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

    SOUTH (SUD)   (director/writer: Chantal Akerman; cinematographer: Raymond Fromont; editor: Claire Atherton; Runtime: 70; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Xavier Carniaux; Icarus Films; 1999-France/Belgium-in English) "The sobering and haunting…

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SPELLBOUND

SPELLBOUND (director: Jeffrey Blitz; cinematographer: Jeffrey Blitz; editor: Yana Gorskaya; music: Daniel Hulsizer; cast: Harry Altman, Ted Brigham, Neil Kadakia, Emily Stagg, Angela Arenivar, April Degideo, Nupur Lala, Ashley White,…

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SPY GAME

SPY GAME(director: Tony Scott; screenwriters: Michael Frost Beckner/David Arata/based on a story by Beckner; cinematographer: Dan Mindel; editor: Christian Wagner; music: Harry Gregson-Williams; cast: Robert Redford (Nathan Muir), Brad Pitt…

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STALAG 17

  STALAG 17 (director/writer: Billy Wilder; screenwriters: from the play by Donald Bevan & Edmund Trzcinski/Edwin Blum; cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo; editor: George Tomasini; music: Franz Waxman; cast: William Holden (Sgt.…

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