"We can't buy everything", says Sue Deeks, the pioneering head of BBC acquisitions, who began BBC4's enlightened policy of screening subtitled drama when she bought the gritty French cop show Spiral in 2006.
They communicate elegantly in sign language (translated on screen by subtitles).
The basic premise is simple: During such deathless Rodgers and Hammerstein standards as "Sixteen Going On Seventeen," "So Long, Farewell" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," moviegoers sing along to the lyrics, which appear on the screen as subtitles.
A recent video called "On the Map (Yellow on Yellow)" presents a blank yellow screen with subtitles in yellow type displaying transcripts of sensational television news reports from Spanish-language television: stories about a kidnapping, the births of a deformed horse and a premature baby, and so on.
Film screening with subtitles, props, fancy-dress competition and audience participation.
In the multiplexes of Mumbai and Delhi, the film was screened with subtitles; it had a successful theatrical run and attracted the audience there.
Most of the actors are non-professionals Garrone picked off the street (two of them were actually just arrested for mafia involvement, no shit), all of whom speak such incomprehensibly tight Neapolitan dialect that the movie was screened with subtitles even for the Italian market.
The film is being screened with subtitles on January 5 Miyazaki's birthday and dubbed by a cast including Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Billy Bob Thornton on January 9. Tickets are available all across the country thanks to GKIDS, who also resurrected rare Studio Ghibli TV movie Ocean Waves and the Oscar-winning Spirited Away last December.
One minute his HD digital creations seduce with footage of forests, fruit or beaches, the next they're erupting with clips from zombie movies or strobing green screen while empty subtitle boxes that resemble ticker-tape strips randomly spring up.
When Billy and Sylvia sign in front of his family and the dialogue isn't always flashed on the subtitle screen, we're shown what it's like for the family to suddenly feel cut off from what is being said.
