* Wang the Perverted from the film Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders ( or as he's known for most of the film, " Evil Presence ") was brought back from the dead with many cybernetic body parts including a hand that spontaneously flips the bird due to a malfunction

Instead — much like in his earlier film, Videodrome — he consistently blurred the lines between what appeared to be reality and what appeared to be hallucinations brought on by the main character's drug addiction.

In the hauntingly re-enacted opening portion of the film concerning the background that McNamara and his pro-nuclear-war adversary U. S. General Curtis LeMay had shared together during World War II, director Morris brought out complexities in the character of McNamara, which the public had not previously recognized, but which largely shaped McNamara's positions regarding both the missiles-in-Cuba issue and the Vietnam War issue, and which therefore created the historical figure that McNamara turned out to be as the U. S. Secretary of Defense.

In this documentary, Morris brought to a pinnacle the revolutionary technique that he had first introduced to the world in his 1988 The Thin Blue Line: the use of re-enactments in a documentary film — a technique ( re-enactments ) which had previously been thought to be inappropriate for use in a " documentary " film.

" He brought in Nick Castle, a friend from his film school days at University of Southern California who played " The Shape " in Halloween.

The company that hired Coppola to edit Tonight for Sure brought him back to re-cut a German film titled Mit Eva fing die Sünde an directed by Fritz Umgelter.

Shortly after completion of production Lucas and Coppola brought the finished film to Warner Bros., along with several other scripts for potential projects at American Zoetrope.

However, the availability of a back catalogue of films on video also allowed for a different relationship between the viewer and an individual film, while private TV channels brought new money into the film industry and provided a launch pad from which new talent could later move into film.

Anderson (" Broncho Billy "), directing his own Western dramas for Essanay, but in 1911 Tom Mix brought the kind of costumes and stunt action used in live Wild West shows to Selig film productions, and became the biggest cowboy star for the next two decades.

The vast increase in film production after 1906 inevitably brought specialist writers into film-making as part of the increasing sub-division of labour, but even so the film companies still had to buy stories from outsiders to get enough material for their productions.

The historical drama film Jean de Florette ( 1986 ) and its sequel Manon des Sources ( 1986 ) were among the highest grossing French films in history and brought Daniel Auteuil international recognition.

The anti-communist nature of the film brought about the film's over seven-year ban.

Further pressure was brought on the makers of the film, the Film i Väst film studio, who are partly financed by Swedish local authorities, including Åmål.

In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.

The film also marked the debut of Leslie Caron, who Kelly had spotted in Paris and brought to Hollywood.

Kelly's reasoning behind this was that he felt the kinetic force of live dance often evaporated when brought to film, and he sought to partially overcome this by involving the camera in movement and giving the dancer a greater number of directions in which to move.

Less than expected sales of the album ( more than two million ) and no further developments in the production of the film as a result brought the project to an indefinite hiatus in February 2001 and Gaines quickly faded into obscurity.

The film, accused of fascism, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, tells the story of the U. S. Army run amok in Iraq and brought into check by a Turkish soldier ; Busey plays a Jewish-American Army doctor who harvests fresh organs from injured Iraqi prisoners to sell to rich patients in New York City, London and Tel Aviv.

This horror-of-Armageddon film about zombies blends psychological insights with gore, it moved the genre even further away from the gothic horror trends of earlier eras and brought horror into everyday life.

All About My Mother () is a 1999 Spanish-French drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

Almodóvar dedicates his film " To all actresses who have played actresses.

Additionally, certain culture-bound syndromes such as " ataques de nervios " (" attacks of nerves ") identified in Hispanic populations, and popularized by the Almodóvar film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, exemplify psychiatric phenomena that encompass both somatoform and dissociative symptoms and that have been linked to psychological trauma.

In 2007, she appeared as Huma Rojo in the Old Vic's production of All About My Mother, adapted by Samuel Adamson and based on the film of the same title directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

() is a 1990 Spanish dark romantic comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril.

Almodóvar described the film as a " romantic fairy tale ".

Tie Me Down !, Almodóvar ’ s eighth film, was completed in late 1989.

The projector broke down and in the following press conference Almodóvar, whose films have not been well understood in Germany, was subjected to heavy questioning about his homosexuality, drug abuse, and the Spanishness of his film.

It had twice the audience of the most critically acclaimed Spanish film of that year, Carlos Saura ’ s ¡ Ay Carmela !, a film starring Almodóvar ’ s former muse Carmen Maura.

She was recently portrayed in the Pedro Almodóvar film Bad Education by a male actor in drag ( Gael García Bernal ) as the transsexual character Zahara, and a film clip from one of her movies was used as well.

* Volver ( Spanish for " to return "), a 2006 film directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Other influential film makers with whom he has worked include: Terry Gilliam, Pedro Almodóvar, Alan Clarke, Michael Radford, Michael Caton-Jones, Wayne Wang, Richard Eyre, Christopher Hampton, and Charles Sturridge.

Jaime Humberto Hermosillo ( born January 22, 1942 ) is a Mexican film director, often compared to Spain's Pedro Almodóvar.

In 1980, Alaska appeared as Bom in the Pedro Almodóvar film Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón.

The Movida comprised many art movements ; Pedro Almodóvar became the best known example internationally after his later success as a film director.

Each of the filmmakers in the film bear tattoos of various underground directors ' names, including Kenneth Anger, Sam Peckinpah, David Lynch, Otto Preminger, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Spike Lee, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pedro Almodóvar, and Andy Warhol.

Bad Education () is a 2004 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

High Heels (, meaning " Distant Heels ") is a 1991 melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Marisa Paredes, Victoria Abril and Miguel Bosé.

Almodóvar also complained that Miramax, the distributor of the film in the U. S. A, did not understand the film and had no idea what to do with it.

The film High Heels which Almodóvar eventually made was not the one he had intended to make after the completion of Law of Desire in 1986.

Almodóvar explained that he listened to an enormous number of songs to find those he used in the film.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown () is a farcical 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas.