ASCENT, THE

ASCENT, THE (Voskhozhdeniye) (director/writer: Larisa Shepitko; screenwriters: from the novel Sotnikov by Vasili Bykov/Yuri Klepikov; cinematographer: Vladimir Chukhnov/Pavel Lebeshev; music: Alfred Shnitke; cast: Boris Plotnikov (Sotnikov), Vladimir Gostyukhin (Rybak), Sergei…

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A SPECIAL DAY

A SPECIAL DAY (UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE) (director/writer: Ettore Scola; screenwriters: Ruggero Maccari/Maurizio Costanzo; cinematographer: Pasqualino De Santis; editor: Raimondo Crociani; music: Armando Trovaioli; cast: Sophia Loren (Antonietta), Marcello Mastroianni (Gabriele),…

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NOVEMBER MAN, THE

THE NOVEMBER MAN (director: Roger Donaldson; screenwriters: from novel There Are No Spies by Bill Granger/Michael Finch/Karl Gajdusek; cinematographer: Romain Lacourbas; editor: John Gilbert; music: Marco Beltrami; cast: Pierce Brosnan…

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AT ETERNITY’S GATE

AT ETERNITY'S GATE (director/writer: Julian Schnabel; screenwriters: Louise Kugelberg/Jean-Claude Carriere; cinematographer: Benoit Delhomme; editors: Louise Kugelberg/Julian Schnabel; music: Tatiana Lisovskaya; cast: Willem Dafoe (Vincent Van Gogh), Rupert Friend (Theo Van…

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NUMBER, PLEASE?

NUMBER, PLEASE? (director/writer: Hal Roach/Fred Newmeyer; screenwriter: H.M. Walker; cinematographer: Walter Lundin; editor: ; music: Robert Israel; cast: Harold Lloyd (The Boy), Mildred Davis (The Girl), Roy Brooks (The Rival),…

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ATONEMENT

ATONEMENT (director: Joe Wright; screenwriters: from a novel by Ian McEwan/Christopher Hampton; cinematographer: Seamus McGarvey; editor: Paul Tothill; music: Dario Marianelli; cast: James McAvoy (Robbie Turner), Keira Knightley (Cecilia Tallis),…

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OBSESSION

OBSESSION ( director/writer: Brian De Palma; screenwriters: from an original story by De Palma & Paul Schrader/Paul Schrader; cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond; editor: Paul Hirsch; cast: Cliff Robertson (Michael Courtland), Geneviève…

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