BACKTRACK

BACKTRACK (CATCHFIRE) (director/writer: Dennis Hopper; screenwriters: from a story by Rachel Kronstadt Mann/Anne Louise Baradach; cinematographer: Edward Lachman; editor: Wendy Phifer Mate; cast: Dennis Hopper (Milo), Jodie Foster (Anne Benton),…

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ONIONHEAD

ONIONHEAD (director: Norman Taurog; screenwriters: based on a novel by Weldon Hill/Nelson Gidding; cinematographer: Harold Rosson; editor: William H. Ziegler; music: David Buttolph; cast: Andy Griffith (Al Woods), Felicia Farr…

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BAD MANNERS

  BAD MANNERS (director: Jonathan Kaufer; screenwriter: based on the play by David Gilman "Ghost in the Machine"; cinematographer: Denis Maloney; editor: Robin Katz; music: Ira Newborn; cast: David Strathairn…

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OPERATION PETTICOAT

OPERATION PETTICOAT (director: Blake Edwards; screenwriters: Stanley Shapiro/Maurice Richlin/from a story suggested by Paul King and Joseph Stone; cinematographers: Russell Harlan/Clifford Stine; editors: Ted Kent/Frank Gross; music: David Rose; cast:…

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BAND OF OUTSIDERS

BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Bande à part) (director/writer: Jean-Luc Godard; screenwriter: from the novel "Fool's Gold" by Dolores Hitchens; cinematographer: Raoul Coutard; editors: Françoise Collin/Dahlia Ezove/Agnès Guillemot; music: Michel Legrand; cast:…

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ORIENTAL ELEGY

ORIENTAL ELEGY (director/writer: Aleksandr Sokurov; cinematographer: Aleksei Fyodorov; cast: Aleksandr Sokurov (Narrator); Runtime: 43; MPAA Rating: NR; Medici Arts; 1996-Russia/Japan- in Russian/Japanese with English subtitles) "Sokurov brilliantly delivers a poetical…

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BARBARY COAST

BARBARY COAST director: Howard Hawks; screenwriters: Charles MacArthur/Ben Hecht; cinematographer: Ray June; editor: Edward Curtiss; music: Alfred Newman; cast: Miriam Hopkins (Mary Rutledge), Edward G Robinson (Louis Chamalis), Joel McCrea…

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