Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

The cowboy films, the cops and robbers films, and the slapstick comedy films culminating in an insane chase are not only catering to what critics may assume to be a vulgar taste for violence ; ;

these films and these sequences are also seeking out -- instinctively or by design -- the peculiarly cinematic elements of narrative.

There are other good representations of peasants and people of the court by actors who are finely costumed and magnificently photographed in this last of the Russian films to reach this country in the program of joint cultural exchange.

The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

In comedy, several players are emerging in the image of the very popular Rouiched which is illustrated in several films such as Hassan Terro or Hassan Taxi, or actor Hadj Abderrahmane better known under the pseudonym of the Inspector Tahar in 1973 comedy The Holiday of The Inspector Tahar directed by Musa Haddad.

New catalog entries of the remaining 15, 000 American feature films produced between 1974 and present day are incorporated every year.

This education, history, and background are hinted at in the Margaret Rutherford films ( see below ), in which Miss Marple mentions her awards at marksmanship, fencing and equestrianism ( although these hints are played for comedic value ).

The Rutherford films are frequently repeated on television in Germany, and in that country Miss Marple is generally identified with Rutherford's quirky portrayal.

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Toluene and acetone can remove paint films, but they do not lift paint stains very well and are not selective.

Additionally, the rules of " fat over lean " must be employed to ensure the paint films are durable.

Amorphous phases are important constituents of thin films, which are solid layers of a few nm to some tens of µm thickness deposited upon an underlying substrate.

The fossils of the Burgess Shale are preserved as black carbon films on black shales, and so are difficult to photograph ; however, various photographic techniques can improve the quality of the images that can be acquired.

An example of a compostable polymer is PLA film under 20μm thick: films which are thicker than that do not qualify as compostable, even though they are biodegradable.

Because of the subject matter and graphic violence of some of De Palma's films, such as Dressed to Kill, Scarface and Body Double, they are often at the center of controversy with the Motion Picture Association of America, film critics and the viewing public.

Slow sweeping, panning and tracking shots are often used throughout his films.

The first two films in the series are considered horror classics and are credited with spawning the " horror comedy " genre.

Left to right: Sydney Greenstreet and Lorre in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 film ) | The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), the first of nine films together.

After a public battle with drugs, Feldman fought to re-establish his life and career by working with youths, starring in several lesser-known films, and branching out with an album of New Jack Swing music, entitled " Love Left ".

Some of his other films include, The Hills Have Eyes, The Last House on the Left, The Serpent and the Rainbow, The People Under the Stairs, Vampire in Brooklyn, Red Eye, and My Soul to Take.

Arguably the most controversial of all exploitation films was Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left ( 1972 ).

Shaw has also worked in film and television, including My Left Foot, Jane Eyre, Persuasion, Gormenghast, and five of the Harry Potter films in which she played Harry Potter's insufferable aunt Petunia Dursley.

Despite similarities to the French New Wave, films by Varda belonged more precisely to the complementary Rive Gauche ( Left Bank ) cinema movement, along with Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean Cayrol and Henri Colpi.

He made films for major studios Columbia, 20th Century Fox, MGM and Paramount Pictures, including, among others, Raintree County, The Left Hand of God, The Young Lions, a remake of the Marlene Dietrich classic The Blue Angel, and The Carpetbaggers.

The nouveau roman movement in literature was also a strong element of the Left Bank style, with authors contributing to many of the films.

Left Bank films include La Pointe Courte, Hiroshima mon amour, La jetée, Last Year at Marienbad, and Trans-Europ-Express.

The film itself, however, draws from many of Roth's favorite horror films, such as The Evil Dead, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Last House on the Left.

NLFT produced pornographic films of kidnapped tribal men and women at gunpoint in order to finance its activities ( claimed by Left front government and Bengalis ).

Film critic Mark Kermode has opined that it is " deeply, deeply problematic at the very best of times " and is not as interesting as earlier exploitation films such as The Last House on the Left.

The Left Field also runs many films, for example exposing the violence in Colombia.

A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for his films My Left Foot, The Field and In America.

Left the station in October 2003 to produce and act in independent films ( but also to wait out a non-compete with 99X ).

Some of the most successful Irish films included Intermission ( 2001 ), Man About Dog ( 2004 ), Michael Collins ( 1996 ), Angela's Ashes ( 1999 ), My Left Foot ( 1989 ), The Crying Game ( 1992 ), In the Name of the Father ( 1994 ) and The Commitments ( 1991 ).

