"""Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life"" from the operetta ""Naughty Marietta"". In 1994, the short won a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film. The following year it tied for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film with ""Trevor"". Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1993) is a short comic film for BBC Scotland. Written and directed by Peter Capaldi, it stars Richard E. Grant as Franz Kafka and co-stars Ken Stott. The title refers to the name of the writer Franz Kafka and the film ""It's a Wonderful Life"", directed by Frank Capra,"
"It's a Wonderful Life It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy comedy-drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet ""The Greatest Gift"", which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1945. The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others, and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched, and how different life in his"
"you two guys? You were here on my wedding night!"" Streaming audio It's a Wonderful Life It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy comedy-drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet ""The Greatest Gift"", which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1945. The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others, and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George"
"Park"", ""Bright Young Things"", and ""Penelope"". While filming ""L.A. Story"" with Steve Martin, the pair communicated by fax in what became for both a hilarious dialogue: ""I kept these faxes, which grew to a stack more than 2in thick, because they entertained me, and because I thought they were valuable aesthetic chunks from a screeching mind, a stream-of-consciousness faucet spewing sentences – sometimes a mile long – none of it rewritten, and bearing just the right amount of acid and alkaline."" In 1995, Grant starred as the titular character in Peter Capaldi's short film ""Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life""."
"his film ""Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life"", which was tied with fellow nominee ""Trevor"", leading to both films being announced as joint winners, and won BAFTA Award for Best Short Film a year before that. He also wrote and directed ""Strictly Sinatra"" in 2001, and in 2009 he wrote and presented ""A Portrait of Scotland"", a documentary detailing 500 years' history of Scottish portrait painting. Capaldi directed several episodes of the 2009 BBC Four sitcom ""Getting On"". In 2012, Capaldi wrote (with Tony Roche), directed and performed in ""The Cricklewood Greats"", an affectionate spoof documentary about a fictitious film"
"It Was a Wonderful Life It Was a Wonderful Life is a 1993 documentary film about homeless women in the United States. It won the Gold Award at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. It was also nominated for an award by the International Documentary Association and for Best Documentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival. The film follows six homeless women who were once part of the middle class and explores what caused them to become homeless. It was narrated by Jodie Foster. Lou Hall, one of the homeless women in the film, took her own life on November 7,"
"A Wonderful Life"" ★ ""'Christina Vidal - ""Life with Mikey"" ★ - Producer for """" ★ - Producer of ""The New Lassie"" Series ★ Radio AAHS Program - Bill Barnett, President ★ Ruaidhri Conroy and Ciarán Fitzgerald (Ireland) - ""Into the West"" ★ ""Into the West"" (Ireland) - Directed by Mike Newell 15th Youth in Film Awards The 15th Youth in Film Awards ceremony (now known as the Young Artist Awards), presented by the Youth in Film Association, honored outstanding youth performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television and theatre for the 1992-1993 season, and"
"of the Fall"" (1994), ""The Siege"" (1998), ""The Last Samurai"" (2003), ""Blood Diamond"" (2006), and ""Defiance"" (2008). Along with Marshall Herskovitz, Zwick runs a film production company called The Bedford Falls Company (inspired by the name of the town featured in Frank Capra's ""It's A Wonderful Life""). This company has produced such notable films as ""Traffic"" and ""Shakespeare in Love"" and the TV shows ""thirtysomething"", ""Relativity"", ""Once and Again"", and ""My So-Called Life"". He was one of the recipients of the Academy Award for Best Picture for ""Shakespeare in Love""; he was also nominated in the same category for ""Traffic""."
