Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune ( 1984 ), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), which was critically acclaimed.

* In December 2001, the United States ' National Film Preservation Foundation announced that Morris's The Thin Blue Line would be one of the 25 films selected that year for preservation in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress, bringing the total at the time to 325.

This Is Spinal Tap and other mockumentary films of director Christopher Guest are created with a mix of scripted and unscripted material and Blue in the Face is a 1995 comedy directed by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster created in part by the improvisations filmed during the production of their movie Smoke.

MacLachlan is best known for his roles in cult films Blue Velvet as Jeffrey Beaumont, Showgirls as Zack Carey, as Paul Atreides in Dune, and Ray Manzarek in the Oliver Stone film The Doors.

* Paramount retained the rights to several films released between 1948 and 1949, including You Came Along, I Walk Alone, Sorry, Wrong Number, The Accused, Rope of Sand, My Friend Irma, Red, Hot and Blue, Top o ' the Morning, Bride of Vengeance, Samson and Delilah and Dear Wife.

Italian stop motion films include Quaq Quao ( 1978 ), by Francesco Misseri, which was stop motion with origami, The Red and the Blue and the clay animation kittens Mio and Mao.

Voyeurism is a common plot device in both serious ( e. g. Rear Window, Klute, Blue Velvet, Disturbia ) and humorous ( e. g. Porky's, Animal House, Semi-Pro, Gregory's Girl, American Pie ) films.

His films were also nominated at many other very important festivals all around the world: César Awards ( Aguirre, the Wrath of God ), Emmy Awards ( Little Dieter Needs to Fly ), European Film Awards ( My Best Fiend ) and Venice Film Festival ( Scream of Stone and The Wild Blue Yonder ).

Four of his films have been shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival: Wodaabe-Herdsmen of the Sun in 1990, Bells from the Deep in 1993, Lessons of Darkness in 1993, and The Wild Blue Yonder in 2006.

Casta became an established actress, appearing in the films Gainsbourg ( A Heroic Life ), Face and Blue Bicycle, as well as the play Ondine at the theatre Antoine.

Of the films they have done together, the ones that have achieved the most critical and commercial success include: Nikita ( 1990 ), the English-language films The Big Blue ( 1988 ), and Léon: The Professional.

Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.

Shiva's focus on water has seen her appear in a number of related films: " Ganga from the ground up " a documentary on water issues in the river Ganges ,, Blue Gold: World Water Wars by Sam Bozzo, Irena Salina's documentary Flow: For Love of Water ( in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival ) and the PBS NOW documentary On Thin Ice.

Prima's original recordings have also featured in many films, including Mad Dog and Glory, Big Night, Anger Management, Mickey Blue Eyes, The Sopranos, Casino, Swingers, Kicking and Screaming, Elf, Swing Kids, Analyze This and Igor, as well as the game Mafia II.

In 1952 she co-starred as more of a leading role in 3 films: " Apache Country " ( Gene Autry, Pat Buttram ), " The Rough Tough West " ( Jock Mahoney, Smiley Burnette ) and her final film, Autry's " Blue Canadian Rockies ".

Among the films set or shot in the city are Out of the Darkness, Bloodhounds of Broadway, Far from Heaven, and the eponymous 1980 film Union City ( released in conjunction with the song " Union City Blue ").

Sim appeared with Cole in the films Cottage to Let ( 1941 ), The Happiest Days of Your Life ( 1950 ), Scrooge ( 1951 ), Laughter in Paradise ( 1951 ), The Belles of St. Trinian's ( 1954 ), An Inspector Calls ( 1954 ), The Green Man ( 1956 ) and Blue Murder at St. Trinian's ( 1957 ).

His nephew, William Lustig, is a well-known director and producer of horror genre films and the President of Blue Underground, Inc.

Although Gershwin himself spoke of the rhapsody as " a musical kaleidoscope of America ", Rhapsody in Blue has often been interpreted as a musical portrait of New York City ; it is used to this effect in the films Manhattan and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, as well as extensively in this context in a segment from the film Fantasia 2000, in which the piece is used as the lyrical framing for a stylized animation set drawn in the style of famed illustrator Al Hirschfeld, to critical acclaim.