Grosseto and Maremma have been settings for numerous works of fiction and movies, including the novels and associated films, such as The Easy Life ( 1962 ) with Vittorio Gassman ; La vita agra ( 1964 ), from the novel of the same name by Luciano Bianciardi, with Ugo Tognazzi ; An Ideal Place To Kill ( 1969 ) directed by Umberto Lenzi ; In viaggio con papà ( 1982 ), with Alberto Sordi ; Nothing Left to Do But Cry ( 1984 ), with Massimo Troisi and Roberto Benigni ; It's Happening Tomorrow ( 1988 ); Viola bacia tutti ( 1997 ) with Asia Argento ; The Talented Mr. Ripley with Matt Damon and Jude Law ; Emma sono io ( 2002 ); Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio ; Manuale d ' amore 3 ( 2011 ) with Robert De Niro and Monica Bellucci ; Swiss movie Summer Games, and some Leonardo Pieraccioni's movies.

Even films from outside the genre followed suit: Mondo Trasho, Mondo Weirdo: A Trip to Paranoia Paradise, Mondo Keyhole and Mondo Brutale ( actually a German release of Wes Craven's film The Last House on the Left ) all bill themselves as " mondo ", although none are true mondo documentaries.

Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins cite Doughten's films as being the primary influence for their million selling " Left Behind series " of books and films.

Into the West was one of many acclaimed films to come from Ireland during the 1990s, such as My Left Foot, The Miracle, The Commitments, and The Crying Game.

Today, virtually all films are released in stereophonic sound as 1977's Westrex Stereo Variable-Area system is no more expensive to manufacture than mono ( it employs the same recorder, the Western Electric / Westrex / Nuoptix RA-1231 ), and with Dolby Labs ' matrixing technology ( actually licensed from Sansui ) this S V-A system can produce the Left, Center, Right and Surround sound of 1953's CinemaScope system using a standard width optical track.

The films Primary and Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment ( both produced by Robert Drew ), Harlan County, USA ( directed by Barbara Kopple ), Dont Look Back ( D. A. Pennebaker ), Lonely Boy ( Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor ) are all frequently deemed cinéma vérité films.

She has played Martha Stewart in two television films: Martha, Inc .: The Story of Martha Stewart ( 2003 ) and Martha: Behind Bars ( 2005 ).

Scott's pictures from this period include the 1950 Colt. 45, the 1951 films Fort Worth, Man in the Saddle and Carson City, and the 1952 films Hangman's Knot with Claude Jarman, Jr. and Lee Marvin ( which Scott produced ), Man Behind the Gun, The Stranger Wore a Gun ( filmed in 3-D ), and Thunder Over the Plains.

In the 1970s, Milstead made the transition to theater and appeared in a number of productions, including Women Behind Bars and The Neon Woman, while continuing to star in such films as Polyester ( 1981 ), Lust in the Dust ( 1985 ) and Hairspray ( 1988 ).

Examples are the Behind Enemy Lines series of films.

He played major roles in two later Carry On films, Behind ( 1975 and England ( 1976 ), in the latter as a Sergeant Major.

Behind one wall was a projection booth for evening screenings of films ( often, Hollywood productions that were otherwise banned in Germany ).

Prior to Behind the Green Door, most of the Mitchell Brothers ' 200 or so films had only been shown in their O ' Farrell Theater.

According to Peter Michelson there is, " a relatively small corpus of pornographic films – e. g., Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones, and Behind the Green Door – that have a minimal but still sufficient artistic interest to distinguish themselves from the rest of the genre ", and the film is " more artful than most smut films ".

They opened the O ' Farrell Theatre in 1969 as an adult cinema and at one time operated 11 such businesses ; they produced and directed many adult films, including Behind the Green Door in 1972.

The 2010 documentary, Drew: The Man Behind the Poster, directed by Erik Sharkey, examines Struzan's life and work, and features interviews with filmmakers and actors involved with films for which Struzan has done poster work, including Harrison Ford, George Lucas, Michael J.

Other memorable films include The Rat Pack, Things Behind the Sun, Academy Award for Best Picture winner Crash, Swordfish, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Reign Over Me, Talk to Me, Traitor and Iron Man 2.

He is the author of an autobiography, as well as a volume Sacred Masks: Behind the Mask of the Horror Actor which explores the history of masks in society, and their applications in horror films.

After a few minor films, she played her last starring role in Behind Locked Doors ( 1948 ).

Between 1969 and 1975 she appeared in nine of the films, including Carry On Loving, Carry On at Your Convenience, Carry On Girls and Carry On Behind.

During the 1970s he appeared as a supporting actor in a number of British ' low farce ' films, including one Carry On film-Carry On Behind ( 1975 ).

Her film début was an uncredited part in The Man Behind the Mask ( 1936 ); she was first credited in The Last Adventurers ( 1937 ), and she appeared in 64 films over the next 26 years.