"1992. It Was a Wonderful Life It Was a Wonderful Life is a 1993 documentary film about homeless women in the United States. It won the Gold Award at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. It was also nominated for an award by the International Documentary Association and for Best Documentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival. The film follows six homeless women who were once part of the middle class and explores what caused them to become homeless. It was narrated by Jodie Foster. Lou Hall, one of the homeless women in the film, took her own life on November"
"Award for Best Short Film for his short film ""Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life"". He went on to write and direct the drama film ""Strictly Sinatra"" and helmed two series of the sitcom ""Getting On"". Capaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Nancy (""née"" Soutar) and Gerald John Capaldi. His paternal grandfather was Italian while the rest of his ancestry is Scottish and Irish. His parents ran an ice cream business in the Springburn district, where they were neighbours and acquaintances of the family of Armando Ianucci, creator of ""The Thick of It"", although the two men did not"
"to Steven Zaillian for ""Schindler's List""). The cast won a Special Golden Globe Award for their ensemble acting. The film also won the prestigious Golden Lion and the Volpi Cup for Best Ensemble Cast at the Venice Film Festival. Short Cuts Short Cuts is a 1993 American comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver. The film has a Los Angeles setting, which substitues the Pacific Northwest backdrop of Carver's stories. Short Cuts traces the actions of 22 principal characters,"
"films. The title of the film was spoofed in the Charley Chase comedy ""Isn't Life Terrible"" (1925). Isn't Life Wonderful Isn't Life Wonderful (1924) is a silent film directed by D. W. Griffith for his company D. W. Griffith Productions, and distributed by United Artists. It was based on the novel by Geoffrey Moss and it went under the alternative title ""Dawn"". A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga (Carol Dempster) is a Polish war orphan"
"A Wonderful Life (musical) A Wonderful Life is a 1986 musical with a book and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Joe Raposo. Based on the classic Frank Capra film ""It's a Wonderful Life"" starring James Stewart, the story closely follows the original plot, set in 1945, telling the story of a suicidal man whose guardian angel reveals to him how different the world and everyone whose life he has touched would be had he never been born. The film was, in turn, based on a 1938 short story by Philip Van Doren Stern called ""The Greatest Gift"". Harnick"
"Life Is Beautiful Life Is Beautiful ( ) is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, who employs his fertile imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp. The film was partially inspired by the book ""In the End, I Beat Hitler"" by Rubino Romeo Salmonì and by Benigni's father, who spent two years in a German labour camp during World War II. The film was a critical and financial success, despite criticisms"
"being caught or punished in any way"". In 1990, ""It's a Wonderful Life"" was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry. In 2002, Britain's Channel 4 ranked ""It's a Wonderful Life"" as the seventh greatest film ever made in its poll ""The 100 Greatest Films"". In June 2008, AFI revealed its ""10 Top 10"", the best ten films in ten ""classic"" American film genres, after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. ""It's a Wonderful Life"" was acknowledged as the third-best film in the"
"Trevor (film) Trevor is a 1994 American short film directed by Peggy Rajski, produced by Randy Stone and Peggy Rajski, and written by James Lecesne. Set in 1981, the film follows what happens to 13-year-old Trevor, a Diana Ross fan, when his crush on a schoolmate named Pinky Faraday gets discovered. In 1995, it tied for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject with ""Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life"" at the 67th Academy Awards. It won the Teddy Award for Best Short in 1995. In 1998, director Peggy Rajski brought fellow filmmakers Randy Stone and James Lecesne together to"
"Isn't Life Wonderful Isn't Life Wonderful (1924) is a silent film directed by D. W. Griffith for his company D. W. Griffith Productions, and distributed by United Artists. It was based on the novel by Geoffrey Moss and it went under the alternative title ""Dawn"". A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga (Carol Dempster) is a Polish war orphan who has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to marry Paul"
