"How Green Was My Valley" (1941)
"How Green Was My Valley" (1941)
20th Century-Fox
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20th Century-Fox
Fox Searchlight Pictures, Regency Enterprises, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment
"12 YEARS A SLAVE" is based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty (personified by a malevolent slave owner, portrayed by Michael Fassbender) as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) forever alters his life.
Fox Searchlight, Regency Enterprises, Worldview Entertainment
This film is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor - famous for portraying an iconic superhero-as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.
La Petite Reine, ARP Sélection, Studio 37
Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a very successful silent movie star. The arrival of talking pictures will mark the end of his career. Peppy Miller, a young woman extra, becomes a major movie star.
Warner Bros. / GK Films / Smokehouse Pictures
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.
The Hurt Locker", winner of the 2008 Venice Film Festival SIGNIS Grand Prize, is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the militarys unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives in one of the worlds most dangerous places. Three members of the Armys elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad battle insurgents and each other as they search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad—in order to try and make the city a safer place for Iraqis and Americans alike....
" All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
To a young Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
" Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
" The average American family hasn't time for television.
" 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 don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
" 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!
" 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.
" It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
" No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
" I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
" Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
" We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
" I'll moider da bum!
" The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
" If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
" Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
" I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
" Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
" The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
" Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
" Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
" Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
" 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!
" 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.
" Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
" Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
" Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
" The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
" Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
" I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
" I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
" Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
" The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
" The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
" 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.
While attending a Production Meeting
" This is no place to ask questions!!
" Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
" No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
" You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
" What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
" I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
" I'll give you a definite maybe.
" I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
" Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
" When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
" Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
" The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
" The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
" Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
" My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.