A FINE MADNESS

A FINE MADNESS (director/writer: Irvin Kershner; screenwriter: from a novel by Elliott Baker; cinematographer: Ted D. McCord; editor: William H. Ziegler; music: John Addison; cast: Sean Connery (Samson Shillitoe), Joanne…

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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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AFTERMATH

AFTERMATH (POKLOSIE) (director/writer: Wladyslaw Pasikowski; screenwriter: Thomas Farone/based on the book Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan Tomasz Gross; cinematographer: Pawel Edelman; editor: Jaroslaw…

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MY BLUE HEAVEN

MY BLUE HEAVEN (director: Henry Koster; screenwriters: story "Stork Don't Bring Babies"by S.K. Lauren/Claude Binyon/Lamar Trotti; cinematographer: Arthur E. Arling; editor: James B. Clark; music: Alfred Newman/Harold Arlen/Ralph Blane; cast:…

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A HUMBLE LIFE

A HUMBLE LIFE (Smirennaya zhizn) (director/writer: Alexander Sokurov; cinematographer: Alexi Fiodorov; editor: Leda Semionova; music: Algirdas Paulavicius; cast: Umeno Matuyoshi, Alexander Sokurov (Narrator); Runtime: 76; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Alexander…

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MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

  MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (director: Cy Endfield; screenwriters: John Prebble/Daniel Ullman/Crane Wilbur/based on the novel by Jules Verne; cinematographer: Wilkie Cooper; editor: Frederick Wilson; music: Bernard Herrmann; cast: Michael Craig (Captain…

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