BLACKBOARDS

BLACKBOARDS (Takhté siah) (director/writer: Samira Makhmalbaf; screenwriter: Mohsen Makhmalbaf; cinematographer: Ebrahim Ghafori; editor: Mohsen Makhmalbaf; music: Mohammad Reza Darvishi; cast: Saeed Mohamadi (Saïd), Bahman Ghobadi (Reeboir), Behnaz Jafari (Halaleh), Rafat…

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PICCADILLY

PICCADILLY (director: E. A. Dupont; screenwriter: Arnold Bennett; cinematographer: Werner Brandes; editor: J.W. McConaughy; music: Neil Brand; cast: Anna May Wong (Shosho), Gilda Gray (Mabel Greenfield), Jameson Thomas (Valentine Wilmot),…

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PIED PIPER

  PIED PIPER (director: Irving Pichel; screenwriters: Nunnally Johnson/ based on the novel by Nevil Shute; cinematographer: Edward Cronjager; editor: Allen McNeil; music: Alfred Newman; cast: Monty Wooley (Howard), Roddy…

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BLINDSPOTTING

BLINDSPOTTING (director: Carlos López Estrada; screenwriters: Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs; cinematographer: Robby Baumgartner; editor: Gabriel Fleming; music: Michael Yezerski; cast: Daveed Diggs (Collin), Rafael Casal(Miles), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Ashley), Janina…

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PIN UP GIRL

PIN UP GIRL (director: Bruce Humberstone; screenwriters: Robert Ellis, Helen Logan, Earl Baldwin, based on the story Imagine Us by Libbie Block; cinematographer: Ernest Palmer; editor: Robert Simpson; music: Mark…

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BOLSHOI BABYLON

BOLSHOI BABYLON (director: Nick Read/Mark Franchetti; cinematographer: Nick Read; editors: Jay Taylor/David Charap; music: Smiths & Elm; cast: Maria Alexandrova, Sergei Filin, Vladimir Urin, Anastasiya Meskova; Runtime: 86; MPAA Rating:…

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PLAY DIRTY

PLAY DIRTY (director: Andre De Toth; screenwriters: Lotte Colin/Melvyn Bragg/from a story by George Marton; cinematographer: Edward Scaife; editor: Alan Osbiston; music: Michel Legrand; cast: Michael Caine (Capt. Douglas), Nigel…

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