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Despite its success among critics, the film was a box office failure, grossing $2.6 million worldwide against a production budget of $6 million. Waves grossed a total of $1.7 million in the United States. [2] In its limited opening weekend, the film made $134,333 from four theaters, a per-venue average of $33,583. [22]
Film Subject(s) Lead actor or actress 1900: Joan of Arc: Joan of Arc: Jeanne Calviere: 1906: The Story of the Kelly Gang: Ned Kelly: Frank Mills: 1909: The Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata: Ludwig van Beethoven: Harry Baur: The Life of Moses: Moses: Pat Hartigan: Edgar Allen Poe: Edgar Allan Poe: Herbert Yost: Saul and David: King David ...
Cecilia Ager, reviewing it in PM Magazine, wrote: “Seeing it, it’s as if you never really saw a movie before.” [5] It has been consistently ranked as the greatest film ever made. He directed twelve other features, the most acclaimed of which include The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Othello (1951), Touch of ...
James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American film composer and conductor. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music. [1] [2]
The Other Side of the Mountain is a 1975 American drama romance film based on the true story of ski racing champion Jill Kinmont. The film was titled A Window to the Sky in the United Kingdom. [3] In early 1955, Kinmont was the national champion in slalom, and was a top U.S. prospect for a medal in the 1956 Winter Olympics, a year away.
The Mind has Mountains (1976) Look, Stranger! (1978) He Who Plays the King (1980) March House (1981) Good Daughters (1984) Indifferent Heroes (1985) Welcome Strangers (1986) An Irrelevant Woman (1987) A Particular Place (1989) Letters from Constance (1991) The Very Dead of Winter (1993) The Meeting Place (1996)
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination is a book by British writer Robert Macfarlane published in 2003 about the history of human fascination with mountains. The book takes its title from a line by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and combines history with first-person narrative.
Love was born in Todmorden, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, [2] the only son and younger of two surviving children (an elder sister Cornelia) of African American Thomas Edward (Kidd) Love and his English wife, Frances Helen Maycock (1892–1975), an actress and singer.