24 CITY (Er shi si cheng ji) (director/writer: Jia Zhang-ke; cinematographers: Yu Likwai/Wang Yu; editors: Lin Xudong/Kong Jinlai/Li Haiyang; music: Yoshihiro Hanno/Lim Giong; cast: Joan Chen (Gu Minhua), Lv Liping…

13TH LETTER, THE (director: Otto Preminger; screenwriter: Howard Koch; cinematographer: Joseph LaShelle; editor: Louis Loeffler; cast: Charles Boyer (Dr. Laurent), Linda Darnell (Denise), Judith Evelyn (Marie), J. Léo Gagnon (Dr.…

A RIVER CALLED TITAS (TITASH EKTI NADIR NAAM)  (director/writer: Ritwik Ghatak; screenwriter: based on the novel by Advaita Malo Barman; cinematographer: Baby Islam; editor: Basheer Hussain; music: Ustad Bahadur Khan; cast: Rosy Samad (Basanti), Rajar…

THEM THAT FOLLOW (directors/writers: Britt Poulton/Dan Madison Savage; cinematographer: Brett Jutkiewicz; editor: Joshua Raymond Lee; music: Garth Stevenson; cast: Walton Goggins (Pastor Lemuel Childs),  Alice Englert (Mara), Olivia Colman (Hope…

  SEVEN WOMEN   (director: John Ford; screenwriters: John McCormick/Janet Green/from the novel Chinese Finale by Norah Lofts; cinematographer: Joseph LaShelle; editor: Otho S. Lovering; music: Elmer Bernstein; cast: Anne…

SHAKE HANDS WITH MURDER (director: Al Herman; screenwriters: story by Martin Mooney/John T. Neville; cinematographer: Robert Cline; editor: George Merrick; music: Lee Zahler; cast: Iris Adrian (Patsy Brent), Frank Jenks…

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…

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…

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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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…