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But while it was included as # 44 in the American Film Institute's greatest American films list, this is definitely not a movie for the masses.

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Now you can add the film American Hustle — which won a Golden Globe for Best Picture and picked up 10 Academy Award nominations this week — to the list, especially if you want to explain how really great salespeople find leads, draw customers, and make deals.

Earlier this month, The Atlantic listed the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown, televangelist Tim Bakker, and evangelical film critic Ted Baehr among Putin's evangelical supporters, particularly for his restrictions on Russia's LGBT community.

posts on ALMOST FAMOUS, two on the SCHOOL OF ROCK, and an epic one on THE DOORS, I do think that among my list of pop - music films, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO is the standout in terms of sheer cinematic achievement, with only AMERICAN GRAFFITI giving it a run for the money.

Differences between American and British English can sometimes be spotted in films or books — it can be fun to make one's own list of the variations, including, sometimes, completely different words.

Zegna's ambitous «A Rose Reborn» directed by Park Chan - wook made our list, as did Alexander Wang's funny Autumn / Winter campaign film, featuring Chris Kattan as Mango, a character from the American comedy show Saturday Night Live.

Thrillers and action films are this Chinese - American actress Lucy Liu can now add proud mother to her list of credits.

There have actually been few real science fiction films in American Cinema, but a list of some titles will demonstrate the difference: Blade Runner, Soylent Green and A.I. come to mind.

In Basterds, however, Tarantino was engaged with an exhaustive canon of World War II movies, from Casablanca to Schindler's List, while the subject of Django Unchained — slavery in the American South — is one that has been conspicuously absent in Hollywood films in the century since D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation.

The Hangover even cracked the American Film Institute's list of 2009's top ten films.

As for The Danish Girl, his timely period drama about the first known trans person, Focus Features — the company distributing the film — has by all accounts made the surprising decision to debut the film in Venice (it's listed as making a North American premiere in Toronto).

Some of these films won't get American distribution until next year - one in particular, maybe not at all - but I can't leave them off my 2017 list, so much did they add to my moviegoing experience.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bruce Travis McGill (born July 11, 1950) is an American actor who has an extensive list of credits in film and television.

Two of his most famous films are 1993's «Schindler's List,» about an industrialist who worked to save Jews from World War II concentration camps, and «Saving Private Ryan,» about American soldiers working to find a private during World War II so he can be sent home.

If ever there was a watershed movie George Lucas's would top the list: American Graffiti went from un-releasable to becoming one of the benchmark movies of the decade, establishing George Lucas as a visionary to be reckoned with, and becaming a launching pad for more future movie stars than any film in history: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, MacKenzie Phillips, Bo Hopkins, Harrison Ford, Kathleen Quinlan, Kay Lenz, Suzanne Sommers, all of whom went on to notable careers.

Rounding out the composite list of the top 10 films of the year were GRAVITY (2), NEBRASKA (3), AMERICAN HUSTLE (4), DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (5), HER (6), THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (7), INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (8), CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (9) and MUD (10).

The festival will give world premieres to a number of other films (see list below) and the North American premier to Brad Silberling's An Ordinary Man starring Ben Kingsley.

Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events combine to show the film that topped the American Film Institute's list of 100 all - time greatest comedies in 24 Bay Area theaters on Sunday, June 11, and Wednesday, June 14.

Add the similarly, if more honestly, nihilistic The Blair Witch Project to the list of pictures that share a connection to American Beauty (and is there a more cynical, back - handed, self - loathing title for any film?

That said, the film went on to become a smash hit around the world, becoming the only the second of three films to date to win the top five Oscars (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) and is regularly enshrined in lists of the greatest American films of all time.

Walt Disney's «Zootopia» marks a rare but not unprecedented animated film to make the American Film Institute's annual list of top film and television shows, which was announced Thursday out of Los Angeles.

Noticeably absent from the list are awards players like «Loving,» the Jeff Nichols film about America's interracial marriage ban, «Hidden Figures,» about African American women in the space program and the multi-generational drama «20th Century Women.»

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Its opening film is the British - produced mountaineering thriller Everest, featuring Anglo - American glamour in the shape of Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Josh Brolin; its competition strand has an impressive list of international auteurs, including Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Alexander Sokurov (Francofonia), Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa); and a number of authentic coups, including the world premiere screening of Black Mass, the much - hyped gangster film featuring Johnny Depp as James «Whitey» Bulger, and a first look at Beasts of No Nation, the African - set war thriller that represents Netflix's most serious shot yet across Hollywood's bows.

The folks at Movieline got their hands on a list of the top 50 films of the decade, from a cinematography standpoint, as laid out by voters at American Cinematographer magazine.

Introducing itself to the world at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and creating substantial buzz in film festivals the world over before opening in an elite listing of American cinemas in July, Sean Baker's fifth feature plays out with genuine emotion and manifests as an eye - opening day - in - the - life of two transgender sex workers on the streets of Los Angeles.

The American Film Institute has announced its list of the top ten U.S. movies of 2017: The Big Sick Call Me By Your Name Dunkirk The Florida Project Get Out Lady Bird The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Wonder Woman The above films will all be hoping to pick up -LSB-...]

