The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private funding and public membership fees. Leadership. The institute is composed of leaders from the film, entertainment, business, and academic ...

Runaway is a 1984 American science fiction action film written and directed by Michael Crichton, starring Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons, Cynthia Rhodes and Kirstie Alley.Selleck portrays a police officer assigned to track down dangerous robots, while Simmons is a scientist who hopes to profit from his manipulation of robots.

Storia. L'American Film Institute concentra la sua opera nell'insegnamento, con l'AFI Conservatory, e sulla conservazione di vecchie pellicole, soggette a degradazione col tempo.Contrariamente al suo nome, in realtà l'AFI non opera solamente sui film, ma anche sulla televisione.. Dal 1998, anno corrispondente al centesimo anniversario del primo film …

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI / ˈ æ n s i / AN-see) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with international standards so that American products can be …

Criteria. AFI asked jurors to consider the following criteria in their selection process: Feature length: Narrative format typically over 60 minutes long.; American film: English language, with significant creative and/or financial production from the United States.(A number of films on the list were British-made but financed by American studios; these include Lawrence of Arabia, The …

An American in Paris is a 1951 American musical comedy film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition An American in Paris by George Gershwin.Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron (her film debut), Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, and Nina Foch, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner.The music is by George Gershwin, with lyrics …

Economic union, a type of trade bloc; Political union, a type of state which is composed of or created out of smaller states; Personal union, the combination of two or more states that have the same monarch; Poor law union, a former unit of local government in the United Kingdom; Real union, a union of two or more states, which share some state institutions

Animals. Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) Max (gorilla) (1971–2004), a western lowland gorilla at the Johannesburg Zoo who was shot by a criminal in 1997 Brands and enterprises. Australian Max Beer ...

Plot. The pharmaceutical company Aston Laboratories sends biochemist Dr. Rae Crane into the Amazonian rainforest to locate researcher Robert Campbell, after his wife and research partner abandon him. Crane is bringing equipment and supplies, but Campbell is upset the research partner is not forthcoming. He tries to send Crane home, but she demurs, as she has been …

Western, a German-Austrian film; Genres. Western (genre), a category of fiction and visual art centered on the American Old West Western fiction, the Western genre as featured in literature; Western music (North America), a type of American folk …