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The film's director, Richard Linklater, scouted the country for talented 13-year-old musicians to play the rock and roll music featured on the soundtrack and in the film. The soundtrack includes " Immigrant Song " by Led Zeppelin , a band that has a very long history of denying permission for use of their songs in film and television.
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...
Seven Samurai (1954) topped the BBC poll of best foreign-language films as well as several Japanese polls.. Battleship Potemkin (1925) was ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951. [3]
This list is sorted by the number of tickets sold nationwide, according to the filmindonesia.or.id. [1] However, the information on filmindonesia.or.id was accrued only from 2007, making some films that was released before 2007 are not included or do not have an accurate number of admissions.
The Jordanian film Amira was withdrawn by the Royal Film Commission of Jordan due to controversy surrounding the film's subject matter. The film, which centers on a Palestinian girl who learns her real father was an Israeli prison guard rather than a Palestinian prisoner, was criticized by prisoners' rights organisations and withdrawn "out of respect to the feelings of the prisoners and their ...
It received an award for being the most lucrative Indonesian film of the 1977–1978 season the following year, [6] being seen by 212,551 people. [ 1 ] Tabloid Bintang considered Badai Pasti Berlalu the fifth best Indonesian film of all time, [ 1 ] while Rolling Stone Indonesia listed the soundtrack album as the best Indonesian album of all time.
Because of this, a Japanese-language film like Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) or a Mayan-language film like Apocalypto (2006) was unable to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, even though they were both nominated for (and, in the case of Letters from Iwo Jima, won) the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film ...
A "Best Foreign Language Film" is generally awarded to a film originating in a country and language different from those where the award is being given. Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, until 2020 called Best Foreign Language Film; BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, until 1990 called Best Foreign Language Film