Among Caddyshack's retrospective accolades are placement on three American Film Institute countdowns; the film was ranked 71st on AFI's 2000 «100 Years... 100 Laughs» list and 7th among sports films in 2008's genre - minded «10 Top 10», while Carl Spackler's «Cinderella story» flower bulb - driving self - announcing came in at # 92 on 2005's «100 Movie Quotes» program.

The film is expected to be one of 2017's top awards contenders, being named film of the year by the National Board of Review and ranking on the American Film Institute's best movies of the year list.

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

The list of films Bruckheimer was involved with before beginning his relationship with Disney in the early»90s remains an impressive body of work, including «American Gigolo,» «Thief,» «Beverly Hills Cop,» «Flashdance» and «Top Gun.»

Marya E. Gates was frustrated, as we women often are, about some list that came out - I don't even remember what it was - oh right, the BBC's ludicrous list of the 100 Greatest American films or some such.

Even if you don't think it's the best film of last year, it dominated Top Ten lists and critics groups awards and it offered a different and daring kind of cinematic experience, something rare enough in American popular cinema.

We all had a complete blast at «American Hustle,» one of the year's best films and one that will appear very high on both Alonso's and my top 10 lists.

Recently selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the greatest American films of all time and added Arthur Chipping to its» list of 50 Greatest Heroes.

The Godfather earned the third position on the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 films.

Though Jacob's Ladder is still one of the more underrated films on this list, it's still holds a huge sway on the horror genre, having inspired the Silent Hill game franchise, American Horror Story: Asylum, and more.

BAFTA nominations list Best film Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game The Theory of Everything Leading Actor Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler Michael Keaton - Birdman Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel Leading Actress Amy Adams - Big Eyes Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything Julianne Moore - Still Alice Reese Witherspoon - Wild Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl Supporting Actor Edward Norton - Birdman Ethan Hawke - Boyhood J.K. Simmons - Whiplash Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher Steve Carell - Foxcatcher Supporting Actress Emma Stone - Birdman Imelda Staunton - Pride Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game Patricia Arquette - Boyhood Rene Russo - Nightcrawler Outstanding British Film»71 The Imitation Game Paddington Pride The Theory of Everything Under the Skin Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Elaine Constantine (writer / director)- Northern Soul Gregory Burke (writer), Yann Demange (director)-»71 Hong Khaou (writer / director)- Lilting Paul Katis (director / producer), Andrew de Lotbiniere (producer)- Kajaki: The True Story Stephen Beresford (writer), David Livingstone (producer)- Pride Film Not in the English Language Ida Leviathan The Lunchbox Trash Two Days, One Night Documentary 20 Feet from Stardom 20,000 Days on Earth Citizenfour Finding Vivian Maier Virunga Animated Film Big Hero 6 The Boxtrolls The Lego Movie Whiplash Adapted Screenplay American Sniper Gone Girl The Imitation Game Paddington The Theory of Everything EE Rising Star Jack O'Connell Gugu Mbatha - Raw Miles Teller Margot Robbie Shailene Woodley

The American Film Institute released its list of the Top 10 films and TV programs of 2010.

Still, the film has persevered and even cracked the American Film Institute's 2000 list of great American comedies, placing 77th in the «100 Years... 100 Laughs» countdown.

Actors Eugene Levy (American Pie), Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), Kathryn Hahn (Crossing Jordan), Brie Larson (21 Jump Street) and Cybill Shepherd (The Client List), all join the film formerly titled «Squirrel to the Nuts».

But more importantly, its the new film from Oscar - nominated filmmaker Rob Reiner, the director of This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, The American President, The Story of Us, and The Bucket List.

Note this list only includes North American grosses for specialty films — indie, foreign and / or documentary — that opened in limited release (initially under 500 screens) in 2013 and were released by an independent distributor or a studio specialty division.

Considering it was one of the few films on the short list to actually receive a relatively robust American release (I gauge this basically by the fact that I was able to see it myself by going to a movie theater and buying a ticket in the same year it is nominated), it seemed likely that Ruben Ostlund's wonderfully weird little domestic drama was pretty close to a lock.

Four Hitchcock films graced the American Film Institute's «100 Years... 100 Films» lists in both 1998 and 2007 incarnations.

A film which we also scored very highly, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, did not make the list of the ten films in the «Film Of The Year» category, and neither did AMERICAN HUSTLE, which we're yet to review.

American Honey — Probably the most divisive film / ranking on this list.

list for March as the most anticipated docu feature) and Jim Cummings «Thunder Road (which was our highest ranked male filmmaker with a film project debut on our most anticipated American indies for 2018) were handed the Grand Jury prizes in their respective Comp sections.

In the»50s, critic - cineaste Jean - Luc Godard put «Angel Face» on his Cahiers du Cinema list of the Ten Best American Sound Films, along with another classic film noir: Orson Welles» «The Lady from Shanghai.»

Their announcements are set to drop next week, but with our 75 preview page countdown (we made a handy checklist below and you can click on each entry for the lowdown on the title) and list of other titles to consider, this is a sturdy overview of the year of (mostly American indie) film ahead.