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In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).

Reagan was a well - known actor before he became president, but he wasn't always watching his own films in the White House theater — that was only on special occasions like his birthday.

Disney's animation machine was looking flimsy there for a minute, but the House of Mouse effectively turned the ship around with a string of delightful animated films like Tangled and...

When he was called to talk about his film, he was in the process of moving furniture out of his house, which he sold to help finance the filming of «Blue Like Jazz.»

Movie night in our house always means popcorn, candy, and a special drink (my girls like to drink something that goes along with the film we're watching).

Once or twice a year, we like to film a video house tour.

The idea at Etude House is that makeup is a form of play, and so every store is designed to look like a life - size doll house, filled with toylike cosmetics: hand cream in dispensers shaped like cute animals and face masks with tongue - in - cheek promises to make you look like a black - and - white film House is that makeup is a form of play, and so every store is designed to look like a life - size doll house, filled with toylike cosmetics: hand cream in dispensers shaped like cute animals and face masks with tongue - in - cheek promises to make you look like a black - and - white film house, filled with toylike cosmetics: hand cream in dispensers shaped like cute animals and face masks with tongue - in - cheek promises to make you look like a black - and - white film star.

After watching the film it was funny to listen to the different reactions to it, Tigger was full of all the details like the Fairy Godmother getting squished in the green house by the pumpkin, the greedy mouse Gus who liked to eat all the cheese and of course the fact that Cinderella lost her glass slipper.

Early in my challenge I had heard about the Summer Screen series at Somerset House, and keen to include one of the evenings in my 30 Dates by 30 Challenge, I posted on Facebook to ask if anyone had a friend who might like to go and watch an outdoor film with me.

«s run time - which I thought was two hours, but it really seemed to be like four - seems devoted to a tertiary subplot in the art house Coherence, a film that lacks traditional narrative structure and drips with the ideas mother!

You can finally meet the like - minded Pirates or Steelers fan, or you can connect with the same film buff and spend evenings at the Row House Cinema.

Im 26 and I dj all over the midlands I specialise in bashment dancehall bassline and house I do like abit of clubbing but as I work in them do nt go every week kond of thing im into music (thats obvs lol) watching films eating out and cooking chef styke meals; — RRB - I like to have a laff and want to...

For instance, I like classical music and opera, great films of the past and present, and dinner parities where I do the cooking and entertaining, and then we all make the rounds to each others house for dinner.

A team effort with longtime friend Romano would result in the straight - to - video comedy Grilled in 2006, with subsequent voice work in the animated family comedies Monster House and Barnyard arriving in theaters later that same year.James would maintain his position as a go - to guy for family friendly comedy over the coming years, appearing in films like I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Grown Ups, and Zookeeper and providing a voice in Hotel Transylvania.

That may sound like a bummer for people expecting a sleek and impersonal autumn thriller, but Johnson has crafted a large enough film to house all of those elements together comfortably.

The Weinstein Co. has rushed this unfinished film into holiday release without the extra cred and preparation that a festival like Cannes could provide; both smart house and black audiences will flock to it.

It comes in a thin, clear, plastic, protective case which houses a 3D Blu - ray case in the shape (the film's star) Emmett; much like that of earlier Simpson DVD releases.

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

Young and Beautiful doesn't have the eerie power of some of Ozon's other films, like «In the House» or «Swimming Pool,» but it is still a fascinating experience.

Cutting his losses at home (where ethnic actors like Al Pacino and, interestingly enough, Robert DeNiro were getting the plum roles), Dullea returned to Canada for a number of interesting but distinctly B - grade films (Welcome to Blood City with a pre-comeback Jack Palance) and the continent for guest starring roles in poorly - received art house productions (Pope Joan with Liv Ullmann) and the occasional thriller (as Mia Farrow's disbelieving stuffed shirt of a husband in The Haunting of Julia).

And despite having an eye like Walker Evans's — witness the somber, still images of dilapidated houses, churches, food shacks, and deserted Main Streets that multiply throughout the film — Wilkerson isn't interested in capturing a stable picture of this life.

If you like silly horror films, then you'll most likely want to watch this film.Veteran horror director Steve Miner (Friday The 13th Part 2, 3, House, Halloween H20) directs this film with wit, and Minder definitely knows how to craft a good, fun, B movie style creature film.

I love stupid school films like Loose Screws, Screwballs, Joy Sticks (doesn't quite count, but should), Animal House and its many rip offs, and heck, I even loved Road Trip and Van WIlder (except for the dog cum scene).

Instead of keeping the film contained to one house like the first one did, it took us to the streets during purge night following 5 characters.

The White House seems cushy and inviting here, like a grand hotel — it's easy to imagine flopping around on the presidential bed — and the warm way the setting is visualized melds with the film's impish attempt to show us the human side of America's ruling elite.