The relative commercial success of this film gave Kieślowski the funding for his ambitious final films, the trilogy Three Colors ( Blue, White, Red ), which explores the virtues symbolized by the French flag.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

This division now owns the rights to a majority of Elvis Presley films made for Paramount Pictures, such as Blue Hawaii and King Creole.

But as well as playing in films with dramatic themes, such as The Blue Lamp, Warner continued to play in comedies such as the successful Huggett family programmes on BBC Radio and films made between 1948 and 1953.

After taking a hiatus from appearing in films, she composed music for a short time, even having her piece “ Aladdin ’ s Lamp " performed by the L. A. Philharmonic in 1937.

Other films from the studio include Dance Hall ( 1950 ) with Petula Clark and Diana Dors ; and The Blue Lamp ( also 1950 ), whose lead character, George Dixon, took his name from Balcon's school, and later resurfaced in the long-running television drama Dixon of Dock Green.

These films include The Third Man ( 1949 ), The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ), Beat the Devil ( 1953 ), The Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 ), The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), Dunkirk ( 1958 ), Web of Evidence ( 1959 ), Whistle Down the Wind ( 1961 ) and The L-Shaped Room ( 1962 ).

Unlike the first two films, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp is more Disney-esque in plot and pacing, and does not make use of the Fleischer Tabletop 3D background process.

) He went on to appear in many more films, including such memorable films as The Blue Lamp, Father Brown, The 39 Steps and I'm All Right Jack.

He featured in films of the time as The Blue Lamp, Train of Events and The Cockleshell Heroes but never played the leads.

In 1952, Lancaster co-produced with producer Harold Hecht ( who had previously produced three Lancaster films under his own production company Norma Productions ; Kiss the Blood Off My Hands ( 1948 ), The Flame and the Arrow ( 1950 ), and Ten Tall Men ( 1951 )).

Samson and Delilah, although pre-1950, has been retained by Paramount, as are all the DeMille / Paramount silent films produced before 1928, and all sound films produced after 1950 — television distribution for those films is handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).

The demise of the " studio system " spurred the self-commentary of films like Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and The Bad and the Beautiful ( 1952 ).

Disney continued making animated films, notably ; Cinderella ( 1950 ), Peter Pan ( 1953 ), Lady and the Tramp ( 1955 ), and Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ).

Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).

During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).

During the classic era, his work, either as author or screenwriter, was the basis for seven films now widely regarded as film noirs, including three of the most famous: High Sierra ( 1941 ), This Gun for Hire ( 1942 ), and The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ).

Capra directed two films at Paramount Pictures starring Bing Crosby, Riding High ( 1950 ) and Here Comes the Groom ( 1951 ).

By the time You Bet Your Life debuted on TV on October 5, 1950, Groucho had grown a real mustache ( which he had already sported earlier in the films Copacabana and Love Happy ).

Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including A Double Life ( 1947 ) starring Ronald Colman, Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), The Marrying Kind ( 1952 ), and It Should Happen to You ( 1954 ), all starring another Cukor favorite, Judy Holliday, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday.

Bogart performed in his final films for Warners, Chain Lightning, released early in 1950, and The Enforcer, released early in 1951.

Cotten's career cooled in the 1950s with a string of less high-profile roles in films such as the dark Civil War Two Flags West ( 1950 ), the Joan Fontaine romance September Affair ( also 1950 ), and the Marilyn Monroe vehicle Niagara ( 1953 ), after James Mason turned down the role.

They began with serious, tight, economical drama films such as Seven Days to Noon ( 1950 ) and Graham Greene's Brighton Rock ( 1947 ), both with Roy producing and John directing.

Lesbians as predators were presented in Rebecca ( 1940 ), women's prison films like Caged ( 1950 ), or in the character Rosa Klebb in From Russia, With Love ( 1963 ).

Rights to some of Paramount's films from 1950 onward would also change hands.

This theme had occasionally been explored in the context of World War Two in such films as The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ) and The Men ( 1950 ).

Hollywood films in the 1950s and 1960s were often inclined towards spectacular heroics or self-sacrifice in films like Sands of Iwo Jima ( 1949 ), Halls of Montezuma ( 1950 ) or D-Day the Sixth of June ( 1956 ).

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