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The film was voted as the 9th best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years by a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors with two criteria: " The movie had to communicate some inherent truth about the L. A. experience, and only one film per director was allowed on the list ".
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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In the 2012 Sight and Sound poll, the critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera ( 1929 ) the 8th best film ever made.
A 2008 American Film Institute poll voted Hoosiers the fourth-greatest film of all time in the sports genre.
", spoken by Brian's mother Mandy to the crowd assembled outside her house, has been voted by readers of BOL. com the funniest line in film history.
The film was voted as the eighth best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years, by a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors, with two criteria: " The movie had to communicate some inherent truth about the L. A. experience, and only one film per director was allowed on the list ".
Acclaimed director Michael Haneke named the film his fourth favorite film when he voted for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll ; director Catherine Breillat and film critic Joel David also voted for the film.
The Big Lebowski was voted as the 10th best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years by a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors with two criteria: " The movie had to communicate some inherent truth about the L. A. experience, and only one film per director was allowed on the list ".
Another likely reason The Greatest Show On Earth was voted Best Picture of 1952 was that it was seen as a " last chance " vote for Cecil B. DeMille, to honor him for a lifetime of film making going well back into the silent movie era.
Niven resumed his acting career after his demobilisation, and was voted the second most popular British actor in the 1945 Popularity Poll of British film stars.
Thomson calls it an " outrageous film ," and a survey carried out by the American Film Institute voted it the funniest American film ever made.
film and 9th
It fared much better overseas grossing $ 133, 339, 902 for a total worldwide gross of $ 215, 862, 692, making it the 9th highest grossing film of the year worldwide.
In August 2007, while teaching a four-hour film course during the 9th Cinemanila International Film Festival in Manila, Tarantino cited Filipino directors Cirio Santiago, Eddie Romero, and Gerardo de León as personal icons from the 1970s, citing De Leon's " soul-shattering, life-extinguishing " movies on vampires and female bondage, particularly Women in Cages.
The film was written specifically as a Tracy-Hepburn vehicle ( their 9th film together ) by friends of the couple, Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon.
Acclaimed by directors including Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick ,, Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound " Directors ' Top Directors " poll 2002.
The same year she was honored with the Pride of India award at the 9th Bollywood Movie Awards for her contributions to the film industry.
A box office hit earning over $ 73 million ( making the movie the 9th highest-grossing of 1979 ), The Jerk has been praised as not only one of Steve Martin's best comedic efforts, but also one of the funniest of all motion pictures: In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Jerk the 48th greatest comedy film of all time.
His daughter Natalya Bondarchuk is remembered as a star of Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, while his son Fyodor Bondarchuk ( who starred with him in Boris Godunov ) is a popular Russian film actor and director best known for his box-office champion The 9th Company ( 2005 ).
Similarly, GamePro, placing it 9th in " The 52 Most Important Video Games of All Time ", called it the console killer-app of the 1990s and the best game ever licensed from a film.
Brush's novel Young Man of Manhattan was named the 9th best-selling novel of 1930 by Publishers Weekly and later that year was made into a film starring Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster, and Ginger Rogers.
The film is a highly-fictionalized version of actual events during the last months of World War II when the U. S. 9th Armored Division approached Remagen and found the Ludendorff Bridge still intact.
TITLE: Terrific combat between the " Monitor " 2 guns & " Merrimac " 10 guns The first fight between iron clad ships of war, in Hampton Roads, March 9th 1862, in which the little " Monitor " whipped the " Merrimac " and the whole " school " of Rebel steamers. CALL NUMBER: PGA-Currier & Ives -- Terrific combat ... ( A size ) REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC2-3066 ( color film copy slide ) LC-USZ62-101209 ( b & w film copy neg.
It has never been released on BluRay and there is only one publicly-rentable print of the original 35mm film available, as shown at the Prince Charles Cinema in London on 9th August 2012.
Three years later, his film The Rest Is Silence was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
It is the 9th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, and the fourth package film by Disney.
* National Library of Scotland: Scottish Screen Archive ( 1930s archive film of the 9th Highland Light Infantry on parade and at leisure )
In February 1998, Gomez and his film Illtown were given the Minami Toshiko Award at the 9th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.
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