Midnight Express

...gets his gratification. Comparing the moment to the dramatic poignant and memorable sequence in Alan Parker s 1979 prison drama Midnight Express where the young prison inmate makes his girlfriend undress from across the glass partition...

In this article: God, Titanic, Kate Winslet, Madhur Bhandarkar, Ranbir Kapoor, Alan Parker, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Saawariya

...do not speak for me,' bellowed one senior ex-Minister on Monday in front of assembled MPs. It feels like that moment in the film Midnight Express when inmate Billy Hayes turns around and walks against the flow of the treadmill, to the...

In this article: John Mann, BBC Radio 5 Live, National Union, Billy Hayes, Labour, Ferret, and Gordon Brown

...of a Salesman. Sam Peckinpah s violent and controversial Straw Dogs was the first film Melnick produced. He also helped to develop classic movies like Midnight Express, Kramer Vs. Kramer, All That Jazz and The China Syndrome at Columbia.

In this article: Straw Dogs, Los Angeles Times, Sherry Lansing, MGM, John Gielgud, Sam Peckinpah, Kramer vs. Kramer, Making Love, and The China Syndrome

Sam Peckinpah's violent and controversial Straw Dogs was the first film Melnick produced. He also helped to develop classic movies like Midnight Express, Kramer Vs. Kramer, All That Jazz and The China Syndrome at Columbia. Melnick also...

In this article: Straw Dogs, Lung cancer, Emmy Award, Los Angeles Times, Sherry Lansing, MGM, John Gielgud, Sam Peckinpah, and Steve Martin

...which will be part of this year's London Film Festival. The actor, 69, who has starred in films including Alien, The Elephant Man and Midnight Express, said it was "the highest honour possible". Malian director Souleymane Cisse will also...

In this article: John Hurt, Souleymane Cisse, 44 Inch Chest, British Film Institute, A Serious Man, Grierson Award, Bright Star, The Road, The Limits of Control, and London Film Festival

...incarceration: first a film about Turkish prisons and now a musical about an American high school. " Fame represented a huge leap away from Midnight Express in mood and content. It's not a nuts and bolts documentary about the High School...

In this article: Fame, Alan Marshall, Michael Gore, Irene Cara, Barry Miller, New York, and Fame

...America we love and an America that scares us and it's that latter America that has shown us its face." David Puttnam produced Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express and Chariots of Fire and now sits as a Labour lord in Westminster. He says the...

In this article: Roman Polanski, Steve Cooley, Oscar, United States, Philippe Mora, Winona Ryder, and Hollywood

...Fame makes you despair for the future of movies. By 1980, Alan Parker already had four features, one Oscar nomination (for Midnight Express) and three BAFTA awards under his belt. Tancharoen, whose main claim to, uh, fame is 2007's...

In this article: Fame, Naturi Naughton, Alan Parker, Lil' Kim, Oscar, Hairspray, 3LW, and Megan Mullally

...like my one year at the school." •During Fame: "That was the film brought international attention to me," she says. "I had seen Midnight Express, Alan Parker's first big American hit. I knew I was dealing with a great filmmaker. I had...

In this article: Fame, Irene Cara, Oscar, School of Performing Arts, Alan Parker, Maya Angelou, Sparkle, Flashdance, and Grammy

...Peter Guber, chairman of Mandalay Pictures production company and former studio chief at Sony Pictures, with films such as 'Midnight Express', Rain Man and batman to his name, told The Sunday Telegraph. "But this year, we've had a...

In this article: Peter Guber, Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts, Verdict, Recession, Twitter, Jim Carrey, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Hanks