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.

Christie has also been parodied on screen, such as in the film Murder by Indecision, which featured the character " Agatha Crispy ".

The film featured an all-star cast that included Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, and Kim Novak.

The Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, released in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan.

The song was later featured in the film The Birdcage ( 1996 ) and performed by Robin Williams and Christine Baranski.

This scene has been restored on the " directors cut bootleg edition " DVD and the double disk DVD, which also featured the cinematic version of the film.

* Amicable numbers are featured in the novel The Professor's Beloved Equation by Yoko Ogawa, and in the Japanese film based on it.

The 1989 film UHF featured a " Weird Al " Yankovic parody music video, " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *," combining " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " and Dire Straits ' " Money for Nothing.

It repeated this success in the Australian charts and was also featured in the film, Letter to Brezhnev.

The film was admired by Jean-Luc Godard, who featured a clip in his mammoth Histoire ( s ) du cinéma, and Pauline Kael who championed both The Fury and De Palma.

The December 2002 issue of Gear magazine featured a story about technologies and trends that could violate personal privacy moving society closer to a " Big Brother " state and utilised a recreation of the movie poster from the film version of 1984 created by Dallmeierart. com.

In 1986, the film was featured in the syndicated series, the Canned Film Festival and was later featured on the comedy series, Mystery Science Theater 3000, which also featured other Wood films.

An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen.

* He is prominently featured in the 2008 film The Black Candle, directed by M. K.

* The 2008 film Hellboy 2: The Golden Army featured movements of Capoeira in the fighting sequences with Abraham Sapien.

The chupacabras has been featured in films such as Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico and in independent film productions including: Chupacabra: Dark Seas, starring John Rhys-Davies, Guns of El Chupacabra, starring Scott Shaw, El Chupacabras and Vuelve el Chupacabras.

The film portrayed the team helping out a " troubled teenaged fan " and featured many members of the Indians organization.

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.

Some small sense of the noise and power of a cavalry charge can be gained from the 1970 film Waterloo, which featured some 2000 cavalrymen, some of them cossacks.

The following episode, transmitted Monday 3 November, was videotaped in colour but featured black and white film inserts and title sequence.

The 1982 film Blade Runner featured creatures called replicants, bio-engineered or bio-robotic beings.

The musical was adapted into a 1967 film of the same name, which starred Richard Harris as Arthur, and which featured the Castle of Coca, Segovia as a fittingly opulent Camelot.

Here is a hard-hitting film on Richard Brooks ' novel, The Brick Foxhole whose whodunit aspects are fundamentally incidental to the overall thesis of bigotry and race prejudice ... Director Edward Dmytryk has drawn gripping portraitures.

" Reviewing the negative aspects of the film, Ebony magazine considered such criticisms to be " unadulterated hogwash symptomatic of the unfortunate racial neurosis that seems to be gripping so many of our humorless brethren these days.

Clinical in its probing of the agonies, this is a gripping, fascinating film, expertly produced and directed and performed with marked conviction by Frank Sinatra as the drug slave.

In 1945, Dmytryk and Powell re-teamed to make the film Cornered, a gripping, post-WWII thriller that helped define the film noir style.

A. O. Scott of the New York Times described the film as " a serious, well-observed examination of the practice of journalism ," and " an astute and surprisingly gripping drama.

The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther praised the " gripping suspense, absorbing drama and stinging social comment in this film.

it would seem ) to colonize Earth The development of this situation is scrupulously worked out and the film is genuinely gripping even when ( a real test this ) the Power of Evil is finally shown personified in hazy glowing outline, a spectacle as a rule more likely to provoke titters than gasps of horror .” Paul Errol of the Evening Standard described the film as a “ well-made, but wordy, blob of hokum ”, a view echoed by William Hall of the Evening News who described the film as “ entertaining hokum ” with an “ imaginative ending ”.

" Derek Elley of the entertainment magazine Variety similarly found the film to be an achievement, particularly in how it played with genre conventions, calling the film a " stylized but gripping portrait of mob power play and lifestyles in 1930 Shanghai.

Upon international theatrical release, the film was embraced by critics and those who went to see it, for its darkly humorous and gripping tale on the absurdity of war.

The staff at Variety magazine also gave the film kudos, writing, " Murder, My Sweet, a taut thriller about a private detective enmeshed with a gang of blackmailers, is as smart as it is gripping ... Performances are on a par with the production.

Larry King wrote on the film, " Everything about this tense, taut film is gripping.

Philip French of The Observer called the film " a gripping thriller " " directed by Joel Schumacher at his least mannered " and " produced with uncharacteristic restraint by the leading action movie producer, Jerry Bruckheimer.

