The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.

Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

) The film was called The Diet of Worms, which I felt was just what Letch deserved.

It was a `` potboiler '' made on a `` shoestring '' and not the sort of film I like, as all I had to do was look blank and scream a great deal.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??

This discovery of Melies was vastly more important than his sometimes dazzling, magician's tricks produced on film.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

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.

When arrested, he had the submarine secrets on a roll of candid camera film as well as anti-submarine secrets in Christmas gift wrapping, it was testified.

He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.

And it was interesting to observe that B.B.C.'s television film on Christmas Eve was The Bells Of St. Mary's.

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

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.

The film was harshly criticized in the British press in part because of its connection to Francis Marion, a militia leader in South Carolina known as the " Swamp Fox.

Another significant role in the fall of 1931 saw Karloff play a key supporting part as an unethical newspaper reporter in Five Star Final, a harshly critical film about tabloid journalism which was nominated for an Oscar as Best Picture of 1931-32.

While the film was critically acclaimed, it has been harshly criticized as exploitative by real-life witnesses.

Horner harshly criticised both Yared's score and Yared personally, calling the score " atrocious ", and saying " And it wasn't because Gabriel's not a gifted writer, it's because he just doesn't have any knowledge of writing film scores.

Norris criticized that the film had been leaked beforehand and that Ó Searcaigh had been treated harshly by the media before its broadcast.

To achieve the unique sound he wanted for the film, Manfredini spoke the two words " harshly, distinctly and rhythmically into a microphone " and ran them into an echo reverberation machine.

In its initial release, Ryan's Daughter was harshly received by critics but was a box office success, grossing nearly $ 31 million on a budget of $ 13. 3 million, making the film the eighth highest-grossing picture of 1970.

In a harshly critical review of the volume in The New Republic, film critic David Denby called it " the stupidest book about popular culture that I have read to the end.

Writer and Comics Buyer's Guide columnist Peter David responded to this rationale by pointing out that DePalma himself was criticized harshly by film critics for employing Hitchcock's techniques, and that Liefeld, who has identified himself as a " stickler " for credit, did not credit artists whose work he copied, instances of which exceeded the ten upon which Liefeld insisted.

Some critics leveled a common complaint about the MPAA – that it more harshly rates movies not from the major film studios.

An ongoing piece of symbolism in the first half of the film is the lack of conversation between one miner and his wife, until she finally criticises him harshly for not making a show of resistance against the closure, when he had been so full of fight in 1984.

This delination was given due to the bizarre nature, content, and lack of defined storyline prevalent in his film and because virtually all of his films were harshly criticized by film critics.

This event is presented in Robert Redford's 1994 film Quiz Show, where Derounian is shown harshly criticizing Charles Van Doren, after he admits to cheating on the TV game show Twenty One.

" As his only surviving film of the 1950s, Yangsan Province sheds considerable light on Kim Ki-young's early career .< ref > In an era in which Korean film critics considered realism to be important, the now-lost ending to Yangsan Province, in which two dead lovers ascend to heaven on a beam of light, was harshly criticized.

The film has been compared to the Cinéma vérité films of Jean Rouch, and criticized by its practitioners at the time.

Upon release, the film was criticized for not addressing many current issues of the New Left such as the woman's movement, sexual liberation and worker self-management.

The film was widely criticized and subject to boycotts by anti-racist organizations such as the NAACP.

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.

In particular, the special effects of the film have been heavily criticized.

The New World version of the film was almost universally criticized by North American critics.

Initially, he was criticized for having failed to activate his aircraft ’ s self-destruct charge to destroy the camera, photographic film, and related classified parts of his aircraft before his capture.

However, reviewers criticized the age disparity between Spacey and Darin, noting that Spacey was too old to convincingly portray Darin, particularly during the early stages of the singer's life depicted in the film.

The film is considered the first feature-length documentary, though Flaherty has been criticized for staging several sequences and thereby distorting the reality of his subjects ' lives.

Her on screen chemistry with Alec Baldwin was either criticized or praised, with Eye For Film commenting, " The film works best when Baldwin and Gellar are together – aside from the fact that Gellar seriously needs to eat a bun or two ".

Eisenstein's film, Ivan The Terrible, Part I, presenting Ivan IV of Russia as a national hero, won Joseph Stalin's approval ( and a Stalin Prize ), but the sequel, Ivan The Terrible, Part II was criticized by various authorities and would go unreleased until 1958.

" Dave Kehr, in his review for the Daily News, criticized the film's premise as a " tired idea, and it produces an episodic, unstrung film.

" The Guardian criticized the film as " a bunch of ideas shoveled into a bag and allowed to spill out at random.

Night of the Living Dead was heavily criticized at its release owing to explicit content, but eventually garnered critical acclaim and has been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as a film deemed " culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.

Some feminist writers have criticized the film for portraying Barbra, the chief female character, as catatonic and helpless.

He criticized the casting of Crystal, " Not surprisingly he handles the comedy superbly, but he's too cool and self-protective an actor to work as a romantic leading man ", and felt that as a film, " of wonderful parts, it doesn't quite add up ".

The film, a highly fictionalized account of Wallace's life, was a commercial success and won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, but has been widely criticized by historians for its inaccuracies.

The film is widely considered to be Kazan's answer to those who criticized him for identifying eight ( former ) Communists in the film industry before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) in 1952.

In 2004, bioethicist James Hughes criticized the premise and influence of the film Gattaca, arguing that:

Although a number of critics praised Eastwood's performance as Dirty Harry, such as Jay Cocks of Time magazine who described him as " giving his best performance so far, tense, tough, full of implicit identification with his character ", the film was also widely criticized and accused of being fascistic.

Contemporary biographer Basil Liddell Hart publicly criticized the film, engaging screenwriter Robert Bolt in a lengthy correspondence over the film's portrayal of Lawrence.

Hentzi criticized how the film made a mystery of Lester's murder, believing it manipulative and simply a way of generating suspense.

The New York Times critic Vincent Canby criticized the film but wrote, " The only nice thing is Sharon Tate, a tall, really great-looking girl ".

Super 8 was often erroneously criticized, since the film gates in some cheaper Super 8 cameras were plastic, as was the pressure plate built in to the cartridge ; the standard 8 cameras had a permanent metal film gate that was regarded as more reliable in keeping the film flat and the image in focus.