BEFORE THE RAIN

BEFORE THE RAIN (director/writer: Milcho Manchevski; cinematographer: Manuel Teran; editor: Nicolas Gaster; music: "Anastasia"; cast: Katrin Cartlidge (Anne), Rade Serbedzija (Aleksandar), Gregoire Colin (Kiril), Labina Mitevska (Zamira), Jay Villiers (Nick),…

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PALEFACE, THE

PALEFACE, THE (director: Norman Z. McLeod; screenwriters: Edmund Hartmann/Frank Tashlin/Jack Rose; cinematographer: Ray Rennahan; editor: Ellsworth Hoagland; music: Victor Young; cast: Bob Hope ( 'Painless' Peter Potter), Jane Russell (Calamity…

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BEIJING BICYCLE

BEIJING BICYCLE (Shiqi sui de dan che) (director/writer: Xiaoshuai Wang; screenwriters: Peggy Chiao/Hsiao-ming Hsu/Tang Danian; cinematographer: Liu Jie; editor: Liao Ching-Song; music: Wang Feng; cast: Lin Cui (Guei), Li Bin…

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PANDORA’S BOX

PANDORA'S BOX (Büchse der Pandora, Die) (director/writer: G.W. Pabst; screenwriter: Joseph Fleisler/from the two plays "Erdgeist" and "The Box of Pandora" by Frank Wedekind; cinematographer: Günther Krampf; editor: Joseph R.…

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PARADINE CASE, THE

PARADINE CASE, THE (director: Alfred Hitchcock; screenwriters: James Bridie/Ben Hecht/Alma Reville/David O. Selznick,/"from the novel by Robert Hichens; cinematographer: Lee Garmes; editor: John Faure; music: Franz Waxman/Paul Dessau; cast: Gregory…

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BENVENUTA

BENVENUTA (director/writer: Andre Delvaux; screenwriter: from the novel La confession anonyme by Suzanne Lilar; cinematographer: Charles Van Damme; editor: Albert Jurgenson; music: Frédéric Devreese; cast: Fanny Ardant (Benvenuta), Vittorio Gassman…

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PARIS BLUES

PARIS BLUES (director: Martin Ritt; screenwriters: from the book Paris Blues by Harold Flender/Irene Kamp/Jack Sher/Walter Bernstein/Lulla Adler; cinematographer: Christian Matras; editor: Roger Dwyre; music: Duke Ellington; cast: Paul Newman…

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PARTY GIRL

  PARTY GIRL   director/writer: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer; screenwriters: Harry Birckmayer/Sheila Gaffney; cinematographer: Michael Slovis; editor: Cara Silverman; music: Anton Sanko; cast: Parker Posey (Mary), Omar Townsend (Mustafa), Sasha…

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