In the late 1920s, Heigo became a benshi ( silent film narrator ) for Tokyo theaters showing foreign films, and quickly made a name for himself.

She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.

He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s.

The film was Mabel's Strange Predicament, but " The Tramp " character, as it became known, debuted to audiences in Kid Auto Races at Venice — shot later but released two days earlier.

Chaplin became fearful that Harris would claim The Kid as part of the divorce proceedings, so packed the 400, 000 feet negative into crates and travelled to Salt Lake City to cut the film in a hotel room.

The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) was a flop on its initial release, yet became a cult classic and has been called " the first cult film of the Internet era.

Although Blade Runner was largely unsuccessful in its first theatrical release, it found a viewership in the home video market and became a cult film.

Marker became known internationally for the short film La jetée ( The Pier ) in 1962.

In addition to R-rated sex comedies and horror films, cheerleaders became a staple of the adult film industry, starting with Debbie Does Dallas ( 1978 ) and its four sequels.

The artistic challenge was resurrected with increasing ambition as art became more and more realistic with the invention of photography, film ( see Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat ), and immersive computer simulations.

" Budgeted at US $ 32 million, the film became a moderate financial success at a worldwide box office total of US $ 40 million.

During the filming of the film, Day became concerned about Hitchcock's lack of direction.

The film eventually became a moderate success.

The song " Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps " was included in the soundtrack of the Australian film Strictly Ballroom, and became a theme song for the British TV show, Coupling, with Mari Wilson performing it for the title sequence.

“ On the Amazon ” from the 1920s musical Mr Cinders was an unusual choice but became an audience favorite in concerts and featured in “ Till Tomorrow ”, a documentary film about McLean produced by Bob Elfstrom.

He became a regular at the Pacific Film Archive, as Tom Luddy, the director of the archive at the time, later remembered: " He was a film noir nut.

Ball and Arden became acquainted when they co-starred together in the film Stage Door in 1937.

Steven Spielberg had previously filmed The Color Purple in Wadesboro, and the large white farmhouse used as an exterior location in that film became the production office for Evil Dead II.

The film introduced George Lucas to him, who became his lifelong friend as well as production assistant in his next film The Rain People in 1969.

The movie became a box-office hit, grossing $ 82, 522, 790 domestically, making it the 15th highest-grossing film of the year.

Some of these used different film widths and projection speeds, but after a few years the 35-mm wide Edison film, and the 16-frames-per-second projection speed of the Lumière Cinématographe became standard.

The reel of film, of maximum length, which usually contained one individual film, became the standard unit of film production and exhibition in this period.

As used by Industrial Electric Inc., the film panels are printed one at a time, as are 24-sheet posters.

Each film consisted of fifty feet, which gives a running time of about one minute on the screen.

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

The physical film is cut with a knife at the end of one complete sequence, and the cut edge is joined physically, by cement, to the cut edge of the beginning of the next sequence.

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.

The episode in which Sancho Panza concludes the joke that is played on him when he is facetiously put in command of an `` island '' is one of the best in the film.

By and large, Robert McEnroe's adaptation of Maurice Walsh's film, `` The Quiet Man '', provides the entertainment it set out to, and we have a lively musical show if not a superlative one.

Currently Algerian cinema is in a phase of restructuring ; the French-wing is taking the lead over the Algerian one, and many film production are written in French rather than Algerian arabic.

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

* In the film and book City of Ember, the principal city is either the last or one of several underground cities used to escape a devastating war.

Since 2005 Alicante has been home to Ciudad de la Luz, one of the largest film studios in Europe.

Two film versions were released in 1973: one directed by Joseph Losey, starring Jane Fonda, David Warner and Trevor Howard ; and the other by Patrick Garland with Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, and Ralph Richardson.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

Although the European film industry was then in its ascendancy, Bardot was one of the few European actresses to have the mass media's attention in the United States, an interest which she did not reciprocate by rarely, if ever, going to Hollywood.

Tarantino said-during interview with De Palma, that Blow Out is one of his all time favourite films, and that after watching Scarface he knew how to make his own film.

Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest centres of film production in the world.

This trade has become renowned as one of the most lopsided in baseball history, including a mention by Susan Sarandon in her opening soliloquy in the 1988 film Bull Durham: " Bad trades are a part of baseball.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley ( according to Goldmine Magazine, Ritter attempted to buy the film rights to Sound and Glory ).

Of all visitors who saw Braveheart, 39 % said the film influenced in part their decision to visit Stirling, and 19 % said the film was one of the main reasons for their visit.

A silent film of one of these early streetcars in Berkeley can be seen at the Library of Congress website: " A Trip To Berkeley, California "

He also includes Ed Wood's claim that one of his films made a profit and surmises that it was most likely Bride of the Monster, but that Wood had oversold the film and could not reimburse the backers.