OLIVER!

OLIVER! (director: Carol Reed; screenwriters: Vernon Gilbert Harris/ Lionel Bart/from the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist; cinematographer: Oswald Morris; editor: Ralph Kemplen; music: Eric Rogers; cast: Ron Moody (Fagin); Shani…

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AVENTURERA

AVENTURERA (director: Alberto Gout; screenwriters: Álvaro Custodio/Carlos Sampelayo; cinematographer: Alex Phillips; editor: Alfredo Rosas Priego; music: Alberto Domínguez/Antonio Díaz Conde/Agustín Lara; cast: Ninón Sevilla (Elena Tejero), Tito Junco ("Pretty Boy"…

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A WOMAN OF PARIS

A WOMAN OF PARIS (director/writer: Charles Chaplin; cinematographers: Roland Totheroh/Jack Wilson; editors: Monta Bell/Charles Chaplin; music: Charles Chaplin/Louis F. Gottschalk (1976); cast: Edna Purviance (Marie St. Clair), Clarence Geldart (Marie's…

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BABY IT’S YOU

  BABY IT'S YOU (director/writer: John Sayles; screenwriter: story by Amy Robinson/Amy Robinson; cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus; editor: Sonya Polonsky; cast: Rosanna Arquette (Jill Rosen), Vincent Spano (Albert 'Sheik' Capadilupo), Joanna…

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ONES BELOW, THE

THE ONES BELOW (director/writer: David Farr; cinematographer: Ed Rutherford; editor: Chris Wyatt ; music: Adem Ilhan; cast: Clémene Poésy (Kate), David Morrissey (Jon), Stephen Campbell Moore (Justin), Laura Birn (Theresa),…

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BACKTRACK

BACKTRACK (CATCHFIRE) (director/writer: Dennis Hopper; screenwriters: from a story by Rachel Kronstadt Mann/Anne Louise Baradach; cinematographer: Edward Lachman; editor: Wendy Phifer Mate; cast: Dennis Hopper (Milo), Jodie Foster (Anne Benton),…

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BAD MANNERS

  BAD MANNERS (director: Jonathan Kaufer; screenwriter: based on the play by David Gilman "Ghost in the Machine"; cinematographer: Denis Maloney; editor: Robin Katz; music: Ira Newborn; cast: David Strathairn…

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