The Vail Film Festival in Vail, Colorado, is one of the " Top 10 destination film festivals in the world " ( MovieMaker magazine ), screens over 90 films, features mostly new filmmakers and honors Rising Stars, including Jesse Esienberg, Olivia Wilde, and many more.

Life of Brian has regularly been cited as a serious contender for the title " greatest comedy film of all time ", and has been named as such in polls conducted by Total Film magazine in 2000, the British TV network Channel 4 in 2006 and The Guardian newspaper in 2007.

Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.

In the July 2006 issue of Total Film magazine, he stated: " After all the work we go through, to have it run in the cinema and then disappear forever is a great pity.

In a 2005 interview with Total Film magazine, he said that he would not enjoy working on such an expensive project due to interference from studio executives.

** Voted Best Fantasy Film of the Year by readers of the Total Sci-Fi Online magazine.

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555 of the 592 film critics polled by American magazine Film Daily named it the best film of 1942.

Film critic Pauline Kael adopts a more neutral stance, while Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel writes " The nostalgia surrounding Rogers-Astaire tends to bleach out other partners.

In 1994, she posed nude for Playboy magazine and was ranked # 88 on Empire Magazine 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History list in May 1995.

In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Ladykillers the 36th greatest comedy film of all time, and The Guardian labelled it the 5th greatest comedy of all time in 2010.

In 2004, the magazine Total Film named it the 44th greatest British film of all time.

In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the forty-seventh greatest comedy film of all time.

In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Duck Soup the 29th greatest comedy film of all time.

In 2011, ABC aired Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time, revealing the results of a poll of fans conducted by ABC and People magazine: E. T.

Total Film magazine gave the film a five-star review, stating: " Peter Bogdanovich's desolate Texan drama is still as stunning now as it was in 1971.

In 2000, the film was ranked # 44 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 funniest comedies, and Premiere magazine voted it one of " The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time " in 2006.

In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the eighth greatest comedy film of all time.

In 1993, readers of Total Film magazine voted Wayne's World the 41st greatest comedy film of all time.

On its re-release, Total Film magazine gave the film a five-star review, stating: "... nearly 90 years on, Eisenstein ’ s masterpiece is still guaranteed to get the pulse racing.

Film for home cinematography was usually supplied in rolls approximately 30 feet ( 9 m ) long and enclosed in a " charger " or magazine, but spool loading ( 50 ft / 15 m or 100 ft / 30 m ) was also available.

Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms like poetry or novel writing.

Film noir similarly embraces a variety of genres, from the gangster film to the police procedural to the gothic romance to the social problem picture — any example of which from the 1940s and 1950s, now seen as noir's classical era, was likely to be described as a " melodrama " at the time.

Film historian and author William S. Pechter described Capra's style as one " of almost classical purity.

The Cannes Film Festival Ecumenical Jury, which gives prizes for movies that promote spiritual, humanist and universal values, also " honoured " the film with a special " anti-award "; a spokesman for the jury described it as " the most misogynist movie from the self-proclaimed biggest director in the world.

The acclaimed television drama was honored a decade later when the kinescope of the production was selected for showing at the Museum of Modern Art on February 17 – 20, 1963, as part of Television USA: Thirteen Seasons, described by MoMA Film Library curator Richard Griffith as " a grand retrospective of the best that has been done in American television.

Film author Peter Biskind described Kazan's career as " fully committed to art and politics, with the politics feeding the work.

Cannes Film Festival selector Gilles Jacob described Amélie as " uninteresting ", and therefore it was not screened at the festival, although the version he viewed was an early cut without music.

A film, Gower Boy, made by artist Gee Vaucher and musician Huw Warren, described as a " gentle, contemplative exploration of the Gower Peninsula in Wales ", debuted at the 14th Raindance Film Festival in October 2006.

In a review of Rendez-Vous in Film Comment, Armond White described it as " Juliette Binoche's career defining performance ".

Time Out Film Guide described the film as " one of the great melodramas " and " as compulsive and perverse as any election, a veritable Mount Rushmore of emotional and physical cripples, including a surgeon with a penchant for unnecessary amputations, a girl who ' made friends on one side of the tracks and made love on the other '.

The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as " one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda ".

Halliwell's Film Guide described the film as " one of those lucky movies which works out well on all counts and shows that there are still craftsmen lurking in Hollywood.

Eventually in 2012 the film was re-released for the New York Film Festival, and described as a " modern masterpiece " that was " soaking up acclaim ", and whose 1980 cutting was characterized as " one of the greatest injustices of cinematic history ".

In fall 2012 the film was re-released to acclaim ( described as " soaking up acclaim ") as a 216 minute " director's cut " at the Festival Lumiere in France, followed by screening at the New York Film Festival.

Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera described the film as an " absolute masterpiece " that had disappeared, and whose 1980 cutting was characterized as a " massacre " by nervous producers and had been " one of the greatest injustices of cinematic history " that had destroyed careers ( Cimino and Kristofferson ) following " annihilat " critical reviews.

The British Film Institute ( BFI ) has described Year Zero as one of the ten most influential documentary films of the 20th century.

Film critic Leonard Maltin described it as " One of Walt Disney's most charming animated films ".

Both Michael and his sister Bunny were very fond of Renée's family. Coincidentally the British Film Institute's database lists Michael as also having a son, John M. Taylor, who is described as " a producer.

Film critic Roger Ebert described it as a " weird masterpiece, a screw-loose war picture that sends action and humor crashing head-on into each other and spinning off into political anger.

Film critic and author Stephen Farber described her performance as having an " electrifying impact … one of the rare instances of actor and character achieving a miraculous, almost mythical match.

The process is described in the 1982 edition of the " Recommended Procedures " of the Association of Cinema and Video Laboratories, and in the classic text, Film and its techniques.

The series has been described by the British Film Institute as having " created a phenomenon unlike any other British TV programme ", and by The Times newspaper as " quintessential to being British ".

Halliwell's Film Guide described the film as " a surprisingly pleasant variation on the Star Wars boom, with sharp and witty performances from two reliable character actors and some elegant gadgetry to offset the teenage mooning.