It seems unlikely that the maker of a mob movie, which made audiences look at a familiar topic with fresh eyes thanks to its unflinching grittiness, should end up in this land of monsters, giants and enchanted forests.
7. SOME LIKE IT HOT (Billy Wilder, 1959) Two leading actors in drag, one feigning impotence, the other experiencing gender doubts, made audiences re-think sexual matters at a time when movies were still severely censored.
Mr. Hanania said he was fired because Mr. Mason thought his Palestinian humor might make audiences uncomfortable at the club, Zanies, where it was "my goal to use Arab humor to break the headlock between Jews and Arabs," Mr. Hanania said.
How can it make audiences feel present at the creation all over again?
These movies were often on the far edge of comedy, where sexual pain and sexual pleasure are mixed with politically incorrect stereotypes and a bleak worldview to make audiences laugh and squirm at the same time.
As he's previously demonstrated, he has the uncanny ability to make audiences laugh while tugging at their heartstrings -- the gift indicating more than a spark of genius.
Yet, the Oscars remain the most important awards program for many people, probably because the movies, at their best, make audiences feel things about themselves and life that other media don't bring into focus as completely or effectively.
"Elective Affinities," which went straight to video, should make the audience at the Modern rise up in revolt against the distributors of foreign films in this country.
Many of the people who made up our audiences at the Mercury Theater often came to us straight from such picket lines, and stayed after the curtain to buy ambulances for those fighting Franco in Spain.
On a weekend when "Guardians of the Galaxy" overtook the box office with a record August opening of an estimated $94 million, theaters still made room for audiences at other movies.
