DARK PAST, THE

DARK PAST, THE (director: Rudolph Maté; screenwriters: from the play "Blind Alley" by James Warwick/Michael Blankfort/Albert Duffy/Philip MacDonald/Oscar Saul/Malvin Wald/; cinematographer: Joseph Walker; editor: Viola Lawrence; cast: William Holden (Al…

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RED CLIFF

RED CLIFF (CHI BI) (director/writer: John Woo; screenwriters: Khan Chan/Kuo Cheng/Sheng Heyu; cinematographers: Lu Yue/Zhang Li; editors: Angie Lam/Yang Hongu/ Robert A. Ferretti; music: Tarô Iwashiro; cast: Tony Leung (Zhou…

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DAYS OF YOUTH

DAYS OF YOUTH (GAKUSEI ROMANSU: WAKAKI HI) (director/writer: Yasujiro Ozu; screenwriter: Akira Fushimi; cinematographer: Hideo Mohara; editor: Hideo Mohara; cast: Ichirô Yuki (Watanabe), Tatsuo Saitô (Yamamoto), Junko Matsui (Chieko), Shin'ichi…

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RED LIGHTS

RED LIGHTS (FEUX ROUGES)   (director/writer: Cédric Kahn; screenwriters: from the book by Georges Simenon/Gilles Marchand/Laurence Ferreira Barbosa; cinematographer: Patrick Blossier; editor: Yan Dedet; music: Arvo Pärt; cast: Jean-Pierre Darroussin…

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REDS

REDS (director/writer: Warren Beatty; screenwriters: Trevor Griffiths/from the book "Ten Days That Shook the World" by John Reed; cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro; editors: Dede Allen/Craig McKay; music: Stephen Sondheim/Dave Grusin; cast:…

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REIGN OF TERROR

REIGN OF TERROR (aka: BLACK BOOK, THE) (director: Anthony Mann; screenwriters: Aeneas MacKenzie/Philip Yordan; cinematographer: John Alton; editor: Fred Allen; music: Sol Kaplan; cast: Robert Cummings (Charles D'Aubigny), Richard Basehart…

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RENDITION

RENDITION   (director: Gavin Hood; screenwriter: Kelley Sane; cinematographer: Dion Beebe; editor: Megan Gill; music: Paul Hepker/Mark Kilian; cast: Reese Witherspoon (Isabella El-Ibrahimi), Jake Gyllenhaal (Douglas Freeman), Peter Sarsgaard (Alan…

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