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 ).

Time magazine writer Richard Corliss was less scathing, but agreed that it was forgettable, saying that people would " forget all about movie by the time they leave the multiplex ," even joking at the end of his review that he had forgotten the film's name.

Filmed on location in the Mexican state of Durango, the film starred James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson in the title roles, with a huge supporting cast including Bob Dylan ( who composed the film's music ), Jason Robards, R. G. Armstrong, Richard Jaeckel, Jack Elam, Chill Wills, Katy Jurado, L. Q. Jones, Slim Pickens and Harry Dean Stanton.

For example, the star motif featured predominantly throughout the movie started with the film's production designer Richard Heinrichs ' design for the bowling alley.

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.

Lawrence's sexual orientation remains a controversial topic amongst historians ; though Bolt's primary source was ostensibly Seven Pillars, the film's portrayal seems informed by Richard Aldington's then-recent Biographical Inquiry ( 1955 ), which posited among other things that Lawrence was homosexual.

* Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert ( ISBN 0-226-18200-2 ) – a collection of essays from his 40 years as a film critic, featuring interviews, profiles, essays, his initial reviews upon a film's release, as well as critical exchanges between the film critics Richard Corliss and Andrew Sarris

" Due to the film's animation, Richard Corliss of TIME claimed that it was "... the year's most inventive comedy.

In 2011, the unedited film was released as a commemorative edition 2-disc DVD set by A Filmed Record, Inc., a non-profit company founded in 2008 by the film's associate producer Richard Kaplan.

* Richard Baskin, the film's musical supervisor, wrote several of the songs performed in the film.

The film's plot can claim a tradition in fiction reaching back to Alexandre Duval's " Shakespeare amoureux ou la Piece a l ' Etude " ( 1804 ), in which Shakespeare falls in love with an actress who is playing Richard III.

Before the film's release, Warner showed a preview cut to U. S. President Richard Nixon, who recommended substantial changes, including the removal of two songs that struck him as veiled criticisms of the ongoing Vietnam War.

Time magazine's Richard Schickel criticized the film's love triangle: " It requires a lot of patience for an audience to sit through the dithering.

Centered on a series of Las Vegas casino robberies, the film's other stars included Angie Dickinson, Cesar Romero, Richard Conte, Akim Tamiroff, Henry Silva, Ilka Chase, Norman Fell, Harry Wilson, and Buddy Lester, as well as cameo appearances by Shirley MacLaine, Red Skelton, and George Raft.

The 1973 BBC documentary Omnibus: The British Hero featured Christopher Cazenove playing a number of such title characters ( e. g. Richard Hannay and Bulldog Drummond ), including James Bond in dramatised scenes from Goldfinger – notably featuring the hero being threatened with the novel's circular saw, rather than the film's laser beam – and Diamonds Are Forever.

The film stars Richard Attenborough ( who was also the film's co-producer ), Kim Stanley, Nanette Newman, Mark Eden and Patrick Magee.

In 2006, he appeared as Zod once again in Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut ( a re-tooled version of the 1980 film which predominantly features footage shot by Donner, the film's original director ).

The film's concept was based on a stage production directed by Richard Eyre for the Royal National Theatre, which also starred McKellen.

Richard Schickel of Time wrote that the film's " desperate sobriety ... robs it of energy and passion "; Allen's " style is Bergmanesque, but his material is Mankiewiczian, and the discontinuity is fatal.

The film also eschewed quoting Richard Markowitz's theme music in Elmer Bernstein's score, except for one brief cue ( Markowitz was not included in the film's music credits ; ironically, this was one area where the film was true to the series ).

Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic see the characters as presented in a more negative light and criticize the film's characters as having racial constructs, with the protagonists using " whitespeak " and the antagonist, Oogie Boogie, using " blackspeak ".

" was featured over the closing credits of the film The Adjustment Bureau in March 2011, along with the new song " Future's Bright ", written and performed specifically for the film's opening by Richard and ten-time Oscar-nominated composer Thomas Newman.

Some of the film's sequences and characters led to director Richard Elfman being accused of racism ( because of its satirically surreal use of blackface ), and even anti-Semitism.

Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, Richard Schickel in Time, Charles Champlin in the Los Angeles Times, Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times, and ' Murf ' in Variety, among others, responded favorably to the film's pathos and ( often campy ) sense of humor.