Other UK film festival screenings followed at the last Filmstock festival in Luton, attended by Shere Hite who called Cuckoo " gripping from beginning to end ", and at Glasgow Film Festival in February 2010, after which Scottish arts magazine The Skinny wrote that the film was " as tangible a representation of a troubled mind as you are likely to encounter on film ".

TV Guide rated the film 4½ out of five stars, calling it " gripping, adult cinema " and commenting, " Oberon gives one of her best dramatic performances and McCrea is also quite fine.

* Black Robe was praised as a " magnificently staged combination of top talents delivering a gripping and tragic story ", and has been rated one of the most meticulously researched representations of indigenous life put on film.

The Los Angeles Times has called Paul Bishop ‘ the closest equivalent of Joe Wambaugh yet ,’ and stated Hot Pursuit ‘ could hardly be better .’ The New York Times proclaimed him a ‘ first-class writer ,’ and called Deep Water a ‘ lively, bloody adventure .’ Publishers Weekly cited Croaker: Kill Me Again, as ‘ gripping, intense, labyrinthine, complex, and compelling .’ And author Dominick Dunne declared Croaker: Grave Sins to be a ‘ tough, taut, terrific tale !’ Bishop has also written feature film scripts and numerous episodic scripts for television.

Other attractions include a film festival in Tavolara and a vintage car rally.

Some have criticized the obvious stagings in this film as being at odds with Vertov's credos of " life as it is " and " life caught unawares ": the scene of the woman getting out of bed and getting dressed is obviously staged, as is the reversed shot of the chess pieces being pushed off a chess board and the tracking shot which films Mikhail Kaufman riding in a car filming a third car.

A real Il tempo gigante car was used to promote the film, e. g. driving around the Hockenheimring between races.

Fleming went on to impress Dwan by quickly fixing both his car and a faulty film camera and by 1916 had worked his way up to the position of cinematographer.

For his next film, Hawks wanted to make a film about his childhood passion: car racing.

In the film, Cagney plays a race car driver who tries to " protect " his younger brother Linden, who is also a driver, from being distracted by his girlfriend, Blondell.

Hawks used real race car drivers in the film, including the 1930 Indianapolis 500 winner Billy Arnold.

Hawks then returned to his childhood passion for car races with Red Line 7000 in 1965. the film starred a young James Caan in his first leading role.

However, his next film, 1998's Ronin, starring Robert De Niro, was a return to form, featuring Frankenheimer's now trademark elaborate car chases woven into a labyrinthine espionage plot.

Richard Corliss of TIME likened Footloose to the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and the old Mickey Rooney / Judy Garland musicals, commenting that the film includes " motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement, and Bible Belt vigilantism.

) Mel Brooks directed a Keystone Cops-type car chase in his comedy film Silent Movie.

Tarantino then went on to be credited as " Special Guest Director " in Robert Rodriguez's 2005 neo-noir film Sin City for his work directing the car sequence featuring Clive Owen and Benicio del Toro.

An influential arena for the great split screen movies of the 1960s were two world's fairs-the 1964 New York World's Fair, where Ray and Charles Eames had a 17-screen film they created for IBM's " Think " Pavilion ( it included sections with race car driving ) and the 3-division film To Be Alive, by Francis Thompson, which won the Academy Award that year for Best Short.

Replete with explosions, car chases and intense shootouts, the film became Peckinpah's biggest financial success to date earning more than $ 25 million at the box office.

As in the film, Exline's car was impounded by the Los Angeles Police Department and Abernathy found an 8th grader's homework under the passenger seat.

* In the book ( and later the film ) The Time Traveler's Wife, the main character's mother is killed in a car crash while he is young.

This film takes up Patton's story following his transfer to assume command of the 15th Army, through to the car crash and his death on the December 21, 1945.

The police whistle was used to great comic effect in the 1962 film On The Beat, where Norman Wisdom plays a car park attendant dreaming of wanting to become a policeman, like his dad.

Not all spy films fall in the action genre, only those showcasing heavy action such as frequent shootouts and car chases fall in action, spy films with lesser action would be in the thriller genre ( see the spy entry in the subgenres of thriller film ).

Weir's first full-length feature film was the underground cult classic, The Cars That Ate Paris ( 1975 ), a low-budget black comedy about the inhabitants of a small country town who deliberately cause fatal car crashes and live off the proceeds.

In the 2002 film The Time Machine, this scenario is shown where the main character builds a time machine to save his fiance from being killed by a mugger, only for her to die in a car crash instead ; as he learns from a trip to the future, he cannot save her with the machine or he would never have been inspired to build the machine so that he could go back and save her in the first place.

* Suckers ( film ), a 1999 film revolving around illegal and unethical events at a car dealership