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It rose to popularity much later in the century when it was used as the theme song for the 1973 classic film «The Sting» starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still closely parallels Robert Wise's 1951 science fiction film classic that was a Cold War warning shrouded in a Christ allegory.

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez paid tribute to the classic Mexican horror films in «From Dusk Till Dawn».

Even if you have never seen the movie, or read the book, you know the name of Alfred Hitchcock's classic film, adapted from Robert Bloch's book by the same name, Psycho.

Critics Consensus: Chaplin boasts a terrific performance from Robert Downey, Jr. in the title role, but it isn't enough to overcome a formulaic biopic that pales in comparison to its subject's classic films.

Critic Consensus: Chaplin boasts a terrific performance from Robert Downey, Jr. in the title role, but it isn't enough to overcome a formulaic biopic that pales in comparison to its subject's classic films.

Nashville (1975) is maverick director / producer Robert Altman's classic, multi-level, original, two and a half - hour epic study of American culture, show - business, leadership and politics - and one of the great American films of the 1970s.

Donald Sutherland is one of the most respected, prolific and versatile of motion picture actors, with an astonishing resume of well over one hundred and fifty films, including such classics as Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen; Robert Altman's M * A * S * H; John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust; Robert Redford's Ordinary People; Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900; Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now with Julie Christie; Alan Pakula's Klute with Jane Fonda; Federico Fellini's Fellini's Casanova and in Brian Hutton» sKelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood, who later directed him in Space Cowboys.

Sony Pictures Classics has unveiled the first trailer for a film titled The Comedian, from Oscar - winning director Taylor Hackford, starring Robert De Niro as an aging stand - up comic.

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The Sony Pictures Classic film, which was directed by Robert Redford, is set to be released in theaters on April 5.

Robert Flaherty's classic film tells the story of Inuit hunter Nanook and his family as they struggle to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada's Hudson Bay region.

Amusingly, Chinatown's screenwriter, Robert Towne, has said that he wrote part of his 1974 film classic in an apartment he had borrowed from Curtis Hanson - the man who directed and, with Brian Helgeland, wrote L.A. Confidential.

Nicolas Pesce's debut feature The Eyes Of My Mother views its deeply disturbed heroine through the lens of hardy, immigrant - born midcentury stoicism, and Pesce chose a similarly controlled - yet - disturbing film for our marathon: The Night Of The Hunter, Charles Laughton's classic thriller starring Robert Mitchum as a killer who disguises himself as a preacher.

This week's new Blu - ray releases include one of the funniest films of the year, a trio of horror movie collections for a few franchises — one classic, one unlikely, and one incredibly gory — a dramatic turn from Robert Pattinson, and more.

Sci - Fi Movie Page Pick: Based on the classic Robert Heinlein story about alien invaders taking over humans (which served as inspiration later on for the famous 1940s Invasion of the Body Snatchers novel by Jack Finney, which has been filmed three times!).

The 1962 film, still chilling today, had all the ingredients for success: accomplished director J. Lee Thompson (who also made Peck's 1962 adventure classic, «The Guns of Navarone»), a near - perfect cast, top - notch material (James R. Webb's screenplay is based on John D. MacDonald's novel «The Executioners»), a Bernard Herrmann score, cinematography by Sam Leavitt, art direction by Robert Boyle and editing by George Tomasini.

Set amid the sweeping desert landscape of 1950s Nevada, the film vividly evokes the thrill of a new, unexpected love with the help of a soundtrack packed with jukebox classics and gorgeous cinematography by future Oscar winner Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood).

«She's so beautiful, you can't believe she's in her»80s, and she's so nice,» said TCM's Robert Osborne about actress Ann Blyth, who co-starred with Joan Crawford in the classic domestic film noir «Mildred Pierce.»

The «Jurassic World» star discusses the oddness of the 1977 musical classic, the importance of tragedy in Disney films, and working with Robert Redford.

That's not to say it is a bad film, merely that the influence of Robert Zemeckis» 1985 classic is abundantly clear.

This is also newly remastered and includes the supplements from the earlier DVD special edition: two commentary tracks (on by film historian Richard Schickel, one by film historian / screenwriter Lem Dobbs and film historian Nick Redman), the featurette «Shadows of Suspense,» an introduction by Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne, and the 1973 TV - movie remake starring Richard Crenna in the MacMurray role, Samantha Eggar as the seductive Phyllis, and Lee J. Cobb as the insurance boss Keys.

I loved the last Robert Aldrich film I reviewed, The Flight of the Phoenix, and I'm a fan of some of his other classics, such as Kiss Me Deadly and The Dirty Dozen, so it didn't take much to convince me to review one of his last films, 1977's Twilight's Last Gleaming.

For his second feature after the gentle teen comedy The Myth of the American Sleepover, writer - director David Robert Mitchell has produced the most unexpected and downright unnerving fright flick in years, a film that riffs smartly on the classics while adding something ineffable of its own.

A report from Venice on the festival's Venice Classics program, including restored films by Robert Bresson, John Ford, Andrei Tarkovsky, George Romero and Woody Allen.

For 20 years, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) host Robert Osborne has introduced thousands of films and interviewed hundreds of stars, including several longer...

