Brooks directed his first feature film, Real Life, in 1979.

Rudolph Grey's book Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr. contains anecdotes regarding the making of this film.

A Dog's Life, released April 1918, was the first film under the new contract.

The first of the re-releases was The Chaplin Revue ( 1959 ), which included new versions of A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms and The Pilgrim, and How to Make Movies, a film he had made in 1918 to show his new studio and which had never before been released.

Another American writer in a similar vein was Thorne Smith, whose works ( such as Topper and The Night Life of the Gods ) were popular and influential, and often adapted for film and television.

* 1978: Dylan: Life and Death of a Poet, a BBC Wales film of Thomas ' final two visits to America ; directed by Richard Lewis.

* 1946 – The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

In addition, Leary has provided voices for characters in animated films, such as a fire-breathing dragon named Flame in the series The Agents, a prehistoric saber-toothed cat named Diego in the Ice Age film series, and the pugnacious ladybug Francis in A Bug's Life.

In 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

* PBS: Life Beyond Earth a film by Timothy Ferris

the Life Without Zoe segment starring his sister Talia Shire, and also co-wrote the film with his daughter Sofia Coppola.

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

Although It's a Wonderful Life is his most well-known film, Friedman notes that it was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ) which most represented the " Capra myth.

Although It's a Wonderful Life and State of the Union were successful shortly after the war ended, Capra's themes were becoming more out of step with changes within the film industry and with the public mood.

Like Hardcore Logo, the 2005 Canadian film The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, about a country rock singer, was also done as a fake documentary with appearances by Kris Kristofferson, Ronnie Hawkins, Merle Haggard and Levon Helm playing themselves.

The Life of Chris Gaines, which was intended as a ' pre-soundtrack ' to the film.

Idle also led the other surviving Python members and Chapman's family and close friends in a rendition of " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " from the film Life of Brian.

Following the breakup of the group, Shearer co-wrote the film Real Life with Albert Brooks and started writing for Martin Mull's television series Fernwood 2 Night.

Shearer started working with Albert Brooks, producing one of Brooks ' albums and co-writing the film Real Life.

In interviews for the 1993 film The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, Riefenstahl adamantly denied any deliberate attempt to create pro-Nazi propaganda and said she was disgusted that Triumph of the Will was used in such a way.

Owned by Vickers, Ltd., the submersible had been rented out to produce The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, a film featuring a dummy Loch Ness Monster.

Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British comedy film written, directed and largely performed by the Monty Python comedy team.

Hildegard has been portrayed on film by Patricia Routledge in a dramatized BBC biographical documentary called " Hildegard Von Bingen In Portrait: Ordo Virtutum.

The film stars Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux and Hildegard Knef.

The film Vision ( 2009 ) chronicles the true tale of Hildegard von Bingen, a nun who stands for another one of von Trotta ’ s strong female protagonists who fights the patriarchal society of the church by foregoing the established rules of conduct and, upon learning one of her fellow sisters is with child, asking for a different area for the nuns to call their own.

In 1937, director Josef von Sternberg attempted a film version of I, Claudius, with Charles Laughton as Claudius.

The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The " original " femme fatale, Marlene Dietrich, in a publicity shot for Josef von Sternberg's melodrama Morocco ( 1930 film ) | Morocco ( 1930 )

The following year in 1927, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures In 1928, director Erich von Stroheim cast Wray as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March, released under Paramount, a film noted for its high budget and production values.

* 1942 – Margarethe von Trotta, German actress and film director

Lang epitomized the stereotype of the tyrannical German film director such as Erich von Stroheim and Otto Preminger ; he was known for being hard to work with.

He also worked on the scripts for Honesty-The Best Policy in 1926 and Joseph von Sternberg's Underworld in 1927, famous for being one of the first gangster film.

Joachim von Ribbentrop has been portrayed by the following actors in film, television and theater productions ;

Dunst stars in Lars von Trier's science-fiction film Melancholia as a depressed woman at the end of the world.

Lars von Trier (; born Lars Trier ; 30 April 1956 ) is a Danish film director and screenwriter.

His peers at the film school nicknamed him " von Trier ".

The film is partly a dark science fiction-tale of a future plague epidemic, and partly chronicles two filmmakers ( played by Lars von Trier and screenwriter Niels Vørsel ) preparing that film, with the two storylines ultimately colliding.

Von Trier's next film, Breaking the Waves ( 1996 ), the first film in von Trier's ' Golden Heart Trilogy ', won the Grand Prix at Cannes and featured Emily Watson, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1998, Lars von Trier also made history by having his company Zentropa be the world's first mainstream film company to produce hardcore pornographic films.

The premise is that Lars von Trier challenges director Jørgen Leth, his friend and mentor, to remake his old experimental film The Perfect Human ( 1967 ) five times, each time with a different ' obstruction ' ( or obstacle ) specified by von Trier.

The U. S. was also the scene for Dear Wendy ( 2005 ), a feature film directed by von Trier's " Dogme-brother " Thomas Vinterberg from a script by von Trier.

In 2006, von Trier released a Danish-language comedy film, The Boss of it All.

It was followed by an autobiographical film, De unge år: Erik Nietzsche sagaen del 1 ( 2007 ), scripted by von Trier but directed by Jacob Thuesen, which tells the story of von Trier's years as a student at the National Film School of Denmark.