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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.

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.

Fernando Arbex

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

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.


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.

Alice or the Last Escapade

The film is very loosely inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, including the protagonist's name being Alice Carroll (a combination of the Alice character and the author's pseudonymous surname).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Hazel Douglas

Her television and film credits include The IT Crowd, Gavin and Stacey, Run Fatboy Run, Casualty, The Royal, Asylum, The Bill, Where the Heart Is, Gimme Gimme Gimme, The Hunger Games, At Home with the Braithwaites and The Liver Birds.

Hunt Saboteurs Association

A group of hunt saboteurs both appear and are a critical part of the plot in the 1963 film The List of Adrian Messenger.

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.

Linda Willis

After the assassination Willis, along with her sister, father (Phillip), and mother (Marilyn) were present at the Kodak photographic laboratory getting her father’s assassination related photo slides developed when the Zapruder film was first developed and first shown.

Loscil

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Peace thru Vandalism

The song gained renewed interest when it was mentioned in the 2002 Vin Diesel movie xXx.

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.

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,

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.

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.

Poonam Dasgupta

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

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.

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.

Sita Swayamvar

Sita Swayamvar is the prequel to the followup film Shri Ram Vanvas.

Southside Johnny

Also in 1979, Southside Johnny and Asbury Jukes performed a homecoming concert in Asbury Park which was the subject of a documentary film directed and produced by Neal Marshad called Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes at the Asbury Park Convention Center.

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.

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.

Sugar Babies

The Sugar Babies, a 2007 documentary feature film about the history of sugar production

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.

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 Jackie Robinson Story

On April 19, 2005, 20th Century Fox and Legend Films released a colorized version of the film, donating a portion of the proceeds to the Jackie Robinson Foundation, a charity that benefits education for gifted students.

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.

The Maltese Falcon

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

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).

Tomorrow Come Today

The track "High Wire Escape Artist" appeared on the soundtrack for the 2003 movie, Daredevil.

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).