A GEISHA

  A GEISHA (Gion bayashi) (aka: Gion Festival Music) (director: Kenji Mizoguchi; screenwriters: from the novel by Matsutarô Kawaguchi/Yoshikata Yoda; cinematographer: Kazuo Miyagawa; editor: Mitsuzo Miyata; music: Ichirô Saitô; cast:…

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MY FAMILY

MY FAMILY (MI FAMILIA) (director/writer: Gregory Nava; screenwriter: Anna Thomas; cinematographer: Edward Lachman; editor: Nancy Richardson; music: Mark McKenzie; cast: Edward James Olmos (Paco), Rafael Cortes (Roberto), Ivette Reina (Trini),…

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A HIJACKING

A HIJACKING (KAPRINGEN) (director/writer: Tobias Lindholm; cinematographer: Magnus Nordenhof Jonck; editor: Adam Nielsen; music: Hildur Gudnadottir; cast: Pilou Asbaek (Mikkel Hartmann), Soren Malling (Peter C. Ludvigsen), Dar Salim (Lars Vestergaard),…

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MY MAN AND I

  MY MAN AND I (director: William A. Wellman; screenwriters: John Fante/Jack Leonard; cinematographer: William C. Mellor; editor: John D. Dunning; music: David Buttolph; cast: Shelley Winters (Nancy), Ricardo Montalban…

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AJANTRIK

AJANTRIK (MECHANICAL MAN) (director/writer: Ritwik Ghatak; screenwriter: from the novel by Subodh Ghosh; cinematographer: Dinen Gupta; editor: Ramesh Joshi; music: Ali Akbar Khan; cast: Kali Bannerjee(Bimal), Sriman Dipak (Boy, called…

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NADINE

NADINE (director/writer: Robert Benton; cinematographer: Nestor Almendros; editor: Sam O'Steen; music: Howard Shore; cast: Kim Basinger(Nadine Hightower), Jeff Bridges (Vernon Hightower), Gwen Verdon (Gwen Verdon), Glenne Headly (Renee), Jerry Stiller…

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