ONE RAINY AFTERNOON

ONE RAINY AFTERNOON (director: Rowland V Lee; screenwriters: Maurice Hanline/Stephen Morehouse Avery/story "Monsieur Sans-Gene" by Emeric Pressburger and René Pujol; cinematographer: Peverell Marley/Merritt Gerstad; editor: Margaret Clancy; music: Jack Stern;…

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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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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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BARTLEBY

BARTLEBY (director/writer/producer: Jonathan Parker; screenwriter: Catherine di Napoli, based on the novella by Herman Melville; cinematographer: Wah Ho Chan; editor: Rick LeCompte; music: Seth Asarnow/Jonathan Parker; cast: David Paymer (The…

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ORNAMENTAL HAIRPIN

ORNAMENTAL HAIRPIN (Kanzashi) (director/writer: Hiroshi Shimizu; screenwriter: based on a story by Masuji Ibuse; cinematographer: Suketaro Inokai; editor: Yoshiyasu Hamamura; music: Takaaki Asai; cast: Kinuyo Tanaka (Emi), Hiroko Kawasaki (Okiku),…

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