Jackson says when he assembled a rough cut of the first film in the trilogy, he was sure it would be dubbed the worst film ever.

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According to the Academy, Austria submitted a German-dubbed print of the film.

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The critically-acclaimed film has been dubbed the Brazilian Goodfellas because of its gritty intensity and violence.

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"The English-language film Dam999 was originally scheduled to be released on Friday in the state dubbed in Tamil as Anai999, " the Tamil Nadu Film Exhibitor's Association said in a press release sent to the BBC.

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But the building has been criticised by some prominent cultural figures like Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky and film-maker Alexander Sokurov, while others have dubbed it the Mariinsky Mall, not in keeping among the other 19th-Century buildings in the city.

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The most offensive parts of the film appear not to have been in the original, but dubbed over the soundtrack at a later date.

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Thus Paul Sharits's stroboscopic flicker film "Epileptic Seizure Comparison" (1976) appears near images of what in psychiatry have been dubbed "influencing machines, " mechanical objects that some schizophrenics imagine control their thoughts and actions.

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