* The 1985 film Fletch is set in part in Provo.

In the 1985 comedy film Fletch, Chevy Chase ( after fainting in an operating room ) asks a nurse, " do you have the Beatles ' White Album?

The creator of the television series " Avatar " is a resident of Highland Park Certain chase sequences of the Chevy Chase film " Fletch " were filmed on Avenue 51 and York Boulevard A scene in " Mi Familia " starring Jimmy Smits has him dancing in the street on Avenue 50 and Granada Avenue.

The film would launch a number of careers, including David Soul ( Starsky & Hutch television series ), Robert Urich ( S. W. A. T., Vega $ and Spencer for Hire ) and Tim Matheson ( films like Animal House ( 1978 ) and Fletch ( 1985 ).

In 1985 The Fixx recorded the song " A Letter to Both Sides " for the soundtrack of the film Fletch.

It followed the story of the film very closely, and developed the character of Fletch the cameraman quite a bit more than in the film, in particular revealing his surname to be " Agronsky.

Fletch is a 1985 comedy film about an investigative newspaper reporter, Irwin M. Fletcher ( Chevy Chase ).

The film opens with a monologue by Fletch about his latest story, dealing with the drug trade on Los Angeles ' beaches.

According to actor Tim Matheson, Fletch was the first film Chase did after cleaning up his drug problem.

Fletch became a cult film.

The film was voted as the 23rd best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years by a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors with two criteria: " The movie had to communicate some inherent truth about the L. A. experience, and only one film per director was allowed on the list " The 2005 animated feature Hoodwinked depicted the Big Bad Wolf ( from Little Red Riding Hood ) as a sarcastic investigative reporter in a direct parody of Fletch, right up to the Lakers shirt, disguises, and a version of Fletch's theme playing during his scenes.

The film is presented in 1. 85: 1 anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5. 1 Surround track and includes the retrospective featurettes, " Just Charge It to the Underhills: Making and Remembering Fletch ," " From John Coctoastan To Harry S. Truman: The Disguises " and " Favorite Fletch Moments ".

The film was followed by a 1989 sequel, Fletch Lives.

During his association with Universal after the production of Mallrats ( this was because Gramercy Pictures was co-owned by Universal ), Kevin Smith expressed interest in doing a third " Fletch " film as a sequel starring Chevy Chase but it never came to fruition.

In June 2000, it was announced that Kevin Smith was set to write and direct a Fletch film at Miramax Films, after the rights to the books, which Universal Studios had owned, reverted.

* The band name is taken from the film Fletch Lives.

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

In the 1985 film „ Out of Africa ” Karen “ Tanja “ Blixen, the character played by Meryl Streep, cites poems by A. E.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

His best known films are La jetée ( 1962 ), A Grin Without a Cat ( 1977 ), Sans Soleil ( 1983 ) and AK ( 1985 ), an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, before Ran itself had been released.

Caligula has been played by Ralph Bates in the 1968 ITV television series The Caesars ; John Hurt in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius ; John McEnery in the 1985 miniseries A. D .; Szabolcs Hajdu in the 1996 film Caligula ; and John Simm in the 2004 miniseries Imperium Nerone.

* The 1980s band LaHost's track on the 1985 EMI compilation album ' Fire in Harmony ' was ' Blood and Roses ' - the lyrics of which are loosely based on the Roger Corman film version of Carmilla.

After appearing in three Broadway plays in 1985, Clarke moved to Los Angeles for several years as a film and television actress.

These were followed by another mainstream success as the vampire-next-door in the teen horror film Fright Night ( 1985 ).

* The Dungeonmaster, a 1985 fantasy film ( IMDb )

Do the Right Thing ( 1989 ), Spike Lee's debut film, and The Color Purple ( 1985 ) were full character studies of African American culture and history.

In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

Bowie had a cameo in Yellowbeard, a 1983 pirate comedy created by Monty Python members, and a small part as Colin, the hitman in the 1985 film Into the Night.

He declined to play the villain Max Zorin in the James Bond film A View to a Kill ( 1985 ).

David Huffman ( 10 May 1945 – 27 February 1985 ) was a character actor with many television, film and stage credits.

* King David ( film ), 1985 biographical film starring Richard Gere

The 1985 film adaptation echoed the form by incorporating into the script some of the novel's letters, which the actors spoke as monologues.

Among the commercial successes for German films of the 1980s were the Otto film series beginning in 1985 starring comedian Otto Waalkes, Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of The NeverEnding Story ( 1984 ), and the internationally successful Das Boot ( 1981 ), which still holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for a German film ( six ).

New directors who appeared in the 80s include actor Jūzō Itami, who directed his first film, The Funeral, in 1984, and achieved critical and box office success with Tampopo in 1985.

Nonetheless, decades later, in Cinéma I and Cinema II ( 1983 – 1985 ), the philosopher Gilles Deleuze took Matter and Memory as the basis of his philosophy of film and revisited Bergson's concepts, combining them with the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce.

* Martin Scorsese's 1985 film After Hours is a re-imagining of The Trial.

Producer Alberto Grimaldi, prepared to buy film rights to all of Castaneda ’ s work, then paid for pre-production research taking Fellini and his entourage from Rome to Los Angeles and the jungles of Mexico in October 1985.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

Next were films such as The Winds of the Aures ( 1965 ) of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Patrol To The East ( 1972 ) of Amar Laskri, Prohibited Area of Ahmed Lallem, ( 1972 ), The Opium and the stick of Ahmed Rachedi, or The Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ) which is an Algerian-Italian film selected three times at the Oscars.

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* Animal ( 1977 film ), French film ( L ' Animal ) by Claude Zidi with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch

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* Atlas ( film ), a 1961 movie by Roger Corman

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

In the last of Kurosawa's films as an assistant director, Horse ( Uma, 1941 ), Kurosawa took over most of the production, as Yamamoto was occupied with the shooting of another film.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!