PINERO

PINERO (director/writer: Leon Ichaso; cinematographer: Claudio Chea; editor: David Tedeschi; music: Kip Hanrahan; cast: Benjamin Bratt (Miguel Piñero), Giancarlo Esposito (Miguel Algarin), Talisa Soto (Sugar), Michael Irby (Reinaldo Povod), Rita…

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BLUEBEARD

BLUEBEARD "It's a compromised film that tends to offend everyone but the Nazis." (director/writer: Edward Dmytryk; screenwriters: from the story by Ennio Di Concini/Ennio Di Concini/Maria Pia Fusco/Luciano Sacripanti; cinematographer:…

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BODY AND SOUL

BODY AND SOUL (director: Robert Rossen; screenwriter: Abraham Polonsky; cinematographer: James Wong Howe; editor: Robert Parrish; music: Edward Heyman; cast: John Garfield (Charlie Davis), Lilli Palmer (Peg Born), Anne Revere…

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BORDER FEUD

BORDER FEUD (director: Ray Taylor; screenwriters: Patricia Harper/novel by Joseph O'Donnell; cinematographer: Milford Anderson; editor: Joe Gluck; cast: Al 'Lash' La Rue (Cheyenne Davis), Al 'Fuzzy' St. John(Sheriff Fuzzy Q.…

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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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BOY

BOY (SHONEN) (director: Nagisa Oshima; screenwriter: Tsutomu Tamura; cinematographers: Seizo Sengen/Yasuhiro Yoshioka; editors: Sueko Siraishi/Keiichi Uraoka; music: Hikaru Hayashi; cast: Fumio Watanabe (Takeo Omura, the father), Akiko Koyama (Takeko Taniguchi,…

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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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