Critic Glenn Kenny reveals the connection between two classics: Nicolas Roeg's film Don't Look Now and Robert Wyatt's album Rock Bottom.

«Kiss Me Deadly» (1955, Robert Aldrich) Screenwriter A. I. Bezzerides adapted Mickey Spillane's detective novel to create this film noir classic.

Universal's classic monster movies all existed in the same world, Kevin Smith built his View Askewniverse that was connected by shared characters such as Jay & Silent Bob, Quentin Taranito's movies all have little connections to each other, and they even shared some connections with the interconnected films of Grindhouse co-director Robert Rodriguez.

Plot info is scant, but Life Of The Party is reportedly similar in tone to Back To School, the classic 1986 Rodney Dangerfield film which saw a young Robert Downey Jr. wander off the set of Falco's «Rock Me Amadeus.»

LMD: The Shameless is like a classic film noir and while watching Kim Nam - gil's performance and the way you capture him, he reminded me a little of a young Robert Mitchum, as he looked in Out of the Past.

Film noir was always a cynical and dark (thematically and literally) genre, but 1949 saw the end of the first wave of classic noir films being replaced by the far rawer and more violent wave of B - grade noirs by the likes of directors such as Joseph H Lewis, Robert Aldrich and Samuel Fuller.

Actor Robert Downey Jr has been roped in to play the title role in upcoming film «The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle», which is based on the classic character who can talk to animals.

The film starred Robert Donat as Richard Hannay, a Canadian on vacation in England who becomes embroiled in murder and espionage while making the acquaintance of an icy cold blonde (Madeline Carroll) who comes to his aid — classic Hitchcockian elements.

Based on the classic children's book «The Story of Ferdinand» by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, the film stars John Cena as the titular Spanish Fighting Bull who yearns to live a pacifist life but is forced into bullfighting in order to earn his freedom.

Classic film lovers everywhere were saddened to learn about the death of veteran TCM host Robert Osborne last Sunday.

• Menken & Friends: 25 Years of Musical Inspiration — Get a front - row seat for an intimate discussion between legendary music composers from classic and future Disney films, including Alan Menken («Beauty and the Beast,» «Aladdin»), Stephen Schwartz («The Hunchback of Notre Dame,» «Pocahontas»), Kristen Anderson - Lopez («Frozen,» Disney's upcoming «Gigantic»), Robert Lopez («Frozen,» Disney's upcoming «Gigantic») and Lin - Manuel Miranda (Disney's upcoming «Moana»).

Hosted by TCM» own Robert Osborne and Ben Mankiewicz, the 2015 TCM Classic Cruise will feature film legends Eva Marie Saint, Louis Gossett Jr..

TCM has unveiled the first slate of events for the high - demand voyage, which will feature film legends Ernest Borgnine, Tippi Hedren, Eva Marie Saint and Norman Jewison, along with Turner Classic Movies primetime host Robert Osborne, TCM weekend - daytime host Ben Mankiewicz and the Alloy Orchestra.

This is the one film on our list that isn't a Tribeca 2016 premiere — but we can't leave out a 40th - anniversary screening of «Taxi Driver,» the classic drama starring Tribeca co-founder Robert De Niro.

As the fully restored Blu - ray version of «Taxi Driver» makes clear, the classic collaboration between Schrader, director Martin Scorsese, and actor Robert De Niro remains a suspenseful, shocking, and beautiful film 35 years after its first release.

In 2007, it was because they honored Charles Tabesh, Turner Classic Movies Senior Vice President of Programming and New Media, and Robert Osborne, the cable channel's on - air host whose wealth of knowledge about films, film history, and film folk, may be inexhaustible.

The paradigm of the film noir private investigator is tossed violently out the window in Robert Altman's 1973 classic The Long Goodbye.

The Enemy Below (Kino Classics, Blu - ray), a World War II submarine drama based on the novel of the same name by Commander D. A. Rayner, stars Robert Mitchum as Captain Murrell, the newly - appointed commander of an American Destroyer in the South Atlantic, and German star Curd Jürgens making his American film debut as Commander Von Stolberg, a German submarine commander whose mission is imperiled when the American warship gives chase.

Better yet, the film is graced with James Coburn and a whole raft of veteran western players from classic westerns and TV series including Dub Taylor, Doug McClure, Henry Darrow, Robert Fuller, Denver Pyle, Leo Gordon, William Smith, James Drury, and Will Hutchins.

I love Robert Frank, not just the famous book, The Americans, a classic of both photography and American road trip literature, but the whole career, including the strange films like Me and My Brother.

Taylor - Wood puts a strong focus on the individual person, while Gordon is usually inspired by well - known film classics, and in the exhibition Robert de Niro's film figure from Taxi Driver reappears in an unexpected way.

For more than 40 years, Robert Bibler (American, born 1948) has combined a fascination with cinematic storytelling, classic film, and Renaissance art to create a beautifully rendered and thoughtful body of work.

THE WHITE ROSE (1967), his film of Jay DeFeo's iconic painting being laboriously removed from her San Francisco studio, is shown here alongside classics of Beat cinema by Wallace Berman, Robert Frank, and Ron Rice.