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…

SOMETHING OF VALUE (director/writer: Richard Brooks; screenwriter: from the book by Robert C. Ruark/; cinematographer: Russell Harlan; editor: Ferris Webster; music: Miklos Rozsa; cast: Rock Hudson (Peter McKenzie), Sidney Poitier…

    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…

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,…

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…