MR. TURNER

MR. TURNER (director/writer: Mike Leigh; cinematographer: Dick Pope; editor: Jon Gregory; music: Gary Yershon; cast: Timothy Spall (J. M. W. Turner), Dorothy Atkinson (Hannah Danby), Marion Bailey (Sophia Booth), Paul…

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MURDER BY NUMBERS

MURDER BY NUMBERS (director: Barbet Schroeder; screenwriter: Tony Gayton; cinematographer: Luciano Tovoli; editor: Lee Percy; music: Clint Mansell; cast: Sandra Bullock (Cassie Mayweather), Ryan Gosling (Richard Haywood), Michael Pitt (Justin…

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AFFLICTION

  AFFLICTION   (director/writer: Paul Schrader; cinematographer: Paul Sarossy; editor: Jay Rabinowitz; cast: Nick Nolte (Wade Whitehouse), Sissy Spacek (Margie Fogg), Jim True (Jack Hewitt), James Coburn (Glen Whitehouse), Willem…

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AFTERDEATH

AFTERDEATH (directors: Gez Medinger/Robin Schmidt; screenwriter: Andrew Ellard; cinematographer: Benedict Spence; editor: Matthew Bate; music: Steve Wright; cast: Miranda Raison (Robyn), Sam Keeley (Seb), Daniella Kertesz (Onie), Elarica Gallacher (Patricia),…

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MUSIC ROOM, THE

MUSIC ROOM, THE (JALSAGHAR) (director/writer: Satyajit Ray; screenwriter: based on a novel by Tarashankar Banerjee; cinematographer: Subrata Mitra; editor: Dulal Dutta; music: Ustad VilayatKhan; cast: Chabi Biswas (Biswambhar Roy), Padma…

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A GENTLE WOMAN

  A GENTLE WOMAN (Une Femme Douce) (director/writer: Robert Bresson; screenwriter: from the book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; cinematographer: Ghislain Cloquet; editor: Raymond Lamy; music: Jean Wiener; cast: Dominique Sanda (wife),…

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