In his introduction, Mankiewicz reminded the audience how «Animal House» and cinematic progeny like «Caddyshack» (1980) «forever changed the face of film comedy.»

It's hard to separate a sequel from its original counterpart, especially with a movie like The Conjuring, which is quite simply one of the very best haunted house movies ever — not only that, but it pretty much set the bar for all future films of its ilk; that's a hell of an accomplishment, to say the least.

In the beginning, the still - at - odds Sophie and Ethan argue in the main house and make up in the guest house and, then like everything else in the film, the rules change.

This is a film riddled with doppelgangers: Candy, the woman who owns a seedy bar that serves as a front for a whore house, looks like an older, more run - down version of Kelly, and Buff, who works at the hospital, and a girl who works for Candy.

I'm not entirely certain why this inspired - by - a-true-story (as chronicled in Andrea Perron's book, «House of Darkness, House of Light») shocker is rated R, except perhaps that the MPAA might have though the film too psychologically intense for kids, but, to me, it's no more intense that PG - 13 horror flicks like The Ring and The Grudge.

We always like to end our weekend box office reports with a little reminder to «Support your local indie theater, boys and girls,» and with the roster of films hitting art house and repertory cinemas in 2011, it was an especially great time to stray away from the sticky floors and text friendly megaplexes.

That's why I was looking forward to «Burnt Offerings», a 70s haunted house film featuring the likes of Oliver Reed, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith and Bette Davis.

How was a film like Olympus Has Fallen from last year, where Asian suicide bombers attacked the White House, allowed to be made with such vicious racial hatred?

Its director, Tom McGrath, talked to Flickering Myth's Freda Cooper about why he wanted to make the film — and why the «micro manager» doesn't intentionally look like the current occupant of The White House.

It looks like Jose Padilha «s «RoboCop» remake will need to find a new villain as Variety reports that «House» star Hugh Laurie has pulled out of negotiations for the film.

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 the US version of The Grudge, Takashi Shimizu has remade his own film, actually featuring most of the same cast members (and what looks like the same house!).

Though he'd built up a strong reputation among critics and cineastes in the 1960s with darker character work in films like Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and the daring masterpiece Victim (1961), he was best known to the public as Simon Sparrow, the heartthrob comic lead in Doctor in the House (1954) and four subsequent sequels.

My Life as a Dog: Criterion Collection Unrated Available on DVD and Blu - ray Swedish with English Subtitles Before cranking out hit films like The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, Swedish director Lasse Holstrom hit the scene big - time with this little indie about a boy who goes on a journey of discovery when he is sent away to give his dying mother some rest.

Even critics of last year's Amores Perros have admitted that an insurgence of Mexican productions into the highly populated art house distribution crowd is increasingly inevitable (the best simile that could be imagined is that the rise of Mexican cinema is like the push for Germany and Japan's permanent inclusion on the UN Security Counsil — hey, as art film distributors are saying, we're still working with the inclusion of Iran and Taiwan).

Supplementals include a 19 - minute featurette from the ROSAS production house — «Improv and Ensemble: The Evolution of a Film» — that's almost too glossy for a film like All the Real Girls, but it does add the perspectives of Zooey (pronounced Zoë) Deschanel and other key cast and crew members, Orr unfortunately not among them.

MG: What was it like working on such an intense film like «Last House on the Left» remake?

The house and grounds look like Westchester possessed by Alabama, which is where the film was actually shot...

Like a late - 1970s haunted house thriller, this film subdues its scares, filling the screen with red herrings and off - handed comedy while building a creepy atmosphere.

Fans of the franchise will notice they use a completely different house that looks nothing like the Myers house used in previous films.

Following intrepid young rookie Mae Holland (Emma Watson) as she finds herself inducted into the hive headquarters of Apple - like tech conglomerate The Circle (with a Google-esque dual housing / work facility that its workers, known as Circlers, never seem to leave), Ponsoldt's film begins by charting an incredibly familiar and shallow trajectory that we've seen in plenty of tales of tech terror like 1984 and Eagle Eye.

Ruffalo, currently winning raves for his role in «Spotlight», says he and Chris Hemsworth («Thor») get on like a house on fire so it's no surprise they've been brought together for the new film.

Others, like Mohicans, Collateral, and The Insider, all flirt with average IMDb ratings close to the 8.0 range that houses nearly every Nolan film.

There are walking tours of the city devoted to the film, showcasing sites like Thrift Town, or the big blue house that serves as Lady Bird's dream home, and the city's tourism board have called the film «a little gem that drops out of the sky.»

David Mamet ---- «House of Games «If it feels like some of the writers on this list kind of lucked into direction having written a film (or several) that became a mainstream success thereafter, there are a few others whose writerly voice was already so established that the idea of having them direct a straightforward genre film is kind of inconceivable (see also: Charlie Kaufman).