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An A-level feature all the way, the film's commercial success and seven Oscar nominations made it probably the most influential of the early noirs.
Because large amounts of money are involved, and most of a film's budget is spent during production, the post-production period can often be difficult and challenging.
" Joseph Savitski of Beyond Hollywood said the film's music is " a major detraction ", but added that it's " not only one of the most imaginative films in the series, but also the most enjoyable to watch.
Since the film's success abroad, most Ghost in the Shell media has been translated and released in English-speaking territories, including the anime series, which aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, and the United Kingdom's AnimeCentral.
One of the most controversial scenes was the film's ending: Brian's crucifixion.
Julian Doyle, the film's editor, has written a book The Life of Brian / Jesus, which not only describes the filmmaking and editing process but argues that Monty Python's film is the most accurate Biblical film ever made.
Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, she is a watershed figure in the history of modern celebrity and, as one of silent film's most important performers and producers, her contract demands were central to shaping the Hollywood industry.
Zukor believed film's potential lay in recording theatrical players in replicas of their most famous stage roles and productions.
Rob Bottin provided the film's Academy Award-nominated make-up effects, most notably Curry's red-coloured Satan figure.
By most accounts, the low-budget film shot on location in Arizona was a learning process for Peckinpah, who feuded with Fitzsimons ( brother of the film's star Maureen O ' Hara ) over the screenplay and staging of the scenes.
" The film's reputation has grown over the years as many critics consider Junior Bonner to be one of Peckinpah's most sympathetic works, while also noting McQueen's earnest performance.
Burton repeatedly clashed with the film's producers, Jon Peters and Peter Guber, but the most notable debacle involved casting.
" She said of the Stansfield character, " In this preposterous role, Mr. Oldman expresses most of the film's sadism as well as many of its misguidedly poetic sentiments.
The film's depiction of Lawrence as an active participant in the Tafas Massacre was disputed at the time by historians, including Lawrence's biographer Basil Liddell Hart, but most current biographers accept the film's portrayal of the massacre as reasonably accurate.
The most vehement critic of the film's inaccuracy was Professor A. W.
Take an ounce of narcissism, a pound of exhibitionism, a pint of sadism, a gallon of blood-lust and a sprinkle of other aberrations and stir well .” Lowell Thomas was also critical of the portrayal of Lawrence and most of the film's characters, believing that the train attack scenes were the only reasonably accurate aspect of the film.
Hentzi concluded that American Beauty was " vital but uneven "; he felt the film's examination of " the ways which teenagers and adults imagine each other's lives " was its best point, and that although Lester and Angela's dynamic was familiar, its romantic irony stood beside " the most enduring literary treatments " of the theme, such as Lolita.
" The Hollywood Reporter provided some positive comments, such as, " Sharon Tate emerges as the film's most sympathetic character ... William H. Daniels ' photographic caress of her faultless face and enormous absorbent eyes is stunning.
Metropolis had its premiere at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo movie theater in Berlin on 10 January 1927, where the audience reacted to several of the film's most spectacular scenes with " spontaneous applause ".
" Due to the film's animation, Richard Corliss of TIME claimed that it was "... the year's most inventive comedy.
" In one of the film's most imitated scenes, Paul Henreid lights two cigarettes as he stares into Davis's eyes and passes one to her.
In 1947, the U. S. Treasury named Davis as the highest paid woman in the country, with her share of the film's profit accounting for most of her earnings.

film's and striking
The film's striking cinematography was by Conrad Hall, who went on to win three Academy Awards for his work on the films Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty and Road to Perdition.
The film's reflective last minutes convey the poignant mix of emotions felt by the characters – triumph over striking a successful blow against the enemy's industrial base is greatly tempered by the sobering knowledge that many died in the process of delivering it.
As the film's heist scene bears a striking resemblance to that of the film Rififi, the film is often considered a parody of that film.
The striking similarities between Sedgwick and Susan's life story, especially when recounted by Sedgwick in the midst of drug-induced audio interviews, make the film's candid depiction of excess and celebrity especially haunting.
The film's protagonist, an unconventional ronin played by Toshirō Mifune, bears a striking resemblance to Eastwood's character: both are quiet, gruff, eccentric strangers with a strong but unorthodox sense of justice and extraordinary proficiency with a particular weapon ( in Mifune's case, a katana ; for Eastwood, a revolver ).
According to Gaskill, one of the film's " most striking errors is its total omission of court cases: witches are simply tortured, then hanged from the nearest tree.
The film's striking visual style, with its snow-covered, fairy-tale landscapes, recalls the work of Russian fantasy filmmakers Aleksandr Ptushko and Alexander Rowe.
An Eastmancolor negative was used for principal photography, with vivid SuperCinecolor prints struck for the film's initial release to provide an oddly striking and vivid look to the film's images.
Another blemish was that Soumitra Dasgupta, a writer and close associate of Sarkar alleged that the film's story had a striking resemblance to his parallel work on the novella.

