In terms of looking for other foundational films, prior to "Cat People," a lot of the monster movies of the 1930s, including "King Kong" and "Frankenstein," and two of my favorites, "Mad Love" and "The Walking Dead," use the stories of monsters, and the idea of a porous line between life and death, to critique society.
Nevertheless, there are sly nods to the foundational Dogme film "The Celebration," as well as to Alexander Payne's "Sideways" — late in the film, Casper sports a bandage on his nose in homage — and, somewhat more improbably, "Deliverance" and "Apocalypse Now".
A morphological transition is observed as film thickness increases from the first few foundational layers to films containing five or more layers.
Highlights on the schedule include a screening of a live performance from Donna Summer (April 14), a screening of house-music documentary Pump Up the Volume (April 19), and a 40th-anniversary screening of foundational disco feature film Saturday Night Fever (April 27).
This is the movie that proved Pixar wasn't a one-trick pony, and it would be a foundational hallmark for its films to come.
This brief survey of his work, presented by the Museum of the Moving Image in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, offers 7 of his 50-odd films spread over two weekends, including the foundational 1962 "Tale of Zatoichi" (Friday at 7 p.m). as well as some of his lesser-known, nonseries work.
An oxide thin-film transistor (TFT) is the foundational device of oxide electronics.
The film quotes Baron de Coubertin's foundational ethos for his modern Olympics: "The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part; the important thing in life is not triumph, but the struggle".
Adult cinema can and should employ cinematic values just as much as any other film; that is one of the foundational beliefs of Lust's work.
But it parades a short list (five to be exact) of "surrogate fathers," including two of the usual suspects, Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers, not just suggesting, but declaring, that these past associations, which the film represents as father-like and foundational, are incontrovertible proof of anti-American sentiment, and anti-American intent on the president's part.
Instead of seeing our world merely as a source of fascination, she says: 'I'm going to make it a part of my art, and I'm still learning.'" Prodigy considers Livingston's film – which he first saw in 1997 – as a foundational text.
