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Circus Circus is a must - see stop for film buffs in Vegas, since it's one of the most recognizable locations in Vegas.

Or maybe it's just the Disney movies and historical film buff in me talking.

Not exact matches

Cue the eye - rolling among film buffs and beer lovers alike, but this is just the latest example of how brand involvement in entertainment, from product placement to original properties, has become the new frontier for marketers.

It's a familiar feeling to film buffs who have seen many versions of the shock - twist ending in films like Fight Club...

He is a movie and baseball buff, and he recalls the film For Love of the Game, in which Kevin Costner played an aging Tigers pitcher who blocks out hostile crowd noise with a mantra of his own, Clear the mechanism.

Movie buffs will recognize the surroundings as much of the background of the first Hunger Games movie, as well as The Last of the Mohicans (there are lots of movies filmed in North Carolina) and, more recently, Max, but I loved that these were mainly just well - used and well - loved swimming holes for locals.

CYBERDYNE (which film buffs will recognize as the name of the company that built the ill - fated «Skynet» in the Terminator movies) designed the HAL exoskeleton primarily to enhance the wearer's existing physical capabilities 10-fold.

Did they mention that they are a film buff, or that they also love romantic meals, or do they simply live in the same area?

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An imposing and highly memorable presence on the Broadway stage, actor Frank Langella has won only a fraction of the acclaim he's received in the theater for his film career; still, his brooding good looks and his ability to play both villains and comic foils with a touch of menace has made him a welcome (and increasingly familiar) fare to film buffs.

While I'm a Born Liar assumes too much knowledge of Fellini's oeuvre and place in film history to be of much use as an general introduction... the legendary director's enthusiastic participation makes it a must - see for buffs.

While you don't want to focus on a film's score / soundtrack, Tarantino also uses music from his favorite films and repurposes them in clever ways to make the point that he's not just a serious film buff — he's an original filmmaker.

This power dynamic is probably funniest to Indian film buffs since they already know that Bachchan is, in real life, only ten years older than Kapoor.

Trivia buffs and diehard fans of Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront will know that the non-speaking cab driver in the film's famed «taxicab scene between Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger was noted character actor Nehemiah Persoff.

For film buffs who want to see what's hot in Germany, Bandits is probably worth the price of a ticket.

He also took on occasional roles in more notable films, including Waiting for Guffman (1996), Clockwatchers (1997), Happy, Texas (1999), and Runaway Bride (also 1999), which served to remind movie buffs just how funny the talented comic actor could be when given the opportunity.

If you're wondering why there are shouts of jubilation from film buffs and aficionados of pre-swing-era music it's because the Criterion Collection has released a beautiful Blu - ray and DVD of King of Jazz (1930), The movie features Bing Crosby's first appearance onscreen, as part of the Rhythm Boys trio, jazz giants Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, and a spectacular rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue» by Paul Whiteman, the orchestra leader who commissioned the piece just six years earlier.

Despite his relative inexperience, he brings a tortured, quiet devastation and delicacy to the performance — one that will particularly intrigue film buffs since his stuttering predates his Oscar winning turn as King George VI in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech (2010).

Pulpy, violent, and yet harmoniously stylized to be visually striking, Tarantino is, in his twisted manner, an all around film buff turned director.

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While names like Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer and Francois Truffaut may not be familiar to even film - buffs without an extensive education in European art house (though most would certainly recognise the name of Jean - Luc Godard) they have gone on to influence filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorcese and Michel Gondry.

In a partnership that will remind classic film buffs of Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock, composer Danny Elfman and director Tim Burton have forged an enduring relationship between music and motion pictures.

Movies in the streaming era have to meet one very basic requirement for a film buff.

I respect his artistic decision to go in that direction, but that makes it difficult for the casual viewer and even for the serious film buff to recognize all of the out - of - sight artistic talking heads from novelist Italo Calvino to screenwriter Tullio Pinelli.

Hitchcock / Truffaut is a documentary film for all movie buffs that have ever considered magnifying their knowledge of the components in filmmaking.

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As illustrated in the film, when Langlois was sacked as curator in May of 1968, there arose among the buffs such a clamour that grey - suited riot police came to bludgeon protestors like Godard, Truffaut, Jean Marais, and Jean Renoir — film, the medium of our time, for a delirious moment, became the catalyst for a new French Revolution, the Cinematheque a cathedral and Bastille.

I suppose he doesn't really have to worry about repeating himself to a certain extent, as many audiences in the US and other countries may not be intimately familiar with his previous works, though they certainly have been lauded by critics and film buffs alike.

There's no doubt that Scorsese is a film buff and feels the need to remind us of the craftwork and illusionary beauty of some forgotten pioneers of cinema but he doesn't quite achieve anything worth noting in telling his own tale.

It won't break any records, but film buffs are interested in seeing what all the buzz is about, and the journalism drama has now made $ 12.3 million domestically.

Many movie buffs know how John Ford made a deal with low - budget «B» picture studio Republic Pictures to finance his dream project The Quiet Man in exchange for making another of his popular «Calvary» films, Rio Grande.

Then the film leaps forward to an angst ridden Peter in high school where he defends the underdog, gets his butt kicked by the school bully, and we witness his crush on fellow science buff, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone).

And naturists Michael and Joanna (Robert Webb and Olivia Colman) want a back - to - Mother Earth ceremony, which sounds lovely, but they want to do it in the buff (as the actors gamely spend most of the film), which is... not.

Ehrenreich was raised in L.A. to parents who are big film buffs but not «in the biz».

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The project also attracted the bemused attention of other film buffs such as J.J.Abrams, Judd Apatow and Bryan Cranston, all of whom turn up in cameos.

Every year, film buffs get themselves in a lather over the latest from their favorite experienced directors.

Noel's Take: When Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining was released in 1980, it baffled many film buffs, who couldn't figure out why the man who'd made some of the most challenging, brainy, and beautiful movies of the previous 20 years would spend his precious time and talent on a hammy, heavy B - horror flick.

«An intelligent and creative exploration into a filmmaker's responsibility to society [that] will offer genre buffs a few choice chills, but also make them consider some of their favourite films in a different light» — Andrew Parker, The Gate

The resulting book, published in 1966 complete with extensive stills from those films, became a classic, still in print, and still prized by filmmakers and film buffs who now have instant access to those films.

A brilliant conversationist, Waters enthralled a press corps made of film critics, movie buffs, gossipers, and even linguists eager to discover the exact meaning of «tea - bagging», a practice Martha Plimpton forbids in the full - montied strip - joint she bartends at.

While this film certainly paints a different picture of the only president never to seek reelection, history buffs won't find much in the way uncovered material.

Clark used to insist that he was not an avid moviegoer, but any good artist has his antennae up, and I'm fascinated by how, if you're a film buff, the apparently - unconscious associations with cinematic trends help to ratchet up the tension in Black Christmas.

The 29 - year - old indie darling has developed somewhat of a cult following among film buffs, thanks to her roles in not one, but three David Cronenberg features (A Dangerous Method, Cosmopolis, and Maps to the Stars).

If I ask a movie buff what he or she expects from The Criterion Collection, I'll probably hear talk about an excellently crafted, artfully made film released with a high standard of audio / visual quality and a handful of in - depth special features.

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Life can be very weird for any British film buff who doesn't live in or near Londori.

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[Pete Hogue is based in Chico, California, where he beguiles local film buffs as the distinguished columnist Juan - Carlos Selznick.