cut the sequences completely ; Ball felt that without the scenes the film was more optimistic and had evolved into something that " for all its darkness had a really romantic heart ".

Hall was involved for one month during pre-production ; his ideas for lighting the film began with his first reading of the script, and further passes allowed him to refine his approach before meeting Mendes.

" DreamWorks did not want to test screen the film ; according to Mendes, the studio was pleased with it, but he insisted on one where he could question the audience afterward.