"Bedford Falls (It's a Wonderful Life) Bedford Falls (or Pottersville) is the fictional town in which Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short story ""The Greatest Gift"" and RKO Pictures' 1946 film adaptation, ""It's a Wonderful Life,"" are set. In 1945, Frank Capra visited Seneca Falls in the state of New York to look for inspiration for the town of Bedford Falls. The two towns are very similar as they are both mill towns, they both had a grassy median down the main street (Seneca Falls does not anymore), both communities boast Victorian architecture and a large Italian population, and they"
"The Greatest Gift ""The Greatest Gift"" is a 1943 short story written by Philip Van Doren Stern which became the basis for the film ""It's a Wonderful Life"" (1946). It was self-published as a booklet in 1943 and published as a book in 1944. The film was nominated for five Oscars and has been recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films ever made, placing number 11 on its initial 1998 greatest movie list and also placed number one on its list of the most inspirational American films of all time. George Pratt, a"
"It's a Wonderful Life (2007 film) It's a Wonderful Life is a 2007 Hong Kong comedy film written, directed by and starring Ronald Cheng, who makes his directorial debut. The film co-stars Tony Leung, Vincent Kok, Alex Fong, Teresa Mo and Louisa So. The Jade Emperor (Patrick Dunn) is offering a reward for a proposal plan to promote the economy of Heaven. When Thunder God (Ronald Cheng), who known for his cleverness, submits his proposal to the Jade Emperor, Thunder God's girlfriend, the Saint of Nine Heavens (Mia Yam), reveals that thirty years ago, Thunder God once descended to Earth"
"""Lifetime Achievement"" Award for his role as little ""Tommy Bailey"" in the 1946 classic, ""It's a Wonderful Life"", and during the Christmas season of 1997, he produced a holiday special for the Public Broadcasting Service. During the late 1990s, as ""It's a Wonderful Life"" enjoyed a revival of interest nationally, Hawkins and Paul Peterson wrote the """"It's a Wonderful Life"" Trivia Book"". Hawkins explains the durability of ""It's a Wonderful Life"": ""Well, the reason it caught on was that the film fell into public domain. Somebody at the studio let the copyright go, and television stations all over the country"
"""Barcarolle"" by Jacques Offenbach. The soundtrack album won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and was nominated for a Grammy Award: ""Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media"", but lost to the score of ""A Bug's Life"". Life Is Beautiful Life Is Beautiful ( ) is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, who employs his fertile imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp."
"wins for the Academy Award for Best Director in the 1930s and 40s for films such as ""It's a Wonderful Life"" (1946). Capra produced the four films that were televised from 1956–1958. The second four films were produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, with veteran filmmaker Owen Crump in charge; these were televised between 1958 and 1962. The final film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and televised in 1964. Each special explored a single subject in detail. The host for the first eight films was Dr. Frank C. Baxter, a USC professor of English and television personality who played the"
"done so for more than two decades. Since 2003, Hirsch has spent her time working as adjunct professor of editing at USC film school. Tina Hirsch Tina Hirsch (born 1943)—also known as Bettina Kugel Hirsch, Bettina Hirsch, and Bettina Kugel—is an American film editor and an adjunct professor of editing at the University of Southern California. Tina Hirsch began to edit films in the late 1960s, including ""Death Race 2000"" (1975) and the sequels ""More American Graffiti"" (1979) and """" (1982). In the '80s, she edited the ""It's a Good Life"" sequence in the """" (1983) as well as Joe"
"a planned professional production was stalled by legal wrangling with the estate of Philip Van Doren Stern. It was eventually performed in Washington, D.C., by Arena Stage in 1991, and had revivals in the 21st century, including a staged concert version in New York City in 2005 and several productions by regional theatres. Another musical stage adaptation of the film, titled ""It's a Wonderful Life – The Musical"", was written by Bruce Greer and Keith Ferguson. This version premiered at the Majestic Theatre, Dallas, Texas, in 1998. It was an annual Christmas show at the theatre for five years. It"
