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Michael G. Fitzgerald

Michael G. Fitzgerald (December 19, 1950 – February 14, 2006) a native of El Dorado, Arkansas, was a film historian and author.

Vito Russo

Vito Russo (July 11, 1946 – November 7, 1990) was an American LGBT activist, film historian and author who is best remembered as the author of the book The Celluloid Closet (1981, revised edition 1987).

William Schoell

William Schoell (pronounced shoal) is an American author, biographer and film historian, born November 30, 1958 in Manhattan and educated in Vermont, earning a B.A. from Castleton State College in 1978.


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Alexandre Aja

He is a member of the so-called Splat Pack, a term coined by film historian Alan Jones in Total Film magazine for a new wave of directors making brutally violent horror films.

Balayogini

Film historian Theodore Baskaran has called it the most significant Tamil film of its period.

Black Market Magazine

Interviews would now include sci-fi film historian / former editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland Forrest J. Ackerman along with actors and directors such as Bill Paxton, Adam Rifkin, Wayne Newton, Jeffrey Levy.

Drottningholm Palace Theatre

However, according to film historian Peter Cowie's notes for the DVD release of the film, while Bergman wanted to recreate as closely as possible the original 1791 production in the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, he had hoped that the film could be shot in the theatre.

Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich

Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman was Patron from 1975 until his death in 1984 whilst film historian, and lecturer on the art of cinema, John Huntley was Patron from 1985–2003.

Forgotten Silver

It features deadpan commentary from actor/director Sam Neill and director and film archivist John O'Shea, as well as critical praise from international industry notables including film historian Leonard Maltin, and Harvey Weinstein of Miramax Films.

Grim Natwick Film Festival

Art and museum exhibitions also featured including lectures from film historian Stephen Worth and contributions from academic Dr Frances Aulds of the University Of Wisconsin Baraboo and relatives of both Grim Natwick and Max Fleischer.

Hungry Hoboes

Hun­gry Hoboes re-debuted in Telluride, Colorado as part of a special animation shorts program presented by leading film historian and restoration expert Serge Bromberg at the 39th Annual Telluride Film Festival.

Lakshmikanthan murder case

Film historian and author Randor Guy writes that Lakshmikanthan had a dark past with a criminal record.

Marion Hutton

Jeanine Basinger, a film historian and professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, refers to Marion Hutton in her chapter on Marion's younger sister, actress and singer Betty Hutton in the 2007 book The Star Machine.

New Forest Film Festival

The festival is founded by film critic and broadcaster, Mark Kermode, film professor, Linda Ruth Williams, film writer and director, Simon Miller, writer and illustrator Jo Cockwell and film historian, Mike Hammond

Paul Clinton

Clinton and film historian James Ursini did audio commentary on the 2005 DVD release of Dark Victory (1939) starring Bette Davis.

Robb Wilton

He has been acknowledged as an influence by fellow Lancashire comedians Ken Dodd and Les Dawson, and the film historian Jeffrey Richards has cited him as a key influence for the TV sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977); he made several monologues in the person of a layabout husband who wryly takes part in the Home Guard.

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!

After Monroe's stardom, 20th Century Fox began claiming that Monroe's only line in the film had been cut out, an anecdote Monroe repeated on Person to Person in 1955, but film historian James Haspiel says her line is intact and she also appears in a shot with herself and another woman paddling a canoe.

Teaserama

According to film historian Eric Schaefer, Lynn's performance in Teaserama was presented with "the same degree of sensuality and tease as the strips by women" and as "erotic to heterosexual men".

The Curse of the Cat People

Film historian William K. Everson found the same sense of beauty at work in The Curse of the Cat People and Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête.

The Making of The Wizard of Oz

The Making of the Wizard Of Oz, written by film historian Aljean Harmetz, is a book about the production of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

The Naked Kiss

The release includes new video interview with star Constance Towers by film historian and filmmaker Charles Dennis, excerpts from a 1983 episode of The South Bank Show dedicated to Samuel Fuller, an interview with Fuller from a 1967 episode of the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps, and an interview with Fuller from a 1987 episode of the French television series Cinéma cinémas.

Thillaanaa Mohanambal

Film historian S. Theodore Baskaran pointed out that, "In Thillana Mohanambal, a Tamil king would be seen wearing a Marathi costume.

Tommy Bond

Bond published his autobiography, Darn Right It's Butch: Memories of Our Gang/The Little Rascals, with the help of Fresno teacher, film historian and co-author Ron Genini, in 1994.

Zuster Theresia

As Zuster Theresia was directed at Dutch audiences, the Indonesian film historian Misbach Yusa Biran suggests that the Wongs had little creative input.