Mimi Nguyen says the film " pokes fun at the ultimately repressive gender roles that seek to make Mulan a domesticated creature.

In another scene, the film pokes fun at the Hays Code by showing a woman's bedroom and then showing a woman's shoes on the floor, a man's shoes and horseshoes.

The film pokes fun at suburban environments and their eccentric dwellers.

The overdramatic, stylistic acting is amusing and pokes fun at cliches and stereotypes and thus it has the film play out as an artistic performance piece rather than a standard film.

La muerte de un burócrata () is a 1966 comedy film by Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea in which he pokes fun at the communist bureaucracy and red tape and how it affects the lives of the common people who have to waste time and overcome hurdles just to get on with their ordinary lives.

Besides its homages to and parodies of science fiction mainstays Star Wars, Star Trek, and Alien, this film also pokes fun at western movies.

The film pokes fun at traditional Indian stereotypes, as well as at Bollywood ( the film features several Bollywood-style song-and-dance numbers ).

As a fan of the original film, Accola said she never watched the TV show, but thinks that the Buffy film is a " fun girl-power thing ".

Viz poked fun at the movie, describing it as " shite " in the competition description, and described the runners-up prizes of DVDs of the film as " frankly worthless ", which led to the producers refusing to hand over the prize, for insulting their film.

It was the only film that contained all four of the original Stooges ( the three Howard brothers and Larry ) on screen simultaneously ; Jules White recalled Curly visiting the set one day, and White had him do this bit for fun.

One of these films was My Name is Nobody ( 1973 ) by Tonino Valerii ( though true participation of Leone in shooting is disputed ), a comedy western film that poked fun at the spaghetti western genre.

However, Jack Mathews, in the Los Angeles Times, wrote that the film was " about as much fun as a neighborhood bar on a Tuesday night.

Shaffer had a series of conversations with Hardy, and the two decided that it would be fun to make a horror film centring on " old religion ", in sharp contrast to the popular Hammer films of the day.

The film gave Niven one of his first significant parts, and he wrote that Colbert took a nurturing role towards him and " was the soul of fun and a most generous performer ," although he noted that her insistence that she be filmed only from her left side created difficulties for the cameramen.

Later film roles of note include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians ( 1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination ), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in Second Serve ( 1986 ); Mrs. Wilcox in Howards End ( 1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role ); crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible ( 1996, when discussing the role of Max, DePalma and Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave ; they then decided to go with the real thing ); Oscar Wilde ’ s mother in Wilde ( 1997 ); Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway ( 1997 ); and Dr. Sonia Wick in Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 ).

In his review in The New York Times, Vincent Canby called the film " an uproarious display of brilliance, nerve, dance, maudlin confessions, inside jokes and, especially, ego " and " an essentially funny movie that seeks to operate on too many levels at the same time ... some of it makes you wince, but a lot of it is great fun ... A key to the success of the production is the performance of Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon ... With an actor of less weight and intensity, All That Jazz might have evaporated as we watched it.

The film makes particular fun of the relationship between each detective and his or her sidekick.

He wrote the film a response to the " preaching " he found in other comedies " which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message.

Although the review in the New York Times called the film " the most brilliant picture yet this year " and praised Sturges's mix of escapist fun with underlying significance, the Hollywood Reporter said that it lacked the " down to earth quality and sincerity which made other three pictures a joy to behold " and that " Sturges ... fails to heed the message that writer Sturges proves in his script.

Marshall had been a production manager on Bogdanovich's earlier film, Targets, and they had such fun working together that Bogdanovich had promised him something on his next film.

Allen talked to cinematographer Gordon Willis about how fun it would be to shoot the film in black and white, Panavision aspect ratio ( 2. 35: 1 ) because it would give " a great look at New York City, which is sort of one of the characters in the film ".

" 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 ...

The More the Merrier is a 1943 American comedy film made by Columbia Pictures which makes fun of the housing shortage during World War II, especially in Washington, D. C ..

" Vincent Canby felt the film was " too shapeless to be the fun that Raiders is, but shape may be beside the point.

" Colin Covert of the Star Tribune called the film " sillier, darkly violent and a bit dumbed down, but still great fun.

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

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 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.

In about seven years Griffith either invented or first realized the possibilities of virtually every resource at the disposal of the film maker.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

Schools and community groups turn to the headquarters film library for documentary, art, and experimental films to show at libraries that sponsor local programs, and to organizations in member communities.

The most recent film catalogue, available at each library, lists 110 titles presently in the collection, any of which may be borrowed without charge.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

Also on the bill at the Fifty-fifth Street is a nice ten-minute color film called `` Sunday In Greenwich Village '', a tour of the haunts and joints.

Told strictly from the viewpoint of the Russian conquerors, the film compassionately peers over the shoulders of a smitten Soviet couple, at both sides of the conflict's aftermath.

This French film, set in Italy, is a summertime splurge in shock and terror all shot in lovely sunny scenery -- so breath-taking that at times you almost forget the horrors the movie is dealing with.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

Next were films such as The Winds of the Aures ( 1965 ) of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Patrol To The East ( 1972 ) of Amar Laskri, Prohibited Area of Ahmed Lallem, ( 1972 ), The Opium and the stick of Ahmed Rachedi, or The Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ) which is an Algerian-Italian film selected three times at the Oscars.

The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

Kurosawa's responsibilities increased, and he worked at tasks ranging from stage construction and film development to location scouting, script polishing, rehearsals, lighting, dubbing, editing and second-unit directing.

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

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!

* 1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.

Ambergris is key to the Ian Cameron novel The Lost Ones, from which came the 1974 Disney film, The Island at the Top of the World.

" In the 1998 film Deep Impact fictional astronaut Spurgeon " Fish " Tanner, portrayed by Robert Duvall, was described at a Presidential Press Conference as the " Last man to walk on the moon " by the President of the United States, portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

The 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle, a romantic comedy partially inspired by An Affair to Remember, climaxes with a scene at the Empire State observatory.

The film won all of its nine Oscar nominations, a record at that point in time, and a special Oscar for co-star Maurice Chevalier.

The cartoonist visited John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their 1969 Bed-In for Peace in Montreal, and their testy exchange later appeared in the documentary film Imagine: John Lennon ( 1988 ).

Most of the film took place at night and the filmmakers shot most of the film during the summer when the days were longest and the nights were the shortest.