BONJOUR TRISTESSE

BONJOUR TRISTESSE (director: Otto Preminger; screenwriter: from the novel by Francoise Sagan/Arthur Laurents; cinematographer: Georges Perinal; editor: Helga Cranston; music: Georges Auric; cast: Deborah Kerr (Anne Larson), David Niven (Raymond),…

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PLEDGE, THE

PLEDGE, THE (director: Sean Penn; screenwriters: Friedrich Dürrenmatt (book)/Jerzy Kromolowski and Mary Olson-Kromolowski; cinematographer: Chris Menges; editor: Jay Cassidy; cast: Jack Nicholson (Jerry Black), Benicio Del Toro (Toby Jay Wadenah),…

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POLAR

POLAR (director/writer/editor: Jacques Bral; screenwriter: from a book by Jean-Patrick Manchette "Morgue Pleine"/Jean-Paul Leca; cinematographers: Jacques Renoir/Jean-Paul Rosa Da Costa; editors: Anne Boissel/Noun Serra; cast: Jean-François Balmer (Eugene Tarpon), Sandra…

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BRAIN DEAD

  BRAIN DEAD (director/writer: Adam Simon; screenwriter: from a Charles Beaumont story; cinematographer: Ron Schmidt; editor: Carol Oblath; cast: Bill Pullman (Dr. Rex Martin), Bill Paxton (Jim Reston), Patricia Charbonneau…

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POPI

POPI (director: Arthur Hiller; screenwriters: Les and Tina Pine; cinematographer: Andrew Laszlo; editor: Anthony Ciccolini; music: Dominic Frontiere; cast: Alan Arkin (Abraham/Popi), Rita Moreno (Lupe), Miguel Alejandro (Junior), Ruben Figueroa…

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BRIGHTON ROCK

BRIGHTON ROCK (director: John Boulting; screenwriters: from the novel Brighton Rock by Graham Greene/Graham Greene/Terence Rattigan; cinematographer: Harry Waxman; editor: Peter Graham Scott; cast: Richard Attenborough (Pinkie Brown), William Hartnell…

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POSSESSION

POSSESSION (director/writer: Neil LaBute; screenwriters: from the novel by A.S. Byatt/David Henry Hwang/Laura Jones; cinematographer: Jean-Yves Escoffier; editor: Claire Simpson; music: Gabriel Yared; cast: Gwyneth Paltrow (Maud Bailey), Aaron Eckhart…

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BRUTE MAN, THE

THE BRUTE MAN (director: Jean Yarbrough; screenwriters: story by Dwight V. Babcock/George Bricker/M. Coates Webster; cinematographer: Maury Gertsman; editor: Philip Cahn; cast: Rondo Hatton (Hal Moffat/The Creeper), JaNelle Johnson (Joan…

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