BLACK NARCISSUS

BLACK NARCISSUS (director/writer: Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger; screenwriter: novel by Rumer Godden; cinematographer: Jack Cardiff; editor: Reginald Mills; music: Brian Easdale; cast: Deborah Kerr (Sister Clodagh), Flora Robson (Sister Phillippa), Jean…

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PICKUP ALLEY

PICKUP ALLEY (INTERPOL) (director: John Gilling; screenwriters: John Paxton/short story by A.J. Forrest; cinematographer: Ted Moore; editor: Richard Best; music: Richard Bennett; cast: Victor Mature (Charles Sturgis), Anita Ekberg (Gina…

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BLOWUP

BLOWUP (director/writer: Michelangelo Antonioni; screenwriters: from the short story Las babas del diablo by Julio Cortazar/Tonino Guerra; cinematographer: Carlo Di Palma; editor: Frank Clarke; music: Herbie Hancock/The Yardbirds; cast: David…

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PIRATE RADIO

  PIRATE RADIO (aka: THE BOAT THAT ROCKED)   (director/writer: Richard Curtis; cinematographer: Danny Cohen; editor: Emma E. Hickox; cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman (the Count), Bill Nighy (Quentin), Rhys Ifans…

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B. MONKEY

  B. MONKEY (director: Michael Radford; screenwriters: Chloe King/Michael Thomas/based on the novel by Andrew Davies; cinematographer: Ashley Rowe; editor: Joelle Hache; music: Jennie Muskett; cast: Asia Argento (B. Monkey),…

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PLEASANTVILLE

PLEASANTVILLE (director/writer: Gary Ross; cinematographer: John Lindley; editor: William Goldenberg; cast: Tobey Maguire (David/Bud Parker), Jeff Daniels (Johnson), Joan Allen (Betty Parker), William H. Macy (George Parker), J.T. Walsh (Big…

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