* Ben Gazzara as Jackie Treehorn, a wealthy pornographer and loan shark, who lives in Malibu, and employs the two thugs who assault The Dude at the beginning of the film.

According to film historian Carl Royer, Romero " employs chiaroscuro ( film noir style ) lighting to emphasize humanity's nightmare alienation from itself ".

The film employs a prologue and epilogue to frame the narrative story.

At the website Metacritic, which employs a normalized rating system, the film earned a favorable rating of 73 / 100 based on 22 reviews by mainstream critics.

Michael Cunningham's 1998 The Hours, which is an homage to Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, makes use of stream of consciousness, while the subsequent film adaptation also employs this narrative device.

With only a few exceptions, astronomical photography employs long exposures since both film and digital imaging devices can accumulate and sum light photons over long periods of time.

Shields employs Bartlow to help him produce the film.

In counterpoint to its volatile subject matter, the film has a restrained visual style and employs a large number of non-professional actors to enhance its realism.

Source Code is a 2011 American science fiction-techno-thriller film directed by Duncan Jones, written by Ben Ripley, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Russell Peters and Jeffrey Wright which employs the concepts of quantum reality and parallel universes.

The movie Forbidden Planet employs many common science fiction elements, but the film carries a profound message-that the evolution of a species toward technological perfection ( in this case exemplified by the disappeared alien civilization called the " Krell ") does not ensure the loss of primitive and dangerous urges.

This type of speaker employs a thin diaphragm ( generally plastic and typically PET film ), with a thin conductive coating, suspended between two screens or perforated metal sheets, referred to as stators.

In the film Mary Poppins, the chimney sweep Bert employs a double negative when he says, " If you don't want to go nowhere ..." Another is used by the bandits in the " Stinking Badges " scene of John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: " Badges?

The film employs a non-linear narrative and follows two men as they try to avenge a brutally raped girlfriend.

Produced under the title The Passionate People Eater, the film employs an original style of humor, combining black comedy with farce and incorporating Jewish humor and elements of spoof.

* Michel Ocelot employs many of the techniques devolved by Reiniger, along with others of his own invention, in his silhouette film Princes et princesses.

The film employs the film noir conventions of monochrome footage, apparently constant night, and the frequent presence of water, such as rain and rivers.

Nutan remains understated through the film, and the director employs irony and symbolism throughout the film to make his statement instead.

* Masahiro Shinoda's celebrated 1969 film, Shinjû: Ten no amijima ( billed in English as Double Suicide ) employs cinematic techniques based on Bunraku conventions and takes its basis in a Chikamatsu play.

" She employs this documentary-realism to focus on individuals of lesser cultural status, challenging prevailing representations of women within the male-dominated Japanese film industry.

When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat ( planographic ) image carrier on which the image to be printed obtains ink from ink rollers, while the non-printing area attracts a water-based film ( called " fountain solution "), keeping the non-printing areas ink-free.

* Procedural animation: traditionally used in non-realtime media ( film / TV / etc ), this technique ( used in the Medal of Honor series starting from European Assault onward ) employs the use of multi-layered physical models in non-playing characters ( bones / muscle / nervous systems ), and deformable scenic elements from " simulated materials " in vehicles, etc.

Kevin Lally of the Film Journal International commented in his review for the film that " in an ironic casting twist, the Spanish actress Penelope Cruz [...] is much more appealing as Josepha in her previous roles.

" Later, during Siskel and Ebert's annual " If We Picked the Winners " program, Gene Siskel gave away the surprise twist of the film while giving his review, which infuriated Ebert.

" The point of the film is to take this façade of movie violence and open it up, get people involved in it so that they are starting to go in the Hollywood television predictable reaction syndrome, and then twist it so that it's not fun anymore, just a wave of sickness in the gut ...

Hawks again named the Nelson / Caan character after a state ( in this case, Mississippi ) and in a wry, humorous twist on the original film, Hawks made him inept with firearms, but skilled with a knife.

An ironic twist was the release of the film just prior to President Clinton's sex scandal and the subsequent bombing of terrorists strongholds in Africa.

The film is a modern sci-punk retelling of the tale of Sleeping Beauty, with a twist.

If it weren't for the smart-funny twist she gives to her lines — they're the best in the film — the air on that bus would have been stifling ... she emerges as a slightly softer version of the Linda Hamilton-Sigourney Weaver heroines: capable, independent, but still irresistibly vulnerable ".

The police procedural film, often with a surprise twist ending, has also remained a vital format with Cruising ( 1980 ), Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Tightrope ( 1984 ), The Dead Pool ( 1988 ), Mortal Thoughts ( 1991 ), Rising Sun ( 1993 ), Striking Distance ( 1993 ), The Usual Suspects ( 1995 ), Lone Star ( 1996 ), Under Suspicion ( 2000 ), Blood Work ( 2002 ), Mindhunters ( 2004 ), and Righteous Kill ( 2008 ).

