The DoP makes decisions on lighting and framing of scenes in conjunction with the film's director.

His grandson, Frank Capra III, is a Hollywood director and worked as an assistant director in the 1995 film The American President, which referred to Frank Capra in the film's dialogue.

This time there was no soundtrack album in spite of the importance of music in the film as the film's writer, director and star Tim Robbins was concerned that the politically right wing content would be taken seriously and used by right wing politicians.

Anne Brebner, the film's casting director, was almost cast as Harold's mother when Vivian Pickles was briefly unable to do the role.

Hal Ashby, the film's director, shared certain ideals with the era ’ s youth culture, and in this film he contrasts the doomed outlook of the alienated youth of the time with the hard-won optimism of those who endured the horrors of the early 20th century, contrasting nihilism with purpose.

Their feature film for Paramount Pictures, Easy Come, Easy Go, was canceled when Berry, as well as the film's director and other crew members, were seriously injured in a railroad accident while shooting the movie in Chatsworth, California in August 1965.

She went to the Alps to meet the film's director, Arnold Fanck, hoping to secure the lead in his next project.

The creative use of music videos within their 1964 debut film A Hard Day's Night, particularly the performance of " Can't Buy Me Love ", led MTV decades later to honor the film's director, Richard Lester, with an award for " basically inventing " the music video.

Eric Harrison of the Houston Chronicle noted that Cruz " goes all out " with her appearance and Patrick Peters of Empire magazine commented that the film's director, who also appears in the film, was able to draw a " sensitive performance " from Cruz.

Just as today, a film's success depended upon the setting, the mood, the script, the skills of the director, and the overall talent of the cast.

It also led a film critic to paraphrase the film's title in an attack on the director, saying, " Bring me the head of Sam Peckinpah ".

The band started drifting back together in 1998. and officially re-formed to record a song for the soundtrack of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, at the behest of the film's director ( and Hoffs ' husband ) Jay Roach.

Doug Scott and Ellen Anthony, who played the younger Dahlberg children, were found in Lawrence ( Anthony was the daughter of the film's Kansas casting director Jack Wright ).

Goldwyn and the film's director, William Wyler, offered Leigh the secondary role of Isabella ; but she refused, preferring the role of Cathy, which went to Merle Oberon.

The director also employed Peter Handke, who wrote much of the dialogue, the poetic narrations, and the film's recurring poem " Song of Childhood.

Jinks and Cohen involved Ball throughout the film's development, including casting and director selection.

In 1967, she reunited with director Demy for the musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort with her sister Dorléac — who was killed in a car accident shortly before the film's release.

At the 1999 ceremony Benigni received the award for Best Actor ( the first for a male performer in a non-English-speaking role, and only the third overall acting Oscar for non-English-speaking roles ), the score by Nicola Piovani won Best Original Dramatic Score, and the film was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which Benigni accepted as the film's director.

The film's German director Roland Emmerich said " these were characters I could relate to, and they were engaged in a conflict that had a significant outcome – the creation of the first modern democratic government.

The lead in The Wanters seemed hers, until the film's director objected, finding her " unphotogenic ".

Finally, the film's director complained to Mayer that he could get nothing out of the young actress, and when summoned to Mayer's office, she fully expected the axe to fall: " But to my surprise, Mr. Mayer's manner was paternal.

In 1985, the director claimed Cohn, whom he described as the " Jewish producer ," trimmed the film simply so theaters could have more daily showings and increase the film's chance of turning a profit.

It is accepted by the winning film's director, but is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole.

The rules currently governing the Foreign Language Film category state that " the Academy statuette ( Oscar ) will be awarded to the picture and accepted by the director on behalf of the film's creative talents " ( emphasis added ).

There has been a refocus onto celluloid film's ability to capture an " indexical " image of a moment in time by theorists like Mary Ann Doane, Philip Rosen and Laura Mulvey who was informed by psychoanalysis.

The values which Laura precariously, but ultimately successfully, clings to were widely shared and respected ( if not always observed ) at the time of the film's original setting ( the status of a divorced woman, for example, remained sufficiently scandalous in the UK to cause Edward VIII to abdicate in 1936 ).

Various other script-writers, including Laura Phillips ( who had previously written several episodes of Fraggle Rock ), George Lucas, and Elaine May, subsequently re-wrote and made additions to the screenplay, although Jones received the film's sole screen-writing credit.

" Laura Clifford of website Reeling Reviews wrote that the film's " only real drawback is its failure to inspire awe with its visuals and to thoroughly transport with its storytelling.

Although the film's final image of Laura cast in white indicates that she has ascended to the White Lodge, the meaning behind Cooper's presence alongside her, and indeed, his ultimate fate — if he ever escaped the Black Lodge — is unknown.

Salon Magazine's review found the film " so aggressively stylish that it comes off more like a stunt ", its plot " plodding ", and though Laura Dern's performance made the film " clack along efficiently when she's onscreen ," with the film's " feebly shocking conclusion, we're left feeling heavily sedated, and not in the good way.

Interviewed at the Venice Film Festival, Laura Dern admitted that she didn't know what Inland Empire was about or the role she was playing, but hoped that seeing the film's premiere at the festival would help her " learn more.

Tora !, Richard Fleischer, stated that while Yamamoto may never have said those words, the film's producer, Elmo Williams, had found the line written in Yamamoto's diary.

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Prior to the film's release, executive producer and Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs stated " If Toy Story is a modest hit — say $ 75 million at the box office — we'll and Disney both break even.

However, the film's writers have stated that this does not include Vulcans who were living off planet at the time.

In the film adaptation, his last name was never actually stated on-screen, but it is given in the film's credits as " Prefect.

Paul Newman, the film's star, had also stated his disappointment with the adaptation.

Paul Verhoeven himself and many other people have stated that the reason why the film failed at the box office was because audiences were alienated by the film's misanthropic attitude not only toward its characters and subject matter, but of the general human existence.

Passolini stated that he decided to " remake the Gospel by analogy " and the film's sparse dialogue all comes directly from the Bible.

It is commonly stated that Ó Dálaigh and Cusack picketed the Dublin launch of Disney's Darby O ' Gill and the Little People, for what they felt was the film's stereotyping of Irish people.

The film's concept designer Brian Froud has stated that the character of Jareth was influenced by a diverse range of literary sources.

The director, Neil Jordan, later stated that he changed the scene because showing policemen do the shooting would have made it " too terrifying " for the film's tone.

In the film's introduction, the directors stated, " That it happened is fact.

Among the positive reviews, Kim Newman from the British magazine Sight & Sound stated: " The film's many moments of horror [...] demonstrate just how tidy, conventional and domesticated the generic horror movie of the 1980s and 1990s has become ".

Gibson stated that Scripture and " accepted visions " were the only sources he drew on, and a careful reading of Emmerich's book shows the film's high level of dependence on it.

Raja Sen labelled her role an " ornament throughout ," but further stated that she " comes vividly alive in the film's last scene, a moment that makes you lament why filmmakers today don't let the babyfaced actress have more fun instead of forcing her to sob copiously.

This character was modeled on Goldsmith as stated by the film's director Oliver Stone in the DVD special feature documentary and the director's commentary as Sir Lawrence Wildman is introduced.

Marvin Gleicher, then president of Manga Entertainment, stated that the film's " success has proven to be a landmark time in the history of Manga Entertainment.

" In 1992, Roger Ebert stated that " The film's extended suspense sequences deserve a place among the great stretches of cinema.

Prior to the film's release, Disney stated that it would be their last film in their animated features canon to use traditional animation.

Issa has stated that he is a fan of the long running Kamen Rider Series tokusatsu programs, and has contributed to the soundtracks of Kamen Rider 555 with its opening theme " Justi < span lang =" ja " style =" letter-spacing :-0. 25em "> φ </ span >' s " and its film's theme " Justi < span lang =" ja " style =" letter-spacing :-0. 25em "> φ </ span >' s-Accel Mix -" as well as the theme for the film Kamen Rider The Next, " Chosen Soldier ".

On the film's audio commentary, Smith stated that a longer version of the film would be released within the next year.

In interviews at the time of the film's release, Mancuso, Jr., who was best known for the Friday the 13th franchise, stated a desire to move away from horror films, and wanted to produce a film " about what happens when someone creates a world, becomes defined by it, and then can't escape [...] a film about being trapped by your own creation.

Russ Tamblyn, her co-star in Peyton Place, stated they dated following the film's release.

Caroline Westbrook for BBC News stated that the hype for the documentary was proper " to a certain extent ", because of its serious message, and that, overall, the film's " high comedy factor and over-familiarity of the subject matter render it less powerful than other recent documentaries-but it still makes for enjoyable, thought-provoking viewing.