"they were first released. In ensuing decades, however, ""It's a Wonderful Life"" and other Capra films were revisited favorably by critics. Outside of directing, Capra was active in the film industry, engaging in various political and social issues. He served as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, worked alongside the Writers Guild of America, and was head of the Directors Guild of America. Capra was born Francesco Rosario Capra in Bisacquino, a village near Palermo, Sicily. He was the youngest of seven children of Salvatore Capra, a fruit grower, and the former Rosaria ""Serah"" Nicolosi. Capra's"
"Isn't Life Wonderful! </ref> Isn't Life Wonderful! is a 1953 British Technicolor comedy film directed by Harold French. It was released in the U.S. as Uncle Willie's Bicycle Shop, the title of Brock Williams original 1948 novel based on his boyhood experiences. An Edwardian family must deal with its black sheep, the alcoholic Uncle Willie (Donald Wolfit). In Edwardian England, alcoholic Uncle Willie (Donald Wolfit) is an embarrassment to his family. Head of the household father (Cecil Parker), decides to set Willie up as the manager of a bicycle shop, hoping to impress visiting American heiress Virginia van Stuyden (Dianne"
"mid-December 2015 the small Scottish village of Birgham has been unofficially twinned with Bedford Falls, even having their road signs amended to include the reference. Bedford Falls (It's a Wonderful Life) Bedford Falls (or Pottersville) is the fictional town in which Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short story ""The Greatest Gift"" and RKO Pictures' 1946 film adaptation, ""It's a Wonderful Life,"" are set. In 1945, Frank Capra visited Seneca Falls in the state of New York to look for inspiration for the town of Bedford Falls. The two towns are very similar as they are both mill towns, they both"
"final Frank Capra production, ""It's a Wonderful Life ""(1946). The role was Stewart's first since returning from service in World War II, during which he experienced what is now recognized as post-traumatic stress disorder. Capra paid RKO for the rights to the story and formed his own production company, Liberty Films. The female lead went to Donna Reed when Capra's perennial first choice, Jean Arthur, was unavailable, and after Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Dvorak, and Martha Scott had all turned down the role. Stewart appeared as George Bailey, an upstanding small-town man who becomes increasingly frustrated by his"
"by actor Tony Goldwyn, who also performed the voice of the lead character in the film, and Samuel L. Jackson performed the description for """". TheatreVision has also prepared special presentations for television, often providing live descriptions of the annual Academy Awards, and notably describing the classic film ""It's a Wonderful Life"" for NBC's traditional annual broadcast of the film (with the descriptive audio carried on the SAP (Second Audio Program) channel), with the narrative description performed by former president George H. W. Bush. Helen Harris is the founder of RPI and a longtime activist for the blind and vision"
"selected ""A Perfect World"" as the best film of 1993. A Perfect World A Perfect World is a 1993 crime drama road film directed by Clint Eastwood starring Kevin Costner as an escaped convict who befriends a young boy (T.J. Lowther) and ends up embarking on a road trip with the child. Eastwood co-stars as a Texas Ranger in pursuit of the convict. In 1963 Texas, convicts Robert ""Butch"" Haynes (Kevin Costner) and Terry Pugh (Keith Szarabajka) escape from the state penitentiary in Huntsville. Fleeing, Pugh stumbles into a house where eight-year-old Phillip Perry (T.J. Lowther) lives with his devout"
"Jerome Bixby Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (January 11, 1923 – April 28, 1998) was an American short story writer and scriptwriter. He wrote the 1953 story ""It's a Good Life"" which was the basis for a 1961 episode of ""The Twilight Zone"" and which was included in """" (1983). He also wrote four episodes for the """" series: """", ""Day of the Dove"", ""Requiem for Methuselah"", and ""By Any Other Name"". With Otto Klement, he co-wrote the story upon which the science fiction movie ""Fantastic Voyage"" (1966), television series, and novel by Isaac Asimov were based. Bixby's final produced or"
"""It's a Wonderful Life"" (1946) and ""Miracle on 34th Street"" (1947). Moviefone listed the two movies as number two and three respectively in their ""25 Best Christmas Movies of All Time"". ""The Times"" of London, in a similar ranking, had the two in tenth and eight respectively, while placing fourth 1942's ""Holiday Inn"", the movie that launched Bing Crosby's ""White Christmas"". Particularly Frank Capra's ""It's a Wonderful Life"", starring James Stewart has been called ""a testament to the family values of small-town America just after WWII."" ""Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"" (1964) regularly appears on lists of the worst films"