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Pieces (Spanish: Mil gritos tiene la noche, lit. 'The Night Has 1,000 Screams') is a 1982 Spanish-American slasher film directed by Juan Piquer Simón, written and produced by Dick Randall, and starring Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Frank Braña, Edmund Purdom, Paul L. Smith, Ian Sera, and Jack Taylor.
The film was Schatzberg's first foray into feature-film making; at the time, he was primarily known as a fashion photographer and had directed a few commercials. [ 1 ] Schatzberg initially worked with French screenwriter Jacques Sigurd , who had written a script involving a woman having an abortion, but the collaboration came to an end due to ...
Stan's wedding present, a jigsaw puzzle, inadvertently becomes the focal point of their morning, captivating the attention of various individuals including a taxi driver, Ollie's butler, and a telegram delivery boy. As the completion of the puzzle eludes them, tensions rise, culminating in Cucumber's ire at the delay of his daughter's nuptials.
Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller crime film starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin.Directed by Harold Becker, the film is based on Ryne Douglas Pearson's 1996 novel originally published as Simple Simon, which was the working title of the film.
William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes that Memento is a "delicious one-time treat", and emphasizes that director Christopher Nolan "not only makes Memento work as a non-linear puzzle film, but as a tense, atmospheric thriller". [59] Rob Blackwelder noted that "Nolan has a crackerjack command over the intricacies of this story.
Critical reception to the film was mostly positive, according to reviews cited at IMDb, with the notable exception of V.A. Musetto in the New York Post who said, "If the plot of the Argentine soaper Puzzle seems familiar, that's because it's nearly identical to the story in the French movie Queen To Play."
A range of merchandise was produced to accompany the film's release, including plush toys of Sir Didymus and Ludo, a board game, a computer game, and multiple jigsaw puzzles. An exhibition of the film's characters and sets toured across shopping malls in various cities in the US, including New York City, Dallas, and Chicago.
The official film website allowed visitors to unlock exclusive content by solving cryptic crossword puzzles supposedly conceived by Turing. [35] The website puzzle was a shorter version [ 36 ] of the Daily Telegraph puzzle of January 13, 1942 that was actually used in Bletchley Park recruitment during the war [ 37 ] (and the puzzle was not set ...