The adult parody-oriented series Drawn Together features many crossovers ; while some are regular cameos, such as Peter and Lois Griffin from Family Guy, others involve a personality twist, such as the homicidal version of Bambi from the eponymous film or the gay version of Elmer Fudd from the Looney Tunes franchise.

logo on Black Widow's uniform had to be edited out of the teaser material for the film in order to avoid revealing that plot twist.

* The James Bond film Goldfinger features a Gillette twist to open ( TTO ) razor which contains a homing device used by Bond while on board the title character's private jet.

Like other Shyamalan productions, this film had high levels of secrecy surrounding it, needed to protect the expected twist ending that was a known Shyamalan trademark.

Brode sees the film and the ball scene, not as a conservative, but as an incentive to " dance crazes " ( as the twist ) for the American youth of the 1950s and 1960s.

A twist at the end of the horror film Dead of Night ( 1945 ) is an early example of a re-occurring false awakening.

Then, in a bitter twist of irony, he was fired from Soyuzmultfilm in 1985 for working too slowly on his latest film, a ( presumably ) feature-length adaptation of Gogol's Overcoat.

A plot twist is a change in the expected direction or outcome of the plot of a novel, film, television series, comic, video game, or other work of narrative.

Revealing the existence of a plot twist often spoils a film or book, since the majority of the film / book generally builds up to the plot twist.

The Alfred Hitchcock film Marnie employed this type of twist ending.

During filming, Prowse performed the false lines, while the real lines were later spoken by James Earl Jones in post production – the majority of the cast, including Prowse, were not aware of this plot twist until the first screening of the finished film ; at the premiere of the film, Prowse was taken aback, and spoke privately to Kershner later, saying that he ( in Kershner's words ) " would have done it differently " had he known of the twist.

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 other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

The American influence through film has led to the localised adoption of terms such as bronco for the native brumby meaning wild horse, and cowboy for the native drover and stockman for a cattle or sheep herder, though such words are still overtly felt to be " Americanisms ".

An example of a compostable polymer is PLA film under 20μm thick: films which are thicker than that do not qualify as compostable, even though they are biodegradable.

The cast was young and relatively new, though the stars Sissy Spacek and John Travolta had gained considerable attention for previous work in, respectively, film and episodic sitcoms.

The film boasted a larger budget than Carrie, though the consensus view at the time was that De Palma was repeating himself, with diminishing returns.

A film tie-in featuring artwork from the film and a cover version by Ennio Morricone was released in Europe, though the other tracks on the album were soundtracks from A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.

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.

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

* In 1990, Gabrielle Beaumont created a film adaptation for a horror anthology television series Nightmare Classics titled " Carmilla ", which is one of the more faithful adaptations of the story, though the setting was transported to post-Civil War Deep South of the United States.

He is best known in the film industry for his role as Prince Humperdinck in Rob Reiner's 1987 film The Princess Bride, though he also has had supporting parts in some other successful films such as the original Child's Play ( 1988 ).

As a journalist for the BBC, he travelled around the world looking at problems " in out-of-the-way places ," though mostly arguing about whether they could film there.

Parton's soundtrack album from her own 1992 film, Straight Talk, however was less successful, though her 1993 album Slow Dancing with the Moon won critical acclaim, and did well on the charts, reaching No. 4 on the country albums charts, and No. 16 on the Billboard 200 albums charts.

Hal Erickson has written that the film "... is remarkable in its willingness to offer both sides of the conflict -- though its sympathies are firmly with the Loyalists.

" Vincent Canby, in his review for the New York Times, wrote, " film is not to be analyzed too solemnly, though.

Having achieved some of its goals, among them the establishment of state funding for the film industry and renewed international recognition for German films, the New German Cinema had begun to show signs of fatigue by the 1980s, even though many of its proponents continued to enjoy individual success.

The first public motion-picture film presentation in the world, though, belongs to Max and Emil Skladanowsky of Berlin, who projected with their apparatus " Bioscop ", a flickerfree duplex construction, November 1 through 31, 1895.

In 1903 there was a substantial increase in the number of women film several minutes long unclear, as a result of the great popularity of Georges Méliès ’ le Voyage dans la lune ( A Trip to the Moon ), which came out in early 1902, though such films were still a very minor part of production.

By 1910, the French film companies were starting to make films as long as two, or even three reels, though most were still one reel long.

In this film the intertitle " The birth of the evil thought " precedes a series of three shots of the protagonist looking at a spider, and ants eating an insect, though at a later point in the film, when he prepares to kill someone, these shots are cut straight in without explanation.

It was the period when the exhibition of films changed from short programmes of one-reel films to longer shows consisting of a feature film of four reels or longer, though still supported by short films.

The German film industry was seriously weakened by the war, though with the major companies continuing as before.