Chris Adamson - Turner Classic Movies

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The Last Horror Movie (2004)

Judge Dredd (1995)

Cutthroat Island (1995)

Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1993)

Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (2007)

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Not in This Town (1997)

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Vanishing, The (1988) -- (Movie Clip) Good Glue, Isn't It?

Vanishing, The (1988) -- (Movie Clip) Really Beautiful Scream

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Last Horror Movie (2004)

Judge Dredd (1995)

Cutthroat Island (1995)

Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1993)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (2007)

Production Manager

Not in This Town (1997)

Film Production - Main (Special)

Electric Light Orchestra: Zoom! (2001)

Production Manager

Life Events

Videos

Vanishing, The (1988) -- (Movie Clip) Good Glue, Isn't It? Opening shots here reveal a three-year leap in the narrative, villain Lemorne (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) sees the poster, then Rex (Gene Bervoets) chasing a clue with new girlfriend Lienexe (Gwen Eckhaus), in George Sluzier's original The Vanishing, 1988.

Vanishing, The (1988) -- (Movie Clip) Really Beautiful Scream After an earlier sinister cameo, the first scene featuring Lemorne (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu), and introducing his daughters (Tania Latarjet, Lucille Glenn) and wife Simone (Bernadette Lesache), early in Geroge Sluizer's The Vanishing, 1988.

Zandy's Bride (1974) -- (Movie Clip) I Told You No Frills Home from riding his California coastal ranch, the day after an apparent marital night rape, Zandy (Gene Hackman) returns to his mail-order wife Hannah (Liv Ullmann), the exact time period not established, Swedish director Jan Troell reluctant to move the camera, in Zandy's Bride, 1974.

Zandy's Bride (1974) -- (Movie Clip) What Else Did You Lie About? Swedish director Jan Troell, having bitten off a big chunk of Big Sur landscape in the opening, brings rancher Zandy (Gene Hackman), into a town where he is immediately disappointed when he meets his mail-order bride (Liv Ullmann), in Zandy’s Bride, 1974.

Simon (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Epstein, Rats And Chickens Austin Pendleton as Becker leads the team at the comical “Institute For Advanced Concepts” in flattering professor Alan Arkin (title character) into believing he’s being brought on as a colleague, rather than a test subject, introducing Madeline Kahn as Dr. Mallory with a powerful pitch, in writer-director Marshall Brickman’s Simon, 1980.

Simon (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Did You Get The Fluids? Madeline Kahn as scheming Dr. Malllory, with her colleagues at the unglued “Institute For Advanced Concepts” (William Finley, Austin Pendleton, and Wallace Shawn as Eric Van Dongen) confirms she’s collected bodily fluids from Alan Arkin, the unwitting title character, the professor they’re planning to brainwash, who believes he’s conducting his own research, with a sensory deprivation tank, in Marshall Brickman’s Simon, 1980.

Simon (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Institute For Advanced Concepts Opening narration by James Dukas harkens Sleeper, 1973, which writer-director Marshall Brickman wrote with Woody Allen, and introduces Max Wright as Hundertwasser, Wallace Shawn as Van Dongen, Jayant as Barundi, William Finley as Fichlander and Austin Pendleton as the boss Becker, in Simon, 1980, starring Alan Arkin.

Simon (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Dare To Dream! At the unbridled “Institute For Advanced Concepts,” boss Becker (Austin Pendleton) introduces an idea, picked up by Hundertwasser (Max Wright), with help from Wallace Shawn, and Doris the computer (voice of Louise Lasser!), introducing Alan Arkin as the title character professor, director Marshall Brickman shooting on location at Columbia, in Simon, 1980.

Bat, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) The Cat Dropping Its Dentures New spooky-house tenant and mystery writer Cornelia (Agnes Moorehead) with her assistant-pal Lizzie (Lenita Lane) chatting it up, unaware that the doctor they discuss has murdered their landlord, written and directed by Crane Wilbur in The Bat, 1959.

Always (1989) -- (Movie Clip) I Was Rusty On Panic Sort of a Maguffin opening, highly dramatic, from director Steven Spielberg, in the picture he said was inspired-by, rather than a remake-of A Guy Named Joe, 1944, introducing Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter, John Goodman supporting, in Always, 1989, co-starring Audrey Hepburn.

Always (1989) -- (Movie Clip) Time Is Funny Stuff Firefighter pilot Pete (Richard Dreyfuss) doesn’t realized he’s just crashed his plane and died, but things are explained to him by “Hap” (Audrey Hepburn, her first appearance, having come out of retirement, for what would be her final film), in Steven Spielberg’s Always, 1989.

Getting Gertie's Garter (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Under Severe Strain Researcher Ken (Dennis O’Keefe) is demonstrating his new anesthetic, assisted by Clancy (Don Beddoe), but frantic because he’s court-ordered to recover the garter he gave ex-gal Gertie (Marie McDonald) and thinks his wife (Sheila Ryan) won’t understand, in Getting Gertie’s Garter, 1945.

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence - (Original Trailer) A robot child dreams of becoming a real boy in Steven Spielberg's A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001), a movie conceived by Stanley Kubrick.

Hook - (Original Trailer) A grown up Peter Pan tries to prevent the return of the evil Captain Hook in Steven Spielberg's 1991 fantasy Hook starring Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman and Julia Roberts.

Color Purple, The - (Original Trailer) Eleven Oscar nominations went to Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the Alice Walker novel The Color Purple (1985).

Bridges of Madison County, The - (Original Trailer) Clint Eastwood directs and stars in The Bridges of Madison County (1995) co-starring Meryl Streep and based on the best-selling romantic novel.

Poltergeist -- (Original Trailer) Evil spirits abduct a little girl, causing chaos and terror for her family in Poltergeist (1982), Tobe Hooper's supernatural thriller.

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