Thus the films seen as they came in ( coordinated for the regular sections ), were often out of context.

More than the fans of Pagnol's old films and of their heroic star, the great Raimu, were looking askance at the project.

For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929.

Until then, foreign-language films were honored with the Special Achievement Award.

Next were films such as The Winds of the Aures ( 1965 ) of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Patrol To The East ( 1972 ) of Amar Laskri, Prohibited Area of Ahmed Lallem, ( 1972 ), The Opium and the stick of Ahmed Rachedi, or The Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ) which is an Algerian-Italian film selected three times at the Oscars.

These were The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms Some of these films survive in the archives of the British Film Institute.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

So-called structure zone models were developed to describe the micro structure and ceramics of thin films as a function of the homologous temperature T < sub > h </ sub > that is the ratio of deposition temperature over melting temperature.

Her films of the early and mid 1950s were generally lightweight romantic dramas, some historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often in varying states of undress.

Her French-language films were dubbed for international release.

Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.

The 1997 film Mrs. Brown was also based on events at Balmoral, although in both films substitute locations were used: Blairquhan Castle in The Queen ; and Duns Castle in Mrs Brown.

Chaplin finished editing the picture in December 1930, by which time silent films were an anachronism.

A 1922 image of Charlie Chaplin Studios, where all of Chaplin's films between 1918 and 1952 were produced

Due to the lack of a script, all of his silent films were usually shot in sequence.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

Because the film specifically targeted Western audiences rather than the domestic audiences who were already used to Wuxia films, English subtitles were needed.

Slapstick ( The Three Stooges is an excellent example of this kind of comedy ) was popular in the earliest silent films, since they didn't need sound to be effective, and they were popular with non-English speaking audiences.

The comedian Charlie Chaplin was one of the last silent film hold-outs, and his films during the 1930s were devoid of dialogue, although they did employ sound effects.

Among the leading lights in comedy films of the next decade were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks.

Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series, including Dad's Army and On the Buses.

Also popular were the films of John Hughes such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Many cult films were independent films and were not expected by their creators to have mainstream success.

Following two minor heart attacks he had to undergo an emergency quadruple heart bypass in 1983, after which he was extremely weak, but he still managed to attend a 1988 Congressional hearing with old colleagues such as Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers to protest media magnate Ted Turner's plan to colorize various black-and-white films from the 1930s and 1940s.

His films were extremely popular, especially his bravura performances of patter songs and children's favorites such as " Inchworm " and " The Ugly Duckling ".

Such films were extremely rare, and almost entirely restricted to film versions of the life of Christ, which had reached three reels in length in the first few years of cinema.

Bacon decried the decision, commenting: " I don't get it, when I see films ( that ) are extremely violent, extremely objectionable sometimes in terms of the roles that women play, slide by with an R, no problem, because the people happen to have more of their clothes on.

Three of these films, Constance ( 1998 ), Pink Prison ( 1999 ) and the adult / mainstream crossover-feature All About Anna ( 2005 ), were made primarily for a female audience, and were extremely successful in Europe, with the first two being directly responsible for the March 2006 legalizing of pornography in Norway.

Both films are extremely stylized, with the actors playing their parts on a nearly empty soundstage with little but chalk marks on the floor to indicate the sets.

During their administration over Paramount, the studio had an extremely successful period of films with two of Paramount's ten highest grossing films being produced during this period.

Stored for 50 years under the permafrost of the Yukon, the films turned out to be extremely well preserved.

In 1987, enduring fan interest, partially preserved by the first four installments of the Star Trek film franchise from 1979 to 1986, those films ' popularity led to the development of the Star Trek sequel Star Trek: The Next Generation, which became extremely successful, and led to the later sequels Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and finally Star Trek: Enterprise, which ended in 2005.

Bordwell explains that Antonioni's films were extremely influential on subsequent art films: " More than any other director, he encouraged filmmakers to explore elliptical and open-ended narrative ".

Many film score albums go out-of-print after the films finish their theatrical runs and some have become extremely rare collectors ’ items.

" From almost the beginning, Hollywood also got in on the action and produced a number of extremely lurid hippie exploitation films masquerading as cautionary public service announcements, but which were in fact aimed directly at feeding a morbid public appetite while pretending to take a moral stance.

Astaire received a percentage of the films ' profits, something extremely rare in actors ' contracts at that time ; and complete autonomy over how the dances would be presented, allowing him to revolutionize dance on film.

Lean's films in general have always been extremely popular with the general public, with The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and Doctor Zhivago among the highest-grossing films of all time.

Because he knew his actors and technicians so well, Fassbinder was able to complete as many as four or five films per year on extremely low budgets.

Jill Forbes and Sarah Street argue in European Cinema: An Introduction, that Cannes " became ... extremely important for critical and commercial interests and for European attempts to sell films on the basis of their artistic quality " ( page 20 ).

Some of the movies he wrote are extremely well regarded, with Les Enfants du Paradis considered one of the greatest films of all time.

The film departed from the standard Rocky formula on display in the previous four films, which made it extremely unpopular with the audiences that had been drawn to the previous sequels.

As discussed in a DVD interview with Palin and Gilliam, the film came out in the fall season ( after the blockbuster summer films, but before the hit Christmas season ) and became extremely successful at the U. S. box office, making $ 42. 4 million.

He has also appeared in a series of films which were not as critically or commercially successful, such as Boat Trip ( 2002 ), Norbit ( 2007 ), and Daddy Day Camp ( 2007 ), all of which had received extremely negative reviews and, with the exception of Norbit, performed poorly at the box office.