9 SONGS

9 SONGS (director/writer: Michael Winterbottom; cinematographer: Marcel Zyskind; editors: Mat Whitecross/Michael Winterbottom; music: Alex Kapranos/Melissa Parmenter; cast: Kieran O'Brien (Matt), Margo Stilley (Lisa); Runtime: 69; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Andrew…

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MORITURIS

MORITURIS (director: Raffaele Picchio; screenwriters: Gianluigi Perrone/story by Raffaele Picchio &Tiziano Martella; cinematographer: Daniele Poli; editor: Daniele Martinis; music: Riccardo Fassone; cast: Valentina D'Andrea, Andrea De Bruyn, Désirée Giorgetti; Runtime:…

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ACE OF ACES

ACE OF ACES (A BIGGER SPLASH) (director:  J. Walter Ruben; screenwriters: John Monk Saunders/H.W. Hanemann/from the story The Bird of Prey by Saunders; cinematographer: Henry Cronjager; editor: George Hively; music:…

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MOSURA

MOSURA (MOTHRA) (director: Ishirô Honda; screenwriters: Yoshie Hotta/Shinichirô Nakamura/Shinichi Sekizawa/Peter Fernandez/Takehiro Fukunaga; cinematographer: Hajime Koizumi; editor: Kazuji Taira; music: Yuji Koseki; cast: Frankie Sakai (Journalist Senichiro 'Sen-chan' Fukuda), Hiroshi Koizumi…

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (director: D. W. Griffith; screenwriters: John W. Considine Jr./Stephen Vincent Benet/Gerrit J. Lloyd; cinematographer: Karl Struss; editor: James Smith; cast: Walter Huston (Abraham Lincoln), Una Merkel (Ann Rutledge),…

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MOULIN ROUGE

MOULIN ROUGE (director/writer: Baz Luhrmann; screenwriter: Craig Pearce; cinematographer: Donald M. McAlpine; editor: Jill Bilcock; cast: Nicole Kidman (Satine), Ewan McGregor (Christian), John Leguizamo (Toulouse-Lautrec), Jim Broadbent (Zidler), Richard Roxburgh…

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ABYSS, THE

THE ABYSS (L'OEVRE AU NOIR) (director/writer: Andre Delvaux; screenwriter: based on the novel by Marguerite Yourcenar; cinematographer: Charles Van Damme; editors: Albert Jurgenson/Jean-Pierre Resnard/Nadine Muse; music: Frédéric Devreese; cast: Sami…

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MR. ARKADIN

MR. ARKADIN (CONFIDENTIAL REPORT) (director/writer: Orson Welles; screenwriter: from the novel by Orson Welles; cinematographer: Jean Bourgoin; editor: Renzo Lucidi; music: Paul Misraki; cast: Orson Welles (Gregory Arkadin), Paola Mori…

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A CHRISTMAS TALE

  A CHRISTMAS TALE (Un conte de Noël)   (director/writer: Arnaud Desplechin; screenwriter: Emmanuel Bourdieu; cinematographer: Éric Gautier; editor: Laurence Briaud; music: Grégoire Hetzel; cast: Catherine Deneuve (Junon Vuillard), Jean-Paul…

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