RANA’S WEDDING

RANA'S WEDDING (aka: ANOTHER DAY IN JERUSALEM) (director: Hany Abu-Assad; screenwriters: Liana Badr/Ihab Lamey; cinematographer: Brigit Hillenius; editor: Denise Jansee; music: Bashar Abd Rabbou/Mariecke van der Linden; cast: Clara Khoury…

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CRACKING UP

CRACKING UP (SMORGASBORD) (director/writer: Jerry Lewis/writer; screenwriter: Bill Richmond; cinematographer: Gerald Perry Finnerman; editor: Gene Fowler Jr.; music: Morton Stevens; cast: Jerry Lewis (Warren Nefron/ Dr. Perks / Gangster /…

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RATON PASS

RATON PASS (aka: CANYON PASS/ALONG THE SANTA FE TRAIL) (director: Edward L. Marin; screenwriters: novel by Tom W. Blackburn/Tom W. Blackburn/James R. Webb; cinematographer: Wilfrid M. Cline; editor: Tom Reilly;…

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READY PLAYER ONE

READY PLAYER ONE (director: Steven Spielberg; screenwriters: Zak Penn/Ernest Cline/based on the book by Ernest Cline; cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski; editors: Sarah Broshar, Michael Kahn; music: Alan Silvestri; cast: Tye Sheridan…

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DAMES

DAMES (director: Ray Enright; screenwriters: Delmer Daves/from a story by Robert Lord and Delmer Daves; cinematographers: Sid Hickox/George Barnes/Sol Polito; editor: Harold McLernon; music: Harry Warren/Al Dubin; choreographer: Busby Berkeley;…

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RED BEARD

RED BEARD (AKAHIGE) (director/writer: Akira Kurosawa; screenwriters: Masato Ide/Ryuzo Kikushima/Hideo Oguni/Shugoro Yamamoto from the novel "Akahige shinryotan" by Shugoro Yamamoto; cinematographers: Asaichi Nakai/Takao Saito; music: Masaru Sato; cast: Toshiro Mifune…

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DARKEST HOUR

DARKEST HOUR (director: Joe Wright; screenwriter: Anthony McCarten; cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel; editor: Valerio Bonelli; music: Dario Marianelli; cast: Gary Oldman (Winston Churchill), Stephen Dillane (Viscount Halifax), Ronald Pickup (Neville Chamberland),…

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