SHIP TO INDIA

A SHIP TO INDIA (Skepp till India land) (THE LAND OF DESIRE) (director/writer: Ingmar Bergman; screenwriter: from the play by Martin Söderhjelm; cinematographer: Göran Strindberg; editor: Tage Holmberg; music: Erland…

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SHOWGIRLS

SHOWGIRLS (director: Paul Verhoeven; screenwriter: Joe Eszterhas; cinematographer: Jost Vacano; editors: Mark Goldblatt/Mark Helfrich; music: Dave A. Stewart; cast: Elizabeth Berkley (Nomi Malone), Kyle MacLachlan (Zack Carey), Glenn Plummer (James…

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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN

(directors: Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly; screenwriters: Betty Comden & Adolph Green; cinematographer: Harold Rosson editor: Adrienne Fazan; music: Nacio Herb Brown, Lennie Hayton; cast: Gene Kelly (Don Lockwood), Donald O’Connor (Cosmo Brown), Debbie Reynolds (Kathy Selden), Jean Hagen (Lina Lamont), Millard Mitchell (R. F. Simpson), Douglas Fowley (Dexter), Rita Moreno (Zelda), Cyd Charisse (Dancer in the Fantasy Sequence), Kathleen Freeman (Phoebe Dinsmore, Diction Coach), Madge Blake (Dora Bailey); Runtime: 102; MPAA Rating: G; producer: Arthur Freed; MGM; 1952)

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SKY TURNS, THE

THE SKY TURNS (EL CIELO GIRA) (director/writer: Mercedes Álvarez; screenwriter: Arturo Redin; cinematographer: Alberto Rodríguez; editors: Sol Lopez/ Laurent Dufreche/ Julia Juaniz/ Guadalupe Pérez García; cast:Peio Azketa, Hicham Chate, Cirilo…

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SOUTH OF PANAMA

SOUTH OF PANAMA (director: Jean Yarbrough; screenwriters: Ben Roberts/Sidney Sheldon; cinematographer: Mack Stengler; editor: Guy Thayer; music: Alberto Colombo; cast: Roger Pryor (Mike Lawrence), Lionel Royce (Burns), Lucien Prival (Raynor),…

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SPIDER

  SPIDER (director: David Cronenberg; screenwriter: Patrick McGrath based on his novel/Mr. McGrath; cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky; editor: Ronald Sanders; music: Howard Shore; cast: Ralph Fiennes (Dennis "Spider" Cleg), Miranda Richardson…

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SPY IN BLACK

SPY IN BLACK (aka: U BOAT 29) (director: Michael Powell; screenwriters: from the novel by J. Storer Clouston/Emeric Pressburger; cinematographer: Bernard Browne; editor: Hugh Stewart; music: Miklós Rózsa; cast: Conrad…

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