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9 unusual facts about Film


A-Film

A-Film distributed films produced both in the Netherlands, such as Phileine Says Sorry and Black Book, and outside of the Netherlands, such as Hello Kitty videos, A Fistful of Dollars, The Pianist, Dances with Wolves and Bowling for Columbine for the Benelux.

Ballets suédois

The collaboration of the choreography of Jean Börlin, the artistic direction of Mare, and the aesthetic framework of Léger, provided a rich intercultural cross-section of avant-garde performance in inter-war Europe.

Chris Gentlemens Hairdresser and Railway Book Shop

This track also samples a quote directly from the movie Johnny Dangerously, much like the track 'Shatner's Bassoon' on Lightyear's debut album Call of the Weasel Clan, which included a quote from satirical TV series Brass Eye.

Escuela Nacional de Cine

"Training the next generation in both the conceptual and practical, with the latest market tools and expert teachers, in order to give the film medium, the highest professional creativity and efficiency"

F. R. Crawley

Together they owned the Crawley Films company which produced numerous short films, feature films, television commercials, animated cartoons and other productions from its formation in 1939 until its sale to Atkinson Film Arts in 1982.

Grimsby, Ontario

In 1910, the park's new owner, Harry Wylie, modernized the park with carousels, a motion picture theater, and a "Figure 8" roller coaster.

Leonid Corneanu

In 1951, the director Boris Barnet made Lyana, a comedy written by Corneanu, the first feature film of the studio Moldova-Film.

Leopold Jessner

Leopold Jessner (3 March 1878–13 December 1945) was a noted producer and director of German Expressionist theater and cinema.

Siegmund Lubin

He was a major contributor to Méliès' difficulties before 1903, the date when Star Films were first copyrighted through the Library of Congress.


Aleksei German

Aleksei Yuryevich German (born 1938–2013), Russian film director and screenwriter

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

The Hunt for Red October (1990), in which Alexandrov's national anthem is sung by Sean Connery's submarine crew, led by Danish actor Sven-Ole Thorsen.

Bill Justis

He played saxophone on the soundtrack for the 1964 Elvis Presley film, Kissin' Cousins and that same year took over as manager of the singing group, Ronny & the Daytonas.

Bill Pearl

In 2011 Pearl appeared in the documentary Challenging Impossibility (film) describing when he hosted the 2004 strength exhibition by spiritual teacher and peace advocate Sri Chinmoy.

Burnt Lips

Burnt Lips includes two selections from the soundtrack of Terrence Malick's film Days of Heaven.

Cheap at Half the Price

Step Across the Border (1990), a film on Frith, and its accompanying soundtrack, featured three such songs, "Same Old Me", "Evolution" and "Too Much Too Little".

Clifton James

George Clifton James (born May 29, 1921) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the James Bond films Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) and as the prison guard in Cool Hand Luke (1967).

Cosmix

However, a wave of or-suffixed action/horror Hollywood blockbusters and B-movies spread in France in the 1980s including Exterminator, Terminator, and Predator.

Cousin Bette

A number of film versions of the story have been produced, including a 1971 BBC mini-series starring Margaret Tyzack and Dame Helen Mirren, and a 1998 feature film with Jessica Lange in the title role.

Disney English

A typical center will have 5 to 10 classrooms, each themed with a specific Disney property, for example: Snow White, The Lion King, Cars, Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Winnie The Pooh, and Toy Story.

Eliot Hyman

In 1957, he helped found Seven Arts Productions and played an important role in the financing of the first horror film from Hammer Film Productions, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957).

Eric Patrick

Originally from Port Arthur, Texas, he played in a band throughout the southern United States before he studied art and film at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Fanta Régina Nacro

She received her first degree in audiovisual science and techniques from INAFEC in 1986 and also earned a Master’s Degree in Film and Audiovisual Studies at the Sorbonne.

