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10 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.

Eagle Pennell

Pennell then attended the University of Texas at Austin majoring in Radio-Television-Film but dropped out in 1973 during his junior year to do film work.

Fernando Arbex

He composed the original music for the first Spanish Musical "La Maja de Goya", and music for cinema and ballet.

Kasou Taishou

Especially in recent years, many of the skits have revolved around clever methods of "faking" cinematic special effects on a live stage.

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.

Wien-Film

Not far behind them in productivity were Willi Forst, who was responsible for the best productions of this period, Géza von Bolváry and Hans Thimig, followed by the brothers Ernst and Hubert Marischka, as well as Géza von Cziffra, who with Der weiße Traum ("The White Dream") achieved the most commercially successful of Wien-Film's productions.


Adelaide Film Festival

2005 saw over 250 screenings, including the world premiere of six AFFIF funded titles, including Look Both Ways a feature film directed by Sarah Watt, the interactive web series UsMob.com.au filmed in the Hidden Valley town camp outside Alice Springs in Arrernte country and the new rescore to Fritz Lang's Metropolis by The New Pollutants (Benjamin Speed and Tyson Hopprich)

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.

Alvaro Longoria

He is perhaps best known for producing the film Che starring Benicio Del Toro and directed by Steven Soderbergh as well as Looking for Fidel directed by Oliver Stone.

Amir Meenai

The famous ghazal 'sarakatee jaayey hai rukh se naqab aahista, aahista...' attributed to Ameer Minai has been sung in a film starred by Rishi Kapoor and Tina Munim.

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).

Berlaymont building

The building briefly appeared in the 2006 film, "Children of Men", shown along with buildings in other cities that had been subject to attacks.

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.

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.

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.

EarthSync

Laya Project won various awards (Founder's Choice Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Best Film Award at the Byron Bay Film Festival, Special Juror's Choice Award at Zanzibar International Film Festival in Tanzania and the Audience Award at Imaginaria Film Festival in Italy) and is being screened at international film festivals in places such as Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur.

EMD E5

This equipment was used in the production of the 1992 film A League of Their Own, and for the 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers, E5 9911A Silver Pilot was used with 4 stainless steel passenger cars relettered to resemble the Zephyr trainset.

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.

Felicity Montagu

Montagu's reputation in comedy character parts was enhanced by her film performance alongside Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones's Diary as Perpetua, Bridget's unpleasant colleague.

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.

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.

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.

J. M. Kerrigan

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

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.

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.

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".

Malloch Building

In the film, Humphrey Bogart, playing an escaped prisoner, is invited by Lauren Bacall into her apartment unit, Number 10 on the third floor of the Malloch Building.

Maury Gertsman

Gertsman's first film of note was Jungle Captive and he distinguished himself with his lensing of the final two Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, Terror by Night and Dressed to Kill.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Quai des Orfèvres

Quai des Orfèvres was also a comeback film for director-actor Louis Jouvet with whom Clouzot had become good friends before World War II.

Robert Berry

Berry also has contributed songs to a number of film soundtracks, including the Anthony Michael Hall film Out of Bounds.

Sasha Filippov

Filippov is portrayed by Gabriel Thomson in the film Enemy at the Gates, in which his role and death are dramatized, with some historical inaccuracies

Serge Silberman

Silberman produced all of Buñuel's late films, including the Academy Award winner The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in 1972 and the director's very last film That Obscure Object of Desire in 1977.

Sergio Carlo

He later went on to act in various television series, such as Paraíso in 2002 and the film Cuban Blood with Mexican actor Gael García Bernal.

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.

Surrender of General Toral

Surrender of General Toral is an 1898 film which featured appearances by military leaders Joseph Wheeler and William Rufus Shafter.

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.

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 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").

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.

Watertown, Minnesota

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

Witch Mountain

Race to Witch Mountain, a 2009 film remade from the 1975 film and using elements from the 1968 novel

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).