Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" ¶ 5
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

film and was
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.

film and released
The Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, released in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan.
In 1995, Cuarón released his first feature film produced in the United States, A Little Princess, an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel.
The film will be released in 2013.
In 1977, a film version of A Little Night Music was released, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg, with Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold and Laurence Guittard reprising their Broadway roles.
Two film versions were released in 1973: one directed by Joseph Losey, starring Jane Fonda, David Warner and Trevor Howard ; and the other by Patrick Garland with Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, and Ralph Richardson.
In response, Universal turned the film over to outside film editors who cut Army of Darkness to 81 minutes in length and another version running 87 minutes that was eventually released in theaters, ending up with an R rating as a result.
Knights of the South Bronx, a true story of a teacher who worked with disadvantaged children, is another film also set in the Bronx released in 2005.
The duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.
Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").
After several small, studio and independent released films that included stand-outs Sisters, Phantom Of The Paradise, and Obsession, a small film based on a novel called Carrie was released directed by Brian De Palma.
The film was released on VHS in the U. S. in 1992 by Fox Video and re-released in 1995 under the " Twentieth Century Fox Selections " banner.
The film has yet to be theatrically released.
In 1971 a ballet film was released, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, directed by Reginald Mills.
In 1996, the year after the film was released, the annual three-day " Braveheart Conference " at Stirling Castle attracted fans of Braveheart, increasing the conference's attendance to 167, 000 from 66, 000 in the previous year.
For twenty years Unusual Films emphasized children's films and video production before, in 2011, it released Milltown Pride, a feature-length film set in 1920s Upstate South Carolina.
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.
Making a Living marked his film debut, released 2 February 1914.
The film was Mabel's Strange Predicament, but " The Tramp " character, as it became known, debuted to audiences in Kid Auto Races at Venice — shot later but released two days earlier.
Chaplin was unimpressed with the conditions there, and after making one film ( His New Job, released 1 February 1915 ), moved to the company's small studio in Niles, California.
A Dog's Life, released April 1918, was the first film under the new contract.
The first of the re-releases was The Chaplin Revue ( 1959 ), which included new versions of A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms and The Pilgrim, and How to Make Movies, a film he had made in 1918 to show his new studio and which had never before been released.

film and Aunt
His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Grasses of a Thousand Colors ; he also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre with Andre Gregory, and scripted Vanya on 42nd Street, a film adaptation of Anton Chekov's play Uncle Vanya.
* November 12 – Laura Hope Crews, American stage & film actress ( Aunt PittyPat ) ( b. 1879 )
* December 12 – Laura Hope Crews, American stage and film actress ( Aunt PittyPat ) ( d. 1942 )
In the 1958 film Gigi, Gigi attends a luncheon with her Great Aunt Alicia as part of her instruction in the life of a courtesan.
* In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films, Aunt May was played by Rosemary Harris as a housewife who is widowed by the events of the first film.
* In the 2002 film Spider-Man, Aunt May and Uncle Ben take care of their nephew, Peter Parker.
Later in the film, Peter's powers began to wane because of a subconscious desire to live a normal life, and he decides to give up his costumed persona ; Aunt May makes a speech which encourages him to resume his heroic activities.
In the film, Captain George Stacy tells Peter and Aunt May of new evidence that suggests Carradine was only an accomplice of Flint Marko, who was Uncle Ben's real killer ; Peter then imagines Marko throwing Ben out of the car and gunning him down in cold blood while Carradine desperately tries to stop Marko before driving off.
She starred in the 2011 British live-action 3D family comedy film Horrid Henry: The Movie as the titular character's Great Aunt Greta.
Other notable film appearances included The Green Years ( 1946 ), The Secret Garden ( 1949 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ) and The Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 ) as Aunt Mary Drexel, singing " There Are Those ".
; a repressed schoolmistress in the Clint Eastwood film, The Beguiled ; a charismatic evangelist ( modeled after Aimee Semple McPherson ) in The Day of the Locust ; a nun, Sister Walburga, in Nasty Habits ; and as ' Aunt ' Beverly in Harry's War.
She portrayed Aunt May in the Marvel Comics film The Amazing Spider-Man ( 2012 ), and will play Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's upcoming film Lincoln, written by Tony Kushner.
In 1972, the character appeared as Barry McKenzie's " Aunt Edna " in the film, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie.
In this film, Aunt Em ( Mary Carr ) informs her on her eighteenth birthday that she was left on their doorstep and is really a princess of Oz destined to marry Prince Kynd ( Bryant Washburn ), who has currently lost the throne to Prime Minister Kruel ( Josef Swickard ), in a storyline similar to that of His Majesty the Scarecrow of Oz, only with Dorothy as the love interest.
She is reunited with Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, their three farm workers ( Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, and Cowardly Lion's alter egos ), and Professor Marvel ( The Wizard's alter ego ) when she awakens from being unconscious at the end of this film.
Szubanski portrayed Esme Hoggett in the film Babe and its sequel Babe: Pig in the City, and played the recurring character of Furlow on the television series Farscape as well as Aunt Agatha in Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves.
Harwell made a cameo appearance in the 1994 film Cobb and in the made-for-television movies Aunt Mary ( 1979 ), Tiger Town ( 1983 ), and Cooperstown ( 1993 ).
A memorable role was that of Aunt Sarah in the 1997 film Rosewood.
Billingsley made a cameo appearance in the spin-off film as Aunt Martha.
* 1984: Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie, American comedy film ( Feldwebel Erstarren ).
Bologna replied, " Blame it on me, it's the last time I invite Aunt Pauline to a film premiere.
" This phrase was retained in the film and is followed immediately by Aunt Em's brief appearance in the witch's crystal, where she is soon replaced by the visage of the witch, mocking and taunting Dorothy before turning toward the camera to cackle.
In the film, Cutler plays bus conductor Buster Bloodvessel, who becomes passionately attracted to Ringo Starr's Aunt Jessie.
Gossett has also starred in numerous film productions including A Raisin In The Sun, Skin Game, Travels with My Aunt, The Laughing Policeman, The Deep, Jaws 3-D, Wolfgang Peterson's Enemy Mine, the Iron Eagle series, Toy Soldiers and The Punisher, in an acting career that spans over five decades.

0.597 seconds.