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"Mary was a powerhouse in early Hollywood, and helped shape the industry and art of filmmaking as we know it."
"Eileen Whitfield appropriately titled her biography of Pickford, 'The Woman Who Made Hollywood.'"
"The Great Movie Ride casts guests on a spectacular journey into cinema, including visits to such classic movies as The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Alien."
"The Wild Bunch, 1969, what many of us call the Western movie Bible, was unlike any Western, any movie ever made. It set audiences and critics on edge and has been acknowledged as one of the greatest films ever made, not just Westerns."
"Scream rose out of the schlocky slash-ash of the '80s, stole all the tropes, and turned horror on its head."
"Critics tend to cite the years 1968-1984 as the Golden Age of horror cinema."
"Psycho changed what we know about cinema and audience expectations and gave birth to a new sub-genre of horror: the slasher."
"George Lucas said after seeing the first test shots of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, 'It was like one of those moments in history, like the invention of the light bulb or the first telephone call. A major gap had been crossed, and things were never going to be the same.'"
"When we talk about Francis Ford Coppola, all of us immediately think of the 1970s and how he owned that decade."
"What everyone remembers most about King Kong are the special effects, revolutionary at the time."
"James Bond movies are a perfect litmus test of Cinema and Blockbusters at that point in time."
"A Trip to the Moon gets referenced everywhere from Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, to the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1996 music video for Tonight, Tonight."
"Jurassic Park changed the way movies were marketed and fundamentally changed special effects for the film industry."
"Joe Pesci's second film was Raging Bull, one of the greatest films of all time."
"Happy 61 years of Kamal Hassan in Indian cinema."
"Every single blockbuster owes a debt to jaws."
"Cheney became famous for his iconic portrayals of classic movie Monsters, particularly his role as Lawrence Talbot, The Wolf Man, in the Universal horror films of the 1940s."
"Despite his struggles, Lugosi's Legacy endures with his portrayal of Dracula remaining one of the most iconic in cinema history."
"Is this one of the coolest things in the history of cinema? I'm going to say yes."
"There's something about movies from this period."
"Star Wars was the first ever science fiction film nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award."
"When Captain America was barely an IceCube, Godzilla was pioneering one of the world's first cinematic universes."
"It's amazing how this movie that was made so long ago and was lost forever is as relevant maybe more relevant today than it was when it was made."
"Up was the first animated film to open the Cannes Film Festival."
"Louise Dresser was perhaps best remembered for her several roles playing the wife of Will Rogers."
"London After Midnight is by far the most sought after of lost films for one reason."
"When history of cinema looks back on this decade it'll be like this is the Marvel era, mm-hmm."
"Coming to America is the very first movie in the history of movies that has an all-black cast that was successful all around the world."
"Perhaps no name, and no character – his Little Tramp – have come to symbolize classic cinema more than that of Charlie Chaplin."
"Ji Han Ji, starred in an incredibly popular movie with Bruce Lee."
"This is one of the most versatile, memorable, and instantly recognizable scores in movie history."
"The blockbuster franchise in its modern form really got its start when a couple of USC grads started turning out big production genre films."
"Jurassic Park is an important part of cinema history."
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarves set the course for animated film for decades."
"Being okay back then is what led other comic book movies to being great today even if it didn't leave as great a story as you remember it still left a great impact for comic book movies to follow."
"Hitchcock did a fight on the Statue of Liberty decades earlier and not only did it feel more grand in scale but somehow it felt like it had more color than the actual color movie did."
"The best thing that it will hopefully come out of this is that more people go back and watch Rudy ray Moore movies."
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit hit theaters on June 22nd, 1988, and was an immediate box office hit and critical success..."
"Since the earliest days of Hollywood, notable figures and incidents of the Old West have been memorably captured in cinema."
"Wizard of Oz was one of the greatest technical achievements ever in cinema. To insult it like this is just cruel and beyond money-grubbing."
"Hopkins's performance in particular is destined to endure as one of cinema's eternal greats."
"A movie came out that became the second biggest opening in the history of cinema."
"I would love to see a return of double features, double bills."
"I think it's one of the three or four most influential films ever made and continues to be."
