Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM); as An Arthur Freed Production
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
Horizon Pictures
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
Michael Anderson Company
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. He makes a £20,000 wager with four sceptical fellow members of the Reform Club (each contributing £5,000 to the bet) that he can arrive back eighty days from exactly 8:45 pm that evening."
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family. - You Can't Take It with You is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart and Edward Arnold.
The film was dapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. It received two Academy Awards out of seven nominations: Best Picture and Best Director for Frank Capra. This was Capra's third Oscar for Best Director in just five years."
A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has. A dutiful robot named Robby speaks 188 languages. An underground lair provides astonishing evidence of a populace a million years more advanced than Earthlings. There are many wonders on Altair-4, but none is greater or more deadly than the human mind. "Forbidden Planet" is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen portrays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to the green-skied Altair-4 world that's home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), the remarkable Robby... and to a mysterious terror.
Watching "The General", I could think of several reasons why Martin Cahill would be a good figure for a John Boorman movie. He's a nonconformist. He sets himself impossible tasks, which you've certainly done in some of the circumstances you've filmed under. But there's a real ambivalence about him as well.
quote-leftLiving in Ireland as I do, and have done for the last 30 years, I was very conscious of him. In fact, we have a curiously intimate personal connection. He robbed my house in 1981. At that time, he was really just a cat burglar -- he wasn't doing any of these big things, but he was very audacious then, and provocative. The police recognized his modus vivendi, but also he always wanted to be known when he pulled off these things. He wanted the credit for them. It was also a challenge, you know: "Well, OK now try and prove it. I did that, now prove it." But amongst the things he took was this gold record I had for the music for "Deliverance". So I put that in the movie; that was my revenge.
Cecil B DeMille Productions
The Egyptian Prince, Moses, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people.
A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
"Marty" is a 1955 American romantic drama film directed by Delbert Mann. The screenplay was written by Paddy Chayefsky, expanding upon his 1953 teleplay of the same name. The film stars Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair. In addition to gaining an Academy Award for Best Picture, the film enjoyed international success, becoming the fourth American film to win the Cannes Film Festival, and to be awarded the Palme d'Or. Marty and The Lost Weekend (1945) are the only two films to win both organizations' grand prizes."
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. - On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, and, in her film debut, Eva Marie Saint. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. The film was suggested by "Crime on the Waterfront" by Malcolm Johnson, a series of articles published in November–December 1948 in the New York Sun which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, but the screenplay by Budd Schulberg is directly based on his own original story. The film focuses on union violence and corruption amongst longshoremen while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey."
Adrian Wootton Before we talk about Life is Beautiful, I want to go back to your early career and how you became a comedian. You grew up in Tuscany, and am I right in thinking that you started out by working in a circus? Can you tell us about your experience?
Roberto Benigni: Thank you. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be here! Thank you Adrian. So, how are you?
AW: I'm very well.
RB: I like to be here because this is my first question and answer session in London and my heart is in turmoil. I'm flabbergasted. It's a gift to me, and I have to thank everybody.
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
