Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film directed and written by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban and Cary Guffey. Close Encounters tells the story of Roy Neary, an Indiana electrical lineman, and his encounter and obsessions with unidentified flying objects. The plot further develops due to the pr...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film directed and written by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban and Cary Guffey. Close Encounters tells the story of Roy Neary, an Indiana electrical lineman, and his encounter and obsessions with unidentified flying objects. The plot further develops due to the pr...

"Unchained Melody" è un popolare brano arrangiato da Alex North e scritto da Hy Zaret. È una delle canzoni più registrate del ventesimo secolo, cantata in oltre 500 differenti versioni ed in diverse lingue. Nel 1955, North usò la musica da lui composta come tema del film di ambientazione carceraria Senza catene che venne cantata dal baritono Todd Duncan. Ne seguirono diverse cover: la versione di ...

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically at the Academy Awards ceremonies to "Creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production." The award is named for Irving Thalberg, legendary head of the Production Division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who developed the company's reputation for sophisticated films. The trophy for award re...

Martinique Barrelhouse J.B./Reimer von Essen 1989 I find clarinetist Reimer von Essen ( the one on the right) stylistically the leading force in this band. In this clip from a broadcast from Germany they play the Wilber de Paris composition "Martinique From their website: Jazz, from New Orleans to Swing, presented in an entirely original form by the leading classic jazzgroup in Germany. Founded in...

Diana Ross (born March 26,1944) is an American twelve-time Grammy and Oscar-nominated singer, record producer and actress, whose musical repertoire spans R&B, soul, pop, disco and jazz. During the 1960s, she helped shape the sound of popular music and the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970. Since the beginning of her career with Th...

Parte do grande evento em que o Diretor John G. Avildsen ganha oscar, pelo filme Rocky na "Academy Awards" em 1977.

Cristy Lane is best remembered for her 1979 single "One Day at a Time," a gospel song that blended Protestant fervor with the language of self-help in a seamless, heartfelt whole. She is also noteworthy as one of the builders of the Branson, MO, live-entertainment phenomenon. Lane was born Eleanor Johnston to a family of 12 in Peoria, IL. Married before she was 20, she had three children by 1964. ...

CRISTY LANEblended Protestant fervor with the language of self-help in a seamless, heartfelt whole. She is also noteworthy as one of the builders of the Branson, MO, live-entertainment phenomenon. Lane was born Eleanor Johnston to a family of 12 in Peoria, IL. Married before she was 20, she had three children by 1964. Her husband, Lee Stoller, a salesman, encouraged her to sing professionally, but...

IT'S 1977 AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS AND JOHN G. AVILDSEN, THE DIRECTOR OF R O C K Y WINS THE OSCAR. ROCKY ALSO WINS BEST PICTURE AND BEST EDITING.

This is a countdown of my favorite Martin Scorsese Movies. Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (pronounced /skɔrˈsɛsi/ in English[1] and IPA: [luˈtʃaːno skoɾˈseːze] in Italian; born November 17, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, producer, actor and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient ...

The 80th Oscars are on 24th February and here's a montage of all the best pictures from 1927-2006. To some the Oscars are irrelevant self-indulgent trash, to others it's just a show full of glitz and glamour. What is/are your favourite/s? I'd say 1987 The Last Emperor, 1977 Annie Hall, 1972 The Godfather, 1969 Midnight Cowboy, and 1962 Lawrence of Arabia. Without a doubt the worst movie is 2005 Cr...

A failed skyjacking attempt leaves a luxury jetliner trapped below the waves in the Bermuda Triangle. Starring Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon, Lord of the Rings star Christopher Lee, and Hollywood legend Joseph Cotton, "Airport '77" rewrote the rules for the modern disaster epic. Winner of two Academy Awards, this blockbuster's special effects created new techniques which would be later u...

Academy Awards "Oscars" Barbra Streisand - "Evergreen", and other footage of Barbra at the Oscars

Kanye Omari West (born June 8, 1977) is an American record producer and rapper who rose to fame in the mid 2000s. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, and his third album Graduation in 2007. His first two albums received numerous awards (including six Grammys),critical acclaim, and commercial success. West also runs his own record lab...

I knew it! I felt it coming. I could feel it in my bones. Ideas about about beauty (aesthetics), politics and power are changing. That Helen Mirren won every major acting award this year is not just poetic justice for an actress of such extraordinary gifts with a film career dating back to 1967, it is a clue to something deeper. There were hints of this with Something's Gotta Give (2003) starring ...

Dutch Documentary to Kick Off IDFA 2006The 19th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is pleased to announce that its opening night film will be 4 Elements by Dutch filmmaker Jiska Rickels. The poetic film 4 Elements is the first feature-length documentary by Jiska Rickels (1977). In 2003, she graduated from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy with the film Untertage, which gar...