Green Mill Cocktail Lounge

Over the years, the Green Mill has appeared in many films, such as Thief (1981), Next of Kin (1989), V. I. Warshawski (1991), Prelude to a Kiss (1992), Folks! (1992), Soul Food (1997) and High Fidelity (2000).

Haim Gouri

The film The 81st Blow, which he wrote, co-produced, and co-directed, was nominated for the 1974 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

Harsh Mayar

The film was shot in Rajasthan in 2009 and he worked with debut director- Nila Madhab Panda and with veteran actor Gulshan Grover and comic actor Pitobash Tripathy.

J. M. Kerrigan

His first screen appearance was in the silent film Food of Love in 1916.

James Georgopoulos

The "Guns of Cinema" series also expresses his affinity for the film and television industry by photographing a number of motion picture and television cameras; which include those from Titanic, Star Wars, Thriller, James Bond, Kill Bill, and Apocalypto).

John Knatchbull

John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne (1924–2005), British peer, television producer and Academy-award nominated film producer

Les Percussions de Guinée

In 2002, World Music Productions Inc. arranged for Les Percussions de Guinée to appear in the IMAX film, Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey.

Loscil

Eight of his songs were featured on the film score of the 2004 documentary ScaredSacred by award-winning documentary filmmaker Velcrow Ripper.

Mary Lindell

The 1991 film One Against the Wind starred Judy Davis, and was based on the biography Story of Mary Lindell: Wartime Secret Agent by Barry Wynne.

Mohammed al Janahi

The film, which stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, tells the story of a Texas congressman (Hanks) who works to help the Mujahideen defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan using an unlikely alliance of lawmakers, Israelis, Pakistanis, arms dealers and Egyptians.

Monaco Music Film Festival

The Monaco Music Film Festival is held annually in Monte Carlo.

Muriel Resnik

It had such a success that took Resnik by surprise, and in 1966 an homonymous film was led to the big screen, with Jane Fonda and Jason Robards as the main characters.

Nightmare Theatre

For most of its run, the late-night program opened with a shot of a mist-shrouded castle (in actuality, a touched-up Addams Family Haunted House Aurora model kit), accompanied by sound effects borrowed from Walt Disney's Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House and music pilfered from Neal Hefti's score for the 1966 Roddy McDowall film Lord Love a Duck.

Nobody Lives for Ever

Benson praised the story's "many surprising turns" and believed that if it were a film it would "have much of the same tension that something like Hitchcock's North by Northwest had."

Omen IV: The Awakening

Omen IV: The Awakening is a 1991 made-for-television film that serves as the fourth and final addition to the original The Omen series, directed by Jorge Montesi and Dominique Othenin-Girard.

Pack Up Your Troubles

Pack Up Your Troubles is a 1932 Laurel and Hardy film directed by George Marshall and Raymond McCarey, named after the World War I song "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and smile, smile, smile." It is the team's second feature-length picture.

Philip Battley

He is married to actress Elisa Boyd, is the nephew of television and film actor David Battley, the grandson of Labour MP John Battley,

Pongo de Mainique

The rapids of the Pongo de Mainique were used as a filming location for key scenes of Werner Herzog's 1982 film Fitzcarraldo starring Klaus Kinski.

Pumper Nic

Nic the hippo, is featured among the animals that escape from the Los Angeles Zoo during an earthquake that hits Los Angeles in the short animated Oscar winning film, Logorama (2009).

Ray Cooney

With Tony Hilton, he co-wrote the screenplay for the British comedy film What a Carve Up! (1961), which features Sid James and Kenneth Connor.

Rudi Hansen

Her last film was "far til Fire, for fuld musik", where she met football player Harald Nielsen.

Secret Honor

Secret Honor is a 1984 film written by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone (based on their play), and directed by Robert Altman and starring Philip Baker Hall as former president Richard M. Nixon, a fictional account attempting to gain insight into Nixon's personality, life, attitudes and behavior.

Sergio Renán

Then, in 1980, he directed and took the lead role in Sentimental, and received his first Konex Award (the highest in the Argentine cultural realm), the following year.

Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho

After Astitva with 9 years long gap Mahesh Manjrekar directed Marathi film.This film was later remade in Tamil & Telugu as Dhoni and in Bengali as "Cholo Paltaai" starring Prosenjit Chatterjee.

Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales

Burroughs' recording of "The Junky's Christmas" was used as the soundtrack for a stop-motion animation short film of the same title released in 1993, directed by Nick Donkin and Melodie McDaniel, which also incorporated live-action footage of Burroughs.

Sri Mahalakshmi

The film is a remake of Malayalam film Chinthamani Kolacase starring Suresh Gopi (who previously starred in Telugu film Antima Theerpu) and Bhavana (later she went to Telugu film Ontari opposite Gopichand) while second remake in Tamil as Ellam Avan Seyal the film was banner Shihari's Production Sri Chalana Chitra.

Tannöd

A film adaptation of the novel with the same title Tannöd was released in cinemas in Germany on 19 November 2009, directed by Bettina Oberli, (Wüste-Film West) and starring Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu and Volker Bruch.

The Big Shot

This was the last film in which former supporting player Bogart, who had finally reached stardom with High Sierra (1940) and The Maltese Falcon (1941), would portray a gangster.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

The popularity of the comic has made it much in demand for adaptation into other media, the first to be approved by Tardi being a projected trilogy of live-action feature films adapted and directed by Luc Besson, the first of which, also titled The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec was released in France on 14 April 2010 and latterly in numerous other markets, including the United Kingdom.

The Maltese Falcon

The Black Bird, a 1975 comedic sequel film to The Maltese Falcon

The Mutilator

Code Red had been working on a DVD release of the film, but dropped the project when it was deemed that there was no 35mm print of the film available.

Tim Andrew

He also worked as an assistant director on a number of feature films and as supervising producer on the television series Home James, reality series Denise Richards: It's Complicated, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? and the Tyler Perry-directed films Meet the Browns, The Family That Preys, Why Did I Get Married Too? and For Colored Girls.

Tim McIntire

Tim McIntire (July 19, 1944 – April 15, 1986) was an American character actor, probably most famous for his portrayal of disc jockey Alan Freed in the film American Hot Wax (1978).

United Ranger Films

The film was due to be followed by a sequel filmed in Quake II, Torn Apart 3, but the film was never completed.

Vienna Volksoper

In 1987, the opera house was used for a scene set in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now part of Slovakia), for the James Bond film The Living Daylights, where Timothy Dalton made his debut as Bond near the very beginning of the film, where he first spotted the key female character Kara Milovy (played by Maryam d'Abo).

Watertown, Minnesota

Marion Ross – Film and television actress, born in Watertown in 1928.

Waydowntown

The radio station CJAY 92 that plays "Start A Rumour Day" throughout the film is a real rock station in Calgary, with the station's actual DJs (the DJ "Bob", is Bob Steele, no longer with the station).


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Atlas Shrugged: Part III

It is a sequel to the 2012 film Atlas Shrugged: Part II, continuing the story where its predecessor left off.

Barbara Alyn Woods

In early 1990's, Woods, starred in several films such as Circuitry Man (1990), The Terror Within II (1991), Delusion (1991), The Waterdance (1992), Flesh and Bone (1993), Ghoulies IV (1994) and Frankie Starlight (1995).

Barrie Chase

She played Farida in the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix (starring James Stewart and Richard Attenborough), in a dream sequence.

Bülent Akinci

After shooting some short films, he finally won the F. W. Murnau prize in 2002 for his short film A short story (2001), starring actress Gudrun Landgrebe.

Dounia TV

Earlier in 2009, the CSC warned that Dounia TV could be closed for showing film of Nigerien Police forcefully dispersing supporters of jailed former Prime Minister of Niger Hama Amadou during a Niamey protest.

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

Heyward claims Nicholson wanted robots in the film to provide a role for his then-girlfriend Susan Hart, whose acting abilities were limited.

