RUINS, THE

RUINS, THE (director: Carter Smith; screenwriter: from the novel The Ruins by Scott B. Smith/Scott B. Smith; cinematographer: Darius Khondji; editor: Jeff Betancourt; music: Graeme Revell; cast: Jonathan Tucker (Jeff),…

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RUNNER RUNNER

RUNNER RUNNER (director: Brad Furman; screenwriter: Brian Koppelman/David Levien; cinematographer: Mauro Fiore; editor: Jeff McEvoy; music: Christophe Beck; cast: Justin Timberlake (Richie Furst), Ben Affleck (Ivan Block), Gemma Arterton (Rebecca…

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RUSSIAN DOLL

RUSSIAN DOLL (director/writer: Stavros Kazantzidis; screenwriter: Allanah Zitserman; cinematographer: Justin Brickle; editor: Andrew MacNeil; cast: Hugo Weaving (Harvey), David Wenham (Ethan), Rebecca Frith (Miriam), Sacha Horler (Liza), Helen Dallimore (Alison),…

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SAHARA

SAHARA (director/writer: Zoltan Korda; screenwriter: short story by Philip MacDonald/James O'Hanlon/John Howard Lawson; cinematographer: Rudolph Maté; editor: Charles Nelson; music: Miklos Rozsa; cast: Humphrey Bogart (Sgt. Joe Gunn), Bruce Bennett…

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SANTITOS

SANTITOS (director/writer: Alejandro Springall; screenwriter: María Amparo Escandón from her novel; cinematographer: Xavier Pérez Grobet; editor: Carol Dysinger; music: Carlo Nicolau and Rosino Serrano; cast: Dolores Heredia (Esperanza), Demián Bichir…

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SECRET AGENT, THE

  SECRET AGENT, THE (director/writer: Christopher Hampton; screenwriter: from a Joseph Conrad novel; cinematographer: Denis Lenoir; editor: George Akers; music: Philip Glass; cast: Bob Hoskins (Adolph Verloc), Patricia Arquette (Winnie…

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SERENDIPITY

SERENDIPITY (director: Peter Chelsom; screenwriter: Marc Klein; cinematographer: John de Borman; editor: Christopher Greenbury; cast: John Cusack (Jonathan Trager), Kate Beckinsale (Sara Thomas), Jeremy Piven (obit writer, Dean), Bridget Moynahan…

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SEVEN SAMURAI

SEVEN SAMURAI (Shichinin no samurai) (director/writer: Akira Kurosawa; screenwriters: Shinobu Hashimoto/Hideo Oguni; cinematographer: Asakazu Nakai; editor: Akira Kurosawa; music: Fumio Hayasaka; cast: Takashi Shimura (Kambei Shimada), Toshirô Mifune (Kikuchiyo), Yoshio…

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