"Cate Blanchett refers to the moment hiccup sees the masked ball Cup for the first time as the greatest entry of a character in cinema history." - Number 88
"Congratulations to Jordan Peele get out the movie and Jordan Peele have just made movie history peel is the first african-american writer and director to pass the over 100 million threshold for his debut feature film."
"There was a revolution going on in the film industry in the 1970s."
"Buster Keaton is a massive pioneer in stunt work for modern-day filmmakers."
"The anxiety of worrying about telling the truth is worse than telling the actual truth."
"Raiders of the Lost Ark is all of cinema history."
"It's like the exponential blockbuster is still kind of a relatively new thing."
"The result was at the time absolutely astounding, they were churning out special effects shots that nobody else had even come close to."
"There's never been a period in history when more original films have been made than today."
"The Wizard of Oz is kind of famously known for having a real troubled and difficult shoot."
"Evans probably appeared in all the big ones that you would think of from the time."
"Psycho was a huge success and earned Perkins a great deal of attention with much praise coming his way."
"He went on to co-found United Artists, still one of the most famous studios in Hollywood today."
"True or false, A Nightmare on Elm Street was the first feature film produced by New Line Cinema? True."
"Rudolph Valentino was a silent movie star, the world's first male sex icon."
"Introduced in a 1961 solo film, the Queen of the Monsters is a seemingly magical being worshipped as a god by the natives of Infant Island."
"From his 1954 debut and subsequent revivals throughout the decades, it's nearly impossible to keep the big guy away from movie screens."
"The Golden Age of Cinema wasn't just about silver screens and enchanting tales; it was an era of passion, temptation, and scandalous secrets."
"The best is behind us with Godfather, but that doesn't mean we haven't had awesome stuff to be excited about."
"With such a long and beloved history, it shouldn't be a surprise that some of our most cherished films may hold far deeper and more thought-provoking meanings than we realized."
"He did not want to direct it so they replaced him with a man named Steven Spielberg and we got the movie Jaws."
"One of the key actors in this Best Picture Oscar-winning film died before the end of filming, resulting in millions of dollars of post-production work to wrap up his storyline."
"Without the original X-Men film, superhero movies just wouldn't be where they are today."
"Director Edgar Wright led the tributes on Twitter, calling Von Sydow a, quote, 'iconic presence in cinema for seven decades.'"
"She always preferred working with people like Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, or Warren William."
"Believe it or not, the Best Picture Award has existed since 1927."
"Little did the public know, this movie was actually the original Batman vs Superman."
"...the sprawling Universal Pictures Monsterverse, simultaneously creating a new genre for the American moviegoer: the talkie horror film."
"After hundreds of movies and countless interpretations, there is still only one man who is synonymous with the zombie movie - George A. Romero."
"Jaws is the first ever summer blockbuster."
"Creating the first summer blockbuster... changing Cinema forever."
"There was a kind of comedy version of Casino before this, but this is the first Albert Broccoli, Ian Fleming, and Sean Connery James Bond film."
"James Bond was the first ever modern action star."
"Even Indiana Jones would not exist without James Bond."
"Leia, Chewy, and C3PO in The Empire Strikes Back remains one of the biggest backstabs in cinema history."
"Suspiria has been ranked by Empire magazine as one of the 500 greatest movies ever made."
"In 1984 that's just what happened with gusto only it wasn't in our dreams but on the big screen and the nightmare on Elm Street has since gone on to be regarded as one of the greatest if not the greatest slasher movie of all time."
"My kills version of the most famous face in silent horror, that's Lon Chaney Sr. as The Phantom of the Opera."
"The dam Busters film has gone down in cinema history and not only cinema history but in British popular history is perhaps one of the the best known and best loved films of the 20th century."
"Movies like that make you appreciate where movies went."
"I really enjoy that about this film and it's what makes it one of the greats. I know people don't favor this but I'm telling you, it's these things like this in early Cinema that made what we know now today."
"The tense nomination for 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' put her right next to Betty Davis as the most nominated performer ever."
"At least we have these films to look back on. At least we have this one and the second one."
"There is no gainsaying why he became the hottest talent and the highest-paid actor in France's cinema history."
"The Predator is one of Cinema's most iconic movie monsters and rightfully so."
