Impossible cinema
- Document author(s):
- Richard Combs
- Document source:
- Film Comment
- Publication date:
- 2002 Nov
- Document language:
- English
- Document type:
- article
- Number of pages:
- 6
- Source pagination:
- 46-52
- Document name subject:
- John Frankenheimer, Robert De Niro, Raul Julia, Gregory Peck, Cliff Robertson, and Michael Gambon
- Document contains:
- production co
- Related films:
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- The magnificent Ambersons — Welles, Orson; Wise, Robert; Fleck, Fred — United States — 1942
- The young stranger — Frankenheimer, John — United States — 1957
- The Manchurian candidate — Frankenheimer, John — United States — 1962
- All fall down — Frankenheimer, John — United States — 1962
- Birdman of Alcatraz — Frankenheimer, John — United States — 1962
- Days of wine and roses — Edwards, Blake — No country known — 1962
- Seconds — Frankenheimer, John — United States — 1966
- The gypsy moths — Frankenheimer, John — United States — 1969
- I walk the line — Frankenheimer, John — No country known — 1970
- The horsemen — Frankenheimer, John — United States; Afghanistan — 1971
- Story of a love story — Frankenheimer, John — France; Italy — 1973
- The French connection II — Frankenheimer, John — United States — 1975
- Black sunday — Frankenheimer, John — United States — 1976
- The island of Dr. Moreau — Frankenheimer, John — United States — 1996
- Ronin — Frankenheimer, John — United States — 1998
- Film country(ies):
- Afghanistan, France, Italy, and United States
- Film language(s):
- English
- Film production company:
- Afghan Films, Columbia Pictures, Edward Lewis Productions, FGM Entertainment, Joel Productions, John Frankenheimer Productions Inc., M.C. Pictures, Mercury Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, New Line Cinema Corporation, Norma Films, Paramount Pictures, RKO Pictures, Ronin Productions, Stuart Miller Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and United Artists Corporation
- Film genre(s):
- Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Biographical, Caper, Crime, Drama, Espionage, Family, Feature, Historical, Mystery, Political, Prison, Romance, Science fiction, Thriller, and War
- Film subject(s):
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- Animal experimentation -- Drama
- Brainwashing -- Drama
- Buzkashi -- Drama
- Cold War -- Drama
- Condon, Richard. The Manchurian candidate -- Film and video adaptations
- Dozier, Robert. Deal a blow -- Film and video adaptations
- Drought, James. The gypsy moths -- Film and video adaptations
- Drug addiction -- Drama
- Drug traffic -- France -- Drama
- Ecological disturbances -- Drama
- Ely, David, 1927- -- Film and video adaptations
- Family life -- United States -- 1865-1918 -- Drama
- Family life -- United States -- Drama
- Fathers and sons -- Afghanistan -- Drama
- Fathers and sons -- United States -- Drama
- Gaddis, Tom. Birdman of Alcatraz -- Film and video adaptations
- Harris, Thomas, 1940- . Black Sunday -- Film and video adaptations
- Identity (Psychology) -- Drama
- Impostors and imposture -- Drama
- Infidelity -- Drama
- Intelligence officers -- Drama
- Irish Republican Army -- Drama
- Juvenile delinquency -- Drama
- Kessel, Joseph, 1898-1979. The horsemen -- Film and video adaptations
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Veterans -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- France -- Drama
- Ornithologists -- United States -- Biography -- Drama
- Presidents -- Assassination attempts -- Drama
- Robbery -- France -- Drama
- Skydivers -- Drama
- Stroud, Robert, 1890-1963 -- Drama
- Super Bowl (Football game) -- Drama
- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Drama
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. Magnificent Ambersons -- Film and video adaptations
- Terrorism -- United States -- Drama
- Undercover operations -- Drama
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918 -- Drama
- United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California -- History -- Drama
- Wells, H.G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. The island of Dr. Moreau -- Film and video adaptations
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