Eru Potaka-Dewes

During the 1990s and early 2000s (decade) he also was working as an actor, appearing in Jane Campion's film The Piano and Rapa-Nui, produced by Kevin Costner.

Gauthami Nair

Gauthami Nair is an Indian film actress who started her acting career by starring alongside Dulquar Salman in the Malayalam film Second Show.

Golden dream

Golden Dreams, a film about California's history at Disney's California Adventure

Hunt to Kill

The film reunited actors Steve Austin, Gary Daniels, and Eric Roberts, who all played villains in the 2010 action film The Expendables.

Javed Kodu

At the age of 13, he took part in his first film, Soddey Baaz, which included Pakistani actors including Sultan Rahi, Nanha, and Ali Ijaz.

Kaliyattam

In 1998, Suresh Gopi received the National Film Award for Best Actor, and Jayaraaj the award for Best Director for their work on the film.

Linking and intrusive R

Other recognizable examples are the Beatles singing: "I saw-r-a film today, oh boy" in the song "A Day in the Life", from their 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, at the Sanctus in the Catholic Mass: "Hosanna-r-in the highest" and in the phrases, "Law-r-and order" and "Victoria-r-and Albert Museum".

Marilyn Jenkins

The ceremony received even more attention when the Penny Marshall's film A League of Their Own, starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell, was released in 1992.

Mukhtar Sahota

Mukhtar has produced songs for a number of Bollywood films, including the films, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster, Diary of a Butterfly, Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns, and most recently for the forthcoming Punjabi Film, Heer and Hero.

Norah Lofts

The film 7 Women (1966) was directed by John Ford and based on the story Chinese Finale by Norah Lofts.

Peter Andrew Jones

He has also produced images for film publicity, creating the movie posters for The Sword and The Sorceror and Alligator, contributed during the early 1980s to television shows including BBC comedy The Two Ronnies Show and the BBC's '80s sci-fi adaptation of The Tripods, and has produced cover illustrations for video game publishers such as US Gold, Psygnosis and Virgin Interactive.

Pointe des Almadies

The Almadies peninsula was a featured location in the 1964 film The Endless Summer where Bruce Brown shot the film's stars Mike Hynson and Robert August at a reef near Pointe des Almadies.

Poonam Dasgupta

After retiring from the film industry, she made a comeback with the play Begum Sahiba co-starring Rahul Roy.

Psychotropica

Sage had Süin most highly follow the works of Goblin and Tangerine Dream for inspiration, while pushing Süin to take maximum freedom and musical liberties within the genre to craft the ultimate "mind blowing" score for the ultimate "mind blowing" film.

Stealing Heaven

Stealing Heaven is a 1988 film, a costume drama based on the French 12th century medieval romance (a true story) of Peter Abelard and Héloïse and on a historical novel by Marion Meade.

Syed Talha Ahsan

The film features interviews with Talha Ahsan’s brother Hamja Ahsan, father Abu Ahsan, Babar father’s Ashfaq Ahmad, their lawyer Gareth Peirce and Bruce Kent.

Terribly Happy

The film is about a policeman, Robert Hansen, from Copenhagen who makes a mistake, is sent for therapy, and then is assigned to a small town in South Jutland.

The Cripple of Inishmaan

1934, the inhabitants are excited to learn of a Hollywood film crew's arrival in neighbouring Inis Mór to make a documentary about life on the islands.

The Fallbrook Story

At the time film director Frank Capra served on the Board of the local water agency, the Fallbrook Public Utilities District ("FPUD").

The Landmark Hotel and Casino

The implosion of The Landmark was used in the film Mars Attacks!, and in the closing credits of The Cooler.

X-Bomber

Two of the English voice actors, Jay Benedict and Garrick Hagon, had appeared in Star Wars (1977) portraying Deak and Biggs, two of Luke Skywalker's friends on Tatooine (though Hagon's role was reduced in editing and Benedict's scenes were cut altogether).