The less well-known Requiem for a Gringo shows many traces from another well-known Japanese film, Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri.

These include A Clockwork Orange, The Snake Pit, Quantum Leap ( TV series ), Stargate, Frances, Requiem for a Dream, the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey as well as the movie adaptation, Melrose Place, A Beautiful Mind, The Caretaker, The Best of Youth, House ; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Shine, The Beverly Hillbillies ( film ), the film version of Girl, Interrupted, Insanitarium, Changeling, Ciao!

The device has also appeared in the American television series Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Klingon practice of discommendation ; as a threat in Ancient Greek and Persian culture in Frank Miller's 1998 comic book series 300 and its 2007 film adaptation ; and in the 2004 role playing game Vampire the Requiem.

In 1988, the British film director Derek Jarman made a screen adaptation of War Requiem of the same title, with the 1963 recording as the soundtrack, produced by Don Boyd and financed by the BBC.

A film adaptation of Last Exit to Brooklyn, directed by Uli Edel, was made in 1989, while Selby's 1978 novel Requiem for a Dream was made into a film released in 2000.

According to Barth David Schwartz ’ s book Pasolini Requiem ( 1992 ), the impetus for the film took place in 1962.

In 1998, Requiem for My Friend, Preisner's first large scale work not written for film, premiered.

In 1989, Jarman's film War Requiem brought the legendary actor Laurence Olivier out of retirement.

Other notable published works include film scripts ( Up in the Air, Blue, War Requiem, Caravaggio, Queer Edward II and Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script / The Derek Jarman Film ), a study of his garden at Dungeness Derek Jarman's Garden, and At Your Own Risk, a defiant celebration of gay sexuality.

Aronofsky followed his debut with Requiem for a Dream, a film based on Hubert Selby, Jr .' s novel of the same name.

The film will feature Harry Potter's Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins and Jennifer Connelly, who starred in Requiem for a Dream.

While an average 100-minute film has 600 to 700 cuts Requiem features more than 2, 000.

Burstyn has worked consistently in film, television and theatre since, receiving multiple awards and nominations along the way, including seven additional Golden Globe Award nominations, five Emmy Award nominations ( one win ), and two more Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her performances in the films Resurrection ( 1980 ) and Requiem for a Dream ( 2000 ).

She portrayed a murderous film star on an episode of Columbo, called " Requiem for a Fallen Star ".

She also appeared in such films as East of Eden ( also 1955 ), with James Dean ( with whom she became close friends ), Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1962 ), with Paul Newman in the private-detective film Harper ( 1966 ), and Reflections in a Golden Eye ( 1967 ).

He has since played principal and supporting roles in some twenty films including Brad Anderson's Happy Accidents ( with Vincent D ' Onofrio and Marisa Tomei ) and Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream ( with Jennifer Connelly ), the German film Toskana Karrussel ( with Susanna Lothar ) and as a guest actor on network TV dramas.

The climactic scene of the film and the closing credits are accompanied by excerpts from the Agnus Dei of the Requiem in C Minor by Luigi Cherubini.

English composer Clint Mansell's score for Requiem for a Dream has been well received, and its main theme Lux Aeterna has gained wide usage in popular culture and has featured in a number of film trailers.

He first became established under his own name as a composer of vocal and choral music, including An Oxford Requiem ( 1951 ), but later turned to film work, writing the scores for many British comedies of the 1950s.

Because he suffered from late stage prostate cancer during preparations for the film Battle Royale II: Requiem, the film's production was organized so that Fukasaku's son Kenta Fukasaku could take over the film's direction after he died.

The release of Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem ( Il Capitano, 1991 ) became controversial since the film is based upon a true story ; the brutal murder of a Swedish family just a few years earlier ( see Juha Valjakkala ).

In 2009 Temple directed the third film in his punk trilogy, Oil City Confidential, which celebrated the Canvey Island legends Dr. Feelgood, and a hymn to the Motor City entitled Requiem For Detroit?

We would attend a film and, later on, I stated, we might go to the Mayflower Coffee Shop or Child's or Toffenetti's for waffles.

A relative newcomer in outdoor signs is Mylar polyester film, now used as a printed overlay for trans-illuminated signs ( see below ).

The film has an adhesive on the back which permits it to be stripped onto the acrylic panels forming the sign, and also to be stripped off for replacement by new copy as required.

Only George Santayana seemed to understand and appreciate the film when he wrote: `` Miss Poitrine has perpetrated the most eloquent argument for the Protestant faith yet unleashed by Hollywood ''.

The effect, needless to say, is almost terrifying, and though at times a bit obscure, the film is certainly a much-needed catharsis for the `` repressed '' movie-goer.

The first two forces are directly interrelated and depend upon film thickness, whereas Af is independent of these two and is a constant for a given knife/coating combination.

Extruded expandable styrene film or sheet -- claimed to be competitive price-wise with paper -- also showed much potential, particularly for packaging.

Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

Overnight, for one thing, Porter's film multiplied the standard running time of movies by ten.

If, in preparing that shot for the inevitable showing to your friends, you interrupt the sequence to paste in a few frames of the child's grandmother watching this event, you have begun to be an artist in film ; ;

The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.

The simple, naked idea of one man chasing another is of its nature better fitted for the film than it is for any other form of fiction.

There still remained the need for one great film artist to explore the full potential of the new form and to make it an art.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

The game players saw the Air Force film Monday, ran for 30 minutes, then went in, while the reserves scrimmaged for 45 minutes.

Schools and community groups turn to the headquarters film library for documentary, art, and experimental films to show at libraries that sponsor local programs, and to organizations in member communities.

Workshops are conducted by the system's audio-visual consultant for the staffs of member libraries, teaching them the effective use of film as a library service.

But except for a vague adherence to the basic storyline -- i.e., that Ruth remained with Naomi and finally wound up with Boaz -- the film version has little to do with the Bible.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement in art direction on a film.