The Night of the Living Dead has proved a potent source for film-makers over the years.
Independent film festivals like Sundance are also a great source for films.
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For the moments of greatest tension a piano picks out a single, nerve-jangling note and behind the credits at both ends of the film, a Viennese-style waltz serves to remind us that the original source for the film was "Traumnovelle", an obscure novel by Arthur Schnitzler, a Viennese writer.Except in "Dr Strangelove", acting has never been a particularly strong element in Kubrick's work.
How, then, did Steven Spielberg and his producer, Kathleen Kennedy, choose Aviv's tale as the source for their film Munich?
His book, "Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account," was a source for the film, as was Primo Levi's essay "The Drowned and the Saved," about Jews who were forced to become part of the Nazi death machine.
The project was designed to evaluate the feasibility of using permeate from the MBRs treating municipal wastewater as a feed source for thin film composite reverse osmosis (RO) membranes.
In exactly the same way, "Shoah" is altogether more than the delivery of interviews; the interviews are of course the key source for the film, but what transforms them from the mere delivery of information into a profound artistic experience (a process I discuss in my article) is Lanzmann's filming and editing.
(Mario Monicelli's 1959 World War I comedy "La Grande Guerra," which was written by Leone's three screenwriting collaborators on "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" -- Luciano Vincenzoni and the team known as Age and Scarpelli -- is one prime source for the film's structure and characterizations).
In a documentary that is part of the DVD of "The Pianist," released this week by Universal, the director Roman Polanski says that Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of survival in the Warsaw ghetto was the perfect source for a film because it was written shortly after the actual events and was extremely accurate.
