Such items recall the California journalist who reported an accident involving a movie star: `` The area in which Miss N -- was injured is spectacularly scenic ''.

In American romance, almost nothing rates higher than what the movie men have called `` meeting cute '' -- that is, boy-meets-girl seems more adorable if it doesn't take place in an atmosphere of correct and acute boredom.

Physically, a movie is possible because a series of images is projected one at a time at such a speed that the eye `` remembers '' the one that has gone before even as it registers the one now appearing.

This French film, set in Italy, is a summertime splurge in shock and terror all shot in lovely sunny scenery -- so breath-taking that at times you almost forget the horrors the movie is dealing with.

The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.

The title of the 2003 movie 21 Grams is a reference to MacDougall's findings.

The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

* In the science fiction movie series The Matrix, the last human city, known as Zion, is a hyperstructure.

In this movie a young female music student hired by Beethoven to copy out his Ninth Symphony is staying at a monastery.

The movie is also credited as one of the events that inspired the formation of the " second era " Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia in the same year.

Also, in recent interviews, Judge claims that he is interested in producing a live-action movie.

" However, he also added, " Another movie ... the problem is it takes a year and half, two years, two and a half years — maybe — to do that right.

The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No. 6 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs list.

Living on Mars, Deckard is acting as a consultant to a movie crew filming the story of his Blade Runner days.

* Sebastian was stated as being dead in the movie, yet he is alive in The Edge of Human.

The film's depiction of the Battle of Stirling Bridge is often considered one of the best movie battles in cinema history.

* The symbol for " movie theater " is composed of the symbols for " house " and " film "; " film " in turn is composed of " camera " and the arrow.

* In the movie Wag the Dog, the fictitious unit 303 Special Forces has a song created titled " The Men of the 303 " that is played to a deliberately similar but original tune written by Huey Lewis for the film.

In a storyline that begins prior to the timeline of the movie, Jade Fox is denied entry to the Wudang monastery because she is a woman.

This factor is a natural outcome of Hollywood script development which wishes to highlight one or two major characters which can be played by major stars, and thus a good way of marketing the movie is established but that rings false upon examination.

* Jean-Luc Godard, in his film Sympathy for the Devil, used a crane for almost every shot in the movie, giving each scene a 360 degree tour of the tableau Godard presented to the viewer.

A renderer can simulate an almost infinite range of light brightness and color, but current displays — movie screen, computer monitor, etc.

Though modestly budgeted, at the high end of the B movie scale, Stranger on the Third Floor still lost its studio, RKO, $ 56, 000, almost a third of its total cost.

Some scenes of the 1987 Wim Wenders movie Der Himmel über Berlin ( English title: Wings of Desire ) were filmed on the old, almost entirely void Potsdamer Platz before the Berlin Wall fell.

Due to its success, the movie industry converted entirely to sound almost overnight.

Shemp, fed up with Healy's abrasiveness, decided to quit the act and found work almost immediately, in Vitaphone movie comedies produced in Brooklyn, New York.

A month after this movie, Warner Brothers released The Show of Shows, a musical revue which was photographed almost entirely in Technicolor and a full talking picture.

Twentieth Century-Fox's future appeared to hinge on what became the most expensive movie ever made up until then, reaching almost $ 40 million.

Until a few years ago the ubiquity of 35 mm movie projectors in commercial movie theaters made it the only motion picture format, film or video, that could be played in almost any cinema in the world.

Appearing in a movie or a play is almost never considered modelling.

An almost completely new group of musicians, mostly British-including Pete Thomas ( saxophonist )-were assembled to perform as The Comets, and Haley appeared on many television shows as well as in the movie Blue Suede Shoes, filmed at one of his London concerts in March 1979.

The concept of the brilliant young Vulcan scientist, Xon, almost survived into a later movie.

The film was adapted by Morrie Ryskind and Anthony Veiller from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, but the play's storyline and the characters ' names were almost completely changed for the movie, so much so in fact that Kaufman joked the film should be called " Screen Door ".

It was considered a surprise hit movie as it grossed over $ 50 million in America and almost $ 80 million worldwide.

The movie pre dates ' The Bourne Identity ' movies by almost 45 years and the Bourne movies use a similar plot line ..

The film did attract criticism for being almost completely silent, despite the movie industry having long since embraced the talking picture.

The 2006 movie Superman Returns presents a version of Krypton almost identical to Superman ( since Superman Returns is more or less set in the same continuity as Superman: The Movie.

Aljean Harmetz states that, " Curtiz's vision of any movie ... was almost totally a visual one ", and quotes him as saying, " Who cares about character?

John Grant writes in his book Masters of Animation that Fritz the Cat was " the breakthrough movie that opened brand new vistas to the commercial animator in the United States ", presenting an " almost disturbingly accurate " portrayal " of a particular stratum of Western society during a particular era, [...] as such it has dated very well.

The film is notable for its almost exclusive use of one set: with the exception of the film's opening, which begins outside on the steps of the courthouse and ends with the jury's final instructions before retiring, a brief final scene on the courthouse steps and two short scenes in an adjoining washroom, the entire movie takes place in the jury room.

USA Today considered the movie " plodding, unfunny and almost cringe-worthy ", but also noted that " Reese Witherspoon still does a fine job portraying the fair-haired lovable brainiac, but her top-notch comic timing is wasted on the humorless dialogue.

Not all reviews were positive: Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, in a review subtitled " Hot Air ", criticized the film's abundance of long, preachy speeches ; Chayefsky's self-righteous contempt for not only television itself but also television viewers ; and the fact that almost everyone in the movie, particularly Robert Duvall, has a screaming rant: " The cast of this messianic farce takes turns yelling at us soulless masses.