"Julie Dash changed cinema history not just in the United States but around the world."
"Cinema has a long, proud history of undead skeletons as cabbies."
"Heath Ledger's performance in this film was the greatest performance in cinema history."
"The Egyptian was the birthplace of the movie premiere, with searchlights crossing the sky."
"Imagine sitting in one of those plush velvet seats surrounded by the rich history of Cinema."
"Looking for Joan Crawford, the famous actress whose name was originally Lucille LeSueur."
"It's just as strong, I think, '82 so many great movies came out that year."
"But in 1958, something charged onto cinema screens that re-wrote the rulebook and genre cinema would never be the same again."
"Who would have thought we would get three Spider-Mans, bringing together 20 years of Spider-Man into this movie."
"Before the Avengers, it was almost unheard of to get those types of movie stars in movies together."
"Released in 1984 and expected to flop by its distributor, and even its star, 'The Terminator' was a low budget film from a director known only for 'Piranha 2'. Yet it became a cultural touchstone, influencing cinema for decades."
"Film never started as an artistic experiment to begin with."
"When Nat Taylor opened the world's biggest multiplex in Toronto, he changed the way the world goes to the movies."
"Kent saved so many iconic costumes from Casablanca, from Singing in the Rain, from Gone With the Wind, and from The Wizard of Oz."
"Just think how incomplete the history of cinema will be without the iconic Norma Delandic scene from Saving Private Ryan and the long take from Children of Men."
"In 1953, she became the first actress who won the Academy Award."
"Capture the memory of the 1977 Tottenham Court Road opening night showing in the UK."
"The first movie to use miniatures and the movie that is regarded as the pioneer of VFX is Georges Méliès' 1902 movie A Trip to the Moon."
"I would say Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by John Huston, and probably a movie you might not expect, a film called All About Eve by Joseph L. Mankiewicz."
"Jaws came out in 1975 and changed the film industry forever."
"We have a century's worth of films to draw on, beautiful international films made for children of that age."
"Psycho was actually the first time that a toilet was seen in a movie and actually flushed in a movie."
"Georges Méliès, known as the father of movie special effects, combined elaborate theatrical effects with animations and special optical tricks."
"The history of cinema is in part an anthology of premature obituaries."
"Stay tuned for more exciting content from the Golden Age of Cinema."
"It's considered by many to be the progenitor to all of these great slasher films that have come out."
"It's the most iconic prop in the history of cinema."
"Alfred Hitchcock's 1960s thriller Psycho was the first film to display a flushing toilet."
"The golden era of samurai films was during the 50s and 60s."
"Let me take you back to the days of silent film, when movies were a visual art."
"He was the screen's first Western hero, one of the biggest Hollywood stars in the fledgling movie industry."
"The cinema was not a specific language from its inception; it was a simple means of mechanical recording, preserving, and reproducing moving visual spectacles."
"Movies such as The Jazz Singer, and to a lesser extent, Sunrise, brought sound into cinema, changing movies forever."
"The robot scene in Metropolis is one of the first robots to be used in cinema."
"Ginger Rogers made 73 films over a 50-year career and she is truly a screen and dance legend."
"If not for the Lost World, there may not have even been a King Kong."
"We're watching the birth of the movies, the discovery of the language of cinema in these early films."
"The Mummy not only pays homage to history but to its cinematic ancestor as well."
"When the Silence of the Lambs was released upon the world in 1991, it not only became a financial and critical success but also the third film in history to win all five of the big awards at the Oscars."
"The most interesting thing about where this movie came from is that they tried to make a Black Panther movie back in the 90s with Wesley Snipes."
"This movie actually has a little bit of history behind it because it is the movie that led to the creation of one of the greatest heavy metal songs ever written."
"Disney employed 90 speakers in the first cinema surround sound deployments 80 years ago in 1940."
"It's almost like you could break down the history of comic films into B.A.E. and A.A.E. - Before Avengers Endgame and After Avengers Endgame."
"In the early days of movie theaters, they were called nickelodeons because it cost a nickel to get into a film."
"Modern films are what they are today in large part thanks to Star Wars completely changing the game."
"Costumes are in here from the entire history, a hundred years of cinema."
"It was the first traditionally full-length feature animated film ever."