film's and quality
Life Without Zoe was mostly panned by critics and was generally considered the segment that brought the film's overall quality down.
The HK Flix edition is a version of the BFI's Salò DVD, complete with a factory imperfection at the film's 01: 47: 19 mark ; however, its quality is unequal to that of the Gaumont DVD, and, still, it is missing a scene.
Critics later frequently praised both the film's aesthetic quality and its power.
In response, the studio removed much of the film's humor, " humanity " and " quality ," according to Wanger.
And at epic length, the film's poor technical quality wears you out.
Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel attributed the film's success to the positive reaction from critics and audiences towards Rocky II and the production team's " quality control " of that film.
They are also a comment on the addictive quality of television, as the film's audience begins to realize that they are drawn to the clips just as Chance is.
" The film's brooding, dark look was achieved through a chemical process called bleach bypass, wherein the silver in the film stock was not removed, which in turn deepened the dark, shadowy images in the film and increased its overall tonal quality.
Their marvelous contributions in small roles are a measure of the film's quality and of Mr. Scorsese's fully realized talents as one of the best of the new American film-makers.
THEM Anime Review's Carlos Ross commends the film's quality despite having a small budget, saying " The voice-acting is remarkable, the directing is solid, and music is quite competent.
The film's slow pace, dark visuals and occasional surreal imagery give it a dreamlike quality.
Such poor quality is often due to game developers forced to rush the product in order to meet the movie's release date, or due to issues with adapting the original work's plot into an interactive form, such as in the case of the games based on the last two films of the Harry Potter film series, where one reviewer criticised some of the game's missions and side-quests as being unrelated to the film's storyline.
Based on surviving accounts, he purposefully gave the " vampire " character an absurd quality, because it was the film's Scotland Yard detective character ( also played by Chaney ) in a disguise.
When released, it was criticised mainly for the quality of its animation and the similarity of its plotline to the original film's.
Rogers herself credited much of the film's success to Stevens: " He gave us a certain quality, I think, that made it stand out above the others.
The film provided had deteriorated so Wilde had to spend a considerable part of the film's budget to restore the film to an acceptable quality in order to blend into the film.
Stephen Holden from The New York Times commented that the film's editing had " a jazzy, improvisational quality, and the screen is often streaked with jarring psychedelic effects that illustrate Sweetback's alienation.
" In 2005, J. Hoberman of the Village Voice stated that the film "... has long been a cult item -- in part because its talented 25-year-old director, Michael Reeves, died of a drug overdose before the film's release, but mainly because it is an extraordinarily bleak story of political evil ... Reeves shot on location and the movie has a robust autumnal quality perfectly matched by Price's overripe performance ... it remains contemporary, and even frightening, in its evocation of cynical Puritanism and mass deception.
He also composed two of the tunes heard in the background in Plan 9 From Outer Space, although he was embarrassed by the film's poor cinematic quality.
Chris Dashiell on the website CineScene finds the dialogue " run of the mill " but praises the film's director, writing that " Lewis had a remarkable ability to infuse poetry into the most banal material, and The Big Combo is one of his best efforts ... it's not as startlingly inventive as Lewis's best film, Gun Crazy ( 1949 ), but it's a quality B-film, satisfying and dark.
Another version of the story says Groucho, unhappy with the film's quality, intentionally burned the negative after a particularly bad premiere screening.
At the core of the film's quality is a complex, compelling plot.
Roger Westcombe compared the film to classic Westerns: " Yet far from a typical Western's sense of freedom, Border Incident shares with Mann's previous film noir T-Men that film's inky, submerged visual quality.
Notable points made are about the film's unusually intelligent and thought-provoking tone, the quality of the direction and script, the deep characters, the stunning special effects and the film's abnormally dark and violent ending.

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