In 1995, Cuarón released his first feature film produced in the United States, A Little Princess, an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel.

The following year they collaborated on a musical film version of The Little Prince, based on the classic children's tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

He also had been working with Gerard Kenny and Kristi Kane ( libretto ) in London on a musical version of the classic film My Man Godfrey.

A parody or spoof film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films.

A cult film, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following with a specific group of fans.

The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) was a flop on its initial release, yet became a cult classic and has been called " the first cult film of the Internet era.

For example, the Marx Brothers ' classic film Duck Soup, at the climax of the film, the camera shows a shot of Groucho Marx speaking a line, followed by a shot of something else happening, followed by another shot of Groucho.

Their stories include the classic " Mimsy Were the Borogoves " ( the basis for the film The Last Mimzy ) and " Vintage Season ".

In March 2012, Barrymore is set to co-host the twelfth season of The Essentials, a film showcase on Turner Classic Movies which spotlights significant classic films.

The site's consensus states " This classic low budget horror film combines just the right amount of gore and black humor, giving The Evil Dead an equal amount of thrills and laughs.

Sinatra purportedly used pressure from his underworld connections to get the part, an incident that inspired the Johnny Fontane character in the classic 1972 film The Godfather.

The top actors of the era are now thought of as the classic film stars, such as Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Greta Garbo, and the greatest box office draw of the 1930s, child performer Shirley Temple.

In 1933, RKO released Merian C. Cooper's classic " giant monster " film King Kong.

Bogart would star in 36 films between 1934 and 1942 including John Huston's The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), one of the first films now considered a classic film noir.

Most of these classic Soviet movies were produced by Mosfilm and other state-owned film studios.

* Japanese Film Festival ( Singapore ) – An annual curated film program focusing on classic Japanese cinema and new currents, with regular guest directors and actors.

Edeson would subsequently photograph The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), widely regarded as the first major film noir of the classic era.

Its visual intricacy and complex, voiceover-driven narrative structure are echoed in dozens of classic film noirs.

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

No writer's published work provided the basis for more film noirs of the classic period than Woolrich's: thirteen in all, including Black Angel ( 1946 ), Deadline at Dawn ( 1946 ), and Fear in the Night ( 1947 ).

During the classic era, his work, either as author or screenwriter, was the basis for seven films now widely regarded as film noirs, including three of the most famous: High Sierra ( 1941 ), This Gun for Hire ( 1942 ), and The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ).

The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the " classic period " of American film noir.

The Caste system in Sri Lanka is a division of society into strata, influenced by the classic Aryan Varnas of North India and the Dravida Jāti system found in South India.

In 1994, the Columbia Pictures film, North featured footage of Lewis's classic movies.

The icon sits cross-legged in a meditative posture, and the temple has two white towers of the classic North Indian form.

The aerodrome now hosts a bi-annual charity airshow put on in aid of the local Air Ambulance where there are many classic aircraft flying and on display such as the Catalina, Mustang, North American Harvards and the British classic, the Lancaster bomber.

The four-month 1910 North Atlantic expedition headed by Sir John Murray and Johan Hjort was at that time the most ambitious research oceanographic and marine zoological project ever, and led to the classic 1912 book The Depths of the Ocean.

As it is now, considering the existing infrastructure and BC / ABC locations, there are three most attractive routes from the North ( approximately indicated on the Scheme ): Lipkin's rocks route and NE Ridge ; the classic North Face route ; the route via Razdelnaya Peak and the NW Ridge.

— a classic textbook in North America.

In classic motion pictures such as Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, the director created storyboards that were initially thought by cinematographers as to be impossible to film.

Their concert on July 26, 1972 was the final show of their legendary 1972 North American Tour to promote the classic album, " Exile On Main Street.

* Continuum ( computer game ), the North American version of the classic computer game Alpha Waves

For example, while classic biogeographers were able to speculate about the origins of species in the Hawaiian Islands, phylogeography allows them to test theories of relatedness between these populations and putative source populations in Asia and North America.

The Kensico Cemetery is the final resting place of the actress Billie Burke, who played Glinda, the " Good Witch of the North ", in the classic film The Wizard of Oz.

The current structure, built over the period 1980 – 1983, is the first mosque in North America to use classic Islamic architecture.

The game has also become a cult classic and possesses substantial fanbases in both Japan and North America.

The book was a classic tale of adventure, where a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, was captured by a band of nomadic Arabs, and sold into slavery.

The classic BCATP airport consisted of three runways, each typically 2, 500 ft ( 760 m ) in length, arranged in a triangle so that aircraft could always land ( more-or-less ) into the wind — that was critically important at a time when most light training aircraft ( such as the North American Harvard ) were taildraggers, which are difficult to land in strong cross-winds.

* January 12 – Canada's Ken Read, the leader of the " Crazy Canucks " ski team, wins the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbühel, Austria, becoming the first North American to ever win the classic race.

In the late 1950s, Studebaker-Packard was approached by enthusiasts to rebadge the French car maker Facel-Vega's Excellence suicide door, 4-door hardtop as a ' Packard ' for sale in North America, using stock Packard V8s, and identifying trim including red hexagon wheel covers, cormorant hood ornament, and classic vertical ox yoke grille.

The North Ridge of Tryfan in Snowdonia, or Striding Edge on Helvellyn in the Lake District, are classic Grade 1 scrambles.

Goodnight Moon is classic children's literature in North America.

Paul Meartz of Mayville State University called it " a classic text on the current regionalization of North America ".

Other notable writers of the turn of the 20th century include Michael Chabon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ( 2000 ) tells the story of two friends, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, as they rise through the ranks of the comics industry in its heyday ; Denis Johnson, whose 2007 novel Tree of Smoke about falsified intelligence during Vietnam both won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was called by critic Michiko Kakutani " one of the classic works of literature produced by Vietnam War "; and Louise Erdrich, whose 2008 novel The Plague of Doves, a distinctly Faulknerian, polyphonic examination of the tribal experience set against the backdrop of murder in the fictional town of Pluto, North Dakota, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.